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38 minutes ago, mjt328 said:
It's amazing how the head coach is always the biggest scapegoat. Every single loss is somehow due to coaching or guys being unprepared. I've been watching football for 30+ years and it's always the same with the fans. It was the same thing when I lived in Philadelphia. And here in St. Louis when we had the Rams. Always the freaking coaches.
HOW. IN. THE. WORLD. is it Sean McDermott's fault that Tre White tore his achilles on a non-contact play, Matt Milano got bent over sideways in a pile, or any other injury?
If anything, McDermott should be getting TONS of credit for this DEFENSE keeping us in the game for 4 Quarters...despite half the team being in the medical tent or street clothes.
Amen
But I do think Dorsey's seat should be getting warm. Josh and Diggs totally bail him out
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47 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:
Pathetic.
A bunch of Chicken Littles running around saying fire McD, fire Dorsey, can players, etc., etc., etc......
We played a game where we lost multiple starters due to injury, where it was in another country and the opposition which was a playoff team last season had been there for a week and a half and played there the previous week, AND where the referees consistently called all of its penalties against us at important times.
It's a LONG SEASON... pull your heads out of your rectums and move on to the Giants.
I don't consider myself to be a chicken little but I do feel strongly that there are things we could have done to help ourselves. For instance, the team should have arrived much earlier in the week. Whoever decided on a Friday arriveal (McD?)- it was a failure. I'm also not a big Dorsey fan. No rhythm or flow to the play calling whatsoever and he seems to double down on things that don't work
A lot of problems were beyond our control (scheduling, Injuries, etc.). Still, it doesn't change the fact that the sky indeed seems to be falling. White, and now Jones and Milano will make it much harder for us to win the division (Jones and Milano were so important last week VS Miami) let alone make a deep playoff push.
Winning a SUPERBOWL takes luck and that is something we just don't seem to have the last two years. It seems like the wheels came off this season before it even got rolling
I don't know how this year will end up, but I know the path to winning the Superbowl just got harder simply to to the awful luck we seem to have.
So for me, the sky is falling and I don't event have to point to the errors and issues we caused ourselves. We simply don't have luck and that is enough to keep us from the Lombardi once again.
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Miami scares me. They looked very sharp against the Chargers. They just have so much talent in offense. Obviously if Tua or Tyreek go down they will be in trouble, but I don't want to be the guy wishing for an injury.
Josh needs to pull his head out of his @$$ and take what defenses give him- if he does that we'll score on most of our drives. Stop trying to put up numbers like Tua. Not gonna happen with our OC and receivers
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I would have gone with on track to winning a championship, but McBeane's refusal to hold Frasier responsible for his 4th defensive meltdown in the playoffs leads me to believe they lack either the stomach or awareness to make the changes that need to be made.
This team has gone as far as it can defensively under Frasier and I hope OBD see that before it's too late
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The Bengal Bludgeoning of Buffalo
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4 hours ago, Governor said:
This staff’s incompetence is going to force the ugly side of our players to come out. It already started. Josh looks done to me. He’s over it.
What makes you say that?
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No heart on either side of the ball. Completely unprepared for this game
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Well this jinxed it
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3 hours ago, NoHuddleKelly12 said:
Joe Marino on his pod yesterday pointed out that Allen’s INT % last year vs this year was (paraphrasing the specifics but this is close) 2.4% to 2.6%…his point was Josh statistically not materially worse in the category.
I listen to Joe Marino too (love his podcast) and I was surprised to hear that JA's INT % basically remained the same. I think it's just as important to consider fumbles (total and lost) because Josh definitely seems to be fumbling more than last year.
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Mahomes > Allen
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1 hour ago, BIGFOOTspaceman said:
Not to be the materialistic weasel of the group, but....Is anyone else fighting the urge to dream up scenarios on what a amazingly triumphant story it would be for the Bills to win the SB. I know I am. Trying to manage expectations.
Tops Massacre
Matt Araiza being released
Dawsons brother
Micah Hyde - done
Von Miller - done
Two historic deadly snowstorms
Damar Hamlin
If anyone needs this, it's the people of Buffalo
Yup. And I feel sorta bad about it but man, what a story it would be. Would be a good movie, 30 for 30, etc.
Academically speaking, I could see Harvard Business School doing a leadership / organizational case study on centered on the Pegula's, the front office and McD of course. It's been a very challenging year for Buffalo, both on and off the field as you rightly pointed out (you left off Kim's health issues BTW), and if we FINALLY win the Superbowl (and even if we don't), the team performed at such a high level for the entire year and is a model of stability, consistency when times are rough. Bet there are a lot of good teachings and learning points that can be distilled from the 2022 Buffalo Bills season.
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35 minutes ago, The Red King said:
I have a strange feeling, highly unlikely but...
If Buffalo, Cincy and KC win, Cincy will forfeit the BUF/CIN game and take the #3 seed. If KC wins, CIN can't catch them, so it comes down to #2 or #3 seed. Cincy made it from the #3 seed last season, and while there isn't as much different from #2 to #3, there is a lot riding on top seed. This would deny KC home-field and assures any Bills/Bengals playoff matchup would not be in the stadium where the trauma went down.
I realize it's highly, highly unlikely. I don't even know if it would be right for something like that to occur. It's just an odd hunch. And if true, they may have already communicated this desire to the NFL, which is why they've been silent about what to do about the suspended game.
If KC wins, they will automatically get the top spot but virtue of having the most wins
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Just now, saundena said:
Assuming the Bills Bengals game is cancelled and also assuming the Bills and Chiefs win their Week 18 games, one could easily make the claim that Bills should get the #1 seed since have a head to head advantage over the Chiefs and simply weren't able to play the 18 games due to the tragic events.
