That's probably how such a fight would go down though given very few of the survivors appear to be trained military.
That's exactly what I was thinking.. There's a big difference between stabbing/shooting a wall of walkers trudging toward you and then fighting a pitched battle against humans who are shooting back and ducking for cover. Yes, these people have had to fight hard to just scrape by these last few years and most of them have become proficient with weapons.. But they are still basically just "folks".. Not military trained (for the most part) or former members of law enforcement (besides Rick).. For all we know, Negan was an office manager for a small paper company in Scranton.