Welcome back to the Buffalo bread podcast. We are going to wallow in sorrow for a second
streak week as the Buffalo bills fell short in the last waning seconds of a game that
they had no business being in at all. Kind of the whole way through against the Houston
Texans in energy stadium in Houston, Texas and the the Stefan digs revenge matchup is
complete with with Stefan digs squad coming out on top. Josh Allen looking absolutely
pitiful and I I don't know what to do with my hands, Dan.
That's such a good tell a tell a dig a nice reference. I I would have been watching that
movie almost nonstop for some reason. It's always on TV when I turn it on. Freakin Ricky
Bobby all time great NASCAR driver. What was not all time great JJ was the performance
out of the bills in this game. And it's interesting for a lot of reasons. But I think most notably,
if you are a believer in that Stefan digs forced his way out of there because he was his relationship
with Josh's deteriorated because the coaching the coaching staff didn't seem to value him
in the scheme anymore. And because he didn't have confidence that this was the staff that
was going to get them over the Kansas City Chiefs home. Everything around digs departure
was proven to be on the side of Stefan in this game. Josh had his worst game as a pro worst
game as a pro set an NFL low mark for pass passing percentage completion percentage with
30 attempts or more over. Stefan digs literally out gained every single wide receivers combined
reception yards total from Josh on the Buffalo Bills offense 82 to 74 and that included a
49 yard TD run reception by Keon Coleman. That includes that long run JJ this one came
up all Stefan digs. That's not the part I'm most healthy about. And this is where I want
to start with you. This it this feels like or like a season after season a broken record.
It feels like we're caught in the same cycle year after year after year. Bills get off to
a hot start. They inexplicably lose a couple of games seem to lose all semblance of what
their identity is offensively and defensively an injury here a penalty there. And they're
right back to being 500 at some point in the middle of the season needing to win out in
order to even be competitive in the division. We saw it last year. We saw it the year before
we saw it in 2021. Like I don't know what it is because they've turned over the roster.
They've turned over the coordinator spots. I am led to believe that we are on this same
roller coaster ride of ebbs and flows because of our head coach eight years in. I want to
start talking about the coaching decisions that were made in this game particularly
at the end of the game with the way that final bills possession regulation was handled when
they were backed up into their own territory and chose to pass three times.
Yeah. I mean we can start there. It was terribly terribly mishandled. I think that you know
it's like the classic Marv Levy quote you know when you call a plane it doesn't work
you should have done the other thing is a way that I think that Sean McDermott could
have played that off because I guess if I'm going to play Devils advocate this in this
regards Sean McDermott is the devil that putting the ball in Josh Allen's hands and saying
we absolutely need to get a first down and the best way to do that is passing the ball.
I get the logic. I get the logic. The part of it that is absolute asinine to me and mismanagement
is that to that point in the game Josh Allen and the offense in general the wide receivers
in in particular the offensive line in particular and then Josh Allen's actual decision making
all it had proven up to that point is that they were not going to get it done and in
the gotta have it moments the offensive design was literally having Marquez Valdes Ganttling
go one on one with an elite corner in Derek Stingley for like a comeback route deep comeback.
It was trying to feed a ball to Keon Coleman on a slant that he was the only person on
the field who didn't know he was the hot read on. It was it was so disjointed and Josh Allen
was making very pissed poor decisions in addition to very poor throws he was inaccurate over
and over and over again. And I think that that's the that's the thing that I want to
like just note here is so much of Bill's mafia is like this is Sean McDermott's fault. This
is what and I do think it is. I think that this is the same you know epidemic of issues
and decision making we've seen come up time and again the Broncos game with you know too
many men on the field the Philadelphia Eagles game that they lost last year 13 seconds the
playoff game against Houston like various times that the bills have played the wrong
exactly the wrong way or with the wrong orientation to win a game because they're kind of scared
or cowardly or whatever the decisions are that all being said. I think that in this scenario
the lack of management was just not recognizing that at this time in this place in the game
Josh Allen wasn't going to get it done for you. And I know again nobody wants to criticize
Josh Allen because what he's done for the team the city he is amazing. I you should
know if you listen to this pod that I believe in him. But he had a really terrible game
he was making bad throws. And if I'm the coach I need to recognize that my quarterback isn't
doing it and do something else give it handed off to James Cook handed off to Ray Davis
I mean hand off to Ty Johnson like just give the ball do a jet sweep to Curtis Samuel who's
been completely ineffective like do something else than just continuously throwing the ball
three times take 19 seconds off the clock use none of the opponents timeouts and then
give them a chance to go and kick the game winning field goal which of course they end
up doing.
