UKBillFan

Agreed, but I thought the Steelers would beat the Packers. The Browns winning is a real annoyance. We're going to have to hope the North keep beating each other up.

Not unless you think the Bills are going undefeated from now until the end of the season.

For me, the Bills are a game down on expectations at the moment - the defeat at the Pats. Nine times out of ten, they'd lose at the Bengals. Nine times out of ten, the Texans would lose at the Bengals. I didn't expect much from the trip to the Jets (albeit if Rodgers was at QB), nor the London game.

Both Bengals and Texans are on 5-4 now, and the Ravens are running away with the North. It's hard to pick a winner which would suit the Bills but, if I had to pick one, I'd say the Texans. Especially as the Bengals have the tiebreaker.

Best result would be a Ravens win.

Do we want the Browns to win? The Ravens going to 8-2 is better for the Bills than the Browns to 6-3, surely?

Is QB decision making worse or defensive play better of late? Either way, watching Red Zone is making me feel even better about Josh.

I'd prefer to get rid of McDermott, but the issue is he is both HC or DC. I'm getting to the point where I wouldn't mind Frasier coming back for the rest of the season and hiring an offensive minded HC to help Dorsey. If there are no signs of improvement from the OC under the new set up, move him on in the post season.

*Looks at recent results and performances* No. No, he isn't.

Sorry, was a rhetorical question - was meaning it to come across as annoyed with McDermott rather than anything against yourself. 😊

In fairness to the original post you answered, if there was any time where it looked like Josh could hold it together in four successive play off games, then it was 2021.

I presume the next question was "Why?" Did he have an answer to that or will he have to get back to us?

If you think not then what should the Bills do?

Why not blame Dawson Knox? I think everyone else has been so far.

McDermott is tempering the offense to try and protect the defense IMO. I'm baffled as to why the first drive was executed so well yesterday and then the approach was abandoned until the third quarter.

That's evidence of him not being committed to the Bills?

Thanks. I think working out why is key to success, both short and long term. Though a couple of things slipped through yesterday - not knowing why the offense was running at low tempo (though McDermott said something similar) and he's just playing the plays as called.

Seems to be quite a bit of blame being flung Josh’s way from where I’m sitting.

Unfortunate with the injury? He looked a great signing up to then.

I think I’m right in saying that hasn’t always been the case. If so, what’s changed?

I’d like to see McDermott axed, Frasier brought back for the rest of the season as DC and - before the Wolverines furore - Harbaugh brought in as HC. Give Dorsey until the end of the season to sort things out with a HC who has offense in mind. If it doesn’t work out, let him go too. But Frasier may not want to come back and, as said, there are issues surrounding Harbaugh so…

Yeah but apparently he’s lazy…

So basically, it’s Terry decision whether to axe McDermott and Beane will be left out of it. Considering McDermott encouraged the hire of Beane, that makes sense.

Are we sure they haven’t muddled Brown and Torrence up?

Beane is GM. He needs to hold rank over McDermott just as Dorsey needs to hold rank over Josh, even though Josh pushed for him to get the job.