Miami Dolphins exploited Bills’ ‘lack of intensity’ in rout | Chris Simms Unbuttoned | NFL on NBC

Miami Dolphins exploited Bills’ ‘lack of intensity’ in rout | Chris Simms Unbuttoned | NFL on NBC

a little bit of a stunner. Dolphins always play Buffalo tough, so I didn’t sit here thinking that Buffalo was going to cover a nine and a half line, right? But this is as bad as we’ve seen the Bills look in quite some time on both sides of the ball. Um, this does snap a six-game win streak against the Dolphins, despite the Dolphins typically playing them at least competitively. Yeah. Yeah, that’s right. That’s right. But I mean, no answer for Devon Chan in this game. Nope. And the Bills have had games, Chris, where they don’t have an answer for what the offense is doing to them, but their answer is their offense. But that didn’t exist. That didn’t exist. Exactly. Right. It’s like, oh, Josh Allen, you always say Superman. Well, sometimes he can’t be Superman. Exactly. Right. So, there he is. There’s a game yesterday where I always say like, I mean, again, he makes some some amazing plays still, but it’s not like he’s perfect and just making the amazing plays we were accustomed to seeing. And it’s like, okay, can somebody help him out a little bit? Is can can the wait hold on, let me check the rules. Oh, the defense can make a play. Oh, okay. Hold on. I just wanted to make sure. Wait, wait. Oh, James Cook, they can’t dominate in the run game. Wait, wait, can somebody else do something to help Josh Allen out a little bit, you know, and of course, like you said, some of it was self-inflicted with himself as well, but I think we get back into the same old story here of what you what is our theme of the pod here a little bit with Buffalo. I mean, it’s just again, I like it, but do I look at it and sit here and go, “Oo, I think they’re one of the upper echelon like cream of the crop top football teams in the league in the AFC or the NFC?” No, I don’t. I got questions. The game has to go a certain way for Buffalo. They need to play a certain style. When it becomes, “Oh no, we’re behind or,” oh no, we can’t stop this team’s run, like we talk about all the time, the game just changes in in a big-time way, even against lesser competition. And like I said, and I said this on social media last night a little bit, like, hey, I don’t remember too many Super Bowl teams who lose 30-13 to two and seven football teams. I’m just saying it’s a broad statement. I know it’s happened before, but I’m just saying that’s not usually what happens to any team that’s in the Super Bowl. They have a loss during the year where you go, hey, they got their ass whooped by that two-7 team in the middle of November. That’s a rare thing. It really is. Now, maybe the score looks a little worse than what it actually was, but there’s no denying they were kind of controlled in the football game. I thought so. Every time the Bills had some positive momentum where they got across the logo, Yeah. 50 yard line, James Cook fumble on the toss play, Josh Allen interception in the red zone. It was just Josh Allen fumble on the quarterback sneak when you thought, “Okay, maybe they’re going to make this game close and get an interesting Right.” Every single time we got to hear from a very frustrated Josh Allen and Dawson Knox on this loss. Uh they came ready to play. Um they wanted it obviously a little more than us. I got to be better in any given week in the NFL. you know, there’s they they came out and they just wanted it. Um they played hard. They had a great plan for us. A lot of respect for them and um how they prepare for our offense. Dawson, you’re the third offensive leader to say in some form or another, they wanted it more. They wanted it. Josh and Dion both said the same thing. Yeah. How does that happen with this team? Why is that, do you think? Yeah, I don’t know. Um it just was clear out there on the field. They just had a chip on their shoulder and they wanted to go out and prove something and definitely felt like they wanted them more. So, we got to do a lot of self-evaluation and um kind of get introspective with that, look at ourselves and figure out how to go from here. That was Josh Allen and Dawson Knox. Deion Dawkins also said they played harder than us. Simple as that. Yeah, I don’t love that. No, I although there’s not really a perfect thing to say after a loss like this, I’m a little surprised that was the go-to. I hear you. Cuz this isn’t a Bills team wherever I go, effort was the problem. I never say that about the Bills. No, you usually never say that. You know, I think you know, a little bit of here like the human psychology I think we got to take into account. One, the Dolphins, Chris Greer getting fired, tumultuous week. They know guys were on the, you know, the trade the trade conversation. Jaylen Phillips out. Exactly. Right. You know, Jaylen Wadd, he was probably a little bit like, am I going to stay here? Sure. You know, there there was all that talk. So, I think they rallied around that a little bit and a little bit of like, you know, hey, we’re going to keep fighting here. And Mike McDaniel obviously