I could forgive taking a shot on first down I really could because Josh to your point had
not had a good game at that point the minute that they run four seconds off the clock with
that play and it's an incomplete pass and they stop the clock you have to be Sean McDermott
being on your headset to Joe Brady and being like yeah we're running it we need to make
them use some of their timeouts we need to put Sam Martin into position where he can
punt them way the hell out of field goal range and we need to play for overtime I mean JJ
forget forget that passing the ball stopped the clock and for and didn't force Houston
use any of its timeouts and put them in very very good field position like there was also
the high risk nature of some of those play calls and some of those past poor decisions
that Josh made that could have led to a turnover deep in their own territory which also would
have solidified a defeat in regulation as well.
That is the thing that last season you and I were saying this is why we want to see Sean
McDermott give up defensive play calling because he is an excellent defensive coordinator
but he has not a great game decision manager and being the defensive play caller is an
additional distraction lat for him that he needs to give up he's given it up his entire
focus should be on managing these decisions and managing these situations and yet still
we see failure after failure and the failure is always a domino effect to me that starts
with the coaches Brady is a really a first time brand new offensive coordinator I don't
really count a lot of his stint in Carolina because of the dysfunction there right but
he is still a young offensive play caller calling plays largely for the first time as
a head coach with game with game situation experience under your belt you've got to get
on the headset to your OC after you see that first pass and be like no no no no no no this
is not what we're playing for at this point and it didn't happen and I appreciate Sean
McDermott taking accountability for that because he needs to take accountability for that but
I'm also sick of hearing that same post game speech over and over where we got to get better
we got to get better JJ they never get better in these situations the Buffalo Bills under
Sean McDermott and this includes this year are 11 and 15 and one score games 11 and
15 the Denver game the Minnesota game from two years ago the giant the day ball Giants
return game that they won somehow miraculously but was littered with poor coaching decision
in conservative and tight coaching all of you can run down the list the Jaguars game
from three the herb where they gave urban Meyer one of his only two career wins that he'll
ever have in the NFL you can go over and over down the list you are supposed to regress
back to the mean season after season on one loss game one score games because it's largely
a luck metric the bills have been inherently unlucky in these situations over and over
again and approves it in the stats and to me it is because we have a head coach that continually
fumbles the bag in these situations like there's a lot of reasons the bills lost that game
individually but when you zoom out and you look at the larger trends they continually
lose these types of games because the decisions of the coaching staff sure so and I know you
have that opinion and you're not alone in that opinion I think the voices about Sean
McDermott not having them the metal to get it done in those key moments are absolutely
loud and you know maybe I'm just jaded because I don't disagree with those voices I think
it's that's absolutely true I think there was that huge hit piece that Tyler Dunn did
against Sean McDermott last year where he named you know anonymous sources which take
that for what it's worth talking about being in you know close proximity to Sean McDermott
being on the team former employees former players etc saying that Sean McDermott coaches
scare that he's always so tight intense and like he grips too hard and then he makes mistakes
and I don't know how true the quotes were whatever he referenced in that article but
it's it's observable like it's what we've seen and I think that your points about being
so you know poor and one score games is absolutely valid and this is the part that I referenced
about being jaded he has such he's the winningest coach in Bill's history over Marv Leevy over
Chuck Knox over championship caliber coaches for the bills he reports to Terry Pugla who
has a is not Jerry Jones does not have a super strong voice as far as we know in the room
with managing this team and how they how they function how they operate tends to leave things
to his to his team to determine on a day by day basis and Sean McDermott through the course
of his winning you know winning ways has brought the team to the two you know for consecutive
