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A ways to go? You do realize he is amongst the league leaders on 4th down attempts right?

No disrespect here...I like you as a poster, so really mean no disrespect. But this is a puzzling example for me. I mean, did you really just bring up a game where noodle arm Nathan Peterman was our QB. Zay Jones and Kelvin Benjamin were our WR's. And the weather was an unreal blizzard? A game we won too. A game where the Colts were doing nothing offensively either, an important caveat as to why you punt. Come on bud, how can you criticize a head coach as "conservative" when his offense is being led by the statistically worst QB in NFL history with an arm weaker than Mac Jones throwing in a blizzard to the fattest and laziest WR in KB and terrible route runner with hands of stone Zay Jones? Especially since his decisions still led us to a win. Football is about putting your team in the best position to win. No one thinks putting the ball in Nathan Pickermans hand in a blizzard throwing to trash is a good football decision. I mean the wrong decision there would have meant we did not break the playoff drought that year. It was that important, and his decision worked out for the win.

Sorry about the condescending tone, but it comes from the irritation of having the constant witching of McD after not just this loss, but any loss. We went 13-3 last year, and there were fire McD and Beane threads during the regular season after losses. There were several this year too. And one of the most annoying complaints about him is being falsely accused of being conservative. Which is so unbelievably apparent he is not by simply watching the game or looking at it statistically. This isn't Madden, no coach in the NFL has the pedal to the metal no matter the risks at all times. It doesn't happen and its never happened at the NFL level. They still complain even when the so-called "conservative" decision proves correct and we win the game. Like the poster I replied too...McD played it right, we did what we needed to do to win the game. A kickoff miscommunication and 13 second defensive brain fart by Frazier changed the outcome. So, yeah...I admit, condescending tone was present in my post, but that was to prevent me from getting a warning point for really venting the way I want to about the ridiculous claims he is conservative. Its just factually incorrect that its almost insulting having to read those claims.

Talk to Frazier about that

But is that really fair to say about him or any coach? I honestly can’t think of any example of where he played scared or overly conservative. I remember a game where we punted late with 3 timeouts instead of trying a 4th and long and people freaked out even though we got the ball back (as intended by the punt and timeout count) and won the game. Wasn’t conservative was making a decision to give us best chance to win. The NFL isn’t Madden, sometimes you have to make choices to help your team win that aren’t always seen as the “aggressive” choice. Being all throttle all the time is not the correct approach. Honestly, every Coach in the NFL will be seen as “erratic” in peoples eyes here. In fact, can anyone name one that isn’t? All coaches make choices in game that they believe that give them the best chance to win that are not the more "aggressive" choice. Lets be real, "aggressive" and "gambling" are cousins of each other, its real easy to cross the line and take unnecessary chances at the wrong time. Its mathematically incorrect to always choose the "aggressive" choice in every situation.

Colts, Giants, Pitt or Houston IMHO.

Your posts on here tell me one of three things: 1. You party too hard and socialize too much during Bills games and don’t pay enough attention to know what’s actually going on. 2. You don’t even watch Bills games. I know it has to be one of those 2 because that is the only way to explain why anyone in their right mind could see McD as conservative or “wanting to win by 3”. That is such an utterly absurd thing to say about one of the most aggressive coaches in football who goes for it on 4th down a lot and just fielded a team with the largest point differential in the NFL. A coach who INSTEAD of tying the game on the last play against the Titans went for it on 4th and 1 to try and win instead. And why do you say this? Because he wasn’t a moron and didn’t go for it on the Chiefs 32 yard line in the early part of the 3rd quarter only down 3? Seriously? Up til then, our D had been getting pressure on Mahomes and held them to two FG attempts in the previous 2 drives. No reason to risk giving them the ball back already in scoring position. You are literally categorically wrong and not a single coach in the NFL goes for it in that situation, and no one in the NFL considers McD conservative by any means.

Have you ever made a single post that wasn’t hated, laughed at, ridiculed, etc by like 99% of the posters on TSW?

This is going to be a lonnnnnnnnnnnng offseason.

Bahaha you want to compare that to this? Wow, you’re off the deep end.

