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It's like Dorsey grabbed the wrong binder...

If you are really thinking about any trade, RT should be the target. Milano & Jones are going to be sorely missed, but you mostly have the cats on offense to go toe to toe. BUT you are going to limit your effectiveness if you're playing protection games to cover Brown. Upgrade there and give yourself every chance of making the Kincaid/Knox experiment work.

Steve's gonna be disappointed when he's gonna need transatlantic fare to see his Jaguars play home games.

Clearly they treat these games as some kind of off-tendency bologna that basically forces your team to be on its best behavior, relying upon execution over X's and O's. And FFS, Goodell is basically sitting there saying this is a meaningless throwaway game that they will pull whatever kinds of malarkey in order to justify whatever long-term BS business goals they have. Whatever. I'd say the next time they go to London, not a single Bills fan from the US pays a nickel to go over there. Submarine the thing. The NFL treats our team like dogsh!t.

If I hadn't sat in my chair and watched the Bengals game, or the Jaguars game from a couple of years ago, or paid money to go to a game in Buffalo to watch the offense sleepwalk against the Colts, I'd be ready to complain about the jet lag. But these performances happen way too often. It's inexplicable. The thread regarding drops is closer to the nail on the head, I think the problem is that we have secondary skill position players who fall short way too often, in key moments. Whether it's drafting, or coaching, or whatever motivational tactics McDermott uses to get the utmost performance against a team like Miami, something has bred complacency in games that seem less than challenging. And I think you could make a fair argument that the split-second lags caused by whatever ennui playing Jacksonville the week after the biggest most exhilarating win ever could contribute to not being in the optimal position to make a tackle & lead to freak injuries. All I know, you had James Cook dropping an easy reception for a 1st down, then all of the sudden Milano is gone. Then the team goes from funk to the pit of Hell. What in the hell is wrong with this team's spirit? The only fight came on a long-but-quick drive where Allen basically seemed to say "screw Dorsey and his playbook" and called a few plays to will them to a TD. Anyway, onto the Giants. If anyone has a time machine, let me know if they plan to show up for this one so I can get some money down.

We'll see, I think McDaniel got very ego-driven in this game. They did get the first 2 TD's on the ground, but from what I can tell on the Gamebook MIA was 18 passes out of 26 total plays in the first half. I think the one-dimensional nature hurt them, especially once McDermott nailed down how to thwart Tua's looks. When you want to show off your prowess as a playcaller, it's easy to go pass heavy. And at least at this point Tua isn't the type of QB that is going to excel in the possession passing game.

There are two separate issues: The prominent Alumni should be heard. It does sound like the Bills Front Office is dropping the ball in this area. You can't sit there and treat everyone like the king, but getting some anonymous griping is not the best look. Take care which former players you invite. If you're inviting guys who plainly identify with other teams before the Bills, you run the risk of this type of negative publicity stunt. Given Cincy's struggles to start, it wouldn't surprise me if his whole motive was to add fuel to these off-the-field fires that have brewed this last month.

They should just say it: "It's not the injuries, it's that the injuries are usually to scrubs to whom we don't want to owe long term disability."

Sunday will be the first real showcase of this defense. The first three weeks have been W1: Nincompoop Never Was QB, W2: Brady-Boosted Nincompoop Head Coach, and W3: Rookie QB Finally With Enough Tape To Scheme Him Quiet. Hopefully McDermott has the answers on D for all that Miami brings to the table. That's the only way you can afford not to get the guns ablazin'.

He carried or was targeted 5 out of 13 plays when he was on the field. Not sure that's particularly high, but I think if one analyzed the number of times a motioning Harty leads to him receiving a handoff or being thrown to on the screen, it would be close to 100%.

One would hope that this running game reliance the last couple of weeks is a bluff to bring these other parts out in more crucial games. You want to have some level of rushing, but to marry in more short receptions would also push and pull the defensive backfield and force them to consider alternatives to 2 deep.

With the way each team seems ready for these types of plays to Harty, these seem to be the possibilities: they are calling those plays at inopportune times they are telegraphing these plays too much they are telegraphing these plays exactly as they want, in order to later call the "changeup" to greater effect the play design is terrible the execution is terrible

It could also be dummy tactics. This is the softer part of the schedule, no real need to be laying your cards out there for all to see just to be able to get all the praise for dropping 70 on a sub-.500 team.

