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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.
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