10/13/2025 Bills at Falcons - Post game thread

[Pete]

6 hours ago, GroteStreet said:

Apparently neither the bills nor the ravens are very good.  That first Sunday night game was deceiving.  

The Bills best victory was against a 1-5 Ravens team.  Fraud alert 

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

Why does it look like our LBs are always so far behind the line? There seems to be so much space in the box. Pre snap you can see there are going to be holes. There’s nothing about this defense that makes an ounce of sense.
 

It’s impossible to build on anything when you feel like the other team can’t be stopped. Even from a time of possession standpoint. It makes you feel like you can’t ever get behind. If you don’t think that effects our own offense you are nuts. The offense has so much pressure on them. Also why are we kicking off to start every game? We operate as if we make stops. We should be petrified of our own defense. Instead we play field position like we might be able to use it. We punt and 4 plays later they are already back to where we punted from. Does this guy watch the games ever? It’s like a rerun. Somehow we play the same game on defense every week for 7 straight years. It’s amazing how it’s always the same. I can almost tell you how a drive is going to go before it starts when the other team has the ball. You can feel it. It’s sickening 

[Bill from NYC]

4 hours ago, strive_for_five_guy said:

I was once told that losing to an NFC team actually helps our playoff seeding.

Was that quotefrom Hogboy? 

[Coach Tuesday]

4 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:

What about Allen's inability to get a quick snap off after Shakir's 3rd down sideline "catch" on their 2nd drive? I'm sure we had thoughts about that, right? Like how Allen should have just ran the simplest handoff or QB sneak in order to beat the challenge flag. Instead, it looked like they lagged to the line while Allen called out an actual full play wtf.

 

Just run up under center quickly and dive forward for whatever. Secure the 1st down result. Mahomes is (and Brady was) relentless and unflinching in getting to the line and snapping the damned ball before the refs or opposing coaches can officially do anything about it. Convert a 1st down on a questionable sideline catch? Automatic quick game QB sneak. Boom. Who cares what happens on 1st down? It's all better than punting. Allen had too much to say by several seconds before snapping the ball. Gotta just burn that 1st down play instead. 

The refs wouldn’t let him snap it - he tried to run up to the line for a quick snap but they wouldn’t let him start the play.

[vincec]

6 hours ago, colin said:

 

The d has been less bad than the o for about a month of poop football over which we are 2-2 and cratering.

 

The d is still horrible, obv, but the o is fixable at least.  A change in coaching on o might be a bigger boost, cuz Brady is terrible 

The offense has been bad because teams have figured out that you can just lock up the bills WRs in man because they can’t get open and Allen can’t run anymore. But they still have a lot of talent- good QB, RB, OL, TE (when healthy) so I think Brady and co. will figure some things out and steady the ship.

 

The defense is just devoid of talent so they’re sunk basically. Average is probably their ceiling.

[Chandler#81]

Bills Squad Show. Jerry, Jeremy & Joe bring the reality

 

[thenorthremembers]

6 hours ago, UKBillFan said:

 

Just because the offense was a mess tonight doesn't mean the defense isn't a serious issue.

 

I trust, maybe with a new OC and one key trade (who then doesn't pick up an injury), the offense will sort it out. I think the issue with the defense goes far deeper.

 

It's still a fact the D let the Falcons play down the field and get into scoring range. Which it seems to do all too often. I said during the game the issue with the D is it's too reliant on turnovers. Without them, it has little of note or benefit.

 

In the stupid crazy world of sport this means the Bills will go to Charlotte and win in just under a couple of weeks.

The point is you cant fix everything so maybe fix the one where you have an NFL MVP.   

6 hours ago, GoBills808 said:

Oh this is an extension of your Allen thing I see

 

I should have guessed smh carry on

 

Its not just about Allen.  I am sure he had basically nobody open all game.   But he also made bad decisions.   I don't know why thats so hard for people to say.

[MikePJ76]

Ha! Just saw Dan Fetes from Buffalo plus say he would take last years Von Miller over Joey bosa.

 

the crap I have taken for saying that from day one. 
 

Brandon Beane loves to be on the radio and tv, he needs to answer for the dreadfully bad offseason.  The defensive free agents were a pathetically bad group of players.  Injuries to rookies are no one’s fault but free agent spending is beane’s job.

 

i don’t know how you fix this defense during the season, especially if jones is out for the year.

