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lol ok, cared enough to respond though. That was the year Josh was on a rookie contract. Aside from Tre we were by far and away the healthiest we’ve ever been going into the playoffs. Josh had a two game span where he threw for 600+ yards, ran for 120+ rushing yards and had 9 touchdowns with 0 turnovers. While the myth of Joe Burrow continues to grow the truth of those playoffs is he never was able to get his team to score more than 2 TDs in a game. They wouldn’t have kept pace with what Daboll was cooking up that season.

It always goes back to 13 seconds. Everything goes back to 13 seconds. Aside from wide right, 13 seconds is the closest thing the Bills have to a Super Bowl win because I guarantee you if the Bills win that game after Josh played the way he played there wasn’t an NFL team assembled that was going to stop this team. Every year that ends in a tragic loss during Allen’s tenure will forever go back to 13 seconds. That was the Super Bowl that should have been.

While I know that’s not the true “number” and we’ll find space when the time comes. There is a part of that, that is super troubling because outside of Josh (and now Cook) we don’t have game wreckers or changers on this team. When you look at the late playoff teams they have their franchise QBs AND Kyle Hamilton AND Derrick Henry AND top rated o-lines AND Chris Jones AND Saquon Barkley AND top WR duos in the league AND insane defensive lines. So much of our money is tied up paying good football players great football player money. While these other elite playoff teams paying their stars accordingly.

I’d LOVE to have him coming off the bench. He’s smart, disciplined and can make a play here or there. But he’s not someone I pay big money for. The Bills need more difference makers. Groot is a fantastic piece to a rotation but he’s not the guy. Sadly he’s going to demand “the guy” money so much like Edmunds you gotta let him go.

Despite having the potential MVP on our team there were numerous times this year where things just look difficult on offense. A lot of times it feels like if the running game isn’t really dominant it’s 100% up to Josh to make it work. Our drives are 50 plays long with quick screens and every third down feels like it requires magic. Then the opposing team gets the ball and it’s 5 yards, 9 yards, 13 yards, 8 yards, 9 yards, etc. Things haven’t “looked easy” on offense since Daboll. For being as dominant as an offense as we are it NEVER looks easy.

I don’t blame Josh for the loss but I also can’t ignore the fact that the game was there for the taking. Sadly if the roles were reversed I think 99% of this board would agree Mahomes and the Chiefs are getting at the very least 3 points but most likely 7

We lost our identity tonight and we lost because of it. All season long we’ve leaned on the run game. Tonight we did not. And it wasn’t for lack of success as James Cook ran for 85 yards on 13 carries. Brady failed this offense tonight. Not Josh. You don’t even get jittery Josh tonight if the game starts with Cook ripping off 6.5 yards a carry like he did all game.

James Cook had 13 carries for 85 yards. That’s a coaching failure in every aspect. I’d like to know what this game would have looked like with him having 25 carries.

I think it was a massive failure of our offensive coaching staff to not have a tush push wrinkle. Every team knows we are going to tush push and our success rate is fantastic but all year long I assumed we had a play in our back pocket that we’d pull out for a massive gain. But we didn’t. We kept running into a brick wall on the same snap count. We didn’t even have a wrinkle to go over the right side. To me that’s a failure in self scouting to not have a counter punch to a play you’ve run all season. It’s also a failure to assume that Spagnuola would have no answer for something you’ve put on tape for 50+ weeks

I will say this and I’ve said this for THREE years now. I don’t think Beane is awful and I don’t think McDermott is awful. But the combination of Beane & McDermott is the most dysfunctional great relationship in the NFL. In every stage of the game they are lock step side by side OTHER than talent evaluation and talent implementation. Which is probably the biggest thing from a GM & coach. Every year it seems like Beane brings in players that McDermott either doesn’t know how to use or refuses to use.

Honestly this is the first time after a loss that I’m not calling for McDermott’s head. Despite the numbers the Bills had two chances to win today and they didn’t. There weren’t many times today I was happy with the offensive playcalling. Refusing to have a backup option for the tush push. The Coleman fade on 3rd down with the game on the line. Not realizing Cook was suited up until the second half. On the final offensive play of the game you need 5 yards and your best WR is in the backfield. Not trying to calm Josh down in the 1st by relying on what got you there. Running for 5-9 yards a clip with conventional running plays and then losing all sense of confidence in that same running game on 3rd and 4th and 1. McDermott didn’t do that. McDermott got us here with a talent deficit in our last 2 games.

Now seems like as good of a time as any. That being said, drafting aside with better playcalling this roster wins tonight. The tush push was clearly figured out and an inability to run anything else killed us.

Say what you want about the defense but the ball was in the offenses hands twice with a chance to either take control or win and we came up empty. First time we were up 1 point and driving and got stuffed on tush pushes (even though Josh got the 1st) Second one Kincaid drops what could be a game changing pass. I know it’s just football but my house right now is just gutted over this game. Bills/Chiefs feels alot like Dolphins/Bills and I hate that feeling

Utterly heartbroken right now

MVP gonna have to do MVP things