MikePJ76

The over reaction is calling him this childish simpleton Hollywood garbage. yes he needs to improve as all quarterbacks strive to do but the reality is a better offensive with a better coordinator making the decisions is what is needed. He should have thrown like 10 to 15 passes last night and they should have run it about 45 times. and i love the fact that Allen again is a villain here this morning. He made one bad pass for an INT and missed a wr for a first down. The ball slipping out of his hands on the handoff is just a fluke thing and happens all qb's at times, much like a bad snap, or a lineman stepping on the qbs foot when he is dropping back etc.. I think there are people here who think he is the reason they lost last night or something. meanwhile the defense was given another lead late in the game and came up small yet again. Put the Jets game on Allen. His turnovers in the second half were critical mistakes. he is not doing that week in and week out however. Bottom line, you want less turnovers Run the ball more. Get diggs open in space quicker and play better defense in critical 4th quarter situations. for all the problems and troubles of the team, if the defense gets a stop vs New England and Denver they are 7-3 with a bye in a few weeks to get refreshed and make some changes on offense if they want. Instead critical penalties, missed tackles and dead ball penalties have made them 5-5. When the head coach is a Defensive Coordinator (who has never won a championship by the way with his defense) and most of the resources go to defense, you can not blame the quarterback when said defense can not make the critical game winning plays late. Tom Brady made a career of going down and scoring late to get leads for the first 6 or 7 years of his career before they became a passing team and the defense would play smart and get stops and they would win. this is how the nfl goes. its a 60 minute game, you can not tell me that an interception in the first quarter is more of a critical error than a terrible penalty and a brain dead, dead ball penalty giving the other team another opportunity to kick a game winner in the most critical moment of the game. So keep calling him Hollywood Allen all you want its a reflection on you and not my over reaction to it.

ice the kicker is modern reasoning for it after it started 15 year ago or so. It was always in the past though in these situations to make sure you can get out of a 12 man penalty or some other alignment issue. the thing is had they had the Timeout and called it maybe they don't miss the field goal anyway. It doesn't matter at this point I guess.

that makes sense. I just personally would not have called the timeout after second down. It probably helped them get setup and run that pressure package that worked though. Probably would have had one if Gabe Davis could catch a perfectly thrown ball.

yes but they called two after the first and second down play

in regards to the 12 men penalty. Most coaches in this scenario when the broncos were getting the ball back to go score and win would really hold onto that last timeout for this exact situation. You want to have that timeout to prevent this kind of thing. Once Denver lined up there was nothing anybody could do because they would never be able to get off the field in time.

i just want to add something here that is not being talked about. there is a lot of this aww shucks the defense is hurt and they try hard stuff. Well, if you really watch the game last night Denver didn't even attempt to challenge the defense. They knew they were outmatched and on the road so they ran it a ton and accepted punting. They also buried themselves with drive killing penalties. In effect the defense had to stop the run. They did a good job of it. Over the next few weeks teams are going to throw it all over when we play KC, Dallas, Chargers and even philly. Last nights game was winnable because of Denver taking that philosophy. The next few weeks will be different. The flip side is we are going to face the same defensive look. The thing with those teams and the jets this week is that they can play the two deep look and even drop 7 guys into coverage and still get pressure unlike Denver. Denver couldn't get pressure really at all last night rushing four and they were totally fine with it. The jets can stop the run with their defensive line its so good...same for KC, Philly and Dallas. Its going to be a long road to the end of the year.

For the people who call josh hollywood and say he is hollywood and doesn't work hard. Congrats. You are a simpleton and you are the reason sports broadcasting and journalism is where it is at. You buy into nonsense and then repeat it. The fact that Allen is a villain on this message board is completely absurd.

