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With your Dolphins straw man reply noted, I'll get back to what was actually said. On the Bills there are players schemed/formationed off the field all the time. It's pretty easy to tell the 2nd tier guys acquesing to calls by running off the field , often showing disappoint they aren't in the next play. Diggs leaves the field when he wants to. It's been absolutely clear this past year he takes a blow when he's losing interest. I have no idea the coaching and team strategies in Miami, but almost to a man you can't keep our guys on the bench if they are schemed in. Not the same for Prince Stefon. You can argue the team has some fault keeping him in most play sets but he is getting paid more than the rest of the receiving corps and with that comes the expectation of having the biggest role. For my money Diggs has always had ideas about how offenses he's in should be run, but his ideas are wholly egocentric. Hard worker with a hard head. One of his teammates in Minnesota said before he came to us- "the last guy on our team I would let my sister date is Diggs". The people who work with him most closely seem to get it.

100% and it's even more true for the player who takes himself off the field more than anyone else on his team! He had become the guy interested only in plays where the ball was 1. Going in the air and 2. Designed to go to him. He's a team player as long as it's Team Diggs! Brady invites more QB options on pass plays than Prince Stefon liked- good luck in Houston where you're already 3rd in line at the feeding trough!

Diggs is a former #1 with the game moving past his skill set at a rate similar to his diminishing talents. Can he juke single coverage occasionally and dive to the turf to avoid a hit? Absolutely. Can he burn a defense that’s giving extra attention to him? Not since year 2 in Buff. #1 receivers get wins even when doubled. Diggs disappears when doubled. Houston should check with the league to see if they can give him #1C instead of his ego driven jersey choice. I’m with you- our biggest crybaby didn’t like the new OC system of throwing to open guys- he is in for a big surprise in his second tantrum recovery spot. We should start a poll of whether he ever signs another contract after 2024 when he gets fully exposed for what he’s become.

There's the other side of this- the old school safeties are now playing LB while today's old school LBs are playing edge. My first reaction is this is a hire to help their QB. I doubt any player in the league has prepped more games for Tua than JP, and we have given Tua plenty of problems. For a few million they have a guy who is skilled in defending the Miami O who can help him out. Jordan played with heart and sacrifice. He was a great pickup when he came in for us. I'll miss his play but it has diminished. If this works for Miami though you're right that it isn't likely to be because he's helped them on the field Sundays.

Behind the scenes contributors like yourself have always been and remain the strength of the Bills fanbase. The time you would have otherwise committed to your family or other interests is not lost on the many who help keep the decks of our flotilla safe for the rest.

Yeah, Klein was a perfect call up for the running attack Pitt was likely to and did run. But he is a North South LB who can help with straight blitz rushes against stationary QBs. None of that is happening this Sunday.

Looking at it again I can see that Kincaid is shallow enough that the LB might have been able to get to him before he makes the marker. I'm seeing a good play call on a pass that is among Josh's better short throws, full development of the screen/rub and I have to believe Brady was thinking as it unfolded "throw the ball Josh THROW THE BALL JOSH". Josh obviously thought different. Additionally this was the DBs sole INT of the season. It's not an incentive issue but instead just bad football.

Yeah, Shakir has Kincaid's defender screened out. Perfect play setup, execution is working perfectly. First down with almost any kind of throw and a catch. That began the frustration with the play in real time- Josh blows the first down and then makes a bad throw under duress, then the defender does something stupid. I don't know if it was Collinsworth who said "It's as good as a punt" and then the other reiterated that. All I could think was how dumb it all was- then all week I turn on game reviews and they are saying the same- stupid- thing. I'm not one of the "hate Collinsworth" flagbearers but I do understand how he's easy to tune out. Unlike Romo who had to be told (after he started getting a body of broadcast work product out there) to dummy it down, no one ever had to ask Collinsworth.

We were on the Dolphins 35 on the 4th down play, defending the end zone behind us. The end zone in front of us was the Dolphins end zone. Shakir took a pass on our end of the field into Dolphins territory on the second play of the drive. You're getting the Bills 35 and the Dolphins 35 reversed.

Happens every week of the season. Punting from the opponents 35 is going to be a rare situational choice.

It’s fair to question the coaching, the QB play and/or the decision to intercept either pass. My criticism is really with the 4th and 2 game call about it being “as good as a punt” and the continuing use of that phrase in recaps and discussion. It wasn’t as good as a punt. Of course there were possibilities that could have resulted in better outcomes than a punt but they did not happen. A forced throw on 4th and 2 against your inertia bailed out by a defensive error is just two (or 3) errors that don’t add up to a positive.

We’ve now heard it said many times that a 4th down play with a throw and pick in the end zone is “just like a punt”. This contradicts every coach who has taught his DBs to situationally knock the ball to the ground on 4th if there’s no clear lane to return past the 20. Just this past Sunday Allen throws a 4th down pick to DaShon Elliot in the EZ. For sake of example I’d use another division team- if Elliot had cost a Belichick team 15 yards with a blunder like that he’d probably be sitting for the rest of the game. The reality is you can’t count on the other side to be stupid. A punt in the same situation could easily yield an inside the 10 yard line starting point versus the 20 the Fish got on this play- a play they could have had the ball at the 35 if Elliot played it right.

To Brady's credit the timing of his promotion (for him) was awful, taking over an early season fave reeling and looking like they had already played their way out of the post-season. He has gotten past that gauntlet to now face a FAR bigger test in the playoffs, where better defenses and better defensive coaching is the bane of pretenders. Dorsey was so awful at situational football that Brady has a chance to take the product he was given and improve after the few games he now has under his belt, but the odds are not in his favor. We are entering the "second season" of the NFL when the best in the business exacerbate even smaller flaws in opponent strategy. The one thing it's safe to say about Brady is that we are in better hands than we were with Dorsey. It will be much to his credit to see our O start playing up to their potential right now since he's already been able to reel in the slide Dorsey dragged us into.

As long as the top answer to "How do you keep Ed Oliver under 5 sacks a year" is having Leslie Frazier coach his D, the challenges for Leslie would seem far too steep for even boneheads like the Spanos family to seriously consider hiring him.

I always think of Allen as one of the hugely underrated players in the league. You're right Stick will know his B team guys well, I would just imagine having one of the surest handed guys in the game out there for my first start would be attractive if I were in his cleats?