The Buffalo Bills experience a debacle against the Denver Broncos. The title window and the Super Bowl are long gone – a commentary.

Monday Night Game. Home game at Highmark Stadium. Actually, everything is set for the Buffalo Bills to make a comeback.

Or so you’d think. But the team’s countless lapses against the Denver Broncos were surprising in a negative way.

After their second defeat in a row, the Buffalo Bills have a record of 5-5 and have long since slipped out of the play-off places. They are currently only tenth in the AFC rankings, even behind the Indianapolis Colts!

Shortly after the halfway point of the season, Buffalo has already suffered significantly more defeats than in the previous season (regular season record 2022: 13-3) and continues to stagger like a knocked-out boxer.

A crashing collapse and a blatant contradiction to their own high expectations of finally reaching the Super Bowl. However, this has long since ceased to be the case

Bills coach McDermott’s need to explain is telling

A few days before the Broncos game, head coach Sean McDermott was still unimpressed by his own inconsistency and pointed to his belief in his own strength.

“I’m confident in our team, our coaches, our players and our staff.” However, the coach in his seventh year in charge made it clear that they are working on the problems. “We go back and relearn certain things, or readjust certain things at this time of year.”

After the fiasco against the Broncos, the 49-year-old broke into a sweat at the press conference when asked about the turnovers that broke the team’s back. The countless mistakes were “unforgivable.” The team was “not good enough”. “We didn’t move the ball well.”

While the fans on social media were already calling for the coach to be sacked, the head coach once again became entangled in slogans of perseverance. The situation had to be “reassessed” and “evaluated” after the latest setback. Unsurprisingly, McDermott again stated that he remained “confident”, as he had done a few days previously, even if there was still a lot to improve.

Although the players are frustrated, they are working hard and are focused. The attitude and performance in training is right, but you have to deliver it in the game.

McDermott’s need to explain now just seems like reeling off a program of phrases in a continuous loop. An old record that is put on again every few weeks but doesn’t really suit the musical tastes of anyone present.

The Buffalo Bills’ title window is already closed

During the offseason, the Bills’ future had looked so bright. The Bills mafia was alive and euphoric. By now, however, you don’t see a fan jumping through a folding table anymore.

After the disappointing performances, one reads more and more headlines like “Buffalo Bills – more pretender than contender” in “USA Today” in the US gazettes, and quite rightly so.

More pretender than contender, that pretty much hits the nail on the head. Because the disastrous self-assessment has long since blown up in the face of the franchise and coach McDermott.

If you look further back than just the last two defeats, it’s scary: after a 3-1 start, they were unable to dominate even the league’s cellar dwellers.

They won by the skin of their teeth against the stumbling New York Giants in week six, who have already taken several knocks from other top teams. And a loss to the disastrous New England Patriots in week seven. Any questions?

And looking ahead on the schedule doesn’t really give us much encouragement either. After another clash with the New York Jets in week eleven, the real cracker games come within three matchdays with two guest games at the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs as well as a home game against the Dallas Cowboys.

This is followed by the supposedly easier games at the Los Angeles Chargers and again against the Patriots. The regular season concludes with a trip to the Miami Dolphins. Whether the Bills still have any realistic chance of making the playoffs by then is highly doubtful as things stand – they last missed out in 2018.

The appalling performance against the Broncos made it clear once again: these Bills are by no means a contender anymore and are quite rightly not in the postseason at the moment.

The much-cited title window, which will soon close, is already closed: The Bills are in a fight for survival and are in danger of completely falling apart!

For example, Trevon Diggs, cornerback of the Cowboys and brother of Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs, posted on “X” after the MNG that the offense star should finally be taken out of there