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It's not just field position. If the Bills got a 3rd down stop on the drive ended by the Bishop interception, they likely would have come away with 3 points from a FG. The turnover didn't give the Bills great field position, but it robbed the Saints of points where a 3rd down conversion wouldn't have.

I get EPA is the new hot metric, I personally think it's dumb for the most part though. I remember that dolphins game last year Where the bills could not stop Miamis run game and basically offence overall- And They got graded a high EPA in that game.. Which makes no sense to me as anyone who watched that game knew they couldn't stop a nose bleed

Did Allen say anything about Diggs? Reporters may intentionally do selective quotes.

That is quite a statistic. Who is the 3rd player? Lets hope Hairston gets well soon. And is a big contributor after the bye week. It is frustrating about Jackson, and Sanders. Both of these guys look very raw. I watched neither of them in college. But if we are picking them in the top 72 picks as you say, shouldn't they at least be good enough coming out of college to at least hold their own in an NFL regular season game. Not necessarily expecting Jared Verse. But its still football. And these guys are both big dudes. (Jackson and Sanders) So shouldn't some of what got them drafted high up, translate to the NFL game to some degree? Or does Beane and his scouts really have no clue how to evaluate defensive lineman? Because Rousseau and Epenesa while not sucking are definitely not dominant players. And Oliver has been good but certainly not close to very good on a consistent basis. Basham was meh, and Salomon hasn't made much of an impact either.

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They do, my ATM card has a Bills logo... M&T sponsors the Bills and the Ravens... hmmm

I think this might be a bit revisionist. Belichick famously had his finger in all 3 aspects of the game and limited the authority of his assistants. Please - be consistent. If you want to give Reid credit for acting as the OC of the Chiefs, that's fair. But then you have to give McDaniels some blame when he's HC but acting as the OC of the Broncos and really mixing it in with running their offense; you have to give McDaniels full blame when he's OC of the Rams under Steve Spagnuolo who left the offense strictly to him; you have to give McDaniels some blame when he's HC but acting as the OC of the Raiders. It's not just "he isn't a good HC", it's that he's not consistent as a good OC. OOOOHhhhhh below average WR, don't tell Stefon Diggs. NE has moved the ball pretty well the last 3 weeks. The Steelers game 2 weeks ago was a loss, in which Maye was sacked 5 times, threw a pick, and lost a fumble to go along with 3 fumbles lost by RBs. If they do the same at Buffalo, our defense will be delighted.

Getting a turnover is more important than getting a third down stop cause of field position. Thats why EPA is so helpful. It will account for that huge swing in points expected. Their ability to get turnovers at a greater than average clip was more important than inability to get off the field at a lower than average clip. That is likely cause they got much better field position. Getting into EPA a bit, given the entire historical data set of all plays in the same down/distance/field position ever you can calculate the expected points the drive will get. That analysis is telling you being number 1 in TO% and number 28 in 3rd % results in 12th best expected points added for a defense. The how can that be is clearly field positioning.

Great. Canada Post is on strike. Guess I'll get mine in a year or two, if ever.

Gotta wonder are some D-line like hockey defensemen... some take til they are 24-25 til they really get it. Hard to tell... almost wish the NFL had minor league where teams could keep draft picks that are not on active roster... but could play games to keep developing...

Hoping that Walker, with all that size and athleticism, will develop into something resembling big Ted. Does he shoot pool? Yeah, that's pretty stiff. The lame script wasn't really helping much. It comes off like a SNL parody.

That's a fair assessment. But what do you think we built the defense to do then? Other than the Jets, teams have been able to move the ball on us. Yes we are 4-0, but we have not played the league's better teams, other than the Ravens. (Even though they are 1-3, they still have a lot of talent-I do think their defense is overrated though.) I will be real interested to see how we match up against the Patriots on defense.

Hindsight is 20/20, but S Xavier Watts in the 3rd would’ve been a great pick. Even the Saints S Jonas Sanker who was everywhere on the field against us would’ve been great. Next offseason S and LB are the areas of focus and also possibly OL with up to 3 starters leaving in 2 years.

He's gotten better...

Reid calls the plays so he's the OC, not sure what Bienemy did. Shanahan the same thing. Belichick focused on defense, McDaniels ran the offense and called the plays. Even after Brady, he made a washed Cam Newton and a rookie Mac Jones look pretty good. He's failed twice as a HC so he's not good at that, but he's as good as they get at OC, top tier, very underrated, and the MVP of the Patriots so far this year. Maye looks pretty good but the OL-TE's-RB's are average, the WR's are below average, yet the offense moved the ball very well the last 3 weeks. The Steelers game 2 weeks ago was impressive, and we now expect that they'll do the same at Buffalo.

Dude. This is a little much. You're just outright ignoring what actually happened in favor of padding your points. The Bills did not take the 2nd half kickoff. The Saints did. You don't remember that? Why? Because the Bills D forced a 3 and out and they punted. That's why. Factually, the Bills allowed 5 of 13 1st down conversions by the Saints. That's 38%, and while it's not fantastic, it's not craptastic either.

Back when we had lousy teams during the drought he would have gotten plenty of snaps. Would that make people happier? This is part of having a good team. I wish he was looking like an All Pro, but I can’t say our current situation is shocking.

The Rattler scramble on 3-7 on their first drive put the Saints in the game. The Josh Allen scramble on 3-5 in the 4th took them out of it.

The Pats defense has not looked top 10 all year. Because our CB1 been out and unlike Buffalo the Pats have little to no depth and he just returned last week. We have faced 3 really bad teams and 1 decent team (similar to the Bills I consider the Ravens a good team still) should be 3-1 (if I’m honest the Pats lost the Steelers game more than the Steelers won it if that makes sense.) I am terrified of your TE against the Pats LB I see Allen feasting on those matchups. like you I expect a good game, and pray Stevenson has superglue on his dang hands man is a fumble machine the last 2 years

I'd just like to point out that if we actually had a defense that couldn't get off the field, the Saints wouldn't have punted in the 1Q, punted in the 2nd Q, been intercepted, and been held to a field goal in the 2Q, and punted again to lead off the 3Q (all while our offense was trying to decode this modern advance called "zone coverage"), ending the game with two TOD. Bills allowed conversion of 5 out of 13 (38%) 3rd D and 0 out of 2 4 D. I'm not saying that the defense is perfect or even good. But the above "can't get off the field" is a simplistic exaggeration. I too hope we see a more focused, on point team this Sunday. I know these guys are professionals, but when you're playing a team that just got its ass handed to them the previous week with a 44-13 loss, part of the player's brains have to be going "yeah, yeah" during game plan install during the week. On the other hand, when you're playing a team that was just on the winning side of a 42-13 drubbing, it's easier to give it your full and serious attention and the danger is that (like the fans here) part of your brain says "doomed!". Hopefully the team is 1000x more resilient than the fans are. Dude, I explicitly posted about why I knew that fun fact. It's in the last para of my post. 716 caught it, so I know I didn't send it in invisible electrons.

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Yep exactly. If bills makes a stop on that opening possession on 3rd and long, it could have been 14-0 bills in a blink of an eye and the whole game script changes for the Saints

always “interesting” to see Kurt warner’s breakdowns. I will say he does make some insightful points about how these receivers ought to be running their routes and what the right or better reads are. That said, I have always found his analyses to be overly critical of QBs. Eg, Maye completes a 30-yard strike to Diggs and Warner points out that the better read was a receiver on the other side of the field. Fair point. But it’s easy to second guess everything from a film breakdown.