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Diggs and Smoke can take the top off a defense, so a speed RB isn't really necessary. You need a dude who can eat 5-10 against 6-7 man front, and we probably have that with Singletary. The fact that he isn't, likely isn't his fault.

Don't think this is possible thanks to Trent Murhpy's deadcap number of 8.7M. Even if you cut/trade him you only save 1M off the cap, leaving the Bills with just 5M in space, leaving 10M the Bills would need to find. Now Texans only have 7M in space, so even if you could convince them to convert 7M of Watt's salary into a signing bonus by tossing extra picks their way, that still leaves 3M that Bills would need to clear. You would have to cut 3-4 players off the back end of the 53 man roster, and replace them with practice squad players. With that said, Watt's contract is team friendly. He carries no dead cap penalty, so if the Bills traded for him, they could either extend him or cut him with no penalty in the off season. Hughes (7M savings) Addison (6M Savings) Vernon Butler (7M Savings) Are guys who I think are definitely gone. You could also see them move on from both Poyer and Hyde.

Like I said, he's was terrible in the first 2 drives against the Chiefs, had a brutal INT against the Titans, and was slightly off in the first half of that game. They also had about 5 drops from WRs against the Titans in the first half. You aren't seeing Josh regress so much as you're seeing teams take away the deep ball with a LOT of double highs. He's hitting a lot <15 passes. Against TN he had 5 Incompletions in the 2nd half. In the first half there was about 5 drops. That's not regression.

That would be a bad article. He had 2 bad drives against the Chiefs. After that Daboll stopped running their normal offense until they were down 23 - 10. Against the Titans, Josh really only had 1 terrible throw, and while he had some slight troubles with accuracy, really it was his WRs who let him down that game. He led the Bills to a TD to get within 12 with 10 left to play, and never touched the ball again. Against both the Chiefs and Titans, Allen responded nicely to adversity. The Titans didn't confuse him. He had one bad throw in the 2nd half, while he was tearing up the zone. A 14 play 64 yards drive where a TD seemed inevitable to get within 21 - 17. This is one narrative that doesn't hold with reality

Don't believe it's all that much of a mystery. 1) there's no quality 1 technique on the roster. Jefferson is 6-4 290. Ed Oliver 6-1 287. Phillips is a bit bigger, while Butler actually does have the size of a 1 Technique...and plays underwhelmingly. Star was that guy. Who didn't get much penetration, but you sure as ***** weren't moving him backwards, and when he lined up as the 1 technique, he forced offenses to account for it. 2) Tremaine is having some struggles, and with a bad shoulder a little tougher to shrug off tackles. He's getting far too much flak however 3) The DE play fell off a cliff. Against the Chiefs, the Bills DE - Addison specifically - actually did a decent job of moving Mahomes around the pocket. But that dude is just too good. However, continuous harrassment of Mahomes would have been nice, and that just didn't happen. 4) Without Levi, the Bills don't have a 2nd corner who can cover man against decent WRs, and that shows. You can't really fix the big problem this year. You can't just manifest a 1 Technique, and you can't reverse the years on Jerry Hughes. The Bills are really just going to have to suck it up, and game plan around not being able to bring pressure with the front 4. They're going to have to manufacture pressure, and that means they're going to have to be willing to give up the big play on the back end, and send backers and DBs. This DLine isn't good enopugh on 3rd and long to send just 4 and hope the QB doesn't find someone open. Send 6 against their 5 on 3rd downs. Start selling out more on the run on early downs in hopes of getting to 2nd and where you can blitz. Sooner they accept that, sooner they can paper over the roster deficiencies

Didn't impact their ability to go out and trade for a new player either, it was a wash

The lack of ability to run against 6-7 man fronts is probably the biggest issue of this offense. Allen has been, in general, extremely good this season, but he's still human and throwing against 7 man zones isn't easy. Force defenses into man coverages and get those safeties closer to the LOS. They couldn't do that against either the Titans and the Chiefs and it's really hampered the passing game

The DLine needed to be better on 1st. Can't cave that easily. But then again they were getting a lot of clearouts, downblocks, etc that put DLineman in bad spots.

