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Pause. The quarterback of the Buffalo Bills is currently 4th in MVP odds. He is 24 years old. Open your favorite bottle of Budweiser light and drink it.

Here are the reasons we don't run for more yards: 1) We don't run the ball frequently. When we commit to the run, we rush for more yards (Patriots and Chargers games, 190 yards and 173 yards each). 2) Our O-Line doesn't open up good running lanes frequently. 3) Moss and Singletary are good but not great. Only a GREAT running back would make a difference. If running backs are getting hit behind the line and still making guys miss, LeGarrette Blount doesn't help you at all. Also ... he's 34 years old and hasn't played football in two years. In his most recent season (2018) he averaged 2.7 yards per carry. Simply put, this is a bad take.

Enjoy it! Worth the wait.

I love the effort you put into this thread, thank you for that. On the other hand, taking still frames of "open" receivers on any given play will always make a QB look bad. It doesn't matter if he's Drew Brees or Tom Brady, every QB misses open WRs on the 3rd, 4th, or 5th option on almost every play. We don't know which order Josh was told to look to on each play, so you might be pointing out open guys who are the 4th or 5th option, with a ton of pressure on him. I admire the effort, but the only way to actually analyze QB's ability to read coverage is to capture live film and watch the QB's head to see if he's reading his progressions but missing open guys. Still frames will never tell that story.

Great post and I'm sure there will be "extremists" flaming you to death, but you're right. This is why it was a good idea not to make a trade at the deadline, despite those same people screaming for it. This year the goal is the Super Bowl, but the realistic expectation is Playoffs with a hopeful first round win. Next year, the goal and expectation is Super Bowl. We need all the ammo we can get for that. And for the "You Are What Your Record Is" folks, do you think the Steelers are one of the top 6 teams of all time? The objective way to look at a team is DVOA and we are slightly above average there as well.

The media has been super annoying, but Tua is a first round rookie from a big college program and had a ton of hype coming in. He hasn’t been good, but he hasn’t been terrible, so the NFL will try to work their storyline within a big market (Miami). Allen was a “high bust potential” prospect from a small market college team going into a small market NFL team, so they didn’t care. None of this is surprising, so don’t let it get to you. I’m happy to see him fail and that’s all I care about.

I pay for Sunday Ticket in NYC ... and I will be streaming Red Zone. These games are dookie.

I'm with you. The one thing that matters most in a punter is consistency. You don't need him booming 70 yarders... you need accuracy and consistency. When's the last time you've seen Bojo kick one that angles out of bounds at the 1 or 2 yard line? When's the last time you've seen Bojo kick one that lands at the 5 yard line and takes a huge bounce up in the air to allow for a great ST play? He has a big leg, so everyone thinks he's good, but he's bad at the two things that matter most -- accuracy and consistency. There's a reason we looked at so many punters in the offseason. We need a new one.

Do we really want to play this game? Until about 5 years ago, I think the majority of fans would list the Bills. We never made the playoffs, had no exciting players, and are a small market team. How quickly you all forget.

Man.... I was so ready to be angry, based on that title.

Somewhat unrelated, but I don't want to start a new thread just for this ... I think the reason we lost vs AZ was the Guard play from both spots. Costly penalties, no push in the ground game, Josh couldn't step up on throws. If you look closely on the INTs, Josh couldn't get solid footing. The AZ interior ate us up all day. Here's hoping we can get Morse back after the Bye and slide Mongo back to Guard. He's been a good G, but I'm excited to see him, Morse, and Dawkins eat.

He's a rookie. You don't want a free first round pick rookie because he had a bad start to his first season? Yikes. If you said something about his personality issues (and there are several) then I would have said sure... makes sense... but saying he is "terrible" is just ridiculous.

He was a first round pick ... drafted in the 2019 draft. Thank god you guys aren't GM.

I'd like to add in another tidbit of positivity I was thinking about this morning: The playoff seeding this year outside of #1 doesn't matter nearly as much as previous years. Only the #1 seed gets a bye in each division. If Buffalo wins the division and gets a "home" game, fans will likely not be in the stands. So ... division winner vs Wild Card means a whole lot less. We just need to make the playoffs... and with 7 teams making it this year, we're still in a great spot.

WHAT?? WHY CANT WE GET (insert corpse of relevant 1980s band) TO PLAY!

Am I the only person that doesn't want to talk about his contract yet? We have several threads on this. According to the CBA he can't get a new contract until next year... then he gets paid $7M ... then he has his 5th year option ... then we can talk contract. Just enjoy it for now. Enough about the contract.

This. Plus, next year he's due $7 Million. Then we can exercise his 5th year option the following year. A lot can change within the next two and a half seasons. If he's a bonafide elite quarterback, we will know it by then and we will pay him. Right now, if we pay him, we'll probably still have to pay him elite QB money. So for absolutely no reason, you want us to lock in Josh Allen right now? No.

Man, I can't get enough of this. Players having fun, scoring points, fighting hard. 20 years ... worth the wait.

It was not one thing. - Separated shoulder - We barely had the ball against two good offenses during that stretch - Defenses dared us to run and we couldn't run, so they played with defensive backs all over the field - Defenses were disguising coverage and throwing new looks at Josh out of respect for his game - The whole team just flat out played poorly for a few games, which affects offensive momentum - John Brown was injured - Bad weather

The "$20 Million" thing is really ridiculous and misleading. $20 Million is 10% of the current cap. 10 years ago the salary cap was $120 Million. 10% of that is $12M. 20 years ago the salary cap was $60 Million. 10% of that is $6M. Peyton Manning made $15M in 2015. He won the super bowl. The cap was $143M that year. Do the math. The only reason your skewed statistic is even close to correct is that Tom Brady won so many times and he had a team friendly contract. Can we close this thread?

Agreed on this big time. The Head Coach gets all the credit/blame for challenges, but he has a team in his ear telling him whether to challenge or not. Whomever our person is, he/she is not good enough. This is less a reflection on McDermott and more on the challenge specialist. Time for a change.

Nathaniel Hackett: No prior legit experience before 2013 ... "quality control" for a few NFL teams and Syracuse QBs and Tight Ends Coach. 2013 Buffalo Bills O-Coordinator: Bills rank 22nd in total offense, followed by 18th. 29th in passing. Then he quits on his team and opts out of his contract. Nice. 2015 after failing to land another O-Coordinator job, he latches on as Jaguars O-Line coach. 2015 Jaguars rank 14th in offense, but he's barely involved. 2016 Doug Marrone, the snake, finds a way to weasel his way into Head Coach and promotes his buddy Nate Hackett. Jaguars rank 25th in total offense. 2017 Nate Hackett is the O-Coordinator again. Jaguars rank 5th in total offense! (His only good year, despite buddy'ing up with offensive minded HC's) 2018 Nate Hackett tries to build on his success as O-Coordinator and Jaguars end up ranking 31st in total offense. His buddy Doug Marrone fires him. 2019 Nate Hackett is somehow hired by Green Bay Packers as their O-Coordinator. They go from 14th ranking in NFL the previous year to a whopping 15th with Aaron Rodgers as QB. I love this story because it shows Nate Hackett following offensive minded coaches everywhere he goes and then failing. I sincerely hope that he becomes an NFL Head Coach somewhere because that's just one more team we can count on failing.

Low risk, high reward if we can get him for cheap ($1M-$3M). I don't see any reason not to use him as a situational pass rusher on long passing downs. Seems like we could really use that.

Nope. He has been a safeties coach for a few years and outside linebackers coach for one year. Unless his daddy pulls some strings, he isn't even close to being ready.