Jimmy Harris 69

The saddest true story in bills history. He and Frasier stole the Super Bowl from that team. No one will convince me the kicker didn’t do what he was told. No guts, no true belief in his defense to play aggressively and stop KC for even 9 seconds. Wow. In most respects Sean hasn't changed. He is Mr. Play it safe. He has a great quarterback so it gets him a playoff win or two a year. He will never win a Super Bowl. The Spagnola blitz Sunday on 4th down risked a huge gain, but he was going for the W. McDermott was too scared to play anything but vanilla man coverage against the best team in the league. Hello? So here we are again. If you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

McDermott is fanta and Reid is Coke. Their defense is sprite and ours is not pictured here——flat rc. Mark it dudes.

Rasul Douglas looked slow this year, maybe he was hurt. If his corner speed is lacking, is he a guy who could move to safety? I think we have this talk every off season about some corner who isn’t cutting it. I’m just doing my part.

The last drive was frenetic, not composed. McD should have challenged that spot, if for no other reason to make sure they had the right play for 4th down (if the challenge failed). The plow had been nearly stopped the last time, it was a bad call for this. A QB run to the corner, a jet sweep, or Cook back in the game were ALL better options. Leaving it to those idiots in stripes falls on McDermott who once again failed in the critical moment to take charge. I wanted him fired for 13, not for this. He needs a crisis coach to manage the last two minutes. He doesn’t do a good enough job. The refs surely screwed us on two critical calls, but we created this one out of stupidity or hubris. The bigger issue was our mediocre front six. A season long pathetic kc offense suddenly moved up and down the field. Meanwhile when we needed Josh to run, he didn’t. Imagine that first drive with some planned QB runs after sending receivers deep, or all to one side….you know clever like that. Instead we get nervous, off target passes and no runs. How could these coaches not see Allen was a ball of nerves?

The Bills do a poor job of pressuring the passer. Von did a good job on a limited number of snaps. That said, Von should be replaced with a younger pass rusher. Trade him some where he wants to go. We need two tackles and two ends. AJ gets 3 sacks twice a year. That isn’t the kind of production that helps a defense each week. We need speed on the back end to replace Hamlin. The defense needs to get younger and healthier in general. As it is two of our best players Benford and Bernard are always injured just in time for the playoffs. McDermott’s reliance on old heads and broken down bodies always betrays us in the final game. They have nothing left. We need young gamers. McDermott’s judgement is faulty there. He lets Louis Cine rot on the bench and go to Philly, meanwhile our safeties are beat up against the Chiefs and are constantly a half step or three late. Coach, you are WRONG.

This is the right way to see things. Each successful Bills QB had something the others did not. Actually, Kemp and Allen were very similar. Both run effectively, great arm strength. One has to give the nod to Josh as the better passer. My old man always said Saban brought in Lamonica to bail out Kemp. I don’t know if that tied into his dislike of Republicans or if it happened often enough that he felt it was true. Hindsight surely says that the Bills shouldn’t have traded away Lamonica. Wilson owning a piece of the Raiders blurs the conspiracy lines just right for us chapped ass bills fans. Kemp had the best defense in the AFL. No other Bills QB has had the luxury of a top defense except Doug Flutie\Rob Johnson. Josh Allen in my view is the greatest Bills player period—-in my fandom since 1969.

It won’t happen. This team was picked to go 10-7. Finish 3rd in the division by many reasonable prognosticators. They went to the championship game with a middling defense on the basis of Josh Allen’s historic 96% positive play performance. Terry “white shoes” Pegula already has a hockey team that is trash, playing in a an old arena with no hope of getting better. He will not fire the guy who coached his football team to the championship game twice in five years. Only Josh Allen could force a change.

These names jump out at me. I expect Ty Johnson to be difficult to sign he earned a lot of money this year and a likely ridiculous offer from some team probably in the AFC East. Maybe Amari Cooper will come back on a one year deal. Reid Ferguson still does a good job, but I’m not against replacing him with a younger cheaper man. Rasul Douglas looked slow this year; could he play safety? I’ve had all I can take from Damar Hamlin, though I expect you’ll be back. (He’s a coach fav). Another loss to the Chiefs showed the Bills defense needs stars in the backfield and on the line. Allen said it in his presser, the Bills need talent. McDermott relying on broken down mediocre veterans is leaving us with empty tanks in January. RB Ty Johnson DT Jordan Phillips DE Dawuane Smoot LS Reid Ferguson FB Reggie Gilliam WR Mack Hollins DT Austin Johnson WR Amari Cooper CB Rasul Douglas

There’s no chance the Bills could get to the Super Bowl. I mean, even Pat Sajak couldn’t make that happen—-you know….BUT WHAT IF HE DID!

Sean, go ahead call them, tell them you are interested.

Josh didn’t have a great day, but it was good enough to win. I’m not down him. His offensive coordinator failed him and the team. The reliance on the schnooplow when it wasn’t working, and the number of plays Cook was off the field when we needed him most. Our offensive felt out of rhythm. Naturally the KC defense did its worst, regardless our offense did not counter well. It’s a fekin shame, that’s all I can say. Josh deserved better.

The nfl is three steps from pro wrestling——face it.

We need safeties that make big plays. Hamlin stinks. He shows up late to every play, concussed benford on a late tackle. We could have used Lewis Cine today. I’ll never understand the slavish devotion to Hamlin, I swear it’s religiously based. Cine is bigger and faster. McDermott will always play a less athletic guy who “knows the D” . That decision didn’t work with Klein last year and it didn’t work with Hamlin this year. I know, he’s the coach, and I’m here on the couch and but it drives me bananas .

