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Poyer is not the problem

Our pass rush is not good. We resorted to overloading one side of the line yesterday and completely playing unsound vs the run in obvious passing situations just to ensure we get 1v1s and we still weren’t great winning those. Our interior twist game is awful - as athletic as we are up front we sure do struggle to read and move laterally with our interior guys. Also doesn’t help that we’re playing with tackles at end in obvious passing situations.

Alvin Harper

I think this guy is on to something.

an exceedingly rare treat for the Bills!

They ran out of virgins to sacrifice

I don't. I think the Bills always saw in Shavers what some people are seeing in him now. They also saw that he had a lot to learn. Finally, they saw a guy who was willing to put in the time, work, and learn. He kept getting better every season. And he kept getting closer to making the roster. I think what we're seeing is McDermott's patience with the guy paying off. What I really like is that Shavers, Palmer, and Davis present big targets to Josh, and I think Josh is comfortable throwing at those targets. He looked different yesterday. The touchdown to Shavers looked very much like several touchdowns. We saw Josh throw to Davis in earlier seasons.

Keon looks mostly clueless on those plays... Davis and Shavers both seemed to excel at that and we already know Shakir does as well.

He likes to jazz things up

I'm still mad about that year, my waiver claim got held up in the mail!

They just honestly don't look that good on either side of the ball right now.

Agreed. Also, when you have Allen at QB, on any given play he can escape the pocket, buy time, and all of a sudden your clear out route becomes a legitimate option.

In the few series I’ve watched so far in this game I’d definitely agree. Backers looked to have clear run throughs early on in the game. DL definitely looks much improved from earlier in the year at least through the first couple series of the game I was able to look at from the endzone angle in this game.

Thank you. Between how Hardman did on our opening return and how Davis did after when they kicked away from him - that was more incredibly poor Special Teams coverage than it was Ray Davis being some kind of elite return man.

I think we will see some different things as we get deeper into the season. I said earlier in the year, and I'll say it again, that I think later in the season we're going to see more man-to-man. It will be sprinkled in, but there will be more of it. I think. Think Benford, White and Hairston all can play it. I also think we will begin to see more blitzing paired with the man-to-man. There's been very little blitzing so far this year, and I think that will change. On top of that, I think we will see the zone defenses tightening down a bit. One reason all of those passes get completed underneath the corners is because they're playing deep enough to prevent the deep ball from being in play at all. I think it's been McDermott's plan all along to tighten up the zone coverages as the season goes on and as his young defenders learn the schemes. But I don't think the pass defense is the problem. It's the run defense that has to be much more consistent. McDermott has been clear for years that he's willing to give up running yardage in order to stop the passing game, and the stance. This season is similar to other seasons. We're at the top of the league in past defense and in the middle of the league and run defense., this season we're at the bottom of the league and run defense.

We are built to be a penetrating, movement based, front. Inherently this will lead to you getting gashed every once in a while, but should lead to far more disruptives than just sitting back and reading. Key reads and, in conjunction, initial attack steps off those reads can absolutely improve with coaching and reps. Our issue right now just seems to be age, on both ends really. You have young guys still learning and growing into the scheme while getting used to the speed of the pro game. On the flip side there’s guys who have lost a step and it’s showing as well. If you’re a half step slow in the trenches it’s the difference in making a tackle for a loss vs. getting reached or washed in the run game. I started going through this weekends game today and was actually encouraged with what I saw from the defensive line, though admittedly I only got a few series in. Backers struggled with reads. Both Dorian and Milano were noticeably slow on some plays. Taron fit incorrectly on one. LBs not working the plus consistently on zone. Overall we do look a lot better than we did earlier in the year, though admittedly I haven’t dissected the stuff from earlier in the year outside of just what I saw watching the game.

Hoping the Jags can keep winning and the Colts take care of business this week.

At least in terms of snaps he definitely has been. Total snaps this year (including week 11, when Keon didn't play) 425 - Keon Coleman 392 - Khalil Shakir 223 - Tyrell Shavers 201 - Joshua Palmer 159 - Elijah Moore 151 - Curtis Samuel

Just got tickets for May in Rochester! Releases April 2026.

I won my league with Stallworth, Joe Kapp and Bronko Negurski ….

Honestly I am starting to think that Shavers is what they thought Coleman would be but isn't.

DNPs for Hardman, Shakir, and Samuel. He’s ba-a-a-ack, everybody….

Then why'd he "go off" in the Ravens game?

The good: Shaq Thompson is full! But the rest is bad. I get that many are just carry-overs from last week and most of those guys played, but that's a long list.

And again for the 1000.time we didn't need a slot WR when we drafted Coleman but I know, you think all DTs are NTs?