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Get r done Beane.
this was just sarcasm guys lol.
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4 minutes ago, PBF81 said:
He caught 6 balls for 86 yards and a TD two weeks prior, for 14.3 YPR, 5.5 YPR greater than his average under Brady.
The week prior, with Dorsey already taking heat, who knows how impacting his play-calling, Diggs still led the WRs and Allen only completed 15 passes. Diggs still average 11.3 YPR, more than all but two games under Brady, and only marginally less in those two games.
So that's not a true statement.
When Brady took over, that's when we saw his routes turn into short OTMs, short outs, and other nonsense more suited to slot WRs or guys out of the backfield.
At the end of the day we're hardly dealing with premier OCs here. That's on McD.
We'll figure it out. I get the impression that Allen doesn't care, because he has a fairly care-free life. He's disappointed in the season, but he also seems quite content to get away from football and go on his annual golfing and travel spree. Great for him, really. Quite frankly little if any of this is his fault. I'm sure he needs to get away from this insanity just as much as many fans do now too.
im not going to look it up again but cover 1 did a thing showing Diggs fall off. It started before Brady.
in any case I’m not going to blame his fall off on Brady. Maybe part of it but you could see on the field it wasnt just offensive system with him. Some of his routes were lazy af and not crisp. His hands have been a problem and that’s not OC.
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8 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
June 1st designation.
all that does is kick the rest of it to the following season. So they would pay like 9mil this season and then have to pay the remaining 22 mil the following season. -
1 hour ago, PBF81 said:
Doesn't anyone find it suspicious that before Brady took over Diggs had 73 catches for 868 Yards, 7 TDs, and perhaps most tellingly, 11.9 YPR, in 10 games, but after Brady took over, in a similar 9 games, had 44 catches for 388 Yards, 1 TD, and 8.8 YPR? or 3 YPR fewer?
People have wanted to blame Brady in the past. Diggs slide started two weeks before that.
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3 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
This year we find out if there’s really any issues with Diggs and the Bills. I know there’s a lot of dead cap but it is possible for the Bills to move on and save over $10 million in cap. That’s significant enough to consider if there are any beefs between the Bills and Diggs. We’ll just have to wait and see.
not this coming season. His cap hit is 27m. His dead cap is 31m. How do you figure they would save 10m? They would pay more to release him than keep him. -
1 hour ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
My top 2nd tier WR2 targets are Samuel and Mooney. I think the Bills will have interest in both.
They can. It depends what they do with Diggs. Samuel and Mooney would be great additions. Both would excel playing with Josh.
Nothing will happen with Diggs. His cap hit is too large to do anything other than keep him.
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3 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
Thank you for clarifying this.
You're welcome. Although my own paraphrase may not be exact either. If you want to hear it for yourself you can goto my thread. Part two video right about 15 minutes in. Honestly the entire thing is worth the watch but it will take you an hour. For that specific play though 15 minutes in roughly on part two.
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1 minute ago, Bob Jones said:
You are correct, and I am sorry for that choice of word. Yes, I was inferring and reading between the lines, and giving my opinion of what KW was actually saying.
Of course Warner would never outright diss JA by putting him down, or calling him "dumb." I would bet the farm that there definitely is a brotherhood amongst all NFL QBs, past, present, & future, and rarely would you ever hear one insult another. But OTOH, his analysis obviously does hint that JA made some bad/wrong decisions that night. He specifically notes that in the 4th qtr there was a noticeable change in JA's decision making.
Well I would say that of course Kurt Warner would have taken the guy over the middle. Have to be careful with that being gospel though. Warner is not Josh Allen. They are two different style QBs that are hall of fame talent but for different reasons. Allen has the arm talent to get the ball there. He targeted his number one guy. The guy he most relies on because Diggs last year would have caught that ball. For whatever reason Diggs is having a down year. As he also said, he isnt in the room. He doesnt know what order reads are and he doesn't know what Josh is told to do.
Maybe Josh should have thrown over the middle. The thing is that reads are a split second decision. Josh seen Diggs one on one. He saw him get open. There is a timing to that. If Josh comes off him to check someone else, there is no going back. If Shakir isn't open there then what? Diggs was open.
There has to be chunk plays. It can't be all dink and dunk take what the defense gives you. They give you that for a reason. Because mistakes are bound to be made eventually. When that mistake is made it kills a drive just as fast. At some point a chunk needs to be made. Probably 2-3 of them. Mahomes and his receivers got their chunk plays. Allen and his receivers did not.
