Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald react to Buffalo’s stunning 30-13 loss at Miami and why the Bills have some big concerns as a Super Bowl contender. Check out the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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The Bills lose a game to the Dolphins, 30 to 13.
Devon Achan, 225 total yards, almost a dozen missed tackles forced.
What happened here, Charles?
What, what happened?
Cause this was a rewatch game for me.
I was like, oh, what, because I just kept assuming the Bills would pull it off, and then they just didn’t.
So what happened, Chuck?
Their defense sucks, bro.
Like that is, that is a serious, very serious problem for them.
Uh, and I think what today showed is like once they get into the playoffs, if they’re not, if, if they’re gonna have games like today where, you know, once they get to the red zone or even today they only got that one time, which is kind of crazy for, for Buffalo, uh.
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They, they need to score touchdowns because they’re not, their defense is not going to be able to hold up against some of these tougher offenses, uh, when it comes to playoff time.
I mean, Devon Ian is a, is a great player.
I have been campaigning for this guy to get traded to a team that needs a running back, uh, but man, like they shouldn’t be running all over you like this if you’re a team that has, uh, like Super Bowl aspirations.
That’s, uh, that, that’s pretty alarming.
I think the, the fact that it, it just looks so easy for them when They needed to, uh, when Miami needed, needed to run the ball to close of that game, it looks so easy for them.
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Like they were ripping off big runs left and right, and that’s really alarming.
Um, and you only, you only scored 13 points in a game where Josh Allen still had a pretty good day, you know, 52% success rate, uh, which was higher than the Dolphins for the day.
Uh, you know, I, I thought he had some pretty big plays in the second half, but the turnovers, uh, red zone inefficiency.
Lots of pressure today, just really, really sloppy football for the Bills.
And I think that that’s like, that’s two games that I would, I would call it that I’ve seen this year where they played today against the Dolphins, and then the Falcons game on Monday night, a couple of weeks ago, where it’s like, man, you guys just, you guys are better than this, and you didn’t play better than this, but the defense is really, really a big concern now, I think for them.
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It has been the whole time.
I mean, come on, it has been.
They, they, they pitched, they had an amazing game against the Chiefs, you know, and I, I get it, but it’s a hyped up game at home as a familiar opponent.
I mean, this is a familiar opponent, but it’s a division opponent, but Mike Mc, you know, Mike McDaniels still pretty damn good at dialing up ball plays.
Like he’s either Mike McDaniel is either gonna be the Dolphins head coach still doing this, or he’s gonna be the highest paid offensive coordinator in the NFL or should be the highest paid offensive coordinator in the NFL next year, um, but I, I do think he’s staying.
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But I, I, it was just, this has been my concerns with the Bills, it just hasn’t totally bottomed out, where, you know, they pull off the game with the Chiefs, they have other moments too, and the offense has been rolling, even when they’ve had moments, weak moments on defense.
You gotta remember, even when they played the Panthers, and they just absolutely swamped them, they, like, the Panthers were moving the ball.
It was just, they had, they got the turnovers, and that’s the thing with a defense like this, that always has generated turnovers at a high rate, don’t get me wrong, it’s been part of their whole identity.
But this is where my hesitations have come with this defense is their back seven isn’t as tight to the football as they used to be.