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I think we might see the Bills move a depth player(s) in trade......like with Moss.......to make both roster and cap space if they manage to swing some deals. There aren't many options that make over $1M though because Beane has put dummy years on a lot of deals. Sherfield and Rapp are some of the only vet options where it's mostly salary-in and salary-out. Otherwise rookie contract guys would have to go.

Well it's an owner driven league...........and the drama caused by officiating is money in the bank for owners. Nobody tunes out because of officiating. It only makes them more invested. Now contrast that with the NBA........which is a player driven league. Players are young men who get irate if officiating isn't perfect. So they put tons of pressure on the league to make the officiating better. The NBA now gives technicals for perceived embellishment of contact. Even if a review.......because fouls are reviewable........clearly shows it was a foul! Yesterday I saw a player step out on a 3 and cause the shooter to roll an ankle and they said no foul and called a tech on the shooter for acting too-fouled.

Yeah it's a shame that Allen doesn't appear to be better prepared but the offseason is over and this is what he is right now. Not sure he can make vast improvements in-season just because people want him to. So to Diggs point........let him do what he's most comfortable with because that would be in the best interest of the team. Also gets the "fire Dorsey" crowed off his back when Josh isn't blowing protection calls or directing run plays the wrong way etc..

Because coaches need adapt to the talent they have. Those $258M are why Allen can prepare for the season as much or as little as he wants.

The issue with Dorsey is he needs to adapt to his QB being unprepared for what he was hoping for him to do this season. Dorsey is calling the offense more like he has savvy veteran at QB and Allen just isn't at that level in the mental aspect of the game, unfortunately. Running Josh more is a bad idea so I can't get behind that notion but the concept is right.........he would be better off just playing more to his style.......and uptempo and getting more time to read defenses and more chances to score seems to be the best way to utilize his talent. THAT is where Dorsey needs to get to. Would be a lot easier if they had that WR2 but that ship might have sailed on this season. A lot of the play calling that people are complaining about is on Allen because of bad pre and post snap decisions. But, IMO, Dorsey needs to acknowledge that and adjust to do his job better.

They are 3-4 plays from being undefeated...........so hard to make a strong case against the notion that having more of their better players on the field would make a difference. But they had everybody healthy on opening night and lost anyway.

Is the buffalo morphing into a chicken wing?

Nobody gets 7.7 yards on an individual catch the way the NFL computes it..........so yeah, no sh!t that his average consists of greater and lesser amounts than that. 🙄 7.7 yards per reception would be bad for a RB, let alone someone who actually starts almost every route at the LOS like a WR or TE. So like I said, that's not getting teams off of Diggs and it's not going to be a lot of "1 play first down pass" sequences that alleviate the issue of needing long drives to score. And yes.........the reason Beasley stopped being productive was because he stopped getting those 2-3 extra yards per reception that he got at his peak in 2020. He was still getting open and catching the ball even last year. But he stopped the getting yards after the catch in 2021. YAC yards have been a focus of the team thereafter.

Sharty gets 20 yards downfield and he vanishes from radar. He's too small to be the deep threat some fans wanted. There was a time from the 70's-90's when you saw an undersized receiver and you knew that guy was running a lot of 9 routes. But I think Jermaine Lewis was the last 5'7" and under WR to actually be a legit deep threat and that was 20 years ago. People think DeSean Jackson was small but he was 5'10". Steve Smith was 5'9" but a great leaper with power and body control. Influx of big CB's who can run have made the diminuitive deep threat all but extinct.

It's really more that it's just an area of weakness that their undersized, pass-centric defense has a hard time getting over when they put trash in there at DT1T. Jones game has been elevated by the style of defense. When he was a plugger in TN he wasn't very impactful. As I've said for years.......this defense funnels action/opportunity into the middle and that's why Edmunds' play was not acceptable considering his opportunities. I think the Bills could find another Jones.......unfortunately the guys they have scouted and acquired have been guys who just won't do the work. Watch them go out of their way to chase DJ Reader again this offseason. That was the one that got away..........they were willing to pay him even when they were stuck in the middle of Lotulelei's gawdawful contract.

Sounds good in theory but they are basically Diggs and The Pipps in the passing game so if the defense can just roll the extra attention to Diggs they will take their chances with nickel personnel stuck on the field and wait for a mistake. Kincaid was the hope.........but he isn't going to change that getting just 8 yards per reception. They need a threat opposite Diggs that gets open fast and catches the ball for first down+ yardage. That's literally why they had to move on from Beasley if nothing else.......his ypc fell sub 10 and started looking more like a RB's production in the pass game.

Yeah they can but I think they are liking their individual play success. Their EPA per play is very high........the situational plays are working in part because of the players they've brought in........when players aren't making mistakes, that is. But even when things like James Cooks converting 4 straight second down runs into 1st downs works as planned it's really shortening games which is counterproductive for them as the more explosive offense.

