10/18/21 Gameday Bills @ Titans Postgame thread

[billsbackto81]

2 minutes ago, Golden said:

He looks a bit out of shape still & was knocked backwards 3 yards on the last play.  It was embarrassing, even though he was up against a good D lineman.  He should own it & try to improve 

He's paid to be a franchise LT and got destroyed. The team and Josh put their faith in him to hold the point of attack just for a few inches and he failed miserably. Josh should've gone right away from Simmons. 

[78thealltimegreat]

2 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:

In what way was it an "off game for Josh"?  Led the O to 31 points, had over 350 yards passing with 3 TD's and one pick.  Led the Bills to the 3 yard line at the end and came within half a foot of winning the game.  Allen was fantastic tonight the O-line and D not so much.

 

 

 

 

Well see half this board expect Allen to tackle Henry…cover brown…be the teams best running back…and throw for 5 touchdowns every game 

Edited October 19, 2021 by 78thealltimegreat

[Mrbojanglezs]

7 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:

 

OL also.  

 

Yes but in the end we still put up points giving up 34 is unacceptable

[Bob in STL]

8 minutes ago, D. L. Hot-Flamethrower said:

It took a penalty that may or may not be called, and a stop at the 1/2 yard line. We had more first downs 27-15 that is a better indicator of the game play. McD would be better next time too. I'm confident we're better.

So am I but they beat us twice in a row. 

[clayboy54]

5 minutes ago, Virgil said:

They didn’t call a single run or draw on 3rd and 7 plus all game. 

Because we had the beef in the middle.

[par73]

Both lines are team weaknesses.

[RyanC883]

1 minute ago, HappyDays said:

I'm not too worked up about this one. There are not many games left on the schedule that we will be underdogs. Maybe just the Bucs game. I think we made a bad decision keeping Epenesa out.

The o-line played its worst game of the season. 1 yard or less QB sneak is usually a guaranteed 1st down for Allen, it just wasn't our night. All that going against us and we were still an inch away from winning. I don't see this game impacting our season at all.

 

impacts us in the standings.  And concerning that Allen missed a bunch of open WR's when under pressure.  That's not normal.  And concerning that our offense was stalled by a depleted defense in the red zone, again, we can't seem to get a TD in the red zone and it cost us the game.  

 

 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

33 minutes ago, Cheektowaga Chad said:

Coaching after a brilliant game against KC.....one of the worst games ive seen coached since dick jauron

 

I was actually concerned about this. 

 

I felt that the defense - all of it, coaches players etc - "went for the gusto" against KC.  After last year's win against the Ravens, we seem to lose focus - lose physicality, not as good of a game plan, something, the following week.  Maybe the D is just sore as ***** and one week isn't really enough time to recover, IDK.  But it just seems like when they play out of their minds one week, they have a letdown the next week.

[letsgoteam]

1 minute ago, ngbills said:

We are in a group of 5 capable afc teams. Not good enough to be the best yet unfortunately.  Buf, bal, kc, lac, ten are all in it 

Cleveland being on the outside looking in, but could spoil someone. 

 

It's all going to come down to matchups in the playoffs. Who plays who will determine what happens. I think out of that list of teams you hope to draw either Balt and Lac? 

 

On a side note, I hate myself for caring too much. It's not going to change, but I just feel dumb. I have zero control and no ability to do anything to help the Bills. (As in, I will never have a job in the organization, obviously). 

[CincyBillsFan]

Just now, 78thealltimegreat said:

Well see half this board expect Allen to tackle Henry…cover brown…ne the teams best running back…and throw for 5 touchdowns every game 

Yea I think the expectations for Allen by some fans are crazy.  Sure he's the 250 million man but there's only so much he can do. 

[Cheektowaga Chad]

18 minutes ago, DapperCam said:

Red zone offense wasn’t good. We could have put them away early, but kicked FGs instead.

 

Also Josh seems below average at QB sneaks. He needs to watch some Brady footage. That guy seems to convert them 100% of the time.

Red zone offense has been bad all year

 

Needs to be fixed. Teams play zone as soon as the bills get inside the red zone and Allen starts to struggle or at least get confused 

[RyanC883]

2 minutes ago, billybob71 said:

oh boy hadn't thought of that, i wonder if McD vetoed Daboll and called that sneak guess we will never know

 

I'm fine with the sneak.  I'm not fine with whatever defensive game plan we had all day.  

 

 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

Just now, ngbills said:

Watch the tape - was worse than his stats. A lot of open receivers tonight. He was off. 

Man you've seen the game film huh haha how'd you get it so fast.  The broadcast angle is not a great indicator of what is going on 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

12 minutes ago, BillsEnthusiast said:

Also FFS Andre Smith how do you pull a blatent obvious holding penalty like that? Like I even noticed it halfway through the play. 

 

If we want to talk about one play that potentially cost us the game....OUCH.  I'd like to blame the refs but that was obvious.

[Solomon Grundy]

1 minute ago, IronMaidenBills said:

 

He struggled at times, but Oline and RBs are glaring holes on this team. Imagine if we had a top 5 RB, I’m not even sure we could be beat. 

He went for kill shot on 2nd to last drive. Only mistake, IMO, that he made all game with the exception of hard count at end

[Milanos Milano]

1 minute ago, RyanC883 said:

 

totally agree.  Morse is a turnstile against a physical D.  Creed Humphry would have been a nice upgrade in the draft, but we took Basham, to sit him in this game.  Someone needs to explain AJ and Basham not being active tonight.  

I’m more mad that we haven’t done enough to make Josh to stay in the pocket. Half the time he’s running or scrambling to create plays. Nothing wrong with that, but one of these times it’s going to bite us. (Injury). We need to build Josh an epic Oline so he can be Brady back there and sling it everywhere. 

[RyanC883]

Just now, CincyBillsFan said:

Yea I think the expectations for Allen by some fans are crazy.  Sure he's the 250 million man but there's only so much he can do. 

 

like find wide open WR's in the endzone?  He was off tonight.  

[Process]

Ugh this is hard to watch. The way the defense lined up, we convert a sneak here 98/100 times. 

UGHHHH

Edited October 19, 2021 by Process

[Big Blitz]

So outside of Henry's long TD run we did "hold" Henry to less then 70 yards on 19 other carries.   

 

 

Forgetting how to cover AJ Brown was a bigger issue.  And lack of pressure which imo we were scared to unleash because of Henry's big play ability.  

[SCBills]

I don’t understand anyone who wanted to kick the FG there..

 

Name one contender that wouldn’t go for it..

 

Ravens would. 
Chiefs would.  
Chargers would.  
Titans would. 
 

It was the right decision.  9/10 Allen gets that, even with a blown up OL. 
 

We had to go for the win.  Our defense had no answer for them.   Designed a defense to stop Kansas City, but in the process, became susceptible to Tennessee (and likely Cleveland).