Brady came up small tonight. The chiefs stack the line, you would think one time he would take advantage and run it wide, pitch it wide, Jet sweep wide. Nothing. They refused to roll Josh out, which would have led to success on one of the two point conversions and the 4th down conversions.

I don’t think that word means what you think it means. Kincaid is a colossal failure. His drop cost us a chance at winning the game in the end. He can’t block, he’s supposed to catch and the millionaire trash bagger didn’t hold up his end. He’s being outsnapped and outplayed by the “blocking tight end. Now that’s absurd.

One Lou Saban played for Coach Brown on the Cleveland Browns of the All American Football Conference from 1946-1949. He retired from football and decided he wanted to coach like his mentor Paul Brown. Saban beat more than 50 applicants to win the head coaching job at Case in February 1950, thanks to what the university's president called his "unusually sound knowledge of football" and his "leadership qualities". Saban "possesses the sort of personality and character that is of great value in work with young men", the president said. Saban was 28 years old at the time, and the appointment made him one of the youngest college head coaches in the country. Saban borrowed coaching techniques from Brown, alongside his version of the T formation offense. Saban's team finished the 1950 season with four wins and four losses. By 1951, he was already under consideration for coaching jobs at bigger schools, including Indiana University and Toledo University, where he was mentioned as a "dark horse" candidate to replace former Browns teammate Don Greenwood. His Case teams compiled a 10–14–1 record during his tenure as head coach from 1950 to 1952. Saban resigned in March 1953 to become an assistant at the University of Washington under head coach John Cherberg. He spent just one year at Washington before getting a job as an assistant coach at Northwestern University, saying he wanted to return to the Midwest. In February 1955, Saban was promoted to head coach at Northwestern, succeeding Bob Voigts and becoming the youngest coach in the Big Ten Conference at 33 years old. Saban hired George Steinbrenner as one of his assistant coaches. Saban's tenure as coach of the Northwestern Wildcats football team, however, was brief and unsuccessful. Hampered by injuries, the team lost all of its games in 1955, and calls intensified for Saban's firing as the season wore on. In December, Saban and his entire staff were fired by new athletic director Stu Holcomb. Ara Parseghian was named as his replacement. Saban moved on to a job as head coach at Western Illinois University in 1957, where he quickly built up a successful team. The Western Illinois Leathernecks finished with a record of 6–1–1 in 1958, followed by an undefeated 9–0 season in 1959, when Saban also served as an assistant under Otto Graham in the College All-Star Game. Having built up a 20–5–1 record over three seasons as coach, Saban drew interest from the professional ranks, and the Boston Patriots of the newly formed American Football League (AFL) hired him as head coach before the circuit's inaugural season in 1960. Saban’s Patriots achieved a 5-9 record that first year, and started off 1961 2-3. Saban was fired and hired by the Buffalo Bills for the 1962 season. The rest is Bills’ lore. Two AFL championships with hall of fame players that define Buffalo in the old league. A second stint with the team in the 70’s that made OJ into——OJ.

Schnooplow……I saw a shirt at Wegmans with that name and a reference to Dawkins….so it’s game over.

I don’t care what they wear, as long as they win.

Snow Angel Sean will come out swinging. Play action early, will lead to successful pass plays and an early score. Defensively they will crash the line, spy Lamar. Hold Baltimore to field goals, while Buffalo gets touchdowns. Lamar will have to pass and they will give him a taste of 15 degrees in the Queen City. At the end of the day Buffalo’s Greasy Neal Award winning coach will have led this team to another improbable victory.

Buffalo’s offense was out of rhythm in 2022, a trend that carried through to Ken Dorsey’s sacking in 2023. This Buffalo offense would have been fine in the snow. That loss is responsible in large part for where we ended up in 2023 and 24. Our offensive line has gotten bigger, we run the ball much more effectively. The passing game is more strategic. We aren’t taking those big shots down the field with the same regularity. The defense is younger, retooled. I like where we are as a team. Josh had his best year as a pro, McDermott has grown as a coach. The sports establishment has under-valued and under estimated the Bills all year. It continues this week with Lamar getting all the touches. That’s perfect for this team. Sunday cant come too soon.

The 2024-2025 Bills run more than the 23 Bills as they were 53.1/ 46.9 pass. Even more startling is the change from the 2020 Bills who passed 61.7% of the time. Control the line of scrimmage, run the ball, get the lead, frustrate Lamar.

McDermott has rebuilt this team to be a big run first offense. That will be one of the huge keys to the game for the Bills. Eating up yards and clock on offense keeps those goons off the field and out of the end zone. The Steelers loaded the box in the second half when they stopped the Ravens on the ground. The Bills must stop the king and thereby force Lamar to beat them. If they can do that and get a lead, Baltimore takes Henry out of the game themselves.

McDermott is an excellent coach——top five in the league. The Bills won’t lose today. This team is locked in. The real test of McDermott’s skills is against Baltimore next week. Though, as fearsome as king Henry may be, Buffalo beat a Ravens team once before 17-3 that led the NFL in rushing during the 2020 season. It is clear to me, seeing the KC win, that Coach has learned some hard lessons. He’s having some fun this year and is even willing to show fans a little of himself. That takes courage because face it, we are an awful bunch of butt holes.

Hey superstar, you dropped a touchdown against the chiefs in a playoff game. When you could have backed up all that talk —— you failed the team. Thats your Buffalo legacy.

I’m disappointed he never got a shot at safety. Physically he has better tools than Hamlin for one. Cine had a very good college career at Georgia and it was injuries which derailed his time with the Vikes. Hamlin looked mediocre against the crappy Pats, giving up big plays and missing tackles. (A pattern) But Cine isn’t one of McDermott’s “guys” and Hamlin is. And of course you can’t expect an outside guy to break into our dominant pass defense. 😏