Kirby Jackson

I’ve been of the belief that they would make it. After the Jags won tonight, it was the first time that missing the playoffs became a possibility to me. This Pittsburgh game is now huge. I don’t know how the tiebreakers with multiple teams would play out.

Remember when we stole “trust the process” from the 76ers? Whatever happened to that? If these guys wanted to really troll us they bring it back in a press conference about Shaq Lawson coming back. Lean right in to their villain arcs.

This can’t be real. 🤣🤣

We just watched his team come back from down 21 with him as the best player on the field. In today’s NFL, you could argue that “top WR” is the 2nd most important position in football. They can win games. Elite pass rusher is the other option. We’ve watch Myles Garrett rip off 13 sacks over the last 4 games and they’re still the Browns. LT would be next followed by interior pass rush. The Bills consciously decided to not address WR. That’s wild.

…and they can fall to 9th next week. They certainly aren’t a lock.

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?!? 🤣🤣

He was certainly on the back end of his prime. He was coming off being a difference maker for a Super Bowl Champ. He wasn’t 2015 Von Miller but you’d have gotten 3 good years if healthy. That was the plan. If I recall your options were Von and Chandler Jones.

They were 1 elite pass rusher from getting by KC. That wasn’t a long play. That was meant to instantly put them over the top. He was just coming off getting the Rams over the top. If healthy, they would have had 2 to 3 years to win one (or more). You had prime Josh and were 13 seconds away from a Super Bowl. That wasn’t time to worry about 3 years from now. It didn’t work but I absolutely, 100% supported it at the time and still do. On a side note, I’d love to have the conversation over some drinks. 🤣🤣 I’ve gotten into some good bourbons over the last few years. Let’s do it!! TBD Christmas party!!

The one big swing he took was on Von. It was the right decision at the time and is the right decision with hindsight. It didn’t work out but you took the right big swing.

You know what’s weird about the arrogance part? It just dawned on me that over the last few years the Bills have loaded up on former top 77 picks that failed everywhere. Lol, they believed that “if Andy Isabella comes here he will excel because we know best.” Looking over the last few years (in parenthesis is their draft slot): Cooper (4), Samuel (40), Moore (34), Coleman (33), Palmer (77), Hamler (46), Isabella (62), and Chase Claypool (49). With the exception of Cooper none of these guys were ever good. Now, I’m not going to be a hypocrite and fault them for taking a shot on guys that were highly thought of. I always scream for that. At the same time, there had to be a balance of, “this guy has been solid for a while” (Darnell Mooney types) to go along with Isabella, Hamler, Claypool, Coleman, etc…

What an insane story!!