12/1/2024 Bills vs. 49’ers post game thread

[Mango]

2 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

We'll never know, now, but the Bills D had a rough start against McCaffrey.  I think if he'd have stayed in the game, they might well have rotated Milano out for Williams.  

I was yelling at my TV for it to happen early in the game. He was really struggling to shed blocks. 

 

 

 

(ducks and covers)

[No_Matter_What]

9 hours ago, Malazan said:

 

Absolute meltdown over the Bills dominating 49ers. Detroit is going to kill us. Haven't beaten them in the playoffs! Allen is killing himself for a regular season game! The Chiefs are team built to run and stop the run (lol) so they'd have slaughtered us in this in a snow game. Remember that game the Bills lost to the Patriots where they threw it like 3 times?! The media is talking about how good the Bills are, but they're not talking about the back to back Superbowl champs!

 

Just apoplectic.

They also comment how lame is that we are rallying points against weaker opponents.

 

One guy said that it screams Bills insecurity lol 

[RangerDave]

25 minutes ago, Sierra Foothills said:

But that's no laughing matter!

 

I thought that's why that bone is called the humorous!  😏

[Beck Water]

1 hour ago, LABILLBACKER said:

We did alot less slipping around than the Cincy playoff. It was refreshing to see the equipment mgrs get it right.

 

I think part of it was the plays being called.  Didn't the Cincy players comment that the Bills were trying to run routes that require the receivers to plant and change direction suddenly, but you can't do that in snow?

 

Part of it may be Joe Brady making it a regular part of the schedule to have a player-led, players-only meeting where they discuss what plays they like and don't like from the week's install, then he pays attention. 

 

Part of it may be the players.  Diggs played at Maryland and in a dome before Buffalo.  Davis played in Florida.  McKenzie played in Georgia.  They may not have understood what works in the snow.  Shakir played college ball at Boise, Cooper played in Cleveland last year, Josh Wyo of course, Hollins started with Philly.  So they may have a better appreciation of what they can, and can't, do on a snowy field.

 

But that would mean nothing if they were playing for a guy who was "you're the player, I'm the coach, I'll tell YOU what to do."

15 minutes ago, Mango said:

I was yelling at my TV for it to happen early in the game. He was really struggling to shed blocks. 

(ducks and covers)

 

Not sure why you're ducking - it's true.  I think after McCaffrey left the game and B'lo had a 21-3 lead, they figured they'd leave him in to help knock off the rust faster.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

16 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

We'll never know, now, but the Bills D had a rough start against McCaffrey.  I think if he'd have stayed in the game, they might well have rotated Milano out for Williams.  

It wasn’t like mason had much less success early though haha I think eventually we crept the safeties down and maybe that would’ve slowed CMC down too we’ll never know.  A lot of the niners offense was kickoff returns as the game went on so it’s tough to judge 😂

[Coach Tuesday]

23 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

We'll never know, now, but the Bills D had a rough start against McCaffrey.  I think if he'd have stayed in the game, they might well have rotated Milano out for Williams.  

 

If ever there were a game to use Williams it was this one - defense was focused on stopping the run, and receivers couldn't engage in double moves (Williams' achilles heel).  Just pin your ears back and attack the ball carrier.  But I guess they wanted to let Milano knock off the rust.  Ended up not mattering.

[Coffeesforclosers]

18 minutes ago, No_Matter_What said:

They also comment how lame is that we are rallying points against weaker opponents.

 

One guy said that it screams Bills insecurity lol 

 

 

What the hell are Chiefs fans doing worrying about anything? They're a Dynasty. They've got a horseshoe rammed up their ass. The league gargles their nuts. 

 

My god. They must have run out of Busch Lite and Crystal Meth or something, it's the only explanation. Maybe Jaxon Mahomes cancelled their favorite strip club?

[Beck Water]

10 hours ago, Simon said:

 

Hope Mom is OK.

You didn't miss much; just make sure you catch a replay of the TD Allen scored after he missed his spot on a hitch to Cooper.

I still can't stop laughing about it.

 

Here it is:

 

 

Thanks!  That really makes me laugh.   I saw their post game presser, Amari started nodding when Josh said he threw a bad ball so he followed it in case it popped up.  Said "so that's why you were over there!".  Said the QB normally isn't over there on a DART concept so he figured Josh wanted the ball and they made eye contact so he threw it to him.

I'll watch the whole game with pleasure, while polishing up the parrot's rendition of the Shout song in case we meet the Steelers in the playoffs.  The latter is critical, Parrot Lady is a Steelers fan.

 

10 hours ago, Not at the table Karlos said:

Hope everything’s ok

 

10 hours ago, boyst said:

Nate Geary is about to put himself over the falls the callers he just took were awful

@Beck Waterhope your mother is ok

 

Mom is fine, just bloody (adjective of quality) from a fall.  No broken bones, just bruised and a few scrapes.  It's nice that she's in assisted living now, much less of a load on me.  Thanks for asking guys!

Edited December 2 by Beck Water

[Blank Stare]

Man, all this talk about Saquon for MVP. Saquon has been amazing, but the Eagles success isn’t completely reliant on him. All the turnover we’ve experienced and Josh keeps on trucking. Taking the division earlier than anyone else this year or that he ever has. If Josh keeps it up, it would be a Damar Hamlin come back player of the year award robbery type of injustice. 

[Beck Water]

9 minutes ago, Blank Stare said:

Man, all this talk about Saquon for MVP. Saquon has been amazing, but the Eagles success isn’t completely reliant on him. All the turnover we’ve experienced and Josh keeps on trucking. Taking the division earlier than anyone else this year or that he ever has. If Josh keeps it up, it would be a Damar Hamlin come back player of the year award robbery type of injustice. 

