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LaMical Perine on the Chiefs PS is a good player that is powerful enough, has good vision between the tackles and is a receiving threat. Actually a really good receiver that knows how to set up his blocks on screens. I was actually surprised to see him not on an active roster. I’d take Perine over Ty Johnson.

I watched every game at Florida with Elam. He earned that scouting report, and everything that was scouted as weaknesses haven’t been shored up with coaching which is why he was inactive to start the first several games this season. I want him to be awesome but I never understood the hype of him being a 1st rounder. I thought he was way overvalued bc of his deficiencies. He loses coverage easily on double moves and did at Florida too. He was a tentative tackler, and easily blocked. He played one incredible game against Alabama and I think that had everyone convinced he was a top flight prospect, but even in that game his tackling or lack thereof cost the Gators to give up a TD. Unless you have Deion Sanders or Revis level coverage abilities you better be able to tackle and fight through blocks to funnel ball carriers back inside. I will say that he has improved his tackling and willingness, but his coverage has been disappointing even in man to man situations as compared to even last year. This is his chance and we can only hope that he flips the switch and starts picking up his play, otherwise I think he is unlikely to finish his rookie K with the Bills. McDermott and Beane have been so good in picking CBs, but this one will always be a head scratcher.

You’ve identified one of the problems right there. Mike Shula. A lot of people have already touched on it but things are too precarious requiring perfect execution to sustain drives. We do something successfully and then try to get too cute executing something else that is playing right into the hands of the defense by not sticking to what they can’t defend. The outside passes were there all night, and so were schemed passes to the shallow flats. Instead, we were attacking the middle of the field consistently, despite the Giants being most susceptible outside the hash marks. We were running right into the strongest part of the Giants D, albeit more successfully than some other things like the over the middle passing game. The LBs were waiting for the over the middle playaction and in the lanes, and we could have took them to the woodshed early by just having Cook, Knox, Harty or Shakir running outside routes off motion in the flats if the other receivers flooded the middle or off of chip and releases in play action. It was a really bad game plan AND poor execution, looking exactly like what it was: the more talented team prevailing on talent despite being out coached and outplayed for much of the game.

I think we'd all like to believe that but the offense was flat. The refs sucked for sure and made the Bills getting any momentum difficult. If they playedbetter it wouldnt have mattered.

The Bills are nearly unbeatable when they play disciplined on offense. I still think they have to attack the chains on every down but it doesn’t have to be a big play. They choked the life out of the Raiders in the second half. When they capped the first drive with a TD after 9+ minutes in the 3rd quarter it was game over. That’s also a fun way to win, even if it’s less exciting, because it is exerting a dominance on the opposing D that will open everything else up and seal the game. I like dominating wins a lot more than exciting plays in close games that can go either way. I want to see the backups get reps bc the game is decided. i’d like to see more well designed plays that are easy, bc that is one thing that separates the Chiefs from the Bills. There are so many designed plays that are just simple execution that Reid has, making it a lower degree of difficulty for the offense. I feel like the Bills have a tendency to get away from that - maybe that is on Josh, but I think it is on Dorsey at the end of the day. The quick throws they do have to Harty are not well designed because he has to operate in a phone booth and involves no type of scheme to create space for him to turn on the jets. The running back rotation is good. Cook is shifty and if he had more balance in the open field he’d be a superstar. He is a bit feast or famine on his runs, and I like what they are setting up with the shotgun draws where Allen is basically rolling into the handoff. Teams are going to start keying on this and bringing the safety down, which should open up big gains on easy crossing routes if they play action instead of handoff. Murray is huge and a great back to have in short goal to go situations. Harris is kind of like Singletary- he’s not an exceptional back but has decent vision, good speed and is a tough tackle.

I’ve seen some wild things and this dude was going after it, but any time you get porta-potty blue sauced things went sideways. Literally. Seems like someone may have been victim to a John Rocker - tipping the porta-potty on the door. If not I don’t even want to know what kind of treasure hunt was going on.

Exactly and then get a first down to continue the drive. It was hyperbole on the telecast to expect it to change FGs forever, because it was a calculated risk catching the Dolphins off guard. The play was incredibly timed and the Dolphins were likely doing something that made it a good idea to try.

Verizon charging extra for a cable anchor network (ESPN) is just asking people to cut the cord. The growth in sports revenue since the 80s has been due to the accessibility of ESPN. Fios isn’t cheap with TV to begin with and this is just greedy. We cut the cord with the Ticket on YouTube and don’t miss Fios TV at all. Cable is pretty much useless without sports networks anyhow unless you like watching people buy houses, crap reality shows, or Guy go to flavortown.

