How is it we can beat the Chiefs in the regular season but not the post season ??

[JerseyBills]

I mean, we're talking about literally 1 or 2 plays in the postseason,  not like they're blowing us out, minus 2020. 

 

It's literally 1 or 2 plays away 🤷‍♂️

[Buffalo Barbarian]

24 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

So I posted earlier a play the Bills always run. The Chiefs blitzed the CB and ended the game.

 

Here’s the other side of the ball.

 

 

 

We need to start doing the same things

 

 

[gobills404]

Hailee Steinfeld isn’t famous enough

[colin]

the bills are a stupid team.  the chiefs are a smart team.

 

we have allen and cook and some ballers here and there, and they play their butts off and when things are new and open and not predictable, we play loose and well enough to beat them over and over in the regular season.

 

in the playoffs, the chiefs study what we have been doing and create plays to defeat what we do, and our coaches are scared and just do what they do with maybe the odd small variation.  we see this in the regular season vs other teams, we get off to a slow start and allow early scores and then adjust based on what we saw.  

 

most egregiously, our low iq coaching staff keeps trying things that have not worked, or that the d is clearly prepared for (being predictable based on down and distance and formation, tush push, empty sets on high leverage downs) and we LOVE to get away from what is working (see Cook, James).  defensive time outs and challenging hopeless plays, but no challenging stuff like the spot on the kinkaid 3rd down when we were up 1, the deep kick and defensive calls in the 13 seconds game, the fake punt w hamlin, the aj klien lead D. 

 

look at it this way, if some other team had an absolute top level qb and their head coach was a defensive guy who's ds were always absolutely terrible in playoff losses and they did things like the hamlin fake punt and 13 seconds, would you think their coaching was good? 

[GoBills808]

because we get tight in the biggest moments

 

our guys suffocate under pressure and theirs are empowered by it. the chiefs are able to play better in the big spots

[Stretch]

Defensive injuries, luck, and coaching in that order are the cause.

[GASabresIUFan]

Home field.  The Bills need to have a completely dominate season, secure the 1st overall seed.  

 

Edited Monday at 09:11 PM by GASabresIUFan

[UKBillFan]

4 minutes ago, GASabresIUFan said:

Home field.  The Bills need to have a completely dominate season, secure the 1st overall seed.  

 

 

That hardly worked out last year.

[The Frankish Reich]

4 minutes ago, UKBillFan said:

 

That hardly worked out last year.

If home field means we had the bye … absolutely important. 

[GASabresIUFan]

5 minutes ago, UKBillFan said:

 

That hardly worked out last year.

 

Just now, The Frankish Reich said:

If home field means we had the bye … absolutely important. 

Home field means a bye and hosting the AFC Championship game.  

[Warriorspikes51]

cursed franchise 

[UKBillFan]

2 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

If home field means we had the bye … absolutely important. 

 

1 minute ago, GASabresIUFan said:

 

Home field means a bye and hosting the AFC Championship game.  

 

Oh yeah, that's true. And if it feels like the Chiefs scraped through every game in the regular season to get this far. They scraped through yesterday's game too.

[Big Turk]

2 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

cursed franchise 

 

Honestly starting to feel that way...

 

Look at all the franchises around sports in the last 5-10 years that won it's first championship in franchise history or hadn't won in like 70+ years. 

 

It never seems like it's going to be our turn for whatever reason.

[Freddie's Dead]

Because the games don't count.  When the chips are down in the playoffs, the Chiefs players ball out, and the Bills players choke.

[Steptide]

Notice how much better kc looked these last few weeks? They either plan it that way, or the players just know how to turn it on come playoffs. The bills on the other hand, seem to have went the opposite way. I was saying it all week, but we needed that offense we saw in the lions and rams game. Instead we got a more conservative, stick with the plan, type of game, which Imo is a great blueprint to lose. While the game was close, how many fricken times were you gonna try that tush push to the left when it was very apparent that kc had very much game planned for it? Josh had some ridiculous throws in this game, so it wasn't all bad, but where was that eye of the tiger we saw in the lions game or the rams game. Does McDermott still not know who he's up against? Also, something else I've kinda said during the season, but why wait to make adjustments on offense or defense until half? Just make them and take control of the game 

[Magox]

- Andy Reid Schemes up good plays against our defense

- Mahomes is great at reading the defense pre snap and is able to get out the pass very quickly to that first read for typically an easy 8 yarder  (Reminds me of Brady)

- When the combo of Andy and Mahomes scheme and execute that quickly it takes out the edge rushers effectiveness

- Spags dials up great blitzes in high leverage moments

- KC typically converts in high leverage moments just a tad more efficiently than the Bills 

 

Yes, the ref spotted the ball incorrectly which very well may have changed the outcome of the game, but even so the Bills were stuffed on 4 Tush push's that is more than they were stuffed all year.  Gotta tip your hat to them scheming and executing that play incredibly well.   

