Straight Hucklebuck

Now listening to Sal talk about visiting San Francisco. WHOA YOU'RE GOING TO ALCATRAZ!

So how he does this season has zero correlation to how his career will go? I don't agree with that. Kincaid looks like he has 800-900 yards in him. But do I expect 1,300 yards and 13 yards/reception? No. Can he get to 11 ypc? I think so in his best years. It's been a steady diet of 10 ypc, 35-40 ypg across 26 games. He's on pace for 605 yards this year in 17 games. I disagreed with Joe Marino at the end of 2023 when he said he wanted Dalton Kincaid to lead the team in receiving targets. We've seen 10-games of the 2024 offense, when has this team leaned on Kincaid to be their best receiver? I think he's a good player, happy they drafted him, but the fit with Knox already here has always been muddy, so they have him in a role where he's slotted correctly - behind Coleman, Cooper and Shakir - picking up first downs as an outlet. That's my read on Kincaid - smooth athlete with the ball in his hands, has some wiggle, good feel for zones and pockets. Not exceptionally fast or powerful.

At 9.6 yards/catch and 4 TDs. If I need historical context, okay. He looks like a possession Tight End. I don’t think that’s an insane take based on his first 26 games here.

Just looked up some of the better tight ends in our era. Rob Gronkowski - Year 2 - 1,300+ yards George Kittle - Year 2 - 1,300+ yards Kellen Winslow - Year 3 - 1,000+ yards Tony Gonzalez - Year 4 - 1,200 yards Travis Kelce - starts his career with microfracture surgery - then two years at 800+ yards, Year 4 starts his 1,000 yard streak. Antonio Gates - Year 2 - 964 yards, Year 3 - 1,100 yards Mark Andrews - Year 2 - 862 yards, Year 4 - 1,300+ yards Cole Kmet - Year 2 - is his 2nd best year in 5 years total now David Njoku - Year 2 - is his 2nd best year in 8 years Trey McBride - Year 2 goes over 860 yards, on pace for more this year. Did you try and prove something here? Also Kincaid is already 25 years old. Also Bills didn’t draft Kincaid to block, Beane has said this. So looks like good Tight Ends start showing they’re really good in Year 2, and have some of their best years by Season number 3.

Yeah we all saw it. 1980’s hair girl, Colts fan. We’re 26 games in, highest yardage is 87. Been over 80-yards 3x. I like Kincaid, but I think he’s slotted correctly.

Yeah cute meme. What are you saying? You want Kincaid to be the #1 option in your pass game? Look up the top tight ends this year and slot Kincaid in if the Bills used him the “right way”. After last year other Bills fans made the case that he needed to be the focal point of the Bills offense, 10-games in that doesn’t seem to be happening, why is that?

What stat correlates linearly to points scored/winning? Outside of turnovers and 3rd down conversion maybe?

“We just need to use them right” This has been a common refrain from fans and local media - what do you mean by this in reference to Kincaid? Just down the field I presume?

So in your mind we should be all good here. Shakir’s ADOT is 3.4 yards, and 2.5 YBC, strictly a slot player. Kincaid - if you want to base your offense around his skill set, be my guest. He runs a 4.74 and has little game breaking ability.

On Kincaid - I concluded last year that he is a possession Tight End. You could see that he has average speed, below average play strength, and above average feel for zone. So yes, while Joe Marino highlights some plays if Allen would have held the ball a beat longer Kincaid uncovered down the seam, or Allen hits Kincaid in stride, it doesn’t change the trajectory of his career. He isn’t big enough, or fast enough to be an athletic down the field mismatch. Two Bills coordinators have gotten a good look at Kincaid now and he’s been a short yardage specialist in both systems, catch and run. Good hands, slippery after the catch, limited top end speed, limited presence on the field.

Because it puts more pressure on Allen. You saw it against the Ravens, Allen has to throw two back shoulders to Coleman to generate any kind of offense, and overcome his drop. Exhibit A is the Texans game. Allen throws 30 times. With no Cooper yet, no Shakir, Coleman was blanketed, leaving Hollins and a gimpy Samuel. Look at WR group, nobody catches more than 5-6 passes a game. There is no Ja’Marr Chase here who just wins. Allen has been good enough in 2021, 2022, 2023 and now 2024 to squeeze 27-30 ppg out of this offense, but he’s largely been made to play with below average skill position talent here. Diggs was a high level possession WR, and after that it’s been band aids - low round draft picks and older Free Agents.