has them fighting which I think is impressive. But also I think the other aspect is and we saw this yesterday. You know all the teams that kind of had remarkable wins last week in week nine. They all you know kind of struggled. Hey Vikings we beat the Lions. Oh not that good. Bears we had that unbelievable comeback against the Bengals. Well they had to pull one out of their out of their ass again. Right. You know you know the Carolina Panthers. We went up to Green Bay and beat Green Bay. What? Well, you just laid an egg at home, right? Exactly. You know, and so then I throw this in there with it like we just beat the Chiefs. The Chiefs were one of the better team, right? The Steelers. We beat the Colts last week. Oh, you look like crap last night. Sorry. So, I do think that even happens at the NFL level, too. Where you have a big win, you see the next team on the schedule, you go, “Oh, we’re going to we’re the Dolphins. Oh, we own them.” Connor just said it’s we’ve won six in a row. We’ve won like 19 out of 20. Blah blah blah. We’re going to do that. I think some of that comes into play a little bit. I do. And it showed a little bit. So, I don’t know if I look at it as lack of effort, but just lack of intensity and want and will to going into the football game, I think, is a little bit more of what it was. And yeah, you know, Miami played with a chip on their shoulder. Buffalo played like they were entitled to win the football game just because they’re Buffalo and Miami is not as good as they are. I think lost in this too for Devon Channy forced a career-high 11 missed tackles. He was amazing in this one. Mike McDaniel is still one of the best run game coordinators in the sport. And I know nobody likes to say it because he’s weird at the podium and maybe he’s not a great head coach. I’m not arguing that. I hear you. But as a run game coordinator, something that he did with Kyle Shanahan for so long. The guy could do it with the best of him and this was on display against I I I agree. This is where I’m going to continue to fight for Mike McDaniel. I don’t think he should be fired. I don’t. I mean, Mike McDaniel, the whole league has stolen his offense the last four years. I mean, everybody everybody’s like, “Oh, damn. That’s cool.” Whoa. That motion right there. We never did it that way. I mean, everybody, he’s been a trend setter. They’ve been one of the most fun teams to watch in football in his tenure because of his offense. He needs to run the ball more. That’s what the numbers would bear out and tell you, right? I mean, this is this is just a basic way I I think we went over this a few weeks ago a little bit here, but when your yards per play in in running is tied for ninth in football, right? Okay. Okay. So, you’re ninth in football there, but then your attempts per game, okay, running the ball are 28th. Some that’s not right. You’re that that is what I can blame Mike McDaniel on and go, you’re not throw running the ball enough. You’re too good at it. You’re getting too enamored with let me throw another six-y pass to waddle or some crazy motion when Tyreek Hill’s in there. Let me do that. So, I’m with you all the way. But, yeah, I’m a fan of him and what he does on that side of the ball. And again, I think he’s with a quarterback that’s limited. So that’s what I throw that on there, too. And yeah, that was an impressive win yesterday, but I think we’re going to see them rely on this run game a little bit more as we go down the stretch here. And and hopefully they do. But as we know, Buffalo, when you can run the ball, they have problems. And off of that, you know, this is what’s going to also going to, you know, people don’t realize like the Miami passing scheme is more surgical and schematically attacks you more than the the Chiefs. As we’ve talked about with the Chiefs before, the Chiefs are kind of like we just send everybody across the field this way and Mahomes will just dance around and make it happen. It’s not necessarily like, hey, we want to boom, we want to boom. It’s not always that way where McDaniels does all this stuff that stresses you and the motions and all that and then he widens out three people in a zone to sit somebody in the middle and he’s created that way to where that’s more of a problem I think for Buffalo’s defense as compared to dealing with Kansas City and their passing offense and then they don’t really run the ball the same either. Right. The uh what we went over last week where the longer Mahomes was holding the ball the less that was there. Exactly. It seemed like where Miami that’s the last way they want to run. Exactly. Right. The ball be Exactly. Right. And so that that that’s a different way of having to defend a football team, you know, as far as the style of it. Uh, for sure. The homies weighing in. Leasing Dust says the Dolphins taking away Papa Shot is what made the difference. What do you think of when coaches pull out the games from the locker room? Yeah. Like the ping pong table. I think it’s one of the funniest things in sports. I mean, it is. It is. And And listen, I’m I’m I’m old school, Connor. Like I I’m one that’s like, why