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Yesterday was predictable and some predicted it. We were due for that bubble to pop. We were outclassed going into it, coaching staff and roster both. It doesn’t feel that bad when you predict it but when you have to watch it In real time it is extremely deflating. -
Well they better sign him to a decent deal or he walks this year, and we get nothing for him. Actually they could get the same for Chuba and let it be known that Dowdle is our #1 back. I like him but I doubt he will be here next year. -
The Bills are a well coached team. I give them that. They are a well run organization. That’s no excuse. The point of this thread is to point out that yesterday illustrated something much more troubling than losing to a good team. My takeaways: * We still haven’t found a coach. Canales isn’t it. He is in way over his head. Everyone knows how I feel about Bryce, but seeing Dalton yesterday, a lot of the issues Bryce deals with every week are now clearly thematic. I thought to myself yesterday, “but Ron Rivera looked like he was drowning until that Buffalo game,” and now in hindsight, he ultimately became possibly our greatest coach in franchise history. But before that Buffalo game with his seat as hot as ever, he did some of the dumbest things I had ever seen. He refused to adjust. He played guys that shouldn’t have been out on the field over guys who seemed like clearly better players. For example, Josh Norman sat for how many seasons, mostly because of non-quantifiable stuff. Canales suffers the same issues early in his tenure, it without any of the reassurances or pedigree that Ron had. Our offense stinks because of Dave, point blank, period. We can only guess about play calls and scheme because we don’t know all the ins and outs of that, but what is clear is that he has no idea how to put our guys in positions to succeed. Look at the number of players who have absolutely killed it that Dave tried his best to keep off the field - Rico, Mays, Christensen, Horn, etc. Now look at the guys he played over them. Ron only had a couple of those instances over several seasons albeit bad ones *cough* Nakamura *cough* Josh Norman *cough*. But, Dave is multiplying that by the umpteenth power in one season. And not only is it about the guys he is or isn’t playing, he doesn’t know how to use them. All of the TEs. The aforementioned Horn Jr. XL. Trying to make Corbett a center. Both Rico and Chuba are healthy, but he can’t figure out how to use them together. There is zero rhythm to the offense most games after that opening drive, and a lot of it is Dave playing guys that shouldn’t be playing and not knowing how to implement the ones that are that could help us the most. I had held onto hope because Dave’s positivity and his track record with QBs. But, the more I’ve watched, it has become clear, even in coaching extremely limited QBs, there are so many other issues that falls on coaching that he is responsible for. He is not a good coach. *Speaking of Rico and Chuba, don’t know if anyone else caught that, but after scoring his garbage time TD that was force fed to him, when Chuba went over to the bench, he sat down seemingly alone. Then the camera zoomed out and actually Rico was on the other side of that portion of the bench. Another guy, I’m guessing a practice squad guy came and sat down closer to Chuba but between them, and from what I saw, Rico looked straight ahead. They never looked at one another, didn’t appear to speak to one another, nothing. Someone else correct me if I’m wrong, as I was heavily distracted, but if they interacted it would’ve been just a millisecond that I wasn’t looking… the body language looked absolutely discouraging. There is clearly a huge beef brewing there. *Back to Canales… which is a further indictment that this isn’t just schematic or playcalling. Another reason he is clearly not a good coach - when we lose this season we LOSE. We lose big. We lose ugly. We lose unprepared. We lose undisciplined. We lose in every fundamental way. You don’t go from stifling the #1 offense in the NFL two weeks ago, to getting blown out at home 40-3 (Chuba’s late TD is irrelevant). In every facet of the game that we have shown improvement, we go out in losses like yesterday’s and make you question if it was fool’s gold. That’s poor coaching. It’s discouraging because the drop off isn’t incremental, these are huge wild swings. From a top 10 defense who excels at stopping the run, to giving up the highest individual rushing day in the NFL this season. From a functional offense, scoring around 20 points a game to 3 when it counted. We are -5 turnovers on the season. Outside of the obvious Rico Dowdle - Bryce Young, Jimmy Horn, and Travis Etienne are all statistically better rushers right now than Chuba, and yet, we are forcing Chuba touches. Rico only started two weeks and is still our top rusher for the season. That forcing Chuba the ball poo might’ve worked when we had no other options, but it literally is destroying the offense now and yet, he keeps doing it. This insistence of square peg, round hole football is all coaching, and it is absolutely demoralizing. We show zero consistency with any and everything, and that falls directly at the coach’s feet. Seeing all of this following the few weeks where it appeared the team was picking up some semblance of identity and momentum, and then to lose in such a fashion to where those staples we had begun to believe in were proven to be mirages is beyond discouraging. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t expect to beat the Bills. I did expect to be competitive and still excel at the things we appeared to be making our calling cards. From the best rushing team for two straight weeks to pedestrian. From stopping the run and playing smash mouth football to getting blown out at him with opposing players averaging 12 yards per carry and receivers running wide butt naked open. There is no consistency or leadership on this staff. Period. Yesterday’s loss brings us right back to the sobering reality that we still don’t have a head coach and all the problems rife within the Tepper Era.
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