 

Maybe I'm an outlier, but it didn't bother me that Hamlin didn't win comeback player of the year.  I think that should be based on the quality of the comeback, not its sheer unlikelihood and incredible nature

[Heitz]

Back to regular WGR post-game calls "I think it's completely foolish to play Milano!"  Sal is like, ok, neither of us are in the locker room and the player and trainers probably know better.  A reminder that just because you think something, that doesn't make it true 🤣 🤷‍♂️

[MikePJ76]

1 minute ago, Heitz said:

Back to regular WGR post-game calls "I think it's completely foolish to play Milano!"  Sal is like, ok, neither of us are in the locker room and the player and trainers probably know better.  A reminder that just because you think something, that doesn't make it true 🤣 🤷‍♂️

I got a kick out of that.  The guy said he was upset with management.

 

Like is now the time to be upset?  Today is a day to be happy.  Tense times are coming but now is the time on sprockets when we dance.

[Blank Stare]

9 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

Maybe I'm an outlier, but it didn't bother me that Hamlin didn't win comeback player of the year.  I think that should be based on the quality of the comeback, not its sheer unlikelihood and incredible nature

I can understand that, and most of the time I’m completely with you. I was more in the camp that if someone comes back from the dead and even steps on an NFL field in uniform, he should automatically win it. There’s literally no further place he can come back from. 

At the end of the day, I know MVP in the regular season isn’t the real prize, but it’s long past time Josh start getting his propers. 

[Big Turk]

Bills ran the same running play over and over and over again and the 49ers couldn't stop it...sometimes there is no need to make things complicated...Joe Brady just kept sticking with what was working since they couldn't stop it.

 

“Ain’t nothing to tell except we beat the brakes off of their D-line,” Bills offensive lineman Alec Anderson said. “They did not want to play. They came out and we just dominated up front.”

 

“Yeah, we uh… We ran the same play over and over,” reserve offensive tackle Ryan Van Demark said after the game.

 

“Same play over and over and over and over and over,” left tackle Dion Dawkins said.

 

“Oh yeah. Yeah, we did. I looked at the sideline, ‘Well, here we go again,'” right tackle Spencer Brown said. “So we knew what it was. They knew it was.”

 

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it dawg. They didn’t have any answers for us,” Anderson said. “So it’s like, they know exactly what we were going to do. They knew we were going to run the ball right there. And what happened? James had a 65-yard touchdown and we just rolled.”

 

“They couldn’t stop the run game on that certain play,” Van Demark said. “We just kept running it and Alec was doing a great job because he’s the guy for that play.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5962381/2024/12/02/bills-49ers-josh-allen-matt-milano-amari-cooper/

Edited December 2 by Big Turk

[uninja]

1 hour ago, stevewin said:

There was a point in the game where the Bills had the ball and they showed Brady in the booth and he looked like he was just casually watching the game - not looking at play sheet or anything at all

If it ain’t broke why fix it? Love that Brady just lets the players decide which plays they wanna run that week and doesn’t get cute in the booth.
 

I think he learned his lesson from that garbage 4th down trick play against Baltimore that went nowhere.

[Beck Water]

19 minutes ago, Blank Stare said:

I can understand that, and most of the time I’m completely with you. I was more in the camp that if someone comes back from the dead and even steps on an NFL field in uniform, he should automatically win it. There’s literally no further place he can come back from. 

At the end of the day, I know MVP in the regular season isn’t the real prize, but it’s long past time Josh start getting his propers. 

 

On that last, we agree completely.  I just SMH.  Announcer after LJax runs for a TD: "No other QB in the league can do that". 
Josh Allen: "Here, Hold My Beer" (proceeds to make 6 guys on the Chiefs miss tackles).

 

I think because he's so big, he looks slower and less shifty, so it doesn't look like as impressive.  But the 6 Chiefs chasing him down the field would attest that he's faster and shiftier than he looks.

13 minutes ago, uninja said:

If it ain’t broke why fix it? Love that Brady just lets the players decide which plays they wanna run that week and doesn’t get cute in the booth.
 

I think he learned his lesson from that garbage 4th down trick play against Baltimore that went nowhere.

 

Brady is definitely a "we'll run it until you prove you can stop us" kind of guy.  He said after last year's Dallas game that he had a bunch of pass plays drawn up for the game, but when the run was so successful he decided to just keep running.

[Beck Water]

1 hour ago, No_Matter_What said:

They also comment how lame is that we are rallying points against weaker opponents.

 

One guy said that it screams Bills insecurity lol 

 

LOL like in previous years, when they could, the Chiefs haven't ladled out the 41-10 or 31-17 or 26-6 beat-downs, those insecure MoFo's.  And their fans enjoyed it.

 

Everyone in the league knows McD isn't a "run up the score" guy.    Allen and 3/5 of the starting OL sat down for almost the entire 4Q.

Edited December 2 by Beck Water

[TheWei44]

Allen's running is like a hybrid of Jackson and Henry - Shifty, quick, but also a big body that is tough to bring down//happy to run through you if necessary.

[Not at the table Karlos]

13 minutes ago, Blank Stare said:

I can understand that, and most of the time I’m completely with you. I was more in the camp that if someone comes back from the dead and even steps on an NFL field in uniform, he should automatically win it. There’s literally no further place he can come back from. 

At the end of the day, I know MVP in the regular season isn’t the real prize, but it’s long past time Josh start getting his propers. 

I didn’t think he deserved it. He didn’t play much and wasn’t good when he did. Chris Pronger in NHL had similar thing happen and he came back and played in the same week. Everyone’s too emotional now so I get why people wanted him to win it. 

[Chicharito]

I was shocked at the amount of 49ers fans at the game last night.