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It was there regardless. Allen threw it late. He should be throwing it right now:

I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out.

Duke had a defender in front of him. Probably a 50/50 chance if he makes the defender miss. Actually more like 70/30, I think he gets it.

You didn’t like the idea of sending every single receiving option into the endzone when you only need two yards? Yeah, me neither. Dorsey turned 4th and 2 into 4th and Goal.

A quarterback sneak was never going to lead to a kneel down. You need to get to the 4 yard to have enough space for a kneel down. In no realistic scenario is that QB sneak leading us to the 4 yard line. And as you mentioned, how are we still not knocking the ball down? Did Fail Murray really not teach us!? There is zero excuse for this being a catch.

Vrabel is genuinely a great coach. What he did to the Chiefs WITHOUT a starting QB is absolutely amazing. They should have been blown out in that game, but he had a genius gameplan.

This! A thousand times this! Just looking at Allen’s face yesterday was depressing. He didn’t look like normal Allen. He looked “off”. Hard to even describe.

Eric Bieniemy’s QB doesn’t even want him.

True. If Allen hadn’t fumbled, it’s likely a safety instead of a touchdown. Or, maybe, best case scenario, they get back to the line of scrimmage. Still, a bad coaching decision. Morse got blown off the ball (red arrow below). Just like the interior o-line had been blown off the ball all day. There was just very little chance of success on this play. Looking at it over and over, maybe Josh can hop and push to the right for one yard? If that happened, then they’re in the same situation. 2nd and 9 from the 1 yard line and they still can’t kneel the ball.

I think that’s fair.

You’re correct. We have an all-pro roster that has covered up poor coaching for a while. Take away the all/pro’s and you’re left with just coaching.

The things I mention are very important to building chemistry and cohesiveness. I feel it is very important.

I don’t blame the interception on McDermott. I do however blame the fumble on the coaching staff. Allen should have NEVER been put under center at the goal line. The interior o-line was getting blown up the entire 4th quarter. Over and over and over again. He thought it was smart, knowing that the interior line can’t get ANY push, to try a QB sneak? At the goal one? Before the play I turned to my Dad and said “they have to put him in shotgun”. It was obvious. It was also obvious to double cover Jefferson and they didn’t. Benford and others did a good job in single coverage but Jefferson is too good. You NEED two guys on him. It was coaching failure after coaching failure.

It has been reported for a while now (but often swept under the rug) that McDermott has a bit of a dark side. Remember when he lost his (bleep) and cussed out one of the reporters on the practice field because of a report he didn’t like? Or when he suspended Chris Brown (the biggest Bills homer on the planet) from the facility for multiple weeks because he said the wrong thing on the radio? And then there was the note in the Flores lawsuit that talked about how Daboll wanted out of Buffalo, even if it was NOT for a head coach job? When you have that smoke, it becomes implausible that there is no fire.

At some point Terry and Kim need to ask themselves: How much of Josh Allen’s career are you willing to spend whole McDermott figuring out how to manage in-game situations?

Yep. That’s what was happening. We won and therefore all the bad coaching decisions were forgotten about it. Nope. Shouldn’t work that way.

You have to know your players limitations. A sneak may be appropriate for some teams in that situation, but not ours. Our interior o-line was getting blown up the entire second half. Why do we think that will change at the goal line when the Vikings need to stuff the Bills? Put Allen in shotgun, let him look for a quick pass, or scramble, or throw it away. A quick swing pass in that situation likely gets a couple yards. Maybe a shovel pass. I don’t know. Pretty much anything but what they did. .

Sean Payton would have this offenses scoring 40 weekly.

Perfectly said.

There is a rumor that the Bills are leaving it up to Tre to decide when he is ready to play. I think that’s where this is coming from.

It sure didn’t feel this hopeless.

Literally anyone. Force their secondary players to beat you. You can absolutely not just continue to allow Jefferson to abuse you 1 on 1.

This argument (you describe above) never happened. No one was saying Allen is better than Mahomes. You really should read what is written before assuming you know the conversation and replying to it. Here is what actually happened: Poster 1: Chiefs have superb coaching so of course the QB got better after being in a slump Poster 2: Our coaching and players have beaten their superb coaching 2 of the last 3 times so if their staff was able to help him come out of his slump then I have faith ours can too .

Yeah losing Daboll was massive. Just from the steadying presence standpoint that Josh clearly needs and has always had.

What is not how what works?