What's more is if the Bengals and Bills win in week 18 and the Chiefs lose, all three teams would have 4 losses, but Buffalo and Cincy would BOTH have head to head tiebreaker advantage over KC! There would literally be a 3 way claim for the number 1 seed with Cincy and Buffalo seemingly stronger than the chiefs, but with a lower win percentage due to playing one less game.
No idea how this gets fixed, but hopefully point differential is considered
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Assuming the Bills Bengals game is cancelled and also assuming the Bills and Chiefs win their Week 18 games, one could easily make the claim that Bills should get the #1 seed since have a head to head advantage over the Chiefs and simply weren't able to play the 18 games due to the tragic events.
What's more is if the Bengals and Bills win in week 18 and the Chiefs lose, all three teams would have 4 losses, but Buffalo and Cincy would BOTH have head to head tiebreaker advantage over KC! There would literally be a 3 way claim for the number 1 seed!
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4 minutes ago, What a Tuel said:
You are right, but I wasn't saying both teams losing would give us 2nd seed. I was saying we arent locked into 3rd seed and gave an example of how we can get 2nd seed. Even 1st seed would still be possible but improbable that both Cinci and KC lose.
Bills lose against Cinci then:
Week 18:
Bills win, KC loss, Cinci loss, Bills clinch 1st seed
Bills win, KC wins, Cinci loss, Bills clinch 2nd seed
Bills win, KC loss, Cinci wins, Bills clinch 2nd seed
Bills win, KC wins, Cinci wins, Bills clinch 3rd seed
Bills loss, KC loss, Cinci loss, Bills clinch 3rd seed
Bills loss, KC wins, Cinci wins, Bills clinch 3rd seed
Bills loss, KC loss, Cinci wins, Bills clinch 3rd seed
Bills loss, KC win, Cinci loss, Bills clinch 3rd seed
Ah ok gotcha! No worries
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16 minutes ago, What a Tuel said:
No, a KC loss or a Cinci loss next week would give them 2 seed.
Edit: with a Bills win over the Pats of course. A Loss to the pats guarantees 3rd seed.
No. If we lost / lose / forfeit to the Bengals, we could still end up with the number one seed if both the Chiefs and Bengals lose next week and we win.
I don't think you can fairly use win percentages in such a small sample size of games, letting the other 30 teams play 17 games and the Bills and Bengals 16. Assuming the Chiefs and Bills all win next week, the Chiefs would have a higher win percentage than Buffalo 14-3 versus our assumed 13-3. I suppose the league could also consider our head to head victory over the Chiefs since we didn't get a chance to play 17 games.
In light of what happened, I think the simplest thing to do would be a coin flip to determine the "winner" of tonight's game (since it was likely to be a close game anyway) solely for playoff seeding. In other words, the Bills and Bengals final regular season record will be based on 16 games, but playoff seeding will be based on the results of the coin flip.
All that said. Prayers to Hamlin. We have a tough team and they are family to each other. Don't underestimate prayer and positive thoughts. We will come out of this stronger, sometimes it just hard to see the forest through the trees.
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Cincy isn't overrated. Second longest win streak in the NFL and also beat the Chiefs. They are a very good team. Well have our hands full, hopefully we walk away with a win!
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Thanks everyone. I decided to start with Pat Kirwan's "Take Your Eye Off the Ball" book which incidentally is free for Kindle owners until tomorrow (or was for me).
Appreciate all your suggestion and will also look at some of the other suggestions and we videos like Cover 1, too!
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4 minutes ago, Donuts and Doritos said:
Is this Ken Dorsey?
Crap. How did you know!!!!!
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I've been watching the game for almost 30 years but admittedly, I'm not a very strong X's and O's fella.
I know the basics of course and understand at a high level the chess match that is Offense versus Defens; but always find myself watching the ball versus diagnosing and recognizing what is happening before and after the snap. I think having a better understanding of these things and increasing my ability to recognize them in real time will enhance my enjoyment of the game.
Do anybody have recommendations for a really good football X's and O's book that really goes into the details on thing like blocking schemes, coverage packages, how players' talent and physical traits impact personnel groupings and substitutions, etc?
Thanks!
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Hate to see injuries. They can happen to anybody at anytime.
That said, if I'm the Cardinals owner, I might consider doing my very best to blow the whole thing up and start from scratch. Fire coach and GM, see about trading Murray (even if it means including picks/players based on his cap hit). Honestly, the Murray deal was stupid to begin with. It's almost as if fate intervened, giving ownership a difficult and uncomfortable way out of this mess. The short term pain of blowing everything up would be considerable, but keeping Murray, Kingsburry etc. is a losing scenario over the long term. Better to recognize the error now, deal with it at the expense of 2 bad seasons and emerge down as a potentially stronger team.
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8 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:
WKBW Channel 7 BuffaloWhat about for those that don't live in Buffalo (or Miami)? From what I can tell, the only way that we can watch it (legally) is with a paid subscription to NFL's streaming app or FuboTV...?
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So what does this mean for watching the game? It looks like the only way we can see it (I don't live in Buffalo or Miami) is with a paid subscription to NFL Network or FuboTV???
This sucks if true!
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32 minutes ago, hemma said:
Our offense just beat a supposedly superior defense with what essentially was 10 players.
You win an away game by 14, when playing 10 on 11, you’re about to go on a run.
Who were we "missing"?
Ian Rap: Milano has a fractured leg and most likely additional knee damage. Likely season ending
in The Stadium Wall
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Luck is the single most important factor for any team. If the Chiefs are unlucky last year and Mahomes got injured, they don't win (or make it to) the Superbowl.