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I’ve seen Daboll’s Offense, beyond Year 1, look elite in the playoffs. We’re in Brady’s full Year 2, and have defenses saying they knew exactly what we’d try to do, with film guys all but calling Brady a simple idiot. Absence does make the heart grow fonder. In this case, it’s warranted.

It’s like we constantly defend and make excuses for our abuser. “Well, the defense is so beat up...” This refrain is now going on 3 years in a row. Every year this is an excuse. Something can’t be an excuse 3 years in a row. At some point it’s reality and correlation does equal causation. Sign old players. Draft undersized players. Extend injury prone players. What do we think is going to happen? This Defense has: Current DL.. former 2nd Round Pick on an extension, former 1st Round Pick on an extension. $12.6M DE. Recent high 2nd Round Pick. Recent high 4th Round Pick. $7M DT and an $8M DT. LB..Recent extension at LB. Recent 3rd Round Pick. $6M LB. Slot.. $10M per year slot corner CB.. Recent extension. 1st Round Pick. S.. Recent 2nd Round Pick. But why should we ever expect them to be above average with a defensive minded HC with the losses of Oliver and Hoecht!?… that’s why.

Unless CIN runs the table, they shouldn’t be an issue for us. 10-7 is probably the line and unless we lose three in a row, we’ll have the tiebreaker over PIT & BAL and/or knocked CIN down to 8 losses with a tie-breaker over them. Im pulling for them to beat NE, not only for the faint hope of the AFCE, but I also want that game on Thursday with Burrow & Chase returning to have as much juice as possible. It’s do or die for them either way, but looking at schedules, even more real coming off a win. My rooting interests for the rest of the season are basically Bills get in and Baltimore, KC get left out. If NE beats CIN, I’m probably to the point where I’d root for them to beat Baltimore, because I wouldn’t see them losing to the Giants, Jets or Dolphins.

It’s a podcast. Go to where you can find those on your phone, look up Locked On Bills and then you’ll see all the recent shows. Bills Squad is an hour long one Joe Marino has twice per week with Jeremy White and Jerry Ostroski.

Dont care. The good guy squad can’t get it done. I hope he races his car tonight too.

They break it down really well on Bills Squad. Bills go to passing Offense under Brady is 5 man protection with mesh routes. Problem is, you have to wait for mesh routes to clear to see if/who pops open. You need time to properly run that concept. Otherwise Josh is throwing to a spot and bad things are going to happen if the player doesnt open up and get there. So Josh has almost immediate pressure and he’s looking at a friggin Picasso of people everywhere and nowhere to go with the ball. And we run mesh, because none of the WR’s our genius GM has provided stand a chance consistently beating Stingley or Lassiter. No Kincaid, so it became a pop gun offense that couldn’t protect and Brady, in his infinite wisdom, refused to help on Anderson/Hunter to such an extent that Spencer Brown with a shoulder injury was man up on them for like 3 drives.

Doesn’t this happen all the time when vets get released down the stretch? The Titans aren’t claiming Brandin Cooks and I’m sure his agent made that known. Not sure why this time it’s such a big deal.

I mean, yea I’ll give props to him for that. We’re a potential playoff matchup and/or team that keeps them out of the playoff. He could’ve taken us out. Cant say the same about Trey Hendrickson.

It gets dicey but every game is not a must win. That’s insane to say. 13-4 might be enough for the 1 seed if NE didn’t have the most cake schedule that ever caked. 10-7 probably gets us in with our tie-breakers.

With us losing Thursday Night, I’m over the Division race and honestly might rather CIN view Baltimore on Thanksgiving as their do or die game. Beat BAL, great. Keep stacking Ravens L’s. Lose, ok.. might just shut Burrow back down for our game as their season will be over. At the very least, they’ll have shot their shot and would come into our game with nothing to play for.

Having tie-breakers over Baltimore and KC is a big reason why. Beat the Steelers and we’re at 8-4 with a tie-breaker over them too. Lose and it’s gets real, but also helps keep PIT in the drivers seat for the division, knocking BAL with our tie-breaker, into a more likely WC race.

