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Where was it clarified?

Allen started in shotgun formation then walked up. Could it have been an audible by him though?

Has the defense disappointed against good teams? I mean they held teams not named kansas city to an average of 20 points a game. Thats beatable when you have Josh Allen. The problem is you allow 35 points a game to Kansas City in the postseason and thats 60% of our playoff failure. The rest of the league averages about 29 points per game. Its just terrible timing for both McDermott and Allen that Reid and Mahomes exist in the league at the same time. If we think McDermott would win a SB if they didnt, then why the heck would we ever get rid of him?

I said it as they took the time out. The fire mcdermott club is firing up their pcs and loading up two bills drive as we speak. They just wait for the opportunity to bring him down. No matter that the OC called the play, that Allen may have audibled out of it to run it himself (i heard he started in shotgun then changed formation). The timeout I would not have taken but to be honest at that point if you let the clock run while you reset, the game likely plays out the same exact way, time out or no timeout. The defense was reminiscent of the bengals picking us apart. They need to address that urgently.

Marquez Valdes-Scantling - Snap Count with Bills Week 1 13 21% Week 2 4 9% Week 3 49 77% Week 4 25 42% Week 5 28 46% Week 6 22 32% Week 7 0% Week 8 0% Marquez Valdes-Scantling - Snap Count with Saints Week 9 32 41% Week 10 29 55% Week 11 39 65% Week 13 53 76% Its possible that the Bills thought our other WRs are better, his snap count was terrible at times. I mean more tds are great and all but we aren't exactly struggling to score being 4th in points scored so far this year.

Since the Jets game Tyler Bass is 10/10 field goals and 15/17 for PATs and you guys still insist on cutting him for a mythical better kicker who won't miss anything. You guys are ruthless and reckless.

Yeah, I dont see lack of effort here. Preventing the cutback and the angle makes him look far closer to Mahomes than he actually is.

There was still a minute left on the clock. Its not over til its over. Also Mahomes had 3 more tries to convert the first down and continue the drive and didnt. The problem with the chiefs and officials is consistency. They are constantly the beneficiary of both bad calls for them, and non-calls against them.

Do you have a link to his sideline comments? What are the famous hail marys? against the cardinals and against the jets? Against the cardinals you had 3 defensive players around Hopkins and none of them were able to bat the ball down. How many more were needed? 5? 6?

So the players out there can cover against 6'5" lazard except in hail mary scenario? eh agree to disagree. Im not going to rake McDermott over the coals for this and I dont think he was "surprised" either.

Eh, agree to disagree. I count 4 Bills Players guarding 2 Jets WRs in the endzone here. 5 on 3 if you count the Bills/Jets player on the left. There is zero reason the players shouldnt execute here and bat the ball down (edit: specifically the player in front, I think that's Johnson. What is he doing?). This was perfectly fine defense.

I think you underestimate how much McDermott elevates the defense. There is a reason why despite so many injuries, the next man up is prepared and capable. It has a lot to do with talent evaluation but also to do with the coaching putting players in positions to succeed. At the end of the day I dont blame McDermott for Bass missing the tying field goal against the chiefs, I don't blame McDermott for Allen missing the open throw for a 1st down and clock burning against the Chiefs. I dont even blame McDermott for the hail murray Cardinals game, the hail mary in the Jets game this year. Each of those situations which you consider fire worthy for McDermott the players were in the position to succeed and they didn't execute. There is one situation that bothers me about McDermott and that is whether or not there was a communication failure on kickoff in 13 seconds, and why they didn't have someone there to tackle Kelce as soon as he caught the ball to put them in FG range.

But it could get worse. There are many examples of teams making terrible coaching swaps. The chiefs just so happen to have Andy Reid as HC.

I think the ball was ahead of the marker even when the shin went down. However the holding calls were absurd. Its always terrible when the broadcasters are claiming there were clear holds and go back to replay and its like crickets with them trying to identify where.

I just read through like 8 pages of this thread where you were trying to school people, its pretty convenient that now at this particular moment, you don't want to derail it. On another note, Diggs wasn't slow but he also got caught from behind on his long passes as well. Maybe it was just me, but I often wondered why we didn't see footrace td passes with him like we do with other top wrs.