BuffaloRebound

Such a soft run by Cook. Avoid contact and don’t hit it upfield for extra yards then get stripped going sideways

Can’t believe there’s not a thread about Hendrickson getting rolled up on. Karma is a you know what, dude.

Urgency and aggression for 60 minutes.

Since 2021, the Bills are 7-13 in games decided by 7 points or less. Slowing the offense down is not the answer as we are not good in close games. Neither is dying a slow death on defense and letting other team dink and dunk us to death. It’d be better to play a more aggressive style defense that might give up some big plays but also might take the ball away more.

Yep. Gabe due after being invisible for a couple games.

McDermott was hired to make the playoffs and end the 17 year drought. He’s accomplished that and we’ve been a legit contender since 2020. Like it or not the Bills aren’t an organization that demands championships. Only way McDermott isn’t back next year is if Josh goes to Pegula and demands a change.

2 years in a row of this. Is it just being unlucky? Or is it a product of an aging undersized defensive unit?

Agreed, but let’s be honest. The ease by which Cincy scored on the 1st drive and somewhat so on the 2nd drive put a lot of pressure on the offense to score a TD on every drive. It wasn’t until Joseph body slammed Burrow that their offense started to sputter. Absent that play and a cut to Burrows finger on his throwing hand, the Bengals probably go up by 3 scores and game is over by middie of 2nd quarter like the playoff game. Unacceptable to come out and get rolled in 3 consecutive games especially for a defensive head coach.

Kind of agree with this. McDermott needs a Daboll type as OC to balance out his conservative turtle tactics. I’m not a huge fan of Daboll but his offensive philosophy was definitely more aggressive than Dorsey’s. Despite the injuries, you still have a lot of high draft picks and veterans on the defense. McDermott should be able scheme up an adequate defense without asking the offense to move slower.

It won’t be easy to let go of McDermott. Sacrilege to suggest, but almost gotta root for a disastrous finish to season for Pegula to have no choice but entertain the thought of replacing him.

Agreed. Winning a super bowl is hard and requires some luck, but you gotta seize the opportunity when presented. Not sure we’ll ever get a better opportunity than 2 years ago and Mcdermott choked.

Most of the time these talking heads just pick a side to generate back and forth to get clicks. But they do have perspective on the whole league, and most teams that haven’t gotten to a Super Bowl fail trying to run it back with the same core of aging players. Edmunds is the only core guy they’ve moved on from and the Bears contract made it a no brainer to move on. We’re an aging team that hasn’t made it to the Super Bowl, so this years results aren’t that surprising.

I think Beane is great at his job. He’s given McDermott everything he’s asked for and gotten him a franchise QB. In spite of this McDermott has puked all over himself in the playoffs the last 4 years blowing a 16 point lead in Houston, his defense crapping the bed at KC in 2020, 13 seconds enough said, and his team getting embarrassed at home by Cincy last year. Beane is more highly thought of in NFL circles than mcdermott.

Yeah. not sure how a guy we barely used last year was gonna make any difference this year.

White is almost no brainer to cut. It saves cap space. Stuck with Miller and Knox for another year.

Burrow is elite. Considering how little our offense could stay on the field, it’s borderline shocking we didn’t get buried.

The D Line seemed stout last night and other than the 1st drive they made Burrow uncomfortable.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/McDeSe0/challenges/ McDermott is 7 for 29 on challenges over his career. A dude who’s batting under .250 shouldn’t be risking a timeout there for 9 yards.

It’s a low percentage play and especially dumb/unnecessary when Cincy hadn’t shown they could stop the underneath stuff on the 1st drive. Dorsey just ain’t ready for prime time. The shotgun run from the 1 foot line last week and going away from the underneath stuff last night before Cincy took it away shows he has no in game awareness.

Agreed. Might not be completely fair to Dorsey but something has to be done to salvage season and the offense looks disjointed on way too many possessions.

It’s a lot different when Chase is the one you’re faking it to. And Hyde has a lost a step. He had a rough night even though the D held up for the most part.

It was such a JV attempt at being creative. Murray and Shakir are at most getting 5 yards on that play. The safeties aren’t coming up because oh no Murray is running it to the outside and then wait shakir has it now. Cincy defense probably laughing their asses off after that play. Dorsey is in over his head. He’s the Gabe Davis of OC’s. 1 out of every 4 good games ain’t cutting it in the NFL.

Where is Jordan Palmer these days? Seems like he was a fixture in Josh’s development to stardom. Now nothing.

It feels that way with Davis and felt that way with Knox too. Stop forcing the ball to your least productive weapons. Option 1 Diggs; Option 2 Kincaid; Option 3 run Allen: option 4 Cook dump offs or outside runs; option 5 shakir. Everything else is low percentage.

Agreed. The D held Cincy to 54 yards rushing on 22 carries. After the first drive, we played physical and everything Cincy got was difficult. The 2 turnovers and inability of the offense to sustain drives were why we lost. The defense came to play.