harmonkillebrew

I don't know how anyone can criticize Josh for that blitz. It was disguised too well, all frigging game, and then when it occurred there were multiple other guys that failed to adjust. Torrence should have realized his assignment was going left and gotten a mitt on the blitzing S. If Spencer Brown had blocked Karlaftis he wouldn't have put Josh on the ground and the pass to Kincaid would have been a little better (hopefully Kincaid would have actually caught it). Ty Johnson also didn't break his route off when his guy blitzed, to give Josh a clear hot option. So many failures across the board on that play. Can't hang it on Josh. There are other plays that were left on the field by Josh, but after just rewatching it, he also had some amazing, gutsy plays on 4th and 3rd downs. I think the Bills need to have a few more go-to plays in crucial situations and go-to players, particularly at WR. That 1st and 2nd and 10s right before the critical 4th down were shambles. Even the Cooper blitz, screen buster should have gone for more with a more dynamic player on the receiving end. Bills played all out, going for it on 4th down at least 5 times. The Chiefs are just slightly better in clutch moments at almost every position and coaching

Might be dictated partially by cap hit in final year of rookie deal. Groot is the only one that will have a significant hit, but extending him will also be costly. I'd personally like to see more consistency into the playoffs. See if he can become a real impact player Shakir and Cook deserve it for sure. Benford too. But those rookie contracts are just too sweet for cap space I don't know. Cooper did virtually nothing and looked slow. I'm not sure he is good enough at this point in his career to keep Keon off the field, who should get better. Mack too deserves more playing time. But I'd really like them to use any $$ on Amari to sign Tee Higgins, or a higher end WR, or to get a FA that allows us to invest draft capital in a more explosive WR. Keon was a bit of a whiff in terms of a chance to get more speed on the field.

His knee was up. It never touched the ground. His elbow hit at the same time as the ball and that was where it should have been downed. First down. What angered me is that the offense went straight to rush the 4th down attempt. McD didn't even give the Bills replay assist guys a chance. CBS didn't even get a chance to review it. I was yelling at the screen b/c it looked really close. one of the videos posted here shows this, so check it out

Josh didn't choke, but man Mahomes, Reid and Spags are CLUTCH. That's the difference. Take one of those guys off the Chiefs and we've probably won a SB or two by now. At least Kelce is getting old. Maybe that gives us a shot moving forward. But we need to upgrade on D and O still to have better talent to overwhelm their clutch-nees

Cook is the real deal and was a huge part of our offensive success. His emergence helped account for the loss of Diggs and other past playmakers. But we should learn from it and look to add another playmaker with speed. It just adds another dimension to the offense that complements Josh. I love Mack, but he should really be a complementary role player on O. Not a go to guy. Bass stepped up too. I agree. Rosseau had a real solid season, even his sack numbers weren't gaudy. He made so many plays in other ways. He didn't show up when it mattered most in the playoffs though, but I still think he is a young rising star that we should re-sign. Ray Davis was really promising as well and will be a nice 1-2 with Cook for years to come. I thought Rapp played surprising well too. And once again the Oline amazingly stayed health and with Andersen really paved the way for a strong run game. Lots of good pieces to continue to build on

Worse, b/c of those 4th down ref calls. I didn't want to call foul on the refs, but after seeing replay after replay, I'm pretty mad and want answers as to why NY doesn't step in with more advanced imaging to reverse those calls. Makes you think its rigged

I'm a little more pissed at McDermott for not challenging that spot on Kincaid's 3rd down catch. Instead he tried to rush a 4th and 1 QB sneak with not enough heavy personnel. KC's Dline had been stuffing that all night and rather than get guys in tight to push Allen, we tried to do a quick snap. Chiefs weren't fooled (even if the spot was horrible). Those spots were close, but wanted more from the officials and McDermott it then went to NY though and you would think those guys have the technology that some of the home garage bloggers do that clearly show the ball relative to the line by superimposing or making Chris Jones invisible. I'm not sure how NY couldn't have overturned that.

Coleman was not the best option at WR in the draft and there were other rookies at WR that did a lot better. https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/nfl-rookie-receiving-yards-leaders-2024 He didn't really grow much over the course of the year and his lack of separation ability was glaring. I'm not sure how much of a ceiling he has, so the Bills would be wise to invest further in WR with draft picks and probably a FA (Amari Cooper is probably not worth trying to re-sign)

but Ty Johnson should have broken off his route when his guy blitzed. As Warner says, do a sight adjust to the boundary to give Allen an option on that side. He either did the wrong thing or wasn't coached to do that.

So many issues here with protection on this play and Ty not doing the sight adjust to make himself available as a hot once his CB blitzes. Josh did all he could, that guy Torrence was supposed to block was on him in no time before he could even flip his body around and toss to Shakir. And Josh still almost made the amazing pass to Kincaid by avoiding the two blitzers, but Brown couldn't hold his block on Karlaftis who affected the throw and put Josh on his back. And yet still, Kincaid should have caught it. Makes you wonder about the coaching. but man Josh gives us a chance on every play. He needs more guys around him to step up.

