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We tried him on two slants against Pittsburgh. One clean drop, one poor route that led to a drop on a tougher than needed to be catch. Allen has thrown 2 INTs in his direction downfield this year. Shakir has had a few opportunities to make routine sideline catches and couldn't finish. I don't know why so many Bills fans still think that we under utilize him. He isn't a traditional slot WR that you can feed normal targets to. Every time we've tried to give him a bigger role it's turned out poorly.

Giants are permanently living in 2nd and 9 because they refuse to give up on these hopeless 1st down runs

I think Bosa might have to spend the rest of his career on 1 year deals like Clowney. Teams aren't going to trust him to stay healthy enough to warrant anything more than that. Within that context yeah I'd bring him back on a 1 year deal since he costs $7.2M against the cap even if we don't bring him back. But if we bring him back we have to give him less snaps and save him for critical pass rush situations.

The official NFL Twitter account still hasn't posted a replay of that fumble, which tells you everything you need to know. I'm shocked they didn't call a penalty there. Even if it wasn't intentional they are always calling that.

His 2nd foot was down first

Wow that is not an easy catch. Nice play from the rookie

Theo Johnson isn't an NFL player, they can stop trying to make him one any day now.

I don't know if anybody mentioned this yet but Vrabel didn't make that trade, Jon Robinson did. Just wanted to make sure someone mentioned it.

Whereas I'm trying to drum up Titans hate 😁

Jon Robinson traded AJ Brown. Vrabel did not approve. Don't be surprised if the two are reunited next year.

Alright then. Can they get a stop? Or at least make it look difficult?

Dart is actually pretty good when they let him throw the ball.

Giants are wasting downs with all these 1st and 2nd down runs

Nice series from Theo Johnson. Back your team up 15 yards then fail to make a catch that hit your hands.

By far the biggest discrepancy in this game is coaching. Pats already in their heads and forcing dumb mistakes

They have a legit QB and an outstanding coaching staff. That alone makes up for a lot of their talent deficiencies. I still think they're missing a couple ingredients of a championship team but who knows, it's a soft AFC and nothing would surprise me.

Just a really well coached fundamentally sound team in all three phases

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.