I think people nitpick too much. Its easy to play armchair QB when you can pause. Its easy to play armchair when there is no pressure on you and you can just look at each receiver over and over and paused and what have you. Its not the same as looking from behind the pocket with bodies flying around and you have 3 seconds or less to find you guy and deliver the ball.
Allen has a special talent. That talent is not the same talent as Tom Brady or Kurt Warner.
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41 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
Not that anyone cares, but I’ve reached a new plateau in my fandom.
I’ve been a Bills fan since 1960. When I was a kid, there was nothing more important to me than whether the Bills (and the Browns) won. There was no greater weekend in my life (to that point) than when the Bills and the Browns won the AFL and NFL championship games on successive games. A friend of mine came over to my house that Sunday night, and we talked and talked about one game, then the other, then the first, over and over. It was great.
In the Super Bowl years, I absolutely ached for a Lombardi. It hurt each year when they lost, and it hurt doubly as I watched my kids suffer through the losses, too.
When I began writing the Rockpile Review, I allowed the anxiety associated with the games to grow, as I watched and studied and reviewed, analyzed data, read other columns. Every season was a disappointment.
Somehow, this season, a lot has changed. I’m still a fan, I look forward to every game, and I’m thrilled when the Bills win. What’s changed is that I’ve gotten more or less non-judgmental. I don’t think much about why some play didn’t work, and I don’t think much about who’s to blame. If the Bills win, great. If they lose, I feel bad for the players, but I tend to let it go. My attitude is sort of like watching my ten-year-old kid’s game – great if they win, sorry for my kid if he loses.
I don’t how this transition happened, but I definitely seem to have entered a new stage to my fandom. And it’s nice.
And so it was that I was sitting in Highmark Stadium, desperately wanting a win but knowing all along that if the Bills lost, I’d just drive home the next day and hardly give the game a second thought. When Bass missed the field goal, the irony of it being wide right didn’t even occur to me. I just knew the game was over, and the next day would be a nice day.
So, if you’re looking for in-depth analysis, it ain’t here. Someone else can fret over whether Allen should have thrown underneath to Diggs, why they tried the fake punt, who blew the coverage on Kelce, but I don’t worry about it. It happened.
Here are some thoughts about the game:
I love going to those games. Crowd was amazing. Plays were amazing. It's actually better to go to a game like that if you aren't a fan of either team, because then you can enjoy the plays that BOTH teams make.
Fundamentally, the Bills weren't good enough. KC's offense was fabulous - scored on every possession but one. The book on KC was to beat them you have to hold them under 20. That's when they lose. The Bills defense wasn't good enough. The real killer was the end of the game. Bills miss the field goal, they need the Chiefs to go three and out, everyone knows the Chiefs are going to run the ball, and the Bills gave them 8 yards on a run up the middle. Game ended right there. Just horrible.
Do you want to know what the worst sound is that I’ve every heard in that stadium? Bass’s kick went up, and whole stadium went silent, except for the sound of about 1000 people cheering under the scoreboard. That’s where the Chiefs fans were, and they could see the ball sailing wide. It sounded like people cheering in some imaginary stadium next door. Horrible sound.
I think the problem with the defense is that although it's very effective, it's very predictable. It's a bend-don't-break defense. They gave up a lot of yards during the season, but they were fourth in points allowed. That's a great defense for the regular season, but when you play against the best offenses, and the best offensive coordinators, it puts you at a disadvantage. The Bills need a playoff defense, and that’s something I’m sure McDermott will work on.
Andy Reid is a special offensive coach, with decades of experience. With Mahomes at QB and against a predictable defense, Reid gives the Chiefs a big advantage. Reid always had a play to run, he seemed always to be a step ahead of the Bills. The result was all of those explosive plays, and the Bills didn't have answers. The Bills needed some defensive stops, and they couldn't get them. The best stop they got was a prayer, the fumble out of bounds in the end zone.
On the other side of the ball, the Chiefs had one of the best defenses in the league this year, but there was nothing to complain about with the Bills offense. Well, James Cook dropped what should have been a touchdown in the red zone. Diggs should have caught the incredible bomb from Allen - I haven't seen the replay, but I think that was a 65-yard throw that hit Diggs on the run.
Joe Brady wasn’t great in the red zone. He needed better answers.
Allen was great. I think he's matured, and we're finally starting to see the complete package. Mahomes is the only guy who throws as well as Allen, Jackson is the only guy who runs better than Allen. He now is running the offense with discipline and intelligence. The mature Josh Allen began to emerge this season, and it was a sight to behold. He is an incredible gift to Bills fans.
How about the future? It’s bright.
