Nihilarian

Does anyone else recall the 2023 season, and at the bye week, the Bills were 6-6, and meanwhile, Miami was 9-3? Talk about a bleak-looking future with Buffalo, THREE games behind at week 13. What does this HC do? He fires his OC and promotes from within. With all the pessimism going on right now, did things look worse back in 2023? That team met the Dolphins in the last regular season game and won the division. A lot of Bills fans dislike McClappy for whatever reason, and they think the Bills should have been in the SB by now...and they would be right except the best team in the NFL with an offensive genius as their HC, a defensive genius as their DC, along with a generational talent at QB. KC has been the best team in the NFL for the last 5 years...the BEST! Up to date, McD saw that the defense needed a boost, so he took over the playcalling for now. And if anyone remembers, he called the defensive plays back in 2023, too. That team was riddled with defensive injuries that season and still finished in the top 5 in points allowed and the top 10 in yards allowed. So this head coach knows what's up with what's going on with his team, and he will take the steps needed going forward. I have faith that he will make whatever changes are needed.

They were 4-3 and now 4-4, and a decent team with a pretty darn good defense against the pass. The Panthers did elect to have the corpse of Andy Dalton as a backup QB, and Buffalo did take advantage of that situation. A real test comes this week against Mahomes, who is surging right now after a few slow games. Still, they are 4-3 with the same record as a bad team, Carolina only with a star at QB. We will see.

I don't agree that this team falls flat in January, with the last two being three-point losses, along with other worldly occurrences as an NFL player having an actual heart attack on the field and almost expiring. To me, it's more of simply the worst streaks of bad luck I think I've seen of any team over the last five seasons, on the defensive side of the ball. Now, this season, we have seen this bad luck with injuries to the defense continue, especially to the secondary and some rookies. In the most recent game, we saw what a near full-strength defense can look like against a team with a winning record. 7 sacks, 244 yards of offense vs 410 yards. I say NEAR full strength because the team was lacking their starting linebackers and some players in the secondary. Then lost their star DT for perhaps the season. I can only hope that the defense isn't FUBAR this season in January...along with the hope that Joe Brady fixes the pass offense.

All I can say is this playbook is the same one that Brian Daboll used and Ken Dorsey used and yet as much as I love the current Buffalo run game... I cannot stop yearning for that Brian Daboll passing offense that took the world by storm in 2020, 2021. That 2021 New England playoff game 47-17 win with Belichick throwing his headset was such I delight i forgave Daboll for ignoring the run game so much. This is also the very same playbook that the New England Patriots used to win all those super bowls. Its just that Tom Brady was just so darn accurate with the ball and would do enough to move the chains to get to the end zone and hit Gronk for a TD...or something to that effect. In any event, I'm really hoping that what we see against the Chiefs is the Josh Allen we all saw in the fourth quarter against the Ravens. For the love of god Joe open up the passing game. Go back and watch film of the schemes that Daboll used to run and if you deduce that the team really does need a #1 WR then talk to Beane asap.

I happen to agree with this. As good as the Buffalo run game looks the pass game looks equally bad. While this season started out looking like a godsend for the Buffalo Bills it is starting to look like they might enter the playoffs as a wildcard with the Patriots taking the division. Did Danial Jones switch brains with Josh Allen? Because Allen has looked like a befuddled normal human "maybe" QB instead of the alien unicorn we have all come to know and love. I suppose this next game will tell us what's really going on with the passing game. Is this to deceive us into thinking that our beloved QB has regressed back to 2019 or is the deception for the Chiefs DC in Spags? We shall see.

Listening to his PC after the game, McD referred to Kromer as the one for "dialing up" those run plays. 2:00 time or perhaps just the blocking schemes?

I don't believe that stating that it's tough to trust him or that he could fall on his face is bad-mouthing him. The guy has a 30-45-1 record, and perhaps like Geno Smith, Sam Darnold, and Baker Mayfield, who also took some years to develop into a good starting QB. We will see.

Doubful in my view as they might be peaking too soon. They play at 4-3 Pittsburgh, 3-4 Atlanta, and at 4-3 Kansas City, 3-4 Houston, at 4-3 Jacksonville, at 5-2 Seattle, and 5-3 San Francisco, Jacksonville, at Houston. Danny Dimes at QB, I suspect he could fall on his face at some point. Tough to trust him.

