DapperCam
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8 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
That’s what I’m saying. I think this was a perfect time for a timeout because we were not in a good position to attack the defense if that blitz came.
This was 4th down with 2 minutes left in the AFC Championship game and we mess up a protection?
Agree that hindsight is 20/20, but Allen should have taken a TO there.-
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Our DBs are pretty rough.
- Rapp is just okay, and always hurt.
- Hamlin is pretty meh. He’s usually in the right spot but totally lacks athleticism.
- Bishop had a lot of growing pains.- Douglas was terrible all year.
- Benford is always injured (and just sustained back-to-back concussions which is usually bad, we’ll see on that).
- Elam is not playable and probably will get cut or traded for peanuts.
Even Taron Johnson had a down year compared to his usual standard (likely due to the injury he got the first game of the year).
I’m not really sure what the answer is, we have a lot of holes. Every game had receivers just running wide open. It’s a wonder we won as many games as we did.
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When did Elway win his Super Bowls?
This was supposed to be a retool year to get some cap relief.
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Would love to see Mahomes throwing to Kelvin Benjamin and Andre Holmes instead of Hill and Kelce. Would have been quite entertaining.
Something tells me the narrative would have been different in that scenario…
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Part of it is health too. Defense doesn’t have much depth and had multiple starters missing last year and this year.
When it’s a one score game that can be the difference between winning and losing.
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I would say that catch was easier than the Diggs drop last year. Diggs was in a full sprint and had to catch a bomb over his head. Kincaid had to come back to the ball and catch it like an outfielder.
It really reminds me of the Charles Clay drop against the Dolphins. Same situation where it’s a desperation heave and the TE has to take a few steps to adjust and just can’t do it.
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10 minutes ago, zow2 said:
Bruh, catch the ball. it’s right there served up for you.
On that angle the biggest issue is he doesn’t realize the ball is in the air until it’s already coming down from the peak of its trajectory. Made it so he had to make a diving catch.Difference between someone like Kelce who would think “hey these guys blitz a lot on key downs, maybe I should have my head turned around and looking for a quick throw”. It’s really an issue of awareness and game situation there.
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1 hour ago, C.Biscuit97 said:
That’s insulting to Hughes.
side note, pretty cool that we traded Sheppard for Hughes and he’s now a nfl DC.
I actually think it’s a pretty good comparison. Both players got a lot of pressures, but never got the sack. I felt like Von was pretty bad this season, but people would point to the pressures like they mean anything. -
1 hour ago, DrDawkinstein said:
Someone pointed out in another thread, maybe even last night, Groot crashing inside numerous times and taking himself out of the play, and letting the QB get out around the right side.
I saw it last night as well. But I also saw the same exact thing against Baltimore, Denver, and throughout the season. And not just Groot, whoever we had in at LDE.
The fact it has been going on all year, and by multiple players at that position, tells me a lot of our DE/DL problem is due to scheme and design.
I agree that Groot was losing contain crashing inside and it seemed to be by design. Just weird stuff. -
When Mack Hollins is your most effective receiving threat, you’ve got issues.
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3 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
Regular season is almost always all hands on deck health wise then we almost always lose our best corner for the rematch like clockwork lol. Cb depth seems like a huge issue come playoff time. 13 second game we had tre for the regular season and no tre playoffs, starting cbs were Dane Jackson/Levi Wallace.
last year we lost the whole freakin LB room for the playoffs but corner was ok
this year benford went down for the playoffs and we were left with Douglas and elam/lewis which takes you from a solid corner duo to one of the worst in the league.
really gotta figure the depth out one cb injury shouldn’t be doing that.
Douglas was actually super banged up last year and probably would have missed if it was a regular season game. -
I agree that his injured killed us. There is no way he plays as poorly as Elam. They picked on him all game. When McDermott said “Kaiir’s gonna step up for us” at the halftime interview I knew he didn’t believe his own words. Seen managers make similar comments all the time.
The only other game against a good team where we were missing so much of our defensive backfield was when we got steamrolled by the Ravens earlier this season. We just had no depth.
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Depends on the deal. I would play hardball for sure and not break the bank. He’s good, but he has games where he disappears.
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10 hours ago, dayman said:
He’s great. He’s been great in the playoffs. He wasn’t tonight.
Started shaky as hell. Couldn’t run all night. Couldn’t sneak. Couldn’t get it downfield (except Hollins a few times…good on Hollins). Ran right into that blitz he didn’t see to end the game and left Shakir open for what may have been a winner.
