11/30/25 GAMEDAY Bills @ Steeler Post Game Thread 4:25 pm (National TV game)

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

2 minutes ago, Since1981 said:

Yes. That doesn’t happen often. Where a team just repeats plays successfully. NFL that never works in NFL but it did today. 

We did the same thing to Carolina pretty much 

[DrDawkinstein]

2 minutes ago, Since1981 said:

Yes. That doesn’t happen often. Where a team just repeats plays successfully. NFL that never works in NFL but it did today. 

 

Brady did that once before against the Cowboys 2 years ago. They had a passing gameplan drawn up, but when the run worked so well, he just calling the same plays over and over.

 

Which makes it even more frustrating in other games where Brady seems to insist on sticking to his script instead of going with what is working.

[Neo]

1 hour ago, Nelius said:

Josh Allen has more rushing TDs than a anybody ever. Like in NFL history.

 

James Cook may put up 1600 rushing yards this year. Most in Buffalo history easy.

 

Do we have these “very minor bits and pieces” put together before the real fans that understand WR dynamics wake up? Just making sure 

 

 

 

Um ….   2003.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

Um 2003.

 

HA!   I posted the same exact thing on page 12, including the ‘um’.

1 hour ago, HappyDays said:

Oh Allen REALLY got in his head.

 

 

 

 

 

How embarrassing.    

 

 

 

[May Day 10]

Tj watt is on to Tecmo Joe Brady... and wonders how Tomlin guessed wrong almost every time

 

"I've never seen a team run the same play as much as they ran it tonight and have as much success as they had."

[ngbills]

2 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

Brady did that once before against the Cowboys 2 years ago. They had a passing gameplan drawn up, but when the run worked so well, he just calling the same plays over and over.

 

Which makes it even more frustrating in other games where Brady seems to insist on sticking to his script instead of going with what is working.

Steeler O was bad. I take the win. But the Bills O today does not beat most teams. You’re not gonna win a one dimensional game vs better teams. And we know most teams will be able to score. That pit o today, play and coaching decisions, is one of the worst showings I have seen. 

[FireChans]

3 minutes ago, ngbills said:

Steeler O was bad. I take the win. But the Bills O today does not beat most teams. You’re not gonna win a one dimensional game vs better teams. And we know most teams will be able to score. That pit o today, play and coaching decisions, is one of the worst showings I have seen. 

The Niners beat the 13-3 Packers completing 8 passes in the conference championship.

 

you obviously want to be perfect but I reject the notion. Depending on the matchup in this years AFC, I could see us running over a playoff team or 2.

[Shortchaz]

5 minutes ago, ngbills said:

Steeler O was bad. I take the win. But the Bills O today does not beat most teams. You’re not gonna win a one dimensional game vs better teams. And we know most teams will be able to score. That pit o today, play and coaching decisions, is one of the worst showings I have seen. 

Great argument for the defense needing to improve 

[tigerthelion]

5 minutes ago, ngbills said:

Steeler O was bad. I take the win. But the Bills O today does not beat most teams. You’re not gonna win a one dimensional game vs better teams. And we know most teams will be able to score. That pit o today, play and coaching decisions, is one of the worst showings I have seen. 

How about that fourth down run that was stuffed in the fourth quarter?   Old man Rodgers and his reaction to it were hilarious lol

[Kwai San]

2 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

I'd pay money for the full audio of what was going on between Josh and Heyward!

U and me both!!!  I bet Josh was trashing him HUGE!

[SoCal Deek]

9 minutes ago, tigerthelion said:

How about that fourth down run that was stuffed in the fourth quarter?   Old man Rodgers and his reaction to it were hilarious lol

Rodgers is done. He looks like he’d rather be ANYPLACE other than on a football field. Really sad. 

[tigerthelion]

1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said:

Rodgers is done. He looks like he’d rather be ANYPLACE other than on a football field. Really sad. 

Certainly not a pretty swan song for him since leaving Green Bay.

[Big Blitz]

 

[Shaw66]

I'm not predicting that the Bills won't lose again, but this was an encouraging win. 

 

First, people aren't giving the defense enough credit. The defense completely shut down the Steelers. Completely. They're scoring 23 points a game, and they could nothing against the Bills. 

 

Second, the run game.

 

Third, the depth they showed, playing without the starting tackles and the starting middle linebacker. 

 

Fourth, their focus. They were really dialed in. 

