Livinginthepast

Well to be fair, a Neanderthal being twice as strong and powerful compared to an anatomically modern human would have gotten the first down every time!!

Weirdly my take on the Ravens was that they overlooked us and didnt take us seriously after they crushed us in the regular season. I had confidence we could win against them due to this. I think that somewhat played out. For the Chiefs, it was the opposite. They were shocked that we beat them in the regular season and last week I had the horrible feeling their superior coaches would make adjustments to neutralize us. Last night that happened. Unfortunately, the Bills coaches especially Brady were not aggressive or creative enough and we played right into their hands. In Babich's case, He had a much tougher job getting the D to neutralize the Chiefs and Rapp going down (then Benford in the game) really killed us. He must have been hoping for some sort of miracle from Von Miller, but TBH Von looks like he is a guy in his mid 40s out there. Nobody else on the D stepped up at the crucial time to make a play and KC receivers were wide open. But how Babich and McD dont get a spy on Mahomes and he scrambles several times for 2 TDs is beyond stupid. Mahomes always looks like he is running on ice but it doesnt matter as nobody is close to him or can get to him in time.

Think Ely's throw to Tyree who caught it off the helmet in the SB. A much harder grab also under intense pressure but he did it. Against the Pats no less. Or Edelman's vs the Falcons! Kincaid's was easy by comparison and he bungled it. A professional player should never drop that. It was easier than the Diggs drop last season and far easier than the broken up pass to the end zone that Duke Williams couldnt bring down vs Houston in the wildcard in 2019.

As I say to people, being a Bills fan is a uniquely painful experience, where you find new and excruciating ways to lose every year, where you find out that there is no such thing as karma or justice in the universe, where the law of averages and odds on winning and losing never seems to apply (losing 4 SBs in a row, are you kidding me). And, all that being said, you come back for more! Year after year!!

Like a few of the Bills of the past few years on defense, I have always wondered with Rousseau if its a coaching problem, a scheme or his technique. He shows flashes of brilliance now and again but never is consistent. Would it have been any better under a different defensive coach? Like so many of our players, he has the athletic ability but seems to lack the in game smarts to adjust when things aren't working.

Not coming up with misdirection or disguised plays, trickery or gadgets has been the Bills MO this season. Brady ran a competent (superior to Dorsey) but vanilla offense most weeks . On the few plays that the game hinged on, he wasnt creative enough or didnt have the cojones to do something different and it killed us.

Over and over again I am reminded by the simple fact that the NFL could fix most of this iffy or bad call situations of their officials. There is a chip in the ball at could be shown to exactly a Millimeter of where it is on the field and so could the first down line. VAR just like in soccer. Horrendous bad or non calls could at least be mitigated by one coaches challenge per half (Max). All of this is entirely possible right now. But shts they do not give. The game in the 70s or 80s might have been slow enough and the players slightly smaller enough for officials back then to see things better, but it hasnt been that way for 25 years. The only way to avoid the officials is for the Bills to repeat with a playoff performance like against the Pats in 2022 or the best game ever by a Bills playoff team vs the Raiders in 1991. Otherwise they are at the whim of the incompetent. bias or possibly crooked NFL officials.

Hurts is hurt worse than they are letting on but with our useless secondary we might have been shredded by their offense. But last year we should have won that game. I think we would have beaten Philly.

Kincaid's drop was very Charles Clay vs Miami. I think that one killed our season too. But what troubles me about Kincaid more is that he derailed Knox's development. Would Knox have caught that pass?

Yup another Special Bills stat just like 13 seconds and the Rams game this year.

I was screaming for a fake handoff and an Allen bootleg there. Instead we go with the play that the Chiefs have been stuffing left and right. Brady's lack of creativity and his 1940's style offense where we have 5 plays and dare the defense to stop us backfired on us. Yes that was Brady's fatal flaw all season IMO. He just wasnt creative when he needed to be. People used to criticize Dabol for his gadget plays but Brady had none. Not even plays with the slightest misdirection. Yes players need to execute but Brady had a ton of talent to work with here and didnt utilize it.

We havent been able to do a screen consistently since the days of Tyrod Taylor. I am not sure why we cant. Its bizarre.

Nobody has titillated their fans and come so close to winning a championship and then broken their hearts like the Bills. In any sport at any time. We are unique in that painful aspect!

It was a great season, they went way further than we expected but with all that they still choked with victory in sight. Why? because of inferior play calling and nobody making the plays they had too with the game on the line. Our defense in the final analysis was decent against Mahomes but definitely not good enough and just like the offense failing , they could not get it done. I really think that had the Bills somehow got Myles Garrett at the trade deadline we would have won this game easily. Mahomes was just to comfortable back there. Rousseau, Epenesa, Jones, Von and Ed Oliver were all underwhelming or invisible. McD and Babich's strategy in this game was odd. Was there a spy on Mahomes? At least 4 plays where he scrambled for crucial yards, there was nobody to be seen. In addition, our defensive didnt get their hands up or jump up on pressures. Something that worked well for KC on Allen. The loss of Benford was huge. Every time Elam steps on the field I think, here is the moment, he will step up and his technique is so clueless. In the end Kincaid drops a catchable pass. Worthy of course caught almost the same prayer of throw from Mahomes (which should have been an INT) but its should never have come down to that. The Bills play calling and execution at the end of that drive was amateur hour and Brady (to quote a British slang) bottled it . I cannot blame McD for this one and even though we full on got screwed on that spot on the Allen 4th down, the refs were just marginally bad as opposed to the usual garbage. Now I have that traditional Bills end of the season feeling: Numbness, then grief, then rage, then emptiness. Why can we never have nice things?

Im 56 and I would have caught that floated pass. I am not sure how he drops it. The one last week was bad but this is horrendous and as killer as the Diggs one last year.

Kincaid's drop killed them.

Endless pain is what the Bills give me. Endless..

What the hell playcall was that?

Next play is the season. Stress is killing me.

KC rips the helmet off and there is no penalty??

OMG I feel physically ill. This is game is going take years off my life (I think we are up to a decade or two after being a Bills fan since 1979).

I said that last week that the NFL could solve the spot issue on plays like that with a chip in the ball. But of course they dont do that. They would rather rely on refs who cannot see it.

year after year of this BS

Somebody on the D needs to step up. There is no greater time than now. They have to do something above and beyond. Sack Mahomes or get an INT.

Exactly. Its amazing to me to see so many players who have physical talent but play the game so stupidly.