Bills @ Chargers post game thread

[Nihilarian]

NOBODY circles the wagons...

[daz28]

17 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Ugly wins are still WINS.

 

9-6.

 

Control their own fate. At home against the Patriots in 6 days. Let's go Cowboys. 

 

LFG

8 days?

[Success]

I like that we're winning more close games.

 

That's all I've got right now.

 

[Matt_In_NH]

I was complaining about where Ed was in the Third quarter, nice he showed up twice when it really mattered.  Wow has he had a good year.   Von runs into a tackle and appears to be stuck to him like they both have glue all over themselves.

[BBFL]

Missed the game unfortunately…

 

How on earth did that team score 22 points?!?

[MarkKelso'sHelmet]

6 minutes ago, njbuff said:

The ugliest sweetest win this season.

Remember the Giants game?

[Comebackkid]

5 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Monday is a holiday. I don't count that😂😂

interesting thought process 😃

[CincyBillsFan]

1 minute ago, BuffaloBaumer said:

Only good teams can overcome three turnovers and horribly timed penalties and still win. Man was that a painful game to watch though.

The O line penalties were brutal.  On that one drive after the Chargers had cut the lead to 21 - 16 the line had 2 bad penalties in a row that cancelled Allen throws for 1st downs.  Had we gone down and scored a TD that drive it would have likely been game over.

 

 

[Slack_in_MA]

Just stack wins. By whatever means necessary.

[Comebackkid]

Just now, BBFL said:

Missed the game unfortunately…

 

How on earth did that team score 22 points?!?

painfully...for the most part

[Bills14221]

I thought Poona Ford had a nice game to open up Ed and others to do their thing.   
 

[stevewin]

16 minutes ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

No matter how weird you feel about that win, can you even imagine how sick you’d feel if we just lost that game? The relief of not losing that game is everything right now. Would have just had our season ended by terrible fumbles and Easton Stick. Now we are sitting in the 6 seed. I’ll take it.

My son said before Bass kicked the FG he had a thought of Bass missing it then had a vision of going outside and throwing up

[May Day 10]

2 minutes ago, Bob Jones said:

Yes, but all the talk of "no one wants to face the Bills in the playoffs" is out the window now, right? Since, you know, they looked like garbage, and won by the skin of their teeth against an inferior opponent. 

 

The sad reality is that they came within inches of being "the same old Bills." The "they're hot and steamrolling into the playoffs" is just a pipe dream now. Likely one and done.

 

Bring on the blinders wearing homer thumbs downs and red Xs. LOL

To answer that, put yourself in the shoes of a fan of any of the other playoff teams.  Rank the teams you would want to face.  Even after that, the bills are a scary opponent

[davefan66]

1 minute ago, richardb1952 said:

The injury report had Cook with "illness" for most of week.  I wonder if that might have influenced the fumbling.

Also, ever closer to getting DaQuan Jones back.  That will be a boost.

Good point regarding illness.  Bad week for Ty to be out. Would have liked to see Lenny get the ball more in situations it wasn’t so run obvious.

[CincyBillsFan]

6 minutes ago, MarkMiller said:

Love that we are at a point where we have a QB that can execute 4 jaw dropping plays in a game and we think he was just “mediocre.”  Dude won this game for us, again. 

Yes he did. 

[Matt_In_NH]

Anyone wonder about the clock strategy at the end, I think it was good but I was uneasy for sure?  I am glad it worked out but I was wondering if they should have tried for the first down/touchdown.  That would have meant deciding to pass and maybe not keeping the clock going.  The Chargers new what was coming though so they really had no chance to get the first down.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

Just now, Bob Jones said:

Yes, but all the talk of "no one wants to face the Bills in the playoffs" is out the window now, right? Since, you know, they looked like garbage, and won by the skin of their teeth against an inferior opponent. 

 

The sad reality is that they came within inches of being "the same old Bills." The "they're hot and steamrolling into the playoffs" is just a pipe dream now. Likely one and done.

 

Bring on the blinders wearing homer thumbs downs and red Xs. LOL

I think gutting out a tough win on a short week cross country trip against a team with extra time to prepare and new wrinkles with a new head coach/qb is a net neutral as far as what our chances are going forward 

 

[CircleTheWagons99]

Gotta learn to crush lesser teams and not play to their level. Then the Bills wj be dangerous. 

[WhitewalkerInPhilly]

2 minutes ago, BBFL said:

Missed the game unfortunately…

 

How on earth did that team score 22 points?!?

13 points off of 3 turnovers

[Since1981]

Didn’t ruin my Christmas 

[DuckyBoys]

O line was bad  Cooks ball security stunk  Harty just stinks period   Joe Brady looking Dorsey like at times  Think our offensive problems run deeper than just Ken Dorsey Players still sloppy even with season on the line

[Dan in Owego]

1 minute ago, Bob Jones said:

Yes, but all the talk of "no one wants to face the Bills in the playoffs" is out the window now, right? Since, you know, they looked like garbage, and won by the skin of their teeth against an inferior opponent. 

 

The sad reality is that they came within inches of being "the same old Bills." The "they're hot and steamrolling into the playoffs" is just a pipe dream now. Likely one and done.

