Going into this season I had this as an "L", but didn't expect this blood bath. Still will be tied for 1st place.. Next game at home vs Pittsburgh on Sunday Night football.
Well, this team better show improvement during this season, but unfortunately our lines suck, and Patrick Graham will most likely be the one getting fired.
He targeted Hooper twice and Tucker once. Everyone else were 3rd and 4th reads after either pressure or good coverage. We've had the ball 17 minutes because of both bad defense and not being able to sustain drives. We haven't been able to sustain drives because of bad play calling AND bad execution. Maybe you drank the Kool aid and are too enamored with the bling like Davis but McDaniels isnt immune from criticism. We haven't played well...this isn't a dispute. At the same time, the play calling outside of the first drive (which are scripted plays) has been bad. It has been uncreative, it's been vanilla, and at times it's been just dumb. This is a total team failure and he's the fucking head coach and it starts with him. This team wasn't ready to play and the execution AND play calling have shown that
This game should have been a L. We will see how they recover from this. They are 1-1 and have a long season ahead of them. A professional team should be able to bounce back and not let this bring them down.
Blame the coaches.
Blame the players.
Geez.
The fact is we were overmatched. We played one of the league’s top 2 or 3 teams at their very loud home stadium. They have a great team. We don’t.
Their offensive line dominated our defensive line. Diggs matched against rookie Bennett was a mismatch the Bills took advantage of — often. Josh Allen, an elite QB, played even better than he normally does.
Our offensive line failed to create holes. Their DTs got a steady push.
Bennett will be a good player, but he isn’t there yet. Facyson was out, as was Chandler Jones. Our D will be better than it performed today.
You’re never as bad as your worst game and you’re never as good as your best game. That’s the NFL. Buffalo got rolling early because of the INT caused by their DL.
Our players never gave up, though.
Give a great team three turnovers and they will beat you. Actually, they will destroy you.
We battled and lost. Our young players will get better. We won’t play Buffalo at the top of its game every week.
We gave up 0 sacks although we allowed pressure. We got two sacks against an elite QB and a good OL.
Garrapolo threw for two thirds as many yards as Allen although Allen threw nearly twice as many passes.
Even in losss, there are glimmers of hope. We played a great team, lost badly but battled. We are an average team nowbthat will be good by the end of the year if we don’t have a lot of injuries.
Still think 9-8 or 10-7 are possible. Very possible.
Last edited by raiderman41; 09-17-2023 at 12:26 PM.