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It won't be with Kincaid averaging RB-like yards per reception. The Bills 2020 offense fell off for two reasons..........John Brown went from a 1B type WR to washed up overnight due to injury/age(and Sanders didn't provide the same dynamic element).........and because Beasley's yards per catch fell below 10. Kincaid is averaging 8 yards per catch. That's awful. Fortunately he catches almost everything (except when over-hyped Josh hit him with that laser on his first target last night).

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Well I suppose leading the league in turnovers since 2018 is a start.......but it's more often what he doesn't do.........and we just write it off because he's our guy. 6 years in the league and on his second OC and they still can't execute a screen play. Never draws opponents Offside with cadence. These aren't the primary problems but they should illustrate the degree of lack of attention to detail in his game. Which shows up more notably in his shaky field vision and pre-snap reads, poor decisions in setting protection and directing run plays etc.. He doesn't have the grasp he should for the 6th year in the system. When you have to admit that he has to operate an up-tempo no-huddle ultra-simplified gameplan to be effective you know the QB just isn't playing smart football.

Most talented QB in the game.........not the most prepared. His natural accuracy on deep balls used to be bad..........he worked on it in the offseason after 2020 and and got much better. He finished 2021 dropping dimes in the bucket to Gabe Davis and has since chosen rest over training the past two offseason and he's regressed in that regard. Hopefully he's just still in "spring training" arm mode and will find his touch as the season goes on but as @GunnerBill noted he is not making good pass type/trajectory decisions and when he IS putting air under the ball it's not ending up where it should for an elite QB in his prime.

Because the combination of Josh + his weapons AREN'T great. That's the point. Allen is as physically talented as they come but he has made it clear he's not going to live football like some Tom Brady type. Shame on McBeane for not accepting this and not putting better weapons around him. They aren't going to change him.........he is what he is and he may never decide to be THAT level of invested. It's sorta' like the Dorsey complaint..........."why doesn't Dorsey just run no-huddle all game if that's what Josh and company can do/"...........well, first he has to accept that is all that Allen and his "weapons" can do. Clearly he hasn't gotten there yet. Shame on him but shame on Beane for not getting more receiving talent and shame on Josh for not putting in more/better work in the offseason to be prepared himself. Like most problems in football it's not just one thing or another.

What makes you think he WAS prepared? Great veteran QB's make even dumb play callers look good. Allen should be there by now........but he's clearly not so we are left calling for the team to run no-huddle so he doesn't have to think so much. I've largely accepted his shortcomings and have been pounding the table for more weapons for him for years now..........I could write a novel on my feelings about where he is versus where he should be in the mental aspects of the game. People can't really see the forest for the trees when it comes to Josh. We've come to eliminate some of his foibles from consideration.........like not being able to execute a simple screen pass 6 years in. At some point in this new-CBA world the franchise QB needs to take it upon himself to see to it that basic execution is not an issue before the season even starts.

Well Josh McDaniels is available if you want the guy who made Tom Brady great and won a bunch of SB's as OC. Sarcasm off. Zac Taylor is a get-you-the-first-overall- pick level bad coach without Burrow. He proved that. Even the "great" Andy Reid had offense's that struggled with QB's and receivers who weren't good enough. One year he went a whole season without his QB throwing a TD pass to an actual WR. Kyle Shanahan can make a middling QB with excellent weapons look good...........until they get behind on the scoreboard..........then he is like 0-38 when trailing by 8 or more in the 4th quarter or something absurd like that. Aaron Rodgers won a SB with Mike McCarthy as his OC. The list goes on. QB's and weapons almost always make the offensive mind look great...........not the other way around.

Yeah Allen can't run a crisp 2 minute offense even though he's in his 6th year in the same system. So many mistakes and lack of situational awareness on offense. It's a problem.

Dorsey just keeps over-estimating the unprepared-Josh. Allen needs to run no-huddle to succeed because he isn't seeing the field well and making good decisions. You and I know the weapons aren't good enough to expect domination but Allen played like a guy who had 2 days to prepare for a random opponent when he's playing the team that embarrassed him in the playoffs last year. Best reason to fire Ken Dorsey is to force Allen to learn a new playbook and get his head back into the X's and O's.

The better prepared QB with the better weapons won. Simple as that. Burrow would tie Lou Anarumo in knots with his ability to read a defense and find it's weakness..........but Allen can only move the ball on Anarumo if he runs no huddle and Anarumo can't substitute. That is an indictment. Some want to lay the blame on Dorsey........but Allen should have a much better grasp of this offense in his 6th damn year in it. He needs to be a lot better decision maker. I'm not in the fire Dorsey crowd but a new playbook might be necessary to force Josh Allen to focus on the X's and O's again.

Not surprising from the Jets at all. They also reportedly asked the Bucs about Mike Evans in the summer. The Jets will DEFINITELY add another WR1 quality option opposite Wilson for next season because if you don't have 2 stud WR targets you are fighting an uphill battle against so many teams that have 2 or more. But there seems to be this idea that the Raiders would have traded Adams if they had already dumped McDaniels/Ziegler..........and I still doubt it. Davis is now eating $85M in THOSE coaches PLUS what is left of the settlement of the Jon Gruden $100M contract and he would be eating more huge dead money dumping Adams. Davis is a notoriously cash poor owner. You are dead in the water without a WR1 in the NFL nowadays so it makes a lot of sense to hold onto Adams and not paint yourself into a corner on draft day or pay big guarantees to replace him.

