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Just call Shakir the "YAC Daddy" at this point.

It’s quite obvious that the Bills’ analytics team is not very analytical.

Up- The entire defense. 7 sacks, 3 turnovers. That will give them some confidence. Being able to play aggressively and attack pays off. Joe Brady. I've been critical of him being too cute. I'll give him equal props for playing it smarter this week. None of those cutesy end arounds. Just pounding the rock McDermott. If in fact he took over play calling (I don't buy the "Bobby and I are doing it together" line) then credit needs to go to him for identifying the problem and correcting it Down Buffalo's outside receivers. I can't remember a time we have lacked this much talent on the boundary. What we have now makes me miss the days of Donald Jones and David Nelson. Get a quality guy in here via trade. Heck, sign Mecole Hardman. Do SOMETHING. LITERALLY ANYTHING!! We cannot trot Shavers, Coleman And Samuel out there any longer. Ray Davis. I don't think he even deserves a roster spot at this point anymore. I'd love to see Gore elevated to see if he can bring some fresh juice, but it's hard to elevate him when we need to elevate a Safety and DT every week due to injury. My fear is if we don't find an answer at RB 2, by the playoffs Cook will be....well ...Cooked. Josh Allen. It's been a rough 3 weeks for him. We can have our fan theories all we want about what's wrong with him. A hidden injury, married life, all the new endorsement deals, whatever, lack or receivers....whatever. It needs to be fixed. Our MVP is struggling. Hopefully, a date with the Chiefs wakes him up.

Moar "terse emails!"

All solid observations. I do want to note-- he has to learn to be comfortable in the pocket to maintain his status as an elite QB into his 30s. It needs to become his game. When Manning makes remarks about Josh needing to learn how to play "boring football", it's because it's the only way to stay elite as your body slows down from age and mileage in the NFL. Feel the pocket, make plays within it, and step up through the gaps in the rush to hit players like he did to Hawes, week in and week out. It's the only way to stay elite.

This was my son’s 2nd ever Bills game experience and I’m thinking it’s as close as we could get to being at a home game away from home! Loved every bit of it as did my son—except the ongoing passing game issues which made things look harder than they needed to be for Josh—while Allen missed some throws, more often than not we had no one separating if even an intermediate route was being run…but again, overall a fantastic day in Charlotte for the visiting fans…

The challenge with separation scores? I don't know the intension of the route (clear out routes are common) i don't know the read against the coverage (if i read 2 high i probably am not throwing the post) i don't know when they were supposed to uncover (i run a deep out, but timing is disrupted so now i'm in scramble mode) i don't know when the ball was supposed to come out (i run a fly route with an option for a back shoulder, neither is likely unless the first read is covered up). Most of the misses in this game's passing attack were just misfire's by Allen, and often they felt like timing was off - they seemed to come out a touch late as player was approaching the sideline. On the plus side, its a marathon not a sprint, and i expect allen to find his way out of his funk.

Since those two things aren't connected, you could say the same about the Bills' new stadium. "New Yorkers needed healthcare. Pegula Won." This could be a great drinking game.

This KC game is huge. Could see a deal for WR happening in next 24 hours. Spagnola will take away cook. We need a downfield passing threat asap.

I have been saying this since the first preseason game watching Hancock. The kid looks like an NFL safety. He can move, read plays and tackle. He started for the Buckeyes last year on their Nat Championship team. That means you have talent!! Of course talent has to be developed at the pro level. But you have a lot to work with there. Just like Dione Walker. The kid just needs to play. Him and Bishop will hopefully turn into a strong duo on the back end. With Poyer doing some mentoring. I like that group. And with Hairston getting some reps at CB, things are looking up in the secondary. Not sure what is going on with Benford. But he looks a step slow this year. Not horrible. Just not playing nearly as aggressive as the past few years. But the real problem and liability in the secondary is Taron Johnson. He just can not keep up anymore. Teams are going to target him going forward. Thats what defensive coaches do. They target the weak link. I think our only other option at nickel would be Cam Lewis. Although I don't know if he is any better in coverage. He is a pretty solid tackler though. Anyone else has some thoughts on that? Do we have someone on the PS that can play nickel? And then there is McDermott staying too loyal to "his guys". But a great defensive effort overall yesterday. Great to see.

Vrabel is a good coach. McDermott is a good coach. The idea that Vrabel >>> McDermott is really bizarre, we kicked ourselves in the nads repeatedly vs. the Patriots and still only lost by three points. People put Allen on an insane pedestal where the assumption is that he is always the best QB in a given game and it's only bad coaching that ever holds back his performance. Allen is elite and thoroughly earned his MVP award, but he's absolutely mortal and doesn't have the non-physical mastery of the game that Brees/Manning/Brady did. And vs. the Patriots he was not the best QB on the field that day. And we lost by three. This fanbase is embarrassingly fatalistic sometimes. Sports has ups and downs. If it didn't, it would be boring and nobody would pay attention.