[CirclnWagons]

I was absolutely shredded at the beginning of the year for saying the defense took a huge step back and Josh would have to score 40+ a game to keep winning. Hoecht and Ogunjobi were supposed to come in and somehow shed their career mediocrity to save a poor run fit defense. Now we can all agree, this is a .500 team who might luck up in some tight games and slip into a wild card slot. At least those of us who have been following the team even through the dark years are used to spending the season looking up at the pats. 

Edited 7 hours ago by CirclnWagons

[Bills!Win!]

Just remember this - the falcons lost to the panthers 30-0

 

 

[Sestak4ever]

Mahomes, Reid and the Chiefs are licking their chops right now. We could have put them and everyone else in the AFC in the rear view mirror.

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

3 minutes ago, CirclnWagons said:

I was absolutely shredded at the beginning of the year for saying the defense took a huge step back and Josh would have to score 40+ a game to keep winning. Hoecht and Ogunjobi were supposed to come in and somehow shed their career mediocrity to save a poor run fit defense. Now we can all agree, this is a .500 team who might luck up in some tight games and slip into a wild card slot. At least those of us who have been following the team even through the dark years are used to spending the season looking up at the pats. 

I got banned for a week for saying is last week. The defense has been terrible for 7 full years and are why we haven’t won a Super Bowl yet. Idk how people still don’t see it. Stevie Wonder can see it. The entire defensive philosophy needs to be scrapped, I don’t care if we hire Wade Phillips tomorrow and have to live through an entire instal in 2 weeks. Even if we take a step back for a few… it can’t be this. You have to remove McDermott entirely 

[boater]

The vibe of TSW...

 

The "Fire McDermott and Beane" crowd and the "Bills suck" crowd (who were abused children, BTW) are going to have a heyday with their posts this week. The "I told you so's" will be unbearable, even more unbearable than a Patriots fan or a WGR caller.

 

It will be curious to me whether Allen gets takes any heat. Criticizing him is verboten among the negative nancies, will they put their blinders on and overlook yesterday's performance?

 

It's going to be a long two weeks until we visit the Panthers...who are undefeated at home. This will get uglier before it gets better.

[waterglass]

9 hours ago, Process said:

We have a major Joe Brady problem 

 

 

Yes we do and its about the same timing as Dorsey. The league has figured him out and he seems to be way over his head. Especially the 3rd and 4th down "Jets sweep" that caused two fumbles and one huge loss the last three times it was used.  You kidden me Joe. Plus why did he stop using Cook when they were crusing. Allen need to be out of the coaching discussions as hes  agreeable to almost anything. Just look at what the Pats coach did with Diggs last week. Yes, much is about coaching and or lack thereof. 

 

Then again Joe Brady has cement trucks for wide receivers. I will give coach a pass and lay all of this on Beanes BUSTS. His scouts arent much and hes blown multiple drafts. Plus, just who trades a 1st round with your arch enemy top team. No one who is sane would ever do that. 

[Aesop]

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over".

 

This team will be fine.

[stuvian]

As dismal a showing as that was, it's too early to dismantle everything. Was it 2023 when we flirted with

.500 and Clappy engineered a nearly ten game win streak that put us at twelve or thirteen wins on the season? We've been here before.

As the greedy NFL adds more games they each become less meaningful. Did anyone think we were going 17 - 0? We're still ahead of rivals KC, Baltimore and Cincinnati. 

 

[Bangarang]

Palmer was our leading receiver with 60 yards and only played a little more than a quarter before being injured.

 

We desperately needed Keon to step up and he didn't. Shavers came in and out produced him.

[SoCal Deek]

Not sure if anyone noticed but we lost the turnover battle again. And….we lost…again. Enough said. 

[UKBillFan]

34 minutes ago, CirclnWagons said:

I was absolutely shredded at the beginning of the year for saying the defense took a huge step back and Josh would have to score 40+ a game to keep winning. Hoecht and Ogunjobi were supposed to come in and somehow shed their career mediocrity to save a poor run fit defense. Now we can all agree, this is a .500 team who might luck up in some tight games and slip into a wild card slot. At least those of us who have been following the team even through the dark years are used to spending the season looking up at the pats. 

 

In the last two weeks we would have needed 24 and 25 to win.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

11 minutes ago, stuvian said:

As dismal a showing as that was, it's too early to dismantle everything. Was it 2023 when we flirted with

.500 and Clappy engineered a nearly ten game win streak that put us at twelve or thirteen wins on the season? We've been here before.

 

 

Was that the year when one of the board participants came onto a thread and declared that the team was going on a seven game run?  Damned if they weren't correct.  If that poster is still here, please chime in.