AFC's championships to the playoffs five of the last six years there six the last seven
there's all kinds of things you can point to to say that he is one of the most successful
coaches in the NFL that is true it can also be true that he absolutely bungles big moments
and critical and makes makes up decisions that result in critical losses the part that
worries me and I think is absolutely true I can I bet money on this is that Sean McDermott
is going to remain the Buffalo Bills coach because of his personal relationship with
Brandon Bean because Terry Pugla likes winning but you know and is is not doesn't seem to
be the kind of owner who's going to just like acts the the leadership if they cannot get
over the hump as long as they're continuously winning the AFC's and going to playoffs etc
winning a playoff game every year I just think that Sean McDermott is going to work his way
through Josh Allen's prime and he will be fired after Josh Allen is no longer an elite
quarterback maybe after he retires and can't cover up for his errors and blunders Sean
McDermott is going to have his own coaching tree he's going to produce head coaches like
Dabal who go out and coach elsewhere which is going to add to his legacy however tarnished
it may be and I just think that's the story of this team and and Sean McDermott is like
and he'll probably finish his career in Buffalo as the winningest coach in Buffalo Bills history
and you know maybe people look back on time fondly because it was great to have Josh Allen
as your quarterback and they did win AFC East over and over and they did win playoff games
I just don't think he's got it to win a championship if I'll say this if he is the absolute decider
in any moment that results in them winning or losing a Super Bowl they will lose it because
of Sean McDermott it will have to be the kind of thing where Doug Peterson his ineptitude
as a coach could not overcome the incredible resilience and team spirit of that locker
room and Philly when they beat the Patriots to get them that win you know what I mean
like it in an event where it comes down to McDermott they'll lose I think and you know
I put this takeout into the ether on social media we got some really interesting listener
interaction stuff on this and JJ you brought up a point early on about McDermott effectively
raising the floor of this organization with culture and with winning and the production
they've had in the regular season and there listen I got a I got a lot of very awesome
and challenging takes that were in opposition to my take that we needed to move on from McDermott
McDermott up until this season from 2021 to 2023 has had I'll even include the COVID season
of 2020 if you want to he has had top 10 offensive and defensive units by DVOA by efficiency
by success rate by EPA pick your metric how many other head coaches in NFL history have
had consistently teams performing at that high of a level execution wise that haven't
been able to make at least one Super Bowl right the question you're asking we have to
ask ourselves isn't who what who is going to replace the floor McDermott has given
us because I think it's valid but I think it's the wrong way to approach it because
there's a lot of high floor setting coaches you could find who is going to raise the
ceiling on this team and finally get them over the hump because I think McDermott has
hit his ceiling with his decision making and when you really look at the defensive output
of this Buffalo Bills team they're good and overall metrics which they should be because
this is a defensive at minded head coach that has his fingerprints on the scheme but when
you isolate their games in the postseason a regular season against winning QBs like Patrick
Mahomes Joe Burrow Lamar Jackson the numbers are far less favorable to me this is a coach
that is absolutely hit his ceiling with this squad this is a roster that has hit its ceiling
with him guiding at you need someone is going to be able to take it at next level and not
just figure out a way to beat the Trevor Lawrence's and the Daniel Jones of the world well said
I don't disagree with any of your points and I still stand Pat on my belief that this the
decision will have to be made by Terry Pugla because essentially Sean McDermott hired Brandon
Bean and so I don't see Brandon Bean turning on Sean McDermott and so it really is a question
of what is Terry Pugla as the owner what is his kind of threshold for failure in the postseason
how determined is he to bring a championship to Buffalo because if they go to the playoffs
to share an exit at the hands of Baltimore Cincinnati or Kansas City again you know it
will that will that move the needle at all or is it a matter of oh we'll get them next
time and they just go back and recycle the same thing and we as bills fans are stuck
