MJS

I don't think Shakir is an elite receiver by any stretch of the imagination. But he is good. I agree with your top 5. Those are the elite players. The Bille need to have an elite game wrecker on the defensive line, and they don't. That has been the one place they can't seem to get right.

Easier said than done, though.

That's the right mentality for a player. Don't worry about the refs. Dominate so they can't even be a factor.

Wow. He must have been really sweating seeing what happened to Watson, wondering if he would be next. I wonder if that has anything to do with his drop off in play. I'm not making any judgements. I always let these things play out. We'll see where it goes.

He traded for Rasul Douglas, and he became an impact starter.

Didn't they try something else? They signed Von Miller. They traded for Amari Cooper. Beane says these things, but there is a competitive advantage to keeping your plans under wraps. I hope he sees that he needs to bring in another elite player this year somehow, someway. An elite pass rusher. Just get it done whatever it takes.

This is what I've been saying for years. The Bills need ELITE players. You need at least three of them, and one of them needs to be the QB. The Chiefs have Mahomes, Kelce, and Jones. The Bills have Allen. They have some really good players, but no elite ones besides him. Maybe Cook stepped into that realm this year. We'll see how that goes.

We talked all offseason about how the team would take a step back because of major departures. Well, they did. On the defensive side of the ball. The Bills need more talent, especially in the secondary, but also on the defensive line. I'd be all for blowing up the defensive line and contructing it from scratch, including hiring a new dline coach. I've seen what that group can do, and I'm not impressed. To me, that's the biggest hurdle for Beane to get over. He has invested a lot in the dline and it continues to be below average. He needs to get it right.

That's Josh Allen. That's his preferred way to play. He likes to let routes develop. He seems to only take the quick stuff when that is the weekly game plan. We've seen him do it before, but his default mode is not that way.

He thought it was over. I felt much the same at the time, even though there was technically a chance. I can see why you might be annoyed with it. I'm just not.

Thanks for saying "QB Sneaks" instead of "Tush Push" or similar variants. I'm getting sick of that terminology.

I don't have much of an issue with it. Fans are the fanatics. They are the ones who are so invested. Players are competitors and play for their livelihood, but they aren't as emotionally invested like fans. And they respect each other as competitors. It doesn't change anything while plays are happening. They are still trying to destroy the man across from them.

It doesn't matter what the NFL wants. The teams themselves have to go make it happen.

Awesome player. I wish him the best in his retirement! He was not a wall of fame caliber player, though.

Jordan Phillips has the potential to be really good. I guess for him he just needs to be supremely motivated. Sometimes he is and sometimes he isn't. But when he is, he makes some amazing plays. I was against re-signing him, but he was definately worth it.

Sure, but the pressure contributed.

They were trying to get their 4 by 1 set that they have been dominating all year with. 4 targets on one side which causes a lot of stress on the defense. But getting quick pressure is a counter to basically everything. Maybe set up a screen on both sides and throw it to the side they blitz from.

It was just a great defensive call. They apparently show pressure from one side and blitz from the other, so the Bills got used to sliding protection to the opposite side of where they are showing pressure, and this time the Chiefs did the opposite. Spags set them up all game for that. It would have been nice to see the Bills be ready for something sneaky in such a key situation, though. Maybe don't slide protection at all there and play them straight up. That would have been better. What Schwartz doesn't know is that the Bills did identify all that, but slid protection away because the Chiefs often fake it and pressure from the opposite side.

Ty Johnson is the only one who can pass protect worth a darn. That's why he comes on the field a lot in place of Cook. But yes, they needed to continue to run Cook. They needed to stop calling the QB runs and QB sneaks because the Chiefs CLEARLY had answers for that and it failed over and over. That's the adjustment I would have liked to see. Pick up the yard the old fashioned way by running it, or faking the sneak and tossing it out to Cook or another RB to get the edge.

Pure hindsight from RG3. They didn't know the corner was blitzing. It was well disguised. So how could Allen adjust protections to pick up a blitzer he didn't know about?

Does the dline coach need to be changed?

I don't think they looked like offensive juggernauts. I think it looked like two good teams going head to head. The Bills had similar offensive success, so do Chiefs fans view the Bills offense as a juggernaut? I don't think so. Both teams were playing well trading blows all game long.

I think they played pretty well. They were facing a good opponent. They just didn't make those few critical plays when they needed to.

They manufacture everything for Worthy. I don't think he is a true difference maker yet. We'll see.

I think Warner is using hindsight.