Yeah, yeah, Bills have an old roster and cap issues, but it's all just talk. When you have an old roster, you have more experience. I'll take Josh Allen now over Josh Allen four years ago because, well, he's older. All that young roster stuff is baloney. Rosters turn over all the time. Rams only had two guys on the roster from the team that won the Super Bowl two years ago. Think about that!
So, yeah, some of the Bills will be gone. Hyde will be the biggest loss, but they have his replacement on the team. Poyer probably will be back. Von Miller is old, but he's still recovering from his ACL, and he can still play. Bills had one of the best offenses and one of the best defenses in the league, and they'll turn over parts of the lineup like they always do, and they'll be fine. They'll get two or three rookies who will play, and two or three free agents will play. Allen, Cook, Diggs, Knox, Kincaid, Shakir are all back, so they have their skill guys on offense, and the whole offensive line will be back. Milano and Bernard will be back at the linebacker spots, and the Bills should have both starting corners back, too.
I listened to McDermott’s and Beane’s season-ending pressers, and it encouraged me. They’re on the job. They’re working actively to make the team better. They don’t talk so much about it anymore, but there’s a process, and they’re sticking to it. When McDermott talked about Josh and Bernard and Shakir and Kincaid, I could hear the excitement in his voice – those are the kinds of guys he wants on his team and he can build around. He didn’t talk about White or Milano, because they weren’t with the team at the end, but they’re the guys he wants, too. And Taron Johnson and Dawkins and, well, keep naming them.
When Josh Allen finished his junior season in high school, do you think his coaches sat around bemoaning the loss of their seniors and wondering what they were going to do? No. All they thought was, “We have Josh Allen and the other teams don’t. All we have to do is work with the guys who show up at tryouts, and we’ll be fine.” That’s essentially what Beane and McDermott were saying. “We may not have Davis, but we’ll have someone. We may not have Jones at tackle, but we’ll have someone. We may not have Hyde at safety, but we’ll have someone. We have Josh Allen and the other teams don’t.”
It’s incredibly difficult to win the Super Bowl. By the divisional round in the playoffs, all the teams are good. Packers were good. Texans were good. Every game is a tough game. All you can do is work at getting better, every day, every week, every season. That’s what the Bills do.
The Bills will keep getting better.
GO BILLS!!!
The Rockpile Review is written to share the passion we have for the Buffalo Bills. That passion was born in the Rockpile; its parents were every-day people of western New York who translated their dedication to a full day’s hard work and simple pleasures into love for a pro football team.
This might be your best one yet. I am not quite old enough to have started watching when you did but I am pretty close. I think I am at the same stage as you but I do like to still look at plays and form an opinion on them. Not so much as to nitpick plays but for knowledge and fun.
The Bills are going to be great as long as Josh Allen is here. He is one of the best in the league and always will be. I enjoy each and every game. I was disappointed in the loss because I felt like it was there to take and I am tired of not getting over the Chiefs hump. I am not mad though. I am basically just sad the season is over and its such a long wait to get back into it.
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1 hour ago, Bob Jones said:
Just throwing this out there: If you watch Kurt Warners All-22 review (Part 2)...there's a separate thread for it...he basically says that this long bomb to Diggs was a dumb move by JA, with a very low chance of success, because he had another receiver Wide Open over the deep middle of the field.
He didn't say that at all. He said it was an incredible throw and yes it should have been caught but its tough to track it 65 yards down field. He says he gets it Diggs was open but for him the percentages he would have went with the guy over the middle (I believe that was Shakir.) He also says he doesn't know what Josh is told and he could be told if you get your best player one on one with the safety to take the shot. He never said anything about it being dumb. You are injecting that from your own opinion.
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1 hour ago, Gregg said:
While they obviously talk, and McDermott voices his opinion I would imagine Beane runs the draft. During the season McDermott has to focus on the Bills. Beane is constantly talking with his scouts/staff as they watch what is going on with college football. Bottom line is Beane is the one who can focus on college football as well as the Bills. McDermott can't do that. It would make sense the Beane runs the draft. IMHO I would think this is how it goes.
Of course Beane runs the draft. He gets input from McD about what positions he needs and the type of players he is looking for. They align themselves on building the team. Beane drafts the players he thinks are a fit from what McD wants. Sometimes it's probably what Beane feels is BPA. They are aligned though. McD is not dictating the specific player. Beane isn't dictating the positions.
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I didn't read the article and I am not going to pay to read it. I think it's pretty safe to say McD is not getting fired this year. If he was going to get fired then he probably wouldn't have handled the end of season press conference.
