Livinginthepast

Um he clearly has missed games before this year as you can clearly see when you look at the link. He also suffered injuries in 2024 (from other sites) So you are obviously wrong. Not even debatable. He has missed at least 8 or 9 full games since 2022. Hence the reason for my point. Oliver looks like a guy who should be unbreakable and when healthy is a great asset but has the bad luck of picking up injuries with regularity.

Really?? Reality doesnt seem to agree with you: https://www.draftsharks.com/fantasy/injury-history/ed-oliver/10234

Ive watched football for a long time and I have never seen a beast of player like Oliver get injured so often. QBs or RBS you expect injuries but Oliver just cant stay healthy.

Bills get let off the hook again.

The bills best pass defense strategy is a bad throw by the QB. And no Im not kidding.

Taron burned again.

Epenesa!!!

I was thinking the same thing.

Another game of letting an inferior team hang with us.

Really badly off.

PAT question. Why was the ball placed on the Bills far left of the hash marks on that PAT try? why not the middle?

Bills D looking just as much of a sieve as previous games. Bailed out by a fumble and now a hold.

Another illegal formation penalty? What is that 4 times this season?

I thought about this a lot since the start of the season. It seems to me impossible that Pro players do not know how to tackle, yet with this defense we see it a lot. It also seems weird that some of these players missing the tackles are young, fast guys in their physical prime. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that the defensive scheme (soft zone often) puts them so far from the players they have to tackle, that their angles are bad which makes it much more difficult to get good initial contact on the offensive player. The older guys? they know how to tackle but are athletically washed and slowed down by time and injuries and sadly also out of position.

Very true and it worked best when Dabol was the OC with Allen. Since then its been Allen on his own doing it with one hand behind his back because of his amateur hour OCs. Is it still possible for the offense to get out to a big lead? Yes but far less likely with sputtering schemes of Brady. As soon as a team hangs with us because we cant do anything on offense and our defense gets tired from being on the field, the game becomes much more difficult.

This is the huge elephant in the room that most Bills fans seem to think is verboten to talk about. McD is responsible for the poor defense because they didnt bring in the best people to interview (Hell did they bring in anybody to interview? Dont remember?). Why? because either Beane or McD felt too threatened by losing control if that person had a different philosophy. So they sacrificed the team success for ego. Which is pure selfish idiocy. As soon as a HC does this, the team is toast. Whats even worse?? They did practically the same thing on Offense, first with Dorsey (a terrible internal hire) and then with the junior intern Brady. Daboll pushed Josh to be the best and I think a competent DC would do the same for our defense by abandoning schemes that repeatedly dont work and holding players to account.

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.