What a waste of a championship caliber 'bend but don't break' defensive performance that reminded me of Doug Marrone's teams - great defense, ineffective offense. How much of that was on Taylor, and how much was on Dennison as Nate Hackett 2.0?
Granted the offense woke up just in time to steal the game, but coming up short wasn't all on Zay Jones, that throw could have been much better with the game on the line.
In all fairness, McDermott is a rookie HC still learning on the job, but did he learn clock management from Rex Ryan instead of Andy Reid?
The O-Line struggles to give a shorter QB like Taylor the lines of sight he needs to find - and hit the open receivers downfield. He's challenged to see over the linemen to find his open targets. He's going to throw his share of high balls over the receiver's heads, but the throw to Jones for the win was just a str8 up off target pass he should not have missed with the game on the line after engineering a very good 2 minute drive.
So far, the team's biggest surprise signing is Jordan Poyer.
And so far,Steven Hauschka's FG kicks are about as scary as Dan Carpenter's were last year
This is how defenses are going to play against us the rest of the way, stack against the run and make Shady a non factor, while challenging the offense to beat them through the air.
They didn't deserve to win that game with the way the offense played, but with the way the defense played, we should have stolen that one from the Panthers.
We'll make it up next week with a win over Denver.
GO BILLS!!!!!!