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I don't care what anyone says, this game is a must win, and is going to tell us what we need to know about this team. Anything other than a high energy performance with minimal mistakes and winning by at least 10, and I believe the die is cast

It's a good thing we're not up against a strong running team again! oh wait

What, you dont think they would have spend the #7 pick well? Im sure there was a high motor tweener DE available there, just imagine the rotation! we would be neigh unstoppable

yeah i was going to say 'but the texans suck' then i had a rare moment of self reflection and decided not to

To the OP's point though, the Bills did get some bounces last year, and we're not getting them this year. Add to that the one dimensional O, and it's a recipe for losing close games. If there was only some solution!

if the queen had balls she'd be the king

Lol. Like he's designing run plays to fail so he can say i told you so now let me get back to having josh throw into triple coverage

How many more times are we going to get to watch Moss slowly approach the line and gently bounce backwards off whichever OL is in front of him?

Oh God let's hope it doesnt turn into the same kind of situation that led to Wade Phillips leaving. I doubt the Pegulas force McD's hand but the entire coaching staff and leadership seem married to their own ideas and unable/unwilling to adjust Nobody is looking at Daboll as a HC now. He's a one trick pony. If you can't make his gimmick work with Josh Allen, i'm not sure there's any QB that can be successful with it beyond a flash in the pan like the Bills had last year

Based on video evidence, I'd say that the strategy was to wear Taylor out by letting him run windsprints up and down the field you asked for sarcastic takes.

If you just look at the Bills record, and the (incredibly misleading) stats, what you are saying would be true if you look at it as the tale of 2 seasons, first 5 games, last 5 games, i think the trend emerges. Anyway, i think Thursday will tell us who this team is. If we escape with a W, there's hope for a winnign season. If we get blown out, then that's who these Bills are

"Run it back" is incredibly ironic as an aspirational directive for this particular team

To your point, yeah the team has clearly quit. A little at first (TN game, all those mental mistakes) then some more (utterly inept O at Jax) then all at once yesterday where we saw the football equivalent of full body vomiting. I'd love to see a strong comeback against NO, but not holding my breath. I think McD has lost the team and it's all over but the crying. one more thought, any chance that the rest of the team are sick of it being the Josh Allen show 24x7?

It really is. I guess the true measure of genius when it comes to leading a team (coach/gm) is the ability to keep evolving because the league will catch up to your current cleverness before you can blink

regression to the mean and personnel/coaching built to fold in the face of adversity

Hard to say really, but when it mattered, the Bills D didn't even slow down the Colts. I can't imagine they'd have done worse with Edmunds in there. In fact, its hard to imagine them doing worse at all, short of simply not taking the field

I was thinking of the French, assuming the Maginot Line would protect them from a motivated and well led Wermacht "Our Maginot Line is statistically the best Defense in the world!" "We have the largest standing army in Europe!" "We just beat these guys, how hard could it be?"

Lol just imagine BB needing our help. Hmm lets see, what can I do to prepare for the Bills? Geez, if I only had a great running game and DL

You don't need to be a theologian or psychologist to see a team with no heart. This is a group of guys that sniffed their own farts and enjoyed the smell and assumed that was enough to win games. To your point, i do believe it's possible that the talent simply isn't there. McD isn't a good enough coach to win games against prepared opponents, and the players lack the skill/motivation to play above their station. Oh well, there's always last year

Most coaches speak in platitudes but you could use McD to train a Markov Chain generator In truth he doesn't seem to be all that upset that the 'super bowl favorites' are swirling the drain.

He said the usual suspects are vets who signed a contract less than they thought they should get. We've got a few guys that we signed to their second contracts, like Dawkins and Milano, at maybe a little lower than what we thought they would get on the open market, though I have a hard time thinking it's either of them

Then McD needs to bench some people, call them out publicly, and start to act more like a coach and less like a cheerleader. Billy B must be smiling watching this, if he was capable of smiling anyways

Given that the Bills are one of the least vaxxed teams, or so we're told, chances are greater that it will work against the Bills not for them. Maybe pinning the team's hopes on guys who wont get with the program wasn't the best idea

The guys that consistently make mental mistakes need to be benched. The Venn diagram between "team cancer" and "makes lots of mental mistakes" isn't a perfect circle but there's a lot of overlap, imho

Unless someone 3 states over sneezes, then they're right back on the list. We can argue if it's fair or not but the COVID protocols are meant to punish non-compliance