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I'd suggest with injuries heading into the playoffs always a very big factor, having as many options producing plays across the board is a good hedge. We all know Allen will Allen. as always, can this Defense get healthy/ stay healthy in January, and can they make a play or two to nudge this organization to the final game?

Every PeeWee league knows in that situation, you take away the underneath yards, defend the sticks and 1st downs, take away the outside yards and anywhere near the boundaries where they can stop the clock and force them to throw long........if they get a TD out of it, well they've earned it. You have to force the O to keep the game in front of them, so i don't know what our D was seeing on the last drive.

Id be good with Shakir/Kincaid getting 80% But 61% & 49% is just Fing stupid

If you want them to stay and hope they finally make it, they might, but there are no historical examples of anyone reaching their first Super Bowl after this much time with the same team. Someone has to be the first to do it.

When you plan on playing 20+ games, that isn't a horrible plan. Still, he's on pace for 900+ yards, 10 TDS, and I believe 75+ catches as of now, with only playing 54%

I would still like to get a quality boundary WR. Not sure how or who fits that description but I think teams are going to get centered around daring the Bills to beat them on the boundary. Stack the box and take away the middle as much as possible, leave the corners on an island one on one and give them that. I think Olave or another much better than average WR would be a big trickle down benefit for the offense.

He hasn't been the same since he served as Hillary's valet. He always looks like he slept "in a van down by the river."

"Everyone eats" is basically a euphemism for "we don't have any elite WRs" Knox out-snapping Kincaid last game is Exhibit A on why this nonsense needs to stop.

Our #4 WR could be the deep threat, and that is totally fine. Shavers has some wheels, but we haven't ever tried it yet. I really think when he's healthy, Gabe Davis takes that #4 role and we see more deep attempts. That's basically what Hollis did last year.

I’m not sure New England is a bottom half team anymore. They just took down Buffalo pretty convincingly at home (with a little officiating help.) Defense looks legit and they have enough offense to win games.

Everybody eats...........most teams with a true WR1 are eating T-bone steak, our WR's are eating Salsbury steak.

Everyone eats is fine but there is a reason why most teams do try to get a true "WR1" on the boundary. The Bills have an offense where much like the start of last season teams are going to dare the Bills to throw to the boundary. Stack the box to stop the run, gear the passing defense to take away the middle and leave the corners one on one to handle the outside WR's and give them that. As much as people looked at Cooper's stats last season and said he was a bust there was a reason why his acquisition correlated to the team being much better on offense. Teams for the most part respected Cooper enough to not always leave him one on one. It made a big difference to how the offense could operate. The Bills need that consistent boundary WR to make the offense flow. Once the offense consistently scores the pressure is off the defense and it even improves the defense as later in games teams have to become more one dimensional.

The lol emoji is for that last sentence.

Not much better than Flores (who should have gotten another shot by now)

Oh yeh. I also noted in the game that a lot of Bills lost their footing during play. Its like they don't practice on their home field. Oh, wait, they don't! the bulk of work is in the dome where the turf may not be like the weathered/weather modified surface that games are played on.

The problem isn't the "everybody eats" mentality. I think offenses work better when the QB isn't forcing it to one player, and it creates a win-first attitude amongst the offensive players. The problem is that we need to strike a better balance between conservative/efficient and aggressive/reckless. We can't just go weeks on end without challenging a defense downfield. Ken Dorsey's offense was about aggressively attacking downfield with the passing game, and often forcing the ball to Stefon Diggs. Yes, we were among the top scoring teams in the league, but struggled with efficiency and turnovers. Most games we had 3-4 great touchdown drives. The other 6-7 drives were a complete mess. Joe Brady is basically the opposite philosophy, but it's turning out similar results. Very balanced run/pass. Mostly short passes. Avoiding turnovers. Just getting the ball to whoever is open. It's statistically much more "efficient". But it's also lacks explosive plays. Now we are stalling 6-7 drives a game, because it's hard to consistently finish long drives (especially when it requires overcoming penalties). In my opinion, we really need to find ways to attack more downfield. We don't need a superstar outside receiver to do that. Even if we don't have a burner on the roster, guys like Curtis Samuel and Elijah Moore do have some speed. Keon Coleman needs to get better at the jump-balls and back-shoulder throws. Khalil Shakir can be used more than just on screens. Our Tight Ends can also challenge down the seems on deeper passes. Josh Palmer can do more.

