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

[Beck Water]

Haven't had a chance to complete watching the middle of the game.  A few early thoughts:

 

1) This was a "that F***IN' Guy" game for SF 49ers DC Nick Sorenson trying to deal with Josh Allen in the snow.   The TD he scored on the lateral from Cooper was complete Street Ball, two vet players just sharing a brain for a moment.  Then that TD to Mack Hollins where all 5 receivers were perfectly covered, yet the Bills still scored.  Kind of makes a DC want to smash up a tablet.

2) McCaffrey started out the game going through the Bills defense like a hot knife through butter as our DL couldn't hold their footing against the 9ers run blocking.  Give the Bills credit, that wasn't every play, they did shut some down, but the 9ers had 7 ypc in the 1st half.  McCaffrey had 7.6 ypc.  You hate to see a player get injured, but McCaffrey's injury did look like a bit of a break for the Bills.

3) Did anyone else think that the throw to Shakir on 2nd and 9 was 100% DPI?  Looked to me as though Green were draped all over Shakir well before the ball got there.  I thought the "Illegal Contact" on 3rd and 9 was somewhat of a make-up call.
4) "Hustle" award to Casey Toohill for tackling Jordan Mason downfield on his 27 yd run.  Am I the only one who had to look up 99?

5) Cole Bishop needs to learn subtlety.  Shame to have that TD on the punt return called back by holding.
6) McDermott doing snow angels next to Josh Allen is an instant classic

[strive_for_five_guy]

25 minutes ago, UKBillFan said:

 

Before seeing that clip I would have sworn snow angels was Josh's idea rather than McDermott's.

Apparently Zach Davidson had said to McD at halftime “if we win, you gonna do snow angels?”, to which McD agreed.  So he didn’t want to bail on his word.  What a game!

[Pete]

1 hour ago, LabattBlue said:

Pretty impressive considering the weather…the Bills did not put the ball on the ground once. 

There was a montage of 49ers slipping in the snow, sliding, falling…..I’m not sure I saw any Bills players having 49 pratfalls.  Kudos to trainers, or whomever got the Bills good footwear for the conditions 

[DrDawkinstein]

7 hours ago, Simon said:

 

He actually hurt it well before that.

It was on the 3rd down play where Brady called up the QB draw and he steamrolled a LB to get past the sticks.

 

Oh that's right. Good call. I'll have to rewatch that one. Could've been while getting tackled. He took a couple good shots on that one.

[LABILLBACKER]

9 minutes ago, Pete said:

There was a montage of 49ers slipping in the snow, sliding, falling…..I’m not sure I saw any Bills players having 49 pratfalls.  Kudos to trainers, or whomever got the Bills good footwear for the conditions 

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

[Riverboat Ritchie]

Great game and lots of fun. Area of concern is obviously run defense. I’m sure footing not great but Ed was getting pushed around it looked like a lot last night. Again lots of positives. Go Bills. 

[Beck Water]

15 minutes ago, Riverboat Ritchie said:

Great game and lots of fun. Area of concern is obviously run defense. I’m sure footing not great but Ed was getting pushed around it looked like a lot last night. Again lots of positives. Go Bills. 

 

DLs were getting pushed around on both sides.  Look at the highlight of that TD pass to Hollins, Josh had time in the pocket to smoke a cigar before throwing that thing.

[Bruffalo]

1 hour ago, Ray Stonada said:

 

It's nice to see him let the guard down a little bit and have some fun.  He deserves it. I've given him a lot of crap but ultimately he's done very well this (and almost every) season. 

[Warriorspikes51]

11 minutes ago, Riverboat Ritchie said:

Great game and lots of fun. Area of concern is obviously run defense. I’m sure footing not great but Ed was getting pushed around it looked like a lot last night. Again lots of positives. Go Bills. 

 

was tough for either line to anchor.  Especially players who use leverage 

[LabattBlue]

I owe Mack Hollins an apology.  Early in the season I thought he was useless and should be stapled to the bench or even cut, but has really made some nice plays and surprisingly has 4 TD’s. 

[Magox]

Crazy Jordan Phillips metric and how he has played since becoming a Buffalo Bill.

 

 

 

[Warriorspikes51]

2 minutes ago, Magox said:

Crazy Jordan Phillips metric and how he has played since becoming a Buffalo Bill.

 

 

 

 

Conspiracy....Phillips intentionally plays himself off other teams, forcing a release so he can keep coming back here haha 

[Bockeye]

Huge props to Brady on play calling.  Leaning on the jumbo package heavily in that weather was brilliant. 