Whether or not what Miller said can be corroborated from being from Beane, Kyle Allen is not good and Beane and the Bills staff I’m sure are looking at other options. There are options and better ones than Kyle Allen. The guy is a turnover machine and lacks both poise and presence.

I’ve never understood the complete contrast they have in the backup QB position. I understand that Josh is unique but Matt Barkley is about as different as it gets, and Kyle Allen isn’t really that close either. I thought Keenum and Trubisky were decent backups but I’ve never liked K. Allen’s play and Barkley is more of a coach and support for Josh than backup QB. It might be time to ring up Teddy Bridgewater or Nick Foles.

What made him frustrating was that he was his worst enemy. He could struggle against any team he played even bad competition.

I watched every game he played, and at first I couldn’t understand why Emory Jones was playing ahead of him and then he started to play more and you saw a guy that was easily rattled, inaccurate, and mistake prone. For all of his athletic pluses, there were things that were just incredibly bad about his play. He didn’t seem like the guy that stepped up in the moment and instead crumbled. And I will say I was thinking he was going to be a superstar after the Utah game to start last year, and then the shine wore of and all the warts came out the rest of the season.

Going with an Eagles fan friend of mine, but would be down to tailgate.

Who said he was a liability? He was fine, but he wasn’t worth what the Bears paid. It’s that simple. He did his job, but he wasn’t a superstar, nor a huge playmaker. Thus, the difference between Josh Allen and Tremaine Edmunds is one that speaks for itself.

Edmunds was definitely talented and has the size and speed to make him attractive to other teams who may want to use his attributes differently. However, you see this all the time in the NFL with measurables. It’s why the Bills drafted him so high and it’s why he’s getting paid so well by the Bears - it’s not about his body of work as much as his perceived potential. I didn’t think he was awful but I also didn’t think he was very consistent at being a vital part of the D. He was okay, and he didn’t have the instincts to be great. It’s debatable whether our coaching wanted him to do anything more than he was doing, but if that’s what they needed then he would never be worth what the Bears paid. You have to think they wanted more than that with where he was drafted and that if he was fulfilling their vision of what he would be he wouldn’t have made it to FA status.

This is exactly right. No one is declaring victory and problem solved, but given the history with this staff only playing rookies that are getting it, this very encouraging. I thought this was the best Bills draft in a while. I believe Torrence will come in and play well, but we’ll see for certain soon enough. I think the running game and a more physical approach to offense is coming this year, with play action setting up the a lot of TE receptions and that is going to open up everything else as teams are forced to choose. I think that is the philosophy as well. I think everyone in the Bills organization recognized they needed to add a different dimension to the team and address the physicality on the offensive line, and a mismatch beyond Diggs in the passing game. You could see them trying to establish a more physical identity last year but the talent wasn’t there on the line against better opponents. I thought they flubbed it last year. I was never a big Elam fan, but wanted to be wrong. I may still be, but magic 8 ball is saying “signs point to no”. I thought Tariq Woolen at CB and Damien Pierce at RB were two mid rounders that were undervalued and would have made the Bills a much better and more physical team - that’s not hindsight - it’s what I was hoping before the draft. FWIW I was hoping the Bills would draft Shorter. He had shaky QB play all but the year with Trask while at UF, and you could see the talent, just not the production. Both Emory Jones and Richardson were awful in the intermediate passing game and it seemed like that was where he would be most effective. Emory Jones read defenses way too slow, missing windows and Richardson rarely ever delivered passes on target on those types of throws.

I hope and think you are right about that being the reason Torrence is earning snaps. By all accounts he is a smart guy and a hard worker. He followed Napier to UF and UF immediately went from decent to pretty tough, especially running the ball with Torrence in the lineup. It was hard to assess the pass protection sometimes because Richardson was so erratic and lacked any kind of presence or trust in the pocket. (I’m still confused what teams saw in Richardson beyond promise - bc I saw a guy with talent of Josh Allen physically but lacked that fire to win and seemed to get rattled very easily and meltdown - he had a good game against Utah but was uneven and at times abysmal in his ability to process reads and deliver the ball on time). Torrence gave the line an edge and showed up against pro level talent many weeks playing in the SEC, being steady. The run game was a solid aspect of UF’s offense and Torrence was a big part of it.

Torrence provided a huge upgrade at UF last yr and unlike many players at UF on the OL and DL that i think have been overvalued in drafts, Torrence was probably right on target with his 1st round grade. I think if healthy he'll be a pretty solid player if not exceptional and i think that the right side of the OL for Allen is most important to the success of the offense. If they hold their own this offense will be unstoppable.

