GunnerBill

The Jets are 0-3. Glenn is clapping.

I had the Packers

People moaning about the Bills weaknesses should really be made to watch this opening window. Even among the supposed good teams there was been some dreadful football.

They call the drive differently though. They were playing for dual purpose. They were not leaving time for Josh UNLESS the Bills D made a play

If they'd done that there would have been not time to conserve. You'd have walked off the field with timeouts still in your pocket.

I STILL say as great as Chase is they should have drafted Sewell.

That is exactly right. Generally the massive passing yards and touchdowns signal some issues that show up in the post season. Equally though unable to stretch the field vertically tends to too.

Fumble! Steelers ball!

Not quite willing to go there yet but they do look impressive. Warren has been transformative. Bengals defense is even worse than last year.

He still sucks. FYI

Who knew David Sills was still in the league? Patriots tie it up.

Aaron Glenn is doomed. It's that look on his face. He knows. I said last week to @Gugny I'd be stunned if he was 1 and done. But watching hin coach maybe not.

Pacheco? He sucks.

If people want to criticise the defense on that drive no argument.

Key words highlighted. It was the D not making a play not the use of time outs that was the issue.

Except that is exactly what they were doing. They didn't start using their time outs until right at the end. They wanted to acheive Josh not touching it again. The only way to avoid that was for your defense to make a stop.

I think DJ can play more outside than Shakir. I think of him as an outside guy who can play inside. I'd be open to it price depending.

But must be balanced against four 3 and outs. The D was feast or famine on Thursday.

They are doing things different. As the poster you are replying to pointed out - much more man coverage, more 4-3 as their base and more blitzing. Now it is absolutely fair to say at the moment that it doesn't look like those changes are helping a ton (thought they did keep Miami to 4.6 yards per play and under 300 total yards) it is also fair to have questions about the coordination of the defense and the playcalling. But it is not true to say scheme wise they are doing nothing different. They definitely are.

I genuinely was not thinking that. At no poiny did I think the Bills were losing that game. That is kinda of the job of the CB2 in this defense. Keep everything in front break on the ball but at worst tackle immediately and limit YAC. He gave up 5 catches for 27 yards. Now there were two "bad look" plays in that where the coaching put him in a tough spot. The problem yesterday was that they could also throw on the CB1. Benford was dreadful. If that pattern repeats the scheme has an issue.

Miami still had one timeout in its pocket. They were playing to score right at the end of the half. That was their entire strategy on that drive. Had the Bills not used timeouts they'd have used theirs differently. But there is zero doubt in my mind they'd have still bled the clock. Might they have had to settle for 3 instead of 7? Possibly but there is no reason to believe that would have been the case. The problem on that drive was NOT clock management. It was the defenses inability to make a stop.

They could only force things late against the Ravens because they softened up to coverage. On Thursday watching in real time I saw two plays where they definitely had deeper shots called and Josh had time aned eventually decided he didn't like them and came off it underneath to check downs. I haven't all22 reviewed those two plays yet, but I strongly suspect nobody was open. The one point you allude to that does slightly concern me is whether a bit of the gamer has been coached out of Josh in the sense that he is always thinking "safe option" until the game script dictates he doesn't. The thing that makes me think that is the Trubisky pass vs the Jets. He comes in cold, off the bench and throws an aggressive dime. I don't particularly have a stack of evidence to support that theory but that Trubisky play does make me wonder. Primarly though we don't have the ability at outside receiver. That to me remains this team's biggest limitation.

It's also not the philosophy I would choose. But it starts as @Kirby Jackson has laid out with talent acquisition. Because to be the more expansive, downfield passing version of the Bills you are going to need more explosiveness outside. That isn't Mack Hollins, or Keon Coleman or even for all of his skills Khalil Shakir, or by drafting a pass catching tight end in round one like Dalton Kincaid. Even Josh Palmer I said when we signed him is like the mininum standard attempt at doing it. He was like acceptable baseline. With the current talent mix on this roster they are playing the right kind of offense and they are staying aggressive enough within that system that with Josh's skillset it is allowing them to score 30 per game. Which is no mean feat. But if I was building this roster I'd have put a higher priority on getting explosive pass catchers. I wanted to draft Christian Watson. I wanted to trade up for Jordan Addison. I wanted to trade up for Brian Thomas Jnr. What I did not want our offensive draft capital spent on was a tight end and a non-separating big body receiver. But that is what we got.

The positive of Palmer here is erased by confirmation that Keon Coleman is still trying to find a way to separate from a lamppost.

Sounds like a classic Beane class. The Bills are one of the best day 3 drafting teams in football which as I jave said before is testament to their road scouts. Because day 3 is where you get to guys that the GM and Assistant GM have probably watched relatively little of. The scout evaluations count for much more.