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My take is a bit different. Ty & Ray got so few carries because when they are in there, they were NOT effective, which forces Brady to give Cook more carries, kind of similar to Joey Bosa had to be out there taking so many snaps because no one else can get close to the QB. Pre-season game time to find out is over. If this continues post the bye, I'm willing to give Gore Jr. some try as a PS call up.

Did the TV broadcast indicate whether McD handled playcalling in the second half today? I sit on the opposite side of the stadium, and I don’t take binoculars in. BUT, from my distant perch, I saw him routinely stationed about 20 yards on the defensive side of the LOS with what appeared to be a play sheet when NO had the ball. My impression was that he was running the D.

Lol, it's not lazy, it's just unmotivated Its so bad you can't even tell its out of alignment!

This whole discussion is an excellent microcosm of what the sports commentary world has become. We almost need a better term than "hot take" - saying a take is hot still implies that there is any thought involved. I don't think this thread will ever go away. It will get bumped according to what you wrote above - from people on both sides of the question, depending on how Sunday went for both players.

Good points. Ray Davis is the kind of back that needs touches to get going. I think they need to start rotating him for some full series.

How bad is it? Like way out of alignment?

Defensive coaching improvement is going to be a tough one early in the season, I think we have to be patient and look closely right now. Sean already said to start the year the defense will be a work in progress due to new and inexperienced players. So I think they would try and keep his system as simple as possible now, until the unit starts to come together. https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/onsi/sean-mcdermott-explains-bills-curious-personnel-decisions-in-week-4-vs-saints “Just looking at different players,” said McDermott, explaining why Codrington did not play. “Seeing how the game day roster looks with different players up, different players down. With the goal of making sure we have our best guys out there as we head down the road here.” On Strong getting playing time: “Just looking at a young player,” explained McDermott. “Giving him some experience and some valuable reps. It wasn’t anything that Tre didn’t do. That was the plan going into the game.” This is new to me and exactly what I want to see from him with the defense. I don't want incompetent players being given minutes, but if Hairston and/or Hancock are doing well enough in practice, I hope they get the same treatment. Push their development because they could really help the team, especially in an injury situation. So signs are looking good to me here. My second component would be customizing the defense for the opponent. Even down to specific plays. I haven't seen much change here, and we've seen some attempts at man coverage, but we would really need Hairston at a minimum for that, IMO. But given the unsettled status of the D, I think that is why we are playing such soft zones and unimaginative pass rush again. Maybe coming off the bye, but I think around our 10th game (Tampa) will be where they start creatively tasking the defense. Which means we may play infuriating D against KC and take a lot of fan grief for it, but I'd rather play vanilla and save it for the playoffs. Mahomes is still very good but IMO has lost his elite quick-decision-making edge and I think we can take them in Jan/Feb this year if the D comes together.

I don't know how D is coached. But definitely not 2 guys taking the same gap. Either Bosa should go outside for containment and leave Williams to control the inside gap or Williams should read Bosa and go outside in this case.

#1 in pass defense though, and shockingly only 30th in yards per attempt when they allowed 8.2 yards per carry in week 1. Like the actual team-wide yards per carry allowed actually went down against NO, even allowing 5.55 yards per carry across 34 carries. That's how bad they were in week 1. They need to do a better job with athletic QBs, need to tackle better to create more third downs and prevent conversions, and need to be better getting off the field. If they did all of those things better though - they'd probably be the best defense in the league.

Either way, NY City loses...

Your end of the state is dwarfed by Northern VA. The Republican woman had no real campaign until a few weeks ago, and Spanberger has been running for two years, since she quite her House job and announced. She has been carpetbombing the media to the point where I'll go through a set of triple A' just muting her ads. Still, nothing from the Republican candidate other than the boys in sports/locker room thing. This one is settled.

so it’s more the opportunity to provide social commentary that keeps you coming back here

It's unrealistic to expect Coleman to have anywhere near the contested catch rate he had in college. To my eyes, the biggest improvement we've seen from Keon is his ability to get open, and get separation-- something some on here have said he would never do. Four games into the season, he has a 77.3% completion rate on 22 targets. Comparing that to his '24 rate of 43.9%, I'd say he's made some serious improvements in his game.

Man, this conversation will never end. Yes, Worthy is a better player than Keon. He has also gotten dinged and doesn’t have Coleman’s frame. Coleman doesn’t look like a bust. He does look like “a” guy and not “the” guy. Worthy looks like a dynamic playmaker with a frame that is concerning (think prime Desean Jackson). The reality of the 2024 NFL Draft is that the Bills desperately need a WR in a great WR draft. They needed a dude and got a guy. Yes, they would have been better with Worthy or Ladd. They also could have done worse with Legette or AD Mitchell. There is no reason to continue beating this dead horse. They could have done better. They could have done worse.

Thanks for confirming Shaw. Iwas at the game and saw Tre lined up in the S role a few times and had to do a double take. Peaked my interest. Haven’t had a chance to watch the game but curious on their D alignment with Tre at S.

Yes...Herbert should be MVP while struggling every week to hit 20 points a game...

The Republican candidate needs to drop out too asap to make it Mamamdi vs. Cuomo. This is an India Walton type emergency.

People like to obsess over meaningless details...just like they do in most other aspects of their life.

He also gutted out a couple big wins including yesterday. He is playing with more fire. I by no means think he will win. I just said he’ll hit the odds board. Either they are a good team or the 49ers are bad. Because watching that game yesterday it was 100% clear which team is better.

weird to even be on a message board if the only thing that matters is the record. Seems easy to keep track of without the help of strangers.