Love Josh. But let’s just call it what it was—choke job tonight. If he was great we go to the superbowl. He was far from great.
I think for the most part we intentionally didn’t throw downfield except for the couple of scenarios it made sense (end of the half, end of the game to leave time for another possession). This was to protect our trash defense.9 hours ago, HappyDays said:It isn't the best statistically but it is the best situationally and that is all because of Spags. 4th down game on the line and we call pretty much the exact same play we ran on 4th down against them in the regular season. What does Spags do? He says this time I'm throwing two unexpected blitzers into that hole where Allen beat me last time. Now Allen can't beat him all on his own, he has to rely on his pass catcher who inevitably drops the ball because that's what Allen's teammates do to him every single year. Spags forced our hand with his play call and we choked. That defensive play isn't about players, it's about coaching.
It actually was the #1 scoring defense when the starters were playing (excluding week 18). I think they have a decent argument for best defense in the league this season.-
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49 minutes ago, K D said:
Elam is the worst draft pick I've ever seen. If he wasn't picked in round 1 he would have never made the team at any point. We have drafted and released late round and undrafted guys that are better. How can you miss THAT badly?
Drafted based on need instead of BPA, and drafted based on physical attributes. McDermott and company assumed Elam could be coached up, which was incorrect. -
2 minutes ago, Sojourner said:
Ok. Serious questions as 5% seems wildly low given the results the defense has shown against better teams…Whoa to blame for the wild throws to start the game?
whos to blame for attempting a Qb sneak/push that many times in a game, one drive we attempted it 4 times?
whos to blame to see that we were struggling to use it but continuously calling it?
whos to blame for not keeping Cook running the ball when he was chewing them up?who’s to blame for running the slow developing routes for guys who can’t separate well and when there’s poor pass protection?
who’s to blame for calling a screen to one our slowest receivers in a crucial 3rd down?
Who’s to blame for a player dropping a ball that’s right in his arms?
You only blame but never credit.Who‘s to credit for hitting Shakir on a 3rd and 13?
Who’s to credit for hitting Hollins deep twice leading to TDs?
Who’s to credit for scoring a clutch TD at the end of the half to prevent the Chiefs from double dipping?
Who’s to credit for Cook scoring 2 amazing TDs?
Who’s to credit for Bass hitting all of his kicks and not looking shaky once?
Who’s to credit for a super long drive with clutch runs from Allen and the RBs to protect the crappy defense?
*** These are all plays that other teams couldn’t pull off against this defense all year. It was the #1 scoring defense if you don’t count week 18 with the backups.
If you consider the context of who we were playing, the offense played really well and the defense was terrible. Even their turnover was an unforced fluke. Otherwise the Chiefs would have scored 4 TDs on their first 4 drives. That is Bills vs Jags earlier this season bad.
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43 minutes ago, GoBills! said:
What was the mystery flag on the Kincaid drop? Anyone know?
If he caught it they were making sure they had something in their back pocket to call.-
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2 minutes ago, Sojourner said:
Yea. It’s unreasonable when we put 30 on them earlier on.
It’s ok. I’ll wait for the “well that was at arrowhead” response.
You’re making it sound like I am saying the defense has no blame. I’m not. It even remotely. In multiple posts since game end I’ve talked about this. I just don’t understand how no one wants to ask questions about the offense that are rational. And when they do there’s certain criteria used as an excuse.
It’s the playoffs. They are the chiefs. The back to back Super Bowl champs on the road to attempt a 3-peat.
We have up 28 points to the Cardinals. 35 to the Ravens. 20 to the Jets. 27 to the Dolphins. 20 to the Colts. 21 to the Chiefs. 21 to the Pats.
You know the 2 scores that matter?
44 @ Rams
42 @ Detroit
Elite QBs. Away. If you didn’t think the Chiefs would score points in the playoffs at home against a porous pass rush and secondary, especially when Benford went down, then i dont know what to tell you other than you’re right and I’m wrong. Not that both points have validity and application.
It’s not entirely the defense. Both units are to blame.
I guess I just disagree. I put 5% of the blame on the offense and 95% of the blame on the defense.One unit put up the best performance against a team all year and another unit put up the worst performance. It’s pretty black and white IMO.
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38 minutes ago, Thrivefourfive said:
Using this tread to get it all out, so tomorrow is a good day.
I can’t let go of my belief that the offense blew this. McDermott is a doofus and the defense sucks, but damn the offense had the game in their hands more often than they even deserved.