Rosseau was good, but we need solid pass rushing depth at DE. I'm in favor of extending Rosseau and a big FA contract DT for sure (probably draft) CB for sure, hopefully FA and draft We'll probably role with Bishop in Year 2 and still need a #1WR

This was supposed to be a transition year and instead Josh lifted us to one of our best years ever. The window is always open. Next year with a little more cap space, we can hopefully shore up the secondary and Dline and add a WR playmaker. But Beane has to stop whiffing on high draft picks.

something was wrong with the tush push from the beginning. Josh delayed longer than usual on the first one for the 2 pt and Mack actually ran in to him in the whole. Other attempts looked like the upright Josh of prior years, before he got it down to more of a science. It also felt like we didn't have the push element working as well and they were trying to rush it on a quick snap count rather than set it up and do it right.

Spencer Brown also missed his block entirely, which ended up being the pressure that got to Allen and put him on his back. It looked like he was almost letting him go to set up a screen. Should Ty have cut off his mesh and sat down in the zone vacated by the blitzer? You see him cut across in front of Allen

when you see the other angle, he's got the DT right in front of him, but at the snap that guy stunts down the line, confusing Torrence while the DB goes right by him. Josh needed to reset the protection to account for the blitzing DB, but he either didn't have the time (play clock was running down) or he thought it was a bluff. Josh thought he could outrun the DB to the edge, but he probably should have dropped it off to Shakir, even though he wasn't really open yet on the orbit route. Still he got off an amazing pass to a wide open Kincaid, who should have caught it. Can't blame Allen here at all. Spags just called a great play on a critical down. Bills had plenty of chances before, so it didn't have to come down to that 4th down.

It seemed the Bills were also consistently running out of play clock to make adjustments. They were squeezing things in right before the snap. This seems like one where Josh had to snap it to beat the clock and couldn't get Torrence assignments aligned to account for the guy threatening to blitz. That's home stadium advantage, but also on Brady for getting calls in too late

He's not always as clutch as we'd like. That last set of downs was bad. He also screwed up the tush push multiple times for some reason. But you can't blame him entirely either or say he choked. KC has a good D. It was a battle

One play sequence really got to me on Bills drive where they turned it over on downs. 3rd and 4 and Kincaid catches a screen pass and it looks like the refs spotted him too short. His knee and elbow weren't down before the ball landed on the 1st down markers. McD doesn't challenge and instead they try to quickly run a tush push, but they have the wrong guys on the field. You end up with Josh being pushed by Kincaid with one arm, as opposed to Ty, or Knox or someone stronger. those type of in-game, quick calls seem to be McD's weakness. Otherwise, I think he coached a pretty good game

Tee Higgins anyone? Otherwise, not sure what else might be a realistic improvement. I'd be surprised if they re-signed Cooper

He's got some real lemons to answer for. Coleman was a complete dud, when we really needed talent at WR and there were plenty of better options. Cole Bishop also looks like a bad pick. Kincaid has regressed and there are so many better young TEs that we could have drafted instead. Don't even get me started on Elam, or Von Miller's massive contract, etc.. I don't think he should be fired, but he needs to seriously reanalyze his scouting team and his own decision making and make changes. This team wouldn't make the playoffs with Josh Allen

I think I'm putting this more on Beane and our personnel scouts. There were a bunch of failed #1 picks on display tonight. Xavier Worthy showing didn't help either. The coaching wasn't so bad. Not better than KC, but not bad. The lack of talent on the team really showed more.

Spags aint going to let the Bills run all over them. He'll study the Baltimore tape and see the tendencies and be ready from the get. Brady will have to be able to adapt quickly and call the game of his life to score more than 20. I'll say, I think the conditions were pretty slippery out there against Balt. That synthetic stuff just doesn't hold up in the wet and cold. That was probably a factor in playing it conservative. A lot of potential YAC and a few catches were also affected. And we saw Lamar and Andrews wasn't able to hold on to the ball

Yeah, that pitch play has become predictable, especially with Ty in the game. It worked a bit 1st half but they needed to stop it 2nd half. Brady didn't seem to account for the Ravens making the needed adjustments, and therefore didnt' make his own in anticipation. 2nd half play calling and execution was really flat. Almost cost us the game. It was an audible, but why they still called it as the alert option and hose Knox as the hot read/blitz beater? At least get it out to a guy with a little more sizzle

Brady likes scheming plays for a guy here and there, especially RBs, and otherwise running the ball with extra linemen. And Josh trusts Shakir the most, by far. Not sure what else is going on with Kincaid and others. Watch the all-22 and see if he's open. I've seen a number of plays where he doesn't read the zone right and slides into the wrong spot. Other cases, where he just can't get separation. Not having a strong outside WR tandem, makes it harder for the interior guys. They have a lot less room to work.

There were also two DPIs that weren't called, on consecutive plays that killed a scoring op. They were close, so I'd say the Ravens got away with two and got called with one. Refs were not on our side by any stretch