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Sean McDermott worked hard and completed a self evaluation to find that it's everyone else that is wrong. An older piece by Tim Graham: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5299472/2024/02/26/buffalo-bills-sean-mcdermott-nfl-combine/

An actual, respected (?), sports journalist that's critical of McBeane? I'll get my popcorn ready

Any movement by the O-Line before the snap should be a false start. No more of this 're-adjusting the back foot' nonsense that isn't even in the rulebook! I'm sick of seeing the OT's move a full second before the snap and it's not a penalty. Defensive holding and illegal contact should not be an automatic first down. Illegal formation needs to be more evenly enforced. Call it on Jawaan Taylor every single time he's not lined up properly.

I'm curious on the 3rd down play. I'm not an X's and O's guy, but I see the Falcons rushed 5 guys and 2 of them were un-blocked. How do the 5 guys on our O-Line only manage to block 3 defenders? Did Josh make a bad pre-snap read? Did the O-Line (with McGovern injured on the sideline) botch the play? By the time Josh moves on to the Shakir read there's 2 unblocked defenders coming in at full speed on him from a few yards out. If he makes the throw to Shakir he's probably taking a huge hit. Should he have started with that read based on pre-snap stuff?

Do what KC did to us last year. Line up a few inches Offside and see if the refs have the stones to call it

I don't think it's injury. There was a play he collided with Rapp earlier in the season and it looked like Benford had the wind knocked out of him. No other injury scares that I've noticed and he hasn't been on the injury report. The scheme hasn't changed much. I guess he might be suffering from gotpaiditis

Should probably add in Tre's 4.1 mil dead cap from his previous Bills contract. Fulton missed 3 games due to injury and was limited by it the other 2 games with only 17 snaps. Let's see what the guy does while healthy before calling the signing a miss

Chiefs might be buried under the 49ers logo? The graph has a few spots where 2 teams have the same number of holds for and against where they overlapped team logos. I scrolled through all the Bills games play-by-play and can confirm we have 13 offensive holding penalties called on us to only 1 by our opponents. I'm willing to bet the rest of the graph is legit. FWIW 'offensive holding' includes punt/kick returns. We have 4 'offensive holds' committed by our ST, the other 9 were committed by the actual offense. The 1 opponent 'offensive holding' call we've had in our favor was a kickoff in the Saints game. The Patriots were called for an offensive hold, but Bills also had a penalty on the same play that offset it. Offsetting or declined penalties aren't counted for stats like this. Maybe we should bring Kyle Williams back as a consult to teach our D-Line how to throw their head back and arms up in order to actually draw a flag on the opposing O-Line.

When the offense was playing patiently and Josh was taking what the defense gave him in the first half we scored 3 points on 5 drives. There were 2 lost fumbles (Knox and Coleman). When Josh played more out of structure and put on the super hero cape we scored 17 points on 4 drives in the 2nd half, but also has a red zone INT on a play he tried to force. Even with the bad INT i'll take that 2nd half performance over the 1st half every time.

He was the guy picked right after Rousseau in 2021. 23 career sacks vs Groots 26.5 Interesting the Ravens are giving up on him after he had 10 sacks last year. Is Gilman supposed to be any good?

Tre White and Jordan Philiips are both recycled former players well past their primes that we brought back. White's started every game this year in an important role. Phillips only has 1 start

Yea, Flacco is going to die behind that O-Line.

Watching it live I thought he was down but all the replays I saw looked like he threw it before his knee was down. The replay angles were not very good so I can't say it was conclusive but there was absolutely not enough to overturn it.

Just playing devil's advocate here, but maybe the pepper spray and knife escalated a simple misunderstanding into a violent confrontation.