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He was excellent for the Gators but I meant more over the last few seasons in the NFL. I'm surprised to see he was cut for "lack of hustle." Attitude problem or unable to perform at this level?

I think pretty much anyone would be an upgrade over Wallace at this point. The question would be, how good is Hargreaves against the run? Since he wouldn't be expected to be a #1 corner here.

Numbers are great, but I'm more thinking a guy that can make the contested catch. Out of all of our receivers, if the ball isn't perfect it's not a catch. If a DB makes contact with them, it's not a catch. And hell, even when the ball is perfect it's not a catch sometimes. I see too many QBs that can just toss a ball up and their guy comes down with it. Russ literally lobbed a ball up in the air into the endzone, two defenders, two receivers grouped together, his guy comes down with it. That kind of thing doesn't happen in Buffalo. I know everyone likes to trash Josh but his guys just don't make plays like that.

If McDermott wants to win and move the football, it's time to go back to 2018 Josh. Run, pass do whatever the ***** you have to do to win the football game. This watered down version of Josh is no fun to watch. He's not throwing picks, so what? Still lost 2 of the last 3. They've really ruined his confidence. Not sure why you would do that from a coaching perspective. McDermott is pointing out the play calling problems with the long balls on 3rd and short and the lack of Delvin even though he's proven time and time again that if he gets the football enough, special things can happen. Take the training wheels off of Josh and for god's sake, over ride your idiot OC when you feel the need to. Don't just let it happen and talk about it afterwards.

I think Daboll should be out. If McDermott can't even correct some of the basic play calling concepts (run here on 3rd and 3, don't try to throw a 50 yard bomb) then he's going to have to find someone that he can trust to run that side of the ball. He shouldn't be trusting Daboll any more. The screaming at the franchise QB thing had me irked at the beginning of the year and I think it was coming from a man desperate to somehow prove he belongs in the NFL. He doesn't. Everyone is starting to see it. You can only make excuses for so long. He calls plays thinking if it works he looks like a genius, instead of just trying to get the first down. He would rather be revered than successful.

3rd and 3. Deep shot. 3rd and 4. Deep shot. And it wasn't Josh choosing to go deep, the play call on 3rd and 3 didn't have a route less than 10 yards down field. The Browns game was his worst performance yet. You give Singletary the ball 8 times? You run a sweep with Gore, who's probably the slowest back in the league at this point? Also of note, Allen is much more successful throwing to his left than to his right. Guess which side of the field he's throwing to on those deep shots... it's like Daboll can not dissect film.

Yea it's crazy to think we play Nickel most of the time and our CB2 is that weak against the run.

I wasn't sad to see Watkins go, you can't rely on him to finish a whole season. Woods leaving pissed me off, but I don't think he had any intention of staying no matter how much money we threw at him. But to just now attempt to replace Woods with Brown and still have no answer to replace Watkins? That's a personnel failure. Beane can pretend all he likes that you don't need a #1 receiver but his QB would disagree.

So what? 3-4 years then? That's a very long time by NFL standards.

To a certain extent, I agree with this. If you are going to build your team around defense and your offense gives you the lead with under 4 minutes remaining, that's when your defense needs to come up big. And they didn't. Then you look at that last drive, Josh was driving again, then they huddle? Not sure what that was about. Then you have Hauschka leaving 6 points on the field... Failure at all three phases of the game is a hard pill to swallow, plenty of blame to go around.

We do not have the talent at wide receiver the Vikes do. When was the last time you saw a Buffalo Bill make a one handed grab? Win on a contested catch? And people wonder where Josh's hesitation comes from. He can't trust his guys to make plays like that. And if he tries to, it often ends badly and then people lambaste him for throwing a pick.

He's one of those guys that the Bills have lacked all season. A playmaker. Stats are cool but where is the guy on defense that consistently makes big plays like a Fitzpatrick or a Bosa? The roster looks good but it also performs like you'd expect with 80 million in cap space.

