Livinginthepast

All true and the last point is intriguing!!

We really need normal service restored for the Bills. The last 2 weeks the team has embarrassed themselves on both sides of the ball. A loss here would be devastating for our chances at the 1 seed but an unimpressive ugly win would be also distressing, especially after having 2 weeks off to prepare. They absolutely need a solid win with no bad penalties.

I think this is a good question overall about McD what does he actually bring to the table for the Bills? He doesn't make decisions on Offense, His defense is bad but supposedly handled by someone else, His in game decisions are usually poor. His pre game rah rah speeches sometimes contain questionable motivational content. I guess he brings a stable environment and is a nice guy? Maybe a man of faith for the religious players on the team?

I think he might be more washed than Cooper. I also think that its Brady thats the issue so getting any WR is going to lead to nothing unless you have Josh call his own plays or Brady maybe plays some more Madden 26 and adds to his playbook (written on a napkin).

Can they be worse than what is happening now? On the other hand if the scheme is flawed like many have been saying, their possible effectiveness will be neutralized by Babich's inability to use them.

The young fans dont know what it was to have a revolving door of clowns at HC and GM as the drought was. I really appreciate having competent grownups at both positions like McD and Beane. That being said I dont take offense when people criticize them as not being good enough. I think there is ample evidence so far on McD not being able to get us to a SB. I also think Beane deserves some heat for whiffing on some picks and free agent signings. He has also inexplicably overpaid some players on this team not allowing us much wiggle room in the cap. There's no point sugarcoating these justifiable criticisms.

I think Maye is a good solid QB and it pains me to say that as he is on the Pats (an organization that deserves to be bottom dwellers for a decade if there was such a thing as karma). He also seems to work well with McDaniels who has tailored a nice offensive gameplan for him. That being said I find it infuriating that we made it as easy as possible for him to beat us 2 weeks ago. Just like we made it as easy as possible for Penix (who is middling talent) to beat us last week. Why is it that teams were able to make Josh look terrible on occasion in his first 2 years by using sophisticated defenses and mixing things up to confuse a young QB (Belichick did this among others) but Babich and McD could not? I honestly think that if we replaced Babich with a real time AI DC we would probably do better than currently even with the injuries and lack of talent on the D. Same goes for our offense.

It seems in the NFL over the last couple of years that unless you kick a FG on the last play of the game that you run the risk of losing even with less than a minute on the clock. Maybe its something to do with the new kickoffs increasing field position or the fact that defenses play too much soft zone /prevent but it seems like no game is really over until it really is 00 on the clock.

Have to say though that Darts almost game winning drive was probably the luckiest and least deserving I have ever seen.

Giants had that game, then the Broncos had that game, then the Giants had that game. Then the Broncos won that game

OMG Giants are still going to blow this??

I was watching the Titans game earlier and I think they just conceded the game before halftime when they had it at their own 40 with 3 timeouts and just ran out the clock. I guess the new coach McCoy is about as bright as his fired predecessor.

Vrabel is undoubtably a douche but he seems to get the most out of his teams. They will probably kill the Titans but maybe by some kind of miracle, Tennessee gets the fired coach bounce.

Are you saying that its impossible for an NFL OC (with all the help/spotters he has) to make adjustments IN GAME? against a team that blitzes on almost every down? That's literally part of the job description. And if Brady is too blind to see it (which is impossible), McD should have been all over him to do so at halftime at least.

And good coaches make adjustments in the game. Brady froze in the headlights.