 

Bring on the blinders wearing homer thumbs downs and red Xs. LOL

BUT , they didn't😅 go look back at all super bowl winners, they are littered with these type of wins. Did i like it🤕 not at all but onward they go.

[North Buffalo]

Won on a short week, time change etc etc... wasnt pretty but you win and move on... learn how to prepare better during adverse circumstances... still a win is win and at least they beat the hockey stick.

Edited December 24, 2023 by North Buffalo

[Beast]

I’m sure it was a tough game in that the Chargers probably did implement a few wrinkles the Bills hadn’t seen on film. They had 9 days to prepare.

 

On the other hand, just a sloppy offensive/special teams game. All 3 of those Bills turnovers were just horrible.

 

The W is all that matters. Fix the sloppiness.

[Warcodered]

I tried to find the one from the Giants game because it was shorter and didn't involve the Dolphins but this still works.

 

 

Why is it always ***** like this. 😭

[BananaB]

9 minutes ago, bobobonators said:

But let’s only keep discussing Purdy and Lamar for MVP. 
 

I don’t get the constant narrative. 

I don’t even understand how Lamar is in the conversation. His stats would match a QB in the 80s and 90s not today NFL

[BBFL]

2 minutes ago, Comebackkid said:

painfully...for the most part

Our boys not look like the have or were they ugly self inflicted wounds to keep them within reach?

 

Looking at the box score Chargers clearly won the turnover battle. 

[KellysHandWarmer]

2 minutes ago, stevewin said:

My son said before Bass kicked the FG he had a thought of Bass missing it then had a vision of going outside and throwing up

I was worried when they said it was off the right hash. At least it was just a 29-yarder.

[Beck Water]

Just now, TheWeatherMan said:

I care what happens, but nothing that does will change my mind on McD.  He’s just not an NFL caliber HC.

 

In other words, you have a dogmatic religious belief on this topic?

[balln]

5 minutes ago, Cheektowaga Chad said:

Still don't like the end of game calls settling for a FG

 

You go in and score a TD, there is no way Easton stick is leading a TD drive in less than two minutes when he struggled to get even a single TD all game

 

But guess what he has done....lead his team into FG range five times 

 

You are facing Easton stick not pat mahomes or even a bum like Derek carr but EASTON STICK 

It’s becoming a very bad trend. End of game situations like this. They are consistently settling / coming up only with FG. This team needs to END games on OFFENSE! 

[Doc Brown]

Credit to McDermott for leaving Cook in there after that fumble.

[zow2]

14 minutes ago, f0neguy said:

Folks complaining about the coaching….  Without the turnovers this game isn’t close.  Win by 2 or 22 it’s still a win.  Been rooting for this team forever, it’s never been easy and probably never will be.

 

I like style points too.  they got plenty in the Dallas game.  But yeah NFL is just win by 1 point and move on.  And to win with -3 turnover margin is impressive. That’s probably like a 95% loss when you lose the margin that bad.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

5 minutes ago, Cheektowaga Chad said:

Still don't like the end of game calls settling for a FG

 

You go in and score a TD, there is no way Easton stick is leading a TD drive in less than two minutes when he struggled to get even a single TD all game

 

But guess what he has done....lead his team into FG range five times 

 

You are facing Easton stick not pat mahomes or even a bum like Derek carr but EASTON STICK 

Why are you just guaranteed a td though? Lol yea obviously if you were just given a td we’d choose that 😂. What if you throw a couple incomplete passes and settle for a fg anyway and the chargers preserve their timeouts?

 

Then your whole ‘he’s led 5 fg drives’ point comes in…he led 0 fg drives when only having 30 seconds and no timeouts 

[SydneyBillsFan]

The best thing about this game apart from the dub - that Terrell Bernard did not tear an Achilles tendon, which was my immediate reaction when he started limping on that non-contact play.

[Iverwig]

Bills had to beat the Chargers, refs, and the announcers tonight 

[Rew]

5 minutes ago, Cheektowaga Chad said:

Still don't like the end of game calls settling for a FG

 

You go in and score a TD, there is no way Easton stick is leading a TD drive in less than two minutes when he struggled to get even a single TD all game

 

But guess what he has done....lead his team into FG range five times 

 

You are facing Easton stick not pat mahomes or even a bum like Derek carr but EASTON STICK 

You commit to scoring or commit to burning clock.  Against this team, each play where the clock kept running increased our chances of winning.  If we scored quick, we had to make a 2 point still.

[WhitewalkerInPhilly]

I'll give it to the Chargers: they came to play. They had little to play for other than pride and they still brought it.

 

But it's only close with 3 bad turnovers 

[DCofNC]

Biggest take away for me, I’ll just put my TV on mute any time Collinsworth is calling a game from now on, I hate the sound of the man’s voice at this point. 

[NickelCity]

I need a pill

[HomeskillitMoorman]

We lived to see another day, that's the most important thing here. It was over if we lost this game. 

 

This is a pretty flawed team and I still think coaching is still a big issue. But right now just getting into the dance is everything. Had to have it.