2-1. And the 1 was squarely on that greatest strength against a very formidable defense. I get it, you're pissed that Miami put up 70 on what may be the worst franchise since the Browns or maybe JaMarcus's Raidehs. There's no good reason to send Allen out there to throw 45 times against that team.

DB was in perfect position, but that sideline catch is the difference between #1 WR money and #2 or #3. Can't say his effort to defend the Fuller interception was that stellar either.

Things don't seem a whole lot different from 2nd half of 2022, except Josh's arm is back to where it needs to be. Almost every wrinkle play fails. Sweeps, WR screens, they all seem very telegraphed. Whoever is their self-scout staff needs some turnover if they can't sort that out. If Allen doesn't deliver pinpoint passes and/or Houdini acts, it would seem to be in trouble.

The whole thing has felt like someone had it out for her.

Just like grammar texts next to web forums.

Hopefully at your next job they station a microphone to eavesdrop on your every word.

It's another flashy thing that will many every pundit fawn over Belicheat's brilliance, while his success without Brady stands on its own legs.

The officials definitely favored green in this game. The quick taunt flag on Milano, that hit is wicked late, the trip on the final play (they still would have had stacked odds to make a FG and win the game regardless). I wouldn't want to blame the loss on the officiating, and even if they throw a flag there it doesn't change whatever damage was done. But...if you go back and look at Cheffers officiating the Bills...his crew is almost always nailing them for more flags than the opponent...

That's been my inherent belief all along, that Daboll was more effective at extracting the potential out of the offensive playbook. The devil is in the details, you can just slap a playbook together with this route tree and that zone block scheme...but there are going to be ways to optimize the effectiveness of those plays. For example: The receiver who is supposed to tie up Whitehead's attention long enough to get Diggs open on that post (Sherfield?) Gabe running an unassuming flag route that gets jumped. Late last season, there was a play where Dawson made a head fake which totally created the room necessary to fit the ball in on a TD. My contention is that some of Daboll's keys are still remembered & run - Diggs is probably first and foremost. But with new receivers, if they aren't being shown those gritty details that turn a batted down ball (or in Monday night's cases all too often, an INT) into a tight-window completion, it's gonna be a whole lot tougher for this offense to succeed.

I'll prepare for the eyerolls and the downthumbs, but this does appear a critical time in the course of this build. We spent much of last season (from the away Jets game) blaming certain things on Josh's elbow injury. There was speculation that downfield throws were preferable for whatever reason. I just don't know what to think. I feel like just recently going through the Jack Eichel saga gives me pause as to the way fortune, stardom, and motivation manifest in someone's attitude towards their situation. How exactly does 13 Seconds sit with Josh? Does he view the consistent acquisition of top defensive line talent, while seemingly avoiding any real splashes to help his offensive line, leave him feeling bitterness? Does he sit there thinking the only way they will win is if he's Superman? Or is it purely ego? He's on the cover of Madden, he's being lauded for his hurdles and scrambling and impossible throws...is he just trying too hard to cultivate/build that image? Their window doesn't have to be closing, but if the QB doesn't return to a form similar or better than 2020-Sept 2022, it could be. This is why McDermott and Beane are paid the way they are, just as much as big money Josh is. They have to get to the bottom of it, correct the course, and get this team back humming the way they were before it all unraveled in the 2nd half of 2022.

Let me ask you - would he be lying if he alleged a quote given to him by a colleague who has fewer scruples? Wouldn't the original person who attributes this quote to Pegula come right out to support Trotter publicly? This doesn't appear to be sealed at all, so there should be no reason for the person who witnessed or experienced this exchange to hold back...unless they themselves know that there will be several colleagues who correct the record and destroy their own reputation (and potentially Trotter's to a much lesser extent).

Yeah his immediate refuting is going to be the downfall I'm afraid. Unless he didn't say it, which seems unlikely based on the way this was handled. Feel like honestly owning the comment and offering a regretful apology would have been more prudent if in fact he did say it.