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Bruce Lee, baby.

I was kind of thinking along the same lines. No question the run defense has been horrible and needs to be fixed (I do think it should get at least somewhat better as the year rolls on), but where/when have they been bad and why. The Bills actually held the Jets and Pats both below their season team rush averages and Rhamondre Stevenson had his worst showing of the year, while Breece Hall had his 2nd worst showing on the year (though Justin Fields added some yards) vs. the Bills. So, the run defense was pretty good in these games (via very general statistics). Vs. Miami, the Bills did allow the Phins to top their season average, but the run defense wasn't awful. Achane had only his 4th best showing (of 7 games). Then there were the other three games: BAL: Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson both had their best rushing totals on the year. Buffalo gave up 238 yards, more than double Baltimore's season average (of course, Lamar has missed a couple of games now too). The next closest defenses to allow Baltimore a lot of rushing yards were K.C. who gave up 166 rush yards and the LA Rams who gave up 179 rush yards to the Ravens. NO: Kamara had his second best game of the year vs. the Bills. And Rattler and Kendre Miller both had their best rushing efforts on the year (adding a combined 114 rush yards). Bills allowed the Saints to rush well over their season average for their best production on the year. ATL: Bijan also had his best game of the year vs. the Bills. He did almost all of the damage for the Falcons. They too had significantly more rushing yards vs. the Bills than their season average. Only one team has allowed more rushing yards to the Falcons than the Bills (Minnesota). NoSaint does have an interesting point, this by no means excuses the defense (they gave up the yards, they tackled poorly, etc.), but in each of the three games that the run defense got torched, the offense kind of stalled after their first score(s). The 2nd quarter has been a dead zone for the offense this year. In their last three games, they have scored 3 points total (combined) in the 2nd quarter. Over 4 of their games (Bal, NO, All, and NE), they have scored 9 points combined in the 2nd quarter (2.25 points on average): vs. Baltimore: After scoring their first TD, the Bills offense had 4 possessions with 21 plays over 28:31 minutes of game time and came away with 6 points (2 punts/2 FGs). While over the same span, Baltimore scored 27 points, taking a large lead and being able to just run the ball sitting on the lead. vs. New Orleans: After two TDs on their first two drives, the Bills offense went cold. They had 4 possessions with 15 plays over 19 minutes of game time and the results were: 0 points---Interception, 2 punts, end of half. This allowed NO to stick around and continue to run the ball. vs. Atlanta: After an initial TD on their first drive, the Bills offense went 5 possessions with 19 plays, over 22 minutes of game time and came away with 0 points (4 punts and an interception). This allowed Atlanta to take the lead and continue to pound the ball. So, the offense probably should hold a little blame as well. Complimentary football. Also, how much of it is just that we struggle with good/big backs (playing nickel/being under-sized): Henry, Robinson, Kamara, Miller. How much do running QBs weigh in to our issues: Lamar, Rattler, and Fields all got their yards. How much is defensive personnel and execution (again, under-sized or bad tackling) part of the problem? Not really coming to any conclusions or solutions here, just trying to take at a broader picture of it. What do you guys think? Could there also be a bit of attitude involved? After a 4-0 start did the Bills think they could kind of coast through the regular season? The whole team looked flat vs. NO, and they couldn't seem to match the Falcons intensity in Atlanta. And those were two of our three poor showings in run defense (and obviously, overall as a team). I don't know, but the bye week couldn't have come at a better time for either some tweaking of scheme and/or personnel and maybe an attitude/intensity adjustment.

Hate to say it but we can all remember when Brady and the Pats would be up by 14-21 points or so and Brady would still be losing his sh!+ on the sideline after a bad series. It would be nice to see that in Josh once in a while. Like when Diggs was going full ###### on him and he turned the other cheek. I didn't like how he just took that. Yeah, yeah...Spare me the "That would've looked bad" At least he wouldn't have looked like he got poned He said publicly that it was his sports psychologist's advice

They brought Ryan Neilsen in, yea. Allegedly to help with their pressure packages.

Milano simply doesn't play. Tre White cant play well. Milano has missed 39 games since the start of 2023 and Tre had missed 31. The Bills front office is foolhardy with these repeated decisions

“The people who cared about rioters destroying historical artifacts don’t care about a planned construction project where historical artifacts were removed and preserved beforehand😡”

You seem like a homophobe. Sad.

Oh, it's absolutely a possibility. It sucks the injury happened, especially when it happened bc it paused his development - which was always going to be an ease in process with White being a bridge. That's what people aren't understanding when it comes to Hairston. Yes, his development was paused. But they aren't going to change their plans and push him beyond what they feel he's ready for bc he missed time or because White is struggling and fans are impatient. But he absolutely could become a stud. We just have to be patient.

Nobody I've ever loved, ever hurt me like you did What a lack of feeling I've got a hole in my heart

That’s another problem with this coaching staff. They make their offensive and defensive schemes so difficult that an acquired player can’t just come in and play. Case in point was Amari Cooper last season. Now, Rasual Douglas did come in and immediately play well but he may be an outlier.

Disagree, respectfully. Sure, a PRIME Tyreek Hill is preferred to MOST alternatives tbh. That's no secret. And when that was combined with a PRIME Kelce, watch out. But the current group includes the kinds of RAC and speed traits that Reid is amazing at scheming for. Rice is a beast for what KC wants him to be, which is a big, fast, strong weapon who gets the ball in motion and matriculates it aggressively up the field. Hollywood Brown is a fast and ballsy undersized threat on slants and curls and fades alike. Worthy is a speed merchant who lacks physicality but does seem to have some moxy and compete nonetheless. Smith-Schuster is the perfect possession complement to that group, and they still have the dumb, effective ghost of Travis Kelce. Plus Thornton and Remigio offer depth. Brown, Worthy, and Rice is a STRONG starting WR group for Andy Reid. He loves to attack horizontally and vertically, with tons of pre- and post-snap motion, and those dudes can do that.

I don’t trust that McD will start Hairston that soon.

Of course, the positive with Poyer is that he knows this defense and should help with positioning, etc.

just lol.. sorry..

So, do they purposely go for these castoffs because they may be more willing to play this rotational scheme?

OK FINE THEN!!!

All you negative Nancy's better get on board! The bus is leaving the station!

Talk to me after Thanksgiving, or maybe Christmas. I'm just waiting for the Sabres to win 5 more games, then go on their annual 13 game loosing streak.

he was getting out snapped by Quinn early

Yeah, feel free to never wear the all whites in any version.

😆🤣 That's for @flaz in heaven... Hope he gets the notification!

Wouldn't it be awesome if Beane really hit it out of the park on this one, and Hairston turns out to be a top-tier shutdown kind of CB? Still a possibility.