The Bills could have run for 350 yards last night. Denver was giving them the numbers in the running game up front every time. Even late in the game they said go ahead. All because they know they would not just run the ball. The bills media and the fanbase want this team to play 10 or 11 personnel all the time. This was elementary football, NFL 101 last night. They were rushing 4 and dropping seven every down. They were begging buffalo to pass and giving them the run and the bills tried to pass over and over. They should have had two backs with over 150 yards, won the T.O.P. and forced Denver to attack the run which would have given diggs and kinkaid one on ones all night. They just wont do it. It seems the head coach had his hands in everything this offseason and I thought they were going to be a smarter team that ran the ball better because of this but instead it seems they are just all over the place. How could mcdermott not demand they run the ball after the looks they were seeing and the early second turnover. Now the season is lost and the Bills will have to play the role of the spoiler and hope guys like Diggs do not create a situation where Allen and the Bills are public enemy number 1, the national media has been preparing for that all year. The week Dallas comes to Buffalo I imagine is the week the crap could hit the fan. Also Trevon Diggs talking about his brother needing to get up out of there like he is something special makes my head explode. I hope the team remembers he said that in a few weeks. McDermott has been outmatched against good coaches this year. They have beat him at the fundamentals and in the critical moments of the games. There is no reason he or any member of the staff should be back. I am not sure that happens though because it appears the General Manager works for him. The bills have a setup like KC, Denver, New England etc....without the proven head coach who deserves all that credibility. and for anyone who says the defense will get worse without him he is a good coordinator....well teams turn it around with good coaching hires every year. Look at Minnesota's defense, Houston's defense. There are plenty of good coordinators around. This team needs to hire a head coach and two real coordinators with real systems in february. I can't believe the season is over before thanksgiving and we have to sit through another year of our lives just hoping they don't screw up coaching hires, the draft and free agency before we get to camp where we have to hope key players do not get injured. It just plain sucks. One more thing, that P.I. at the end of the game is the reason Baseball is the best sport. In Baseball you have to earn every win. In the NFL you can actually make the play up front and make the qb retreat and just throw a lollipop because he knows its one on one and then not make the play only to be rewarded with a first down at the spot which ensured a field goal attempt. It is just an awful penalty and stuff like that happens every week. the league wants these games this way and they will always have them. I cant wait for Yankees spring training.

no. the only thing that can save the bills is a dolphin collapse and they are too good on offense and talented on defense to fall apart. its over. I just hope they continue to put effort in.

andy reid plays guys who punch their pregnant gf's. sean mcdermott is teaching life lessons in critical games.

allen threw one bad pass. My god one play. add up all the other guys who made one bad play tonight. I mean through all 0f it if you don't get a 12 man penalty u win.

no they took a knee after the timeout on 2nd down.

he talks like a coordinator not a head coach. its time for this staff to go away and a real head coach with real coordinators to be brought in. This year's setup was a bad idea from the start.

isnt that stephon responding cowboy?

what is this *****? Please tell me this guy isn't going to make vague comments now on twitter that the media will eat up. maybe he should go play with his brother who cost dallas the playoff game last year in SF because he did not want to tackle if he is unhappy. after I fired the staff if i ran this team I would take offers for this guy. just insane he would make a comment on social media after this kind of loss

maybe not but deserve has nothing to do with it. Buffalo out rushed them, had more sacks, and passed for 2 yards less. This was a master class in coaching and having a plan from sean payton. The bills need someone like this to come in and run the offense. The whole staff should not be back and the next guy should be an offensive coach or a real Head Coach with real coordinators. the situation this staff is in right now should never have happened.

end of season and damn well better be the end of this entire staff.

OMG

what a ***** way for the season to end

this sucks

OMG r u kidding

tonight can be the makeup for the pats game.... going to need a sack to force 2nd or 3rd and long though. the kick better go out of the endzone here. no blitzing.

yes!

now they are going to probably going to have to throw to score... i would like to see allen run here...but i think they have two guys watching him. would be nice to have a slot that could make something happen here. 3 downs to score and u can only run on 1, do u do it 2nd or third down?

they are still giving buffalo the numbers in the running game.