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I know Williams was a big draft crush here but he was a one year wonder in college who showed GREAT speed but no other real skill. He wasn't a Jerry Jeudy who dazzled with route running for a couple seasons before entering the draft. Williams and Jeudy both had deep WR rooms to muscle for position in and Jeudy proved to be the alpha in his room..........Williams had to transfer to get PT because he wasn't skilled enough to win PT at Ohio State. And now look at them both and put that in perspective. Elam has elite level physical talent too.

He's been awful this season and was coming off an ACL tear last year and a stupidity suspension this year. 20% drop rate over the 2 seasons. He's been worse than Elam, that's for sure.

Elam for Jameson Williams or Terrace Marshall would probably be more like it. Swap of early round talents who aren't fitting in where they are but also have 2 years left on their rookie deal(Marshall) or a year and half left before 5th year option has to be decided on(Williams/Elam) would save Beane some face, initially at least.

I haven't re-watched the game yet but one of the aspects of the very quick pass game seemed to be that guys like Davis and Shakir were able to body-catch the ball without the coverage tight to them yet. Gabe has BAD hands........we know this. Shakir seems to struggle to track deeper throws and has to leave his feet to collect himself on those so, yeah, he's a short area receiver. He shows quick, soft hands in practice/warmups on short throws.......his problem in the short area seems to just be concentration drops(really struggled with them in preseason). Being able to cradle the ball into the arms without a defender there to knock the ball out(like with Knox 4th down drop last week) can make shaky handed receivers of all varieties look much better.

It was pretty loud and it impacted the Bucs, no question. I didn't take a play off. We could be much, much louder though.

I believe it. As I've said in other places, the defense is compromised in several areas and even if they swung trades for several players the chance that they all fit in and played well is not good. The offensive side of the ball is not far from being at a point where they could consistently put up 35 points per game. One player. Personally, I think that player is a high quality playmaking WR1B or WR2. But I can see them thinking they can put Henry in the backfield and not have to substitute for long stretches.........play up tempo 11 personnel and spread the field and get the ball out quick to achieve success thru the air(as versus Tampa)........and blast light boxes with the 250# Henry and be more successful in short yardage and goal line runs. And the latter is important with Harris gone and Murray looking like he's hit a wall in recent weeks. It makes sense on paper but executing without making yourself vulnerable to TFL's running Henry out of shotgun requires more unpredictability than we have been seeing to avoid TFL's thru run blitz.........and the whole thing also assumes that Bills receivers will consistently execute in the pass game like they did Monday(which is doubtful, IMO). I will say that Henry is no worse running out of shotgun than James Cook........Henry still gets to top speed pretty quick.

Overheard in the crowd last night.......... (Don't shoot the messenger)

"Flash" Allen and "Zoltan" Kincaid.........saviors of the universe

"Accidental face mask contact"? Phillips grabbed on and yanked him to the ground by it. That is going to get called every time. Phillips just sucks dude. Don't ruin a post of solid takes with a nonsensical homerism. The refs were typical........they made a lot of the usual simp calls for the team down 2 scores in the second half. That's the way it usually goes but the Phillips penalty was egregious stupidity by a player who is a master of it.

Why don't you tell us? What is the % of successful defensive plays following a defensive timeout versus the normal non-timeout called play in that situation. There are situations where I think you call a timeout on defense but I think McDermott has turned this into a net negative with his over-use. Tyrod Taylor and Baker Mayfield aren't Tom Brady. I want to keep the pressure on them with this defensive system that has been in place since 2017, not give them time to get composed and make the smart play to Mike Evans for a TD.

2 of the 3......both 4th down timeouts......were bad. Calling timeout instead of taking the 5 yard delay of game penalty at midfield prior to the punt and then somehow not telling Haack to drop the punt at the 10 yard line was just brain-dead. Hoping to get a lucky bounce again and pin them at the 2 yard line isn't worth the risk of giving them the ball at the 20. They had fumbled a prior punt there as well. Just bad situational football. But yes.........getting rid of Jordan Phillips would be addition by subtraction. The dumbest player on the field whenever he steps on it. Damn near drew a 15 yard late hit on a ball carrier early in the second half as well.

Well ya' know they've only been running this defensive system since 2017, it's still pretty new...........

A lot was working early against that Tampa defense that was playing on the road only 4 days after their last game. The Bills did a lot of the stuff we were asking for offensively but expecting that same kind of movement against a better team on full rest is probably not realistic.

The last minute situational stupidity started just before that on ST's with the decision to take the timeout instead of the 5 yard delay of game and then trying to drop the punt inside the 10. It's not the second quarter.........you don't need to put them at the 2 yard line to preserve the win. Give Haack the space. That ball just needs to come down at the 10 yard line. Make them field it after they fumbled prior. Instead they go for the pin again and the play ends up in a touchback. On a much smaller note, no reason to waste a timeout there in the event something went haywire and you get the ball back with 13 seconds needing a score.

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.