Gameday Bills vs Pats* Postgame Thread

[Toyo321]

Wow this team is just laying bigger eggs as the season goes on.  This one is even harder to live with.    Lose a game with only 3 pass attempts against your Dee...

 

[Solomon Grundy]

Matt Bove on ch7 news gets tonight’s Amen award!!!

[IronyAbounds]

1 minute ago, Since1981 said:

Nobody should be criticizing josh. Seriously. The other guy was 2/3 for 19 yds. Daboll 100% wasted the 1H for Josh. Some of the drops were wind understandable too. 

C'mon, he isn't blameless. Not seeing wide open receivers has been an issue for him all year. He certainly isn't helped by the OL and a mediocre receiving crews, but he hasn't played up to his salary this year.

[Solomon Grundy]

20 minutes ago, Comebackkid said:

coming over his shoulder from behind...its not like he was able to run past the ball..stop....turn around and then attack it. 

Didn’t know you have to stop running to jump…okay then 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

Am I crazy or did Josh Allen play a good game? I feel like his playmakers let him down tonight, all of them. 

 

Defense was basically what I expected. They got ran over but did their job for the most part.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

6 minutes ago, njbuff said:

What’s more embarrassing, losing to the Jags or having a team walk into your building and throw 3 passes and walk out with a win?

 

I say thank God there are only 5 games left.

Still the jags I think 😂 this game irritates me so much cuz I feel like belichick got a bit lucky in this one …guarantee he was shitting his pants on that deep ball to diggs. A lot of those passing plays really caught them by surprise we were one play away from laughing at him but he is going to get crowned as a genius again and in a line of work where only the win matters he deserves it 

[The Frankish Reich]

Allen: that's about as well as I've seen a QB play in conditions this horrid. With a couple makeable catches he's got a win and, amazingly, 200+ yards passing in a game where his counterpart had 19. Probably everyone but Allen shares some of the blame for how this one went.

[finn]

Not surprised by the overreactions, because I want to overreact, too. But it comes down to this: the weather evened the playing the field for the Pats against a superior team. The rest was a Belichick team vs. a McDermott team, and, frankly, all else being even, I would put money on Belichick. His teams make fewer mistakes, more clutch plays, and play more disciplined, smart football than more talented teams. We've seen that for 25 years now. 

 

But the gap isn't that big, and it's more than made up by the talent gap. The Bills may still win out and make it to the Super Bowl, they really might. 

 

But Breida and Knox, god. You simply don't want players like that on your team. 

[Beast]

19 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:

This completely misreads what happened tonight.  The damage the Pats did to the Bills on the ground WON THE FREAKING GAME for them.  Again people ignore that in a wind game like this the Pats were able to steal possessions and field position by holding onto the ball for a couple of long drives. 

 

The Bills had the ball 6 times in Patriots territory and scored 10 points.

 

10 points.

 

That isn't good enough. Not with the weapons we have, no matter what the conditions. the offense was good enough to get into Patriots territory numerous times but not good enough once they got there and got deep.

 

Three times they were inside of the Patriots 20 and came away with three points. Let that settle in.

 

If you don't think that wasn't the biggest contributing factor to the loss, good for you I suppose.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

2 minutes ago, IronyAbounds said:

C'mon, he isn't blameless. Not seeing wide open receivers has been an issue for him all year. He certainly isn't helped by the OL and a mediocre receiving crews, but he hasn't played up to his salary this year.

This game was a bit ridiculous though…griese criticized him for that falsely about 3 times. Instant pressure up the middle and he’s like ‘why can’t he see that receiver in the middle of the field’ 😂 players aren’t translucent Brian lol 

[Nelius]

McDermott having a pretty decent press conference. Being more honest, more critical. Kind of hinted at needing to look at everything. Good amount of the canned McD answers but he's fielding some tough questions well. Somewhat different than the standard McD stuff which is good to hear.

[Comebackkid]

Just now, ScottLaw said:

Shocked with Daboll in charge…. The offense has been a sloppy mess outside of most of last season when Josh carried it…. And then it reared its ugly head in the playoffs…. It’s back to being a sloppy mess unless Josh wills the offense.

you still have to wonder how much better josh would be with a better coordinator.   it seems like as soon as josh got decent daboll became complacent.   

[Big Turk]

Wow...McDermott just tossed McKenzie and Stevenson under the bus hard...basically said they were inactive because he wanted a guy back there returning that he trusted to catch the balls and make good decisions.

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

Just now, finn said:

Not surprised by the overreactions, because I want to overreact, too. But it comes down to this: the weather evened the playing the field for the Pats against a superior team. The rest was a Belichick team vs. a McDermott team, and, frankly, all else being even, I would put money on Belichick. His teams make fewer mistakes, more clutch plays, and play more disciplined, smart football than more talented teams. We've seen that for 25 years now. 

 

But the gap isn't that big, and it's more than made up by the talent gap. The Bills may still win out and make it to the Super Bowl, they really might. 

 

But Breida and Knox, god. You simply don't want players like that on your team. 

Agreed. Let all the “fire so and so” emotional reactions subside in the next few days. It’s clear to me the Bills are better, but the pats out-executed us today in a game where there was no margin for error due to the weather.   let’s see how they play in NE in a few weeks. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 minute ago, Beast said:

 

The Bills had the ball 6 times in Patriots territory and scored 10 points.

 

10 points.

 

That isn't good enough. Not with the weapons we have, no matter what the conditions. the offense was good enough to get into Patriots territory numerous times but not good enough once they got there and got deep.

 

Three times they were inside of the Patriots 20 and came away with three points. Let that settle in.

 

If you don't think that wasn't the biggest contributing factor to the loss, good for you I suppose.

We fumbled away minimum 3 crucial points in the opening minutes of the game…score 7 or even 3 there and it completely changed the complexion of the game 

[letsgoteam]

6 minutes ago, Solomon Grundy said:

Matt Bove on ch7 news gets tonight’s Amen award!!!

What did he say?

[The Frankish Reich]

1 minute ago, Nelius said:

McDermott having a pretty decent press conference. Being more honest, more critical. Kind of hinted at needing to look at everything. Good amount of the canned McD answers but he's fielding some tough questions well. Somewhat different than the standard McD stuff which is good to hear.

Yep. He was good. Didn't embarrass anyone (that's not his style) but clearly communicated that all is not right and that this isn't simply a bad weather fluke. I suspect we'll see some changes right away.

[loveorhatembillsfan4life]

Once we lose to the Bucs I think the next Pats Game will pretty much decide if we are in or out. Bill will get another chance to send us into deeper misery. 

 

 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

Just now, loveorhatembillsfan4life said:

Once we lose to the Bucs I think the next Pats Game will pretty much decide if we are in or out. Bill will get another chance to send us into deeper misery. 

 

 

Can’t disagree there…I still give us a decent shot in that one. Not much wiggle room though against these mediocre teams 

[finn]

20 minutes ago, Beast said:

 

The ball went intonyhe netting and just slid by the upright. Big players make big plays with no excuses. Bass needs to make that kick.

 

Remember Vinatieri making a clutch kick in a snow storm? Big-time players make big-time plays.

Yeah, my admiration for Bass took a nose dive after this miss and the one in the Colts game. He's just another kicker at this point.