11/21 Colts at Bills, Postgame Postmortem Thread

[Bruffalo]

1 minute ago, MiltonWaddams said:

I’m not sure that it’s terrible, but it badly needs a better space eating defensive tackle. The players that they have been rolling out beside Ed this season just haven’t cut it in the running game. Someone needs to take up two blockers and push that line back. Perhaps the biggest issue is that Beane hasn’t addressed that

It's definitely not terrible, it just gets inflated because it spanks bad teams.  In reality they're maybe middle of the road, the secondary is so soft against good teams it just becomes frustrating to watch.

[dorquemada]

5 minutes ago, Buffalo619 said:

What a disaster that would be.  With a franchise qb, going 5-12. Heads would have to roll. 

 

tbf Allen isn't playing like a franchise QB either.  There, i said it.

 

Hey I need 6 yards for a first, let me throw this ball as hard as i can to my 5'3" receiver, 4 feet above his head

 

 

[Roundybout]

1 minute ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

I really wish our offense was different. I’m starting to really not like Dabol. This should be an under center, play action heavy, big formation efficient on time offense. To often we bail on it and just go shot gun spread non stop. Singletary should be getting 80% of the snaps. Moss is so slow. The first 8 or 9 plays of this game were great until we got a penalty. Then we just bailed on it and went right back to the garbage that has been figured out. If Josh isn’t on, we have no chance. I hate that. At least the 2019 Offense was an attempt at sustainable balance. That team didn’t have extreme talent on offense but I loved the way the games were called. Josh is at his best with 250 passing yards and 2 tds and 50 rushing yards and a Td. Stop trying to throw from the spread every down. More 2014 Cam Newton and less 2015 Drew Brees

 

Noticed this too. Josh is excellent under center where he can manipulate the play with audibles/slight of hand. And yet, there he was back in shotgun for the upteempth time with all deep post routes and nothing underneath. 

[ShakAttack]

I thought it was odd when Cynthia Freuland had us at 98% chance to make playoffs going into this game…

 

wonder what it’s at now?

 

And if we don’t make it, does that mean we failed to do something that advanced stats said we had a 98% chance of doing?

 

cause I’m pretty sure 98% of bills fans would NOT be surprised 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

[jkeerie]

4 minutes ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

I really wish our offense was different. I’m starting to really not like Dabol. This should be an under center, play action heavy, big formation efficient on time offense. To often we bail on it and just go shot gun spread non stop. Singletary should be getting 80% of the snaps. Moss is so slow. The first 8 or 9 plays of this game were great until we got a penalty. Then we just bailed on it and went right back to the garbage that has been figured out. If Josh isn’t on, we have no chance. I hate that. At least the 2019 Offense was an attempt at sustainable balance. That team didn’t have extreme talent on offense but I loved the way the games were called. Josh is at his best with 250 passing yards and 2 tds and 50 rushing yards and a Td. Stop trying to throw from the spread every down. More 2014 Cam Newton and less 2015 Drew Brees

I was really surprised at today's game plan, keeping Josh in shot gun.

[muppy]

burn the game tape of this debacle to the ground and rebuild from a very revealing loss. #Exposed

[y2zipper]

I think the defense plays badly when they decide to blitz and overplay the run. Klein really can't cover and doesn't do anything when he's not blitzing.

 

The health of the offensive line is also breaking the team. Offense is 15 ppg when Brown doesn't play because Williams moves to tackle and it essentially makes 3 new starters with Feliciano out (and one of them is Ford, who the team also knows can't really play). The group without Brown doesn't recognize blitzes and doesn't protect consistently like the group with Dawkins Ike Morse Williams Brown does. The line is due for a revamp but nobody was complaining about retaining everyone in the off-season.

 

[BaaadThingsMan]

The thing that pisses me off about the Bills is all the talk early and all the bull#### about super bowl faves, first overall seed, the road to SB goes through Buffalo etc lol.

 

The media overblows everything and they asked those types of questions over and over and the team answered all those questions way too early in the season imo.

 

Play the *****in games and let ur play decide.

 

Decline interviews. Get back to hungry and humble. 

 

Figure this ***** out. Quick. 

[SCBills]

Down 17-10 at half gives us a chance.   
 

McKenzie fumble, in that weather, destroyed any chance we had to win or keep it close.

 

We’re not built to play in windy, rainy weather, especially without Brown or Star and ESPECIALLY down 17 at half.   

[Call_Of_Ktulu]

5 minutes ago, Solomon Grundy said:

I'm beginning to wonder if I want to ruin my Thanksgiving dinner watching this team

I’m not, my brother just got one of those crazy golf simulators with the projector screens. I will be playing Pine Valley when that ***** show hits the wall.

[billybob71]

4 minutes ago, Buffalo619 said:

Why did our coach defer when the forecast was rain and wind in the afternoon?

quoting another poster from 2nd half thread when he decided to kick FG on 4th and 5 "cause thats what the math says to do"🤷‍♂️

[IronyAbounds]

They are a marginal playoff team at best. Next four games could all be L’s. They need at least two of the four to stay WC race. Have to beat NE twice to win division. 

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

2 minutes ago, jkeerie said:

I was really surprised at today's game plan, keeping Josh in shot gun.

Why? It’s all this ####### ever does. No matter what, Dabol just can’t help himself. Zero balance and just helps the defense out by being 1 dimensional 

[Clyde Smith]

We need our four missing players back. Avoid the injury bug and stop being dumba**es for for getting exposed sheesh.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

 

[CEN-CAL17]

First time since getting Josh Allen and first time since the McDermott era I hate to say this isn’t the staff or the coach that will lead a team to a SB championship.  Last year was a good year but teams have taking a lot of the film and a lot of this teams tendencies and hold us down.  Interior OL and DL are terrible. But McD, Dabolls offense and this Nickel Zone Defense cant do it!

[dorquemada]

1 minute ago, BaaadThingsMan said:

The thing that pisses me off about the Bills is all the talk early and all the bull#### about super bowl faves, first overall seed, the road to SB goes through Buffalo etc lol.

 

The media overblows everything and they asked those types of questions over and over and the team answered all those questions way too early in the season imo.

 

Play the *****in games and let ur play decide.

 

Decline interviews. Get back to hungry and humble. 

 

Figure this ***** out. Quick. 

 

The worst part of it is that the talking heads will continue to act as if the Bills are a good team because statistically we probably still have a good team.  On paper.

 

Here in the real world though, the word is out, our O is more pop gun than K gun.  Our D can be run over all day long, and put up gentle, at best, resistance.  Oh, and if they do make a stop, the once or twice a game they do, there's a 100% chance there is a penalty

 

[Matt_In_NH]

You are never as good as you look or as bad as you look.  Obviously lots to be concerned about but maybe these growing pains can get cleared up for a run in the playoffs.  Cant lose many more games though, 2 vs the Pats and one Vs TB....not easy.

[Niagara Bill]

I just read the pre game non active report. There were 29 names on the list apparently.

[Dopey]

LAMP alert:

For what it's worth, I called the Colts as my dark horse Super Bowl team in the AFC before the season started.