Scott7975

Id rather Chan Gailey came out of retirement to be our OC at this point. They guy could dial up screens, run the spread, had timely runs that made sense and kept the defense off guard, and had timely downfield throws. Dorsey needs to severely up his game next year.

Ive been banging this drum since last season. This team does not seem to know how to develop rookies or even use them. Either that or Beane is just the worst talen evaluator of all time and every rookie he drafted is simply just terrible. I really dont buy that. Look at Teller for example. He sucked on the Bills. He gets traded and becomes one of the best. This staff cant develop rookies and lacks creative ways to design plays for them. Id like to give Dorsey the benefit of the doubt here but I dont think he is it. Our off season offensive plans were to get another TE and a pass catching back. The pass catching back was still further in the plans when they traded for Hines who can be explosive as a pass catching back too. Neither the idea of pass catching back nor TE was utilized the entire season.

To me this award should go to who did the most with the least. I thought McD should have won it his first year. This year I think Daboll deserves it. He took a garbage team with some talent but not a lot, added some Bills cast off players, and made it to the division game. That was pretty impressive IMO.

Because they are 15 mil over the cap and have 24 players to sign just to get a full roster. They arent going to restructure the entire team just to sign one big name FA.

offense offense offense. Fix the damn O line. Stop coddling rookies and put them on the field to learn. Kromer is one of the best in the business. Get him some good players and let him teach. Dorsey implement a real offense. Not this supposed complex crap that nobody can learn unless they sit on the sidelines for 5 years first. Give them some routes to run. Add in a real running game. Not one that is just there to say we ran the football a couple times. Learn how to flow on offense, Daboll had this problem too, and mix it up. Make the defense guess instead of knowing by formation and personel what we are doing. If I can call out a run play or a pass play and be right 90% of the time from TV then Im sure DC's and players always know what you are doing. Run more play action. Josh is money on play action. Dont sit in shot gun all game long every game. Formulate actual game plans that can exploit the team you are facing. If the team is terrible against the run but stout in coverage then I dont want to see 12 carries and 40 bombs downfield. Live with what we have on defense. IDGAF about defense anymore. We have two defensive head coaches. Make it work with the players we have. Tre should be better next year and was a former all pro. I dont believe Tre is done just because he had a non all pro season this year. Von will be back at some point. Elam is a good young corner. Hyde will be back. Enough of this 200 man D line rotation. The same goes for the corner rotation we had all year. Identify your best corners and leave them out there. Nobody is going to develop if they are constantly put in and out of the game all game every week. Put your best guys on the damn field. The experiment failed. Maybe some of these rookies would have developed better if they werent taken off the field every other snap.

No heat map of all the routes but you can see all the routes run that a receiver was targeted and kind of put your own mental image together. Same place you find QB charts on nextgenstats. They dont do every week for all receivers but you can get the gist.

I agree but its not because Allen can't throw short. I think its more because Dorseys plan is to take advantage of Josh's arm much like Miami's plan is to take advantage of Tuas ability for quick timing throws. They need to get back to basics and run a better offense and plan. This offense actually has been figured out. I heard a few times this season about how complicated our offense is. I also heard its part of the reason rookies and new players have problems picking it up. My theory is this... good DCs that have figured out this offense can actually dictate what our offense does based on coverage. They can basically funnel the receivers to where they want them to go based on their alignment and leverage. If they can do this then wouldnt it be easier to cover the guys if you know what route they will run and where they are going to go? I mean, I dont watch all 22 but I do watch some plays that are put out there. Our receivers are pretty covered. The Bengals especially did a very good job on coverage from the clips I have seen. It is true in part of what you are saying that Josh doesnt like to take the check down/short throw, but its not because he can't. That is also part of the tendency that some teams were able to rely on. I dont know if thats coached or Josh stubborness or maybe either his feeling of having to do it all to win the game... because he usually does have to. Just like the missed short passes are easy to be in your mind, in my mind its easy to remember the couple times Cooks screwed Josh and did the wrong thing which cause an INT both times. One thing I do know is that this O line has been terrible for two years. I thought it would be at least a little better this year because Kromer is one of the best in the business but IMO the line was actually worse. That needs to be fixed or it wont matter what offense we run. Also, just like with Daboll... this run game just seems disoriented from the pass game. There is no flow or strategy to our offense. Run plays are just put in there to say we ran the ball. They dont seem to take advantage of keeping a team guessing.

Because those guys werent being covered. Our DBs played off in zone and left huge holes in the zones that the receivers for the Bengals set up in. Our receivers were covered like glue most of the game.

