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Perhaps if defenses understood how to keep Maye from rolling out to the right they might stop him.

Absolutely gutless call from the Bengals. 3-7 and you are scared to go on 4th and 1?? Moronic coaching at its best.

7 plays from the one yard line and the Bengals stopped them all. Really impressive defense there!

Short week? Yes, banged up and injuries? Yes, Best defense Yes! But the giving up all those points to a backup and especially the drive before halftime? was inexcusable. The Bills simply were not properly prepared for this game on both sides of the ball. The defense took too long to adjust to Texans and made things easier far too easy for Mills in their coverages and not stopping the run. Too many short yardage 3rd downs for the Texans. Offensively Brady should have known that Josh would be overwhelmed with pressure and had counters to the blitz that burned the Texans until they stopped. He did none of those things. Instead of old screens, draws or misdirection's we got that awful wr screen that they sniffed out almost every time. On two critical 4th downs Brady called two plays which were godawful. The Bills despite all the ineptitude of these coaches had a chance to win this game which they certainly didn't deserve. The coaches made it as difficult as possible.

He steps out of bounds and his hit on the sidelines by the Texans defender. But its too quick for the officials to see. Look at the screen grab from the video. Its a millisecond before the hit and he is already out of bounds by a yard and leaping out.

Yes thats exactly what I am saying. Much of his personal suffering has happened since his prime "jerk" days and he has changed quite a bit. He is obviously a much better person after enduring that but I guess you give nobody a 2nd chance in life?

Yes the Texans D is elite, Yes the most points they have allowed by an offense is 27 vs Seattle. All true but lets be honest we flat out blew it on offense because of Brady's play calling. Even with that great defense, and all the self inflicted errors, our offense had a chance to win it. A better OC and a better game plan in general by the whole staff gets us the win. We played literally into their hands and instead of Brady planning for the constant blitzing, he reacted like he was surprised and he was seeing this for the first time.

It definitely messed things up for our offense. I am not sure how Josh processes how much time he has? By sight? or is he getting that through the headset? I think the lack of one official on the field or perhaps an official not being in his regular position was another bizarre wildcard for this game. I'm not thinking conspiracy but it definitely favored the Texans on the last drive. Also seeing the Hook and ladder play again, you can see Shakir takes a late hit well out of bounds that should have been another 15 yard penalty tacked on. Even Shakir reacts to the hit as if he is looking for a flag as he is well out of bounds when it happens. Does the lack of an official also affect that call?

I think my default "silver lining" (often overtaken by my complete Bills cynicism) is that the Bills could win it all even with the team and the cards dealt to them if they just got hot at the right time. They are flawed in several ways but with Allen, the X factor, that can sometimes be overcome . They have been close to doing this (2021) but slipped up at the most crucial stage (13 seconds). I know I'm dating myself here but when I think back on all the years watching the NFL (since 1979) there has been at least one team a decade who was as inconsistent as the Bills are now that somehow has put it all together at the perfect time. They would just have to win 4 games as WC team to accomplish this. These teams did it: 1980–81: Oakland Raiders–Super Bowl XV. 1997–98: Denver Broncos–Super Bowl XXXII. 2000–01: Baltimore Ravens–Super Bowl XXXV. 2005–06: Pittsburgh Steelers–Super Bowl XL. 2007–08: New York Giants–Super Bowl XLII. 2010–11: Green Bay Packers–Super Bowl XLV. 4/6 had great QB's. We have a great QB. The Raiders did it with a rejuvenated Jim Plunkett (who people thought was washed up. The Ravens did it with Trent (pick 6) Dilfer. The one thing that we lack compared to those teams (at the moment) is a solid defense. But get some of these guys back for January, make the WC round and anything can happen!

A lot of people didnt like Jim back in his playing days. Actually a lot of people outside Buffalo hated the Bills and rooted for them to lose. I was a Kelly fan because he backed up the arrogance/bravado with his play and leadership. I still say that he throws a nicer touch pass than Josh does (esp deep). In short he was a special QB to watch. Never heard of the personal bad behaviour of Jim towards his wife or people in the Western NY area back then but remember that was pre internet and anecdotal stuff (combined with damning videos and audio) didnt really exist for another 10-15 years. I did hear from people who were connected to the team that the Bills loved to party back then. Something that I can personally attest, to seeing Bruce Smith at the Late Show in NFalls about 1AM on a Saturday night during the season. However in Bruce's defense, I think it was during the 1990 season and he was possibly injured. In the end judging Jim harshly seems a bit ridiculous considered the personal pain that he suffered with Hunter's condition and his own battles with cancer. That guy has been through a lot.

The law of averages would say yes but everything last night seemed to be against us. Even after we got pounded by that defense we still had a shot. But we just couldnt get it done.

Allen is winless in all OTs he has played in the NFL.

I really wish it was a case of Rousseau tying people up so another rusher can get through or he's getting close to sacks, but he doesnt seem to be the same player that he was only 2 years ago. Ogunjobi also seems to be almost invisible. Hoecht had an immediate impact by comparison and things looked really positive there. But Rousseau just looks like he is working hard but spinning his wheels.

This was the problem yet again. Our defense doesnt know how to force fumbles anymore. We never seem to want to smack out the ball but cannot wrap up either. Our soft zone rarely is close enough to get us INTs. Our easy to read defense doesnt disguise anything so we rarely get the misthrows by opposing QBs (like Allen's deflected INT last night). Hell our DBs never turn around in pass coverage to get INTs on underthrows either. All from a defensive coach??

The firing of Daboll seemed like the planets were aligning but I'm not sure if he could stomach being under the McD umbrella. After all McD ruined Daboll's best chance of going to the SB with Allen and the Bills with 13 seconds. I doubt he would be jumping at the chance to come in mid season unless McD was fired with Brady and Babich and he was parachuted in. I think we are stuck with Brady and the results so far this season speak for themselves. Now that Brady has a body of work that can be studied, its obvious that DCs have studied his vanilla plans and dialed up an easy neutralization strategy. Its not until Brady's vanilla gets a little Neapolitan flavor at the end of games that things start to flow better. The Hook and ladder for ex.