A Few Thoughts about the Texans Game - Community Edition

[billsfan714]

Zero sacks on Davis Mills.  The Houston OL isnt tops in the league.  The gashes up the middle.   Did Greg Rousseau play, I honestly dont remember hearing his name.   Thats our 20 million guy.  AJE same crap.  At least Bosa drew a holding penalty.  Their DL made a lot of plays ours not so much.   

[nbbillsfan]

33 minutes ago, BeastMaster said:

He has a terrible coach, an even worse coordinator, and not one receiver that can win consistently down the field. Oh, and a defense that gets manhandled in the run game every single week

he certainly has excuses (and plenty of them), but the truly elite QB’s overcome.

[HappyDays]

44 minutes ago, nbbillsfan said:

Feels like there are less than 5 plays a game where we see him take a 3-5 step drop and get the ball out and completed within the design of the play 

 

Yeah that's what happens when you spam mesh 100 times a game. Defenses are capping the routes with ease. This scheme sucks and the personnel is worse.

 

5 minutes ago, nbbillsfan said:

he certainly has excuses (and plenty of them), but the truly elite QB’s overcome.

 

Did you watch the Super Bowl?

 

Edited 6 hours ago by HappyDays

[Preds]

51 minutes ago, nbbillsfan said:

Josh Allen is my favorite athlete of all time.

 

That said, I have been enormously disappointed in his play this year. Last year he took a huge step in becoming elite at playing the QB position. Pre-snap, reading defenses ect, it felt like he had finally evolved into an elite passer who could find the open guy and move the chains; That he was truly running an offense.

 

This year it’s like we went back to pre-mvp Josh. Everything feels like backyard football and off-schedule plays. Feels like there are less than 5 plays a game where we see him take a 3-5 step drop and get the ball out and completed within the design of the play 

Josh's backyard play is a direct result of the moron calling the plays and handicapping the offense from the start with weak predictable game plans and no creativity.  Not to mention the idiot HC who wants the superstar QB to be no more than a game manager to protect his crappy defense.  Josh is severely handicapped by the coaching staff as well as the GM who gives McClappy the players he wants on defense and does NOTHING to surround his future HOF QB with talent at WR that can actually play WR in the NFL and get separation.   This team is flawed on so many levels, but Josh is NOT the problem.  The entire Front Office and Coaching Staff needs to go.  Period.  

Edited 6 hours ago by Preds

[SCBills]

1 hour ago, Roundybout said:

 

And it wouldn't have mattered so who cares

It would have given us a 4th and 16, so it matters some, but I doubt they’re falling for the hook and ladder again. 

10 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

 

Yeah that's what happens when you spam mesh 100 times a game. Defenses are capping the routes with ease. This scheme sucks and the personnel is worse.

 

 

Did you watch the Super Bowl?

 

This is exactly what I felt like I was watching.. Mahomes in the Super Bowl against TB or Philly. 
 

Houston also did this to KC last year in the playoffs but they couldn’t score on KC either. 

[BuffaloBillsGospel2014]

1 hour ago, PepeSilvia said:

Dawson Knox was wide open on the last play. Wide open. 

 

Wouldn't have counted since the Gabe Davis pick play happened.

[billsfan714]

With Josh being off, one thing I dont understand in terms of a down and distance situation, is there are several times a game, where the first down is there for the taking, but Josh is trying to do more than is necessary.  Somehow the short, first down isnt the first read.  Thats was MVP Josh, limited the TO's.    Didnt somebody say nobody went broke taking a profit.   Josh needs to get back to that.  This is a total team loss.   Coaching, special teams, defense, OL, QB, not good enough.  Zero sacks and TOs against the likes of Davis Mills is not good.

[PauleeeWalnuts]

Humiliating losses to Miami, Atlanta and Houston. All of a sudden this team is a turnover machine that gives up sacks like it’s free candy. They are undisciplined, soft and fragile, McDermott has clearly lost this team. The message is stale and the process is broken, time for a change.

[Virgil]

Did anyone see the stat that McD is 15-35 when trailing at halftime?  
 

If that’s true, then wow.  

[transient]

This FO and coaching staff has made me ambivalent about the rest of a Bills’ season with Josh Allen at QB… I don’t think I’ve felt this way since McKelvin fumbled the kickoff against NE***. Humble and hungry… yeah, Sean, that’s because with “everybody eats”, nobody eats. 🤮 Enjoy your complementary football, prick. Now you’ve got a broken offense to go with your broke ass defense. 

