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Think it’s time to invest in a true X. Chris Olave might be around in the late 20s, and so might Rashod Bateman. Shame that both Davonte Smith and Jaylen Waddle won’t there Diggs is perhaps the best Z in the NFL. Problem is that without John Brown there’s no reliable X who can pose as a perimeter threat who’s gonna draw a safety. There’s a few ways you can do that. You can do it with size and contested catch ability (Hopkins and Allen Robinson and Mike Evans), or you can do it with pure speed (John Brown, Tyreke Hill). Without Smoke, it’s down to Gabe Davis, and as of yet he’s not earned the respect of NFL safeties. If the Bills are worried about Brown’s speed for the rest of the season, then it might be time to start targeting Davis deep a lot more, in the hopes of him making plays and drawing more safety attention in the game plan.

Shanahan will run at you and he’ll pick you apart with shifty players getting into space, within 15 yards, and he the TE involved. Be an interesting balance between the Sam and Nickel. My gut says they’ll play majority Sam as you stop the run against the Niners you stop their primary weapon

I wouldn’t really consider that “blowing it” either. Bills were up 2 TDs without about half the game to go. And it’s not the Bills were dominant either, to get to that point. Mean reversion meant that it was always likely that the Cards were going to come back and score a bunch of points. Just too much talent. Thing is, the Bills don’t play in a vacuum. Yea we want to see defenders making good plays, but at the same time you got NFL athletes lining up across from you, and they’re doing their damndest to make life hell for the Bills. You’re not watching collapses so much as you’re seeing the opposition asserting itself. That’s football, especially in the league, designed for parity of talent.

24 - 6 to 27 - 17 isn’t remotely blowing a blowing a big lead

Defense absolutely won this game. They were close to dominant in the 2nd half at linebacker and coverage, and the DEs were a constant menace even if they weren’t sacking Herbert (who has an insanely quick release). No idea how Milano improves on Klein. That was a tremendous performance from the backers, and especially Klein. But with the back 7 getting healthy, they’re as good as anyone at this point. definitelt need to to work on their Hail Mary D

Right by the stadium I believe, so yea it’s in Santa Clara. They’re going to have uproot completely. It’s absurd really. You want to encourage testing and reward that.

So I live in Santa Clara county and I just don’t get this. I actually am ok with some higher level restrictions, as encouraging people to stay within their quarantine bubbles/pods, when meeting indoors, enables restaurants to stay open. In just about every city in Santa Clara, he downtowns have protected sections from traffic where folks can eat on tables set in the streets. It’s actually been fantastic, and relative to the rest of the nation the COVID surge hasn’t been huge in Santa Clara (and actually San Francisco county has been even better). But I don’t see a risk for the 49ers because they test daily. They are at much lower risk of an outbreak among the population because they’ll know within a day when they get a viral load. Definite overreaction here

Isn’t he on a practice squad contract? https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/dane-jackson-47837/

Have a sneaking suspicion that Dane Jackson was a the 2nd best corner in the organization. Think the Bills will lock him up when given the opportunity

Not having a functioning run game (not even average, just functioning) is directly attributable to losing against AZ, and had a role to play in both INTs, which were higher risk throws that Allen probably doesn't attempt if he had a run game he knew could get some yards. They key here isn't to have a running game that says the O is gonna run the ball against a defense that wants to stop the run, it's to have enough of a threat so that defenses don't actively game plan against defending the run. I haven't watched the tape, but when safeties and backers don't even bother reading run, that puts a ton of pressure on your QB. That's why Josh Allen really should be getting more pub as MVP, especially with Russ taking a downturn the last few weeks. Both Rodgers and Mahomes have elite run games to balance them out. Allen has nothing but his shoulder to carry this team - and he's delivering.

That's actually tough to say at this point. There's no glaring need on D. Even if you cut Addison, you AJE, Jerry Hughes as starters, and I think you need to add depth and perhaps a pass rush specialist - not necessarily worth a first round pick. You could get that with Melvin Ingram on an affordable contract. Star is coming back, and his contract makes him unmovable. So he'll be your 3T You're gonna roll with Milano and Edmunds as you backers, the safeties is set, and I kinda love Dane Jackson to win and exceed at the #2 CB, bumping Levi to the slot. That might be a spot you could use draft capital on, but you'd rather do that in the 2nd round or 3rd round. At the 3T I love the rotation of Oliver and Jefferson, while a backup 1T is needed. If the Bills pick around 25, I think they're going to look hard at offense. To me you have 3 pretty glaring needs: 1) Right Tackle. I just assume Daryl Williams is going to get a big contract, and that's not going to be at Buffalo, or if it is he'll have to agree to a backloaded deal. I sort of benchmark his at Morgan Moses, and he's gonna average a Cap Hit of 10M, and arguably Feliciano is a bigger need, as Allen has shown he doesn't need elite protection to be super effective. 2) RB. Just glaringly obvious that neither Singletary nor Moss are IT. 3) TE. This is even more obvious than RB. Bills are really stuck with a good but not great Defense. To get to that next level they need an elite edge rusher, and there's just not a viable option available through draft or F/A (and we're not gonna count overspending on JJ Watt as an option)

