Kirby Jackson

This week was really bad for the Bills and the playoffs. I wonder what the change was in playoff percentage before this week and after?

Eagle fans are so obnoxious I’ve found myself cheering for the Cowboys

Dallas has good wide receivers

He’s a contributor for sure. An alpha would push everyone to their more natural roles. If you added, Pickens, for example, now Palmer is 2 and Shakir in the slot. I think that they actually need a 2 as well. At some point, guys have to win their matchups. There is almost never a time that the Bills WRs are better than the guys across from them. Some of that is a function of everyone being elevated. Josh Palmer should be the 3rd best outside guy. He’s the top. Shakir is a good slot. Coleman is a fringe NFL player. Samuel is a gadget guy that can’t stay healthy. A horrible Browns offense let Moore walk. Shavers was an UDFA that’s kicked around on the practice squad. These guys are lining up against starting NFL corners. They’re predictably getting locked up.

I’m not sure that they’d “maximize” him. I’m sure that the passing game would improve because his talent would get him open some. That’s what good receivers do. That’s why they get paid what they do. It’s a very important role and is one of the most impactful positions on the team. None of these WRs that they have were ever good. I think that they have combined for 2 seasons of 800 yards and 1 more at 700. That’s awful. These aren’t guys that are now struggling. They were never any good. I’d add another layer and that’s the OL. They’ve really struggled this year. Allen/Brady/OL share blame at some percentage.

If you rank WR groups 1-32, the Bills would be no higher than 30 (maybe 32). If you ranked the job that OCs are doing 1-32, Brady isn’t going to be 30 or worse. It’s not an even split. You can’t coach up bad players. He hasn’t put them in position to overachieve but they’re so limited that it impacts what he can do. Again, he’s been bad but compared to the talent at WR, they’re a significantly larger problem. He’s had success elsewhere. These guys haven’t. EDIT: If we believe that he is the one that wanted this “everybody eats” nonsense than his percentage of blame increases. The whole idea of having a handful of bad players instead of some top end talent is ridiculous. He was publicly promoting that ridiculousness but was it because he believed it or because that’s what he had to deal with?

Brady hasn’t been good. I think though where there’s some disagreement is how much is him vs. the WRs. I’d say it’s 80-85% the talent at WR. It’s 15-20% the position that he’s putting those bad WRs in.

Gross

Great play by Mahomes and Worthy. Of course, they’re going to win. As soon as Steichen punted it back to them from inside of KC territory they were done.

Had to play to win. Punting the ball to Mahomes and you get what you asked for.

9 penalties already on the Colts…

That official that was ruling that a TD needs to be investigated.

Had to run the ball there. The Chiefs either use their last timeout, 40 seconds tick off or you get the 1st. The last thing you should have done was a Daniel Jones shot play.

That call?!?

You know what’s funny is that this thread is from before LAST year. 🤣🤣 This was when they were about to run out Mack Hollins, Keon Coleman, Shakir and Curtis Samuel. Since then they added and subtracted Cooper. Hollins became Palmer, MVS & Jalen Virgil became Elijah Moore & Tyrell Shavers. Imagine feeling good about any of that?!? 🤣🤣