Week 10 Postgame Thread: Bills at Cardinals 4:05 pm EST on CBS

[chaccof]

More proof that the gods are not Bills fans.....uggg.....and more questioning whether my wife's right when she says "why do you do this to yourself?".....

 

It shouldn't have come down to a hail mary, or even a last minute Bills drive to win.  The team once again had a 3rd quarter collapse fueled by penalties and both the DL and OL getting man-handled.  

[Success]

Toss up game.  

 

Some would say we got away w/ a few ourselves (Rams, Pats).  It kind of evens out.

 

Hate losing on a hail mary, but that's football.  This is a test for a young team w/ tons of promise - how they react to it is literally everything.

 

[Real McClappy]

Just now, Pokebball said:

Beasley was our one WR that seemed to get separation consistently.  The dude just knows where to be for Josh.

No doubt, he was open a ton. I was calling for us to hit him in the GD threads. Finally in the 4th it clicked and got us what should have been the game winning drive. 

 

Cole might be my favorite Buffalo Bill at this phase watching him bust his A$$ every week. 

[Augie]

Being a Bills fan is hard. Part of it is dealing with the Bills losing,  Almost worse is the fans after a loss.  We lost to a good team on the road missing a BUNCH of important players in a strange Covid year on a last second freaky Hail Mary. 

 

I’m upset, but I’ll deal with it. At least it was an NFC team, so that should help our playoff hopes!  

[JerseyBills]

Penalties killed us. Yet we still should have beat a solid team .

 

I want 1 thing after the BYE,  A run Game for 17 and this offense. 

 

You get a run game going and the possibilities are endless on O.

 

I'm still in my feelings. Still haven't accepted the outcome so I'll be back in a few days but I still feel highly of this team, just still in disbelief.  Our 3 best DBs on 1 man...🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[Real McClappy]

1 minute ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

How did we let them lol im so confused...dude is tall and went up and caught a pass that only he could reach and white gave his best effort to rip it out

He's 6'1

 

The D straight up choked on that play. 

[wvbillsfan]

12 minutes ago, MAJBobby said:

Heartbreaking Loss. At least it comes against an NFC team. Now hit the bye and get freaking healthy. For the final stretch and playoffs 

Healthy would be nice. It’s been patchwork all year. The loss sucked but I’m happy with 7-3

[PatsFanNH]

36 minutes ago, bills6969 said:

There’s a good chance that we don’t win the division.  Have you seen Dolphins remaining schedule? Jets, Broncos, Bengals, Pats x 2

Umm they play the Pats once. They lost to the Pats on opening day already.

[appoo]

Now that I’ve calmed down a bit, that play was as well covered by Buffalo as it possibly could be. That’s just Hopkins going beast mode.

 

with that said, the Bills shouldn’t have been in a position to win that game, and a lot of it is down to their inability to run the ball.

 

the Bills game plan basically requires Josh Allen to be elite for the majority of the game. Both of those INTs are Allen making throws he probably wouldn’t be making with a better run game. The first was into semi coverage though really it was mostly Peterson making a play, the 2nd, Allen feeling rushed by a pass rush that was teeing off on him the entire game.

 

without some kind of functioning running game, this is how it’s gonna be. Allen carrying the entire offense on his back, taking too many risky throws. I mean the Cards have 3 really good DBs in Budda, Dre, and Peterson. 
 

With Ford, Morse and Feliciano all hopefully coming back after the bye I have some hopes we’ll see some balance out of the Bills offense. But with Winters and Boetger there was little chance of a sustainable run game and Zona never bothered defending it. 
 

Josh will claim he was as at fault, but he’s why we didn’t get blown out and why the Bills even had a shot at winning, but this is coming down the interior line play 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 minute ago, chaccof said:

More proof that the gods are not Bills fans.....uggg.....and more questioning whether my wife's right when she says "why do you do this to yourself?".....

 

It shouldn't have come down to a hail mary, or even a last minute Bills drive to win.  The team once again had a 3rd quarter collapse fueled by penalties and both the DL and OL getting man-handled.  

Honestly when else have we been unlucky this season though...the pats fumble felt a little flukes and that pi we got against the rams couldve gone either way...a stroke of bad luck was due 

[Bob in STL]

3 minutes ago, Livinginthepast said:

The only thing I would fault the coaching on was being continuously fooled on Murray's fake hand off QB options.  Defense didnt seem ready for that throughout the first 3 quarters. They seemed to adjust to that later on in the game.  Other than that this was all on the players not making plays when it mattered. 

Why not fault the actual players on the field instead of the coaching staff?   Every teams see that play every week from Murray.  No doubt they prepared for it.  They just didn’t stop it. 

[Freddie's Dead]

3 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Allen had a bad game. He looked confused most of the second half and should have had 4 picks.

 

Josh Allen came up with the goods when the game was on the line.  Not his fault the Cards had a lucky horseshoe up their ass.

