HappyDays

The team didn't come ready to play. Again. It's a non stop problem under this regime and it is close to sinking our season right now.

Get rid of everyone in the offseason if we lose this one. I don't want to hear excuses about player execution. If we lose this game, the people in charge aren't good enough.

This team makes no sense lol

We don't have any WRs separating downfield?? Allen is just patting the ball. What the hell is going on.

Why do we always let bad teams drag us into games like this?

Our free agency spending this year was awful. Other than Floyd and McGovern every single signing has been a bust.

I am still just so confused on why the passing offense to Diggs and Davis has looked so out of sync lately.

Need to run the offense through Cook on this drive. He is by far our best skill player right now.

Chargers are down to their 3rd center and we can't get pressure up the middle. Typical.

The Chargers 3rd WR is separating more easily than our #1 and #2.

It definitely is. We don't have enough pass catchers.

Commit to the run Joe... Everybody has run against the Chargers defense for years now.

WR separation is still a major issue

It isn't that unlikely. Bengals need to drop one more. Texans or Colts or Jaguars need to drop two more. Broncos need to drop one more. Steelers need to drop one more. That's our path to getting in at 10-7. If the Falcons and Browns both win this weekend (over the Colts and Texans respectively), we just need Broncos, Steelers, and Bengals to drop one more each and we get in at 10-7 no matter what.

No at this point we control our own destiny. Colts and Texans still play each other. One of them will end up at 7 losses. The only other wildcard team that has a path to 11-6 is the Browns. There's three wildcard teams... If we finish 11-6 we are now assured to be one of them.

No Daquan Jones either since he wasn't officially activated to the roster.

I won't lie, I was still a tad nervous despite knowing it was extremely improbable to win out and miss the playoffs. I was going to be restless until it was a sure thing... Now we know. The Bills control their own destiny.

I don't personally believe this SHOULD be DPI since it's underthrown and puts the DB in an impossible position... But it's almost always called.

I really have no idea what DPI is anymore

Wow, they have completely lost faith in Browning.

If they lose today, absolutely. That would give us a seeding advantage over the Chiefs if we end up winning the division. If the Jaguars and Chiefs lose one more game each we're likely to be the #2 seed (assuming we win out). After all that happened this season that would be a miraculous result.

I don't think that's true at all. The entire Eagles game was a lot of miraculous off schedule plays from Josh... We do not have the skill players to suddenly become a "three step drop, ball out" passing offense. Brady has legitimately been better than Dorsey, I don't think that's deniable. For me the best thing he's done is figure out his roster's strengths and heavily lean into them. Out of the 4 games Brady has coached, Davis only has a reception in one of them. That's insane... But it's clearly been the right choice, almost entirely removing him as a passing option and just using him as a blocker or downfield decoy. At the same time we've heavily involved Cook and Johnson both as runners and pass catchers. It's no coincidence our offense has looked unstoppable at times since Brady took over, despite a below average group of receivers. He found a couple things we do really well and doesn't out smart himself trying other things just for the sake of it. Dorsey on the contrary was seemingly calling plays at random with zero respect for his own players' strengths and weaknesses.

The Browns losing works because they still play the Bengals in week 18. Somebody has to lose that game to get to 7 losses. So in that scenario one of Browns/Bengals is guaranteed to be at 7 losses, one of Colts/Texans is guaranteed to be at 7 losses because they also still play each other, and that leaves us a wildcard spot at 11-6 no matter what else happens.

Correct. Everyone should remind themselves on a weekly basis this is a matchup league. Miami's OL is one of the worst in the league, they are not going to physically abuse Dallas's front like we did. That being said if looks like their starting NT Hankins will be out again so that will give Miami an advantage in the run game. Good news is that Malik Hooker was back at practice so he should be good to go. I think the Cowboys can limit Hill. Biggest thing for them is controlling the run on early downs. Their defense runs through an elite pass rush and they never had a chance to tee off against us. Knock Tua around a bit and they can turn the game in their favor. Let's not forget the Cowboys were looking like clearly the 2nd best team in the league before they came to Buffalo and got punched in the mouth. That level of play didn't completely disappear overnight. Miami will have their hands full.

I think part of it was also just the fact that they made it a point to get the RBs involved in the pass game. Defenses last year were still playing the Chiefs like they had Tyreek Hill, which was inexplicable. This even happened in the Super Bowl in a bout of coaching malpractice from the Eagles. It's like defenses didn't think Andy Reid and Mahomes would actually be patient enough to stick with that style of offense, but they did. Similar to what just happened in our favor against the Cowboys. But this year defenses have stopped playing with so much fear of the Chiefs deep passing game and the Chiefs just don't have the horses to beat good defenses straight up.