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What if it's a trade for Jordan Addison and Harrison Phillips?

And Beane goes on WGR doubling down about WRs 😂

This game felt like the Bills had been holding back a lot of the playbook in games prior, which makes me happy. Earlier on this season felt like they were holding back a lot more of the playbook than in past seasons. Not only that but the fever pitch before the game was insane, national media writing off the Bills for having a few bad games, and usually when the entire national sports media piles on against the Bills: Allen Iverson's favorite quarterback shows up. After the first touchdown, it felt like the Bills were flirting with a blowout on the Chiefs, and again later when it was 28-13. I really wanted to see that but I think it was obvious the Bills played insanely better pretty much the entire game, and the stats prove that. Not only that, but it was nice to see the defense play with a meanness we haven't seen in a while. AJ's hit on Mahomes, Mahomes barely having any time in the pocket, Bishop's hit on Kelce, Reggie's blocks on #32 from the Chiefs. Loved every bit of it.

Deleted mine too.

Apparently this is the accurate Josh Allen most recent Halloween photo. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122175782276607375&set=a.122101364090607375

This was from a few years ago according to Hailee. This year's she's her character from Sinners but in the 90's not the 30's.

You're right and that's bad grammar on my part, didn't mean it as a run on sentence when I mentioned the one or two shots down the field. Point was mostly to get KC defense to move a guy down to open some deep shot.

The thought I keep coming back to it is if this year's lack of offensive production is bc we haven't gone deep into the playbook? Mostly we've been doing zone runs, low routes, or jet sweeps, a few basic screens but that's it. In year's past folks people have talked about not showing too deep into the playbook until after the bye week or major games like this coming up. I'm still on the fence about Keon's development and feel that has turned into more of a mob mentality driven wave of negativity. I like Steve Smith and believe some of his points on Keon, but Keon has almost as many yards less than 1.5 seasons into his career than Steve Smith did in his first 2 years, it's still early, I think his issues with the team are more conduct right now than anything, considering the recent benchings for conduct. They always talked about his jump game anyway and he runs a 4.7, so I never had any expectations of him being a YAC guy, just a red zone possession type WR that go get the jump ball, and if it doesn't work out then it's Beane's fault for drafting a 4.7 WR imo. Anyway, I'm just curious if some think we haven't rolled out much in terms of playbook compared to past years, which has been a trend to try to get on a streak.

Call me crazy but I think the Chiefs are coming into Buffalo more limited. Pacheco is out, their left tackle is out and guard is possibly. Bills worst aspect on defense is rush defense and the test just got easier for them on that. We're also discounting the returns of Hoecht, Ogunjobi, and Hairston. This is also Christian Benford's first game against the Chiefs, last year in the Divisionals he got injured on that first play. I think if we can put up 27-30 points we win. - Let James Cook: in 5 total matchups against the Chiefs, Cook has 232 yards, averaging 4.5 ypc, and 5 touchdowns. Keep the Chiefs high-powered offense off the field. - Do something to get Josh in a rhythm early too, like one or two shots down the field, and hopefully he finds a rhythm.

I'm wondering if that's what Hailee's "Can you really have it all" question came from.

FWIW she hasn't been seen as much publicly lately.

I like James Palmer a lot. Him saying he had people at the Browns telling him they couldn't believe they got a 3rd round pick for Amari Cooper. 😳

Right? He's known for running like a deer, and maybe it's the indecisiveness or stuttering, I don't know, but it appears slower and makes me wonder about some type of unreported injury.

When Josh has ran the ball this year, to me he seems slower. Anyone else?

FWIW - I generally have a rule to let former players in the media give me analysis on my team only, not coaches or anyone else, and we're still getting a lot of respect from former players in the media.

To me, Josh has been off and it's more than just the responsibility of Keon Coleman. He's making throws that are off-target that he normally doesn't throw off-target.

I wouldn't consider him great, but I consider him worthy of being re-signed from last year, he gets seperation near the end zone and catches well. Plus I thought he was a good chemistry guy.

Before he was drafted, a lot of folks had him projected to be drafted by us. Based on the way LSU WR's have turned out in this league, I'd love to see it happen. Strange how much he's fallen off this year compared to last year though.

Most of Brady's hype came off the 6 o-line runs. It's crazy they haven't used that this year.

If anything, we should be trading for a Safety.

This. We invested $160 million in a decent slot WR, a backup TE who has only seen the field less since, and a Milano replacement when we should have been investing that into a #1 WR and Safety replacements for Hyde and Poyer.

I can't predict the future but I think the Chiefs and Mahomes have a significant advantage bc of their coaches who have significant Super Bowl experience, especially Reid and Spags, and I think that significantly helps their front office decisions. I don't think Josh's contract is an issue either, I do think our front office decisions of investing $100 million of contracts into Shakir and Knox was an example of being too eager and both would have probably played for half of that and that's money that could have been invested in drafting a true #1 WR or Safeties to replace Hyde and Poyer. I mean Beane looks really stupid now bc of his rant on WGR about WR's. You don't see Chiefs GM's or Eagles GM's doing that stuff.

Our problems: Penalties (that's on coaching) Turnovers (that's on coaching too) We have a very drunk OC at the moment We gave Dawson Knox $50 million and his role has declined ever since We used a 1st rounder on Kincaid right after that We gave Shakir $50 million instead of finding a #1 WR We wasted a 2nd round pick on Keon (he's only great at the jump ball and that ability has declined) We've addressed defensive issues with old veterans and smaller defensive draftees for speed James Cook has proven to be our scariest offensive threat outside of Josh and we don't use him nearly enough bc we're scared of injuring him even though he's had no injuries the last 3 years And last but not least: Ego has established over-expectations. It's a win or go home league. 5 years of AFC East division titles, 2 AFC Championship appearances, 0 Super Bowl appearances, and we're putting fake SB trophies in the locker room, posting up billboards of the Lombardi on the practice field, acting like we're some type of championship organization solely because we have Josh Allen. It's pathetic. It's like we're focused on superficial things instead of addressing actual team needs such as a long-term or reliable DAWG solution on the DL, a true #1 WR, and some Safeties. KC traded away Tyreek and then followed that up by drafting not only Rashee Rice but also Worthy. To me, it comes back to the opinion a lot of Bills fans have had since 2021, which is McD doesn't teach that killer instinct/mentality you want in a team and he doesn't teach the 1% enough.

Diggs was probably trying to be alpha dog #1 when he was here and that probably rubbed Josh the wrong way. Everything with them seemed great until the Cincy Divisional Playoff game, super awkward between them mostly after that.

I actually do think they spent too much time in the week leading up to the game promoting the jerseys. It seems like more players were available last week to the media than usual and all of them seemed to hype up the jerseys. I like the jerseys, but I don't think they need to be promoted so much. One of the team's IG posts was a slide of each player holding up a "Bring The Storm" towel, felt flat like the team's performance.