There's a few things that bother me about Allen right now. I've never thought he was a great pocket passer, but he's been ineffective lately. He's not anticipating guys breaking open but instead mostly throwing to stationary receivers not guys on the run. He's back to throwing frozen ropes no touch on the ball whatsoever. He's scared to throw picks and it's in his head. When QBs get into trouble they tend to use their legs to move the chains and get going. You don't see Josh running at all really... is that because he's injured and doesn't want to take a hit? is he scared to fumble? has he lost a step nearing 30 years old? He is allowed to slide, he doesn't have to initiate contact on runs. When you re-watch those games last season, his best games he's running around, throwing while scrambling to WRs breaking open, it's great stuff. I'm just not seeing the same guy. His magic is when he does that. He had one throw like that yesterday, to Hawes when he ran up in the pocket away from pressure. That was a nice instinctive play. Being anchored in the pocket is not his game.

Finally you bring some good news!

Yeah I think a lot of folks are either using game manager to mean "QB that plays within structure" or they're just not really arguing in good faith. Do people think he won MVP last season while playing as a game manager or do they instead think that after he won MVP, our coaching staff was like "Woah, we can't have that moving forwards."

I have a hard time calling chuba or dowdle one of the best. You get to tenth and you are talking slightly above average and i think we get pretty close to that before any debate.

JJ Watt is a freak of nature. I remember one year Hard Knocks did the Falcons and they played the JJ Watt Texans and the Falcons had a rookie RT get burnt by Watt in the pre-season and the other veteran linemen had to tell the rookie don't get too down on yourself no one else is like JJ Watt. Basically that even for the NFL where everyone is a freak this guy is a freak among freaks. That being said not all tears are the same from what I am reading. Not all tears are the same. Some tears need less time to come back. Hoping for the best for Ed Oliver as he's so critical to this defense. Hoping that if it is a tear he can maybe come back late December early January (which would be about 10 weeks) and play a warm up 10-12 snaps game in the regular season and be ready for the playoffs.

It feels so Uranium One.

In what universe would you pay your franchise QB $55MM per year to be a "game manager"

I was in 513 with my son and I had to search for Panthers fans. If it wasn’t for Bills fans there wouldn’t have been any atmosphere at all. On the way down the concourses the chants of let’s go Buffalo were prominent as well. As others have said, the streets were also flooded with Bills mafia….very similar to Atlanta a couple of weeks ago but a much better experience due to the dominant on field performance.

Bills have the 2nd highest chance in the AFC to make the playoffs at 86%. Colts are highest at 96%. Bills are higher than the Pats at 84%. I know the Doom and Gloom is cool, but let's stop pretending this team is going to miss the playoffs. A lot of these so called "great" teams we are competing with will start fading by the end of this month as usually happens. I've thought all along that the Bills had the pieces to be a lot better on D and that it was the way those pieces were being used and how the game was being called by Babich that was more of the issue. I mean let's be real, we see teams with average players on D and great coaching put up very good performances, like the 49ers did against the Falcons when half their D was out and their guys were all over the place making plays.

Ed seems to wear down throughout the year. Makes sense considering his size and position. IF he is able to return this may be a blessing. He could be fresh for the postseason.

You don't really need a lot of data to see that the Bills just don't have a consistently good outside WR who can break coverages consistently and that's causing limitations to the offense. Right now the Bills have a very good TE and a very good slot WR (Kincaid and Shakir). The rest of the offense in terms of pass catchers are mostly role players. Good role players but still role players. Samuel and Moore gadget guys, Knox quality TE2, Hawes blocking TE, Ty Johnson pass catching back, and Keon is more of a big slot WR3/4 at this point. Palmer is the one WR that could maybe break outside coverage but he's hurt and not super consistent either. Largely I would say that the Bills simply need a WR on the boundary that teams respect. Put that trade in place and everything is fine offensively. Getting Olave for example would largely make teams think twice about stacking boxes with 8 and putting the safety over the middle single high and blitzing to Josh's right (the formula that seems to work to stop Cook and Josh at the moment). The data isn't needed when the eye test is very obvious...

100%, But McD was calling plays. This I believe is not being discussed enough. I don't believe the "They were sharing play calling" bull####. Will be very curious if he is calling again next week and if the trend continues.

I would still kick the tires on Myles Garrett. He chose the money, but he’s still wants out. He’d be an absolute menace to the Patriots, Chiefs, and Colts!

Yeah and his game back was vs the Bills and he was a wrecking crew