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the bills not forcing the issue is part of it too IMO. this far off coverage makes it hard to ride and hide the holding out of the brake, the lack of crowded fronts make it hard to get mucky up front, atl was doing that and so was NE. i remember when we played the delay rush spy game vs kc in the past two reg season wins over them. our LB spy/late rusher would maul any wr in a shallow pattern, and i think it might have gotten called 1 out of 10 times. if you press the issue you make it hard for the ref to call the penalty (the cb mugging coleman all day was let go because it was at least 5050 half the time). if you play finesse ball, your physical play is more obvious and gets called more.

I too thought this was interesting that AA was the backup center instead of SVPG. Thinking forward to the offseason discussion … McGovern is a FA, and I think AA is a RFA. I’m sure the Bills would love to keep the Oline intact but maybe they’d feel they could get a cheap year out of AA while they transition to the next starting C. I’m not sure we should continue to expect SVPG to develop into anything other than depth.

It's crazy ppl think the gm just gets random dudes. Coach is like "we need a de, cb, dt and trash wr, fill it how you like"

You seem to keep forgetting the lesson. Stop putting the ring on it!

Not holding out hope. Also, opening the window after the bye, probably means a few weeks after the bye. That and the 4-week window, and are they really trotting him out in December?

This was my concern with the bills actually playing better in the 2nd half on defence lol. Almost wish it was just as bad as the first half, as that might have been the end of the line for Babich

What if Sean McDermott switched eras with Chuck Knox?

Nothing has to be purposely rigged for the rules to be enforced unfairly or with bias. The Bills opponents O-Lines have had a single holding call levied against them in 6 games, do you think that's because they never held? I certainly don't. Intentionally or subconsciously on the part of the refs doesn't particularly matter. There has been a real, verifiable disparity in distribution of calls that goes beyond random chance. Now I'll say this again: The refs are not the only reason why the Bills have lost the last two games, far from it. They are a contributing factor though, and when it appears that those calls or lack thereof are biased or unfounded, it is extremely frustrating. If he's Offside, it's by millimeters. What a trash call.

And people were watching you watch others who watched others still. Too many watchers, not enough doers.

i remember when i worked in London a colleague of mine mentioned that there are tiny airstrips all over the UK that private flyers can just book and take off and land from. it was part of him describing how the UK favors putting a little bit of resources into everything to have something for everyone rather than a real determined focus to pick what one wants to do well and put resources into that. IMO, that's the exact problem with our team right now. we have lots of nifty things, lot's pass rushers on d who sit more than half the game, lots of tight ends who can block and run, and what seems like 4 slot WRs and 3 backs (two of whom sit on any given play) who can do a few things. furthermore, our philosophy on o is sprinkling the ball around out of many groupings and formations, to give teams more things to study on tape. on D, we like to have eight reads for each person in the back 7 and four calls to be made pre snap so everyone can be on the same page, and we are trying to defend everything all at once. clearly, this approach is not working. on the all 22 of one of the plays, i saw ATL overload blitz, press man all over, and rode the back out of the back field so he wasn't an outlet (the back ran to the offense's right). the slot wr on the left was uncovered, no one within 10 yards of him. they gambled because they had confidence on what we were going to do, and were willing to take a risk at a super easy first down (and more) if allen and the O picked it up. they saw our tendencies and decided to not let us pick our best shot on O, and dared us to press the matter, which we did not and just took our best non 17 weapon off the field for the last like 4 drives. Our D ends up giving up giant gashing plays underneath the coverage that will die before it allows a deep pass, but it still seems to produce some stops and maybe turnovers after getting totally cooked for long periods of time (don't get me wrong, the d sucks). on O, we have somehow backed ourselves into a corner where if we do anything wrong and get behind the sticks, none of it works. the silly jet sweeps would work if executed perfectly, but for what, 12 yards? meanwhile targets to tight ends out of play action are easy mode plays that pick up chunks and TDs, and passes to backs are similar. to diversify your game on O but still be fragile is a foolish thing to do, having the ol and qb make hard reads into blitzes which simply would not work if we used different formations or groupings is the height of arrogance. i'm not saying go back to 5 wide empty and just throw the rock like we did in 2021, but we have to have a couple things we can go back to when we need production, and the OL, QB, TE, and RB talent we have is so so so much better than our WRs that i'd be quite happy to see more than 1 WR on the pitch less than 25% of the time. we present a degree of difficulty with our D that is near the lowest in the nfl, it can make some stops with great DL play, but it doesn't actually force the O to take any bait or get out of their comfort zone. On O, we seem to refuse to go for easy mode stuff, and rely on coleman one on one, or a back picking up a free runner, or the OL to diagnose and stop all blitzes instead of maybe running a screen. OP is 100% correct we need to make our best players the focus of the O, and having a screen game, less predictability (80% run from under center, 80% from shotgun is disgusting), and chucking the no reward trick plays into niagra falls is a great start. remember the fake punt in the playoffs vs kc, the flea flicker vs baltimore in 2024, and the jet sweeps to our 2nd best TE and maybe 4th WR in the past two games? i think brady might not be capable of learning what works vs what doesn't. every time we show a look that murks people, we throw it away for some weak stuff that the players clearly don't have confidence in.