 

From the Athletic:

 

“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.”

 

The biggest piece of the puzzle was Anderson, the Bills sixth offensive lineman they bring in on jumbo packages as a de facto tight end. The results with Anderson on the field in the ground game speak for themselves. Before the game reached garbage time once the Bills went up 28-3, Anderson was on the field for 11 running plays. The Bills gained 10.5 yards per rushing play on those 11 attempts.

[Bruffalo]

Just now, Bockeye said:

Huge props to Brady on play calling.  Leaning on the jumbo package heavily in that weather was brilliant. 

 

From the Athletic:

 

“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.”

 

The biggest piece of the puzzle was Anderson, the Bills sixth offensive lineman they bring in on jumbo packages as a de facto tight end. The results with Anderson on the field in the ground game speak for themselves. Before the game reached garbage time once the Bills went up 28-3, Anderson was on the field for 11 running plays. The Bills gained 10.5 yards per rushing play on those 11 attempts.

This is kind of Brady's thing right? He loves to lean on a play until the other team has proven they can beat it. I swear I've heard them talk about that before. 

[Sierra Foothills]

2 hours ago, Scott7975 said:

Mahomes, Kelce, Reid probably trying to cook something up right now to match.

 

The best thing about the Amari/Josh TD was that unlike Reid/Mahomes/Kelce it was a pure and spontaneous football play.

 

As Josh explained to Melisssa Starks, he saw Amari  bobbling the ball and decided to run to the play in case he needed to bat the ball down to prevent an interception. Separately Amari had the awareness to ad lib on the play.

 

You know, there's a short list of players who qualify for the title of "Best Football Player in the NFL"... guys like TJ Watt, Roquan Smith, Max Crosby...

 

Josh is the only QB on that list.

 

2 hours ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said:

I know the post game already said it but the Bills absolutely looked ready for the possibility of a snow game and the Niners just didn't.

 

It can't be acknowledged and appreciated enough, how this edition of the Bills can seamlessly toggle from being a bad weather team to a dome team from one week to the next.

 

1 hour ago, Scott7975 said:

 

I just love how all of the offensive skill position players played fewer than 50% of snaps.

 

I love that we minimized the wear and tear on these guys and didn't have to dig too deeply into our playbook.

 

There are so many advantages to being able to line up jumbo and smash teams into submission.

 

1 hour ago, Matt_In_NH said:

Josh just hit his funny bone.........great news!

 

But that's no laughing matter!

 

[davefan66]

1 hour ago, Ray Stonada said:

 

Would never have thought I’d see McD smile, or make Josh do snow angles!

[Back2Buff]

16 minutes ago, Magox said:

Crazy Jordan Phillips metric and how he has played since becoming a Buffalo Bill.

 

 

 

 

I thought Phillips would have been the one to be cut when Carter is activated, but not if he is playing like he has been.  They could just cut Virgil since Coleman should be back.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

59 minutes ago, Pete said:

There was a montage of 49ers slipping in the snow, sliding, falling…..I’m not sure I saw any Bills players having 49 pratfalls.  Kudos to trainers, or whomever got the Bills good footwear for the conditions 

I saw a few bills slipping but it was never super consequential 

[stevewin]

11 minutes ago, Bockeye said:

Huge props to Brady on play calling.  Leaning on the jumbo package heavily in that weather was brilliant. 

 

From the Athletic:

 

“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.”

 

The biggest piece of the puzzle was Anderson, the Bills sixth offensive lineman they bring in on jumbo packages as a de facto tight end. The results with Anderson on the field in the ground game speak for themselves. Before the game reached garbage time once the Bills went up 28-3, Anderson was on the field for 11 running plays. The Bills gained 10.5 yards per rushing play on those 11 attempts.

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

[Big Turk]

That was freaking awesome! 49ers looked like they would have rather been sitting around a warm fire drinking hot chocolate somewhere warm inside.

16 minutes ago, Bockeye said:

Huge props to Brady on play calling.  Leaning on the jumbo package heavily in that weather was brilliant. 

 

From the Athletic:

 

“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.”

 

The biggest piece of the puzzle was Anderson, the Bills sixth offensive lineman they bring in on jumbo packages as a de facto tight end. The results with Anderson on the field in the ground game speak for themselves. Before the game reached garbage time once the Bills went up 28-3, Anderson was on the field for 11 running plays. The Bills gained 10.5 yards per rushing play on those 11 attempts.

 

All the way back to when Kelly and the K-Gun offense used to run only a handful of plays and he said that if they execute them well it doesn't matter if the other team knows they are coming, they still can't stop them.