Josh choked tonight

[dayman]

He’s great. He’s been great in the playoffs. He wasn’t tonight.
 

Started shaky as hell. Couldn’t run all night. Couldn’t sneak. Couldn’t get it downfield (except Hollins a few times…good on Hollins). Ran right into that blitz he didn’t see to end the game and left Shakir open for what may have been a winner.

 

 Love Josh. But let’s just call it what it was—choke job tonight. If he was great we go to the superbowl. He was far from great.

[Roundybout]

Kincaid dropped it. End of discussion.

[Fixxxer]

choke is a strong word....all I will say is the last offensive drive was awful...

[Matt_In_NH]

you think the lack of QB sneak success is a measure of Josh not playing well?

[Bferra13]

Just now, Roundybout said:

Kincaid dropped it. End of discussion.

No. It's a team game. That's not end of story. Not even close.

[Another Fan]

He started off shaky but no I would not say he choked.

 

I would say it felt the like a lot of this game and the 2nd half of the Ravens game he was largely neutralized.....  to which I blame that on the play calling 

[gobills404]

[Ramza86]

Choke is a strong word.....but he certainly didnt play up to the level needed to win the game. 

 

Although thats tough against the Chiefs and the refs.

[Big Turk]

29 points should be enough against a team that struggled to score all year.

 

Same sh!t every year in the playoffs against the Chiefs.

 

Hold them down in the regular season to around 20ish points, playoffs we have zero answers for them. 

 

We cannot beat them if we can't figure out how to effectively play defense against them in the postseason.

[Roundybout]

Just now, Bferra13 said:

No. It's a team game. That's not end of story. Not even close.

It is when someone wants to say Josh “choked” on the last drive 

[GunnerBill]

He definitely started shaky and was a bit frenetic first half but Josh played a good game. We might have need a great game to win but that is because of failings elsewhere. Josh did not choke.

[Simon]

He missed a couple more throws than he could afford to tonight, but that is a flat out ignorant title, imo.

[SirAndrew]

1 minute ago, Matt_In_NH said:

you think the lack of QB sneak success is a measure of Josh not playing well?

Yeah the QB sneak was the difference in the game in my opinion. You can always look at a million things, but our inability to execute a simple play is why we lost. 

[zow2]

He wasn’t great but i don’t think he choked. He played against the best D-Line by far.  
Defense win championships people forget that.  We scored 29 points and lost, i mean cmon the D needs to play bigger in these huge games.

 

I told people this week it’s almost impossible to beat a very good team twice in a season.  I never want to hear about regular season wins vs KC anymore. All it does is amp up the Chiefs to beat us in the playoffs. 

[colin]

Josh made mistakes for sure.

 

His biggest weaknesses are passes down the field outside the numbers (awful we talent contributes to that bigly) and identify blitzes (bottom tier play by Torrence and playing vs spags hurts that bigly too).  So what did our first season starting oc (how the hell do we have these OC and DC clowns if we want to win a chip?) do?  Took us out of our advantage running cook and did nothing to make some easy quick plays vs the blitz.

[Chugga]

We lost our identity tonight and we lost because of it.  All season long we’ve leaned on the run game.  Tonight we did not.  And it wasn’t for lack of success as James Cook ran for 85 yards on 13 carries.

 

Brady failed this offense tonight.  Not Josh.  You don’t even get jittery Josh tonight if the game starts with Cook ripping off 6.5 yards a carry like he did all game.

[Aussie Joe]

Choke is probably too strong ..  

 

he had some help tonight with Cook … but couldn’t get it done in the end …

 

Eventually one of the dopes in the division is going to wake up and challenge the Bills

 

 

Edited Monday at 04:25 AM by Aussie Joe

[Scott7975]

He didn't have a perfect game but he didn't choke either. The guy had a hell of a game outside a few throws.

[SoCal Deek]

You get the ball with over three minutes left. This shouldn’t come down to Josh throwing up a prayer to get a simple first down. Did Kincaid drop it…yep. And he has been nothing short of disappointing. But Josh needs to make the plays on first, second and third downs before it ever came down to it. Choke? No. But unable to close the deal AGAIN….most certainly. His legacy is being cemented season after season after season after season. 

[Andrew Son]

I was hoping he might have one good game this postseason