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Talked about last week. This thread may interest you:

In the middle of it, Chiefs fans were besides themselves too. But when you step back, zoom out, a few games looks very small. As they should.

Before becoming Mahomes again and leading his team to the AFC Championship game. Mahomes had a 5 game stretch in the middle of the season where these were his performances: 0 TD, 1 INT, 1 Fumble 0 TD, 1 INT, 1 Fumble 1 TD, 1 INT 1 TD, 0 INT 0 TD, 1 INT, 1 Fumble The point? Even the great ones can slump. Play poorly. Lose their mojo. Forget how to read the field. I am far more concerned about the coaching, as some of these coaching mistakes have been happening since day 1 of McDermott’s tenure. But Josh will get better. He will overcome. He will become great again. Mahomes slumped and he came back. So will Allen. Go Bills.

We have the talent to do it. Need better coaching and smarter QB decisions.

Thank you. Couldn’t remember exactly where we were in the game at that moment.

Sure do.

How many drives are you willing to waste while they experiment with things that may or may not work. Im much more willing to blame McD for not kicking the field goal to go up 20(?) and not doubling Jefferson, than blaming Dorsey for not continuing to run the ball when it wasn’t working.

The rumors are that Daboll and McD did not get along. That very well could be because Daboll knew what we needed to do and McD wouldn’t allow it. Flores lawsuit mentions that Daboll wanted out of Buffalo even if he didn’t get a head coaching job. He just wanted to be away from McD.

To be fair, we can’t keep running into the back of linemen. He stopped running when it stopped being successful.

I completely disagree. I think Allen is someone who gets his mojo back by incremental successes. That’s why some people call him streaky. When he is in a rhythm, he is impossible to stop. But when he’s off, you have no idea what will happen. Daboll, whenever Allen started going haywire, would return to quick, short throws. Get him back in a rhythm. Take wins when you can. Take the 20 point lead in the game.

Allen has been awful. Coaching has been awful. Both are true.

It’s not something he can learn by his coach saying to cut out turnovers. It’s not like he intended to severely underthrow Davis. Or throw it directly to a defender.

You quoted an old post. As a coach you have to take everything into consideration and make a decision. Consideration #1: Allen is injured. Consideration #2: Allen hasn’t been playing well. Take those two considerations and the obvious choice to me is “kick the field goal”. If Allen wasn’t injured and Allen was playing normal MVP level, fine, go for it. But he ain’t. And there is no point in pretending that he is. So kick the field goal, considering the circumstances.

Yeah he’s Marv Levy. Not Parcells. Or Belichick. Or even Reid.

You’re right and it almost feels like Dorsey has no “plan”. He isn’t playing chess and setting up the defense for the next play. It almost feels like he is just calling whatever card looks good on the Madden screen.

You’re right. I must of thought it was 4th and goal since EVERY SINGLE OFFENSIVE RECEIVING OPTION ran into the endzone. So much for only needing 2 yards.

Yes, I heard that too.

You don’t think we should have kicked the field goal, instead of sending your injured QB (who is also struggling in general) to try and convert 4th and goal? Not doubling Jefferson? Not calling any running plays in OT when the Vikings had 6 DB’s on the field? If not, then we can agree to disagree.

The DB had clear leverage. It never ever should have been thrown.

This thread may be a bit more respected now. I created this thread even when we we’re winning because bad coaching decisions can quickly lead to losing games. You can’t just excuse it away because we won the particular game the bed decision happened in. Other teams start picking up on your bad coaching tendencies and they take advantage of it. We can turn this around and make a run, but coaching needs to be better. Go Bills.

I started a thread about these issues several weeks ago and got mocked endlessly.

Being out coached.

Looking at this again, Allen may have scored if he ran. He had blockers in the endzone to the left.

Oh and I said to my Dad right before the endzone fumble TD that we should be in shotgun. Get the ball in Allen’s hands, 5 yards from the d-line, and let him make a decision to throw to an open guy or throw it out of bounds. Trying a QB sneak out of the end zone when our o-line had been blown up in the run game? Just awful coaching.

Some really bad coaching today. Really bad. The worst part was not double covering Jefferson. Benford did an admirable job covering Jefferson 1 on 1 - the coverage was actually pretty good - but the fact is that Cousins is comfortable throwing to Jefferson when he is single covered, and rightfully so. So you should double cover him, and make Cousins hesitate to throw to him. Every big play went to Jefferson and McDermott and Frazier refused to double him. It was mind boggling.