Buffalo Bills Week 15: New England (3-11) at Buffalo (11-3), 12/22, 4:25 PM (flexed), CBS

[misterchainsaw]

I live how the 17-3 win over the Ravens (where the go ahead TD was defensive) is just papered over. Prove you wrong? You just did that yourself.

Some of you deserve to go back to the drought years.

 

[SharkInABoloTie]

I live how the 17-3 win over the Ravens (where the go ahead TD was defensive) is just papered over. Prove you wrong? You just did that yourself.

Some of you deserve to go back to the drought years.

McDermott regularly can't beat teams with great quarterbacks. Sorry for stating facts. Take the blinders off.

 

[misterchainsaw]

McDermott regularly can't beat teams with great quarterbacks. Sorry for stating facts. Take the blinders off.

Great QB's are difficult to beat regularly. That's why they're great. Allen was in position to beat Mahomes last year and couldn't get it done. The playoff meeting before it was decided by who won the coin toss.

We've beaten Mahomes four straight times in the regular season. Can't beat great QB's my ass.

And yeah, you want to excuse the Ravens game by their playoff history. We scored more defensive points than Baltimore scored on offense, and it's a good thing, too, because the offense was terrible that day. NO ONE has done that to Lamar in the NFL in the playoffs except us. I'm not sure anyone's even done that to Lamar in any of his regular season games.

 

[Dirty Dog]

You danced around my point. As head coach, McDermott has not defeated a team with a high end quarterback in the playoffs.

No dancing here. He has faced three high end quarterbacks, Lamar, Mahomes, and burrow. They beat Lamar…with a great defensive performance

They played Mahomes down to the wire two out of three times.

His teams consistently roll over and die when facing them.

Except the defensive performances against Lamar and Mahomes, last year. Right

His job is to win games, including in the playoffs. Being .500 in the postseaon is not what I would call winning at an incredible rate and I don't see the logic in maligning those fans for having an expectation of postseason success. A win in the wild card round and then bowing out is not success. Should I congratulate him for squeaking out wins against a Dolphins team playing their 3rd QB? Or against a brink of retirement Rivers? How about the Steelers 2nd string QB? You know what, since you mentioned it, Bravo to Sean for beating the choke artist Ravens on an incredible play by Taron. You sure showed everyone when you followed that up with an incredible ass kicking by the Chiefs.

Yes, you should congratulate how McDermott has turned this franchise around. Congratulate him with how much he wins. Congratulate him on setting the standard so high for this franchise, that you think it winning a Super Bowl in a four year span is unacceptable. What an incredible standard HE has set in you. To think that is what you expect is an indication of how good he is.

Prove me wrong.

If any coach was in the business of proving fans wrong, they’d all be out of business. All of them.

 

[SharkInABoloTie]

Great QB's are difficult to beat regularly. That's why they're great. Allen was in position to beat Mahomes last year and couldn't get it done. The playoff meeting before it was decided by who won the coin toss.

We've beaten Mahomes four straight times in the regular season. Can't beat great QB's my ass.

And yeah, you want to excuse the Ravens game by their playoff history. NO ONE has done that to Lamar in the NFL in the playoffs except us. I'm not sure anyone's even done that to Lamar in any of his regular season games.

I hear a ton of excuses. Win more than one game in the playoffs. Would you like to list the other great QBs we beat this season?

 

[misterchainsaw]

I hear a ton of excuses. Win more than one game in the playoffs. Would you like to list the other great QBs we beat this season?

We're f***ing 11-3 in what was widely regarded coming in as a rebuilding year.

How insufferable can you f***ing get?

 

[SharkInABoloTie]

We're f***ing 11-3 in what was widely regarded coming in as a rebuilding year.

How insufferable can you f***ing get?

This is such a loser city that expecting more than a single win in this post season is insufferable. Sean has a weakness, its teams who can sling the ball. I don't understand why that fact upsets you lot.

 

[misterchainsaw]

This is such a loser city that expecting more than a single win in this post season is insufferable. Sean has a weakness, its teams who can sling the ball. I don't understand why that fact upsets you lot.

No, loser cities force coaches like McDermott out when immediate gratification isn't had. And then they go back to actually losing a lot.

 

[Dirty Dog]

This is such a loser city that expecting more than a single win in this post season is insufferable. Sean has a weakness, its teams who can sling the ball. I don't understand why that fact upsets you lot.

it isn’t a fact. You’re ignoring every fact to the contrary

 

[zenthusiast]

The margins to win any game is small. I don’t understand the argument that it is any smaller in the postseason other than you are playing exclusively good teams. But the bills have been highly successful the last five years against good teams, it’s not like the Bills look any different in the playoffs.

You all really don’t think McDermott has the coaching ability to beat KC last year where we lost by three points where our defense was decimated. If you don’t think he is good enough to win that game, why not for that game. If you do think he is good enough to win that game, why don’t you think is good enough to win the last two games after being good enough to beat KC?

Well yeah, it’s that they’re playing good teams, and they haven’t been successful against good teams in the playoffs outside of a win 4 years ago against the Ravens. Since that win, they’ve lost by two scores to KC, obliterated the Mac Jones patriots, fumbled away a victory against KC, barely beat the Skylar Thompson fins, got embarrassed by the Bengals, beaten Kenny Pickett Steelers by two scores, and lost close to KC (though statistically, a little fortunate to be that close).

To answer the question you pose, I don’t think his coaching will be the reason that they win a championship. It’s Josh’s play that will do it, and that’s fine! You can win with a coach who handles business and doesn’t err when the heat is on. I don’t trust him not to do that.

 

[zenthusiast]

This is such a loser city that expecting more than a single win in this post season is insufferable. Sean has a weakness, its teams who can sling the ball. I don't understand why that fact upsets you lot.

Every defense is worse against good quarterbacks. The gap is just more significant for our defense.

 

[zenthusiast]

If we didn’t have an absolute superstar in his prime slinging it, the timing wouldn’t matter as much. But if they go out in the divisional or in a multi-score loss in the AFC championship again, how much longer do you let them go without tweaking the formula?

 

[1TuchAnd1NoTuch]

If we didn’t have an absolute superstar in his prime slinging it, the timing wouldn’t matter as much. But if they go out in the divisional or in a multi-score loss in the AFC championship again, how much longer do you let them go without tweaking the formula?

I mean it was a reset year. I’d absolutely stay the course and reload for next year.

 

[zenthusiast]

I mean it was a reset year. I’d absolutely stay the course and reload for next year.

It might have been the fan expectation going into the year but the quarterback is playing like the best player in football. If he maintains this level and they don’t progress forward from their usual standard, that’s failure.