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They aren't a wasted down but Josh Allen at 8 yards per pass attempt trumps a range of 4.0-5.0 yards per rush. Tyrod at 6.5 yards per pass and McCoy/Karlos/MG at 5.5 yards per rush was a different story.

The long term success is about Mahomes........anyone with a top 5 QB is set up for a long period of contention..........and Mahomes has the ability to become the GOAT. But it's very common when you have a bunch of stud playmakers as the Chiefs do now to mistake the level of incoming young players who are protected/propped-up by those playmakers. During the 90's when the Bills had a cast of HOF'ers they routinely drafted late and they seemed to nail tons of later picks.......... but as the playmakers aged it became clear that those guys weren't nearly as impactful as they looked while the playmakers were in their prime. Now........with shorter rookie contracts it's even harder to keep teams together. Not that the Chiefs haven't drafted well but don't mistake role players for difference makers.

Jordan Phillips and Shaq Lawson were no more productive in 2020 than the players Beane replaced them with. I know some people refuse to believe that players raise their off-season prep and in-season games to the max in contract years but it's a reality............Shaq and Phillips were THOSE kinda' guys........that was their character/MO for several seasons to start their careers.........underachievers......and predictably huge disappointments for their new teams.

The 1T position between the guard and center forces a double team. Whomever the Bills used at 1T got the double team this season.......Phillips, Butler, Oliver, Zimmer.... The 3T lines up on the outside shoulder of the opposite side guard. The positioning of the 3T makes it very difficult to double team that player...........counterproductive in most cases. Ed Oliver simply needs to work on his game more this offseason........and the Bills need to get some better pass rushers on the rest of the DL. 1T plugger was not the problem with this defense.

The cause and correlation in the Bills defensive rank regression was a MUCH tougher schedule and a loss of pass rush. They struggled integrating some new pieces early but ultimately when they wanted to stop the run they did. They held the 2,000 yard rusher Henry to his lowest output of the regular season and they shut down the NFL's top rushing attack in the divisional round. The 2019 defense had Jordan Phillips and Shaq Lawson in contract years and they totaled 16.5 sacks. Not signing them was the right move.........they basically did nothing with their new teams.........but that pass rush production was not replaced. Star screwed them by making them use Butler at 1T.........he was supposed to replace Jordan Phillips in the 3T rotation..........but that's about the extent of the impact. Butler achieved the exact same results from the 1T that Star did. He absorbed double teams and couldn't get off blocks to make plays just like Star.

Josh Allen with the ball in his hands should have been enough confidence for them. Again, hopefully lesson learned.

Playing scared was a bad decision...........I gave McD too much credit........I really didn't expect him to actually turtle up like that again. Guess the lessons learned in the WC last year and in so many unnecessarily close games earlier this season were lost after a long winning streak that coincided with an aggressive mindset. Sounds like McD regrets it so hopefully lesson is hardwired in now.

"tackles aren't the problem" You shouldn't use the early rounds of the draft to fill immediate needs. They change. Fast. I remember starting a thread about drafting Aaron Donald a couple weeks before that draft and everyone who responded basically said "yeah, no way....can't you see we have all these stars on the DLine.....the defensive line isn't the problem!". QB Pass rusher CB1 LT WR1 or potentially great TE(rare) Trust the process or trade out. Yeah some teams break from that and have some success.......but when McBeane chose to basically rid the team of all the prior regimes 1st and 2nd round picks for pennies on the dollar they lost quite a bit of margin for error time-wise in their re-build. They really need to use those early picks to keep those big dollar type positions stocked.........and hopefully longer term.

Brady made it a point to step on your necks for 20 years.....it was important to keep Buffalo down.........yet you are going to root for him? Mmmmkay. I guess it's time to acknowledge that we have Red Sox and Celtics fans on our wagon too.

Yeah that 36-3 stretch really exposed the Bills run game.

McDermott admitted he played it wrong. End of thread, chicken heads/

Timmie Smith had a great run behind the Hogs in the playoffs in 1987. You can get aberrations in production from RB's in small sample sizes. Michel has been a pretty huge disappointment. Singletary averaged 5.0 ypc on a much larger workload in 2019.....you are ready to move on from him. We'll see if the Pats pick up Meh-chel's 5th year option.

That's what you THINK........Harris and Etienne were playing on dominant teams and both had over 600 carries in college.......not low mileage. The Bills have to fix their running game.........it was astonishingly unproductive considering the threat of the pass.........but IMO that is an offensive line issue. Mitch Morse undermines their running game, IMO. Feliciano would be better there than at guard and much better than Morse in the run game. It's a strong OT class.......they might find a LT that can play RT right away with that pick. If they pay Williams at RT they could address a pass rusher or a CB. Or perhaps they trade a high pick for a proven stud pass rusher or CB. Real, high-dollar, important positions that also help you unseat the Chiefs. Then find a James Robinson later in the draft or maybe Moss and Singletary run for 5.0 ypc behind a better OL and scheme. I think there are many ways to skin the cat and get past a KC........throwing their weight into the RB position is short-sighted but I don't doubt they'd do it because they already have used two "starting" level picks on RB's the past two seasons.