Yeah. As I've said...........this offseason Beane addressed some specific areas where they were inefficient offensively in 2022 with role players designed to fix those situational weaknesses.........for example, Harris and Murray are both incredibly efficient at scoring from inside the 3 and the Bills struggled running near the goal line so the Bills wanted those specific players. And they also drafted a TE in round 1 and have gone from very rarely using 12 personnel in 2022 to using it frequently. What this means? They are substituting a lot. Which allows the defense time to substitute and matchup to the Bills personnel and execute the game plan they drew up..........and then it also takes plays much deeper into the play clock and makes them a much more deliberate, time consuming offense. It has had the seemingly unforeseen effect of leading to the Bills having longer drives but less of them. Therefore less scoring chances.........which benefits lesser opponents like the Giants and Patriots. The simplest solution for the Bills was to build an offense that had 11 players they could keep on the field for 8-10 straight plays if need be.........play uptempo and limit defensive substitutions and keep opponents on their heels.

Clearly you don't understand. Officiating mistakes.......the vast majority of which are missed calls with a few bad calls or flags picked up etc.. mixed in.........are made on literally every play. You have to suspend disbelief and just roll with it and attack the next play. It sucks but it's also that human element that makes the game compelling. Sometimes it's non-malicious simp officiating that actually makes the games more competitive instead of blowouts. We see that all the time. But this is the reality and it does not behoove the NFL to change anything whatsoever. You are welcome to have these discussions and the NFL loves it when you do. It makes you feel more part of the team by sharing the feeling of being wronged. But if you can isolate one bad call that you think cost you the game then that game was probably not decisively won by either side. The only solution is to dominate. Fortune favors the bold in most cases so teams that dominate most often usually win SB's. The Bills have largely done that by having the highest point differential in the league over the past few seasons but are an exception because they have laid some eggs in their biggest games during the playoffs.

From my perspective getting the defense back to being a top 3 unit............which is basically the standard McDermott expects........is a multi-player + time on task fix. And at the same time being that top defense hasn't equated to top defensive play in the playoffs when they face teams loaded with playmakers. The offense is one very good WR away from being MUCH better, though.

Shaq has fallen off this year too but he isn't a disaster like Phillips has been.

Why stop there? It can also be true that this is just part of the game. The SB was sealed on a legit but often not called pass interference........the Bills won Sunday with a controversial non-call ending the game. The hope is that you mostly keep yourself out of those situations and that when you do, you get the breaks. You string a bunch of them together.......the odds are you get burned. The Bills still had plenty of opportunity to keep NE out of the end zone. They failed.

Well I full expect to see even more Aaron Maybin-esque flopping on Thursday from our cheerleading hero Phillips..........stay tuned for the drama!

No and they need not. If you play poorly for 58 minutes and find yourself in a tight game at the end because of it you have earned the right to have the random officials calls help decide the outcome. And the more angry fans get about it the more bonded to their teams they become.

Purdy has the best group of skill players around him in the NFL. 2 elite WR, an elite TE and an elite RB. Jennings is their 5th option and their version of Gabe except he can actually catch contested passes so he's useful in the short game. Purdy with the Bills weapons........and without the easy reads of the Shanahan offense........is probably worse than the version that lost his last two games and looked like a total scrub throwing wounded duck INT's.

The Patriots were throwing him to the ground left and right on Sunday. It was yakety sax level stuff. He is such a fake hustle poser I literally can't stand seeing him on the field. And I absolutely KNEW by midway thru 2021 that the Cardinals would cut him because he was terrible..........and that the Bills would be there to pick him up hoping to recapture the guy who rushed the passer well for them in his walk year. What I didn't expect was to pay him around $5M when he was lucky to get another chance in the NFL at all after how he coasted in AZ. He showed an ounce of juice last year between injuries but has been total trash this year. Like 2022 Rodger Saffold bad at DT.

There really isn't any good excuse for Allen to be regressing mentally. If you don't work at it you get worse at it. And he hasn't felt the need to fine tune the mental aspect of his game. Russ Wilson was quite good for a decade despite never having the tools to be an elite pocket passer. Allen has those tools. He shouldn't need to run and the whole "let Josh run and fire Dorsey" movements are all functions of people being afraid to be critical of Josh and not wanting to own up to Beane not putting the talent at receiver to win with the "unprepared" Josh that they have been getting the past 2 seasons now.

Or his much bigger 2022 Eagles teammate Linval Joseph. Both on the couch........and neither can be as bad as Jordan Phillips at EITHER DT position (I still can't believe they brought back Phillips for a penny above league minimum let alone $3M with guarantees).

Yeah the #1 thing plaguing Josh Allen is his decision making. Which is a function of preparation, not intelligence, IMO. If he were prepared for what he's seeing he'd be much more efficient with his unreal skillset. But, to me this was something that the Bills should have known he would continue to struggle with. Ever since 13 seconds game I think he has decided that he is pretty great and doesn't want to put in a lot of hard work at the expense of his offseason joy. No reason you can't win a SB with a QB who isn't attentive to detail like a Tom Brady..........but you gotta' put weapons around him. It's the Big Ben model. Big Ben was a creep so people focus on that but aside from that he just didn't want to live football 24/7/365 and there wasn't anything the Steelers could do about it and he was still a top 5 QB either way so they leaned into it with a steady supply of playmaking talent.

He had 3 drops on 27 targets last season..........which is 11% drop rate which was statistically worse than Gabe Davis even(and he was terrible). Shakir has been used on shorter throws this season than last. He's 8 of 9 targets but it's been very short throws only aside from the one that he dropped but wasn't scored as a drop.