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    Moving Forward...

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    Good morning! Love what I saw from the Bills yesterday, especially in the first half. A few takeaways for me personally.

     

    1) Bring back 11 personnel as their regular base formation on offense

    2) Keep using 5 wide

    3) The offense looks really good playing up tempo/no huddle

    4) More Khalil Shakir, more James Cook and more Dalton Kincaid

    5) Please stop giving Latavius Murray runs at the goal line. Cook has earned the right to be the feature back. Murray is fine for pass blocking situations.

    6) McDermott needs to be aggressive late in the game (I know punting on 4th and 1 in the 4th quarter was probably the right call but he needs to play to win)

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    Here is how I would fix the offense (Listen up Dorsey)

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    12 minutes ago, Santana said:

    Great post! I agree with you on everything. There's so much to unpack when talking about the inconsistency on offense. The lack of usage of James Cook is infuriating. We barely saw him in the 4th quarter of yesterday's game. Instead I kept noticing they had Latavius Murray in there on passing downs. It's time the Bills reduce the playing time of Gabe Davis and Dawson Knox. 

    Well looks like Dawson Knox is having surgery on his wrist. So he will be out for some time.

    Here is how I would fix the offense (Listen up Dorsey)

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    55 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:

    Not a fan of Dorsey or the excuses he gets...but since the odds of him being replaced in season are so low, this is to focus on what he and the offense need to do to turn this thing around.  And with the injuries on Defense, we absolutely need the offense to be better.  This is ALSO assuming no trades, just working with what we have.   

     

    Well its not rocket science even though it seems hard for Dorsey to figure out who honestly just feels out of his depth right now from a coaching perspective.  So let me help him out...

     

    1. TURN JOSH ALLEN LOOSE! - This whole over correction after the Jets game is just as bad as the Jets game was.  
      1. Josh did NOT need to run less...he needed to take less hits.  
      2. Josh did NOT need to run less...we needed less called runs off the snap up the middle like a FB into the teeth of the defense.
      3. Josh did NOT need to run less...he needed to be smarter and not fight for extra meaningless yards once he made the play.
      4. The bottom line is that this was a MAJOR part of the NIGHTMARES that DC's had to defend against because he made you pay and pay bad when you didn't account for it.  Taking this out of his game has made Dorsey vanilla offense even easier to defend and its taken away Superman's cape to a degree.  Josh is more hesitant than I have ever seen him and it's because he is playing in a way to fight his own instincts.  When you have a talent as special as him, you live with the good and the bad because the good SUBSTANTIALLY out weights the bad.  
    2. SCRAP THE OVERUSE OF 12 PERSONNEL! - If we are not going to use the 12 personnel to put a ton of pressure on the defense and take advantage of mismatches, then STOP running it so much.  You are not Belichick, you have no clue how to utilize this to our advantage so stop over using it until you figure out how to make defenses pay with it.
    3. REDUCE DAVIS SNAP DOMINANCE! - There is absolutely no reason for Davis to have the most snaps on offense (96%), especially when he is producing so little with it.  
      1. Shakir is starting to earn more trust with the coaches and he is making key plays when given chances to do so.  His snap % has gone up every week since week 1 where it started at 10% and was 34% week 7.  HOWEVER...Davis snap counts are NOT going down, that means we are still limiting the other personnel to keep Davis on the field more.
      2. We need more snaps that have BOTH Shakir and Kincaid on the field more.  Let Shakir work the slot short stuff so Kincaid can hit the seem, midfield, etc and put more pressure on the defense.  Right now, Kincaid is seeing too much short underneath stuff and that is not what we drafted him for.  
    4. PUT JOSH UNDER CENTER MORE! - Geezus Dorsey, are you the only person who watches football that hasn't seen the significantly higher level of success and production when Josh is under center vs the shotgun????  
    5. STOP RUNNING SO MUCH OUT OF SHOTGUN! - As I already said above, this offense is so much better with Allen under center, and the play action has been a major weapon of this offense.  So start lining up under center and running the ball from there too so it only further helps sell the play action even more.  
    6. STUDY PHILLY QB SNEAK TUSH PUSH! - How are we not literally doing the same thing with Josh?  Yes we ran some sneaks, but they are not as good as Philly's and we don't do it often enough.  It should be a major weapon in our offense and practically immediate goto play with 1.5 yards to go or less.  
    7. MORE QUICK STRIKE READS! - Josh Allen again on Sunday was night and day better on drop backs where the ball came out quickly.  And I know there is more that goes into it than just saying more quick strike reads (guys got to get open, OL needs to do its part, Josh needs to make the right read, etc).  But its pretty easy to tell when that wasn't the type of call, like when Josh makes a deep drop and then you can see the first looks are downfield which take longer to develop.  
    8. THROW TO JAMES COOK! - There is no reason or excuse where James Cook shouldn't get at least 5 targets in a game.  Cook should be getting 18+ touches a game between running and receiving.  And despite being drafted to be a receiving weapon, Dorsey just isn't getting him involved enough in that area.

     

    I mean, this isn't rocket science.  It doesn't take a professional GM or OC to look at the tape and literally see Josh playing like he has some sort of speed restrictor on his gas pedal out there.  Don't get me wrong, taking what the D gives him is something Josh needed to be better about rather than always trying to buy time to find big chunk plays.  However, there has been a gross over correction now, especially in regards to Josh using his legs to make plays.  And honestly, go watch Allen highlights, its those plays where he runs someone over, stiff arms someone, etc etc that you will see Josh the most fired up.  He feeds off those moments and it brings him to another gear few players have.

     

    #Alpha4OC 😎🤪😂

    Great post! I agree with you on everything. There's so much to unpack when talking about the inconsistency on offense. The lack of usage of James Cook is infuriating. We barely saw him in the 4th quarter of yesterday's game. Instead I kept noticing they had Latavius Murray in there on passing downs. It's time the Bills reduce the playing time of Gabe Davis and Dawson Knox. 

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    Bills Offense

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    Josh played damn good yesterday. Reminded me a lot of the season opener against the Rams from either last year or the year before. Everything starts with the O-Line though. They redeemed themselves yesterday. I think the game plan to get the ball out of Josh Allen's hands quickly always helps with establishing a better rhythm and comfortability with for the whole offense. And man the run game finally got going. What a beautiful win. Go Bills!!!

    Bills are adjusting to a lot and are going to get better

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    That all sounds good. And maybe there's some slight truth to that but that's not what I took away from this at all. I like Josh Allen as much as everyone else but I don't get why we have to coddle him and not criticize him. Josh Allen isn't playing "Team" football. Josh Allen is playing for Josh Allen. He's not thinking at all, he has a total disregard for playing situational football and he's back to thinking that he has to be a human highlight reel. We have no problem blaming Ken Dorsey for all of the offensive woes but when I watched the game, I saw guys open underneath in the middle of the field and instead of Josh taking what was there he was trying to show off.

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    Colin Cowherd at it again

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    Colin Cowherd along with every other media outlet knows that any mention of the Bills and the fans go nuts. TV and Internet sites know that if they want viewer interaction then just mention anything about the Bills. I like Colin but he's so hypocritical that it's comical at this point.

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