What are the top three worst losses in franchise history?

[billybrew1]

There are too many to choose from. We're a 1960 to present team and we only won one AFL championship (one year prior to the first Super Bowl). You can make a list....

 

1. - Wide- Right

2. - Homerun throwback.

2. (tie) 13 secs.

3. - the Ronnie Harmon drop.

4. - that playoff loss to San Diego (Chuck Knox)

5. - Ten plus years of mostly losing to the pats.

5. - Ten plus years of losing to the fish. (Tie).

7-9 the other three Super Bowls. For some reason I don't have those that high, IDK? We shoooda beat Dallas that second time. I'm still mad at Marv levy for never getting a true ginormous NT.) Or a pass rusher to complement BS.....

 

Now during our Josh Allen days we need a Bruce Smith and so far, none have even faintly resembled him.... Maybe Groot next year?

maybe Ed Oliver and Basham can learn to work together as a pair of pass rushing DTs?  Groot - Boogie - Ed - Epenesa on third and long. With the job to try and send the opposing QB to the blue tent.  Can our DL coach pull out the stops and get these kids ready to really dominate? Will the Pegula Family break the bank and find us a FA situational pass rusher to mix with those four?

Can our LB coach pull out all the stops and get Tremaine to resemble Urlacher in some way? He coached them both. I don't know what the huge problem is? Why was Urlacher so much more effective? Could it be the defense and what we askTremaine to do?

 

 

Man, I hope thePegulas and Beane can find a way to give the keys to JA so he can win us a Super Bowl!

 

13 sec. Really hurting right now and it is going to get even worse on Sunday. That's when the loss will hurt the worst I think. Then, and again on the Super Bowl. I hope the rams kill the chefs so I can feel like the rams would have beaten us too....

 

Go Rams!  (I kinda like the niners (and the rams) but I feel the Rams are a much better team and more apt to beat the chefs.....

 

 

[BullBuchanan]

1 hour ago, pennstate10 said:

Sorry dude, youre simply wrong. 13 sec is #2 on the list. We had a clear path to the super bowl

Dude, we lost 4 super bowls. It couldn't possibly be higher than 5 based on that logic.

[par73]

4 hours ago, Bubba Gump said:

 

Exactly what I think.

Those three-- easily. The order of the last two? 13 seconds is fresher, but haven't settled on it yet.

[LABILLBACKER]

5 hours ago, JaCrispy said:

Wide Right, 13 Seconds, and Music City Miracle- in that order...

These are my 3,  but based on the ridiculous greatness of Josh and how we wasted maybe the greatest single performance by a Bills qb and a pretty good chance to finally win a Lombardi.....I'd rank them

1.  13

2.  Wide Right

3.  Forward lateral 

 

I'm still unnerved and devastated by last Sunday 

Edited January 26, 2022 by LABILLBACKER

[Aussie Joe]

2 hours ago, BullBuchanan said:

Dude, we lost 4 super bowls. It couldn't possibly be higher than 5 based on that logic.

 

Dude... It's opinion and we might all feel differently ...

 

 

[VaMilBill]

8 hours ago, HalftimeAdjustment said:

Why do these threads keep happening? But... here are my rankings anyhow.

 

SB25

...

SB28

SB27

SB26

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"Music City Miracle"

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1989 Ronnie Harmon drop

13 seconds

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Texans playoff loss

Chiefs AFC champ loss

...

Jim Kelly's last game

...

Others

 

Why don't I rank this loss higher? Because we lost to a team that was basically an even match, and we didn't get ripped off by some ref BS or something. We played well and got beat. In SB25, the MCM, and the Ronnie Harmon drop it felt like we lost to a worse team. And the other Super Bowl losses were all crushing regardless.

 

 

I will say that I totally agree with you on the ref aspect for the 13 seconds game. I was happy that it wasn’t an external force that cost us the game. It was all on the Bills which makes it just as hard to swallow, but I’m not angry about it 

8 hours ago, HalftimeAdjustment said:

 

Yes. We lost a Super Bowl 20-19 to a team that seemed clearly inferior. Our defense couldn't stop them when it counted. Possibly the worst part is knowing that Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick were involved, and hearing Parcells brag "power football wins". They changed the rules on 4th quarter injuries afterwards because Belichick abused the rulebook so much.

How did he abuse the rules? I never saw the full game, just highlights

[Matt_In_NH]

Number one is wide right.   13 seconds is two right now but had similar feelings after MCM and Ronnie Harmon drop.   
 

all of these were close that were swayed by someone not doing their job.   MCM it was refs and kick coverage.   13 seconds is all coaching to me.  
 

wide right should have been a blowout but the team did not prepare like they should have which is inexcuseable.   They were up partying during the week.   Tasker recently admitted that on OBL.  There was also clock management issues in that game.  But if the players did their job and showed up it would have been a Lombardi 

[HalftimeAdjustment]

1 hour ago, VaMilBill said:

How did he abuse the rules? I never saw the full game, just highlights

 

It may not have just been that game... but allegedly, the Giants defensive players were coached to do 2 things to slow the no-huddle:

1) Interfere with the spotting of the ball

2) Fake injuries on the field.

