Bills took the best team in the NFL to OT…

[LABILLBACKER]

8 hours ago, Beast said:

The Bills defense can’t stop the best teams (Eagles) or the worst teams (Patriots-Giants) from driving the field when the game is on the line.

 

The responsibility for that lies right at the feet of Sean McDermott.

And that's why he's getting canned after the season. Terry has eyes and ears.  He's not jeopardizing future PSL's on this clown HC.  Sean had his shot and he blew it.

[Billsfan1972]

And the Commanders did too (and could have won both games).  What a pathetic tthread.

 

Maybe if added to the title of the thread "With McD as HC" would have made it funny!!!

[Pete]

We are the best team.  We bounce back again and again.  We played Philly and the Refs, and still dominated that game.  No one beats Buffalo.  Buffalo beats themselves.

[BeastMaster]

9 hours ago, appoo said:

McDermott has won 65% of his games!!!!!! You’re acting like he’s got a losing record 

This team has been going backwards for a few years now

 

[BananaB]

It doesn’t matter, at this point there are no moral victories. Especially after losing to and barely beating some lower level teams.

 

Games are 60 minutes but not all outcomes are determined by playing good football for 60 minutes. Just how it is. Sometimes you just gotta make a play at the end and that will be enough. It’s what made the Patriots great in the early 2000s. When time starts to close our O has been making plays all year in tight games, the D on the other hand is absolutely terrible. You can play crappy the whole game still be in a position to win and you can play great and still be in the position to lose. This year we always lose

[Don Otreply]

12 hours ago, appoo said:

McDermott has won 65% of his games!!!!!! You’re acting like he’s got a losing record 

   No I’m not, all of us have seen him take the Bills out of the ”drought” and we are all happy as hell about that, BUT, his defenses and special teams have let the team down repeatedly regardless of who is or isn’t  injured for many seasons.
   Sean’s insistence that his defenses will win important games has not come to fruition, you me and everyone else has watched his “D” fail in clutch moments repeatedly, it’s not the players it’s Seans scheme. His Under investment on the offensive side of the ball has as well shown to be a problem.
   These issues are not by any stretch new,  Sean either needs to change his stripes (not gonna happen), or nothing is going to change, it will be more “rinse and repeat”  we need someone that sees ways to use our personnel in a different way to get to the next level as the saying goes.
    I would suggest that T Peg should have a serious and objective discussion with Sean and suggest  he stops doing the same things over and over and expect different outcomes when it has yet to happen.  Sean has done a lot of good things for Buffalo, we all know this, but he has plateaued and this we all know as well. 
 

GO BILLS!!!

[SoonerBillsFan]

On 11/27/2023 at 8:09 AM, appoo said:

While having a huge chunk of their salary cap on IR or basically washed 

 

whole fighting the refs in a horrifically officiated game 

 

while at a decided talent disadvantage on both sides of the ball 

 

on the road 

 

and y’all want to fire the head coach who’s has had nothing but 10+ win seasons for like 4 years in a row now?

 

It took the Eagles kicking a SIXTY YARD FG IN THE RAIN to get to OT. The Eagles had a better DVOA than the Bills.

 

There was no reasonable analysis that had the Bills winning this football game before the snap. 
 

Literally demanding the HC be fired for EXCEEDING expectations 

 

Nah this ain’t it 

Dear God just no.

13 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

And that's why he's getting canned after the season. Terry has eyes and ears.  He's not jeopardizing future PSL's on this clown HC.  Sean had his shot and he blew it.

We can only hope.

[JaCrispy]

No points for 2nd place…👍

[Yobogoya!]

13 hours ago, appoo said:

McDermott has won 65% of his games!!!!!! You’re acting like he’s got a losing record 

 

There's no doubt in my mind the Bills can perfectly tread water for many years with McDermott as head coach.. and with Josh Allen as QB. 

 

Look if Josh goes down, this is barely a 2-3 win team. What we need out of a head coach right now is to make the correct decisions in critical moments, and McDermott seems to really struggle with that despite several years from which he could reflect and learn from his mistakes. 

 

But hey, maybe the Bills come out of the bye and go on a tear to finish the season. With Josh as QB anything is possible. But if we lose even one more close game in the fashion that's become McD's specialty, that seat is only gonna get warmer... 

[stosh64]

McD is exactly what the Jests need ATM.  The Bills need someone that will go all in with JA17 and win Buffalo a Championship.

 

It can be done but McD has shown time and time again he is NOT the man to do it, from his peak at 13 seconds it has been consistently worse every year since then..

 

Time is wasting with Josh.

[mjt328]

On 11/27/2023 at 8:09 AM, appoo said:

While having a huge chunk of their salary cap on IR or basically washed 

 

Injuries are going to be an excuse almost every year.  

The team was very healthy in 2020-2021 and failed to finish the job.

 

On 11/27/2023 at 8:09 AM, appoo said:

whole fighting the refs in a horrifically officiated game 

 

Agreed it was a horribly officiated game.  

However, the refs played very little part in the two drives we allowed with under 2 minutes left or in OT.

