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On a couple of Phillips' TFLs, i thought it was Star for a moment, but yeah Star was pretty much invisible. I'm sure he'll come roaring back in practice this week then breath in some ill humors and be out for the rest of the season

that team could run the ball

At this point, this team is going nowhere, and if by some unlikely turn of events they squeak into the playoffs, it'll probably look more like last night than anything Bills fans would enjoy If that's the path of keeping the status quo, what are the options? I'll start the list with my thoughts but interested in what others have to say on this as well 1) Double down on run game. Call more running plays, even when it's not working in the hope that we finally break one. This seems dumb to me because we dont have the scheme or the personnel to run the ball 2) Never mind the run, go back to Allen passing on 90% of the plays with the same playbook otherwise, perhaps adding some more dinking and dunking since the OL cant pass protect worth a damn 3) Let Allen start calling his own plays a la Jim Kelly. If he wants to run it 5 or 10 times a game, and he's moving the chains, maybe we let him. If he can loosen up defenses maybe the passing attack from last year can make a return? This is the way I'd like to see it go, but I'm generally regarded as an idiot so maybe not

"Soft Knocks: Buffalo" Come for the preseason hype, stay for the Offensive dysfunction

The playcalling has sucked this year. I dont know how else to say it. it's bipolar. Either cutesy gimmick play, or Moss into OL's back. On top of that, zero in game adjustments, and even the hero ball element is gone. They've taken the interesting aspects of the O and eliminated them in favor of...something that doesnt work

They came into the game with a plan that would work with who they have on their roster, we didn't that's the sort of mistake that's hard to overcome. It took McD until the 4th quarter to tell Milano to shoot the gap instead of waiting for the RB to come to him? Not the sort of thing that shows up in your quoted metrics, but to me an example of where the stats tell a story different than what actually happened in the game.

Like an OC that is aware you are allowed to run the ball in today's NFL

I'm proceeding on the basis they they finish 9-8 or 8-9 and miss the playoffs. Even 9-8 i'm not sure about. Falcons and Jets are beatable I guess? REmember though when we were terrible and the Falcons were good a few years ago and we went into their house and beat them? Look out for bad but hungry teams, they'll feast on a bloated overhyped team running for the busses The difference between this team and the later drought-era teams is the D on those teams were a lot more physical, and we could run the ball. Josh Allen is better than Tryhard in every way but the rest of the team seem to be playing out the string with extremely predictable results

They've coached the hero ball out of Josh and for that they should be fired They've replaced it with an ineffective red zone and 4th Quarter O that I'm sure looks great on Dogballs' whiteboard

meh, McD is so bad at clock management i'm not sure it makes a difference

To that point, we're incredibly over-invested on our DL, for just bad results. With 10 guys in the box we couldnt stop the run. That's just bad, and embarrassing. it's the GM falling in love with an idea even as it's proven wrong over and over in practice. Similar to what was said about Communism, "DL rotation cannot fail, it can only be failed"

BB outclasses McD by an order of magnitude. It's never been more obvious than last night. The Pats were pretty close to mistake free, and the Bills look (as per usual this year) like the keystone kops. All that was missing was yakety sax playing on loop all game. In fact i think i'll do that this week, it will at least provide some entertainment

Good news for you. He's not going to be MVP. I'm not sure why anyone who has watched him over hte last 2 months would even think that outside of the hype machine telling us how good he is. He's regressed something awful this year. I don't think it's all or even mostly on him. The roster is dreadful outside of a few players, coaching sucks, and the bounces just arent going our way. Like i said after the Colts game, oh well, there's always last year!

Yup. For a couple years he was a great pressure QB. I don't know what happened, but he simply isn't a good pressure QB any more. Did they coach it out of him? He holds onto the ball way too long and takes at least 2-3 incredible stupid sacks each game. Add to that the increasingly errant downfield throws and I think I'd probably find a new QB coach and spend the whole offseason getting Josh back to being Josh.

Lombardi? I'd settle for a winning record this season, but i'm not betting on it. Unless McBeane are told by someone to change their ways, they wont. I'm telling you, it'll be a couple tweener DL, a project OL, maybe a RB in round 5.

Best part is Bills coaching will change absolutely nothing. "It's not me who is wrong, it's everyone else!" Tampa's coaching staff can take the week off and still win by 30

Objectively? No, they are not. If they were better, they would win more games, for that is how we grade how good a team/roster/coaching staff is I'll add that I think that McD has lost the locker room. This team has nothing like the cohesion of last year's, and his gameday management is objectively worse

It's reflective of probably the biggest problem the Bills face, besides a dearth of talent on the lines, competent RB play, and varsity level tight ends, is that their gameday decision making is just terrible. It seems as if they decided back in August what their gameplan would be, and havent veered from it since, especially not in-game. How the coaching staff can be held in such high regard when this is clearly the case is a great example of a narrative taking on it's own life even when evidence flies in the face of it. I noted elsewhere that I expect to continue to hear how statistically dominant the Bills D is, which is clearly true by some abstract analytics, but even more false by both the eye test and results. Let's just promise eachother here that we'll stop claiming the Bills D is anything special

The bills will be 7-7 at the rematch. We'll probably have a good game, maybe even win the rematch but it wont matter. This team is built for 9-8 or 8-9, right back into middle income purgatory

The OL is hot garbage. Dorkins isn't playing up to his contract, Morse looks like an old woman getting shoved around on a subway platform, and our TEs are a joke. Putting our hopes on a 3rd round rookie had predictable results. It's not just the OL either. For the most expensive DL in the league they're bereft of results. I look forward to hearing how statistically dominant they are, proving the maxim of 'lies, damn lies, and statistics'

I'd have settled for 'pro'

I think that was true earlier in the season. the Bills are chumps now, nobody is afraid of them. play cover 2 deep, and get pressure with 4, hold bills to 10 points or less. Don't worry though, McBeane will draft some tweener DL in teh high rounds next year

Playing the nickle when there was zero chance of a pass was definitely 12th dimensional chess. Cheers to Frazier. Next week his plan is to play defensive backfield players, 0-0-11. Tampa wont be expecting it!

Yeah but the DL ROTATION did you even see them dominating the trenches last night? If we didn't have the most expensive DL in the league, NE might have run right over us!

We're not the more talented team. Let's go on and admit that. Outside of Allen & Diggs, I'm not sure there's another player on the Bills roster I'd take over their counterpart in NE. Of course, most of our players would be the best version of themselves on NE so there's always that i guess