Chaos

Max!

Hopefully we didn't score too fast.

these guys all tackled great in college, when they were the bigger , stronger, faster guys. Technique is not great, but its not the bigger issue.

forutnately, Dalton can't hit the wide open guys

We are slower, smaller and weaker. faster bigger stronger guys just run through it.

Would have been a good use of a time out on Samuel's pre-snap penalty. No one in the booth knows what they are doing apparently

why not throw it away josh.

Disgraceful

And we wonder why Josh is not having fun.

We are exactly where we were at with Dorsey. Allen is clearly instructed not to run. Defenses figure that out. And it takes away our greatest edge. Brady became a genius after we fired Dorsey, because we freed Josh to be Josh.

Josh gives Brady the ability to make the defend the whole field. not sure why he does not do that on most plays.

Olsen is pretty on point today.

Bills defense is like my golf game. I make a birdie and think "I am good at this", but then at the end of round i am an 18 handicapp. Bills just have a hard time stringing things together.

play designs with four guys going instantly sideways seem doomed to failure

i honestly did not expect two wr screens, and cook off the field on third down.

sideway pass makes me sad

good start against the venerable andy dalton

You must be young. As recently as the 1980's there were an incredible number of diseases that came with only the advice "you have x months" to live, that people now expect to be recover from, or manage for many years. It is true no one has found a way to make people immortal.

Probably cost us a game.

To be fair, if it was my $7 billion dollar toy, I would probably just run it the way that made the most sense to me. I don't fault Pegula. I am not sure Beane is complacent. He may just not be the highly competent wizard some fans expect him to be. Truth be told, given the state off the team, it is highly plausible Beane's decision making is being driven by the impact on 2026 and beyond, and not 2025. Also, we have a history of not really using the players we acquire in mid-season. Beane probably has little control over that, so his thinking could be "why trade for B. Thomas to sit on the bench".

Seeding is incredible important in the playoffs. #1 seeds have incredibly huge advadantge. The september games count just as much as the december games.

This year seems different. 1) We have a competitor in the division. 2) Its not the losses. Its the wins. While "a win is a win", the only game where the Bills played a fully solid game was against the 0-7 Jets. 2b) the opponents we beat have a combined record of 3-24 The Bills under McDermott have never won three playoff games in a row. In fact the Bills under McDermott have never won three games consectutive games in a row against teams with winning records. The results through the first six games this year does not suggest any meaningful expectation for this to change. Fan hopes rely on: 1. Josh Allen playing at NFL record setting levels each week. 2. Max Hairston being the first rookie on defense to make a meaningful impact in many years 3. Bernard and Milano somehow returning to form at the linebacker position. 4. things to "click" for Cole Bishop 5. a 31 year old returning from a PED suspension to perform at or near the highest levels of his career 6. Someone on offense resembling the shadow of a WR1 I suppose all of these are possible. But the situation feels a lot like the rest of AFC combined has three aces showing, and we are trying to draw to an inside straight. If the Panthers run all over the Bills defense today and we lose, the goal for the season becomes stumbling into the playoffs and hoping for a miracle.

The failure to force other teams to punt is the bigger problem.

best to set the expectations low on a 31 year old coming back from PED suspension. hopefully those expectations get exceeded.

"Complementary football" in Bills speak, means everyone does what McDermott wants. Else it aint complimentary.