The more time that passes from the Houston game, the worse it gets. Houston players basically laughing at our Offense and NFL tape breakdown guys on social media all but calling Brady a clown.

Funny thing is, a lot of people here predict we’ll lose in the Div Round.. If we’re a WC, unless Pittsburgh holds onto the Division, Jax takes the South or we play NE, winning the WC Round likely means beating one of Denver, Indy, Houston (dark horse) or Baltimore on the road. If we win that game, on the road, I’d think we’re going to the Super Bowl tbh. Would mean we beat an elite defense or elite run game on the road. Two things that give us issues and we’ve never won a road playoff game with this group. The way this year is set up, our WC game could very well be a tougher matchup than the Divisional Round.

Bills seem to be going through the motions but get up for big games. They don’t get bigger than the Playoffs. Offense will likely look less clunky because they will use JA designed runs to loosen up the Defense. They clearly, in recent years, hold that element back for big games and the postseason.

To add to the points made about confusion, there were so many times against Houston where Allen was having to hurry the snap as the play clock wound down under 5… and everytime it happened, the Houston DE’s were shot out of a cannon anticipating the snap. This team has every element of a poorly coached team, on both sides of the ball. Josh even had his hesitation moment in the Q&A where he had to decide whether to throw Brady under the bus a bit and finally decided to say that failed 4th down call where Cook got stuffed came in late and he should’ve used a TO. Nevermind how many times this Defense isn’t set when the opponent snaps it .. which is being scouted as teams know we communicate late in the clock and get set late. Poor tackling on Defense, poor effort on Offense. Only hope is that they do get up for big games and they don’t get bigger than the Playoffs.

*You’re And it’s not hard to discredit someone who’s attacking a guy for his actions 30 years ago.

Burrow not coming back for the Patriots game. Pats probably take this game fairly easily and maybe it’s for the best so we can focus on just getting a WC and then rest guys Week 18. As far as KC & BAL go.. Charvarius Ward just got activated, so they’ll have Ward and Sauce out there against KC Sunday. Burrow’s likely return will either be off a surprise W over NE or, with a loss, as a last gasp, do or die game against Baltimore Thanksgiving Night. Either way, if he comes back, with Chase returning, that game has juice as a possible Baltimore L. At this point, I think im just rooting for the Bills to get in and KC/BAL to get left out. Then let the chips fall where they may.

We’ve seen plenty of players hold on and alligator roll in that situation.

Division was never meant to be ours. NE gets CIN without Burrow and Chase and play TEN/NYG in place of HOU/PHI for us. It is what it is. He’ll be back for Baltimore on Thanksgiving it seems, with Chase, and I’m ok rooting for anything that keeps Baltimore out of the playoffs at this point.

This is how he saves his ‘24 class. If SVPG and Grable are dudes.. well ok, give me a stud starting Safety and two good OL from that Draft and we can relax a bit on the draft discourse.

“Maybe”?.. Yea, no way someone who’s gone through everything he has, and has a family that adores him, can change… How is this even a question?

Losing Bernard for 4 games is probably best case scenario for the defense because it forces McDermott to sit him, get him healthy and play Shaq. TB being a captain, I just don’t think they were ever going to do this voluntarily. Spencer Brown hurts. Hopefully he can come back at 80-90% for the Playoffs, but it sounds like he won’t be fully right until he gets surgery in the offseason. Van Demark is a decent player and we’ll see if they activate Grable, who we keep hearing they’re really high on, but where Brown hurts the most is the run game. RVD can give us decent pass pro, but he’s not the psychopath athletic freak that Brown is in the run game.

Good thing about the OL is I think they are, justifiably, confident in their ability to draft & develop there. If they let Edwards and McGovern walk, we’ll have SVPG, Anderson, Grable and Lundt all with time on task in the system with Kromer. Van Demark is another question mark. He’s an RFA after this year. If he plays well in place of Spencer Brown, which I think he will .. he’s a starter quality player from what he’s shown, do we bring him back?

Switched up his grip to not tear up Josh Allen’s leg.

Could do worse than Van Demark or Grable based on the teams perceived confidence in Grable and RVD’s play, but it’s looking more and more like Josh Allen is heading into the playoffs like..