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Nihilarian

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  1. I agree to a degree. The post season is something all the coaches need to get used to and make adjustments as they go. Look at Dabolls history and I was very against him at first. The thing is... the man is learning as he goes just like Josh Allen is learning. Yes, his past history as an OC has sucked and even this season the Bills never had a top rushing attack. Still, the addition of Stefon Diggs has changed the complexion of the offense in a huge way. Last season the Bills were 23rd in points, 24th in yards on offense. This season the 2020 Buffalo Bills have the #2 overall offense and its almost all due to the pass game. Look how the Bills played the Ravens last season as they sacked Allen 6 times and had 12 QB hits on him. This season the Ravens were so afraid of what Allen can do during a blitz they didn't even blitz him nearly as much, from 6 sacks to 2, from 12 QB hits to 3. Now, the Chiefs did something in this game I had never really seen happen in that the Chiefs covered the Bills receivers like superglue! With no run game to fall back on the offensive players were very frustrated. The Chiefs came alive in this game and played their very best all over the field. It's like they were watching Buffalo all season and just waiting to pounce. The Bills NEED to beat this team and I have confidence that they will figure it out. They play the Chiefs again this season at Arrowhead so they had better.
  2. They were just as bad on the other side of the ball... 38 points and they made it look easy. No team up until this game had been able to take away Diggs. I suspect that all the Bills receivers we playing dinged up. We now know Beasley was playing with a broken leg. This is why the Buffalo Bills NEED a strong run game so when the passing offense is not working they have other options.
  3. Josh had a tough day no question. But then, what does anyone expect when the entire offense is on the 3rd year QB's shoulders. Then when his receivers aren't getting separation it makes everything even more difficult. I'm going to put this loss all on the coaches on both sides of the ball. Frazier allowing 38 points when the previous game only allowed 3. The defense had no answer for the Chiefs offense. By the same token Brian Daboll has been even worse in his game plan/ play calling since the first playoff game. The Colts game was a lot closer then it should have been and against the Ravens the Bills offense only scored 10 points. OTOH, the Chiefs OC & DC had their game plans fine tuned as if they had been watching the Bills every move all year. They successfully shut down the Bills passing attack and with no real run game it made things easy. The Bills secondary was torched too.
  4. What I see in the Chiefs was a team that simply wanted to coast through the season doing as little as possible to win each game. All the while just wanting to get to the playoffs as healthy as they could. Look at the wins since their bye week, Raiders 4 pts, BUCS 3 pts, Broncos 6 pts, Miami 6pts, NO 3 pts, Atlanta 3pts, Chargers week 17, 21-38, granted the most since week 7 Denver, 17 pts. Playoffs, Cleveland 22-17 and then Buffalo 38-24. it looked like KC was lying in the weeds and just outplayed Buffalo in every aspect, Offense, defense and special teams. The Chiefs beat the Tampa Bay Bucs in week 12 @ Tampa Bay. Interesting!
  5. While I agree that the Bills didn't run like the Titans, Ravens, Colts. They did call many run plays a game. Against the Patriots week 16 the Bills ran the ball 31 times and most by Moss 12, Singletary 10. Against Denver week 15 the Bills ran the ball 24 times, Moss 13 runs, Singletary 8. Then against the Colts QB Allen was the leading rusher with 11 runs, Moss 7, Motor 3. Against the Ravens Allen 7 runs, Motor 7 runs, Yeldon 2 runs...16 run plays! The Chiefs, 18 run plays with Allen the leading rusher again, 7 carries for 88 yards. Motor had 6, Yeldon 3 carries. My point being that the Bills had at least a semblance of a run game they could fall back on with Moss. After Moss went out the Bills didn't even attempt to work the run game much...putting the entire offense on the QB's shoulders. That Chiefs defensive game plan smothered the Bills passing offense. World Champions will do that. In any event, the Bills played a Chiefs team that hasn't played that well all season. The Bills defense that held the Ravens to only 3 points suddenly gave up 38 to KC.
