BritishBill

Feels like a Dawson Knox day to me.

Nice start! josh getting the ball out very early - protecting that hand?

A key injury and an absolutely terrible refereeing call against us on the first drive. welcome back, everyone. It’s like we were never away

From a purely footballing perspective, Spurs makes sense. Nearly men, often near the top but never quite getting over the line despite having some sensational individual players. But from a cultural standpoint - and this is the reason I’m a Bills fan - Everton is a great fit. - team based in a “smaller” city away from the biggest media market - city has a reputation for friendliness and distinctive character - blue collar, working class roots - team plays in blue - team has had a golden period followed by decades in decline - large loyal fan base that has put up with absolute crap for a long time but turns up week in week out - team plays in a stadium which has been left behind by others and desperately needs change (with a new stadium actively being built) - stadium nevertheless has an incredible atmosphere and away teams hate visiting it - team has been in the shadow of a huge rival which wins loads of trophies and seems to repeatedly receive preferential treatment from the league - team has one of the largest catalogues of “hard luck” stories and “couldn’t make it up” travesties known to man. Bills and Everton - it’s a match made in heaven…or hell. welcome to my life

Sad end to his time at the Bills. Hoping we fail forward here and come out somehow better for it. When the Vikings moved on from Diggs they ended up with Justin Jefferson. Even someone half as good as him would make it palatable. Not confident it'll be that way though

Makes no business sense to trade him. but is his negatively affecting the culture now to the point he’s doing more harm than good? Happy to put up with his shenanigans when he’s playing lights out. But second half of last season he was no better than Gabe really.

Would that mean Higgins going the other way? Chase, Jefferson, Higgins seems unnecessarily good and surely too expensive

He visited us pre-draft and he's a Panther. Pretty much fits the mould

Possible name to keep an eye on. Yetur Gross-Matos Allegedly we've made him an offer but he has others.

From over the pond, praying for peace that passes all understanding, and comfort as you mourn. God be with you and your family

I can genuinely see this both ways. It does feel like McDermott has hit his glass ceiling and seems unable to get us all the way. And yet there does seem to me to be a fair amount of mitigation this time around. Cast your mind back to pre season, and ask yourself what would your prediction for season be if the following transpired: 1. Tre White would get a season ending injury in week 4 2. Matt Milano would get a season ending injury in London 3. Von Miller would return but not record a single sack all season, looking like a shadow of his old self, and struggling to even make the team. 4. Gabe Davis would have FOUR whole matches without a single catch, and a further 3 where he was held to 21 yards or fewer. 5. Ken Dorsey would get fired half way through the season. 6. We’d go into January with a huge defensive injury crisis, missing 5+ starters each game 7. Our kicker would malfunction in the last month of the season. 8. We’d go into the final 5 weeks needing to win out, including trips to Miami, Kansas and a home game with Dallas When you bear all that in mind, I kind of feel like we got probably as far as we possibly could this season, if not further than we should. Does McDermott get credit for that? Perhaps he’s the root cause of some of the factors above. But it doesn’t to me feel like an abject failure of a season where we had it all in front of us to grasp and we blew it. It feels more like we were hugely up against it for multiple reasons, and did pretty well to overcome a lot of issues and force our way into the equation. To my mind that makes me hesitant to blow everything up and fire the HC. But I might be saying that this next season is his last chance before we hand the keys to Josh Allen for over to someone else

What is it with these injuries??!

Alright. Admit it. Who else shouted “Sliiiide” after he passed the first down marker?!!!

All season we’ve struggled against “weaker” opponents and played down to their level. This will be a close game and I’m not not comfortable with us as favourites even though we obviously are

I think it’s possible for both firing Dorsey to be the right move, while also hiring Brady not to be the right one, long term. We’ve obviously been on a good run results wise and the offence has been more balanced in terms of run/pass. But we’ve not blown anyone out really, our stud #1 receiver hasn’t had a 100 yard game in the stretch, and our #2 receiver has had what, 3 or 4 of those games with zero receptions. kincaid overall has also been worse under Brady. on the flip side, Cook has obviously had a huge uptick and Shakir seems to be making his move. his numbers in his previous OC posts suggest that what we’re seeing is his norm. His offences historically have not put up huge points, and it seems even with the weapons he has here, that’s the same again. I’m not sure what the future holds, but I’d like the Bills to at least explore alternatives rather than default hand it to Brady.