best defense in the league according to....? Stats can lie...Falcons have the number 1 pass defense if we go by yards allowed per game, guess who is number 2? The Bills LOL Some better indicators are points per game, and red zone defense...PPG falcons are middle of the back (1 point better than us), Red zone, they are bottom 7 in the league. They are average at best in all rushing against categories. I haven't had time to dive into EPA, or HAVOC yet, but I will post those when I see them. I'm not saying they are a BAD defense, I am just far from saying they are good, let alone "best defense in the league". EDIT: EPA says defenses better than Atlanta so far; Minnesota, Houston, LAC, Denver, Jacksonville, LAR, Lions, Indy. Eagles and Browns are about even.

The D is the problem these days, despite holding NE to 23 points. And, how do you loose so many folks to injury in practice? Something wrong there.

And honestly, the results have been historic. My only offensive wish is that one of our outside WRs could threaten deep with some speed. Not dominating down field, just threat. That is legitimately it.

I would add on that because when building a team in a cap league you have to pick where you devote your resources to the Bills have decided that WR is not a priority and with everyone eats they are ok with the coordinator scheming it up/Josh being Josh. They instead are trying to use the resources to help Josh on D (don't get me going on how that project has been thus far) so when they do play KC in a title game and Josh/the O put up 29 points the defense maybe finally hold KC to 27 24 anything less then 29. I get the idea of it is impossible to build a perfect team in todays NFL with the cap once a QB is paid which makes hitting your picks so vital along with getting the right FAs with what money you have. I would be more ok with the idea of what they have done with the WR corp if we could see some tangible progress by the defense. Right now and after Sunday I see the same result coming as last January which is what is upsetting and does make me question then why not add a true elite WR or at least solid WR with good separation. I hated the fact they ignored the WR spot in 23 and forced the Coleman pick in 24 instead of trading up. It is what it is, the offense more weeks then not will be good to dominate and Josh can win a title with that. I know the majority of the league wishes they had our O line and Cook is a legit blue chip talent now which helps big time. So it is a very good offense for the most part but it has its flaw with the WR's, especially in games where separation matters and/or they are having an off week with penalties turnovers etc.. I listened to Sal's podcast with the Boston reporters last week and the Pats guys said how Josh seems at his best right now like Brady where they can feed 7-8 + different targets a game. So while we are frustrated a times with the WRs it does seem nationally their is a huge respect for the offense in general and what it does. We just reallyyyy need to hope that the defense gets healthy, the guys who come back play to expectation, and they clean up the tackling otherwise our fate is going to mirror recent playoff losses the last two years.

And we more or less took him away. All the important plays were made by Diggs. That’s one reason the loss hurts so bad. But to your point. we don’t have a WR or TE on the roster that deserves 90-100% of offensive snaps. In fact, we haven’t had one ever that I can remember. Just once I want to know what it’s like to have a player like Ja’Marr Chase on the Bills, but that won’t happen until we get a coach and QB that can handle a huge diva in the locker room.

Very true. Just seems "light" for a football game.

Everyone doesn't eat. The bulk of the targets are going to Kincaid, Shakir, and Coleman. Palmer and Cook are at the next table, but it's a pretty drastic drop in targets. They get left overs. Knox is in-between the second table and the group who just gets scraps.

Yes, however, the balance in all of this is the Bills need some new wrinkles in the post season. The question becomes when do they pull out new plays and rework their tendencies? Having said this, the Bills appear to answer the question, “never.” This seems to be true on both sides of the ball