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Man, Taylor is thee prototypical runningback. He has everything. I think his injury setbacks will not project as a career definer. He really is the perfect back in the NFL. If you can meet the price, he can absolutely help take a team to the Super Bowl as a difference maker.

Paying to watch NFL games on a TV that you already own and on channels that you already have nothing but greed. It’s like each game is a pay-per-view event, so insanely gross we don’t even realize it. Pirate, then break this thing up.. and the owners can deal with a little less square footage at their fourth winter home. Tech pirating will always stay ahead of the curve, gov regulations. And with this, are we really criminals for wanting to watch the Bills on Sunday?? Maybe the raiders.. but not the Bills!!

10-4. I’m already running in the red because of the holes I see at Tackles. This wouldn’t be the same as moving Quinton Nelson as a 10 year over to LT. We can dream and hope Torrence is a perennial All Pro, but he hasn’t even played his first game yet.. crazier things have happened.

He’ll be a JETS

and you’re telling me that is not going to Torrence?

Jerry Rice looked satisfied. Everyone else, nah. Couple glove rubs and down the stairs shoves. I guess face slapping(?) One thing is for sure, especially in a crowd of 65k, demo 25-40, drunk and rooting for their first love::: The Security was ON IT!! Wow what a show of force! Stay safe out their California major sports fans hahaha

Oh I’m not willy nilly asking. We need a left tackle more than we need a right guard.

On draft day I remember hearing Cyrus is versatile. Can he play left tackle? He has the size.

So he DID hit on R4! Beautiful.

Awesome! I’m not ready to break down the 18min break down at the moment, but I love the positive takeaways from our rook guard. I’m shyly pumped the Bills May have hit on picks 1-3, 5 in this draft.

Oh they’re going to be sliding over A LOT. Problem is Brown will still be on the field when they do.. sucking at blocking the little men that get all up in his grill on snap. I need to go back and watch, but I have it in my head that Brown looks worst when the defensive guy gets right up in his chin strap initially and then uses his hands and feet to disorient the massive giant until it’s time to go right by him and pursue the ball.

The narrative came after the success in that first season as HC! Funny to think now, but McDermott was just another hire in a long line of hires for the Bills. Rex Ryan got people thinking Bills again, and McDermott was a pretty big step backwards from that excitement. But damn if he hasn’t been a greater success than anyone in Buffalo could’ve dreamed of at the time. I agree with you a hundred percent. I never thought Carolina’s defense was some great thing that set the league on fire. THANK YOU for breaking down so much stats-eses!! 👍 I didn’t even like watching that defense.. to me it was too passive, bend but don’t breaky, with one great player in the middle and a flash in pan elite corner, and a bunch of NFL bodies who didn’t screw up too badly. They had a stuff big guy in the middle too.. can’t remember his name. Oh, and another very good linebacker. So pretty good players. But that’s okay.. great DCs have made terrible HCs, and visa versa. I buy this move to HC/DC as a “culture” thing. That mysterious thing that just means “We care about being good people who play football. Look at us - We try!” It can’t be an X&Os thing. He’s been out of that game for so long, he can’t believe that his brilliant play calling is the missing link. So yes, I think it’s a power move to keep accountability, and it may or may not work, but it reinforces his dominance inside and outside the building. It’s like the rich not paying taxes,, once you get to that level you just play money ping pong with like-walleted individuals <— and when there’s no one else to play with, you play with your toys alone.

What is that thing Diggs is doing after he catches the ball?? Looks so unfamiliar. Still hungry is a good question. But yes, Dawkins super hungry. All the time.

Love to hear what he really thinks! He’s so pissed about that piss poor performance. Well that sucks for Doyle. Let’s hope he’s the Sacrificial Lamb to the NFL Injury Gods for the season.

To mean I don’t like McDermott as much as you @Augie, I’m just stating that given the choice between his winning the Super Bowl as DC and not, I’m doubting it. My money is on - he won’t. Whatever that betting line is, I’m going against. I’ve got McDermott’s back as our HC. In fact, McDermott deserves even more credit than he’s been given. There are very VERY few GMs in the league that would hire over McD. He’s that successful. After 20 years of pain, McDermott has control over the division and wins 10+ every year. Be crazy to even think about dissing him at this money in time. Let alone the fact that you can’t,, because he is going NOWHERE unless HE decides to. I hear you on Davis. That catch was awesome. I love when receivers get their hand out above them and catch in stride. Looks cool. But I do think he still looks slow. We’ll see. Hope he busts out (again?), but I think the other pass catchers have more potential to wreak havoc on defenses. The OLine seriously need to figure something out. Like big boys do. It’s them and Allen, and it ain’t working. This play is too poor, and for this caliber a team, it’s unacceptable. Yes on Williams! I want to see more. He’s like a Life in the Fast Lane type of player, so there’s no time to waste here. Let him fly!

Don’t worry, this guy keeps McDermott up at night.

The people that think McDermott is somehow vulnerable job wise are insane.