in this loop of having a team that like every you know so many fan bases would be so are
so jealous of oh my gosh must be nice to be a bills fan you win the division every year
you go to the playoffs you play you know you have something to play for it late in the
season it's always exciting Josh Allen's amazing you know the defense has young superstars
coming up that's all cool but the real question is you know what's it all matter if they're
still one of the four franchises the NFL who's never gotten the championship all right exactly
right I mean what what is it all for at that point JJ you're right I don't think anything
changes with McDermott and we have been on this stomach churning roller coaster with
the bills before where they string together some inexplicable losses they sink to 500
when really they should be five and one or seven and two they say our backs against
their wall we've been here before we know we need to get better and they need to go on
some sort of impossible run to make the post season and win the division we saw it last
year we saw it in 2021 we know that this is a QB that is capable of this right I just wish
we didn't always have to do it this way you know what I mean because the end result is
exhausting to get there and then ultimately deflating when you are taken down by one of
these superior teams with superior coaching and superior play like it's just it's the
same story over and over again and nothing is going to change unless you change the author
of that story and right now that author is Sean McDermott right so I don't want to make
it all about Sean because you're right like we we else there's also a lot of poor execution
by the bills on the field in this game I want to get your take a little bit starting with
the offensive side of the ball we've talked about Josh not one of his better games it
was JJ had felt like watching this game particularly in the first half it was the same calamity
of errors we have seen under day ball at certain points Dorsey and now Brady where a penalty
here a hold here a false start there to Dalton K drops here a Keon Coleman drop and all of
a sudden Josh is really pressing to get something done and has one of his most inaccurate games
we've seen that script play out before and that's exactly how played out particularly
in the first half what were your observations JJ of this offensive performance against the
Texans so the Texans play single high safety middle the field closed defense it is the
same type of defense that the Ravens proved was effective against the bills when you're
playing that defense you're inviting the team to pass outside the numbers against you and
so it's really you know as an offense your best tactic to beat that defense is to throw
to your outside receivers and count on them to beat one-on-one matchups with outside corners
because there tends to be you know not a lot of help outside and safety wise or it's a
zone that's dropping into three deep coverage with each corner covering a third of the field
and the safety covering the middle third with one of the safeties brought down in the box
to kind of help muddy things up there that has proven to be absolute quick kryptonite
for Joe Brady and Josh Allen and unless they find a way to beat it I do not see anything
changing I think the bills will have a real hard time against the Jets this upcoming week
because that team can play whatever coverage they need to and so what I observed is the
bills I mean you know this was the Stefan digs revenge game in terms of he proved the
bills do not have an outside receiver who can beat one-on-one any corner that's of decent
of average or better rate and when they cannot they're kind of neuter as an offense as you
mentioned in the open Josh Allen is his worst game as a professional football player you
know end of set end of statement and the Buffalo Bills had no answers I think that for me I
think that the first thing they need to do is cut Mack Hollins snaps way down I don't
care how much of a good blocker he is inexplicable that he is getting his snap crash he is inexplicable
he should only be on the field for special team snap based on what he's shown as a wide
receiver he's not on the same page they don't he and Josh Allen do not have any chemistry
it seems and he's a cool guy he's a cool story I actually really love his like Mack Hollins
maintenance minute videos on Instagram it's time management this it's time management
for October it's amazing yeah it's really it's really cool no he's awesome like I think
as a person I think he's wonderful as a player I don't think he's a good starting wide receiver
I just don't I think that they need to give his snaps to literally anybody else to see
if they have better chemistry and rapport with Josh Allen because it's just it's looked