This team needs a good OC. Whether or not Brady is that guy, I don't know. We haven't actually seen his offense. I did think he did a good job taking over mid season. I also felt he called some pretty good games and fixed SOME of the problems on offense. The team also needs to start investing valuable assets into skill positions on offense. I know our defense needs a rebuild but frankly, I just don't care.
This D had tons of money and draft picks invested in it only for it to fail miserably. We have a 200 man D line rotation that sat on the bench for long spurts of time and they got almost no pressure at all on Mahomes. Thats pathetic. I know other guys were injured and people playing were not 100% but the D line should still be able to get pressure. It was time two seasons ago to embrace Josh and get another outside receiver that could stretch the field and make contested catches. One that can make catches that are routine. One that can make catches when they aren't perfect too. Its time to embrace Josh and realize that we need the skill players to out gun Mahomes. That aint happening with the Sherfield, Harty's, Isabella's, Gabe Davis of the world. Need a star. A freaking star. Not some role player.
I'm tired of seeing Mahomes able to play pitch and catch all over the field and his guys run for 20 extra yards while our guys are tripping over each other in the same area making coverage easy. Im tired of seeing our guys drop balls. Im tired of seeing just the checkdown get open only for him to be collapsed on. Im tired of hearing about how Josh lost the game because he missed one damn pass all game long. Im tired of people thinking that the way to play offense is to throw the ball behind the los. Thats all BS. Every damn team in the league gets guys open and they catch the damn ball. We don't. The checkdown don't count. Josh should not have to play perfect. No other QB on the planet is expected to have to play perfect. Why? Because its damn near impossible to play perfect. We got spoiled because Josh had a perfect game or two in the playoffs. That doesn't happen. It should not be expected to happen. Not even Mahomes plays perfect. We had ***** defense and he didn't play perfect.
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6 hours ago, newcam2012 said:
They do but championship teams go down the field in the final minutes to a game winning TD.
Championship teams stop an opposing defense to close the door
McD led Bill team hasn't done either in the playoffs since he's arrived seven years ago.
I mean... Josh did get a TD with 13 seconds left on the clock that should have been a game winner. The D crapped the bed. I doubt that ever happens again unless some kind of fluke kick return.
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16 minutes ago, Niagara Dude said:
I think Allen will be thinking about those last two throws all offseason. He could have either passed to Diggs over the middle or run and that gives the Bills a first down or 3rd & 3 or less./. The goal should have always been to get at least one more first down to kill clock before trying to score TD or game typing FG.
I really believe the chemistry/trust between Allen & Diggs was not at the same level then it was a few seasons ago or Allen gives that pass the Diggs when he crosses his face . I believe the chemistry was damaged last year after Cincy game and only got worse with stupid comments/tweets from Diggs's brother.
As a fan I am really disappointed because the Bills again failed in situational football against this same Chiefs team.
He might because of the result but IMO a TD was there if he had a half second longer. I take the TD every time. TDs are a premium in the redzone and the closer you get, the harder it is. Especially against the Chiefs who were playing our guys tight all game long.
17 minutes ago, HappyDays said:I guess I just don't see any room for improvement at OC. I agree we could probably have much better offensive coaching, and the video shows clear examples of this, but that would have to come from the head coach. Elite OCs all become head coaches. Swap Brady for another slightly above average OC. It won't make a difference. Maybe we strike gold and stumble into an elite OC for a year. The next year he'll be hired as a head coach elsewhere and the carousel will keep spinning round and round.
So if McDermott is here for the long haul I guess we'll just have to settle for good enough and heavily invest in offensive talent to make up for the coaching gap that will exist between us and other Super Bowl contenders.
Also part of the routes/spacing issue could be WR coach, not OC. Lets not forget we lost a good WR coach in Chad Hall.
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2 hours ago, Brand J said:
Final 2nd & 9 and 3rd & 9 really illustrate how Josh got out of taking what the defense was giving him versus wanting to go for the kill shot TD. Both plays had available receivers for potential first down yardage. But, as Warner says, up until that point he had played virtually perfect football. To beat another QB playing close to perfect, it would’ve taken perfection all throughout. The lapse got us. To be clear, I don’t blame Josh, I blame the sieve of a defense. It’d be interesting to see how often we disrupted their routes.
The difference is Mahomes didn't have to play perfect. His scheme had open people and his receivers made catches and plays with the ball. And his kicker made the FG
57 minutes ago, Best Williams Available said:Why are people advocating for Brady as OC if this is what’s on tape? If he inherited bad routes from Dorsey a good OC wouldn’t keep them, right? If the excuse is our WRs, sorry but Shakir and Diggs are sufficient route runners and it was still figured out. Maybe he’s not the upgrade we think. How can you trust an OC that can’t manufacture production from Stef Diggs apart from LOS WR screens?
