This is a jarring stat to me and thanks to Courtney for
plugging it into the sheets that help guide us from one
topic to the next since the start of last season,
the bills have had six games Mi decided by eight points or
fewer
and they have lost
every single one of them. So for the bills and maybe this is
why we saw him, do what they did to the Rams
and the Titans.
They have to kick your ass or they aren't going to have
enough points to win.
Yeah, well that's one of these interesting things, right? You
don't look at the bills and think, well, they can't win
close games, but
it seems circumstantially. They don't really do it that often
and they're not in close games all that often. But when they
are, it seems like the one little thing here, one little
thing there
and it just doesn't work out. I mean, you see, Josh Allen right
there where he misses that pass at the end of toward the end of
the game, and his footwork is
Quite right. And you don't know if that has to do with the heat
or maybe it has to do with something else that was
happening on that play. But you do not expect to see. Josh
Allen, Tim Tebow a pass, right? Are
into an
empty boat catching this way.
Well, is that not what happened there? I mean, you don't expect
that Josh Allen is his a good enough arm to be able to get
that passed there even when his footwork is not quite right.
And so,
So I don't expect to see that from Josh hollan anymore at
mean, that was the kind of thing we saw from Josh and when
he got in the league and that's 2018, Josh Allen,
2019, Josh Alan. That's not 2022. Josh how many more
certain was in 2021? Josh Alan. So if those are the kinds of
things that are going to happen in those close games than got,
that's part of why you're going
to lose
and the bills still had one more chance to try to win
the game with only a field goal because trailing 21:17
the bill. Held the Dolphins and the Dolphins
ultimately, had the punt
we'll get to that fateful punt. In a moment, here is the last
play of the game. Isaiah Mackenzie can't get out of
bounds. There's Sean McDermott wind the clock. He would like
the clock to talk tick. Even faster
tock tick as opposed to tick tock, even faster.
Josh Allen cannot get the playoff, cannot get it spiked,
and that's the end of the game. It's a shame when it happens.
But hey, that's what happens when the clock strikes. All
zeros,
Josh Allen. Exhausted. You know, one of the guys who
probably was feeling the effects of the heat, but but
found a way to force himself to keep going. Not that
I'm folding any of the ones who didn't
but Allen probably didn't have a whole lot left by the time.
Obviously the end of the game I think back to Kellen Winslow,
senior
after that playoff game. All those years ago
mean you are out there in the heat for a long time and it
doesn't go your way and you gave everything you had and
credit to the bill said, you know, I feel like at times
Expect Josh Allen to do
too much because he can, and because he will
and sometimes it just doesn't work. And it's a shame. They
didn't have a shot for a Hail Mary or a long field goal. But
it's, you know, the bills have to figure out how to win these
close games
Miles because not every game is going to be a blowout. We saw
what happened last year in the playoffs,
close game 13 seconds, the ghosts of 13 seconds, still
lingering to this season, and one of the concerns I had
coming into the season. Can the bills handle
the Spect a shins, the pressure
the internal
mandate whether it's Express or implied to take this team to
the next level through the first two weeks. It look pretty
good but it's amazing how quickly
that can turn. And and and look I
I know how I would feel if I was showing McDermott.
I'm not saying that this is right or wrong that it's
happening or not happening, but I look around the league and
I've paid very close attention to how it works.
There's a danger
in getting close
and never pushing through. The danger, is
your ownership becomes tantalized
by how close you get. And at some point they ask themselves.
Is this person the wrong person to push us through
to the top? How many Let's do we go
this close?
Before we say, maybe it's somebody else that we need to
go to here because we have a great team.
All the pieces are in place
but we're here. We can't get to hear what do we need to get to
here. We saw it happen with the Denver Broncos. Several years
back, John Fox
got the Broncos, close
John Elway, not happy with it,
not happy with how they lost in the divisional round a year
after they went to the Super Bowl. Not happy with how they
performed in that Super Bowl. Fox Out. Gary Kubiak in they
won the Super Bowl the next year. I'm just saying that
would be my worrying. Concern. And I
wonder how much of that
is contributing to the
stress. And hey, if you've been on social media at all in
the past, 18 hours, you saw the Ken Dorsey reaction,
and all the memes that are popping up in the funny captions
Ken. Dorsey lost his,
even though we're not live on Sky, it's going to take me
a while to get comfortable saying it again,
stuff.
He blew a fuse after that game to the point where it was like,
dude,
Dude, it's only a game focker. I mean, he was,
he was over the top
and it's just, it's
an embodiment of the pressure. They're feeling
to keep this thing going. And yesterday, it was not going.
It's a game of inches and we always say that but it's also
these guys livelihood. I understand to a point, why Ken
Dorsey would react like that. But I also think like gosh man,
we gotta
control our emotions at least a little bit and there
it was somebody in the
bills box that you know, put a
hand or something over that camera at the end there. So,
you know, at least somebody had the wherewithal to do that when
Ken, Dorsey is throwing his temper tantrum like Tom Brady
on the sidelines against the tablet, but I understand what
you're saying but at the same time it's like
the bills did have a chance to win that game. They should have
won that game. They had opportunities down at the goal
line. They ran 90 freaking plays out there. I'm not too
concerned. If I am a Bills fan because this is something where
you can point to the circumstances and say, okay,
I understand this result.
I don't like this result but I understand this result based on
the Um, stances and everything that was going on. You still
need to find a way to win.
Absolutely. But I don't think the sky is falling, or they
can't handle the pressure. It's this sorts that because what
happened against the division
rival and a hot day on a game where you didn't have a lot of
people plan ahead, dudes on the offensive line, playing
completely out of position and they still were able to give
Josh Allen pretty good protection.
So there are a lot of Things. I think to be encouraged by, even
though you didn't get the ultimate result that you want,
they go back to Buffalo, they pick up the pieces and they go
to Baltimore for their week, for game to try to get
three in one, huge difference, between 3, & 1 & 2 & 2,
the Ravens owner, that game also two and one, that is
a huge game that will have ramifications into January with
playoff, positioning etcetera. Then the Steelers go to
Buffalo, then they go to Kansas City, the bills do for their
Showdown, with the Chiefs,
a 4:25 p.m. M kick off on Sunday October 16th and then
they have a bye week, so three more games to get to
5 and 1. And I think in their mind, anything less than five.
And one is a failure and they probably had designs on going 6
and 0 the way they were rolling. I think that was the
rude awakening for the bills yesterday, they made it look
easy. The first two games, yesterday was difficult and
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