Edited 5 hours ago by transient

[Madbillsfan]

2 hours ago, Virgil said:

Every year, the Bills seem to lose two games in October where we look like we forgot how to play football and definitely don’t look like a championship contending team.  We panic in the moment, but McD regroups the team and we figure it out.  This year, the dominant wins feel like the aberrations and are immediately followed up by games that make us dismiss any progress we saw in the prior wins.  You can bring up injuries all you want, but we overall have guys we consider starters out there, on top of the fact that all teams deal with injuries.  To me, the McD/Beane era needs to be over.  I can no longer tell you what they bring to the table beyond building a good culture.  Thank you for ending the drought, but it’s time…

 

1 – Special Teams – I don’t usually do grades, but I’m compelled to give them a D-.  The kickoff return for a touchdown is the only thing saving them from a F.  So many dumb decisions and penalties gave the Bills terrible field position.  Prater’s missed extra point came back to haunt us, shockingly.

 

2 – Tackling – I’m honestly surprised the Bills were able to grab their luggage off the plane with as bad as their hands and strength are.  Do websites track yards after contact, because the Bills missed more tackles than a bikini Jello pit contest.  You almost had to see it to believe it, it was so bad.  Meanwhile, the Bills go down immediately on contact, usually for a loss.  Is it effort? 

 

3 – The Trenches – I can’t remember a game where the Bills got destroyed on both sides of the ball on the line of scrimmage.  For some reason, Brady didn’t give Josh an extra blocker for much of the game and Josh paid the price for it.  But don’t worry, even when we did have a 6th blocked, the Texans just bulldozed them. Seriously, our line was getting smacked around and knocked on their ass.  Defensively, not only could we not stop the run, but we also couldn’t generate a pass rush.  Considering McD considers this his passion in the game, he’s failing to prepare his team.  Josh was pressured on 28 out of 35 drop backs.

 

4 – Josh – I don’t even know how to evaluate Josh in this game.  The only real positive is that you could see him frustrated on the sidelines, even calling out the playcalling on the terrible 4th and 1 run call up the middle.  I don’t think any change is going to happen without Josh speaking up.  Josh had no time, couldn’t step up, and couldn’t scramble.   I mean, he was sacked 8 times!!!  On the 7th sack, there was literally no one open.  Miles Garrett can’t wait to play us.

 

5 – Linebackers – May none of them return next season.  I know that’s incredibly unlikely due to the contracts, but my god are they terrible.  Sadly, I hope we find out that Bernard is playing through a broken leg, because his contract sucks now.  Milano had one decent tackle but was otherwise a ghost out there.  

 

6 – Taron – I’m going to start calling TJ “King of the Piggyback Rides.”  Like Bernard, I hope we find out he’s playing hurt because he can neither cover nor tackle. The only action he seems to get is when he’s being dragged across the first down marker by the opposing offense.  Don’t worry, we restructured his deal, so he has dead years to come.  

 

7 – Shakir – Brady isn’t doing him any favors by only throwing to him behind the line of scrimmage.  And maybe other teams are scheming to take him away, but something is off.  Even his big play in the 4th was behind the line of scrimmage. Yes, he approached 100 yards and flashed in the 4th.  I’ll forgive the fumble because he never does that, but something is off.  

 

8 – Brady – This is going to be repetitive, but I just can’t help myself.  Is it me, or does he call plays regardless of his players or the situation?  I feel like Brady is incapable of getting the most out of his players or finding mismatches.  He’s been bailed out by Josh, Cook, and Kincaid.  Like in Carolina, he showed a great spurt of production, but then got figured out, couldn’t score, and was rightfully fired.  He should be fired for this 4th and short run to Cook, because clearly, he did not see how this game was being played.  But again with the credit where credit is due, the 4th and long pitch back play to Shakir was beautiful.  I remember the Lions running that play against us last year and wished we could do something like that.  