I know.. so dramatic. But here’s a completely useless take, with no proof or science to back it up. Since WE KNOW the coaching staff has relied on Josh more than they should, have we ever considered that the players do exactly the same thing? JA17 is such an athletic freak, I suggest that the offensive line is constantly in a state of confusion when pass blocking. And the receivers are timid. Example, when Gabe Davis isn’t making one of the greatest long ball catches of all time vs the Steelers 2022, he looks practically afraid to catch the football from Allen. I’m seriously hoping Sherfield, Hardy, Shorter.. ‘take it to the opponent’ and don’t just run routes to catch the ball and drop to the turf. So sick of the lack of RAC over the past.. 20 years. I just have this illusion of the Bills receivers thinking Look ma, I caught the ball from Josh Allen, and they don’t really want to play football after that catch. The OLine blocks like ***** for Allen. Why? They are too into Josh Allen’s game, than their own. Is Josh going to throw it quick? Is Josh going to run around? Is Josh going to throw it 70 yards? Is Josh going run me over on his way to running over the guy I’m supposed to be blocking. JA17 isn’t an easy guy to play with for OLine. I get that. The offense looked its best in 2020 when things were scripted and timed and executed. The OLine room has to dig deep and figure this out, because the moment Josh pulls a Josh, they get my sidetracked and confused on what just happened. Allen is an animal. I think he needs to sort out some things. He’s like Michael Jordan in 1988 who went ballistic. Then Jordan was convinced to play some team ball, and it was game over. Allen needs that switch flipped. His athletic ability is awe-inspiring, but the boy needs to realize toning it down some is better for the ten other teammates on the field. Is isn’t optional. He NEEDS to do this. King McD. I see what McDermott is doing here. He’s making every defensive guy accountable to one entity: HIM. That’s his move. He is absolutely cemented as King1B in Buffalo. This is not going to be a thing too much longer.. he’ll get HIS guy to call the plays soon, probably next year, but this is an all-in move to put up or shut up for his players. He will get rid of players that don’t respond to this, either physically, emotionally, mentally, whatever. He’s not a nice guy. He won’t let guys hang around. The Bills don’t keep players that they don’t think improve the field product. I think this is a problem because I don’t think it will work. Just my 50/50 opinion. Of course I’ll be rooting like hell for McDermott to have his statue erected OUTSIDE the entrance to the new stadium for winning the Super Bowl as OC and DC. But it’s a tall task on him personally. However, he has no other distractions to deal with, like being a loser, or not having a contract, or bickering with management/ownership. So he is primed career wise to do something like this. After all, he wouldn’t do anything this stupid if it were stupid. All of this should be an interesting season. Oh, Kincaid is a difference maker. He plays football just fine. And Poyer is toast. An injury or a collection of, will sideline him. It would’ve been wise to fully commit to Benford as a free safety all off season, if they think he can play that position.

You know what Dawkins is suffering from? Genetics. He’s a huge man, and doesn’t seem to have the natural freak physical attributes that the better huge men offensive lineman have—Big and fat, but quick and never tired. He’s a guy that would easily weigh 450lbs if he didn’t have a physically active job. I’m sure covid doesn’t help a body type like Dawkins.

Mac Jones is being used by Belichick to get himself back in the good graces of Kraft. BB sabotaged his second year starter with a defensive coordinator’s offense, and Jones acted up, showing he’s a malcontent. Now BB brings in super duper best friend O’Brien to drive Jones right off the team. Belichick gets a fresh start with another QB next season. Onward and upward.

What a blow. The mid 2000s playoff game endings were absolutely all timers. Sabres found ways to win when games seemed over. RIP

I wouldn’t expect 20 targets for Diggs, but in his head.. he’s got a different mind set that we would have. “Die trying” is what Diggs thinks against CIN. When you lose that badly, and the best offense player player on the team not named JA17 is even involved.. again this is Diggs’s mindset, imo. I didn’t know Diggs plays so few snaps. Great, that’s another problem for this offense! ☺️ The loud and clear part is the correlation between Diggs losing it after Cincinnati and all the draft and free agent thought that went into fixing it. I’m not saying the front office did all that because of Diggs’s blowup, just that they did do it, for the Rigby reasons, and I bet it all made Diggs very happy. i don’t remember if Diggs said anything about not grabbing Gabe Davis’s stat line in the KC playoff loss in 2021? But since his team lost, there is probably a small part of he’s disappointment coming out after Cincinnati as well.

Even more reason..

So pissed I wanted to start a thread. Kyle Allen is sorry. If this turns out to be a reason that holds this team back, it’s all right there in front of us week 1 of pre season. To the OP, hell no.. Barkley is not an NFL QB. He’s a locker room, QB room guy. He’d get killed if he played any meaning regular season minutes. Back to Allen,, if HE has to takeover, he’ll eventually make game crushing mistakes. It’s in his DNA. What pisses me off is that great rosters have won Super Bowls (with a little bit of luck) with backup quarterbacks — Allen is not that guy. I hope time WON’T tell!

It’s the game script. The play rhythms and rhymes. There needs to be a complete offensive drive play sheet, and then a connection of drive calls that fit together. I mean.. these OCs around the league.. they are not calling a play on 3rd and 5, in an isolated way. They’re calling that play with all the other game plays in mind. Just watch Carolina’s play calls with Bryce Young out there. Everything Reich designs and calls is for a reason. Young’s time in that game went about as well as it could possibly go. He got his feet wet, made the right decisions, and most importantly got hit. Now he has a clock in his head on those plays. I expect that he’ll push the ball more down the field next game, but again, won’t run. He won’t run in the pre season. I bring up Reich and Young because they are very smart, and know exactly what they’re doing. This is the sort of thing Dorsey and Allen better be doing. It’s all got to be part of the plan. Not… *****, we haven’t gone deep in a while, let’s try that!