the hell were they ever in there? That’s what I I want to say. Like, why the hell were they in there? I what are we doing? I just I don’t believe in that. I mean, again, you know, I grew up in Bill Parcell’s New York Giants. I, as the son of the quarterback who won the Super Bowl, was barely allowed in the locker room after the game, right? I mean, my dad would be like, “Okay, come on. Come in.” And he’d be like, “Hide me.” Right? Saturday walkthrough. He’d be like, “Go sit up in the stadium up there and we’ll play after.” Right? So, that’s the school I came from. You know, I I you know, I of course played for John Gruden. There was no games in the locker room. We went to a new facility my last year there when I lost the spleen and all that and the new facility had a game room and we didn’t start out good and of course he unplugged them all because we’d be getting ready to go out to practice and everybody be sitting there racing on the car racing or fighting Street Fighter right so yeah I don’t love that to begin with and uh I wouldn’t have games in my locker room Arthur Healey said the Bills really needed to add someone at the deadline I agree with this stick and Brandon Bean there was a report that came out that they even called some teams in the division. Uh Quinton Williams, I think was Quinton Williams, Jaylen Wadd, I believe. Here’s my problem with that. Why would you ever believe that was going to happen? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We’re the Miami Dolphins. We’ll send our our one of our best players to the Bills, the Jets. Yeah, we’ll send Quinton Williams to No, I mean, and if they do, they’re going to make you pay a premium for being in the division. 200% tax. Definitely. I I don’t that just doesn’t sit well like with the what we tried. Well, that’s not the method of trying. You need to get a little bit more creative. Why’ Rasheed Shahid go for a four and a five? Exactly. Right. Right. that that I’m I’m with you there. I just don’t get it. And again, you know what what what you’re hearing and what you said, Arthur Healey. I mean, this is what I’ve been saying and I’ve been saying about this football team really for three or four years now. Again, a lot of good, a lot of respect for Buffalo, but I I I’ll say it and yeah, not only do I ever see teams that lose 30-13 to a two-7 team go to the Super Bowl, too. I just go when when you when you have to name superstars on a football team and you only get two people. I go, that’s not a Super Bowl team. I’m sorry. Josh Allen, James Cook, not a Super Bowl team. If we go through the Super Bowl teams of the last 10 years, you’re just going to go I’m going to go keep going. We’re going to go down a list and you’re going to go, “Damn, there was four or five on the offense and four or five on the defense. I forgot about that.” And that that to me is where the rubber doesn’t meet the road with Buffalo. So now the Bills trail New England by one and a half games in the AFC East. So this division I mean obviously not wrapped up but you look at the upcoming next three for each. The Bills it’s not easy sledding compared to New England at Houston at the Steelers compared to New England home against the Jets at the Bengals home against the Giants. That’s what I mean. And also I mean we don’t know the status of Jackson Dart right now. It didn’t look great yesterday, but we’re comfortable saying that they’re better than all three teams, the Patriots. Who they’re going to play? They’re favored right now by 11 and a half against the Jets. They’ll probably be favored potentially by double digits against the Bengals. Yep. And they’d probably be favored by like seven and a half, eight and a half with a Jackson dart led Giants, which is not a guarantee, right? And you could flip it to the other side and you look at the Bills and go, man, the Bucks, that’s a coin flip game, right? The Bucks are a better team. If you if it was it wasn’t in Buffalo, I’d go, the Bucks should be favored. Houston, it won’t be easy there. I mean, Houston, you know, my thoughts on the defense again. You everybody, you saw it yesterday. I mean, they’re incredible. They’re incredible. I mean, they they they spotted Jacksonville a 17-point lead with just messing things up and then just like put the the whammy on them. The Steelers game is going to be even for Buffalo. And then they still got New England. They still got the Eagles on their So, I mean, yeah, there’s losses out there for Buffalo. I Buffalo. I mean, for my money, New England is in firm control of the AFC East right now. It would take a pretty shocking game in one of those next three for you to be like, “Oh man, New England and Buffalo now is it’s going to come down to the end, right? New England basically just has to take care of their business, which is tough to do in the NFL right now.” Yo yo yo, thanks for watching, homies. We are now in the NFL season here on Chris Sims Unbutton. Hit subscribe to get our weekly picks, game recaps, film deep dives, and much, much more. Thanks again for watching. Subscribe, rate, review. Peace out.

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