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Teams aren't going to let him do it, is the point. The same thing happened to Mahomes two years back. Mahomes last year had YPA etc. way down but a very efficient offense because he was forced to learn to play dink-and-dunk from the pocket in 2021 and actually learned. Will Allen?

Yeah, not really sure how it gets addressed, either. It seems like the players are putting in effort on game day, so a simple remotivation isn't going to suddenly change anything. The schemes appear to be generally effective in setting up players for success on offense and defense. We aren't the McDaniels Raiders.

The problem is that this isn't a sustainable approach. Defenses have started rushing three and double-spying on third down, for example. You can't just scramble and pull rabbits out of hats forever. We used to complain about our offense relying on Josh being Superman-- I don't think that was ever true. I think Josh WANTS to scramble and do Superman stuff because the pocket passing is difficult for him, and teams have adjusted to that. If he wants to be an elite QB for the rest of his career, he needs to develop his pocket game.

Yeah. The coaching staff may well have some insurmountable limitations, but poor player execution is the demonstrable cause of many of our offensive woes, and most of those errors don't appear to be due to design complexity or anything unusual or novel at the NFL level. Like okay, replace the coaches-- is that going to solve our ability to read the defense, catch the ball, hang onto the ball, or finish tackles?

You can't just "play football" at the NFL level, dude. Opposing athletes are too good and good defenses actively take away the things you like to do when you try to just "play football" mindlessly without regard for how your play and the defensive playcall interact. Josh is physically talented enough that he gets away with it sometimes, but it isn't a sustainable approach.

There were literally several players open for the first on this play lol This stuff is so maddening because you can see that the play design actually works in terms of getting people open but Josh either doesn't see it or the open receiver drops it

When players don't execute it doesn't matter what you call. Some of the execution errors may well be due to coaching, but some of it is very obvious failure of football basics.

Honestly the most frustrating part of this team is that birds-eye-view, things appear to be well-called. Like, even all of the "OfFeNsE iS sChEmAtIcAlLy BrOkEn!!1!" videos involve breakdowns of plays where... there is a guy wide open for the first down that Allen just doesn't see because he locked on somewhere else. The defensive play call worked, and Wilson had to throw up prayer ball that spent like five seconds in the air to keep the game alive. Taron got beat clean off the line to start the play AND THEN made a boneheaded error trying to make up for the first mistake. What level of situational incompetence can coaches reasonably be asked to plan for? At what point is it coaching, and at what point is it players failing at their jobs? How much can change with new coaching staff if the players just aren't getting it done?

A team with Superbowl aspirations (which a team of our potential SHOULD have) cannot coach as though the offensive personnel is incapable of executing a field goal drive.

This has nothing to do with calling the timeouts, either a coach or a player screwed up inexcusably with respect to the field goal defense unit in a way that simply should not happen at the professional level. Ultimate accountability falls on the head coach, but the timeouts themselves were objectively correct and nobody is questioning them if we have any number fewer than 12 on the field for the FG attempt. We were looking to score at the end of the first, the clock management was perfect to attempt that. Clock management didn't throw an interception.

Their kicker narrowly missed a 41-yarder wide right, with a kick that might have been good from 36. The idea made perfect sense and was clear as we were doing it. There is a statistical link between distance and make % that is more significant than icing, for example. It was the objectively correct call, AND it worked! If you need a timeout to make sure that the right number of folks make it on the field for a special teams formation, something has gone terribly wrong Which obviously it did, but it doesn't change the timeouts there being the statistically correct decision

Yeah, every knee moved the kick back a yard or two, which statistically increases the miss chance. It also took wiggle room away from the kicking team in setup time. It worked. It worked perfectly, actually. But we tried to play football with 12 fellas instead of 11.

The timeouts forced the kick distance back several yards and forced the Broncos to take a kick in a rushed fashion. It worked. The kick narrowly missed. These are professionals. It absolutely SHOULD be expected for them to execute basic assignments on game day after multiple practice run-throughs that week. Coaches will likely be fired at the end of the season, and also players need to execute the basics of their jobs.

It's important to keep in mind that our drives without Cook stalled not because of schematic issues or inability to move the ball on the Broncos D, but due to two drops on extremely catchable balls and a ?????? play from Josh Allen on a 4th and 2. The Bills offense was schematically effective the entire game, gross errors in player execution ended literally every drive that didn't end in a touchdown.

The timeouts pushed the kick distance back. It worked. The first kick narrowly missed. Unfortunately, we had 12 on the field.

Timeouts are pushing the kick distance back, for those wondering

It worked. Execution error by Taron Johnson.

Okay that offensive play design was really, really good on the TD, Gabe's action on the edge forced the DB into a no-win position

I mean Josh straight up dropped the handoff on one of the drives where that likely would have happened

The D has been playing out of their minds tonight, dude

Bro this is the NFL, guys aren't wide open every play. They were open, and needed to catch the ball, too.

The players? What, is Ken Dorsey coaching players to let the ball go through their hands now?

Honestly... players are generally in a position to succeed so far this game. Execution errors are killing us so far.

Sure, just pointing out that we are currently 5-3, not 3-5. Far worse teams than ours make it to the playoffs pretty much every year.

If we go 1-3 it's not over, we'd be 6-6 at that point. Definitely not great, but very much still alive in the playoff hunt.