A total POS person. There is a part of me that can only hope he picks the wrong person to f with and gets the other end of it. I dont wish ill on people but man this pushes the limits of that philosophy. The dude probably has some deep seated issues, but it doesnt excuse the behavior. Almost a caricature of an a-hole athlete.

And that isnt getting called unless it is blatant and egregious. To my knowledge that rule hasn't ever been enforced in a game. Keeping it "sticky" worked for Chiefs the year before. You do what you can to make yards and time your friend in that situation. Letting them get off two easy completions is the absolutely what you dont want. I will never understand thinking a team is going to go to the house on you with :13 so play way off and let them move at will when all they need is a fg.

They gave up a fg at end of half vs chiefs regular season and it was deja vu

You hold like hell on D at the end of the :13 seconds and you kick off just like they did bc field position is most likely further back w/o squib which gets you 3-4 seconds at best with potentially much better field position for kc. A 5 yd penalty that wasted 7 seconds on 1st puts them at 1st and 10 at 30. Much more difficult situation and basically game over. Like many Bills playoff loses it was a series of incompatible strategies that sunk them. That was the inexcusable error - no awareness of how to just take advantage of the situation. Sometimes a penalty is your friend and they should know that. Yet they repeated the error in the regular season last year.

Both sides of the ball have responsibility for the playoff losses, as well as coaching to put those players in best position to succeed. The lack of investment/successful investment in the offensive line was the weakness of the team last year as well as them getting away from precision timing offense that was working early in the year. They played to their weakness when it mattered most as the season progressed. The offense began to resemble a madden player that got bored and wanted to run around looking for big plays every series and the offense lacked consitent rhythm because it was more sandlot than design. Im not sure who is to blame but the effect was the same and it is up to the team to identify and rectify and they didnt last season. To me its on everyone and there is no need to point fingers. However, if Im a player pushing for it to be rectified and no one else is listening i might loose my s#!t. If teams are taking something away you should be built to make them pay bc something else is available and the Bills offense wasnt able to answer. Theyve done things to address deficiencies with personnel but they also need to better in utilizing their personnel, which they did not do last year. If your line sucks in pass protection focus on timing and attacking where teams are overaggressive on defense. We had a front seat to how that was done with Brady and Pats. Is this coaching? Yes, but...its also based on players preferences and honestly they were good but extremely vulnerable because they lost focus on their ability to dominate. It was talent overcoming approach until they met other talented teams where you cant hide deficiencies as well. On defense they stubbornly kept a philosophy over situational matchups. Same issue - not maximizing effectiveness to create an advantage. There were coaching issues last year, plain and simple. Not beating the crap out of Burrow with a gum and paper clip OL in front of him bc we were trying to play it safe with injuries on D was just stupid. That approach just let the Bengals suck the life out of the Stadium and team from Go. If Hamlin hadnt been injured in the regular season game I wonder if that similar ass beating that was in progress doesnt change the complexion of how the Bills approached the playoffs. But that is most likely wishful thinking, bc we've seen that story before where they repeat a flawed strategy.

I never said he was the only one that cared, but he was the only one visibly frustrated by the effort. And there certainly seemed to be a lot of accepting the result rather than fighting to win way too early in that game. And if you didn’t feel that watching the game then I’d like to jump to that alternate reality, because it was pitiful and painful to watch as a fan. I’m not saying Diggs was right or wrong bc I have no idea of the true context of what happened nor do any of us, but I damn sure appreciate the passion bc it seemed to be lacking and it wasn’t like his teammates were rising to meet that passion. So Diggs showed up teammates that were accepting loss too easily - good - that is not being a good teammate, either.

I get his frustration and love his passion to win. That performance against the Bengals was poop on a stick and the only player it looked like it bothered was Diggs. Instead of having a killer instinct the team wilted and that isnt okay. We're all frustrated by that bc that is not the identity of Buffalo nor the Bills we've known at their best. I get the criticism of Diggs being too public about his views, but accountability doesnt come easily when its not exposed. It is not uncommon for an immensely talented team that doesnt have the success it should to have this happen. The Bickering Bills. Warren Sapp calling out teammates publicly in Tampa before they won it. Trading Diggs would be a mistake. Everyone holding each other more accountable top to bottom is what you want and what is necessary to get that title. While the publicity may seem negative the result may be positive if the organization embraces it. I appreciate the fire and determination Diggs brings and honestly I think it could be a net positive at the end of the season. Getting rid of a guy like that is stupid and sets the organization back.