So Tampa Bay Rays fans think they are the best when they are in first place and still drawing like a Triple A team? The Chargers? The Rams? GTFOH. Just SO wrong. Plenty of fan bases know they aren't anywhere near the most fervent.

You are wrong about this and wrong about the idea that all fan bases think they are the best. As a Miami Hurricanes fan(family school) I can assure you our fans aren't the best and it's generally accepted as fact by the fan base. But back to the point......not all fan bases have a term to describe their futility. When I coined "Billsy" here on TSW it wasn't because of any other fan base that had a similar reference..........it just fit. It doesn't have a specific definition and doesn't need to. It represented the tendency to do the wrong thing during a very long period of mediocrity.

He really bottomed out last year. That's why he couldn't find work this season. League worst rushing grade per pff. His lack of veteran savvy/intelligence could be overlooked when he was still somewhat explosive. https://atozsports.com/new-england-patriots/patriots-has-running-back-leonard-fournette-regressed/

I'm a big fan of Josh Allen and think he SHOULD be the best QB in the NFL right now.........but he isn't yet a student of the game and sometimes that costs his team wins with strings of mental mistakes/turnovers. He is the most physically gifted QB in the league but has turned the ball over more than anyone else since he entered the league. I've put a good share of blame on McBeane for not surrounding him with better talent on offense but he hasn't done all he can to be the best he can be either.

Leonard Fournette is terrible in pass pro.........he's always been a dumb player. Good hands........sure.........but zero explosiveness left.

It's much too early to worry about margin for error. It's probably their toughest matchup of the rest of the season because the Bengals have excelled at doing things that disrupt the Bills offense and defense, respectively. They can dissect a bend-don't-break defense and confuse a QB who isn't on top of his game mentally........both Bills vulnerabilities. But all the "doom" stuff from fans really causes me to roll my eyes...........the same sad-sack fans used to lament that there was no way for the Bills to beat the Chiefs and now they've largely outplayed KC in their last 3 meetings and won 2 of them.

If you didn't know that you shouldn't be starting a thread about it. It's that time of year when the people of TSW who don't follow college football begin tuning in and starting threads about players when they have zero perspective on what they are watching. Penix knees are torn up......he's a statue.........and he's been kicking around college football forever.

Yep. One of the things I find funny though is that the NFL took the ultra-violence out of the passing game by protecting "defenseless" QB's and WR's............and now there is way more contact in the secondary on any given play than at any point since the league first significantly changed how pass interference was called in the 1970's. What passes for "incidental contact" or "hand fighting" nowadays would have been called a mugging in the early 1990's when Bills teams were going to SB's. The old way of playing pass defense was to stay close to the receiver and then when the ball gets to him put your helmet on his chin or undercut them and flip them on their head.........and knock him out cold if possible. That addressed the pass defense challenge on many levels. Since the defense can't do that anymore they gotta' clutch and grab like mad and with more crazy arm talent and dynamic receivers entering the league every season the NFL kinda' has to find a way allow a lot of that or every game would be a boat race.

It was more of a gaslighting technique used by Ralph's apologists than a "myth"............because there was abundant proof that it wasn't always the case that he was cheap. The game was to say Ralph was cheap and roll your eyes........then wait for people to object to the eye roll part.......so they could then point to some expensive signings etc.. Larry Felser said it best...........the one word definition for Ralph was "mercurial"..........and it's very difficult to be a consistent, systematic winning organization when your leader is prone to sudden changes of mood and mind.

Yep.........Shill isn't going to make up something like that.........he wouldn't be a shill if he did.

Just going by what Shill Capaccio said about Benford practice regimen this week on WGR yesterday.........and while I have little respect for Shill and his habit of talking out of both sides of his mouth(like "people who criticize Tremaine don't know football" and 6 months later "Tremaine just couldn't make plays" ).......it's for that very reason that I suspect Benford does have something of a tender hammy if Shill even dared mention it. If he pops that hammy, Shill knew it could happen!

Yeah they obviously don't see him as questionable then and it's only worth noting because it might be foreshadow an injury that COULD impact his availability sometime later in the season.

Yeah it's different.........for one thing, Ralph was a nightmare for coaches to work for. To paraphrase Chuck Knox "Buffalo is where coaches go to die". Ralph had no respect for the value of coaches and by the time he finally realized he needed a quality HC to turn his team around in the late 2000's good coaches like Mike Shanahan and Bill Cowher wouldn't even take a blank check to work for him. The Bears could actually get a great HC but their leadership is just clueless in general, not boycotted by the coaching profession like Ralph when he had to hire Buddy Nix and Chan Gailey. And the accountant was Jeff Littman. He played his part, and had his own selfish reasons, to encourage Ralph to treat the team like it was just a business with a limited shelf life to suck cash from instead of as a going concern. Ralph would spend big.........but only if he thought the team was close to winning big. He was notorious for being a football idiot who couldn't tell what kind of team he had until he saw them play thru a preseason and then when it was clear the team was going to suck he would look to cut solid players he could "lose without" and save money before salaries became guaranteed in week 1. That was a profitable business move in the short term........but it was bad for the development of the team. Guys like Dwan Edwards and Langston Walker were replaced by total incompetence that made it hard to even evaluate the talent at some other positions and made the organization look like a clown show that only hurt their ability to bring in outside talent in offseasons. I do agree that the Bears could be turned around quickly by good ownership.

He doesn't have an injury designation but the word was that he sat out that practice with a sore hamstring.