  6. The run game basically went out the window when Moss went out. Talk about injuries, as I think the entire receiving core was battling lingering injuries. The way they were being shadowed by the Chiefs DB's left Josh Allen with nobody open most plays. Hence all the QB runs. Diggs normally gets most of the looks and makes his defensive counterpart look foolish attempting to cover him...not this game. 13-3 and the AFC Championship was an awesome season considering most had the Bills for 7-9.
  7. BALANCE...been saying it for awhile now. The Bills NEED a run game and if they had a RB like Alvin Kamara...WOW! BTW, Alvin was a 3rd round pick. The offensive line needs upgrades as does the RB position. The defense too, surrendered 38 points. Don't feel bad boys, the Packers, Saints, Steelers, Titans, Colts, Rams, Seahawks are all sitting at home for the SB too.
  8. I dunno what happened to Daboll as the offense was no where near as creative as it was for the last regular season games. Week 15, Denver 48-19 Week 16, New England 38-9 Week 17, Miami 56-26 For the playoffs, against the Colts they barely won 27-24. Against the Ravens the Bills offense only scored 10 points. My take is the Bills offense was exposed as a one dimensional team...a total passing offense with little or no run game...save the QB runs. The Bills rushed in this game 18 times and 7 by the QB which means the Bills RB's got only 11 carries. Meanwhile, with the Chiefs going man defense with their DBs shadowing the Bills receivers Josh Allen had nobody open most of the night. What did Tony Romo call it? Sticky defense? QB Josh Allen is only in his third season starting and is still learning. Andy Reid and the Chiefs have been in the playoffs since 2013. Seven seasons to fine tune his schemes. Another factor might have been lingering injuries to John Brown, Stefon Diggs.
  9. I agree. Listening to Tony Romo the Bills were being "stickied" by being blanketed by the KC DBs and there was literally nobody to throw to for Josh most of the time. Dunno if there was residual injury that Brown and Diggs were dealing with... or something else? Like the last three games the Bills offense just wasn't the same that beat the Dolphins, Patriots, Broncos. Bills OC Brian Daboll having brain farts? I dunno. What I do know is the Bills NEED a run game, like the Packers, Chiefs, Bucs have to help support their QB.
  10. Words of comfort? KC HC Andy Reid was a super bowl coach before he went to KC from Philly. Noted for being an offensive guru. Took a 2-14 team and went 11-5 in 2013!!! (9-7 2014), (11-5 2015), (12-4 2016), (12-4 2018), (12-4 2019) (14-2 2020) Seven years! The Chiefs were a playoff team when Patrick Mahomes was drafted and he was able to sit and watch for an entire season. They already had a good O line, defense, receiving corps. Andy Reid has been fine tuning his team all this time. Josh Allen is only in his third season on a team basically being built around that young QB. The team just realized you need a strong run game and passing attack while having an offense with balance to win championship games. Think about those 90's Bills teams, in 88 they went to the AFC championship game and lost to Cincy. 89 to Cleveland in the division round and finally a SB in 1990. So it generally takes a few years to build a SB team.
  11. Thanks Bills players and owners. Great season for a young QB in only his third year! The Chiefs showed us the flaws in the team...now to get them fixed!
