Chaos

Actually, Sean gets to the see the look the other coach wants him to see before McDermott calls the inevitable time out. Then he resets to his best call, which is why the Bills defense fails sometimes after the defensive time outs. McDermott is pretty predictable to the casual fan. It is like professional NFL coaching staffs have a pretty good idea what he is going to do in a game.

Its not clear if the reason some people are criticizing your post is because they think McDermott is doing a good job at the end of games, or if they disagree with your reason. From my perspective, the end of games situations have been complete coaching chokes. I agree with that part. Your theory on why we keep choking is hard to know without being there. But I honestly wish the Bills would hire a clock coach for the final four minutes of game, and not let McDermott make those decisions. We need the closer equivalent of baseballs' Mariano Riveria.

I don't think you know what objectively means. It was not that bad against the Pats =25 points. (even with Murray and Bass leaving points on the field) Q4 against the Pats was 10x better than Q4 against the Bucs. I did not say the offense wasn't good in either game. They ended up with similar results, because the combined combination of coaching and execution over the course of 60 minutes totalled the same basic outcome. It is clear you don't 'got it'

It seems many fans are under the impression that points scored in the first quarter count more than points scored in the fourth quarter. Over the course of 60 minutes, the offense was not meaningfully better than against the Patriots over the course of 60 minutes. Hence, 25 points vs 24 points. But clearly the offense came out much better in this game than last week. In any case the offense is not the problem for the Bills. The problem is defense and critical situtional coaching.

Many posters on this site are not able to put things in context. Zow seems to be one of them.

The last play of the game turned into a virtual 50/50 chance. Far from comfortable

I like to gamble. My favorite is horse racing. I am horrible at betting horse races though. One outcome I seem to generate a lot is boxing two horses in an exacta and having one horse win, and the second horse finish third. This seems so much better than both horses finishing out of the money, but the outcome is the exact same. i see this similar to the results with the Bills. For several years they look at feel like a team that should win Super Bowls. But they go out in divisional round of the playoffs, which feels better than missing the playoffs. But if championships are the goal, it is the same outcome. This season is a microcosm of that. They look and feel like a dominant 7-1 team. But the reality is they are lucky to be at 5-3. I love the coaching that makes them look like a 7-1 team. I hate the coaching that makes them lucky to be 5-3. Same coaches. At some point, if the Bills don’t make it past the divisional round, it seems logical to believe that is as good as it gets.

The Good The Bills won The team played the beginning of the game as if they were well prepared. They were one odd third down offensive play call away from a perfect start on both sides of the ball. Hopefully this starts a trend Josh Allen was masterful spreading the ball around Shakir, Davis, and Kindcaid all had great games. Diggs was clutch when he needed to be Benard may never be Dick Butkus, but at his current level of play MLB is not something the Bills need to worry about Solid first three quarters from the defense. The good outweighed the Bad and the Ugly last night. The Bad Crucial play calls being botched with the same mistakes from past games, particulary being in shotgun on third down at the 8 inch line. Bills do not have the luxury of leaving points on the board. The Ugly The Bills have a choking problem. In the past I have said the Bills do not seem to be closers. But the problem maybe more severe than that. This season, the Bills special teams allowed the first punt return for a TD in an overtime in a number of years. This is an example of choking. The Bills blew a lead with a less than two minutes left and the Patriots (NFL's worst statistical offense) 75 yards from the end zone. And in one failed to defend screen pass, allowed the Patriots back into the game, and then a horrible effort to actual lose the game. Another choke and a loss. The game against the Giants was arguably saved on the last play of the game by the a crucial non-call by the refs. But it was a choke for the Giants to even be in that position at that point. And last nights game saw Mike Godwin outchoke the Bills by not seeing/catching the ball on the hail mary. Some fans want to pretend these types of blown leads and blown lead situations are typical of NFL close games. I do not think they are, particularly from teams aspiring to a championship. Chiefs, Niners, Eagles, all lose games, but I don't think they put themselves in positions to lose the games on the last play in 50% of their games. And then actually lose half of those game. It is so frustrating. On the one hand the team seems good enough that it should be 7-1 and in a dominating postion in the AFC East. But due to this choking issue is 5-3 and in second place. And two last plays of games away from being 3-5

Real question, does anyone think McDermott runs the last four minutes of games correctly?

Godwin should have had that. Thank goodness.

honestly shocked that there is not a flag for PI

i don't understand that time out

we need to punt, leave them about 13 seconds

why did Shakir slide down the 24

McDermott would have three super bowl championships if games were 56 minutes long

do we practice tipping it to other teams

Defense is not good. Bucs are a horrid offense.

that third down conversion might bite us in the ass

we have so many bad screen plays

too much game left to try to "chew clock"

stream quality has crapped out.

yes

It was the right decision. They only have a 2 score lead. They want to make the Bucs work for any points they get to close the gap.

the fourth down hard count is the most boring play in football.

go for it