Those stats were right off the ESPN website https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore/_/gameId/401772865

My take is this exactly! If Josh doesn't trust them to catch it...they aren't going to see the ball much. Shakir 7 targets, 6 catches for 88 yards, 1 TD Coleman 4 targets, 3 catches for 30 yards. Kincade 3 targets, 1 catch Knox 1 target, 1 catch Hawes 3 targets, 2 catches Moore 4 targets, 1 catch Davis 1 target, 0 catches

Unless I'm mistaken McD mentioned Aaron Kromer in the run game and thanked him for his contribution. This kind of gave me the impression that the writing for Babich might not be the only name on the wall. The passing offense for Buffalo has looked pathetic in the last few games. Could be that Joe Brady might be feeling the heat soon. Just speculation.

Shame McD can't take over playcalling for Brady...

THIS! This current Buffalo offense has been a run-first offense with Joe Brady calling more run plays than pass plays. Brian Daboll is no longer the OC, and we all saw what Stephon Diggs looked like after Brady took over from Dorsey. I, for one, am not convinced that this Buffalo OC would even make good use of this WR. Clearly, Keon Coleman (35) is Josh Allen's favorite target, and right behind him is Shakir (34), with Kincade in third at 24 targets and Palmer at 20 targets. In Jacksonville, Brian Thomas Jr leads that team in targets with 55, 27 receptions for 365 yards, 1 TD. With a catch percentage of 49.1. In this recent Jags game, BTJ was injured while grabbing his shoulder. Same shoulder he injured in college. Injury or mental case? "Among all players with at least 50 targets this season, Thomas' 41.8 percent success rate and 49.1 percent catch rate are the second-worst marks in the NFL. Jerry Jeudy is the only player behind him at 32.7 percent in success rate and a 42.3 percent catch rate (22 receptions on 52 targets). One of the big problems for Thomas has been catching the ball. He has been credited with an NFL-high nine drops on 55 targets this season." Thomas' struggles are partly on him, as he has struggled to make routine catches. Anyway, the Jags are looking to bolster their secondary as they are #26 in passing attempts, 27th in passing yards, 28th in passing TDs, and were just beaten by the Rams 35-7 with Matt Stafford throwing 5 TDs and the Jags QB Lawrence sacked 7x. Jacksonville is 4-3 at the bye.

The thing about Sammy Watkins is that he made most of his yards in college out of screen plays. Buffalo didn't... I like @Kirby Jacksons idea of a trade with Arizona for Baker and JR

Please don't remind me of the many, many players that the Bills could have drafted instead of that glass decoy. Mike Evans was right there, and after the draft, the team stated that they still needed a big, tall end zone threat.

Let's not forget that the majority of this board wanted to draft Josh Rosen and were willing to get to the #2 or #3 pick by giving up the farm to get him. The kid might be a major head case or suffering from a prolonged injury...who knows? The red flags go up when a team wants to bail on a 23rd pick in the draft from a year earlier. In any event, a first-round pick looks like way too high a price considering that Beane loves his draft picks.

You guarantee? Who are they? I'll refrain from disparaging a fellow Bills fan here. Did you miss the quote where it stated that Josh Allen himself stated he texted Coleman BEFORE the draft? You're the guy I want. That Buffalo Bills GM stated that Allen was involved in the draft process, and most likely why he traded back twice to draft the player his QB wanted on the team. Did you even click the link and read the article?

Josh Allen 'pumped' Bills took Keon Coleman; QB texted WR before draft: 'You're the guy that I want' The 20-year-old said he received a text from Allen on Friday, before he was drafted, that said (via the team's official website), "You're the guy that I want. I watched a lot of receivers, and I want to play with you." https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/josh-allen-pumped-bills-took-keon-coleman-qb-texted-wr-before-draft-youre-the-guy-that-i-want/ Allen was involved in the team's selections, Bills general manager Brandon Beane revealed, saying his quarterback is "crazy about the draft process" and "loves it."

What Bills fans seem to forget when talking about getting rid of Keon Coleman is that Josh Allen wanted to draft him, and probably why he is targeted so often by him.

Brian Thomas Jr. is reportedly struggling with an ongoing shoulder injury, inconsistent performance, and a high number of drops this season, which has led to a decline in his effectiveness compared to his successful rookie year. A 49.1 catch percentage rate. There is a real reason as to why the Jags are ready to dump a former #1 draft pick from last season that played so well. 6 days agoThomas (shoulder) caught three of seven targets for 31 yards in Sunday's 35-7 loss to the Rams. Just what the Buffalo Bills need is another injured player that fans can complain about...

