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And Geno again. How do we not have a better plan there? A sprint out?

49ers ran deep routes on that 2nd down and I’m not sure why, Aiyuk was just streaking down the middle of the field, Purdy never looked his way, Aiyuk never turned around. And then the 3rd down play is that same checkdown to McCaffrey.

Classic Geno, he holds the ball forever and eats sacks in the red zone.

Wow and some of the calls in Bills games are ticky tack. That’s a 👀

49ers just play that death by 1,000 cuts style, the difference being Purdy is dumping to elite skill players. That last drive they had a great play action freeze that got Aiyuk down the middle.

Kenny Walker began to falter a couple of weeks ago, and now he’s out. Geno holds the ball too long. I think the 49ers steamroll this team.

Think about what we’ve seen in the history of the game and then think what we’ve from Allen in TD output in 2020-2023. 2020 he was 37 TDs passing, 8 TDs rushing. 2021 he was 36 TDs passing, 6 TDs rushing. 2022 he was 35 TDs passing, 7 TDs rushing. In the history of the league, what QB has thrown for 40 TDs year after year? That’s a hard bar to clear in itself. Isolated years Brady goes for 50, Mahomes goes for 50, Manning went for 55, Marino went for 48, Brees 46 and 43 in back to back year, Favre’s best was 38 & 39. So with that historical context, I’d say it’s likely Allen is not going to get much more than 35-37 TDs, with one caveat. We know he doesn’t go all out on film or physical conditioning, especially in the off-season. That’s the one door he can try to open, getting into the best shape of his life, working mechanics constantly with Palmer, studying film. If he commits to more work, he might be able to squeeze another 1/2 level out and get over 40 TDs passing in a single year. Diggs is 30, so could/will the Bills commit to getting Allen another top-flight WR before Diggs ages out? I guess that’s a second lever.

I think all fan bases get cocky and entitled when their teams start winning. Like they personally advised the GM of the team during the draft.

The standard game in my mind is 40 pass attempts, 20 rushing attempts. So at most it would be 35 passing attempts, 25 rushing attempts. But thats a lot considering the breakdown would be Cook at 15, Murray at 5-7, and Johnson at 3-5.

So the obvious statement here is - if the Bills are averaging 4-6 ypc out of any alignment, then we should be pounding the rock more.

Not for the year, he had a twisted ankle.

Yup you’re right. Disingenuous intentionally on my part. By all means you’re right, let’s get Dorsey back.

The only thing I didn’t like was those two wimpy drives after the 81-yarder. The Bills were content to just sit on it. The good - All of the things that we’ve been wanting. Some tempo, under center, play action, you saw motion with Diggs on the first two plays right away, Harty on the field a bit.

Careful with this topic, it was suggested over a year ago and that OP got barbecued for suggesting it.

Does anyone miss Gabe? Nope. He can keep running go routes to draw coverage.

Here here! Signed. Not every process can be driven to 100% yield. What are the odds that McDermott conducts a thorough search for an OC and gets a cutting edge mind in here? The best OCs are going to land Head Coaching positions. Thanks Sean for all your contributions. Holding onto 4-5 in the Playoffs and a 2017 Playoff birth is not aggressive enough.

Yup that was Larry. He starts every call with asking about the hosts kids and mentioning that he’ll be at one of the live sets as if he’s friends with the hosts. My favorite are the callers who say “how’s it going” after horrific losses. Just do what I do and say “hey guys” and then get right to the point.

Josh needs to put in the off-season work. I said it last year before the season ended, got shouted down, but Joe Marino this morning said it again: His off-seasons are drinking until he passes out, golf and Hollywood partying. Listening to all his Kyle Brandt interviews was disappointing. I think we have a Ben Roethlisberger/Brett Favre type worker. Josh’s consecutive start streak is testament to his toughness and not a small accomplishment. But he doesn’t condition himself in the off-season, and has said he doesn’t over indulge in film. You want that intersection of talent and preparation and you’re just not getting it with Josh. Does he really want to be great? I think his attitude suggests that he thinks “he’s the greatest athlete in the world” who can just show up in July and dominate. In terms of the staff, I think we will need an open interview with multiple minds at offensive coordinator. One thing that everyone who dissects the All-22 agrees on is that the Bills scheme is not creative. While checkdowns are available on every passing play to the flats, everything else are basic plays, and you’ve heard multiple corners who have intercepted passes say the same thing - we knew what was coming and baited Josh Allen into the throw. Dorsey seemed to have set plays to beat certain coverages that he called over and over and over and over again. If we get this, we call this, if we see this we call that. And he also was overly concerned about not sticking with one thing too much even if it was working. Every week the offense felt like it was get more and more condensed East to West and North to South. I defended him for awhile last year because he played high level football, was the starting QB on one of the best college teams of all time, and had a good career in the NFL as a coach. Not an over the hill OC (Frank Reich, Norv Turner type) and not a 29 year old OC who had 1.5 years as an offensive quality control coach. Dorsey simply showed he can’t compete at the highest levels of scheme and get his offense to execute. Firing him was the right decision because there was zero evidence this funk was going to end. I caught some of the Ben Johnson interview and he said they have a team of coaches upstairs who are constantly thinking of ideas to add formation variations into the offense. With Dorsey out of the building, and no dedicated QB Coach now, that’s one less offensive mind in the room to combat the defensive coordinators. The logical path is to fire McDermott and get a better/smarter staff in here. Do we need to hold onto McDermott as the HC/DC when we’ve seen his defense give up leads to the Patriots and Broncos, while also coming within a whisker of blowing the Giants and Bucs games? No. We know it’s not going to be good enough in the Playoffs and 30+ points will be scored on us.

Let me guess - Larry in South Florida, They gave him like 6 minutes and he just rambled.

Yup, I've thought the same thing. In every interview he talks about how there is nothing to do in Buffalo. So there has to be an urgency in getting players around this guy and building an offense. We have to make up for lost drafts (Basham, Elam) and contracts (Von Miller) and have a true search for an OC in the offseason.

Par for the course for old Sean. Last year near the end he was talking about still figuring out who Kaiir Elam was and what he's good at. Whatever McDermott.

Bet you on that one.

Cook was benched from 14:51 in the 1st until his next touch at 7:10 in the second. That’s 3 drives - the Gabe Davis dropped pass interception, and two quick punts.

Get him another playmaker. We’ve stalled because we added Diggs in 2020 and stopped.

Well Allen takes every chance he can to remind everyone how there is nothing to do in Buffalo.