Chaos

The amount of rushing on second down and distance were not materially changed by fourth down. Not at all. We simply used up the timeouts.

A common theme between both games is that in the end Allen and the offense did just enough to give their team a chance to win. Patriots game was the same situation. A difference is that in the Jets game and the Patriots game, the Bills actually had controlled time of possession (or nearly even). Last night Broncos dominated time of possession, which is on Allen to a large degree. I am Allen's biggest fan. In the scheme of things he is easily far and way the best part of the Bills team. But last night was a dud.

THE GOOD For 58 minutes the defense held one of the NFL's lowest scoring offenses to 21 points. Enough to win the game. The defense was put in a tough spot the whole game and the performance was good to excellent for 58 minutes, but this was not the greatest show on turf they were holding at bay. The offense was able to take advantage of the Bills defensive effort to get a lead with only 2 minutes left in the game, and the Broncos offense 75 yards from the end zone. The game commentary was even handed and technically accurate for the most part For 59 minutes the officials did not get involved in deciding the outcome of the game. Even the unfortunate PI call is more a problem of a bad rule, than a bad call. THE BAD Preparation. Sean McDermott has been the head coach for 6 years now. We still see too many games, where the Bills simply look unprepared. The offense looked like it was playing its 12 preseason game. The Bills were not prepared at the start. The Bills were not prepared for the scramble no time out drills for FG attempts at the end of the first half, or the end of the game. Clock management. There was no reason to use up the time outs on second and third down at the end of the game. The Broncos were going to have the option of having plenty of time to get set on the field, and let the clock run down on any fourth down anyway. But since the Bills burned their time outs, even if the HC or one of staff had the situational awareness to know 12 men where on the field, they couldn't stop the play to do anything about it. THE UGLY Josh Allen may have had his worse game as a Bill. Early in the season we saw that the talent is still there. At this point I feel like he has been mis-coached into ineffectiveness. I hope like Seabiscuit, a change in coaching can turn him into the champion his talent suggests he should be Fourth last drive defensive collapse of the season, on the last series. In my version of complimentary football, if the team has a lead with 2 minutes to go, and the other team has the ball 75 yards from the endzone, you should win those game. For professionals it should not matter how the team got into that position, it only matters that you are in that position. It seems clear every single opponent the Bills play has a 2 minute game plan to easily beat the Bills on the last drive. Sean McDermott's post game press conference on twelve men on the field, throwing the team under the bus. "“We practiced two or three times that week, the substitution from a dime [defense] to field goal block, and at the end of the day we didn’t execute it. It’s inexcusable,” he said." This commentary is wrong on two levels. One it is the wrong assignment of blame. The Bills knew for three plays, that the broncos were scrambling to set up the FG and were no longer advancing the ball. We wasted two time outs on second and third down. Its inconceivable that a coaching staff would not use those time outs to make sure the players were 100% aware of their assignments on the scramble play. If the coach thought "we practiced that earlier this week, in the calm of a practice, I am sure everybody knows what they are doing", that is insane. The proper comment was "I had another end of game brain cramp. I didn't get the player assignments for the scramble repeated twice during the timeout. I simply ASSumed that we were ready" Even if this was not another coaching blunder this is not an appropriate comment for public consumption. A lame "we need to review what happened" would have been 1000x better comment in this situation. McDermott seems to be completely burned out and losing it at this point. This is actually understandable. Hi stress job. Tons of pressure. He needs someone above him to address this burnout situation. We can't have a head coach calling out the players over and over to blame his poor clock management and end of game management on.

unacceptable. 100% mcdermotts fault. he had three plays knowing this was coming

fire mcdermott now

Offense was mostly responsible for the lost. But the defense failed to close out a game they could have once again. Basically you can't win a lot of games if the defense can't defend a lead with less than 2 minutes to go every time.

they will just run another play before kicking the field goal

why did we call a time out?

why is that all out blitz

no chance to catch that ball

bull#### call

please make the sack count

McDermott the closer will not let us down.

We will find out on this drive, if McDermott and all the high paid leaders on the team are more interest in a long offseason, or actually playing in the playoffs.

must have been

actually the first total horsehit call of the night.

The Bills have much more talent on the field than the Broncos. But if there was a way to grade situational awareness, the Broncos are at like an 8, and the Bills are a 2

Why blitz on third and 11

He is doing complimentary football. this is when all units suck together.

This is not a rule.

more ***** special teams complimentary play

Lets drive down for seven.

Coming into this game Wilson has 16 TD and 4 ints. He sucked last year. He is NFL average this year.

They beat the Chiefs their last game. Its good to keep up with events. The Broncos have been solid for a number of weeks now. They have started shaking off the Nate Hackett stank.

Maybe the Broncos defense is really good, and the Broncos offense is really bad.