 

Basically these measures were used to give the defense a rest from the no-huddle offense and get prepared for the next play.

 

Granted, these are mostly rumors. Anyhow, how awful is it that they sent Belichick's defensive game plan to the Hall of Fame? 🤮

[Greg S]

As many others have mentioned.

 

1. wide right

2. 13 seconds

3. MCM

 

In that order and nothing else is really close. IMHO

[dickleyjones]

Superbowls. Any other answer is just silliness.

[Realist]

12 hours ago, JaCrispy said:

Wide Right, 13 Seconds, and Music City Miracle- in that order...

This, in the same order.

 

MCM hurt but not like this past Sunday. This is a SuperBowl team, MCM we had a great defense, but offense was along for the ride, so not sure we were SuperBowl worthy.

[BillsFanSD]

12 hours ago, billsfan714 said:

Older person here:

 

Wide right, 13 seconds, MSM.   I dont get how anyone would have MSM ahead of this one.  MSM was a wild card card, Rob Johnson at QB, that team was never going to win the superbowl. 

The team that we had beat in the wild card round came within one yard of winning the super bowl.

[Greg S]

4 minutes ago, dickleyjones said:

Superbowls. Any other answer is just silliness.

 

The Washington and Dallas Super Bowls didn't hurt as much because they were blowouts. Maybe the 2nd Cowboys Super Bowl you can make a case because the Bills were leading at half. But things fell apart quickly in the 2nd half and it ended up being a blowout. 13 seconds and MCM we had the games won until a crazy ending in both games. That hurt more than the blowout Super Bowl losses.

[BillsFanSD]

For me, it's Wide Right and Music City Miracle, with 13 Seconds coming in a very distant third place.  Sunday's game wasn't the same as either of those.

 

Wide Right was a last-second SB loss in a game we absolutely should have won.  We lost that game to an inferior opponent.  Of course that stings.  It should.

 

Music City Miracle was "only" a WC game, but the Bills were a legitimate SB contender.  The Titans, after all, did advance to the SB and came one yard away from sending it into OT.  (In fairness, the Rams were a better team than either the Bills or Titans, but they under-performed in SBs).  That game also felt like the end of an era.  Flutie was shot, Rob Johnson was at best an unknown commodity, and Thurman Thomas, Bruce Smith, and Andre Reed would never play another game for the Bills ever again.  There was no reason to expect that that would be the start of a historic 17 year playoff drought, but I think most of us realized that we weren't going to be getting another shot for a while.

 

13 Seconds is totally different.  Yes, we blew a game that we absolutely had won in regulation.  Yes, that sucks.  But we head into the off-season with a legit superstar at the most important position in North American sports and no serious salary cap problems to worry about.  This team should absolutely be right back next year and the year after that and the year after that.  This is just a painful speed bump.

[dickleyjones]

42 minutes ago, Greg S said:

 

The Washington and Dallas Super Bowls didn't hurt as much because they were blowouts. Maybe the 2nd Cowboys Super Bowl you can make a case because the Bills were leading at half. But things fell apart quickly in the 2nd half and it ended up being a blowout. 13 seconds and MCM we had the games won until a crazy ending in both games. That hurt more than the blowout Super Bowl losses.

My opinion is that although the close games sting, they were at least good games with our great players making great plays. Getting spanked in the superbowl was just awful from beginning to end.

[BuffaloBill]

13 hours ago, hondo in seattle said:

Pick three of the Super Bowls at random.  

 

 

This ^^^^^ the younger crowd learned on Sunday just how hard it is to get to a SB much less win one.

[Mark80]

This is so easy for me:

 

Super Bowl 25 Loss

Music City Miracle

Last Weekend vs Chiefs.

[Bubba Gump]

9 hours ago, par73 said:

Those three-- easily. The order of the last two? 13 seconds is fresher, but haven't settled on it yet.

 

I think 13 seconds hurts more because it was easily preventable. Stupidity lost that game, bad luck was the miracle game ending.

[billsfan714]

7 hours ago, BillsFanSD said:

The team that we had beat in the wild card round came within one yard of winning the super bowl.

Rob Johnson wasnt Steve McNair.   Not even close.   Keep dreaming.

[Buftex]

20 hours ago, JaCrispy said:

Wide Right, 13 Seconds, and Music City Miracle- in that order...

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