• papajim22@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Something tells me that in 5-10 years, Secret Base is going to do one of their Collapse videos on the Josh Allen Buffalo Bills, and the 13 seconds game is going to be the fulcrum of it all.

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      10 months ago

      Imo Collapse videos are becoming scarcer (I think they’re more expensive to produce and research), so they only save it for largely successful teams like the 2011 Giants or Patriots. I feel like they’d do a Deep Rewind since you don’t have to do as extensive and prolonged research

  • terminator3456@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I actually find the Bills really likable and Josh Allen is so fun to watch but them getting spanked in the playoffs last year by Cincinnati, at home, after having the game cancelled and all the Damar Hamlin hype was really……pathetic and I am convinced they will never win anything.

    They just don’t have it, and they don’t seem to really want it either.

    • TheUrbanExploration@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      Something has just felt off about them ever since the Bengals playoff game, from the Diggs comments to McDermott’s weird handling of the situation.

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    10 months ago

    To me, the game looked like it boiled down to Bills causing too many turnovers for their injured defense to keep up with.

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      10 months ago

      i came in here to make a similar comment, except use the music city miracle. that play was also 13 seconds long and they didn’t make the playoffs for 18 years after.

    • WhatsIsMyName@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      Lol by “collapse” are they really talking about maybe the greatest QB duel game of all time?

      I wouldn’t exactly call it a collapse. Unless we are going to say that both defenses collapsed multiple times in the 4th quarter.

    • Yeeeoow@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      Thank you.

      I tried to point out that the Broncos played the games of their lives on Monday and the Bills subreddit is not having it.

      They’re acting like we were thoroughly destroyed by a winless team.

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        10 months ago

        Bills had an int that went through a WR’s hands, Allen fumbled a handoff, you had 12 men on the field on a missed field goal that would have won you the game.

        I think the worry comes from you guys shooting yourselves in the foot repeatedly, yet still having a chance to win at the end after 4 turnovers, then still fucking up the easiest part of the game, putting 11 or fewer guys on the field.

        the Bills averages 3 more yards per play than the broncos. you averages 7 yards per carry. You guys should have won that game by a couple scores.

      • sopunny@alien.topB
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        10 months ago

        Bills made some really bad errors that had nothing to do with how the Broncos were playing

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        10 months ago

        Well you lost to the Jets and the Pats before this, and are the single team in the league that made Mac Jones look confident and comfortable this year.

      • Comprehensive_Main@alien.topB
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        10 months ago

        I mean they played out of their minds yet the bills still would have won if not for a 12 man infraction. Fact is the bills lost this game due to turnovers and penalties not because the broncos were better

    • Prideofmexico@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      They’re 5-5 and lost to New England. They were a missed DPI call away from losing to a horrific giants team.

  • JT1757@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I had to hear about how Allen outplayed Mahomes head to head, and how he was the best QB in the league that whole off season.

    Welp.

    • BendubzGaming@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      No you didn’t. What you heard was that Bills-Chiefs, like Pats-Chiefs three years prior when you were on the other end of things, was a perfect example of why the OT rules needed changing.

      When both offenses are obliterating (5 consecutive scoring drives to end regulation in both games), it is borderline malpractice to leave it entirely up to a coinflip to decide which defence is being sent as lambs to the slaughter

  • Biggest_Cans@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    teehee I don’t really agree with any of this but it’s a fun narrative that makes us look cool so I won’t explain why it’s wrong

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    10 months ago

    The real twist here is that Daboll is with the Giants, and while is not the OC, as a HC he’s fielding arguably the worst offense in the league. Whether it’s Jones, Taylor, or DeVito, the offense just is not getting it done.

  • JackSwader@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Allen doesn’t really have weapons outside of Diggs rn. That being said, he’s always played a Favre-esq style of ball that could either help or doom the team. I think defenses have kind of figured out that once you take away Diggs, Allen tries to hero ball it.

    • GandalfTheSilverFox@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      I think the hero ball is the issue regardless of the players. On Monday, the Bills went on 75 yard drive to take the lead w 2 minutes left in the game and Allen didn’t throw a single pass.

      If Josh Allen can’t be successful without more great players, he should renegotiate his contract to take less money so the Bills can get better players.

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        10 months ago

        The issue is the same as Mahomes is facing now, that outside of one great target and a promising rookie, Allen doesn’t have reliable targets to throw to. The most basic, stock-standard WR2 and 3s you could imagine would be an upgrade for him. Davis isn’t a good WR2 and Shakir doesn’t feature much.

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          10 months ago

          Look at what Deshaun Watson did on the road vs a much better defense than the Broncos.

          His weapons were Amari Cooper, David Njoku, Elijah Moore, and Jerome Ford (and they were down to their 4th and 5th string tackles). Allen’s group is as good or better than that, and he isn’t doing too well. Why? Bc he turns the ball over (leads the league). He’s had an interception in like 5 straight games. The pick he threw vs the Bengals had absolutely nothing to do with the quality of his wide receiver. Pass catchers have nothing to do with him fumbling the ball.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t understand why teams don’t use good TEs like the chiefs use Kelce. Ofc Kelce is GOATed (outside Gronk maybe) but I feel like OCs should scheme them in wayyyy more. Like I’m talking 10+ targets a game, but I haven’t looked at Kincaid’s numbers tbf

      • JackSwader@alien.topB
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        10 months ago

        Sure, he’s solid, but I wouldn’t call him a weapon yet. Gabe Davis was supposed to be that #2 guy after that playoff game he had against y’all, but that’s looking like a pipe dream now.

