12/15/24 Week 15 Bills @ Lions Game Post Game Thread

[Harold Jackson]

Everything is fine of course.

Goff sucks when necessary.

Mahomes should be weak at this point.  

The future looks fine 

 

[EmotionallyUnstable]

Allen is HIM

 

OL was stout, great ground game. 

 

TEs making schnaggggs 

 

Ty Johnson is a steel trap

 

Coooooooooook

 

Agressive D in the first 3Q, DL looked turned up

 

Injuries mounting on the back end…wondering if the defensive transition was due to injuries, game script or both. 
 

Mack Hollins should have scored that TD on the onsides

 

I would love to hear and see what it was like at the bottom of that dog pile on the final on sides kick

 

 

[Mynamemike]

14 minutes ago, Breakout Squad said:

The Lions gave up 48. We scored more points and won the game. Your agenda is tiresome…. If the Bills do anything but win the Super Bowl you’re gonna feel like you’ve won your argument. Have at it hoss. 

damn right my argument will be correct because with  Josh at qb there should be no other standard period.  Best qbs to ever do it and he’s going to have his prime wasted by a coach who chokes every time the pressure gets cranked up. 
 

 

[Casey D]

7 minutes ago, BuffaloBaumer said:

Is there anything to worry about with Dorian Williams and Spencer Brown injuries?

Sure, but they have time to get well before playoffs.  We can limp next three weeks and still sweep.

[Beast]

Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and McDemott attempted that onside kick with 12 minutes to go in the game.

[davefan66]

5 minutes ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:

Allen is HIM

 

OL was stout, great ground game. 

 

TEs making schnaggggs 

 

Ty Johnson is a steel trap

 

Coooooooooook

 

Agressive D in the first 3Q, DL looked turned up

 

Injuries mounting on the back end…wondering if the defensive transition was due to injuries, game script or both. 
 

Mack Hollins should have scored that TD on the onsides

 

I would love to hear and see what it was like at the bottom of that dog pile on the final on sides kick

 

 

Feel Mack scores a TD if he just looks forward and runs. Seemed to look over his shoulder and slow up a bit.

[OldNMBillsFan]

1 hour ago, Mynamemike said:

McDermott doesn’t have a job without Josh let’s be serious.  

I totally disagree. Any team that will be looking for a new head coach in the upcoming off season would love to have McDermott. He is a great coach that knows how to maximize his players abilities. Please tell me of one player that left Buffalo and was better with their new team. Do I think he could he be batter at some areas of being a head coach? absolutely. And I think he would agree. IMO he will only get better with more experience. I honestly don't know of any coach that is or will be available in the off season that would be better. Tell me, who do you think should be the Bills head Coach.

[HurlyBurly51]

Gotta get this on a consistent basis, not just when you want to prove a point.

 

 

[KOKBILLS]

Just now, notpolian said:

This was a helluva win.  I really didn't expect the Bills to win prior to the game, but as soon as it got started you could tell we had a chance.  The Lions are a very legit team, though Goff did not play perfectly (unlike Stafford last week).

 

I hope we can get our defense playing consistently at all three levels in the near future.  With JA now in his ultra prime years, I think the offense can score enough.  Keep the turnover differential in positive territory and anything is possible.

 

The D got a lot more pressure this game than in the Rams game... You have to give Goff some credit for getting out a couple times, and standing in there too... 

 

I think McD and Bobby have some late nights ahead of them. No matter what they have to get better on these big swing downs in the 2nd half... Looks like the Lions were 6 of 9 on 3rd and 4th downs in the 2nd half... The Rams killed the Bills on 3rd down as well... That's not going to cut it long term IMHO...

[VaMilBill]

From a coaching perspective, only issue I have with decision making today was not executing a sneak on 3rd and 1 right before halftime. That was an idiotic decision to go away from something that works. 
 

that being said, it ended up not hurting us too much. 

