BADOLBILZ

I don't care for Schopp's content.........he's not up to the standards of today in terms of analysis/discussion of pro football and he definitely doesn't understand that talking about his fantasy teams/results is like talking about your Dungeons and Dragons adventures.........literally nobody gives a sh*t about your personal imaginary successes or failures. But he is a legitimate professional broadcaster. Listenable and often insightful. But I have no idea how Bulldog is on the radio. His stuttering and stammering is totally out of control. He is actually a little better working by himself because most of his struggles with spitting out a sentence are related to answering questions or contributing to group discussion of any sort. Also, he's is a fan of the New England Red Sox........though he claims to have lost much interest in them since they won a World Series. Rooting for Boston sports teams should be a no-go for Buffalo fans..........the Patriots, Bruins and Celtics have been reviled in their competition with Buffalo pro teams.........but him being a "finish-line fan" makes you wonder if he'd mail it in on the Bills if they won a Super Bowl. If you are going to have a talentless Joe like Bulldog opposite a pro broadcaster at least he should be the kind of fan who is fully invested.

He's determined to have an outside zone running team. All 3 coordinators he has had have tried. None with any success to this point.

The way it sounded like on MNF OBJ would really prefer to return to the Rams. Bills probably gotta be aligned for the #1 seed when he is cleared to return in order to get him to come to Buffalo because he does not have a lot to gain financially from a return to the field this season........it's a ring chase.

The throw to Shakir is the one that I will remember from this game. The throw to Knox was big and a tight window for sure but it didn't require elite arm talent......other good, accurate QB's could make that throw. The throw to Shakir under duress and rolling left was absurd. If anyone else could do that, like that, it's only Mahomes or Herbert right now. Aaron Rodgers 5 years ago also maybe.

I agree that it wasn't "great" depth but those 2 players at the end of their careers produced over 1300 yards receiving last season..........with the current starters in "reserve". Kumerow being the top boundary option after Diggs and Davis is a huge drop-off from 2021. They are getting what they paid for with Crowder.........with his current injury that will make it 4 of the last 5 years he's missed 4 or more games entirely in addition to being regularly banged up/limited.

Yeah Najee Harris is lousy. People think the Bills RB's are bad.......imagine if the Bills had used a 1st round pick on him and were feeding Harris the way Pittsburgh does and he was producing those far below league average results like Najee. People would be flipping out.

McDermott once said WR was their fastball. One boo-boo foot and it became their fifth pitch.

Tannehill was actually a really athletic QB who struggled to push the ball downfield early. Pickett is more like a poor man's Joe Burrow or Kirk Cousins. He can make a lot of throws and can get hot and look really good. I don't know if he will develop into any kind of franchise QB.........but he's better than the sad sack check down artist Mitchell Trubisky.

He injured the ankle in the 2020 season. It was re-injured or aggravated in preseason of 2021. Which should have called into question how the injury was handled after the 2020 season ended. He played thru it and just like Sunday, he was notably diminished but he was still the next best option on the perimeter to Sanders. This year they went without a net. So Gabe played all 93 snaps on a bad ankle in Miami. If Davis were playing in a bigger market his and the teams handling of his recurring boo-boo foot would have been explored. Maybe they have decided to play him til the wheels fall off because he has refused to go under the knife. We don't know but what we do know is it's the 3rd season out of 3 that has been impacted by an injury to the same foot. I see what you did there. Let's not make this a rona' thread.

Davis was used cautiously in 2021. If you don't believe it then tell that to Bills mouthpiece/shill and sideline reporter Sal Capaccio who spoke openly about it all last season.........even reporting when Davis started to practice better late in the season. The notion that he was just riding the pine in favor of Sanders was something floated by McDermott bashers. He wasn't healthy. Same sh*t, different season........but this time the next boundary WR on the depth chart was a WR7 quality target with almost zero career production in Jake Kumerow instead of a career 54 yard per game receiver in Emmanuel Sanders.

It might have started with Byrd but it's a TSW tradition for players with recurring foot injuries. More closely associate with Sammy Watkins though, I think..........he was basically a 70 yard per game receiver his first two NFL seasons.......then got "boo-boo foot" and turned into the kind of producer Gabe has been his first 3 seasons, which is a pedestrian 36.7 yards per game. Considering that this foot injury won't seem to stop recurring I'd suspect he should have had a procedure to tighten it up. Perhaps he did, it has failed and we don't know. But it would be interesting to find out if the team has wanted him to get surgery and he has refused. He isn't a big fan of medical science, we know that so maybe he has been dodging the knife?

Boo-boo foot

They did that with Davis last year.........easing him into the lineup until his ankle healed. But they had depth at receiver last season. Not the case this season. They have depth at DT........if they didn't I suspect Oliver would have been playing.

This is false. Gabe played almost 800 snaps as a rookie. His snaps were limited last year because he had a bad ankle and since they actually had another capable WR in Emmanuel Sanders they were able to ease Gabe thru the first 3 months of the season until his ankle was healed.

Quessenberry literally lead all NFL offensive tackles in sacks allowed last season. He and Saffold were good run blockers and terrible pass blockers. After they signed such one-dimensional OL I thought we were going to see more of Josh under center and the OL getting a chance to tee off on DL as they ran traditional play action. Running spread out of the shotgun with this inferior pass blocking OL personnel is a recipe for the kind of frantic, disjointed football they are playing on offense.

Patterson had long been very good at something.........returning kicks. Austin has never been good at anything...........so if he did something I guess it would be a "surgence".

Why hasn't he been extended then? That $13M cap hit is an anchor and they've had two years to make a deal to avoid this situation.

If Zimmer can get back that will be like adding a second round pick to the lineup and then James Cook will be like house money instead of a disappointment! In all seriousness though.........would love to see him make it back to where he was.

Unfortunately they chose to not to address the position in the event that Davis wasn't up to the task of being a full time starter. Your backup to WR1 and WR2 can't be the 7th best receiver on the roster like Jake Kumerow.

But he's had the familiar Sammy Watkins boo-boo foot for parts of all 3 seasons now though and has subsequently not been able to even reach the 600 yard receiving mark. Despite no longer splitting snaps he's on pace to have a similar statistical season to the past two. I don't question his toughness one bit and he is incredibly well conditioned.......he played every snap against Miami when Diggs was tapping out despite playing 30 less snaps. But he's had bouts of inconsistency catching the ball in his career and when his foot is barking he's proven to be unproductive.

It took A LOT to go wrong for them to lose to a team they dominated like that. So maybe, yes.

Because offensive players aren't used to playing 90 snaps? It wasn't defenders flopping around with exhaustion. They only played 35 snaps. The conditions were virtually identical to last season when the Bills blew the Dolphins out.

They just played themselves into a conditioning contest and lost to a team that is at minimum better conditioned because they HAVE to be just to practice football there in the summer. People act like they just built that stadium. The heat.....and the sun on the visiting side..........has been a factor MANY times for the Bills in the 35 years that stadium has been in use.