[Big C]

1 minute ago, Augie said:

Being a Bills fan is hard. Part of it is dealing with the Bills losing,  Almost worse is the fans after a loss.  We lost to a good team on the road missing a BUNCH of important players in a strange Covid year on a last second freaky Hail Mary. 

 

I’m upset, but I’ll deal with it. At least it was an NFC team, so that should help our playoff hopes!  

Yes, if I remember correctly from a thread last year, we actually want to lose the games outside of the conference.

[BillsFan619]

40 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:

 

yep, team is a joke.  Collapse artists minus Josh.  We almost handed the Rams the game also.  This bend but don't break nonsense broke us today.  We have beaten one legitimately good team all season (Sea), and even that's looking suspect now.  Miami will pass us and win the division.  Don't hate the messenger.  That team is MUCH better coached.  

We beat this Miami team that you think is so well coached.

[BillsFan130]

2 minutes ago, Augie said:

Being a Bills fan is hard. Part of it is dealing with the Bills losing,  Almost worse is the fans after a loss.  We lost to a good team on the road missing a BUNCH of important players in a strange Covid year on a last second freaky Hail Mary. 

 

I’m upset, but I’ll deal with it. At least it was an NFC team, so that should help our playoff hopes!  

Well said.

 

I think at this point it’s going to come down to the bills vs Dolphins game .

 

I still like the bills odds playing at home against a rookie QB In January.

Edited November 16, 2020 by BillsFan130

[Hapless Bills Fan]

12 minutes ago, Norcalbillsfan said:

Also we forget that a hail Mary is mostly a hope for a PI in the end zone and we know the refs would have called anything for Hopkins. That was alot tougher task for our DBs than we realize 

 

I’m really glad someone brought that up.  I believe Hopkins has the most PI calls in the league and it isn’t close.  Above all, the DBs needed to avoid PI.

 

It is not an easy pass to defend.

[NickelCity]

We had a Bills onesie in the cart for my impending daughter. But do I want to subject her to this crap? I honestly don't know, ha.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 minute ago, Real McNasty said:

He's 6'1

 

The D straight up choked on that play. 

2+ inches taller than white and he has a much bigger wingspan im sure

[Pokebball]

Just now, chaccof said:

More proof that the gods are not Bills fans.....uggg.....and more questioning whether my wife's right when she says "why do you do this to yourself?".....

 

It shouldn't have come down to a hail mary, or even a last minute Bills drive to win.  The team once again had a 3rd quarter collapse fueled by penalties and both the DL and OL getting man-handled.  

Do they track penalties by quarter?  We've got to have twice what anyone else has in the 3rd quarter.  Shouldn't be the case after the half-time break and adjustments.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 minute ago, BillsFan619 said:

We beat this Miami team that you think is so well coached.

My favorite part about this was everyone saying the win didn't count lol

[brianthomas]

was a tough loss. Hard to be really upset with such a miraculous catch by Hopkins. Yes we left lots of series out there in the 2nd half. We score on any of those drives & its a Bills win. I must say that i thought our D played better than i expected. With the issues to our secondary, i thought we battled all day.

 

Just gotta shake this one off, go into the bye & heal & rest up. Week 12, the Bills circle the wagons on the Chargers... LETS GO!

[Bob in STL]

18 minutes ago, Success said:

 

I mean, we all need to watch it again.

 

There really isn't much any of them could do. They were all right there - it was actually perfect coverage.

 

The covered him no doubt.  The pass was perfect and Hopkins out-jumped Tre.  Tre didn’t strip the ball and Hyde didn’t disrupt anything at all from behind.  Poyer got there late enough to not matter.  

[Sharky7337]

Mc Dermot is pissed in the post game presser never seen that before hahah

[White Linen]

8 minutes ago, Freddie's Dead said:

 

Also pissed that it justified CBS ball-washing Murray the entire game.  They had graphic after graphic after graphic prepared declaring Murray the MVP.  Josh Allen?  He sucks.

 

It was strange when they pulled up the side by side stats and said "It's the Kyler Murray show".  

 

The stats were nearly identical.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

Just now, Bob in STL said:

The covered him no doubt.  The pass was perfect and Hopkins out-jumped Tre.  Tre didn’t strip the ball and Hyde didn’t disrupt anything at all from behind.  Poyer got there late enough to not matter.  

Tre pulls it away a bit but Hopkins is clearly stronger lol

[Hapless Bills Fan]

1 minute ago, brianthomas said:

was a tough loss. Hard to be really upset with such a miraculous catch by Hopkins. Yes we left lots of series out there in the 2nd half. We score on any of those drives & its a Bills win. I must say that i thought our D played better than i expected. With the issues to our secondary, i thought we battled all day.

 

Just gotta shake this one off, go into the bye & heal & rest up. Week 12, the Bills circle the wagons on the Chargers... LETS GO!