 

They may get Kincaid back soon, and Palmer. And Cooks probably will be worked into the offense more. So there's a lot that could make the passing game better. Oh, and it looked like the wind made passing pretty tough today. 

 

Nice to see Sanders out there, and maybe we'll see Oliver in a few weeks.

 

The Bills look like they're ready for December. 

[SCBills]

Beat the Steelers in such a humiliating and emasculating way that if they have any self-respect, they’ll have their most focused week of practice leading up to this Baltimore game. 
 

The postgame stuff coming out of their locker room makes it seem that’s coming.  
 

Well see if it matters, but I’d still love to remove the possibility of having to go to Baltimore WC Weekend. 

[Ya Digg?]

29 minutes ago, ngbills said:

Steeler O was bad. I take the win. But the Bills O today does not beat most teams. You’re not gonna win a one dimensional game vs better teams. And we know most teams will be able to score. That pit o today, play and coaching decisions, is one of the worst showings I have seen. 

Today’s offense does beat most teams. Controlled the game, little to no pass rush from the Steelers, all without their starting tackles, starting tight end, and almost lost the starting center. 
 

The difference today was the defense 

[Big Blitz]

Did Hairston see the field today??

[Richard Noggin]

2 hours ago, WideNine said:

A re-think at DT and LB may help too when they are looking for roster additions via the draft and FA. Getting some bigger bodies up front and LBs that have the attitude needed to play the run may also help keep our smaller DBs and safeties from taking on so many guys coming at them with a full head of steam and getting injured. There is a lesson to be taken away from being near the bottom of rush defence and having so many of your defenders getting injured.

 

SUPER curious if this hypothesis actually has merit. Is bad rushing defense correlated with increased games missed by defenders? Difficult to parse directly, seeing as decimated defensive units would likely have difficulty stopping the run (and/or the pass). Which came first kind of conundrum. But I'd still like to look into what the numbers say about your claim here...

 

2 hours ago, UKBillFan said:

 

Why not, if it works? It feels like coordinators often overthink play calls even if they're working. They just assume the opponents will work it out so move on. Sometimes sticking with something until proven the question's been answered is the way to go.

 

Why not stick with it repeatedly, for me, is illustrated each time Brady intentionally sticks with it enough times in a row that the Bills get stuffed for a no gain or negative result. Brady CHOOSES to inevitably squander a valuable 1st or 2nd down rather than leveraging the increased likelihood that the defense will be over-playing the run and hitting them with some kind of play-action pass or other such aggressive change of pace play call. You have Josh freaking Allen. Convert that running success into passing success, or at least try. Keep the mfers guessing. 

 

1 hour ago, finn said:

Not so solid when he did an ole-tackle on Washington in the fourth quarter. I don't blame him in a way; Washington outweighs him by 75 pounds and he was running full speed. Still, you can't pass up tackles. 

 

Washington outweighs Tre White by 119 pounds, actually. Washington's listed weight is laughable; he's even admitted recently what his actual weight is (311, right?). 

[QLBillsFan]

31 minutes ago, ngbills said:

Steeler O was bad. I take the win. But the Bills O today does not beat most teams. You’re not gonna win a one dimensional game vs better teams. And we know most teams will be able to score. That pit o today, play and coaching decisions, is one of the worst showings I have seen. 

Bills needed to play well on the road to stay alive. They did exactly that. Really good teams find a way to win late in the season. I’m not looking for reasons to be negative about today. The Bengals are up. They are playing well. The Bills need to play well and win that game. That’s it.

[RunTheBall]

50 minutes ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:

Yes, today we could @RunTheBall and should enjoy the W. 
 

But I am serious, that the concerns of the passing offense, despite not being needed today, are a consistent limitation that we’ve seen over and over all season. 
 

It has little to do with the injuries today, or the match up and the play calling in how they tried to beat Pitt. How could you argue that? 
 

However, today the running game masked this major issue, and it was good enough to beat the Steelers and keep us well in the hunt for the WC. It does not however instill confidence in their ability to hang with or defeat more capable teams.

I totally agree with you that we need more from the intermediate and deep passing game. My only point is that this isn’t that game that we should have tried that, and we didn’t need to. Given our injuries and Pitts defensive line, there wasn’t going to be the time to exploit that. I’m sure with the All-22 we are going to see a couple deep shots called that Josh didn’t take for whatever reason.