GunnerBill

Agree with almost all of this. I didn't love this trade market though at receiver. Do I honestly think Jakobi Myers, Rashid Shaheed or Calvin Ridley were the peice that made the difference here? No. Not really. I like Myers but he is not really a vertical down the field receiver. He is another hybrid slot / outside guy who does his best work in the middle of the field. Shaheed is similar and while he does have downfield speed he isn't really an X receiver who is going to dictate coverage. He is more like a better (and bigger) version of Elijah Moore. Calvin Ridley if you are getting the version of him from a couple of years ago would have been thr closest to what we need. I have no idea what compensation the Bills were willing to give to make that deal happen, but for my part it had to be less than we gave for Cooper a year ago. Giving up more day 2 draft ammunition for guys the wrong side of 30 wouldn't be for me. I don't think Ridley is a Cooper level talent in any event. Beane made his wide receiver bed in the spring. Then shouted at some radio guys to make himself feel better. But the bed he made he must now lie in. If this regime is still here in April it should be with a clear dictat from Terry Pegula: Find Josh a #1 receiver or else. EDIT: as an aside.... Tory Horton in round 5 would still have made a big difference to this roster. Imagine him returning kicks and offering some situational deep threat here as he is in Seattle (scoring 6 total TDs while he is at it) over Tyrell Shavers.

6th round. First pick of the 6th I believe which was considered a significant slide for a guy who was anticipated as a late day 2 / early day 3 prospect. Does make you wonder now whether there were something on his combine medicals that factored into that slide and maybe that was related to the neck.

The offensive illegal formations I put more directly on players. That isn't confusion about the call or the formation that is just sloppy. The Samuel one last week for example is totally inexcusable. Other than drag his ass off the field and cut him not sure what else there is to do there for the coaches. The defensive ones are about getting the call in and the players knoeing their counter to offensive shifts and this season we have had more lined up incorrectly incidents than I can remember the last 8 years combined.

It has mainly been on defense. But I agree it is a coaching issue. McDermott has fixed the 3rd down defense since taking over. But the lining up incorrectly is still happening and it can't happen.

Agree. The other defensive timeouts on Sunday were necessary because we are still having regular lining up issues. But the 4th and 17 one felt unnecessary to me. And it definitely gave them time to dial something creative up. That said.... there were still two major execution errors that led to that play working for the Chiefs. Lots to fix on that play.

There is no advantage. There is no disadvantage. It is just absolute standard practice across the NFL. Every week, after every win, you find a defensive player of the winning team talking about how they saw something on film. It's a total non-story.

Because changing your body language in those situations is easier said than done. It's muscle memory.

Yea. And it is admittedly very minor differences. Basically whatever the Bills did they were very strong favourites to win.

I've seen different numbers on twitter. Will try and dig out.

I strongly disagree. The analytics supports kicking the FG.

I forgot ha.

Yep.

Agree, and to make the playoffs I think they likely have to win 2 from Broncs x2, Chargers, Texans. I don't think 7 losses with 6 in Conference will get it done.

I said it before we played the Pats and I stand by it - Stef would still be this team's best receiver as long as his head was right.

Yea I am concerned that we are not built to get it done in that scenario. It is so hard in those situations if you can't threaten deep or outside. Because the opposition will let you have the short passes in the middle knowing that the chances are time runs out on you or rushes you into a mistake. Of course there is a chance we can find a deep seam to Kincaid or Shakir can catch a short one and make magic but you are kind of limited to one of those things happening and if they don't you're toast.

As @Buffalo716 has already said if the Bills have seen it on film, so have the Chiefs. The idea you are giving away a state secret is for the birds.

Kincaid's snaps suffer because of how well Hawes and Knox are blocking for the run game. It's back to my point all season (and actually all offseason in the Cook debates) - this isn't the offense I'd build, but it is the best way of running the offense we have.

Yea it wasn't lack of leg that led him to miss. The ball moved right at the end that is about the connection not the leg strength. It didn't matter, and it was always likely that the Bills win anyway even if he missed, but in a playoff game if you have the chance to kill the Chiefs by making a 52 yarder your kicker simply has to make that in the NFL of 2025.

Total non-story. I said the same the other week when people were worried about New England players saying they knew what plays the Bills were running. If you mine post-match pressers and locker room interviews every week around the league these sorts of quotes are ten a penny. Every defensive player says it "I saw it on film study", or "I read the body language" etc etc. Non-issue, non-story.

Then he can't be the kicker by the post season. Simple.

The drop the Hawes one? That was on Allen he didn't need to fire that in. Probably his only mistake all day.

I don't think so.

I sort of agree on the 4th and 17 not even about the Chiefs being a bit gassed (though that's true) but more about them having time to dial something creative up. Although the eventual call was good enough the Bills didn't execute when they had the chance. But I disagree on the 4th down early and the FG at the end. I think both were absolutely the right calls.

Yep. Cos on 3rd and long obvious drop back honestly scheme matters less than talent. Can you now and again craft something in that situation that gets a guy open? Sure. But more often than not that is your guy gotta beat their guy.

Groot definitely prefers the left side.