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I felt like if they could beat KC they would have a path. I wasn't really considering it until that point and it didn't happen.

If you think any one of the following three things: Mahomes ranks above Allen, McD is Marty, or that the 2023 Bills were always fools gold, the last 60 days were not worth posting. You were labeled a troll.

I don't think 1+1 equals 3, but I would expect him to win eventually as he has more swings at the plate. As those swings increase and we don't win it does start to reflect poorly on him. It also makes arguing the nuances of why he didn't a little less relevant. I'm of the opinion it is mostly in the hands of McD and I don't see us taking the next step until he is gone which would really suck for Josh, obviously. If that is several years later it will be brutal for everybody involved. Us fans, Josh, everybody. I wish that's not what I see coming but it is.

My colleagues have been saying wide right all day to me and I could care less. Everybody knows we have no shot at the win unless we score a TD. If Sean truly grew as a HC in the ways we need that entire drive would have been 4 down territory and while the football world might have called him crazy, every fan with a crap of knowledge would have known he made one of the most ballsy and smart decisions in playoff history. KC wins on a FG probably 90% of the time if Bass makes that.

Only Bills fans care that we don't have WR's or Mahomes has a better system. The rest of the world only cares who won. Just like nobody cares about our injuries. History does not have the memory to remember Dawkins was blocked into Josh on that pass to Shakir. We didn't score. That's all history remembers. So we can have our own feelings as Bills fans and our own ways of how we see it, but it really shouldn't surprise anybody when people don't see it the same way. I know I'm the same way with other teams and the players they have. I do not have the time to properly evaluate every micro condition each player experiences then create a balanced mental scale to say this player is better vs that player despite not winning. It's who wins and loses. The rest fades away over time. Expecting different is silly.

He has done it so many times I can't count and Josh will have to as well, as he has in the past.

Allen played very well and I certainly don't blame him for the loss. But history does not care about anything you just said. Nobody remembers what a QB had when he didn't or didn't execute a game winning drive. Nobody is talking about how a OL was pushed back into the QB and that is why he missed a throw or a team that shouldn't have called a run play who did and that's why they didn't have enough plays. It is downright normal for a QB to have to execute on a game winning drive and at the end of the day all that matter is yes or no. Did he or didn't he. In this case he didn't, so to call this a legendary performance really is a flat out joke. It was a very good performance, certainly enough to win.

My point was can we not act like we asked Josh to go thru child birth because we needed a TD late in a game in the postseason? It’s basically mandatory if you want to win it.

I never said it was Allen’s fault. I said asking Allen to close out a final drive is not anything that hasn’t been asked by Mahomes, Brady, and every other Super Bowl champion in NFL history. People are acting as if we put some unmanageable burden on Josh in this game. Not at all the case. The poor defensive performance increased that burden but he still nearly got it done with 200 yards passing and most that damage behind the line of scrimmage.

Asking Allen to finish off that last drive would be basically par for the course with what is required to be a Super Bowl winning team. He had under 200 yards and was asked to deliver an efficient game plan which he did. I don’t see what we asked or expected out of Josh in this one that was unreasonable. Perhaps another 30 spot which is basically the status quo for this teams last game of the year.

We allowed nearly a first down per play. He has one of the worst divisional round records in NFL history. Would you not expect an Allen led Bills team to get out of the wild card round most years?

We need to score a TD on that last drive right? He’s a HOF QB and we need a TD in that spot.

Can you name a coach with a worse record in the divisional round with 4 or more games?

By all means, present your case

Wild Card Champs

another time, that’s fine

We are the NFL’s wild card champions. Marty would be jealous.

Eventually legendary has to actually mean legendary. It can't keep meaning legendary with conditions on why it wasn't actually legendary. I don't blame Josh for the loss, but your post is trash

Not to stand in the way of a "legendary performance" I mean, we did score seven 2nd half points.

Kidding, I remember debating with posters prior about McD @FireChans was dunking on that wild card win and dismissing Tomlin. @FireChans where you at bud? Did you get your 4 time AFC east champs tat on your lower back?

McDermott is good. We have a lot of threads the last few weeks that tells us that. Bla, Bla Bla........ Allen, best, Sean, best, choke, playoffs, worst, KC.... Figure out how to order the words, same old as always.

If you look at the collective body of work, Dorsey is ahead of Brady and take that back to Carolina and of course balance for Josh. Which means you do have to look at work prior to this year. We have won on close game variance post Dorsey. I believe at least some of that is based on Brady's influence, but the degree in which people feel Brady is outperforming Dorsey right now just isn't accurate. Dorsey won on every stat that exists outside of maybe winning %... I think we made the right decision for what we needed in that moment, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Dorsey performing really well with another team. He's very competitive and if learned and grew in just a few ways he would be elite.

Somebody upstream said Evans was a better Davis. What? I can't imagine what an elite big body would do for Josh. He's never had a good WR taller than 6'0

Lions have a path if the 49ers are knocked out. Still leaving my Lions vs Bills dream Super Bowl

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