Kill Bills Vol. 1: Ken Dorsey

Stop, drop, and roll.

An open flame has yet to be confirmed in Orchard Park, NY, but the fire alarm has most certainly been pulled.

A 5-5 start, good for 10th in the AFC standings, a QB seemingly incapable of not turning the ball over, and the firing of the OC is more than a drill. The building may be coming down.

What happened to the Bills? They’ve gone from Super Bowl favorite to playoff couch watchers faster than Josh Allen’s fastballs his receivers can’t catch. They’ve lost to the Aaron Rodgers-less Jets, the football player-less Patriots, and the internally combusting for two years Broncos this year, looking like a high school gym class offense lef by the school’s star point guard who thinks he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread while doing it.

The solution seems simple, but they continue to show that it’s anything but. Stop turning the ball over. The Bills are tied with the Bears and Raiders for the second most turnovers in the league with 18, trailing only the Browns. Josh Allen leads the league in interceptions. A league, I remind you, that consists of Mac Jones, Jordan Love, and at least another half dozen QBs that have no business sniffing an NFL field.

18 turnovers isn’t a one game throw it out fluke. We’re 10 games in and the problem that took main stage in week 1 hasn’t yet gone to intermission, and by all signs is nowhere near curtain close.

Monday night’s game was the final straw for many both inside and outside the building. Joe Footballs like myself have officially hopped off the bandwagon until further notice. Talking heads on TV were ripping them.

After deflecting the deficiencies of this team for months due to the sheer arm talent of the QB, people far and wide have come to grips that this is not a playoff team.

Inside the building, that same realization occurred, as the first domino in the “we’re sinking and can’t swim” puzzle the Bills have constructed fell, OC Ken Dorsey.

Typically I wouldn’t think letting the OC go would fix a team’s problems, especially since not all the problems with this bunch are on the offensive side of the ball.

But it felt necessary for Josh’s mental well-being.

Josh is lost. There’s no two ways around it. He’s lost his swag, and is force feeding lasers into double coverage attempting to get it back.

As someone who is constantly lost about everything that’s going on in his life, sometimes a hard reset is needed. Cut ties cold turkey with what was and pretend it never happened. It’s gotten me here, writing blogs to an audience of zero in my 500 square foot apartment, so I must know something.

It’s not like Joshy doesn’t know how to play QB. Like he hasn’t already lit the league on fire, and is in no way close to past his biological prime. He doesn’t need to be taught the mechanics on throwing a football or what a defense is (a refresher on this may be nice though).

He might just need a new voice in his hear. The whole offense might. We don’t know what’s said behind closed meeting doors, but maybe the message Dorsey was selling wasn’t being bought. Or maybe it was sold but was a defective product that prefers to break in front of a Monday night crowd. Either way, changing the messenger is a good place to start.

I’m not passing blame from ole J Bones, his offensive coaches aren’t the ones throwing out routes a second and a half late to the other team. But something about him is off, and it’s not like they’re getting rid of him.

Even if the offense fixes themselves, this team has a ways to go to being where we perceived them before the season. Maybe we start with having 11 guys in field goal formation? The same things I said of Ken Dorsey can be said of Sean McDermott, who’s seat is becoming hotter and hotter with each inexcusable loss.

I won’t proclaim the Bills to be dead. They have too much talent to be a half game out of the playoffs and say that. But I can’t recall a team who’s felt more dead only being a half game out of the playoffs with 40% of their season to go.

At best, they’re broken. You can fix broken. But that fixing better happen quick.