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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.

The stars would have to align for us to win a SB with this crew. Seriously, you would need the following: 1. Superman play from Allen (this is the most probable circumstance as he does this with regularity) 2. A great offensive system (currently unattainable with our high school quality OC) 3. A great defensive system (currently unattainable with our high school quality DC and HC. In addition the big plays seem to have evaporated). 4. A bit of luck (sometimes possible for the Bills but usually not so much) 5. Bad luck for our opponents (sometimes possible) 6. Staying clear of injuries (with this current team this seems to be impossible). We also dont seem to have any depth at most backup positions and the drop off is huge, that's clearly on Beane. 7. Key injuries to opponents best players (Well Lamar is out but golden balls Mahomes never gets hurt) 8. Playoff games where our HC doesn't have to make life and death decisions (we all know how that goes) 9. Get into a game or games where the worst officials in sports (the NFL refs) don't make an incompetent or bias calls against us and our team doesn't take boneheaded suicidal penalties. (this one is the least likely of all to happen) 10. Playing at home for all possible games until SB. (doable but contingent on other points above). McD and co had their best shot in 2021 but 13 seconds happened.

Still really pisses me off. Fun guy, solid player, great attitude and made several clutch catches where others failed, but you know who needs those kind of players?

Most competent OCs would find ways to punish blitzing teams like the Falcons, but not our little Joe, he looks at Josh getting hammered by blitzing defenders as a test of resilience!

I couldnt help but think watching that game how superior both defenses were to ours in their pass coverage and even with that both defenses were being picked apart by two vet Qbs. It also points to how much better the offensive game plans and schemes are to our amateur hour Brady show. Both QBs looked like they were playing in 2012 not 2025!

Another example of dumb coaches in the NFL. Sure its an uncommon play but you dont allow the QB to set up to throw and all his receivers all that time to get into position and make a catch possible. Yet time after time you see teams do this. McD and co have been especially bad at this. What's even more incredible is that the Bengals coach did it against Rodgers when he is the absolute master of the Hail Mary throw!! How dumb can you get!

This is correct but the fact that Brady did almost nothing to counteract the non stop blitzing with screens or draws was ridiculous. And on all those blitzes, how did the receiving corps not get open ?

Ok since you dont seem to understand the gist of my point despite my repeated explanations: 1. I DID NOT say the refs cannot confer about a flag so why are you bringing that up repeatedly? They dont normally confer about THIS penalty (illegal shift) because it NORMALLY gets called during the play because thats when its SUPPOSED to be called. Its a LIVE BALL foul. They would be more likely to confer to cancel a penalty in this instance not to impose one. And how exactly is it in the rules that NY can insist to the field refs that they call a late penalty? Does that seem legit to you? 2. I DID NOT say that the refs SHOULD NOT have called the penalty. If the Lions broke the rules (illegal motion) then flag them for a penalty. The reason that many people are upset by this flag coming so late is that it should have been called as soon as the ball was hiked. It also should have been called by multiple officials as it should be obvious. Just like a player in motion towards the LOS. Calling a flag so late for that penalty is at best unprofessional and at worse incompetent officiating. 3. You want me to " Just admit that you wanted the Chiefs to get screwed by a missed call." Huh?? That's a bizarre takeaway from my point especially for someone on a Bills forum. I would just like the Chiefs to be officiated at the same standard as every other team in this league. And right now it doesn't look like they are.

Who said anything about the refs not being able to confer about a penalty? The rule for this exact type of infringement must be called during the play. Its a live ball foul. Not after the play and certainly not a couple of minutes after the play. Refs often confer about taking away a flag and sometimes they call intentional grounding and throw the flag late after a conference. But for an illegal shift penalty its called right when it happens during the play. I would love to know the number of times an illegal shift has been called with a flag thrown that late. I'm guessing its extremely rare or never happened. Conspiracy? hardly, but a very strange example of officiating that isnt supposed to happen? definitely!

The essential point is that a flag for this foul CANNOT be thrown after the play, so the refs calling it after or NY buzzing them for a call is completely against the rule. The refs essentially broke the rules to disallow the TD. The question is why? and why so early in the game?

Was Cooper done before he got here? Or was there still something in the tank? Either way we didnt get much out of him? Was that due to Brady's inability to use him or Cooper's somewhat detached attitude?

The lack of talent on the Offense is Beane's fault. But the lack of ability to use the actual talent we have (Allen and Cook) to their max and the lack of ability to maximize the middling other talent we have on Offense is on Brady and his vanilla schemes. I think a better OC gets more out of this offensive group than Brady does.

McD's job is to hold his coaches to account. Still waiting for that to happen. Brady and Babich are convenient scapegoats but the buck stops with McD.

Totally agree, way too much Pollyanna crap on this board of people satisfied with just a competitive team when we could have won championships already with better coaches and management. People seem to think that demanding more from this regime is being impolite.

2021 was the year but the 13 seconds debacle killed it. Had they won that game they win the SB. Cincinnati was tough but not yet as good as when they beat us the next year. The Rams were there for the taking as well. I also believe had they won that SB, the boost would have pushed them forward to winning another. Instead they got failure against the Chiefs in their heads going forward. A different coaching staff of competent game managers, Defense and a great OC (all of which we lack badly) would have won at least 2 SBs. But we are Bills fans and we can never have nice things.