  12. Not to be a contrarian...it was the Buffalo defense that won that Baltimore game. That pick six was a 14 point differential. The Buffalo offense scored a whole ten points all game. They are going to need to step it up big time on offense to compete with that KC offense. Yes, we can laud that Diggs had 8 catches for 106 yards and a TD. Brown had 8 catches for 62 yards. I'm not praising Brian Daboll for that Ravens game plan or the play calls. For whatever reason the Ravens didn't pressure Allen all that much and nothing at all like last years game where they blitzed 67% of the Bills offensive plays,6 sacks,12 QB hits. That alone let Allen have more time to throw and yet not one pass caught by Cole Beasley, he had two targets. Gabe Davis had four targets, no catches. Allen 23 of 37 206 yards, 1 TD. QBR 51.0. As crappy as Jackson played he had a QBR of 55.7. In my view the Bills offense was playing like they were behind in the game with all that passing. That article talks about no RB runs in the entire first quarter and one RB run in the second quarter like that was a good thing. With that much wind I think it was taking far too many chances slinging the ball around 37 times vs 9 RB runs. Two missed field goals by the Ravens, an over throw by the back up QB with the receiver five yards ahead of the defender...he hits that pass its a different game. The Bills don't recover that Allen fumble and its a different game, no pick six and its a different game. The Bills were outplayed by the Ravens, 340 yards to 220, ToP 35:33 to 24:27. I guess it's better to be lucky some games...holding that Ravens offense to 3 points was something of a miracle by the Bills defense. I'm hoping that the last two games were an anomaly and they find that high scoring Buffalo Bills offense that beat the Seahawks by 44, or the 49ers by 34, Denver by 48, NE by 38, Miami by 56! Go Bills!
  13. I was going by receptions, Diggs 127, Beasley 82, Singletary 38 receptions. I was quoting a poster who stated: By Paattmaann, "yea thats cool, we don't throw to RBs..both Devin and Zach are more than capable of being good pass catchers out of the backfield, and have put that on tape."
  14. Actually, Devin Singletary is the third leading receiver this season behind Diggs, Beasley. Gabe Davis, John Brown, Isaiah McKenzie, Dawson Knox all behind Motor. Though Gabe Davis has more targets. Another note, all three Buffalo Bills leading receivers have a 76% catch percentage, which is pretty freaking awesome.
  15. Just remember that Beane went after Le'Veon Bell and he chose KC. So the Bills FO sees a need for something extra at RB.
  16. Good Lord, Alvin Kamara in Buffalo 😍...a 3rd round pick. Like the Packers, the Saints have an pro bowl OT, OG.
  17. Hey, Aaron Jones for GB was a 5th round pick...201 attempts, 1104 yards, 9 TDs, 5.5 rush yards per attempt. GB RB Jamaal Williams was a 4th rounder...AJ Dillon was a 2nd rounder. BTW, Aaron Jones is third on the Packers in receiving after #1 WR Davante Adams and #2 TE Robert Tonyan. All I'm advocating... is to actually run more often and find that top RB anywhere you can... like Green Bay happened to do. P.S. The Packers do have a pair of pro bowlers at tackle and OG.
  18. There was a very serious reason for that as he blew out his knee his JR year in college and his backup Barry Sanders started that season for him. When he returned he put Barry back on the bench. With so much mileage on him in college teams were afraid he was all used up. The Buffalo Bills medical staff cleared him and drafted him #40th. Thomas carried 897 times for OSU. ESPN had projected Thomas to be an early first round pick and had a TV crew in his home on draft day. Seven other RBs were drafted ahead of Thurman though.
  19. What so many current Bills fans forget is while the Bills had QB Jim Kelly and WRs Andre Reed, James Lofton, Don Beebe to run the K-gun / no huddle offenses. The biggest threat the team had was Thurman Thomas running and catching as he was around 70% of the Bills offense in those days. Most of those 90's glory years the Bills ran the ball more than they threw it. With a top RB this team would be unstoppable. Take a long look at the 2020 13-3 Green Bay Packers 9th in passing yards-8th in rushing yards, yet 24th in passing attempts with the #1 scoring offense. Balance!
  20. Let's also not forget that foot/leg injury that had him limping off the field. Turf toe someone said. In any event, if that Bills defense that showed up for the Ravens game shows up for the Chiefs game it won't matter who the QB is for KC. Still, I kinda doubt that Chad Henne will put fear into the Bills secondary, not like Mahomes.