Josh was 11/15 throwing between behind the LoS and within 5 yards of the LoS against Cinci. 8/10 1 TD last week against Miami. Not all misses are on Josh either. I can think of a couple on Cook for example that lead to INTs. I can also think of some of the bad throws he has had that probably stick out in your mind but he completes short passes more than you think. Josh can throw short just fine.

Not realistically until 2025

Yeah they needed to do more over the last two seasons thats for sure. No they wont fix it in one off season. Hopefully they can nail a linemen in the draft and pick up someone cheap in FA that can at least do a better job than we had this year. Allen will have to be superman again for another year. Hopefully Dorsey has a better plan and the offense can execute. We get Hyde back and hopefully Von back sooner than later next season. Hopefully the defense plays good enough that they can at least stop a few drives. At this point thats all I can hope for. They dont have the cap. They dont have the resources to move up in the draft really. I think this team will still be good during the season but SB? They'll have to get luckier than they have been.

We have 24 FA. There will likely be a lot of new faces on this team next season. Dont expect any big names. The only FA's that are going to take peanuts contracts are also JAGS just like we have. He needs to nail the drafts. There is no cap space. We are an est 15 mil over the cap and have 24 people to sign just to get a full 53 man roster. They arent going to restructure the entire team to sign some big name.

Me included ha

They dont have the ability to, outside of cheap as hell people that probably arent much better. There is no cap space. We are 15 mil over the cap already and have to sign 24 people just to have a full roster. I know people dont think the cap exists but it does. The only hope is that they draft well and that it happens to be oline.

I actually think they would do this in a seperate presser or release a statement.

Expensive yes. Its because they couldnt find one in the draft. Still need to be able to rush the passer. Something they were doing with him and were doing way worse without him. So it did fix the problem they had and it was one of the problems of last season. I will say that just Von wouldnt have made much difference last game. Might have slowed them down a little bit but still have to score points and we couldnt do that.

TBF it got us Von Miller. Just because disaster happened and he went down for the season with an ACL doesnt mean it didnt get us Von Miller. It may look bad now but at the time it was a good signing and it still can be good next year. The rest of everyones criticism is deserved at least as far as I have read thus far.

Every team deals with injuries. So what if they had to deal with getting to the airport because of snow for one game. Hamlin is different but the fact he pulled through like he did should have invigored them. Im not buying any of this as a reason to lay down playing for a championship.

Sign him with what? The Bills are $15 mil over the cap and have 24 players to sign to get a full roster. Even restructuring Josh barely takes care of the cap we are already over. You want to restructure the entire team to sign one guy?

I been asking this for two years. Either we are drafting all really raw players, they dont trust the players, or they dont know how to develop players. They only seem to play rookies when they have to. Rookies dont seem to take a big role or show much skill until towards the end of their contracts. The staff and Beane dont seem to be on the same page either. All off season and even during the season Beane tried to get them a pass catching run back and improve the TE position. We dont use the TE much. We almost never use a pass catching running back. Both things we should have used.

The difference is those teams have the players that can dictate how a defense plays. We dont. We also dont seem to utilize the guys we have. Knox has been good all year but barely used or even looked at. Our backs seem to be just guys they put on the field but Dorsey doesnt really know what to do with them. We dont have a thought out complimentary run game either. There is no rhythm to our offense. Sometimes it seems they just run the ball to say we ran the ball. I actually think Daboll had that same problem. I think even the WR routes have become predictable. Our O line is a terrible revolving door. There is always someone allowing a jail break. This team needs more talent on the offensive side of the ball. They need to get more creative on offense. They need to develop a complimentary run game. Game planning needs to be better. This offense is basically Josh being super human to mask everything. He isnt going to be that every game.

20 mil doesnt go far when you start in the negative and then have to sign like 24 players just to have a full roster.

I agree. 13 seconds is a game we had no business losing. Mahomes didnt do anything great in those 13 seconds to win the game. We had a complete collapse even after time outs. That should never freaking happen ever. On the flip side this game was one we had no business winning. They just kicked our ass.

Youve never seen competitive people trash talk and bust each others balls before? Edit: when I posted this I had only seen the one tweet. I have since seen the rest. Complete #######. That stuff is uncalled for.

I think that is more to do with our coaches and o line. Our coaches dont seem to like to develop rookies and put them on the field. Our offense doesnt like to run the ball much so how would one develop much anyhow. I dont think Dorsey even knows how to use players like that. Our O line is terrible so the backs dont get the same holes other teams get. If a team like the Jets drafted Cook, I bet he would have looked like a stud on that team.