GunnerBill

They called sooo many shot plays last night. I was calling them out in the game thread. There were at least 7 called shot plays. Josh isn't throwing them because the receivers are not getting open. You can't try and stretch the field with these receivers. They are jank.

No I am not telling you that, particularly on extensions of course McDermott has significant influence. But Brandon Beane owns the bulk of the responsibility for the roster. Now if the feeling in the building is they are equally culpable on the roster build then they both have to go. Because that series of decisions in the spring looks like a total whiff.

Oh for sure. I don't think last night was some great conspiracy. What I am saying is Bills fans getting to that position are not solely going on what happened last night. There is history with that guy and this team.

Yea I largely agree with you although that particular ref does have a history of some imagined penalties on the Bills.

The only right answer is Ed Oliver. Even though you hate him.

The MOMENT Gabe is healthy I am putting him on this roster. He is a better outside receiver than we have. Which is an indicment in itself. Agree. Seem my post in the McDermott thread. He made 12 major moves this offseason. Cook apart the returns right now are dreadful. And this was a major opportunity spring. Some of these moves will restrict opportunities in the next couple of springs. If those moves fail they fall squarely on Brandon Beane.

I post this once but I think it got lost when the threads were merged.... I think McDermott is now in trouble because I don't think this is a Championship roster and I don't think he should, or will, get another 3 years it might take to remake it as such. I think more of the spotlight should fall on Brandon Beane. He has known for TWO OFFSEASONS that we are seriously deficient at outside receiver and safety and his attempts to fix both major holes have been laughable. And then consider that this spring he had capital. He had some manouvrability under the cap (unlike in fairness last spring). He had 10 draft picks. He had the ability to be aggressive in upgrading the roster. His decisions were: Sign Bosa Sign Ogunjobi Sign Hoecht Sign Palmer Draft Hairston Draft Sanders Draft Jackson Extend Rousseau Extend Bernard Extend Benford Extend Shakir Extend Cook In terms of serious asset allocation he made those twelve moves. Right now, today how many of them look like successes? The PED duo were his choices. The extensions were him locking up his best draft class since Josh. Taking a toolsy corner with known injury history was him. Even more damning for the GM the one move there that was a slam dunk success is the Cook deal he had to be persuaded on. If by the end of this season that list of 12 moves does not look a lot more successful than it does right now today then Brandon Beane's job should be under major scrutiny. Other than Bosa and Ogunjobi the rest of those are longer term commitments to build the second Allen era contender. You would be hard pushed now to say he had got them right.

I thought he was excellent. Yes. Does that mean he is the second coming? No. But he was excellent yesterday.

I agree with all this although if you watched the Dolphins game yesterday Douglas is just as washed as Tre.

Yep. I did not think Brady had a good game. The two touchdown plays were nice calls but they struggled for rhythm, I know the penalties made it hard but they got away from Cook without ever really making New England stop him and they kept trying to to attack outside. That isn't our strength anyway and it also wasn't where the opportunity was. That penultimate drive was pretty much all middle of the field and they waltzed right down and scored. That had been there all day.

It's also on talent. Keon on the first of those plays tried to separate by faking going deep and coming back and the DB was all over it. Hence he then reverted to just run to the back of the endzone. He struggles so much to separate. He isn't sudden enough and he isn't nuanced enough.

I don't have the numbers but I felt like the Bills ran lots of play action last night. What they failed to do playcalling wise was just stick to the middle of the field. Kincaid, Knox and Shakir inside was their advantage. I felt like they finally got to it on the penultimate drive but it had been crying out for more of that sooner. There are teams who try and take the middle away against the Bills and force them to their below average receivers on the outside. This was the opposite. The Pats didn't want to give up the outside they were trying to dare us to stay patient in the middle of the field and we just didn't for the most part.

Yea the pass protection last night was not a problem. The difference in the game was out of structure Diggs got open for Maye. Out of structure nobody separated for Josh. Sad as it is Stef would still be WR1 on this team.

Think this is a very fair way of summarising it. The offense beat itself last night. The defense actually played alright in patches, was decent enough for once on 3rd down, but has bigger fundamental issues on the backend. The Pats started to cook once they abandoned the idea that they needed to run it and just let Maye throw the ball against our secondary. Tre is slow as hell, Rapp is ill disciplined, Bishop is still late reading and reacting and Benford.... I honestly don't know.... but he has had one good game out of five and that was the Jets (who suck).

Yea well that didn't happen. But you do you.

Both rookies are on IR

Really poor. And the sort of game that Josh would often pull out with one or two magic plays out of structure, well it was their guy who did that. The Bills made too many mistakes. Beat themselves. Struggled to adjust. But New England were better than us. They coached it better. They executed it better and their Quarterback managed to basically neutralise the Josh factor by having an outstanding game himself.

It was gonna land right at the 1

Yep. They were better out of structure than we were. 100%

New England deserve to win. They have played better than Buffalo.

If we have a FG block play now would be the time to call it.

Drake Maye can ball. If they put more around him he can be really good.

They called a safe screen instead. Shakir dropped it inexplicably.

That was execution. Shakir drop on 1st down then Allen got out on 2nd AND 3rd down and extends and STILL nobody separates.

Again I am afraid two plays in a row there Josh gets out and nobody can get open