The Bills destruction has started: OC Ken Dorsey gets the axe

mercury22nathan wrote:Jets aging veteran QB goes down on first series of first game.  check.
Mac Jones exposed as fraud as offense flounders and folks wonder if Belickick is done.  check.
Buffalo implodes and McDermott starts the firings to save his own skin while Allen is a turnover machine.  check.

damn.  they are dying to give Miami this division!!  Dolphins just gotta take it NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JMP wrote:Interesting timing on the Dorsey firing.  So in last night's game, the offense marched downfield and scored a TD to give the Bills a lead with under 2 minutes left.  So what happens next?  The defense chokes and lets the Broncos get into FG range, and then STs makes a critical boneheaded mistake to give the Broncos the win.  So the postgame knee-jerk reaction by the head coach is, naturally, to fire...the offensive coordinator???  HUH???  

And a sidenote: the Bills have scored more points than any NFL team except the Dolphins, Ravens and Cowboys.

"The guys talked, and we had the floor," wide receiver Garrett Wilson said during his weekly spot on the "Bart & Hahn Show" on ESPN New York radio. "It was just us. We got to make sure we're all on the same page about where we're at and how the hell we get out of this funk, man. That was really the message. When it comes from one of your teammates, it always hits different. It always resonates a little bit more."

With their season at a crisis point, the New York Jets held a players-only meeting Tuesday and -- in a surprising move -- waived running back Michael Carter.

A few hours after the meeting, the Jets announced Carter's release, which stunned the locker room. Tackle Mekhi Becton said on X, "This one hurts the most. I can't even lie."

JMP wrote:By all accounts, Carter was a very well-liked player in that Jets locker room. He took one for the team by staying quiet and doing his job after Dalvin Cook was signed.

A really odd move to cut him - seems completely unnecessary. Rookie RB Izzy Abanikanda may finally be ready to play, but they doesn't mean they had to cut Carter.

Saleh also said other changes are on tap.

"There are. I’m not going to get into it now, but there are," Saleh said, via SNY.

DolFan 316 wrote:Maybe Daddy Aaron told him to do it...

"Aaron's a big boy, a grown man, and no one's going to know Aaron's body like Aaron knows his body," Saleh said Wednesday. "And if he feels after all the doctors clear him -- I'm sure there's a million of them, I have no idea -- but if Aaron says he wants to play, he's going to play."

"Without a doubt, and I take that very personally," Allen said. "It hurts a lot to see someone you care about go through a situation like that and to know that if I could have done more, if this offense could have done more, we wouldn't have had to do something like that.

"... It's an unfortunate series of events that have led up to it, but, again, as much as you can sit here and feel sorry for yourself and you can sulk on what's going on, we got a game to prepare for and it's four days away, so we can't pay too much attention to it."

"Obviously not a set of circumstances you want to be in, especially during the middle of the season," said Allen, who said that he talked to McDermott about why the move was made. "I love Dorsey as a human being; he's one of the good ones. He's been in this room with me for a very long time.

"I feel like I owe him a lot of the success that I've had in my career, and he's been a huge part of that, so it's sad to see him go. The fact is, we play better as a team, we probably don't have to make a move like that. He was a big part of what we've been doing here in the last few years."

"The clock's ticking on what we can do this season, and it starts this Sunday to try to turn this thing around," Allen said. "It's no secret in terms of how many wins you probably need to get to the playoffs, and we don't got much more wiggle room. So, we understand that."

If Leonard Floyd hadn't been on the field on Monday night, the Bills beat the Broncos 22-21. The Bills would be 6-4 instead of 5-5, and Ken Dorsey likely still is the Bills' offensive coordinator.

Floyd was the 12th man on Wil Lutz's 41-yard field goal attempt that was wide right, with his penalty giving Lutz and the Broncos another opportunity. The Broncos kicker made the 36-yarder on the final play.

“From my perspective, it was just a communication issue – plain and simple,” Floyd said Wednesday, via The Buffalo News. “Got to be better. We’ll be better. Plain and simple, just miscommunication.”

The Bills' dime defense was on the field for Russell Wilson's final kneel down, and with the clock running, the team sent out its field goal block unit. Six players from the sideline came onto the field but only five left.

The Bills had no timeouts, so they could not have stopped the play if anyone had noticed the extra player.

“I really don’t care about the blame, just disappointed we lost,” Floyd said. “A loss is a loss. People try to find ways to blame this guy, that guy, but I ain’t really sweating it. It’s all football, man. Just go out the next game and correct the shit and go out and win. Them type things, I pretty much try to look past those. You’re going to make mistakes. You can’t play the game perfect. I don’t know nobody that plays this game perfect. We’ve just got to correct it, man, and be better next time.”

The Bills kept their entire starting defense on the field for Lutz's 40-yard field goal try on the final play of the first half with the clock running. But special teams coordinator Matthew Smiley opted to send out the kick block unit before the final play of the game.

“At the end of the game, there’s two schools of thought," coach Sean McDermott said. "Either you do the same and rush with your defense or you try and get your block, your max-rush unit out there. And that’s what coach tried to do. And unfortunately, a certain amount went in and not the equivalent came out, and so we ended up with one too many.”