What is wrong with the Buffalo Bills? Right now going into week 11 the Bills have a 5-5 record coming off another humiliating loss, this time to the Denver Broncos. If the season ended today, the Bills would not make the playoffs. That from a team that came in hoping to reach their ultimate goal of getting to the Superbowl and winning it. Since the London trip in week 5, this team looks dreadful. Josh Allen is a turn over machine. The team continues to play football stupidly with penalties that end up killing them in the long run. These are not the same Sean McDermott teams that showed discipline and played smart football the last few seasons. This team should be 8-2 right now but gave games away to the Jets in the first week & then the Patriots. Then again a few days back to the Broncos. Many teams would be ecstatic to be 5-5 with 7 games to go. The Bills have to go through the meat of their schedule to face some of the top teams in the league like the Eagles, Cowboys, and Chiefs. Then still be able to beat the teams in their division with rematches with the Jets and Dolphins while the Patriots in the first match up were thorns in the side of the Bills. The Bills are a very talented team that someone needs to pull the switch right now to resurrect this lifeless team before the season unravels for good. How do you fix a train wreck about to derail from the tracks?

The Bills offense has not been the same since Brian Daboll left Buffalo and took the head coaching gig with the New York Giants right before the 2022 season. Since then the former quarterbacks coach Ken Dorsey has taken over calling the plays. After the dreadful loss versus the Broncos, the Bills made a change. This may be the first step to prevent this Bills train from derailing. The Bills fired Dorsey and promoted Joe Brady as the new Bills offensive coordinator. Brady was the play caller for LSU back in 2019 when Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase were lighting up SEC defenses together. In 2020, Brady took the Carolina Panthers job as their offensive coordinator. His offense had Teddy Bridgewater behind center and the Panthers that year had a pair of 1,000 yard receivers in DJ Moore and Robby Anderson. The Panthers’ other wide receiver, Curtis Samuel, had 851 receiving yards as they were able to pass the ball and run it with Christian McCaffrey. Dorsey and Brady’s philosophy is somewhat the same but different. Brady will have more spread looks, to spread out the defense to find the right match up for the quarterback. The Bills will probably have less two tight end sets. They will show defenses more 3 & 4 wide receiver sets. Brady worked with offensive mastermind Sean Payton who just led his Broncos over the Bills in that dreadful loss. Sometimes a new voice is what a team like the Bills needs in this kind of situation. It’s better to have a Brady working on your side instead of facing the arch nemesis Tom Brady all those years.

I know Stefon Diggs is a super star receiver in the NFL. I feel like Josh Allen has to go to him and force the ball into his hands on some plays. The Bills have talented play makers on this roster that hardly has been used this season. Where is Josh Allen’s security blanket? This team misses guys like Cole Beasley and Isaiah McKenzie who make those catches over the middle while taking the hit but also getting that crucial first down. Khalil Shakir or newcomers, Trent Sherfield and Deonte Harty – one of them needs to be that guy. With Joe Brady as the offensive coordinator in his style of offense, yards after the catch is a big deal. The new guys that came over from other teams in the off-season are guys you need to get the ball too. They need to find ways for Shakir, Sherfield, and Harty to get the ball from Allen on stride to give the Buffalo offense some big play capabilities. Have not seen the big play this season by this Bills offense. Most importantly, we need to move the chains on third down to keep drives alive.

The Bills have been saying now for years they like to run the ball more. I believe if the Bills would have ran the ball down the Broncos throat most of that Monday night game, they would have won that game against the visiting Broncos. James Cook was in the dog house for the fumble on the first drive on Monday night. Then Cook carried the ball like a man seeking revenge and on a mission. Cook had another fumble in the second half on a big run and luckily the ball bounced back in his hands as he was still in motion. The Bills need to unleash the beast they have on their practice squad for the stretch run. See if Leonard Fournette still has gasoline left in the tank. Fournette helped carry that Tom Brady team in Tampa Bay all the way to the Superbowl. The Bills need to run the ball and stop saying they need to run more and just do it. Use Cook & then bring in your bruising backs in the second half with Fournette and Latavius Murray.

Everything revolves around one person, Josh Allen. If Allen is hot, this team is unstoppable. The Bills are losing games because Allen has become a turn over machine this year. Allen is still slinging touchdown passes at a high rate as one of the league leaders. Allen has turned himself or is heading into the direction of Jameis Winston. Winston was a gunslinger as he threw touchdown passes for both sides of the ball, the offense and the opposing defense, as everyone would score when he was behind center for the Buccaneers. Allen is leaning to the Jay Cutler ways as a gunslinger making mistakes at the wrong time of the game. Every time Allen has more than one turnover, the results turn into a loss. Turnovers killed this team in week one versus the Jets. The Bills knocked out Aaron Rodgers and led most of that game. Allen dishing out early Christmas gifts wrapped it up with red pretty bow for the gang green. Allen will probably go down as the best Bills quarterback of all-time. The things Jim Kelly did better than Allen was beat the teams in your own division and protect the football. Kelly beat the best teams in regular season as well as the division opponents that you needed to beat. Allen is the key to the entire enchilada. If Allen’s games are crisp, the defense does not have to stay on the field most of the game & they can turn this season around. This Bills turn around needs help from the head coach as well.

Sean McDermott is a solid NFL coach. This season is the first I’ve heard since he took the Bills job that he is on the hot seat. McDermott has full control over the defense and I have a bone to pick with him about his play calling. When is he going to learn to defend teams in the last two minutes? I will not get over how Kansas City got a field goal with 13 seconds left in regulation during the post season that ended up with an overtime loss. That one still hurts. The Patriots marched right down the field and beat you in the last minute of the game a few weeks back. The Patriots crap of an offense waltz down the field like they owned you with all those Tom Brady teams that did the same thing to the Bills for over a decade. His defense with the muggings causing pass interference call after pass interference calls. In crucial situations of the game as well. Then the penalties are a major concern. This Bills team used to play a clean crisp game. Now it’s which number are you going to call that shot the team in the foot. The 12th man on the field during that missed Broncos field goal at the end of regulation should not happen. The Broncos awarded 5 yards and like a kids pick up game of whichever sport was awarded the do over and the Broncos won the game. Look in the mirror McDermott because you are not going to like what you see. McDermott better start coaching this team and find a way to get his message through. If the Bills can’t do any of these things I listed, this team will not make the playoffs this season. The Superbowl window with this team could be permanently closed. McDermott could be canned at the end of the season which would be a belly flop heard around the world if the Bills wither away and don’t resurrect their season.