The Schumer Shutdown Cometh Duane Patterson At Midnight Eastern on Tuesday night, unless there's a breakthrough, meaning Senate Democrats cave, the federal government will shut down for the sixth time this century. In four of the previous five occasions, the shutdown lasted a couple weeks or less, Only once, in 2019, were non-essential federal workers furloughed for longer than a month. Logic would dictate that this shutdown, if it happens, would be very brief, but logic is not one of the primary drivers leading Democrats to the brink this time. With Republicans controlling the House and Senate, albeit with the narrowest of majorities, normal business is ongoing. Budgets have been passed in both chambers, and while delayed, the appropriations process, is well underway in a welcomed return to regular order. The House passed the appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2026 on Agriculture, Defense, Energy, and Veterans Affairs. There's a little more work to do, but the House has by and large done its job. Over in the Senate, on August 1st, the upper chamber passed a three-part package that funded Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, and the Legislative Branch. Due to the backlog on executive and judicial appointments, with Democrats going to the mattresses and clogging up time for every single nominee before Leader John Thune and the Republicans reformed the rules to remove the cloture requirement off non-controversial appointments and allow for bloc voting, the Senate has run out of time while the finishing touches on the remaining appropriations bills are negotiated in committee. In a sane world, it's a no-brainer. Pass a temporary continuing resolution to lock in spending at existing levels for a couple of weeks, or as long as you need to in order to finish next year's package, and you're done. Not this time. Not this president. The Democrats have to oppose what they supported, because it'll help Trump. Democrats used to be against shutdowns. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, was against them multiple times in recent history. More at the link: https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2025/09/29/the-schumer-shutdown-cometh-n3807293 .

How many yards does Worthy have this year outside the one Ravens game? So why are you not going apples to apples and comparing his 1 game to the 1 game Keon played against the same bad defense? Also: What OL does KC have and who are the RB's? Are they as good as James Cook and our OL? What other weapons does KC have compared to the Bills? All you are doing is cherry picking something to exaggerate it out to feed a bias. Worthy has very little target competition in KC right now and a weak running game behind a mediocre OL - meanwhile Buffalo has a dominant running game, has an offense where Josh Allen FREQUENTLY completes passes to 8-9 different targets and runs an offense that literally is rooted in taking the easy underneath stuff by design. The two situations are not remotely comparable. If Keon was a Chief, he would probably average 8+ targets a game. You cant catch the ball when you aren't targeted because your RB in on a tear and leading the NFL and your QB throws to everyone on the team, including even our 3rd string blocking specialist TE. There is a completely false pretense that because Keon (or insert any WR/TE name here on this team) isn't getting X number of catches per week, they must not be playing well or be open. But the reality is so many people here still don't understand at all what our offense is, how its being run, etc despite the fact Josh talks about verbatim after almost every game. Keon and Palmer have been open plenty of times when not getting the ball, but our offense is designed where we run a lot of routes for the intent on getting someone else open and if that guy isn't there Josh checks it down and takes the easy throw. And Josh has said he is going to keep doing that until they find a way to take that away. And the only time where we really needed to go away from that, thanks to our bad defense in week 1, we started airing it out and Keon went off - and against the same team and he (and Palmer for that matter) was a critical reason why we won that game. But Worthy, who was injured again (part of the concerns on him was his slight frame and lack of strength) comes in and has one good game against the same team Keon did and suddenly its all about Worthy again. Chiefs are looking up at the division and the 1 seed right now, and Worthy not being on the field the first 3 weeks while their actual best WR is suspended didn't help their cause. Meanwhile, Keon had a big game week 1 and helped set the tone for the season and Bills cease a commanding lead on the 1 seed. And Josh and Keon were playing pitch and catch out there yesterday, but we just don't call enough of that unfortunately and my bigger concern is how Brady is calling games in critical situations and how long he lets the offense sputter before letting the dogs out of their cages.

You’re right, I’m wrong. Christ, I sound like my father. Never missed a play from the 1st preseason game in 1960 and never missed the chance to criticize our play. When they frustrate me, I typically back off a couple days to regroup. But what I’m criticizing isn’t a one-off poor performance. Only the Jets game showed our best performance on Defense. We have a few new players but we’re not getting any better. Yesterday was a shock. Many Penalties, clock mismanagement gaffs, poor tackling fundamentals and caught out of position routinely. Battling out of routinely poor drive starts is difficult for every team. But that’s what happens when you can’t stop the run. For as thrilled as I was with our opening drive TD, the rest of the game I wondered aloud whether we’d be soon be playing catch up the rest of the way. That’s no improvement from the now also-ran Ravens game. We’ve invested so much into the Dline yet to date it’s worse than last season. No pass rush sans 1 or 2 plays per game and overall maddening 3rd Down Defense. I’d feel better about our situation if there were aspects that definitely showed improving play, but I don’t see much yet..

Maybe, I don't know. I do take a lot of insults around here, so sure, probably, lol

@FranchiseSavior Lamar still better than Allen? Did he injure his hammy? Or did he quit on his team in the 3rd quarter while down 17. 3 weeks after losing a 15 point lead with 4 minutes left? this is part of what sets the 2 apart. Josh all day baby. All heart 💙 ♥️ Hes the best player in the world. Thats why you shouldn’t be surprised. but i agree with why you are surprised. Cook has been the engine this year. Partially because the defense is so worried about Josh