Buffalo Bills Week 5 -- Buffalo (3-1) at Houston (3-1) Sun 10/6 · 1:00 PM EDT

[kirby11]

Also: McD is never going to change who he is defensively at the end of games. Going prevent when they only wanted a short gain on the last offensive play was monumentally stupid. Hell, you could give up a long gain and anything short of a TD just means you’re going to overtime since the clock will run out

 

[HaNotsri]

No challenge on the Kincaid catch confused me the most. Looked like a clean catch with both feet on the ground.

Also: McD is never going to change who he is defensively at the end of games. Going prevent when they only wanted a short gain on the last offensive play was monumentally stupid. Hell, you could give up a long gain and anything short of a TD just means you’re going to overtime

Yeah them going gor a td and running out of time was the dream scenario. If anything you should try to bait it.

 

[Dirty Dog]

I really don’t think McDermott had anything to do with that playcalling. You trust your OC not to be a baffling buffon

 

[kirby11]

Allen sucked. Coaching sucked at the end. Defense deserved much better. Such a Billsy loss that happen far too often under McD.

Another issue is Shakir is literally their only consistent man coverage beater as a pass catcher. Allen stunk, but the WRs just rarely get open at all, even on scramble drills where they should be at an advantage

 

[WeDislikeEich]

He's a solid coach, but I am concerned he's never going to get them over the hump. He's just so painfully bad in critical moments, and his time management leaves a lot to be desired. Problem is, you're way more likely to find a failure of a head coach than a solid coach like McD.

That’s what scares me most about moving on from McDermott - thinking about Pegula picking a new coach. McDermott’s basically his one good hire between both Buffalo teams. I’d say Beane too but I think McDermott had more to do with that hiring than Pegula.

I wonder if Pegula would give Beane a chance to pick a head coach or if he’d fire everyone?

I’m not saying they should move on from McDermott yet. I still think he’s a good coach with a lot of good qualities and that we could do a whole lot worse. But eventually a change is going to come if the Bills keep coming up short. I view this year as a reset year though. I can’t think of any teams that were legit Super Bowl contenders with $60+ million in dead cap space that season. Not to mention the defense is currently missing like half of their starters. I don’t see McDermott being on the hot seat this year, but who knows I guess.

 

[TheStorm]

Oh man they play Monday night next week....

 

[Dirty Dog]

Second week in a row with a galaxy sized blunder with offensive playcalling. Someone is coming off like a 34 year old trying to learn to coach.

Hate wasting Allen years with that

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843023198516105645

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843021462669807763

McDermott and co. already starting to get rightly skewered.

And some more:

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843027817052983685

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Well, at least there's the Sabre's...

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843023198516105645

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843021462669807763

McDermott and co. already starting to get rightly skewered.

Marvin Lewis

 

[zenthusiast]

I don’t think Joe Brady is an idiot but I do think he’s just one of many guys in Josh’s career who will get a gig he isn’t ready for because of Josh’s caliber. If it’s not working now, cut bait sooner rather than later

 

[SabresFan26]

That’s what scares me most about moving on from McDermott - thinking about Pegula picking a new coach. McDermott’s basically his one good hire between both Buffalo teams. I’d say Beane too but I think McDermott had more to do with that hiring than Pegula.

I wonder if Pegula would give Beane a chance to pick a head coach or if he’d fire everyone?

I’m not saying they should move on from McDermott yet. I still think he’s a good coach with a lot of good qualities and that we could do a whole lot worse. But eventually a change is going to come if the Bills keep coming up short. I view this year as a reset year though. I can’t think of any teams that were legit Super Bowl contenders with $60+ million in dead cap space that season. Not to mention the defense is currently missing like half of their starters. I don’t see McDermott being on the hot seat this year, but who knows I guess.

I’d hope they’d let Beane pick someone else.

Samuel is a bust.

We missed Shakir.

We get 8 days now to get ready for a must win.

We should still win the AFC East but we may not win a playoff game.

I don’t think Joe Brady is an idiot but I do think he’s just one of many guys in Josh’s career who will get a gig he isn’t ready for because of Josh’s caliber. If it’s not working now, cut bait sooner rather than later

Last few weeks has shown Josh isn’t as good as we think. CJ and Lamar just showed they are better in head to head duals

 

[HaNotsri]

I really don’t think McDermott had anything to do with that playcalling. You trust your OC not to be a baffling buffon

The only way I understand it is if Brady wanted to go for the win with some kind of surprise big play. No real surprise with those three playcalls though.