You can't really install an offense in the middle of the season. All he can do is make tweaks and narrow play selection. I dunno if Brady is the guy or not, just saying. Honestly, he doesnt even have a lot of talent to work with. IMO he at least got guys involved that Dorsey didn't. He got a run game working that Dorsey didn't. So he has that going for him.
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5 minutes ago, Dablitzkrieg said:
Save yourselves some time. The Bills have horrible route runners. End of discussion.
Your statement about the route runners is true. The Bills need better receivers and maybe better coaching on the routes. However, I think it's worth the watch for people to understand how bad it really is and how much harder Josh Allen's job is compared to other QBs.
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Next year is going to suck. I will never forget this safety duo. Best in the business. Two of my favorite players. It's not going to be the same without them.
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It's in two parts about a half hour each but well worth the watch.
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5 hours ago, Juice_32 said:
I don’t hate the throw to Shakir, but that’s a first down all day.Nothing is guaranteed. 7 yards to go with 2 defenders over top is not "first down all day." Diggs avg YAC is 4.
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19 hours ago, HappyDays said:
Your opinion on how fast we should score a TD does not mean Allen's decision to throw the ball to an open WR in the endzone was hero ball. He literally just read cover 2 and threw to his downfield cover 2 beater for a go ahead score in crunch time. There is nothing more that needs to be said about that read. It is completely meaningless that Diggs was wide open on a shallow crosser as far as analyzing Allen's decision making on that play.
Sorry if I sound snippy, it has become commonplace on here for people to totally misinterpret what QBs are doing on any given down and it's gotten very tiring.
Diggs likely doesn't get that first down anyways. He was 7 yards away and two defenders over the top of him. KC wasn't missing many tackles. People just love to blame Josh for everything. Now if we don't throw behind the line of scrimmage its hero ball.
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I probably would, but it isn't going to happen. I appreciate that he rallied to get to the 2 seed but this guy I don't think ever gets us over the hump. The right thing to do is embrace Josh Allen and pump high end talent into the offense. What is likely to happen is most of our resources yet again going to the defense because a lot of these guys we have now are gone. Get ready for another season of all the best resources going to the defense.
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Diggs getting a first down on that play wasn't even guaranteed. Two guys could have easily collapsed on him and KC was doing a great job of tackling and not allowing extra yards in the pass game as they tightened up throughout the game. The time for Allen to throw that pass if he were to would have been right over the middle, 2 yards past the LoS. Diggs would have had 7 yards to go with 2 chiefs in his way to stop it.
The throw to Shakir was the right read.
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11 minutes ago, Goin Breakdown said:
We got pics of fans crying (I kinda get it emotions are high)
throwing ice balls
and now this
Bills fans do an awful great job at calling out other fans for being horrible yet act the same. I know people who won't even go to a game for fear of our fans.
Again it's not everyone. We certainly do have some great people that support this team.
I'm just seeing the media portraying the fan base as a bunch of hostile weak bullies right now and that's not who we're supposed to be.Oh, 100% its not everyone and every fan base has bad apples and fairweather fans.
14 minutes ago, BillsfaninCT said:no you don't! cause you don't win the game that way in this scenario. we didn't need the end zone, we needed the clock run out and kick a 20yd field goal, then get a 50/50 coin toss to get the ball in O.T. and on the premise, the likely one, neither D stops either offense the bills win on the 2nd score.
it's terrible coaching, execution or something.
You and I are never going to agree. I will at this point just agree to disagree with you instead of arguing in circles.
100% this. Full text so you don't have to click
Travis Kelce didn’t have a single game in the 18 before last night’s with more than 1 touchdown. Shows up to Highmark and catches 5 passes on 6 targets for 75 yards and 2 TDs! Stefon Diggs’ last 100-yard game was in Week 6. He caught 3 passes on 8 targets for 21 yards and 0 TDs last night. Neither Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen have a great collection of weapons. You needed the stars to shine last night. KC’s did and Buffalo’s no. 1 option didn’t. He had his chances. It’s hard to win in the playoffs when your best players don’t produce. Same goes for Ed Oliver.
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Just now, BillsfaninCT said:
to ensure it is your last possession, you run the clock out by getting a first down.
you'd have to believe in your scenario that the defense makes a stop, there's no reason to believe that and it's not necessary to do to start with.
When a TD is there you take it. There is never a sure TD. You may never get a wide open receiver in the endzone like that again.
How do you explain Diggs invisibility act
in The Stadium Wall
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well I’m at drs now discussing surgery so it’s gonna be a while.