Dominated? That's box score scouting. The Eagles lead that entire game until a minute left in the 3rd quarter and the refs missed a couple brutal PI's that held the Eagles back. But the Eagles were driving to what looked like an inevitable game winning TD when a pass went right thru a wide-open Alshon Jeffries hands around the Saints 20 yard line for a game saving gimme-pic.........just saving the Saints from an earlier playoff choke job that season. As for the Patriots rushing production..........great OL....maybe their best ever......lead by the greatest OL coach ever. Sony Michel has been JAG and often unavailable in 3 NFL seasons. The premise that SB champs usually need a star RB is not supported. A better running game would be nice but that doesn't have to come from spending important chips on the RB position.

Meh-chel is more like it. Devin Singletary was better as a rookie and has been much more efficient in the NFL than Michel. Much better in that pass game in particular. Michel was a very regrettable use of a draft pick..............they had been finding better RB production from everywhere except using a high pick for such a long time.........so I was quite pleased when they made it. Lynch was a top 10 pick by a dumb drafting Buffalo team..........his career turned out to be near HOF level but it's important to note........that was made possible by going to a place that didn't have to use a top pick on him. I think the situation where it can be a wise expenditure is exceptional. This isn't one of those situations, IMO. It would be nice to have but it's not worth a blue personnel chip or a market contract. The refs bailed them out the week before against Foles and the Eagles. Eagles were the better team at that point......the Saints shouldn't even have been in that game versus Rams. The Saints came up small time after time in recent years in the playoffs.

Rex Ryan might have run the most complex defense in NFL history. Most fans consider him to be a buffoon. It's somewhere in between but the reality is that you don't need to be a genius to understand the game of football.

Ok.........but did any of those teams have a lead RB they had spent a first round pick on or had paid a lot for in UFA? They didn't and the Bills can fix their running game without doing that as well. I think my first step in improving the running game is replacing Mitch Morse with Jon Feliciano at center. Morse was done a disservice being moved to center by KC. He got the one excellent contract but that's a guy who probably could have had a much longer career as a very athletic right tackle.

The Bills finished second in the NFL in scoring. RB is not a position I would put much into...........they've expended two picks in round 3 on RB's which was two too many for anything short of a game changer.........now it's incumbent on the Bills All-world personnel department to find that big play guy late in the draft and UDFA. I like the suggestion of some that McKenzie be used more out of the backfield. Drake is an enigma.........I expect Moss will be a better player next year than Drake..........I know that's not the type of player you are looking for but just that I think Drake will be a bust wherever he goes.

His mistakes were made as they often are.........in drafting for need. Cases in point.......guys like Cody Ford and Devin Singletary...........on paper they are hits with a future with the team............in reality they are low ceiling starters that were sought out to patch holes in areas of need. Especially when you are building from where they were in 2018 you REALLY gotta' target difference makers at key positions with early picks...........and find the guard with right tackle flexibility and average RB's with much redder chips or in UDFA or street free agency etc.. We have heard things said about this personnel department........like it's nearly unprecedented to have so much talent under one roof..........well they are all under one roof again cuz it seems nobody was too great to be kept down...........so I am also very intrigued to see what they do. They need to do what the Chiefs did after the 2018 AFC Championship game loss when they had the worst defense in football. Hit HR's and fix the things necessary to beat the Chiefs.

Belichick is the greatest game-planning coach and game-day coach in NFL history. Yeah he had Brady but I don't know if he ever had any team with as much individual talent as the Bucs team Brady is on.

Said it here in recent weeks but the treatment Chiefs fans got at the AFC Championship game in January 1994 in Buffalo was pretty rough.

Mahomes is the most talented QB the NFL has ever seen. Everything just comes that much easier for him. He doesn't have to labor for results. Allen is great......in the absence of Mahomes he would probably be raising the Lombardi this year, IMO.

Definitely keep Knox......he's cheap and under contract....... but if they can get a veteran upgrade that would be great. KC basically gave Allen the TE all game because they know that if the Bills throw to Knox a often.......things eventually go haywire. He is fast and powerful but he's awkward changing direction and, of course, with his hands. Perhaps he can smooth out those aspects of his game with a good offseason of work. Hopefully a significant portion of that time with Allen in CA.

I think giving him 10 years was a fair enough amount of time for him to show how bad he wants it. If you think all QB's are wired to compete and always be getting better like Josh Allen or Tom Brady etc.. I think you are wrong. I know you are wrong really. There is a lot more that goes into it than just a solid days work and a commitment to finish your 60 minutes of game per week. His attention to detail wrt interior decorating......not up for debate though........detail oriented.

Worst call of the century was MCM. It was in 2000. No team should never.......ever.......have to defend a forward pass on a kickoff and if a team tries to win a game on the last play of the game with some bullsh*t like that they shouldn't be given ANY benefit of the doubt whatsoever. That said.........stay in your lane Daryl Porter..........and who knows what happens from there. The Bills were a fair amount better than TN and that SB was very competitive. The Lions weren't winning any SB that year.