painful they do this all the time they do this all the time we've talked about Emmanuel
Sanders because they just fell in love with him and it took him two years but they finally
got him in and he took valuable development time and snap share away from Gabe Davis
at a point where it looked like Gabe Davis was ready to emerge same thing is happening
now they know they need to develop a wide receiver one granted Keon Coleman as a project
but he is not going to learn any faster by not playing and seeding snaps to Mack Hollins
yep same and I think that's the same too with interestingly enough while Khalil Shakir
was was healthy he was giving up snaps to Mack Hollins and Marquez Valdes stance can't
we talked about it yeah we talked about in the preview for this game complete idiocy
like I don't understand how you watch those three individuals play games and don't give
100% of the snap share to Khalil Shakir it's just like it's it's baffling to me and I
just doesn't make sense and the kind of thing where like you think I think of it in terms
of does Joe Brady not trust Khalil Shakir as a blocker and he wants to stick to the
run and that's period right like that's it I think and I think that's it I think that
that's interesting because I think that has been for the limited amount of time with this
time at LSU in Carolina has been the signature of of Joe Brady as a play caller is that he
doesn't scheme for a specific guy other than a running back that seems to be like that
seems to be his comfort zone and as a result you've got some great concepts that the bills
are running but we saw it I mean the broadcast even called it out Keon Coleman's best route
that he runs is that button hook that curl that comes right back to the QB where he can
create a little space against the defender and then use his big athletic body to block
out smaller DB's while he makes a contested catch.
Mark has Veldez scantling was getting some of those routes.
Mack Hollins was getting some of those routes and he's not nearly as polished at running
them like Brady seems to have good general pass concepts built into the playbook but
he has not yet aligned on what are the strengths of this personnel to execute on those concepts
so he's got everybody doing everything but not everyone in that past catching room is
good at everything.
Yeah, and I think that that's you know that's really the that's a concern that we had in
the offseason.
Will they be able to bring it together.
I don't understand where Curtis Samuel is meant to fit into this offense because they
haven't been using him they've been doing like little whip screens and sort of you know
flare passes out to the flats that have been largely ineffective.
As a player coming into this free agency I think I was really excited about Curtis Samuel
because he had the number one separation per route run of all free agent wide receivers
available and I'm sure that they bought that they bought into that kind of ability.
I don't know if it's his understanding of the offense I don't know if it's his work
ethic his willingness I don't know if he's lost a step because he's he's not an old wide
receiver but he's a little bit later in his career.
What is I don't understand what's going on with Curtis Samuel and that he has predominantly
been a slot but he does have separation ability and he does not seem to separate anymore.
Yeah it's it is wild how they're using him and they JJ they invested money the precious
little free agent seven to eight mil per year for three years.
They like the very little free agency cap resources they have they chose to allocate
to this guy while they ate Stefan Diggs dead cap hit this season and he has not produced
for them at any reasonable level yet.
You can blame Brady for not scheming for him because it doesn't seem like Brady can scheme
for anybody except James Cook.
You can blame his maybe his toe injury he had earlier in the season but it feels the
further we get from that the the further off that is is a reasonable excuse.
I mean JJ we just we have this con we've potted for a long time we have the same conversation
about different players every year like Trent Scherfield is out there somewhere looking
at Mack Holland's snap share and was like why couldn't I get that last season like we always
get excited for some of these pieces they bring in and they just never know how to onboard
or integrate.
It is a continued problem no matter who the OC is no matter what the offensive coaching
staff is they just don't know how to onboard new weapons into this offense.
I also you know I think that talking more about the offense I think that you're what
you're what you saw was when team stacked the box to shut down the bills rushing attack
one you know the bills ran at 19 of 24 first downs which is just not acceptable you cannot
be that predictable super super predictable and efficient.
Yeah.