 

Kincaid made a huge drop, with that catch the Bills would have been in the drivers seat with a 1st down at the 35 yard line with just under 2 minutes to play and 2 timeouts.   With that said, the Spags blitz was executed perfectly, it completely fooled Josh pre snap and Josh had to make an incredible play (which he did) to beat it, unfortunately Kincaid didn't come down with the ball.  But even before then, it shouldn't have gotten to a 4th and 5 situation and the Bills didn't make the plays to avoid that situation.

 

I think what drove me the craziest this game aside from KC constantly executing those quick 8 yarders throughout the game is that time and time again the roll out run for Mahomes was never stopped, you would have thought after the first time it worked that they would have not allowed that to happen but it happened 4 times and each time was a positive play for them.  Whatever happened to Milano or one of the other LB's spying Mahomes?  If you have a spy then that play doesn't work all 4 times and when the Bills did put a spy Milano ended up making a great sack on Mahomes trying to scramble away from the play.

 

I honestly think that the Bills defense needs to go back to the drawing board and change up how they play defense, a sort of defense that is tailor made against limiting the Chiefs.  Study up on what the teams that do the best against them do, look at their personnel, look at their scheme and change it up.   Tinkering around the edges or getting another piece on defense is not going to stop those quick 8 yard passes that are thrown within 2 seconds of the ball being snapped.    They need to play with tons of disguises and do something unconventional because what this defense is doing against the Chiefs just isn't working.

 

On the offensive side of the ball, the offense is right there where they need to be.   If Josh could maybe do one thing that is better than he is already doing is learn the art of the quick pass similar to Brady and Mahomes and take the quick easy yardage.  On that last drive, on the first down, Josh had the RB out wide that if he had made the throw to him it would have gotten anywhere from a minimum of 4 yards to very possibly depending on how well the ball was placed to a first down.   

 

Aside from that, you would like to see your players make clutch plays and this is two years in a row where last year Diggs makes a big drop that was hugely important to an even bigger drop by Kincaid.  When it's the 4th quarter and the game is on the line, you expect championship teams to have their players come down with those passes.    How many championships have been won by players making unbelievable grabs?  The Giants and the Patriots both had incredibly difficult and huge catches that they made.  The David Tyree catch in 2008, without that catch the Giants don't win that game.  Or Julian Edelman's catch, same thing, without it Brady has 1 less Super Bowl ring.  Those players made the plays, two years in a row now our players when given the opportunity don't.

[stevestojan]

2 hours ago, Dubie54 said:

Coaching, preparation and the ability to execute in a high pressure environment. 

What about clapping? plenty of clapping, no? 

[finn]

No one will agree with this, but I think it comes down to chance. The Bills had only a slim chance to win the first time they met KC (slim partly because a witless McDermott brought a tennis racquet to a gun fight), but they had a 98.5% chance the second time (again, McDermott stopped them), and an almost even last year and this year. (I do give McDermott credit for other things, btw.)

 

The laws of probability say that they should have won at least one of these, with a smaller chance of winning two, and a very small chance of winning three or four. Sometimes you flip a coin four times and it comes up heads each time. 

[Dubie54]

17 minutes ago, stevestojan said:

What about clapping? plenty of clapping, no? 

 Very true - can't forget the clapping.

[msw2112]

3 hours ago, Dubie54 said:

Coaching, preparation and the ability to execute in a high pressure environment. 

 

This, primarily, but also coaching and preparation.  The Chiefs called plays in key situations that kept the Bills defense guessing.  The Bills slammed it into the line again and again on short yardage when they then needed some creativity.  They also needed a quick slant to get the ball out immediately against the blitz and didn't have that one either.