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The wide discrepancy between his snaps and Tre's appears to have been mostly luck: Tre got one extra drive to start each half, otherwise it was a true rotation.

Ahh we'll call it 4.5 yards from the LoS 🤏

Bishop's out of nowhere improvement is the storyline of the season for me. It's not like he went from below average to functional, he skyrocketed into one of the best young safeties in the entire league starting the week of the KC game and hasn't looked back. The Bosa strip sack happened in part because Bishop took the air out of Metcalf's route and covered him up long enough for Bosa to get home. Bishop was hung out to dry with Benford on a CB blitz and answered the bell. Not the best angle but you can kind of see it on the broadcast footage:

This doesn't even account for his run defense which has also been stellar. Benford got a lot of criticism for his play early in the season, and he deserved it. But he deserves a shout out for getting back to his high standard of play and his contract once again looks like a steal. The future looks very bright with Benford and Hairston, whose respective skill sets complement each other very well.

That and he has a new baby at home. He's looked unfocused the past two games. I agree I'm not overly concerned about his play in the long term. I'd like to give him a game off to recover if we can help it. We probably need him against Cincy and NE but maybe the Cleveland week he can pop up on the injury report and give him a week to rehab.

I've been critical of Brady when warranted but I can't expect him to make chicken salad out of this group. Even Shakir has suddenly stopped being able to make routine catches and elude defenders. With him playing at his ceiling it was debatable if we were #32 or #30. With him playing like this we are undeniably the worst in the league. We need Kincaid back healthy because he's clearly the only pass catcher that Allen trusts right now. The rest of the year at least 50% of targets need to be distributed to the TEs and RBs. Probably 60% or more to be honest. Brady needs to pound Cook all game long even if it's not effective early. There are no cheat codes to hiding a league-worst WR group so we need to just focus on what we do well and live with that.

I mostly agree with this. Our passing offense scares me though. In 6 games since the bye week we've only seen the passing offense have 2 good games. It's just hard to imagine winning 3 road games in a row and then the Super Bowl with such an inconsistent passing offense. I guess the optimistic scenario is we get Kincaid and Palmer back healthy and that ends up being enough. We will still have to mostly rely on the run game though and I worry about what will happen when we inevitably get in a playoff matchup where the run isn't successful.

My biggest source of optimism is that KC is likely to miss the playoffs. They're the only team in the entire NFL that I'm not sure we can beat in January. The rest of the AFC I'm not going to say I'm confident we can win 3 in a row on the road, but it's our best chance for sure. Whoever we face in the Super Bowl would scare me a lot more than anyone in the AFC but just get to the game and it's a 50/50 shot at that point.

The two #1 seeds in the NFL right now are led by new head coaches, and not so coincidentally those two coaches were the most popular McDermott replacement options brought up last year. There's a pervasive myth that turning around a team takes several years. It really doesn't though. Good systems work right away and if anything the newness of those systems will catch teams off guard in that first year.

I'm sorry Alpha but this is as basic as it gets for a WR: That isn't what happened. See the video above. He's just running into open space, there is nothing remotely high level about this other than what Allen does to manufacture a TD from an otherwise broken play. If I'm supposed to take this TD as a big positive step forward for Coleman, sorry but I don't. He has a very long way to go. Every time Allen looked downfield he wasn't finding any of his WRs open and Coleman is a big part of that problem. He also had another drop on a routine quick slant catch. Good to see Coleman back in the lineup but let's be honest about the performance.

There's a team every year where the analytics don't match the record and they always get knocked out of the playoffs early. Denver is that team this year for sure.

His passing TD is one that maybe two other QBs in the NFL could have made and his rushing TD was one that only he could have made. Allen is a TD machine every week. That's why he gets an automatic play ball. He had league worst pass catchers on the field with him today and had to drag them into the endzone, with some assistance from the run game of course.

Yeah I think that's fair. The Bills have shown they can win when their preferred game script goes well. When we can impose our will running the ball and eventually make the opposing offense one dimensional, those are the games we win by 20+. Of course you can't always expect that game script to work out. When we've been in situations where we had no choice but to pass the ball this year we have been mostly unsuccessful, and the vast majority of fault for that lies with Beane and his failures to seriously address the WR room. It is hard to envision us winning 4 playoff games in a row with such a glaring weakness but we'll get there and see what happens.

The official penalty for kicking out of bounds is that the ball is placed 25 yards from where you kicked. Normal kickoffs are from your 35 so that puts the ball at the opponent's 40 after the penalty. However when you get a 15 yard penalty enforced on the kickoff you get to kick from the 50, so kicking out of bounds puts the ball at the opponent's 25 instead.

Oh Allen REALLY got in his head.

One of my weekly highlights in subscribing to NFL Pro, is logging in when the all-22 footage is available and filtering plays where Hawes is on the field. It's basically just a slideshow of all of our best run plays one after another.

Off target?

That TD was all Allen, pump faking a free rusher and then making a sick jump pass. All Coleman had to do was run through the zone into open space. To his credit he caught a pass that hit him in the hands which was not a guarantee.

Anderson was terrible for most of the game. I credit Brady for giving him chippers and calling quick pass concepts. We should have had the same game plan against Houston.

Jalen Ramsey is now 0-8 all time against Josh Allen.

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Unfortunately you can't just find a way. The talent has to be capable. Ours is not.

Pittsburgh's defense likes to talk more than they like to play. Clowns