 

[Dirty Dog]

I don’t think Joe Brady is an idiot but I do think he’s just one of many guys in Josh’s career who will get a gig he isn’t ready for because of Josh’s caliber. If it’s not working now, cut bait sooner rather than later

I like his scheme and he has a knack for calling run plays well which is really valuable. But also showing a hilarious lack of awareness

 

[zenthusiast]

I like his scheme and he has a knack for calling run plays well which is really valuable. But also showing a hilarious lack of awareness

I don’t disagree, in an ideal world he’d be the OC’s top guy or whatever where he could construct a run game and such. I think his fault lies in having the authority to try to prove that he’s the smartest guy in the room, which he isn’t.

I can’t imagine they anticipated him having this job for a while but with Dorsey’s meltdown they were kinda stuck

 

[sabres4ever]

Was that a window I just heard creaking slowly closed?

 

[kirby11]

The most concerning part is this is the offense McBeane *wanted to build.*

It would be one thing if the likes of Hollins and MVS were only playing this much due to multiple injuries

But they built an offense that relies on them quite a bit

Doesn’t help that:
Knox is invisible
Kincaid hasn’t taken a leap
Throwing to Samuel on anything that isn’t a screen is basically spiking the ball in the dirt on that down—and we’re paying $8M for a guy who can’t even be an effective Harty or McKenzie type gadget WR

They cannot keep trotting this group out and expect better results. Yes, Allen needs to play better too, but a lot of the issues—him holding the ball and trying to make stuff happen late in the down—stem from nobody winning on their initial routes

 

[sabresfan129103]

Have teams completely taken away the middle of the field or something? When the Bills were using the middle of the field they looked unstoppable. Now they're trying to run these low percentage routes to the outside and nothing is working.

Also, I see why Mack Hollins came cheap. If it's not right in the numbers or he has to make an adjustment under the ball then he's not making the catch.

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

I thought they did ok to get back in that game. But I don't have a lot of faith in the Bills to win close games. They had their chances, that's for sure.

 

[Willgamesh]

Houston had all their timeouts. So even if you run the ball they can stop the clock.

Even getting a few yards pushes the FG back

 

[Kupo]

Houston had all their timeouts. So even if you run the ball they can stop the clock.

Your back is averaging 4 yards a carry. Pound the ball twice. Even if he only manages 5 total yards, Texans are down to 1 TO and Allen isn’t facing 3rd and long throwing from the other teams endzone. This is the second week where we’re seeing absolute stupidity from Brady at a critical time in the game.

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Bills wide receivers had 18 targets today. they caught 4 balls. 4!!! for 76 yds and 1 TD(coleman 49 yds).

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843032581509730753

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843031939785302084

 

[ValJamesDuex]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843036218067718643

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843034429549404404

Sean McDermott’s baffling decision making late costs Bills in loss to Texans (Encouraged/worried)

Josh Allen and the Bills offense looked out of sync all game long.

www.newyorkupstate.com

 

[tsujimoto74]

Two biggest take-aways for me this week:

1. That was a putrid performance by the offense. We’ve got a lot more Ls coming this season if they’re gonna keep doing that.

2. McDermott still hasn’t and probably never will learn his lesson about clock and TO management. I’ve lost count of how many games he’s cost us with his time management decisions, but it’s way too many.

 

[Djp]

Your back is averaging 4 yards a carry. Pound the ball twice. Even if he only manages 5 total yards, Texans are down to 1 TO and Allen isn’t facing 3rd and long throwing from the other teams endzone. This is the second week where we’re seeing absolute stupidity from Brady at a critical time in the game.

I understand what they were trying to fo.

If buffalo was going yuuu o run as Houston expected. Maybe uh err y get s 2st but forcing houston to use their timeouts. Buffalo ffg orsnt get 2sy th err y punt. Houston has b as ll as rrg found mid girls with 20 seconds left snf no tu ime outs. They could have done an out pass to get to 40-45 and get s FG chance.

If you do longer passes you could burn more clock. I dony know if part of their syrstrgh was fo 8 or do a snap then thf punt would be the final play

 

[Willgamesh]

Two biggest take-aways for me this week:

1. That was a putrid performance by the offense. We’ve got a lot more Ls coming this season if they’re gonna keep doing that.

2. McDermott still hasn’t and probably never will learn his lesson about clock and TO management. I’ve lost count of how many games he’s cost us with his time management decisions, but it’s way too many.

Keon is the only new WR worth anything MVS,Samuel and Hollins are all awful. Also can we have Samuel possibly run a slant or did he tell the team he will only catch screens for negative yards.