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Minnesota was perhaps the worst 13 win team in history. They needed a series of miracles to win that game in Buffalo. Al Michaels already said it. Mean reversion. This was always a 500 or sub 500 ball club

That was purely a coverage bust. Corner was playing cover 2 all the way

So I wonder running backs universally hate Jalen hurts. That was swifts TD. Doichey move by the OC to not give him a shot at the TD

You want Josh throwing that ball to Davis on that play.

I think the Peyton Manning OC thing is pretty overstated. Not even Brady was really doing what you suggested. The other thing is that the Bills didn't have playcalling problem against the Jets, and like most veteran QBs, Josh has checks he can goto based on looks. But that really wasn't an issue. All of Josh's problems really came down to a handful of plays with either bad choices or poor ball placement which put them in bad spots.

The one forgivable "decision" on an INT was the 3rd one. In that play Bills ran a smash concept (3 guys running routes to the sideline at 3 different levels), Sauce dipped into the low zone coverage in, leaving I think Davis to run that corner route - with leverage - on Jordan Whitehead. He read that perfectly, but that was really bad ball placement which led to that INT. Shouldn't even have been risky throw even, because that ball goes up the sideline, and instead Josh left that behind Davis. Thats a throw I'm confident he puts in a decent spot 9 out of 10.

I think Kubiak was actually measured in his analysis. He didn't pull any punches but at the same time he didn't ignore the fact that for stretches of this game Allen played very well. And yes Allen made several of his patented elite throws, scrambles and runs. One thing that stood out to me was Allen's decision not to run for the 1st down on the play he launched the deep INT. IMO this is a problem of coaching. In their zeal to cut down on Allen's runs the Bill's brain trust risks compromising one of Allen's great gifts. I want Allen taking that run EVERY time. The coaches need to reinforce that in that situation Allen should tuck the ball and head down the sideline. I don't think that's what that was. the Guys at Cover1 I thought nailed this pretty good, Josh didn't check the off safety (Whitehead), and just assumed Jordan was taken up but a dig route on the right side - White didn't give a crap about the dig and bailed deep as soon as the right sided WR shoed that dig, and faded back into the EZ. So because Josh didn't check Jordan, he thought he had Diggs 1v1 on that deep post. If Jordan had been checked by the dig route, that's at worst an incomplete, and at best an elite play by Diggs to come down with it, which he's capable of doing. But ultimately, Josh needs to check that far safety and not make an assumption.

This is wildly reductive. If anything the Steelers Wk1 Game was worse than the MNF game. A game where the Bills were incapable of protecting Allen, he threw the ball 51 freakin times in a low scoring game, and your RB who avg 6.5 YPR only got 11 rushes. Like, lose me with Brian Daboll Master God of Football and this is why Josh Allen is struggling now

Don't do stupid ***** and we'll be fine

It's not a must win for standings purposes. But a loss to this Raiders team, with the offense playing like it did against the Jets, means there's deep structural problems with the offense, which suggest we need to re-calibrate our expectations in a division with 3 excellent defenses. However, I don't at all expect that, and the not Josh Allens played reasonably well to really well against a really good D in NY

And I didn't actually have much of an issue with it against the Jets. In fact I was mostly happy with all the skill players. The Jets set out to take away the deep ball. The short and intermediate was there for the taking, but we didn't have a QB with enough patience in the 2nd half.

Josh coming out confident, while acknowledging he let himself get out of hand, in his abilities was the best thing I've heard today. He's not going to be a successful QB is he's playing constrained. That's not him That was taken out of context, "We need that" was talking about getting more people involved, not calling out players

I've seen way too much good from Josh to think this gonna be normal for him. All human beings perform on a curve. On Monday night he was at a -3 SD from the Mean

All 3 Rodgers' drop backs he was running for his life. Maybe not an Achilles, but he wasn't going to finish that game, and honestly playing an ultra conservative game plan with Wilson probably played out better than Rodgers dropping back and passing without max protect. Now would the Jets have gone to that conservative game plan with Rodgers in the game? I wouldn't trust Hackett any further than I could pick him up and throw him If they were, it would have been first down

When you play Gap Control, you often get lost to live viewers because all you're going is taking up space. The reality is a good gap control DT moves 1 blocker, and impacts a 2nd blocker, while only moving half a yard left or right to take control of a gap. This isn't to say that Poona had a good or bad game, but if you want to grade, you're really going to have to review the tape. That's not something that will pop during live action. So Bernard played a crap ton of both man and zone coverage, something probably even Edmunds couldn't do. Asking Kirksey to play any kind of coverage is gonna get you in a world of trouble. He's an emergency use backer when we want 3 backers out there. My guess is that Terrell will grade out well in coverage

He was looking for a defensive score

I'll be honest, I didn't think Daboll's offense raised the team beyond the level of their talent. His biggest achievement was getting Josh to be Josh we saw the last 3 years - and a huge portion of that credit actually belongs to the lab work from Allen himself. The Bills had a lot of the same struggles under Daboll that they had under Dorsey - namely a consistent running game and protecting the passer. Dorsey got stuck with a really poor OLine as well. If you remember, Daboll got pro-bowl caliber performances out of his tackles, and reasonable quality out of the interior. Dorsey has Trent Brown. The one area where I thougt Dorsey REALLY needed to be better about was getting the TEs more involved, after having paid Knox big money.

Last night 7 Bills players had at least 2 catches, so I think that's a nice job of spreading the wealth

Last seasonI'd agree with this, and it didn't feel like Dorsey had a real identity - which I attributed to him being a first time OC. Last night I think we did, which was grind the defense by spreading the ball out to various playmakers and not giving the Jets front much time to dominate. So I think there's imrpovement? But Josh's Cowboy crap got in the way of truly evaluating that, so we'll have to see against the Raiders and Washington whatevers.

Him playing freely and instinctively against an elite defense was the problem last night. Here I'll just link to my own tweet: https://x.com/appoo_pratt/status/1701660925319864555?s=20 This sport, you never stop learning. I generally don't give a ***** about Josh's turnovers, because him trying these things are what seperates himself from practically every other QB, and he he tends to time those turnovers so they don't massively hurt the team. For me, if you have a super low INT count, it's suggesting you're just a scared QB. Obviously the other end of that spectrum is Jameis Winston, but Josh was never close to him in how impactful his turnovers generally were. Last night was the exception. Do I expect Josh to stop committing INTs? Absolutely not. Nor would I want him to stop making risky passes. What I do want him to get better at is WHEN to make those risky passes. Last night, if he just played like he was the 2nd coming of Chad freakin Pennington, stuck with Dorsey's game plan, the Bills win easily. That's really the lesson he needs to get in.

https://x.com/GregTompsett/status/1701645601253859501?s=20

https://x.com/kfitz134/status/1701645969090081021?s=20 We can close this now

That'll change in week 4

Just to be clear, this is MASSIVELY different from the Araiza situation, where there was not only actual evidence that suggested wrong doing, but something like 95% of women's complaints in those situations turn out to be accurate

The ALLEGED comment was pure racism from a xenophobic place