He's admitting that Mahomes is special.

Bills were an almost fumble, and missed OPI on 3rd and 12 away from having the ball to take the lead. That's the definition of "it worked". The execution wasn't quite there. There were actually a few plays. Like that crazy Mahomes run to make to 4th and 1, when they would have had the FG instead. But thats football. They had more playmakers than the Bills.

Mahomes saw it to . This is the right game plan against. He's got a relay team out there. Make them run, and when they do - tip your hat and get some points when you have the ball.

That really does just right to the heart of why the Bills run D struggled. You're facing the best football player around, the best QB in multiple generations, you gotta account for that and try to contain/take him away.

I actually didn't hate the pass rush tonight. effing Mahomes. We actually moved him around pretty good. He just made plays, damn it.

would again like to repeast that the Bills were playing 5-6 man fronts, and the Backers rarely came up until well after the Ball carrier got the ball...they were almost always playing pass out of Shotgun. They were perfectly happy allowing CEH getting 5-6 yards a pop. You saw what happened in the 4th when the Bills D decided to play run.

I have more questions for Daboll than anyone else, honestly. You can't just give up on your QB after a sucks for a few drives. I mean once you got the TD by runningm you, gotta see what Allen had left. Yet when they get the ball back down 13 - 10, they went back to run/safe short throws. And punted. Same in the 3rd. You can't do that with someone like Allen.

The Chiefs literally just did it to the Bills.

Honestly I thought Daboll gave up on Allen too soon. He was bad in the 1st Q, but he should have gotten back to the spread offense in the 2nd and 3rd. He didn't go back to it until the emergency TD drive that Allen spearheaded.

Yup. If you're gonna play bend but don't break. and intentionally give up the run, then you better get points when you have the rock. I mean Mahomes is the best QB alive. If you give him opportunities, he'll kill you with the big play, so I don't neccesarily mind the game plan on D. It actually worked to a certain degree. Afterall the Bills were THIS close to having the ball, down 6, in Chiefs territtory, with just about 5 left.

Bills D played 6-7 in the Box. They wanted the Chiefs running, to avoid the big play. They hoped to get 3rd and long stops. The last part is where the D failed.

Bills only had the ball 4 times in the 2nd half. 1st ended with a Cole Beasley drop. 2nd ended with Moss getting stone walled on 3rd and 1, 3rd was the TD, 4th was the INT at the end of the game. That's really not on Allen. When they gave him the opportunity to sling it in the 2nd, he showed well.

Allen played well in that 2nd half, so I'll have that as my primary take away. 3rd down D was atrocious, but on Mahomes big 3rd and 12, there was a BLATANT OPI on Kelce, where he quite literally screened the defender off the WR, that got him open.

That was BLATANT EFFING PI on that 3rd and long. Edmunds was literally screened by Kelce 15 yards downfield to get that WR open

Pulling guards don't have DLineman assignments. Except maybe on screens? Pulling guards LEAD through the hole, not make the hole. He wanted to push Edmunds out or to the right of the hole, clearing a straight path for Henry. Instead Edmunds forces the play back towards traffic. Not sure what else you could have expected out of him. He's got 300 pounds of human being, flying at considerable speed and strength, that he HAS to take on. I mean his literal job is take that guard on, and stand him up in the hole.

My bad! Should have actually realized that based on earlier conversation

That I disagree with. I'm fairly happy with LB + DT play. Unhappy with DE play, REALLY unhappy with backup corner play (can't emphasize enough how much we need Tre and Levi back - at least they have the basic athletecism to hang with good NFL WRs. About all you can do with Normal right now is make him a boundary corner) By Edmunds? His only real job there is to fill the gap and force the RB away from it. That play was CLEARLY designed to go right of center, led by the pulling guard. Edmunds got there first, and basically broke that play up. That's a successful play by Tremaine. Klein overplayed.