And if you and if you do you know run it that often you know you get stuffed then you're
behind you're behind the sticks from there forward and then just like clockwork the team
that stuffed you on first down on your first down rushing attempt drops seven or eight
into coverage the next the next snap because they know the pass is coming and sure enough
just like clockwork you know Joe Brady falls into that trap over and over again so that's
a problem I think that the protection issues the bills saw were not necessarily the one
on one issues of bills offensive lineman versus their matchup more often it was a procedural
issue with Josh Allen not properly shifting protection or recognizing the the blitz pickup
or replacing the blitz with the ball which is something he he's been so good at through
his career but he just had a real bad game with almost all of that you know he was not
managing his own pressure very well and when you couple that with you know a handful of
snaps probably five or less snaps where somebody on the bill's offensive line was truly beaten
handily and caught causing quick pressure in his face it just it's kind of snowballed
from there I think that the offense was ineffective I think that you know the Keon Coleman touchdown
I texted you enthusiastically after that one because I think moments before that I
said his ceiling is Mac Hollins career because I just didn't see him be able to do anything
I was half right I was half right about my prediction you were half right I'm hopeful
his his ceiling is more what we saw in that play and less what we saw every other freaking
play yeah I mean listen in summary no one had a good game the coaching staff Josh didn't
have a good game past catchers didn't do do a many favors and I think what is so hard
for the for Bill's mafia to swallow about this is that everything they said wouldn't
go wrong when they undertook this roster retool and got rid of Stefan Diggs did go wrong in
this game JJ I want to flip it to the defensive side of the ball which is allegedly the strength
of our head coach and back to back weeks he faces a better than average QB and CJ Stroud
a really up and coming young QB and CJ Stroud and the defense is absolutely torched and again
part of it you cannot blame on the coaching staff because Stroud and Bobby slow at the
offensive coordinator for the Texans seemed very committed to attacking where the bills
were the weakest which was Cam Lewis I'm sorry Cam Lewis defending a crossing route and against
Stefan Diggs in the middle of the field is going to be a digs win every time and slow
because able to find ways to get Lewis on digs on multiple occasions even after Nico Collins
went down so props to slow it because that was one of the few bright spots of the game
for him as a play caller was the scheming for digs but he generally with the exception
of his preponderance to run on first down and efficiently made it easy for Stroud Stroud
faced blitzes he faced pressure and was accurate and gets both organic pressure and he was
incredibly accurate JJ and effective against the Buffalo Bills blitz when they decided
to roll out more to get pressure on him both Josh Allen and CJ Stroud on the scheme faced
pressure rates of over 40% but CJ Stroud completed 31 of 38 pass attempts and Josh completed
nine of 30 part of it was Stroud taking advantage of what the bills are giving him in the scheme
and part of it was listen JJ their guys just beat our guys are their offense just beat
our offense they were better they were better and I think it's it could be chalked up to
something as simple as that but what did you see on the defensive side of the ball for
the bills?
Yeah, I think that you know that certainly they were better there guys beat our guys
that's accurate I think that the pressure that the bills tried to bring the biggest
difference I saw between slow it and Joe Brady was that slow it always had a clear and obvious
Blitz beater schemed up on in every kind of play call I think that that was the end and
the other piece of that was that CJ Stroud was very apt at identifying those blitzes and
making sure that his wide receivers knew to trigger down on that Blitz beater in the
event that they saw their their CB vacate or they saw the linebacker vacate the middle
of the field they knew where to fill to take advantage of the bills zone defense and I
just didn't see that from the bills.
Josh Allen didn't you know I mean he was throwing balls that had no business going anywhere
near the players that they're being thrown towards he was missing open receivers who
were good Blitz beaters on good routes so I think that there's I think the scheme was
probably 30 or 40% of the time but was the problem on offense.
Josh Allen was the problem 60% of the time and then penetration on rushing plays and
for talking about the rush rushing offense was probably half of the problem and then
the timing of those rushing plays was the other half of the problem and to why the bills
were so ineffective passing and then also so ineffective running.
Yeah, I just think you know the bills defense I got off track there the bills defense.
I was gonna say adding up your percentages I think 140% of the problem is what you're
saying.
I was 100% of passing and then I was 100% of rushing so I did 100% of each you know
there's two different phases Dan but the Houston Texans on offense were so much more efficient
with their attempts because of the bills inability of personal matchups with Jamarcus Ingram
and Cam Lewis and then also Dorian Williams in coverage.
