Mikie2times

These late defensive time outs are killing us

Get “it” right. Whatever the hell “it” is.

odds of a Hail Mary = X odd of a 62 yard field goal = Y the catastrophic risk is ? I have to think you kick that. He makes 2 in 10?

Tush push down the field

Pearl Harbor incoming

If you want his greatness you will need to accept what comes with it. Maybe that eventually changes. It won’t be from one week to the next.

Ya, but even dumber for us to think “it’s over”. It will never be over. It’s who he is.

It’s just his game. We never convert the 4th and 1 without him. It’s stupid to think it’s ever gone.

Brady just scripted me a play

That exact situation? More likely to take the two score lead. But ya, we have. It doesn't change my outlook. He has nothing to be afraid of or worried about or uptight about anymore. The worst of everything true or not was in that article and I think it might set him free.

I joked that the article might change McD but I wasn’t joking

He was literally considered an 3rd down specialist and we never used him in the passing game

It is incredible how much of an edge we get using the RB in the passing game. His draft profile was basically as a 3rd down back and it took Brady to design plays for him.

I’m streaming BuffStreams and it’s as good a feed as I’ve ever seen

Damn, hitting your head is no joke

Dunne probably should not have included some of the more edgy character focused sections. It's allowed people to have an easier path to discredit the entire thing. Is he the coach to lead us to a Super Bowl or not? Dunne lays out probably the most well documented reasons of any article or thread or column we have seen to date. You don't need the character angle to muddy that up as people will isolate small pieces to discredit larger conclusions. At the end of the day we have a large group of fans that view his regular season success and our turnaround as justification to give him longer. Perhaps several more years. I don't know when it will be ok for them. Then you have another group that has shifted to postseason success and the window with Allen. Both those groups are really entrenched at this point and I don't see a whole lot changing that. By including the character angle he incited the one group when I think his intent was to convert more people to the other one. Sort of, see, he really is that bad. But that other groups won't bend after 13 seconds, playoff blowouts, horrible records in close games. They were never going to change based on some comments about 9/11 or Chad Hall and if anything this article likely divided the two groups more. Awesome

Not to mention, motivations are odd at times with coaches. You actually play for your teammates more than a coach. I remember the team that always played the hardest in my life had the biggest SOB on earth as a coach. But even then, that coach understood a group united in hate is still united. I think he wanted it that way. Can’t treat these men like that but they play for each other and themselves more than anything

We have had so many games where it was basically must win. If we didn’t get max effort in those it says a lot. As you said, it’s about execution.

Thanks for the summary!

We have the worst record in the NFL with a lead under 2 minutes. We are 0-6 in our last 6 OT games. We can’t win a game decided by 7 points or less. Sure I want the playoffs. But just getting in is not success nor do they get to say that is just because they completely screwed the first half of the year. Do something to change the tide on the first 3 stats. Make a deep run and don’t lose on a choke job or blow out. Then maybe we can talk about success.

So we dramatically underperform and then get credit if we can somehow qualify and make no progress (again)

So not logical that he releases a story about him crapping himself right after he craps himself about as bad as he had since 13 seconds with a bye week sandwiched in?

We are behind Gardener Minshew, Joe Flacco, and Kenny Pickett for playoff spot and somehow we should be captivated that we rallied to make the playoffs with Josh Allen? Maybe we deserve this.

and what, we exit in the wild card or divisional? You would be happy with that again?

And last week and the Eagles game was the biggest game of the year before this. Than the Bengals. Than the Dolphins. He said he accelerated it after the Eagles game because it fit the narrative of the story and we had a bye week on top of it which allowed more time to finalize the story. That seems pretty logical.