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The last team to win a Super Bowl with an "elite" RB was 8 years ago (Marshawn Lynch). Elite QBs are the only thing you absolutely need to win a Super Bowl. Any other offensive position is just a luxury. Edit: And you need good defense or one that happens to match up well against your playoff opponents.

I'd really like to hear why it's so difficult. It seems like Dorsey just says "everyone go deep" and then Allen runs around until he finds someone to throw to.

Getting into the playoffs is why we should care about two embarrassing losses in November. I know they're capable of doing it, but they sure haven't shown it the past two weeks.

Well you left out the 5TD game he had in the middle of that span and the Chiefs won 4 out of 5 of the games you did mention. This isn't all about Allen though. He's not playing well, but these losses are a complete team effort. No one else, including the coaching staff, is going to step up and win us a game when Allen doesn't play well.

How many people said this same exact quote after last week's loss?

It's certainly within the realm of possibility, but they're playing more like 3rd place in the division than 1st place in the conference right now.

Shakir has 1 catch for 6 yards in the last 3 games. After the loss to the Dolphins I would have agreed with the gist of your post because this team is so incredibly talented they should be able to overcome a lot. But now they've lost 3 games that should have been easy wins because they can't stop making mistakes in every facet of the game. Mistakes should be correctable, but they're not getting corrected despite being embarrassed multiple times (not even to mention past years' embarrassments). So at some point, this is just who they are: a great team when firing on all cylinders but otherwise an undisciplined mess.

That was a horrible play call. There's probably about a 5% chance of a defensive TD or 25% chance of a safety with 40 seconds left to get in field goal range. If you roll out with Allen 4 times you can kill most of the 40 seconds by just throwing the ball away each time and taking an intentional safety on 4th down. The free kick would take the rest of the time if they try to return it or maybe one hail Mary if they down the ball immediately.

As the second half was starting today, the broadcast brought up a stat that was really surprising to me. The Bills had won 52 games in a row when they led by 14+ points by halftime at home, dating back to 1968. Imagine how many awful teams the Bills had over that amount of time and then think about this team managing to break that streak as a "Super Bowl favorite." This team is looking more like Marvin Lewis' Bengals than anything resembling a perennial Super Bowl contender. McDermott has certainly earned a lot of trust with his performance thus far, but if these monumental choke jobs don't stop happening at some point then I hope we're not stuck with Marvin Lewis 2.0 for 15 years.

Everyone except Diggs is playing like trash to be fair.

Should've never gotten to that point for a multitude of reasons. This game was such a farcical choke job it required the Bills to do literally everything wrong to lose. Which they managed in spectacular fashion.

His coordinator thinks he does.

And the QB sneak fumble from the one inch line.

Yes, but all his receivers are in the endzone for absolutely no ***** reason. The only guy who should have been that far down field is Gabe. Instead, Dorsey is forcing Allen to either scramble or throw into an endzone 20 yards away that is packed with defenders.

They couldn't make a single play against Jefferson all game.

Dorsey probably deserves to be fired at this point. Can't score in the second half, constantly calls go routes when all we need is short completions, doesn't know when to run the ball.

Kelce is the best TE ever. Most TEs don't make that catch. It was good coverage.

Is that something defenses are allowed to do? I thought they just had to keep one defender on one of the best receivers in the league.

This game was won if he executed the simplest of plays. If he doesn't rally here this loss is on him and the coaching staff again.

McDermott? Frazier? Do either of you realize that 3rd and long is always complete to Jefferson? Or is it just everyone else watching the game?

Only in the playoffs.

Jefferson wide open again.

Yeah this is the part where the other team realizes they can just run the ball without resistance.

I am stunned they refuse to double cover him.

They would have about 30 seconds after you kill clock on the safety and kick. And if Josh is running around in the end zone he always has the opportunity to find someone open. They did the dumbest possible thing in that situation.