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I don't think he'd ever admit it, but I'm pretty confident that McDermott has dialed down the intensity of the players for the first three months of the season. I think we're just now starting to see more hitting, tighter coverages, more blitzing. I think he believes, and I agree, that for several of the previous seasons the Bills peaked too early. He doesn't want that to happen any more. He wants to peak in January. I say it particularly about tighter coverages. In October the underneath receivers on in-breaking and out-breaking routes were open a lot. They had big cushions. Compare that to yesterday. Yes, Burrow completed a lot, but playing against as good a pair of wide outs and an excellent TE, the number of plays when the defender was right there, often making a play on a perfectly throw ball, was impressive. It's the same defenders, but they're getting tougher and tougher as the season goes on.

More handouts for the most coddled, pathetic people in the United States.

I want to throw this out as devils advocate. Could a player conceivably sue the NFL for malfeasance in a situation like this? If a player is putting his health and safety in the decisions of Doctors and they fail in that responsibility is it legal negligence? Or do players accept the risk playing the very violent sport which is NFL football. Is said player responsible for his agreeingtg to go back into a game after his recent history? RECENT History too thoughts?

Im getting tired of you posting anti-American propaganda. Somali Americans are Americans. End of discussion.

I would call this roster very flawed. Not sure it's accurate to use the term "disaster" though. Previous seasons, I was worried about facing specific teams/players in the playoffs (Chiefs, Ravens, Bengals). This year, there isn't a single team that I'm really afraid of facing. Mostly AFC, but also the NFC. We are more than capable of beating every single one, even with the huge issues we've had over the course of the season. My biggest worry this year is consistency. Can we put together 4 straight quality games against good/very good teams once the postseason rolls around? I could easily see us smacking around the #1 seed Broncos and putting up 30 on their defense, and then somehow falling apart in a rematch with the Steelers. Nobody knows what version of the Bills is actually going to show up from week to week. I'm going to be watching several things very closely over the next four games to see whether the Bills have found some answers and turned the corner... or if we are going to continue seeing the up/down roller coaster for the remainder of the year. The run defense has been solid the last 8-10 quarters... pretty much since Terrel Bernard got hurt, and was replaced with Shaq Thompson. The Run D has easily been our biggest weakness this season. So keeping it at an average level would be a huge boost going forward. The passing offense has been very uneven at times, for many reasons. Josh Allen has been in a slump, but had possibly his best game of the year yesterday. Can he keep playing at that level the rest of the year? Dalton Kincaid being back healthy helps. Joe Brady's gameplans have been much better the last two games. Can Brandin Cooks give us a respectable threat on the outside? Can the pass rush get a boost from Joey Bosa and Ed Oliver returning down the stretch?

Well he did end up on the field, our safety room was trash... but JoPo has had enough left to be an upgrade and as I keep saying... no coincidence Bishop's light came on the moment Poyer got on the field next to him. He is getting by with what is between his ears and underneath his ribs. The body may fail. But the brain and the heart are undefeated. Absolute Bills legend. Put him on the wall. Tre has been okay. Passable. He has played at the level the likes of Dane and Levi have given us in the past at that spot. He has been more expensive than those two though. And that is a fair point. But he has not been a liability as you would think reading this board.

Fox had 11 snaps. I did not notice him at all.

Everyone knows #17 and Knox are besties. In a crunch game, Knox came up big keeping drives alive and earning a new set of downs. Knox is graded in the top 32 TE's so if we don't extend him, he has options. Bills we have three TE's in the top 32 and that's in a run heavy scheme which places a premium on possession receivers. For kicks and giggles, Hawes is ranked 2nd after Kittle, and Kincaid 4th.

He's holding his opponents a lot more than his own.

Poyer’s play has really surprised me. I thought he was done.

You must be some special kind of jerk to run yourself out of the league over it. If/when his frontal ever comes together he can look back and have some serious regrets about how his career went. Just don’t be a jerk for a while and see how things go.

He was so dam good yesterday.

I really don't have an issue with the game plan after the first drive. My problem was the first drive and playing way too passive. After that they were more aggressive. They got beat at times and I can live with that. But I can't live with Joe burrow just chewing up zone time after time Fair- but at the end of the day they weren't pressing, outside of the first 3rd down conversion. Maybe disguised press looks , but at the end of the day there was a ton of cushion for the most part on that first drive

The NFL needs to figure this out or they will have a Bill Masterton situation on their hands. Higgins had just returned from a concussion and had 2 bad head blows in this game.

And the argument that the Bills won because of Josh really is a meaningless argument. Eight of ten wins, the Chiefs win because of Mahomes, the Ravens win because of Jackson, the Bengals win because of Jackson. This whole discussion is pretty silly, because the only fans that are having discussions like this are fans of teams that have a star quarterback. All the other fans are having discussions about why their GM doesn't get a quarterback. Of course the Bills win because of Josh. And, as you say, the Bills are winning with this roster philosophy.

That whole first drive we were within 3 yards of the receiver from the LoS pre-snap. The only times we weren't was when we ran an Inverted 2 look and our corners were dropping out to play their Cover 2 drops, and one rep of 2 man where Tre bailed out early. Other than that our pre-snap presentation was very much a "press" look.

So Bengals, Ravens and Chiefs have great QBs but aren't in position for the playoffs yet the Bills are? (I get the Bengals with Burrow) Beane must be doing something right.

I think this issue and can happen for a variety of reasons. One criticism of Beane is that a lot of his free agent DT aquisitions have not been good. However, I saw a list of the top 10 DTs in the league (sorry...don't remember who put it out) this year and 2 Beane free agent pickups made the list: Poona Ford and Tim Settle. If they played here, like they're playing now, they would have been amazing signings.

No, but one can hope.

Most people think playing zone coverage with your cornerbacks playing off a few yards equals soft That's the gist of this website they think heavy zone with players playing their sound technique equals soft... What they want is press bump and run every play without realizing you need the personnel to do that and that also has its own negatives Sean has a great scheme in the back half... He disguises things well.. he has very well timed blitzes His defense this whole year tightens up as the game goes along

A WR prima donna he ain’t. I kinda gained more respect for him.

True. It's really not about whether 20 minutes after a concussion a player can return and play well. That has been going on in football for generations. The new rules were "supposedly" installed to stop a player from getting multiple concussions in a short time. That is the long-term destructive issue. These idiots KNEW he had one last week and didn't care. Then after 2 more they still clear him to play. Now he may have real issues with future head shocks, and it may shorten his career or his future quality of life. All for a team that had many losses because of an injury to their QB. Everyone involved is to blame.

poyer was playing with some fire yesterday. These vets are the bridge to the next generation and the 11 defensive players beane will draft next year

We have one of these already. We put him in a Puffy coat and call him Keon Coleman.