 

9 – McD – Prior to McD coming here, the Bills were losers in every sense of the word.  We lost mentally, physically, and in the standings.  We didn’t just miss the playoffs, we believed we would miss the playoffs.  McD fixed that.  He developed Josh with Daboll, created a new community amongst the fans, and made Buffalo a place that players wanted to come play. McD also got us to one game of the Superbowl twice, for which I am incredibly thankful.  McD has peaked now.   He’s taken us as far as we can go and now, we must worry about wasting any more of Josh’s prime years.  Thank you again McD, but it’s time.  Results matter and, in a season, where the Ravens and Chiefs were never in contention for the one seed, you blew it.  Also, is it true that McD is 15-35 when trailing at the half?!!

 

10 – Texans – Credit where credit is due.  The Texan’s defense is fantastic.  This is the type of defense that can win you a championship.  If Stroud and their offense was fully healthy, I think they are playing for the one seed right now.  Will Andrerson is a monster and never seemed to get tired.  Nothing but respect to their defense. 

 

Side note – Is there anyone out there who believes that the outcome of this game would have been different had Coleman played?  Yeah, me neither.  

 

Goodbye one seed, we hardly knew thee.  Besides the Jets game, I don’t see a single game remaining on the schedule that I would expect us to win.  Yes, I’m including the Browns unless Sanders is going to start for them.

 

Go Bills…. I guess…...

Milano is playing?

[MrEpsYtown]

1 hour ago, HappyDays said:

 

Yeah so where I've gotten to is this staff gives us nothing on defense and they give us nothing on offense. It's just utterly generic NFL coaching on both sides of the ball, and the GM made the fatal mistake of investing in his vanilla coach over his generational QB. McDermott got everything he wanted and he needs to own this mess.

100% this

[Buffalo Ballin]

1 hour ago, Virgil said:

Did anyone see the stat that McD is 15-35 when trailing at halftime?  
 

If that’s true, then wow.  

It's true otherwise they wouldn't have posted that.

 

More reason to fire McD after the season is over if we don't reach AFC Title game. We're not gonna reach it though. He should be gone. Not sure if upper management has the balls to fire him.

[CincyBillsFan]

2 hours ago, PepeSilvia said:

Dawson Knox was wide open on the last play. Wide open. 

Because the Bills committed offensive pass interference.  It was flagged and had Allen hit him it would not have counted and we would have faced a 4th & 16.

 

 

1 hour ago, SCBills said:

Houston also did this to KC last year in the playoffs but they couldn’t score on KC either. 

KC has an extra SB win and an extra SB appearance because of the great play of their defense in the playoffs over the years.  That is what real complimentary football looks like.

 

 

 

 

[nuklz2594]

I am waiting to read....bills have players only meeting

[Sargent Hulka]

A Terry twofer; a broken hockey team, and now a broken football team.

[Bill from NYC]

6 hours ago, Virgil said:

  Thank you again McD, but it’s time.  Results matter and, in a season, where the Ravens and Chiefs were never in contention for the one seed, you blew it.

 

I agree with some of the good things that you said about McDermott, but they really do need to get rid of him either now, or at the end of the season. If he is in town for the free agency period and the draft, we are destined for the same dumb decisions to be made. 

 

Also, I know he is under contract but at some point, Josh might ask for a trade. Tell me, how do you think Josh felt while watching the 2025 draft and seeing him draft defensive players with the first FIVE picks? 

 

It is that simple.

[Spiderweb]

6 hours ago, Virgil said:

 

My god, Hoecht played 6 quarters.  Also, Oliver and Hoecht are pass rushers who come off the field on expected runs.  We didn't have Kincaid, they didn't have their number one receiver.  Jones and Walker are our two best interior run defenders.  We still had Bosa and Groot on the ends.  I'm sorry, but I'm not blaming injuries for this game.  

Hoecht may have played only six quarters, but he was very impressive against the Chiefs. That was a huge loss.......

[muppy]

8 sacks of Josh Allen.   that's a stat I will not soon forget

 

and that 4th and 1 mensa play call to Cook 5 yards behind the LOS

 

unbelievable. 

[juno999]

I’ve been a steadfast believer in McD but no more. Unfortunately I don’t think Pegula will fire him. He picks bad coordinators, he spends premium assets on the D line and they still suck. If you want to say Beane picks the players, that’s fine. Fire them both. They have failed Josh Allen. They have the best player in the NFL who is on a team friendly deal and they can’t build a decent team around him. Our WRs are sh*t among other things. 

Edited 18 minutes ago by juno999