  21. I get it too, somewhat. It makes sense to build that defense while they already have their franchise QB. I wonder who he will peg as OC? To me, this is reminiscent of the Freddie Kitchens hire by Cleveland. Staley has been a DC for ONE season, 2020. Previous he was the Broncos/Bears OLB coach for 3 seasons and before that college DC. Talk about a meteoric rise. While the Rams have the #1 defense in the league this season. They also have perhaps the two best players at their positions in Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey.
  22. In order to get a run game going... you actually need to try to run the ball...with the RB's! The Bills didn't even call a run play the entire first quarter against the Ravens. One run by Singletary in the 2nd quarter! The 3rd quarter first play, Singletary off LT for 9 yards, next play run by Singletary LG -1 yards, three passes later, Singletary LE 12 yards, 5 passes after. Buffalo, 16 rushes for 32 yards on an exceptionally windy day more conducive to running the ball. NOW, 7 of those 16 rushes were by Josh Allen for 3 yards. So the Bills ran the ball a whole 9 times by the RB's... The Buffalo Bills offense scored 10 points. The Buffalo Bills defense scored 7 points. The last two games the Bills offense has been outplayed...The Ravens, 340 yards to Buffalo 220 yards. ToP Ravens 35:33. Bills 24:27. Yards per rush 4.7 to 2.0. Same with the Colts, 472 to 397, ToP 34:17 to 25:43. Buffalo was bailed out by the defense in holding the Ravens to 3 points. Baltimore previous scores, Titans 20, Bengals 38, Giants 27, Jags, 40, Browns 47, Cowboys 34. Now, had Buffalo lost this game against the Ravens, Bills fans would be screaming for Daboll's head on a platter...That Allen fumble that the Bills recovered in both games against the Colts/ Ravens. That deep bomb that Tyler Huntly overthrew to Brown. The Colts hail-Mary that was knocked down. Sometimes it's better to be lucky. Can't depend on that luck for future games... gotta work a run game too! Antonio Williams anyone? Just saying, Daboll was the favorite to get the Chargers HCing job and then they changed their minds after asking for a second interview...which never took place. Apparently, the Bills offense in the Ravens game might have been all they needed to see. On one side I'm glad for continuity as Allen and Diggs love the guy. On the other, I question the game plan, play calls on offense the last two games. Perhaps now that teams no longer have interest he can focus on doing a better job. 🙏
  23. I agree and I agree. I don't get how an offense can put up 56 points on one of the better defenses in the league and then choke up on a mid pack defense... The Bills NEED a run game to go along with that awesome passing attack with Allen. Balance, look at the Packers. The 2020 Buffalo Bills are 20th in rushing yards, 20th in yards per attempt. That's with QB Josh Allen being the teams third leading rusher with 421 yards, 8 rushing TDs. Moss has 481 rush yards, 4 TDs. Singletary has 687 yards, 2 TDs.
  24. So true, and last week too. Balance is the right word. The guy coached / game planned himself out of a head coaching job IMO. Look at the offensive numbers for the Bills against the Colts, Ravens and not good at all. Out gained in yards, ToP, and with literally no run game. This reminds me of last years Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving with Carolina after that Cowboy trouncing saying they were interested in Daboll as HC... the following week the Bills faced the Ravens, Allen 6 sacks, 12 QB hits and no answer for that pass rush and suddenly nobody is interested in Dabs as HC anymore. Here is a OC that all he wants to do is have his QB throw to show how good he is at calling pass plays. NVM that first season (2018) the Bills had a horrid O line while Dabs call for more deep passes than any other NFL team. NVM last years Ravens game Josh Allen was abused every drop back, lets keep throwing 39 passes! NVM that the wind conditions were conducive to running the ball this last game...37 passes. The Bills needed a run game in the worst way yesterday and was nowhere to be found. Looking at his history, I'm kinda hoping he takes the Eagles or Texans job... if offered.
  25. Browns being the Browns...I feel for that franchise...beaten by Chad Henne 😭
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