We’ll see

I agree. It’s week 7. I don’t expect this to be the norm. I think we will have much better days once we get our heads out of our asses and cut down on the boneheaded pre snap penalties. There’s no excuse and needs to improve. What action/s need to be done in order to hold the team accountable? If winning the Super Bowl is the goal, does firing McD now and promoting Brady get us closer to the Super Bowl? I don’t think so, but the one thing that could possibly improve if he is, is the defense. That is, if Babich has a different overall philosophy and switches things up away from McDs scheme But what we’ve seen from him so far, that’s a long shot.

What a POS. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mamdani-s-democratic-socialists-of-america-party-bashes-gaza-ceasefire/ar-AA1OsVm8?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=68eeb37a501643779276b5bc05f1677c&ei=15

Extremely similar to the last play of the season against the Chiefs in the Conference round. The defense completely prepared for mesh. A corner blitzing free forcing Josh to bail out of the pocket early. The play call doesn't give Josh an outlet and the players on the field don't adjust their route.

It was better but we can't keep coming into these games with the totally wrong game plan and making basic fundamental errors all game long. The Jets horrid offense is the only one we've stopped. So basically any offense better than historically bad we are spotting them 21 points. That can't be the minimum every week, not when we've put so much investment into that side of the ball. Babich has to be a lot better. I didn't really expect a change but I was hoping for one. I think he is way out of his depth.

We're just fans. We can overlook anyone & it doesn't make a difference.

Bills fans: OMG the sky is falling! We suck! We are going to finish 3rd in the division! Even the Fins will beat us out! Vegas: Yeah, we have seen this before many times. We know how this plays out.

I wouldn't overlook Houston. Elite D and good QB. Didn't Allen have one of his worst games ever against them last year?

More cheese please, lol.

What did Brady do with him?

Dorsey and Brady saw these plays and said “best we can do is make you pass block and be the check down every passing play”. (First tweet won’t embed for some reason) https://x.com/georgiafootball/status/1459648727937921030?s=46

You forgot that also can rush the passer 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ And for the cheap🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

I am not saying you cant use him for that too, I am saying they run too many routes for him that don't suit his game. You cant just throw 50/50 balls to him, you need to move him around and let him run routes where he is better suited for success too. Just running him deep down field along the sideline to maybe throw and back shoulder pass to all the time is not going to get him regularly involved, not to mention, it makes it pretty easy to scheme against. He has shown he can be dangerous on slants, crossers, comebacks, but he gets very few targets and routes like that each week. They seem to use him more like Mack Hollins than an actual focal point of the passing attack.

sounds awesome. My cousin lives in New Haven, and I am going to have to visit him now to check this place out.