JohnNord

He didn’t play his best game for sure. Then again, he did score 29 points on one of the better defenses in the NFL. I don’t think he deserves as much blame as you want to give him, but yeah it was not his best performance

I don’t entirely agree but this topic helps adds nuance to the scapegoat conversations that want to pin everything on the HC. Could coaching have been better? Absolutely. But you are correct, players have to step as well. Out of everyone on defense the one person that did was probably Ed Oliver or Jordan Phillips. That’s it. Is some of that on coaching and not putting them in position to be successful? Yes. But there’s also players just getting beat.

everyone falls short to Kansas City. Philadelphia is going to fall short in 2 weeks

you are missing a lot of details. Tampa Bay fired Tony Dungy after an underachieving season that saw his team go 9-7 Philadelphia fired Reid after going 8-8 and 4-12. They didn’t fire either coach after reading the AFCCG

I’m still nervous. Only because I keep thinking of a Bills loss with Mahomes and Kelce laughing and smiling while they run off the field. I so don’t want that happen again. I’m also cognizant how hard it is to get to an have to an AFC Championship. I think NE and KC have made winning a Super Bowl look so much easier than it is in reality. It took Buffalo 26 years to get back to one. Miami hasn’t seen one in 3 decades, the Jets are going on 2. I think after the 2021 loss to KC, we all figured “they’ll be back” but it still took 3 off seasons. So this is just a massive opportunity right now for Buffalo and I so hope they can survive and advance. Either way - it our team.

Ok you’re right. They will lose 66-0

Bishop is better than Johnson was last month. We’ll be ok.

Year 3 is going to be huge for Kincaid. I think it’s fair to say that he’s been inconsistent over his first two seasons. There were a few games last season where they’d feed him the ball to move the sticks. Also a few other times when they’d feed could stretch the field with him working on a LB or safety. This season, he’s had injury issues but the he’s such a bad blocker that it limits his total snaps. Also you’d think Buffalo would be smart to run 12 personnel to take advantage of Knox and Kincaid but it hasn’t really worked well.

The hope was that Kincaid would be the next Kelce. As a route runner, he might have a chance. He has all the physical tools and an understanding of finding spots in zone. The problem is that he’s such a bad blocker they have to split his time with Knox. It does make you wonder if Sam LaPorta would have been a better fit for the offense. The selling point of Kincaid was his potential which we hopefully haven’t see yet.

IMO they seem nervous and threatened. I couldn’t believe the amount of rejoicing when it was announced Taylor Rapp was out. Just win baby

This is 100% true. Reid was trying to save his own ass after getting eliminated in the wildcard 2 years in a row. I’m sure there’s some vindication given the fact that Castillo as DC was an ill-advised train wreck which was the beginning of the end for Reid in Philly. But that’s life in the NFL when you underperform.

Annoying on the field because he’s always open! Annoying off the field because he’s cocky and obnoxious. Also not into all the Swiftie love. It got so annoying last season

He’s annoying as hell on the field and off! But he always speaks highly of Josh. I’ll give him that

That was the season when things started to go sideways with Diggs. He suddenly stopping doing media midway through the season and seemingly exploded this game. Soooooo stupid…. I guess he forgot he WANTED to go to KC to play with Mahomes

“The king of laterals” https://m.youtube.com/shorts/mi39-m6o3J4

Nah, the laterals are Kelce’s thing as he’s done that several times over the years. I don’t think this has anything to do with Andy. If Reid was calling those stupid “ring around the rosie” huddles, then you might have a point but I can’t remember anything like that. I remember reading that forcing the ball to Worthy was to see how he’d perform with more targets. This is something Reid has done in the past and Worthy’s touches have ramped up since week 11. Were they trying to rub it in? Maybe but I don’t think it was excessive and he really didn’t impact the game much after the first half. And they lost so who cares? Reid was McDermott’s mentor that he groomed and hand-selected to replace the legend Jim Johnston in Philly. I still do think there’s a lot of respect between both men, but I also believe there’s an insanely high level of competition as McDermott admitted they don’t talk much during the season. Knowing how McDermott operates, the fact that Andy fired him from what was his dream job at the time, probably will fuel the fire a bit this week.

I read that there are only 9 players that are on the roster for all 3 loses

TBH it was extremely telling that Chiefs were running the ball with Hunt in the 3rd and 4th quarter to grind out the clock. Pacheco was on the sidelines and it wasn’t because he was hurt.

William Belichick sounds like he’s picking Buffalo

I’ll admit to being nervous as hell on Sunday BUT Joe Buscaglia who usually comes close with his predictions predicted Buffalo to win 31-24 citing several advantages of the rosters. Yes it means nothing. There are plenty of other smart people picking Kansas City to win but FWIW he pretty much nailed the other games Buffalo 35 Denver 17 (31-7) Buffalo 29 Ravens 26 (27-25) However, with the way the Chiefs are structured and some of their key weaknesses on the offensive line, along with some exploitable pieces on defense, I believe they can be beeat — even in a matchup they have dominated for years. And the Bills have the right strengths in those key areas to exploit them. I’m expecting another instant classic of a game, one that will likely come down to one of the last possessions. But in the end, I think Allen and the Bills will do just enough to get to their first Super Bowl in 31 years. Go Bills!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏

I can agree that the injuries at WR and OL were horrible. I think the turning point was actually the Diggs injury - not because he was a game breaker but he game Stroud an intermediate outlet to move the sticks. With that said, I think Slowik was always overrated by the Bills fan base and the media at large. People wanted to put him on the same level as Ben Johnson as a play caller which I thought was a bit presumptuous. It looks like Kling Kubiak is being a considered a candidate to take over. We’ll see what he does next season

While the healthy offense did look good early in the season, they weren’t exactly blowing teams out of the water. They had narrow victories about just about everyone and were blown out of the water versus Minnesota. I follow quite a few Texans fans and many are celebrating this firing. So yeah there were quite a few factors that didn’t work in his favor, but when your franchise QB regresses that badly you need to make some changes.

Partly attributed, sure. But go back and watch the sacks he took this season. Many were on CJ. I’ve often heard “sacks are a QB stat.” That is and isn’t true but more times than not in Houston, I’d argue this was the case.

…And your QB regressed to the point that he’s throwing more than twice the INT’s of last season and is surrendering needless sacks due to lack of awareness. See what I mean… there’s a lot of Bobby Slowik love in here