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      10 months ago

      Wow, have not heard that excuse for Allen before. It could be so much worse than the group of skill players he has

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    10 months ago

    I don’t buy it

    Teams have overcome way worse playoff losses

    They are regressing, but that tends to happen when you finally have to pay your QB.

    Chiefs “regressed” when we let go of Tyreek Hill, everyone just forgot because we won the SB that year.

    • The_Godfather5@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      Eh It’s more like they’re draft picks haven’t been too stellar and their defense is just constantly injured. Combine that with the fact that Allen just wants to make the flashy play/ be the hero and it’s not exactly a winning recipe to say the least.

      • repeat4EMPHASIS@alien.topB
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        10 months ago

        Allen just wants to make the flashy play/ be the hero

        Or he feels he has to because of the draft picks not panning out and the defense being injured

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          10 months ago

          It’s just a shit piece written by someone who is trying too hard to make a connection that doesn’t exist. Don’t try to make sense of the senseless.

    • v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      Chiefs have a better QB, better coach and did a smart thing by investing in D (by drafting amazingly well) to make up for their offense being not as explosive

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        10 months ago

        The Chiefs got “lucky” that they have been very good at drafting. Hitting on players like McDuffie, Pacheco, Humphrey, Sneed etc. They basically have gotten like 2 starters out of each draft which is a pretty good rate for a team that is picking in the bottom 5 each year.

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          10 months ago

          Veach has been great at drafting defensive players and OL (and QB per the narrative that he was the guy pounding the table for Mahomes throughout 2016 and 2017), but man, his miss rate on offensive skill players is his biggest weakness. Hardman has been only ever mediocre, Skyy Moore is looking like a bust, and let’s not talk about Clyde. Pacheco is his only real hit, and unfortunately he’s in a low-impact position.

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            10 months ago

            Rice at least looks like he could be pretty good if you guys would utilize him correctly. not Tyreek by any means, but who is really

  • Swarzey@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    It’s not the 13 second game (even though our game last year showed they didn’t learn from it before half time), they simply went all in last season to win a Super Bowl and for numerous reasons mostly unfortunate, tragic even, it didn’t work out. What the 2023 Bills are is what happens when you go all in and it doesn’t pay off. Paid off for the Bucs, paid off for the Rams, it’s the Naked Man of the NFL.

    As long as they have Josh Allen, they’ll be fine as a franchise, for this current team it might just not have meant to be.

    • EdwinSpangler1@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      Lol they lost half their defense to injury and have the worst starting drive position because of it.

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      10 months ago

      At least for a lot of Bills fans, the not learning is the biggest issue. 13 seconds is a great example because we let up an end of half field goal in 12 (!!!) seconds the very next time we played you guys. But it’s way more than that- we’re still relying on retread players and aging vets. Poyer and Hyde were all pros two years ago but Poyer was in and out of the lineup last year and Hyde was gone after week 2 so who do they move on to? No one, and now they’re both in and out. Gabe Davis is the biggest winner of 13 seconds, but he’s flat out not good and we’ve done nothing to challenge him for WR2. We brought back Shaq Lawson and Jordan Phillips who were here before, we didn’t want to pay, and then came back after they didn’t play up to the contracts they were given, but surely they’ll be better than they were when we let them walk. We finally had some success on offense going up tempo against the Buccaneers, then abandoned it and struggled against the Bengals (McDermott on why we went away from it: “I’m not really sure”), and still stayed away against the Broncos. Dorsey’s scheme was basic last year and it didn’t improve this year and it’s the same problems. Diggs not being involved enough, 2nd and long shotgun runs, etc. The offense even started to stall out the same time last season. The first several years under McDermott you could see his growth as a coach, but over the last couple it’s been the same thing every season, the same answers after bad games, the same mistakes every time, and the team seems less invested and more disinterested than I’ve ever seen them. Josh Allen’s turnovers are a problem, but what worries me more is he just seems apathetic, that comes back to coaching too. People were saying McDermott couldn’t get over the hump after 13 seconds, but I didn’t really believe that until he just totally stopped growing as a coach since then. Unfortunately, I think it’s time to move on

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      10 months ago

      “The Naked Man of the NFL” is too damn good. Easily one of my favorite episodes. Takes a little bit of the sting out of being the 1/3 lol.

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      10 months ago

      They went all in? All I remember is the Von Miller signing. What other stuff did they do? It was it mostly cap stuff?

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        10 months ago

        I’d say so, yeah. This wasn’t a team that needed to make a number of big signings or trades, but the Miller contract and Diggs extension have definitely put them in a position where they don’t really have a whole lot of wiggle room without having to lose a number of big names on the defense in FA this coming offseason. The Knox contract, as big of a fan of his as I am, isn’t really paying off either.

        Their cap situation was very much designed around winning a Super Bowl in 22 or 23 at the expense of the next few years.

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          10 months ago

          I would also say it’s the fact 3 of our pro bowlers on defense are out for the season in very key positions