The only thing that has truly failed is this regime's ability to scout wide receivers. Yeesh.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2019/passing_advanced.htm Didn't realize Russ and Brady were backups. Haven't missed any games either... your bias is showing lol

I mean we can criticize Allen, he certainly shares some of the blame. But these receivers simply don't attack the football when it's thrown at them. Knox in the endzone was just ridiculous. How do you have that much size on a guy and all you can manage is to fall sideways and let the CB inside to break up the pass? The back shoulder he dropped also. Allen was awful under pressure today. And he honestly didn't see that much of it. His OC doesn't help him either. 5 wide on 3rd and 3 and no short routes run... For all his issues, he is getting zero help from the OC and secondary players. He can key on Brown and Beasley but opposing defenses are also aware that Allen's secondary players on offense are not a threat. C

Hauschka needs to go ASAP. He hasn't been the same since the injury last year. The missed 34 yarder, that just shouldn't happen.

Wallace has proven against the Eagles and Browns that he is the weak link in the secondary. He is also poor in run support, not physical enough.

I'd be curious to know if McDermott had any input for last week's game plan. Definitely ran the ball more than we have all season. It would be good for him to do exactly as you described, kind of act as a moderator. He does it with Frazier on defense.

Overall. Haven't come across run success by formation yet, I just started combing that site a day or two ago because I often get trashed for calling Daboll into question. I've been on the hunt for some stats to back up what my eyes have been seeing all year. There are some other sites too, but don't seem to offer as in depth stats as that site for free.

https://www.sharpfootballstats.com Looks like they are a week or 2 behind on some stats but it's a good reference none the less. On that site we're ranked 3 in rush success rate. We're varied in where runs go. I'm not sure what Daboll's reluctance is to run out of shotgun.

We're 18th in the league in attempts from shotgun but Josh is 35th in passer rating from shotgun. One of the issues with shotgun is that we almost never run out of shotgun. 2nd and short (1-3 yards) for instance, we pass 75% of the time if we're in shotgun formation. 2nd and short is one of those situations where you can call almost anything and where you'd like to see your play calling be a little more creative than that. I felt like we haven't called nearly enough draws out of shotgun and looks like I was right. My guess would be this is where we try to set up screens but with that kind of tendency you have defenses keying off. 3rd and short again, 64% of the time. Not as bad as second down but you are trending towards an obvious play call for the defense. Surprisingly, things are a bit more balanced on 2nd and 3rd and medium (4-7 yards) but then you look at 1st and 10. 99 play calls from shotgun, by far the most in any given situation, with 73% of those play calls being a pass. So again, really telegraphing to the defense what we're trying to do.

Eric Wood is a mouthpiece for the Bills organization. Did you really expect him to trash Daboll? As Steve Young would say, c'mon man. Daboll is predictable because he has too many personnel groupings, too many niche roles. You watch enough film and he has a lot of "tells" as to what he's going to call depending on who's on the field and the situation the offense is in. And when he attempts to break these tendencies, you end up with some of those strange plays that go no where because he doesn't have the correct grouping on the field. What I'm hoping to see as the season wears on is Singletary being used almost exclusively in the backfield. I think that really cures the issue I illustrated above. He's an all around back and a threat to score whether he's catching the ball or receiving a hand off. RPO should also be something that Daboll calls more. While we don't want Josh to run, the bottom line is that defenses absolutely have to respect his ability to run. That red zone touchdown Singletary scored in the Redskins game showed how hard a defense has to freeze when you have two guys that can run effectively. With Kroft healthy I'd also like to see 12 personnel used more frequently. Only 30 pass plays called this year in 12 personnel. Knox and Kroft on the field at the same time gives the offense some versatility as I believe both are athletic enough to split out wide and Knox is a great blocker. This would also be a good grouping for some hurry up, which has also been ignored this season for the most part.

College rules. Nothing more exciting in sports in my opinion.

Bills win, Gators win.

That's just not true. Probably one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen posted on this board.