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Talent is definitely part of the problem, but they won consistently last season with mostly the same or worse talent. The playcalling and execution has fallen off a cliff. Brady has been trying to get way too cute with a lot of third down calls, and the players are screwing it up. They're taking Cook off the field in the most important moments with tons of time on the clock so Ty Johnson can come in and block? It's borderline negligent. The coaching staff is too high on themselves and isn't seeing the forest for the trees. Neither side is doing a good job scheming to player strengths.

I think the secondary having like 5 pass break ups in 6 games is the much bigger elephant in the room. His playcalling wasn’t good, but the defense gave up 300+ yards in a half. This is all on our HC.

Nobody out there was making plays with the defense as called. they did a lot better in man coverage. Man requires more athleticism. Seems pretty clear to me that the zone scheme is being called incorrectly or has glaring problems with the implementation.

To his credit, the defense seemed better when McD started calling plays in the 2nd half. But yeah, the problem is pretty clearly a scheme and coaching issue. You don’t let a team get 300+ yards of production in the first half just because the players aren’t up to par.

I think the sack rate would jump way up if there weren't clear open outs for the opposing QBs almost every play. That being said, yes I agree that they should finish the play.

I'm not going to bother looking it up right now, but the Bills actually have one of the better pass rush winrates in the NFL. The problem is that the QB gets flushed and has a guy wide open because the secondary is dogwater.

This game was a total and complete coaching failure for 3 out of 4 quarters. What else is there to say? For an entire half the secondary got spanked around in probably one of the most embarrassing performances I've ever seen. It was a total and complete failure. The offense is getting way too cute for its own good. Brady doesn't know what the hell to do on third down. I think most fans do. Give it to Cook. Give to Allen for a power run. Keep the ball in the hands of your best players. They galaxy brained themselves out of a win they could have stolen even though it would have been undeserved. The D-Line continues to create pressure, but the secondary is such a dumpster fire that it doesn't matter. Deone Walker looks good. That's pretty much the only positive from the game.

The fact that we are relying and leaning on Shavers at the end of this game is such an indictment of this team.

Probably not, but I’d love to see McD take playcalling duties back. I don’t know how much it would help though.

What an utter failure from the Bills coaching staff on both sides of the ball. So much cutesy BS when fundamentals were working. They better review the tape hard because there was so much wrong with this gameplan.

There was no reason to go away from Cook there and it bit us badly. too cute for our own good.

You hear about special teams being so important from McD year after year and they are always a mess. Flags every ST play. i can’t remember the last time the Bills blocked a punt.

That was a really clean drive for a TD. I have no faith that the defense is gonna figure it out but it’s good to see that Brady can adjust. McD and Babich need to do the same now.

This is basically a lesson in how McD and a defensive head coach is killing the team. Look at the wasted resources on the defense. Instead of bolstering our strength, Josh Allen, we throw resources at a unit that has never performed when it mattered. I usually stay pretty level headed during games, I almost never post mid game, but this is probably the most frustrating performance I’ve seen in the Josh Allen era.

This team is falling apart in real time.

Yeah, well they didn’t expect the Bills to actually cover stride by stride. Im just as shocked. 4 breakups for the secondary this entire season now.

I’m struggling to find any positives so far this half. The secondary might be the worst I’ve ever seen in Football.

This confirms what I've been saying about the defense. The D-Line has been playing significantly better than we're used to, but the secondary has massively regressed and is having a ton of trouble playing out of structure.

I wonder what this looks like for past seasons of the Bills. Some of it is probably a function of Allen rolling out of the pocket. In my opinion, refs are way more likely to call holding when that happens but I have no data to back it up. Not getting any calls is nuts though. I remember at least three times in the Pats game alone that looked like an obvious hold go uncalled (but Hochuli is a biased jerk against the Bills).

And we only lost the Patriots game because of a obvious uncalled DPI (one of a few, really). What's your point? That the Bills are bad because they won the game, but not in the way you wanted them to?

I think snap counts on offense isn't particularly important in the way you're making it out to be. Kincaid probably should have had more targets in the game. Does that mean he needed to be on the field more? Or does that mean that when he was on the field they should called more plays where he was "the guy" or at least the 2nd look?

Late Stage capitalism with regulatory capture is strangling the wealth out of the average person. It’s pretty clear cut what the cause of it is. legalized bribery via corporate lobbyists for the last 20 years have only accelerated it. I’ll get off my soapbox now.

It's tanking with extra steps though. There's no reason for it.

The defensive line has been playing very well all things considered. I'd love to see them get home more, but the pressure rate has been good. The secondary didn't have a single pass breakup in the entire game. That's unacceptable. You can't expect to win a game when the secondary does nothing but tackle after the pass. They are abysmal out of structure, which we are seeing more because the pressure rate is higher.

I don't think anyone would disagree with you. The turnovers were a major factor in this loss. I don't think that negates what I said though.