It was so different to see Allen look so ordinary and rattled, and it reminded me of his early NFL days, where Daboll would just keep calling for pass plays that weren't working. I should have said it was early in the second quarter that Josh was sacked twice in a row, which started things. Allow me to restate that it was on Joe Brady more so than the line. You would think he would have seen that Atlanta was so good at pressuring the QB and stopping the pass that he would have run the ball more. Cook was 17 of 87, a 5.1 YPC AVG, while Allen was 15 of 26 for 180 yards. Bills RB James Cook wasn't even targeted at all in the passing game and was only in on 53% of the snaps. What's even more strange to me is that Coleman saw 49 snaps, Knox saw 46, and Shakir saw only 34 snaps. The player on the Bills roster with the second-best catch percentage never saw a pass target in Cook. Hawes is first with 4 targets, 4 catches, and he never saw a target either.

Yes, exactly, a 45-yard bomb to Josh Palmer, and that first Buffalo series ended with a 19-yard TD to Dawson Knox. The result of that series after that deep pass was a TD. The next series resulted in a 15-yard pass to Shakir that was called back as incomplete. After that, the Falcons get the ball and score again. Now come all the miscues by the Buffalo offensive line, with two sacks, a punt. Another Falcon TD from a run for 81 yards. The next five series for Buffalo ended with four punts, and lastly, an interception. Penalties, sacks, turnovers, and 2 of 9 on third down. Buffalo 157 passing yards. It was clear that the Bills' defense stunk in the first half; they held their own in the second. It was the offense that failed in this game. 291 yards to 443. Buffalo lost the turnover battle and ToP. The biggest factor was the Buffalo offensive line's failure to give Josh Allen time to throw. Dalton Kincade was out, and Josh Palmer was out injured after 2 pass plays for 60 yards. Gotta hand it to that Falcon defense that is #1 against passes attempted and passing yards. The Falcons, coming off a bye week, were ready to face the Bills on MNF, and Buffalo didn't look ready to face that Falcon defense at all.

Wanna talk first downs by pass? Coleman 16 Kincade 14 Shakir 12 Palmer 10 Knox 5 Shavers, Hawes, Samuel 3 Cook, Moore, Davis 2 Ty Johnson 1

Okay, Coleman has one more snap than Shakir in 35 vs 34. Kincade has only 24 targets. Palmer 20 and Cook with 14. Keon Colman 35 targets, 24 receptions, 237 yards, 2 TDs, with a catch percentage of 65.6%. Kahil Shakir 34 targets, 25 receptions, 268 yards, 2 TDs, with a catch percentage of 73.5% Dalton Kincade 24 targets, 20 receptions, 287 yards, 3 TDs, with a catch percentage of 83.3% Josh Palmer 20 targets, 14 receptions, 234 yards, 0 TDs, with a catch percentage of 70.0% James Cook 14 targets, 12 receptions, 89 yards, 0 TDs, with a catch percentage of 85.7% Dawson Knox 12 targets, 7 receptions, 73 yards, 1 TD, with a catch percentage of 58.3% Go back to that fourth quarter of the Ravens game to see some of the big plays that Coleman made Remember that play that Chris Collingsworth stated was the one play that the Bills had been working on every practice. Let's not forget all the holding and Jersey-tearing that the Ravens' rookie DB Wiggens was doing to Coleman that first game. Nearly ripped his jersey off on that one end zone play that should have been called.

Really, all it would take is to have Josh throw a few passes deep, and if he connects with one, it would scare the bejesus out of the defense and get them to start dropping deep and back off the run game. Seems like that would open up the offense even if they are low-percentage pass plays. When was the last time Josh went deep on a pass play, and he normally has time in the pocket to throw deep? We also know that Curtis Samuel can run a 4.31, Moore a 4.35, and Shakir a 4.43. More than enough speed to break away. It's all about how the Buffalo offense is schemed and set up. Josh Allen's average depth of target (ADOT) for the 2025 season is 8.03 yards, which ranks 8th in the NFL. This figure reflects a more underneath passing style compared to previous seasons, with recent game-specific ADOTs varying, such as a low of 3.3 yards in one recent game, according to SumerSports and Herd Mentality