No offense, but this comment is ridiculous IMHO. Seriously? Davis had over 200 yards and 4 TD’s because they focused on Diggs. Allen only had 120 other yards that were spread between Diggs, Knox, Sanders, Cole, McKenzie, Singletary, and Gilliam. What did you want to happen? Allen stop throwing passes and TD’s to Davis to force feed Diggs? There is only one ball. If someone has 200 yards and 4 TDs by themselves, then the byproduct is that others around them aren’t going to see much production. But Diggs being out there is a big reason Davis got those opportunities. He was still out there drawing attention, making key blocks, and other things helping this team. Not to mention an incredible clutch catch on the 2 pt conversion. Diggs is not even close as to why we lost. Not his fault Davis had a monster game torching the Chiefs D.

I did lol, it’s in the post

Please let him poach him. I've been calling for his head all year.

Not every game goes the same. We lost to the Jags. Bengals lost to the Jets. Sometimes players are in a different zone. Josh and Mahomes were both playing out of their mind in our game. Doesn't mean both will play at that level each game. Mahomes sure didnt in our first meeting earlier in the year. So my advice, dont over react too much to a single game. Which is the same advice I keep saying in some threads where people want to do extreme things like fire Beane, our coaches, trade all our picks for elite players and mortgage our future and cap health to go all in one year...etc etc. Reality is, we beat them twice this year...just second time we gave the game away over some terrible defensive decisions by Frazier in final 13 seconds, compounded by a coin toss that didn't go our way. And the second time, we were missing our best defensive player who probably has a big impact on the game in Tre White too.

Raiders were just a playoff team. They are not going to trade away a stud DE who only makes $4M, that literally makes no sense. And even less chance they would give a free stud to someone like the Bills in their conference. Might as well start a thread of lets trade a first to the Rams for Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey and Cooper Kupp. It has the same probability of happening.

Better question: Why on Earth would the Raiders trade their talented DE who only costs them $4M in 2022? Like what is the point to posting make believe things that can never happen? And did you just mention Washington as an example of how going all in on works? Lol, they are the literal poster child on the warning poster of why not to do it.

Oh nice, another lets be Rams thread? The one @FireChans tried to start and yell about yesterday wasn't enough? Lol.

This is gonna be a long offseason. Longer than usual.

Was a new thread necessary on this? There was already one covering it, plus 2 more on each OC candidate.

How much elite talent do you expect? Arguably top 3 QB in the league. Arguably the best safety duo in the league. Top 5 WR in the league. Top 5 CB in the league. How much "elite talent" do you think a team can just afford? We have one of the most, if not the most, overall talented rosters in the league. You are being overly dramatic by a lot.

Ok, well thats why I asked "what am I missing here"

Weird...I could have sworn we won that game until a 13 second blunder by Frazier calling an awful defensive formation for the game situation.

Exactly what I was saying

Frazier has shown to be able to adjust at halftime, but I think thats with McD's input and help. Frazier is much much worse at adjusting in game and is awful at situational awareness. The most disappointing thing for me this offseason so far was seeing Daboll go to the Giants instead of the Dolphins. That was the only place it seemed Frazier had a shot of getting a HC gig at. And now, I fear we are saddled with him again next year. Could we do worse than Frazier, sure...and at times our D carried us when our offense wasn't in sync this year. But I don't think his style of defense matches up well with the Chiefs for one, and he keeps playing that same style they keep exploiting.

I keep seeing people say stuff like this, and its honestly puzzling to me. How do you expect Diggs to touch the ball while Davis is torching the Chiefs for over 200 yards and 4 TD's? I don't get this criticism. Should we have not thrown those TD's to Davis so we could throw different passes to Diggs for the sake of passing to Diggs? I mean, its not like Diggs is why we lost...its not like moving the ball is why we lost. Allen only had like 120 yards passing that didnt go to Davis. And that was spread between Diggs, Sanders, Cole, Knox, and our RB's. Diggs also made an amazing and critical 2 pt conversion catch and layed some big blocks in the game too that sprung other players. Not to mention, the extra attention he got helped Davis get those opportunities too.