Bills put up the best performance on offense against the Chiefs in Arrowhead in 2 seasons. If the offense didn’t play well the entire game, then they wouldn’t have even been in that position at the end.27 minutes ago, MikePJ76 said:Just like last year The Bills will be the ones who score the most points against the chiefs. They will beat philly in a tough slugfest in the superbowl and we will all be sitting her wondering what it takes to make that final play.
Get a defensive end that doesn’t lose contain and let Mahomes run for a first down 5 times like it’s Groundhog Day. -
6 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
If you want to beat them, what alternative do you have? They're no worse than the 2nd most dominant dynasty in the history of the sport. They're flawless when it matters.
They weren’t flawless last week, their elite defense saved their butt. The Bills score 2x more points than the Texans managed. And the Bills defense gave up about 2x more than the Texans allowed.McDermott needs to evolve past his soft bend but don’t break scheme. It can’t beat the Chiefs and the Bengals. It was probably very lucky to beat the Ravens last week. These are the teams we will repeatedly see in the playoffs. The offense for the most part plays very well in the playoffs and to expect more from them is probably not realistic.
For comparison, I doubt Mahomes is putting up 29 points against a defense as good as KC has on the road. We basically saw that last week (except they were at home).
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5 minutes ago, Sojourner said:
So we can expect our defense which we know has question marks to hold Mahomes and the Chiefs to under 30 and be fine with it but can’t expect Josh and the gang to score 32+ on 9 drives? If we are going by season basis, our boys averaged 30ppg.
The failure was a team effort. It’s not one or the other is what I am trying to convey. If it’s percentages it’s 60/40, offense/defense. Not a definitive yes or no for each unit of the team.
Not counting week 18 with backups in…
The last time the Chiefs gave up 32 points at home was the 2022 divisional vs the Bills (when their defense was much worse than it is now).
The last time before that was October 2021 vs the Bills (the defense gave the offense 4 turnovers and a turnover on downs, which helped that point total).The last time before that was October 2020 vs the Raiders.
So you are saying the Bills should have done what no other team has done against this current iteration of the Chiefs with an elite defense. It’s unreasonable.
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3 minutes ago, Sojourner said:
Dude.
People who are saying the offense are not saying there is no blame that falls on the defense. It does. 100%. They played poor but we all knew they weren’t great.
The offense had 9 drives. Punted twice and turned the ball over on downs twice.
KC had 9 drives. Punted twice and turned the ball over via fumble. Their final drive iced the game.
Ask any Bills fan from Monday to 6:29pm EST if we would take 9 drives a piece but you only knew the outcome of KC’s first 8 drives; 2 punts, a turnover and 32 points… would we outscore them in 9 of our own drives?
Most Bills fans would say yes. Guaranteed.
I would not say we would outscore the Chiefs on the road if you told me they scored 32 points. If most Bills fans would say yes then they don’t know how good the KC defense is.-
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25 minutes ago, Sojourner said:
The defense and that of what McD has built needs to be heavily changed. No disagreement but when it comes to the absolute basis of rationality going into this game, we as fans knew what we had.They actually did everything people wanted.
Make a couple of stops and get a turnover/s.
They kept the Chiefs from running away at it to open the second half. Don’t understand why they can’t be given any credit.
If we’re assigning blame- That was the most points the Chiefs O has scored all season (actually going back almost 2 seasons to Sept 2023).
- That was the 2nd most points surrendered by the Chiefs this season (#1 being the Bills earlier this season, not counting week 18). Otherwise the Chiefs haven’t given up that many points since the 2022 season Super Bowl vs the Eagles, and they haven’t given up that many points at home since October 2022.
So, the Bills put up the best offensive performance vs the Chiefs in 2 seasons of any team (or 3 if you just say at Arrowhead) and the worst defensive performance in 2 seasons.
It’s crazy to say, “well if you have the ball last you should win.” Bottom line is our defense was terrible and the offense played well even if they couldn’t put that final drive together.
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5 minutes ago, JohnNord said:
Dungy also took a SB caliber team in Tampa and went 9-7 before getting fired.
Could have been McDermott last year if the Bills didn’t go on a run (and the Dolphins didn’t choke away the division).
What happened to DeWayne Carter and Solomon?
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We had a guy like that in MVS and he barely got targets. And when he did either Allen missed him deep or MVS couldn’t track the ball.
We used Shakir for the quick man beater crossers, and he is better than Worthy anyway.