I think that we saw Terrell Bernard's return in the interception he had late was an excellent
play and shows what he can do that no other linebacker other than Matt Milano can provide
to this defense but largely the bills secondary was toyed with in you know in regards to Jamarcus
Ingram and Cam Lewis in the slot and then also having Cole Bishop fill in for Taylor
wrap exposed a vulnerability in the middle of the field.
Cole Bishop missed and this is the thing that I think was really disappointing for me was
and probably for you as well.
Cole Bishop wasn't was it one of the best tackling safeties coming out of this draft
and he was missing tackles left and right that were turning plays that could have been
one or two yard losses into 40 yard gains and that I think that maybe the game's just
a little too fast for me was taking bad angles to amped up I don't know what it was but if
he's going back in and in any sort of relief for starter duty in future games I hope that
he gets his tackling under control.
One can only hope although listen bad tackling has really been a hallmark of the McDermott
defense since he took over I mean we always run into tackling issues bad angles from our
safeties all that other kind of stuff for as good as they are coaching those positions
for whatever reason tackling has not been a part of that package.
So JJ here we are we are in another Bill's losing streak this time earlier in the season
than we're normally used to seeing it.
There are I don't want to draw too many grand conclusions from this other than how long are
we going to put ourselves through this same cycle over and over and over again.
I don't want to hit the McD point anymore because I think we've hit it pretty thoroughly
but the bills now they're in a place where they have to beat the Jets otherwise it's
going to be what we've seen for years which is they're going to drop to three and three
the Jets somehow are going to take control of the AFC East if they can eke out a win
against the Bills and the Bills I can get I can already tell you what the post game
press conference is going to be if they lose to the Jets coming up.
We've had our backs against the wall before we know how to do this we know how to rattle
off wins.
Yes you knew how to do that when Milano was healthy when you had Jordan Foyer when you
had an available Von Miller when you had Micahyd those guys are not walking through the door
anymore this is a different roster and I think for this Bills unit I need to see them come
out and play with some urgency play with some purpose and play with some intentionality
on Monday night against an opponent that they've struggled with recently because if they are
foolish enough to think because they've done it before they can do it again I don't think
they there's only so many times you can go back to that well JJ and I don't think they've
got the horses or right now the coaching staff to get them there.
Yeah I mean I think that you know you I would say you're right about the Bills ineffectiveness
and the challenges and struggles that they've shown in the past against this this opponent
just looking at the Bills team that came out against Houston it was such a pitiful showing
that I think there's a bit of a bump that the Bills are going to have against the Jets
in trying to just not be such a miserably poor team and so I actually do see them competing
at a much higher rate in the upcoming Monday night game even though it is a more difficult
opponent in some regards because I think in other regards this Jets offense is pretty
abysmal compared to the Houston Texans offense even with the absence of Joe Mixon that the
Bills had the advantage of not having to face him.
The Jets are disjointed Aaron Rodgers is sort of a diva monster you know is almost a bride
Zilla but it just feels appropriate in this situation and he's just going kind of buck
wild with the ego and so I you know I think the Bills actually pull this one out and we'll
certainly get to that in our preview pod later in the week but it's really you know for me
it's it's a question of how good are they at washing this loss and and making the bounce
back that you mentioned we always experience where the Bills rattle off the six or seven
straight wins how good are they making this this week.
Yeah because it's got to start this week for sure they don't want to go back to even with
the Jets and be down a one game advantage heading into the remainder of their schedule
so it'll be interesting to see.
JJ ending things on a positive note I will say this after the Baltimore game I was very
clear that's not a team I want to see in January again but Houston for as bad as we played
and as good as they played that's a team that feels gettable to me if we see them again.
Yeah I'd welcome that that is a first round or second round match up in the playoffs.
Absolutely and then if we make the postseason and if we get that match up and when I want
Josh to throw the sickest side eye at digs at the end of that.
Oh yeah after dunking on him for four touchdowns.
Yeah absolutely.
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