I just listened to Reception Perception and Matt Harmon said on Coleman’s routes he’s stopped trying to separate and just carries the corner on his hip all the way down the field. They’ve maintained from the start his best position is Big Slot, too bad the Bills have too many slots already.

This is a good counterpoint, I agree that they have to be relatable. I was also going to say this - Sal has a lot of love for the WNY area. Last year when the Bills won the division against Miami, you could hear the joy in his postgame, and McDermott reacted to that as well. The Bills are 8-2 and have weathered several injuries, they are doing a good job I think, so no problems with the happier tone. Even McDermott has lightened up this year, and isn’t so overly serious every conversation. Good post.

I think too much time in Sal’s segments are spent reviewing game day routines, the weather, waiver-wire protocols, practice squad rules, injury report designations etc. You’re halfway through a segment and we’re still talking about how he’s packing his suitcase to go on the road and who Max dressed up as for Halloween. He rehashed his Lewis Cine as a linebacker thought over 5x in segments last week, or his constant explaining that Damar Hamlin starts because he knows the system. Capaccio hedges every conversation now with “no doubt” to pacify fans that would point out flaws or even have interesting conversation beyond reminding people that DaQuan Jones was playing at an All-Pro level the first 5-games last year. He has really become sensitive to “negative” fans.

Funny how MVS learned a new playbook in 2-weeks but local media is still making the injury excuse for Curtis Samuel. Sal Capaccio is telling you everyday about “trust” and “assignments”. The Bills swapped Valdez-Scantling who has made plays in the Super Bowl for Jalen Virgil. How does that look good on our FO or Coaching Staff? But hey, let’s keep 5 every season and bank on zero injuries.

Another game on MUTE

Ok, we’ll just sit here and wait for McDermott to give us details and firm timelines.

Please don’t change anything. No more eyes in the sky, no more reviews, no more added rules, no more challenges, flags just ruin these games.

The staff had their choice Ankou or Phillips and it was Jordan Phillips they decided to go right in. Ultimately, the hope is he’s just a placeholder until Carter gets back. McDermott was asked directly about Ankou multiple times and he just didn’t really seem impressed with him despite the good All-22 reps.

Bullock another pick. Thats 4 on the year.

I guess if it needs to be said, if it was a complete tear of the PCL, he would be in significant pain and not able to come back in or after the game his knee would be immobilized. By this I am to assume Grade 1 or Grade 2 PCL.

What it tells me is that we’ve got to get younger, faster and deeper at WR so we don’t have to be in this position every year, halfway through the season depending on old fee agent signings and slot WRs. I do not want the Bills to pay Cooper. I think the WR talent on this team is bottom half of the league even with Cooper and Coleman. 100% agree. Called into WGR that day and said that and got told that KJ Hamler and MVS were the same player. Also, doesn’t look good for the Bills coaching staff that MVS is with the Saints for two weeks and somehow he learns the playbook and goes over 100. The Bills added a poo-poo platter of WRs after FA/Draft with Cephus, Claypool, MVS and none of them apparently were good enough to be the 6th WR. But now Jalen Virgil is? The logic of the Bills coaching staff and FO on this.

First one he waited too long and underthrew it to Shakir and the Colts LB picked it easily, it wouldn't have gotten to him anyways even if the linebacker wasn’t there. The second one was just a telegraphed out pattern that got undercut and the Bills were lucky Moore fell down, or that’s a classic Pick-6. Was Allen off? Ehh, just a game that looked like the Bills had no boundary WRs. It was a condensed offense and Allen had to pick his spots to try and cobble together enough plays to get down the field. No big plays again outside of the long one to Knox and broken play to Hollins. Also, WGR should be happy, the Bills passed a lot in this game, Cook ran well, but he was just a place holder for the pass game it felt like. Final numbers were good 19-80.

And there it is - the daily WGR call for the “Dalton Kincaid Breakout Game”. Give it up guys.

Don’t worry, Sal Capaccio is already doing his hype job on Joe Andreesen and Jaylen Virgil. You know he’s biding his time until he can tell you that Damar Hamlin knows the system.