 

We did battle all day, on both sides of the ball.  

[RichRiderBills]

6 minutes ago, Success said:

Toss up game.  

 

Some would say we got away w/ a few ourselves (Rams, Pats).  It kind of evens out.

 

Hate losing on a hail mary, but that's football.  This is a test for a young team w/ tons of promise - how they react to it is literally everything.

 

 

Dude...we have not lost on a hail mary in 50 years as far as i know.

 

Tell me otherwise. This was an epic, once in a lifetime loss. ...and your telling us to chill. 

 

Just embrace this BS and wallow with all of us.

 

 

 

[BillsFan619]

43 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:

 

We'd be 3rd in the AFC North this year.  

Yeah, let’s play this game. And if we were in the NFC East, we’d have the division almost locked up by now.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

2 minutes ago, Pokebball said:

Do they track penalties by quarter?  We've got to have twice what anyone else has in the 3rd quarter.  Shouldn't be the case after the half-time break and adjustments.

All our penalties seem to be on the same two drives somehow haha it blows my mind...you can count on one drive per game where we have a 3rd and 34

[Hapless Bills Fan]

Just now, White Linen said:

 

It was strange when they pulled up the side by side stats and said "It's the Kyler Murray show".  

 

The stats were nearly identical.

 

I know, I’m hearing the same thing from the SNF announcers “after what Murray did today”. 😬

[RichRiderBills]

3 minutes ago, brianthomas said:

was a tough loss. Hard to be really upset with such a miraculous catch by Hopkins. Yes we left lots of series out there in the 2nd half. We score on any of those drives & its a Bills win. I must say that i thought our D played better than i expected. With the issues to our secondary, i thought we battled all day.

 

Just gotta shake this one off, go into the bye & heal & rest up. Week 12, the Bills circle the wagons on the Chargers... LETS GO!

 

Hard to be upset? Seriously?

[Peter]

8 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

How did we let them lol im so confused...dude is tall and went up and caught a pass that only he could reach and white gave his best effort to rip it out

 

You apparently are confused.

 

Hopkins listed height is one inch taller than Hyde and Poyer and two inches taller than White.

 

It is not like Lebron was posting up on them.

[TBBills]

8 minutes ago, BillsFan619 said:

Bro, what are you talking about?

 

Yes, they lost. They’ve also won more games against above .500 teams than any other team in the league.

I have seen this play out before.... "Hey man we still have more wins than...."

"Hey man we still have the division lead"

"Hey man we still above .500"

"Hey we can still make a wildcard"

"If we don't win we are out of the playoffs"

 

That seems like the pattern.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 minute ago, RichRiderBills said:

 

Dude...we have not lost on a hail mary in 50 years as far as i know.

 

Tell me otherwise. This was an epic, once in a lifetime loss. ...and your telling us to chill. 

 

Just embrace this BS and wallow with all of us.

 

 

 

Idk i think this is a game to still be optimistic about...Arizona d had all the answers and we still battled it out 

[fasteddie]

12 minutes ago, White Linen said:

 

C'mon

 

It's pretty widely known the defense can be pretty aggressive on the hail mary jump ball.  You don't have to agree for that to be true.

 

Did you watch the refs in this game? They were about to call illegal breathing if it wasn't a catch.

[Playoffs?]

I’m usually doom and gloom, but I’m looking at today’s heartbreaking loss as some football god karma coming back to keep us in check. We’ve had a couple game that we’ve won come right down to the wire.. games that shouldn’t have. We could’ve lost any of them. Well... now we did.  
7-3... and MUST beat some very good teams in the coming weeks or else it was never meant to be.  This team will need to get together and have a major gut check. 
 

My reality check is the way a loss like this makes me feel.  It’s like my dog just died. That’s not healthy... this is just football... but dammit it seems that this team is just destined to lose sometimes. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

Just now, Peter said:

 

You apparently are confused.

 

Hopkins listed height is one inch taller than Hyde and Poyer and two inches taller than White.

 

It is not like Lebron was posting up on them.

Hopkins has made a CAREER out jumping defensive backs are we really debating this fact 🤣 

[Freddie's Dead]

5 minutes ago, White Linen said:

 

It was strange when they pulled up the side by side stats and said "It's the Kyler Murray show".  

 

The stats were nearly identical.

 

CBS pushing the NFC team.  Weird.

[Figster]

2 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

I’m really glad someone brought that up.  I believe Hopkins has the most PI calls in the league and it isn’t close.  Above all, the DBs needed to avoid PI.

 

It is not an easy pass to defend.

 

 

You just have to knock the ball down as a DB, not catch it.

 

Our DB's sure made it look hard to defend...

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

Maybe I am getting older, but I am over this already. This sort of loss in the past would have made me physically ill and then depressed for like 2 weeks.