[Sammy Watkins' Rib]

1 hour ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:

I would have bet a testicle the Vikings wouldn't have more than 2 wins all season let alone 11. 

 

Okay.

[klos63]

5 minutes ago, davefan66 said:

Feel Mack scores a TD if he just looks forward and runs. Seemed to look over his shoulder and slow up a bit.

Mack scoring was the final leg to my parlay.

[davefan66]

5 minutes ago, klos63 said:

Mack scoring was the final leg to my parlay.

Ugh. I can feel for you for sure. Seeing him get the ball and it unfolds on slow motion…

Edited December 16 by davefan66

[DrDawkinstein]

1 hour ago, Mynamemike said:

McDermott doesn’t have a job without Josh let’s be serious.  

 

Correct. Without Josh, no way is McDermott a HC right now.

 

Keep in mind McD is the guy who was still going back to the Nathan Peterman well in 2018 with Josh on the team.

 

If he wasnt lucky enough to strike gold with Josh, he has a sub.500 record and is fired by 2022. (He got 5 full years for breaking the drought)

[Sammy Watkins' Rib]

9 minutes ago, Beast said:

Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and McDemott attempted that onside kick with 12 minutes to go in the game.

 

That was such a bizarre call. I guess when you are 12-1 and for now hold the tiebreaker over the Eagles for the one seed you have some leeway. 

[ColoradoBills]

10 minutes ago, Beast said:

Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and McDemott attempted that onside kick with 12 minutes to go in the game.

 

Chernobyl.

 

[DrDawkinstein]

8 minutes ago, OldNMBillsFan said:

I totally disagree. Any team that will be looking for a new head coach in the upcoming off season would love to have McDermott. He is a great coach that knows how to maximize his players abilities. Please tell me of one player that left Buffalo and was better with their new team. Do I think he could he be batter at some areas of being a head coach? absolutely. And I think he would agree. IMO he will only get better with more experience. I honestly don't know of any coach that is or will be available in the off season that would be better. Tell me, who do you think should be the Bills head Coach.

 

See above. Without Josh becoming Josh, McD's career trajectory takes a much different path.

[Eight17]

Bass still makes me nervous with every kick.

[Mynamemike]

1 minute ago, OldNMBillsFan said:

I totally disagree. Any team that will be looking for a new head coach in the upcoming off season would love to have McDermott. He is a great coach that knows how to maximize his players abilities. Please tell me of one player that left Buffalo and was better with their new team. Do I think he could he be batter at some areas of being a head coach? absolutely. And I think he would agree. IMO he will only get better with more experience. I honestly don't know of any coach that is or will be available in the off season that would be better. Tell me, who do you think should be the Bills head Coach.

For building a culture McDermott is great no doubt. Send him to Jacksonville, NY or an other terrible organization and he’ll probably turn them into a decent franchise like he did with us. 

 

His in game management has been terrible since the beginning and he continues to suck at it.   He folds under pressure, plays soft when it matters most and has come up short every single year he’s led the team with arguably the best qb in the league. 

he’s a great human being but he’s reached his pinnacle.  Once Brady leaves this offseason we’ll be back to hoping we can find some new coordinator that can continue with what we have.  Or we’ll end up with another Dorsey or Dabaoll and waste more of Josh’s greatness.  
 

IMO just give Brady the head coaching gig and find a good d coordinator and go for it. 
 

I hope to god I’m wrong but history has shown us how this plays out.  

 

 

[GASabresIUFan]

4 minutes ago, VaMilBill said:

From a coaching perspective, only issue I have with decision making today was not executing a sneak on 3rd and 1 right before halftime. That was an idiotic decision to go away from something that works. 
 

that being said, it ended up not hurting us too much. 

That was a mindboggling decision.  Why run any other play.  Time wasn't an issue and scoring a TD there would have probably made the entire second half garbage time.  Sometimes I think all these HCs and Coordinators get too cute.