Straight Hucklebuck

Allen wasn't on the injury report at all in Week 17. But he's on the Injury Report with Right Shoulder starting Week 7 - Week 16.

You know every time the Bills offense underwhelms we pull the “that’s the best defense we’ve faced all year” line. They played poorly, and will only face Playoff caliber teams the rest of the way.

Hopefully he signs with someone we have to play, and they decide to give him 20 carries.

I thought the same thing happened this time against New England as the first game on the road - I felt like the offensive line got manhandled (especially in the first half). On Monday WGR Jeremy White's reaction was Allen holding the ball too long. I thought it was more legitimate pressure. More All-22 tape analysis is coming out today.

Pretty much a draw. I guess you could give the nod to Brady because of the 4 wins in a row.

No he can’t. The Bills franchise and fans really need to aim higher. We don’t have one WR that can stretch the field, high point the football, come back to the ball and come down with contested catches, have real deep speed to create downfield separation. The Bills have no length, no size, no speed.

Exactly how I feel.

So the Bills are actively covering up an injury on the practice reports, and how do we explain Diggs being able to run flat out on that long throw attempt from Allen where he has two steps on his man? Can anyone explain what is hurt? Is it like last year when Allen had the ghost concussion all year for 8 weeks in a row?

I’m trying to understand this Diggs is hurt narrative that has started. Yes, Kincaid was the only real talent the Bills added in the off-season and we’ve seen how that has turned out this season. Maybe he can build off his 87-yard performance Sunday, but nothing has really carried over in this offense week to week.

It’s not always some covert coverup of injuries that explain Allen and Diggs and any other player that we like because we’re Bills fans. “I think that shoulder is hurting more than the team is letting on” So just like last year when the Bills covered up the phantom concussion, now they’re covering up the shoulder? Can you explain how Allen uncorks a 60-yarder attempt to Diggs or makes those slip throws at different angles multiple times against the Chiefs, or makes run after run after run at the goal line ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I think the same as I did a few weeks ago. I don’t love him or his style as a Coach, and do think we need a refresh on our offense by investing more resources and conducting a full OC search. So with all that said, the players aren’t playing like a group that wants their Coach fired. They’re playing hard for him, have won 4-straight after the McDermott Problem article came out.

Absolutely. He was part of that loud mouth team in Cincinnati.

Can we keep Cole Beasley and Isaiah McKenzie in the trunk of old junk never to come out again? Get through this year and draft a real WR with length and speed. Aim higher, raise the bar.

It took McDermott a year and a half to trust who he is as a person, but we finally got there.

I hope so. He needs to compete for that role. He’s 34 with a fairly thin resume.

Get your best 5 skill players on the field over 80% of the time: 011 personnel. Sorry Knox, Murray, Sherfield - you’re getting 5 breather snaps for the starters. Sorry Diggs you can’t check yourself out. Trent Sherfield is a career journeyman on a vet minimum 1-year deal. He’s not a sacred cow that can’t come out. Latavius Murray is 837 years old, you don’t have a moral obligation to play him. Cut Sherfield and put Shorter in. Cut Murray and bring Fournette up full-time.

He’s young and ascending. All other Bills WRs have plateaued (Diggs, Davis) or are in decline (Sherfield, Harty).

Kincaid at 55% snap count is too low, agree. Murray playing 19 snaps (over Ty Johnson at 13) is too much. Even James Cook at 55%.

Too much Murray, too much Sherfield, not enough Kincaid.

Playing with one arm? I get the trust factor, but that’s not a good development. Because that’s Jordan Phillips last year who played snaps like his right arm was in an invisible sling and the Bills kept him out there in that condition for WEEKS. If you’re going to make Joseph inactive on top of it.

I have to pump up my sarcasm game. Sal’s 586 WGR appearances a week, make that Sal’s 9,678,413 weekly appearances where he says the same thing every time.

Has this been confirmed? Because Sal Capaccio ran around all week in each of his 586 appearances on WGR telling me not to believe anything I see on Twitter, that nobody knows the schedule, even his buddy at NFL headquarters. I'm still waiting for the official release on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Yes this is a good point. The personnel limitations have been well documented. But this is the hand Brady the OC job now thread, and I said back then - no, you have to conduct a real coaching search and if he wins the job against real competition, fine, but the interim tag should not just be removed.

Guys are constantly have to reach behind, high, 2-mm above the carpet, dive on the turf. The placement was all over today. He used the same phrase today as he has before - feeling good coming out of the hand.

Might need @HoofHearted to explain what is going on here. The All-22 will come out and reveal some. I thought the offensive line got whipped in the first half. Josh with the 0% brains interception. I have no idea what’s going on with Diggs. Allen hits him on that 91-yarder and all the stats look better. But that’s just other long ones to Diggs this year that haven’t connected. Not sure what the game plan was this week. Sometimes we use Cook down the field as a pass catcher, most times we don’t. Another quiet one from Gabe, he did have that nice 3rd-Down conversion. He seems to really be a broken coverage long touchdown/deep throw, or nothing. I think Sherfield is useless. There is really no roster room for Shorter, but couldn’t they just waive Sherfield and put Shorter in that a slot? Allen was not sharp. Too often everywhere but hitting WRs in stride. Guys having to reach low, high, behind to dive at the ground for balls. Knox with a drop on a 10-yard rocket, Cook with a drop, Murray with a drop.