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I like his take. The NE Defense deliberately play light boxes to encourage other teams to run and to maximize their number of pass defenders. They know they can't win a shoot out, so slow the game down, keep the score close, and keep the other offense predictable in down and distance. If Daboll schemes up a way to throw on them and makes Cam chase the game, this could get real ugly. Gilmore's out, so this could be another "throw to Diggs until they stop it or don't, then throw to Beasly" sorta game.

Oh come on! I'm a firm believer that trolls should have to eat their words for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I wouldn't pay too much attention to beauty pageants like MVP or Coach of the Year. It's the NFL, and like any other sports league on the planet, the currency of excellence are trophies and championships. Let Brian Flores get some credit for turning the fish from a gag reel into a feel good story, nobody anywhere will forget McD if he makes the Bills 1-4 in the Superbowl this year. Then we can talk about him getting us to .500.

I never thought I'd feel sorry for the Jets and their fans, but I do tonight. Holy hell Adam Gase can't even ***** up correctly. They're just spiraling now. How do you talk somebody like Daboll or Bienemi to take this job?

Could be that Daboll found some structural faults in their defensive scheme/personnel. Saleh's been exposed.

It was from the DNVR podcast, I expected some creativity. They did point out that the bills are 1-3 against teams that rush the ball 50% or more of the time. One loss is the hail murray and the one win was vs New England.

Not impressed with the Broncos fan takes on beating JA. "Keep him in the pocket, don't let him extend plays! Make him go down the field every single drive!". What in gods name are you talking about? Josh Allen is a good quarterback AND he makes plays on the move. If you let him stand in the pocket, shuffling and scanning for 3+ seconds, expect to get torched. If you let him roll smoothly to his right with his eyes down field, expect to get torched. This is true for every good quarterback. You need to get him off his spot, make him pull the ball down, and get him sprinting so he can't throw, otherwise he'll poke 10-15 yard holes in your coverage all day.

This. If you want them to stop spouting awful hot takes about the Bills, stopping feeding them clicks and views. Literally just ignore them.

Oof, mea culpa!

Oof, I feel for Dick LeBeau. A legendary DC in his time that the game left by the wayside.

The Beane-McD-Frazier-Daboll-Farwell Branch of the Andy Reid coaching tree has built a playoff contender out of a laughingstock with Pegs help. If Daboll leaves for his shot at being the big guy, that's that, so long as Pegs let's him name his price and gets turned down first.

Atrocious clock management by Cleveland. They couldn't stop traffic with a red light, but they go zipping down the field and leave a minute and change on the clock for Lamar. Come on.

Cleveland could have run the ball once. Just once. This is some questionable coaching.

Cleveland scored too fast.

Agreed in principle, but watching him go to pieces because he can't take a quarter of what he dishes out is good for a laugh. He reminded me of Will Farrell's "I'm John Rocker!" sketch.

Nick's decided antagonizing people is the best way to get attention in the social media driven, Click!Like!Subscribe! world of sports punditry. How sad

I thought he would make his plays and we'd still win. Holding him to jack squat is amazing.

Motivating your guys is one thing and it's critical, but then you've got to take care of the Xs and Os or else you're just jerking off. I don't see McD having to whip our guys into a frenzy to get their heads in the right place for this game.

He reminds me off all the guys in Hammer's trying open the portajohn door with their foreheads.

My guess is Daboll ran this by the analytics guys who told him it's better overall to just let them make their plays, then let the TJ Watts/Joey Bosas of the NFL dictate to your offensive game plan.

Your opinion is more tempered than mine. After 18 years of bragging, cheating, hometown spots, eye-rolling ref favoritism, getting the rules changed simply because their quarterback got hurt on a fluke play...not to mention the general *****ery like their totally-not-spy-assistant coaches turning up everywhere, running up the score because why not, and seeding every NFL broadcast team in the business with ex-Pats from the burned spygate tapes era...they haven't even started to get what's coming to them.

Dammit.

Why would the vets and opt outs come.back? There's no reason to take BB's ass chewing film sessions and Patriot Way BS if they aren't a contender. And they are not a contender let alone a dynasty anymore. Retire, or go somewhere else and get paid what the market will bear.

I predict a dramatic decrease in the number of "Brady" and "Bruschi" jerseys at the Ralph, and a dramatic increase in the number "Allen" and "Diggs" jerseys at Foxboro. Remember, this is the fan base that would walk out of Foxboro before halftime if B&B were down two scores.