10/5/2025 GAMEDAY Bills vs Patriots Post Game Thread SNF

[CincyBillsFan]

The truth is that this game may mean very little over the course of the season. The Bills were not going 17 - 0 and losing a close game on a last second FG to a rising division power is very common in the NFL.  I expect the Bills to right the ship and go on another run and finish 13 - 4 locking up the 1st seed. 

 

Our uneasy feeling is that after all the draft picks and signing capital that the Bills have lavished on the D, they still can't be counted on to win a game in which the O is struggling.

 

 

[Simon]

2 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:

 

I don't think that was the plan; my gues is he either wanted Palmer to catch and run out or start the pitches immediately. Instead he turtled which was strange.

 

I thought he didn't catch it clean and was downed before he got a handle on it.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

4 minutes ago, Dafan said:

Thing is..why did Josh not realize we had no timeouts and make that throw up the middle of the field?

I think Palmer was supposed to pitch it but the throw kinda took him to the ground…Josh def knew he had no timeouts..  

[Johnnycage46]

Just now, Low Positive said:

So you predict 4-13?

That would be 4-2.

[TwoFlocksofFury]

1 minute ago, Roundybout said:

Atlanta is going to kill us by the way 

Kill? Eh...I wouldn't be surprised by a close loss.

[NoSaint]

3 minutes ago, DapperCam said:

It was pretty obviously supposed to be a lateral play. There was no chance we were going to move down the field in 8 seconds from the 20 yard line.

I would’ve preferred like a 20 yard out and Hail Mary to that but even that’s 1/100 chance

[Roundybout]

1 minute ago, Low Positive said:

So you predict 4-13?

No, but the way things are going I see 10-7

[MPT]

1 minute ago, Low Positive said:

The thing that got me was the lack of holding calls on the Pats OL when you could see them holding all night. Everytime Maye rolled out they held with two full hands of jersey. It was plain as day from the broadcast angle. 

 

Yeah, and McGovern gets called for a hold on a textbook pancake block. 

 

That non-call PI on Keon where he's being dragged to the ground by his collar was another good one.

[BillsFan130]

1 minute ago, Einstein said:

I am also tired of Joe Brady’s play calling.

 

A tight end handoff in the 1st quarter when you’re moving the ball well? Really? REALLY JOE? You wanted Dawson Knox to get a handoff behind the line of scrimmage?

 

It was infuriating in the first half.

Yep. He must have started Knox in fantasy or something.

Makes absolutely 0 sense

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

6 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

If you go back and watch you will quickly see that what you are upset about never happened.

On that final drive, Allen never passed up easy short passes in favor of home run balls.

 

It didn’t happen.

 

The best you could find is Allen not throwing a 3 yard pass to Cook and getting him blown up.

so I did go back and watch:

 

1) 2nd and 10: had cook right in front of him (maybe only a short gain, but depends on the leverage), but had Palmer for an easy out for like 7-8 yards. 
 

2) 3rd and 10: two crossers, both open, especially Shakir on the left. Allen bailed way too early. 
 

Allen is great. But he played off script tonight. Sometimes that is great, but he came out on the short end tonight doing that.

[The Wiz]

2 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

It was supposed to be a hook and ladder

Looked like a hook and sinker.

[TheFunPolice]

1 minute ago, BillsFan130 said:

I've been hoping this for a while, but it's not gonna happen I don't think.

 

McDermott wants this. Clock control offence to protect the defence at all costs

 

On one hand you can't blame him 

 

On the other hand he's a defensive HC and his defense cannot stop good teams. 

[zow2]

9 minutes ago, billybob71 said:

I want Allen to run more plays in a game, I know we like to eat clock, ball control 3 TE and get Cook going but tonight that played into the Pats hands and strengths, more up tempo and attacking over the middle sooner not when we get down by 10. Of course with our D not being to good at times that also contributes to him sitting on the sidelines for long stretches.

 

I want the Bills to stop being so conservative in the first half.  It leads to close 4th quarters and you aren’t gonna win all of them.  

[TBBills Fan]

3 minutes ago, MPT said:

 

I don't know, I think I could fit it in there. 

 

1. Refs

2. Refs

3. Game plan

4. Playcalling

5. Missing too many starters on defense

6. The Bills were feeling themselves too much in their pretty new jerseys and didn't take this game seriously enough.

 

There were go, I didn't even need all 10!

Uniforms are 7. Turnovers are ahead

[NoSaint]

1 minute ago, steven50 said:

The last time we had a generational QB his name was Jim Kelly and when we played inferior opponents he was sitting on the bench with his helmet off drinking Gatorade midway through the fourth quarter because we buried inferior opponents early in the game.

 

Call it killer instinct, putting our foot on there neck, or whatever. We are not doing it.

urgency to win 

 

there seems to be some degree of “Josh will do it eventually” instead of burying teams early 

[BigDingus]

Just now, MPT said:

 

I don't know, I think I could fit it in there. 

 

1. Refs

2. Refs

3. Game plan

4. Playcalling

5. Missing too many starters on defense

6. The Bills were feeling themselves too much in their pretty new jerseys and didn't take this game seriously enough.

 

There were go, I didn't even need all 10!

 

7. Josh making big mistakes.

 

I swear, Diggs is in his head. 

 

That first fumble after a big play. Taking bad sacks on 3rd down on very obvious blitzes. The INT into double coverage in the red zone when we had open targets underneath. 

 

There were plenty of opportunities, but the mistakes killed us. 

[MPT]

1 minute ago, steven50 said:

The last time we had a generational QB his name was Jim Kelly and when we played inferior opponents he was sitting on the bench with his helmet off drinking Gatorade midway through the fourth quarter because we buried inferior opponents early in the game.

 

Call it killer instinct, putting our foot on there neck, or whatever. We are not doing it.

 

Agreed. Josh had no business being on the field against the Dolphins and Saints in the 4th quarter but we showed up completely unprepared to play and needed the whole game to put away two terrible teams.

[TwoFlocksofFury]

Just now, BillsFan130 said:

Yep. He must have started Knox in fantasy or something.

Makes absolutely 0 sense

Him having a TE like Knox on his fantasy team definitely tracks 😂

[LarryMadman]

2 minutes ago, Turbo44 said:

McDermott just said “sometimes we get to cute” which I think is a direct criticism of plays you just described 

Always passing the buck, how about his defense inability to stop a beachball

[TheFunPolice]

I'm sorry but Atlanta does not impress me 

 

We better win by 10+

 

That's a team that will play McDermott ball: throw INT or make other costly errors that compound. 

 

His defense is built for teams like Atlanta 

Edited 4 hours ago by TheFunPolice