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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

blocking Judon. think about that for a second. This coaching staff is so in love with their own ideas that they absolutely ignore the matchups and assume that we can scheme anyone into position and it'll just work. REmember last year when we were all worried that Daboll was going to get a HC gig somewhere? What's the opposite of dodging a bullet? Thanks Doc, for your armchair analysis. This team is soft, that's a hard fact. They've gotten manhandled 5 times now. They're built to beat up on bad teams (except the jags, lol) and get smoked by physical teams. We all had hoped that Josh could do heroball at the end of the game, but given how the Pats had dominated our OL all game, there really wasnt any chance of it.

Echoing the comments here, Tampa is a physically tough team with good coaching and the GOAT at QB. The Bills simply aren't built to beat this sort of team. We're built to beat KC, just as the league seems to be going back to 'run and stop the run'. Well played, Bills Brass. Last night sucked and I'm going to disengage for a while because it felt way too much like a drought type game. If the Bills can win 2 games in a row i might tune in again but not expecting that. Everyone sees how to beat the Bills now so we're going to get the ball rammed down our throats, and we're utterly powerless to stop it. That sure was some good D, not putting in extra DL until the 4th quarter. Our coaches, O, D, and head coach, all suck on gameday. It's this, really. We've never had an answer for Brady, and I have far less confidence in this Bills team than I even did in the barnyard explosion teams that Sexy Rexy put on the field. Hopefully they call the mercy rule on this one after the Bucs get a 30 point lead

extremely meta

Agreed. I'm in NYC for work a lot, i've found that Curb (which is for the Yellow city licensed taxis) is a good alternative. Even without an app like Curb, it's helpful to remember that you can use that very same phone to call a regular taxi in most places

Indeed, i suggest you google 'surge pricing'

I expect the Bills to win on Monday, maybe bigly, but I also think Mac Jones could very well be their long term QB. People saying that Tua Tagovailoa and Josh Allen would be the long term AFCE rivalry had the wrong Alabama QB. Tua may still turn out to be adequate, maybe even good, but my money would be on MJ being the guy between the two of them

I mean, to this point, pretty clearly he should have been the first QB taken. As I've mentioned I'm an Alabama alum and fan. Sure, he had NFL talent around him last year, but he still made decisions and the throws. He's not going to terrify anyone with his long ball, but he will absolutely dink and dunk you to death and has an adequate middle game

Middling team from the south comes to Buffalo and runs for 329 yards against critically acclaimed Bills D. Cam Newton goes 3 for 8 for 17 yards for the win

Yup. The magical passing Offenses may have been a moment in time. We've seen it before. Houston & ATlanta in the early 90s are a couple I can think of off the top of my head, but the glory era bills always had a very balanced attack, not to mention none of the 3 stooges we have at RB today are fit to hold TT's jock