 

On 11/27/2023 at 8:09 AM, appoo said:

while at a decided talent disadvantage on both sides of the ball 

 

This team is supposed to be in the window of a Super Bowl run, with one of the best QBs in football.

If our talent level is significantly below anyone, then everyone in the front office should be fired.

 

On 11/27/2023 at 8:09 AM, appoo said:

on the road 

 

Home.  Road.  Who cares.

 

On 11/27/2023 at 8:09 AM, appoo said:

and y’all want to fire the head coach who’s has had nothing but 10+ win seasons for like 4 years in a row now?

 

He's reached his peak.

This team can regularly win 10+ games in the regular season, win the AFC East when the other teams are mediocre or less and win the Wild Card Round against middling playoff teams who barely deserve to be there.

But to get past the Divisional Round, Championship Game and Super Bowl, he's going to need consistently strong defensive performances against QBs like Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts, etc.  No evidence he's got the ability to do that.

 

 

On 11/27/2023 at 8:09 AM, appoo said:

It took the Eagles kicking a SIXTY YARD FG IN THE RAIN to get to OT. The Eagles had a better DVOA than the Bills.

 

It's McDermott's defense that continually allows offenses to drive the field with the game on the line.  

His soft coverage allowed them to EASILY complete underneath passes, because he was scared to have the defenders contest the receivers.

 

On 11/27/2023 at 8:09 AM, appoo said:

There was no reasonable analysis that had the Bills winning this football game before the snap. 
 

Literally demanding the HC be fired for EXCEEDING expectations 

 

Nah this ain’t it 

 

The reason the Bills have become underdogs to the top teams is because... THEY ARE NO LONGER A TOP TEAM THEMSELVES.

How does that not (at least partially) fall on Sean McDermott???????

They blew a lead against the Jets.  They blew a lead against the Patriots.  They blew a lead against the Broncos.

This team is 6-6 and will miss the playoffs.  And I'm supposed to be happy, because they came close to beating the Eagles?

 

 

[FilthyBeast]

I'll respond to this nonsense with a classic quote from the Bills drought years, I believe from another team's coach although can't place the name right now....but it's something to the tune of 'The Bills are the hardest team in the league to play, but the easiest to beat'.

 

And truer words couldn't be spoken especially in regards the the McD era teams. Even with what most believe is an elite top 5 franchise QB, it defies logic that this team continues to come out on the wrong side of the W/L column in every close game, against the leagues best (or in some case worst) over and over.

[theRalph]

On 11/27/2023 at 9:22 AM, appoo said:

He took Tyrod Taylor to 9 wins and the playoffs man

This is precisely the point. McDermott is excellent at taking "mediocre" and making it "really good". But that same skillset might be poison for taking "really good" and turning it into "championship".

[C.Biscuit97]

While I would be crazy disappointed at how we lost that game, it’s not that big of deal if we beat Mac Jones or Zack Wilson. Especially since it was a nfc game. Those are the real killers where moral victories don’t matter.

On 11/27/2023 at 10:39 AM, Kirby Jackson said:

Well, he’s learning what it’s like. McDermott is a bottom 5 HC. 

Don’t agree with that at all. He is a good coach and built a good culture. But now is he a guy that gets you over the top? It doesn’t seem like it.

[uticaclub]

This is a troll post, right?

On 11/27/2023 at 6:22 AM, appoo said:

He took Tyrod Taylor to 9 wins and the playoffs man

Tyrod only won 8 games; Peterman/Webb beat the Colts (who knows how that game goes without 4 feet of snow) & the without a miracle from Andy Dalton; that's not a playoff team. They went 9-7 before

[TheFunPolice]

So what?

 

The Jets actually beat the Eagles this season. Does that mean they are good?

[26TrapDraw]

On 11/27/2023 at 6:09 AM, appoo said:

While having a huge chunk of their salary cap on IR or basically washed 

 

whole fighting the refs in a horrifically officiated game 

 

while at a decided talent disadvantage on both sides of the ball 

 

on the road 

 

and y’all want to fire the head coach who’s has had nothing but 10+ win seasons for like 4 years in a row now?

 

It took the Eagles kicking a SIXTY YARD FG IN THE RAIN to get to OT. The Eagles had a better DVOA than the Bills.

 

There was no reasonable analysis that had the Bills winning this football game before the snap. 
 

Literally demanding the HC be fired for EXCEEDING expectations 

 

Nah this ain’t it 

Helen Keller could of got 10 wins a year with this roster. The point is his defense has lost 8 games in the last season and a half in the last of the 4th quarter. His defense is not prepared for to close out games. He calls the wrong Defense at the wrong time and gets burned. His whole point was I’ll take over the defense because I can do a better job than any other Defensive Coordinator candidate.

how’s that working out ?

[LifeLongBillsFan]

On 11/27/2023 at 8:41 AM, KeLLy1278 said:

Dude it could be worse.  The Bills could be in the Pats situation.  They don’t even know where to begin over there.. yet the Bills managed to lose to them this season.  

People are on here defending the Bills coaches and players.  Not good enough.

I predict the Pats will get the first draft pic 

[Unforgiven]

1 hour ago, LifeLongBillsFan said:

I predict the Pats will get the first draft pic 

And if they get a good qb bills sink back farther..