Addison will also be gone. There's no way they're gong to hold on to him with a $10M cap hit

He's not a free agent. Next year he's got a cap hit of $9.4M, and dead cap of $2.1M You keep Hughes, and then you cut Mario Addison, which frees up $6.2M . Vernon Butler will also be cut, saving another $6.8M. But yea, I'd be VERY surprised if they cut Jerry.

Don't believe you'll see the salary cap decreased. They'll find a way around it

AKA he thought he had enough momentum from the Hawks game where didn't think it was worth exposing Morse to another concussion so soon after a recent one. That's legitimate.

Now that I’ve calmed down a bit, that play was as well covered by Buffalo as it possibly could be. That’s just Hopkins going beast mode. with that said, the Bills shouldn’t have been in a position to win that game, and a lot of it is down to their inability to run the ball. the Bills game plan basically requires Josh Allen to be elite for the majority of the game. Both of those INTs are Allen making throws he probably wouldn’t be making with a better run game. The first was into semi coverage though really it was mostly Peterson making a play, the 2nd, Allen feeling rushed by a pass rush that was teeing off on him the entire game. without some kind of functioning running game, this is how it’s gonna be. Allen carrying the entire offense on his back, taking too many risky throws. I mean the Cards have 3 really good DBs in Budda, Dre, and Peterson. With Ford, Morse and Feliciano all hopefully coming back after the bye I have some hopes we’ll see some balance out of the Bills offense. But with Winters and Boetger there was little chance of a sustainable run game and Zona never bothered defending it. Josh will claim he was as at fault, but he’s why we didn’t get blown out and why the Bills even had a shot at winning, but this is coming down the interior line play

I hate football and Kyler Murray and that dumbass irritating as hell offense

The earlier you do the extension, the less pain you feel in the long term. For Josh, I think you go between Mahomes and Watson. 8 years and 300M, which includes a 10-15M signing bonus. That would add just 1.8M to his cap hit next year and in 2022, while giving him make you rich money right off the bat, and also giving the Bills 3 years to prep for his 40M cap hit in 2023. That ALSO gives you space to resign Milano, Feliciano and Levi Wallace, and depending on what the cap is gonna be, sign a FA DE to replace Jerry Hughes/Mario Addison.

Earlier in the season I would have jumped on this, but for now - pass rush isn't quite an issue. He'd be behind Hughes and Addison as rush end, and for obvious pass downs you have Jefferson and Oliver who can play twin 3T as rush players. If he came in he'd be behind Hughes and Addison, but ahead of AJ Epenesa, who'd likely be relegated to the practice squad

I'm guessing Beane has been trying fairly hard, but other teams are asking too much. Glaring need at DT, but only a certain profile can fit there, because the Bills can't cut Star in the off season. That player has to be cheap or easy to cut in the off season

Also - no, they play heavy zones against Wilson, and don't give him easy 1v1 opps

It’s the running game. We’ve had about 4 straight teams take a look at the Buffalo offense and decide that Allen’s arm wasn’t the thing that was going to beat them. The Pats game was the first time the Bills offense really punished a defense for doing that. Pats flooded 7-8 DBs into the zones, and Buffalo responded by running for almost 200 yards. We’ll see how the Hawks respond. If I were them I’d let Buffalo run rather than give Allen opportunities downfield

So in this game I think you do your best to take away the big play from Wilson. Have White on DK + Double highs. You let Oliver play 1T as they have less to worry about in the run game. Force Wilson to play small ball against 7-8 man zones and get them to kick FGs. meanwhile you attack the Hawks secondary which has been putrid. They actually have a decent run D, but in this game you let Allen and those WRs feast. The goal is to get the Hawks to trade FGs for Buffalo TDs. you accept that Wilson is going to hit 75% of his passes...just make sure they’re not anything over 20 yards, and make sure the median is near 10. Make that YPA under 7. Make him play small ball.

Trent is on an expiring contract so the contract really isn't an issue, it'll get cleared out of the cap in Feb. However, his dead cap is fairly high, so I don't know how this would work. He basically doesn't bring any value to the opposing team other than being a large body.

as someone above said, you need to understand the concept of gap responsibility. You're not really going to be able to evaluate outside of splash plays without the All 22