Bills are Fool's Gold: Intentions Versus Results

[Wizard]

This is my first post of this season as the result of not having much access to a phone as the result of a deployment.

 

I apologize for having to catch up. Tonight is the first game I have watched this season. Only caught some highlights, basic storylines, and our record.

 

Forgive my ignorance, but the team looks terrible. Before I watched, I thought our offensive line was supposed to be good. I thought Allen was much better at limiting mistakes. I thought we had become more of a running team.

 

Help me understand. Orher than at the end, what are these little screens being run?

 

I heard we had some injuries, but everyone looks slow on defense. I guess Coleman is worse now too.

 

I know the Texans have a great defense. I thought we had a great offense. The defense looks pretty bad also. Why is Cook running so little?

 

Literally, what happened?

 

Yes..it is one game and the only one I have seen. Based on what I saw, either the Bills are Fool's Gold because they have a lot of wins, or there must be a lot of crappy teams this year.

 

I will try to catch up on all the other posts.

 

Only good thing...Thanksgiving and Holiday wishes all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Wizard

[Simon]

This team has been in a funk all year long.

It is the worst coached Bills team we have seen in the Allen era, and it's not even close, imo.

There is no attention to detail, both sides of the ball are frequently confused and on different pages, self-scouting and situational awareness are completely absent on Sundays and there is no good answer at this point of the season.

The player can sense it and as a result we are seeing multiple games with unfocused, unmotivated players. The only time they really get geeked is when the play rivalry games against opponents they personally dislike (Chiefs, Jets, Ravens), the rest of the season they have mostly been going through the motions.

Unless they get younger at multiple positions and retool with an entirely new coaching staff, we are probably going to see more of the same going forward.

[Wizard]

That was not a hopeful message, but thank you for the insight.

 

Other than the Cook touchdown, I saw no pressure on their QB and bad tackling. And, on offense it looked boring? Maybe, uninspiring.

 

The Hook and Ladder play was cool.

[Simon]

4 minutes ago, Wizard said:

bad tackling. And, on offense it looked boring? Maybe, uninspiring.

 

Both of those things have been a recurring issue all year long.

We may lead the league in missed tackles.

And Brady's predictable, repetitive, chickenspit offense has absolutely been boring and uninspiring.

[RyanC883]

Thanks for your service. @simon had a good summary.  Basically by every metric minus Cook and Bishop this team is worse than last year.  The D is abysmal, and the WRs are bad outside of Shakir who on a good team is a 2 or 3. The piss poor coaching and FO bad decisions are finally coming to a head.