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I haven't seen an updated on Daniel Jones injury, but could you imagine this board if we lose to the Tyrod Taylor led Giants ?

Diggs wasn't double covered that play? Unless you're counting the defender that's 10+ yards away from him

Sorry, but you could not be more wrong on this. On 2nd and 15 Josh threw it to the chains on a broken play. Who considers 15 yards a deep shot ? What good options did he have on that play? Now that he's facing a 3rd and 15 from his own 41 it's time to take a chance. Can wait and see if someone gets open near the chain (they didn't) and then chuck it deep. It IS desparate, but it's far from giving up. I'd argue a dump off or throw away would be giving up by Allen to try and preserve the box score stat line. At least there's a chance of a deep throw working (and honestly Stef should've caught it). If Josh took a dumpoff on 3rd and 15 we'd be calling him captain checkdown. There's about a 0 % chance Cook would be breaking that for a 1st down.

It's 3rd and 15 from our own 41 yard line. Throwing a deep 50/50 ball isn't giving up, it's playing the percentages. It's literally the perfect spot of the field and down and distance to take a chance like that. I love that Josh is playing smart and still taking chances like that even though it hurts his stat line.

Cook killed 2 of our first 4 drives all by himself. Even in the games that he's finished strong I thought he got off to some pretty slow starts.

Von was pretty invisible and on the bench wearing a baseball cap by the 4th (likely on a snap count maximum for the day). The guy is 34 years old coming off his 2nd ACL tear. Think it's safe to say he's not at 100% game speed and the Bills are slow-rolling his return.

What a joke of a thread. When a throw goes 40+ yards in the air the goal is to just get a completion. Hitting the WR in stride would be a nice bonus, but rarely happens. These are deep throw stats last year https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-ranking-all-32-nfl-starters-by-deep-passing-performance-in-2022 League average looks to be under 40% completion on deep throws. Be happy we have a guy that can chuck it that far and still be accurate with it, even if he's not perfect with it.

McD played scared the entire game He punted on 4th and 2 from our 43 down 11-0 As you mentioned he chose to punt rather than go for a 59 yard FG It would be one thing if the defense was playing lights out, but we were getting gashed all game long. He also wasted multiple timeouts on defense

Mahomes was worse against the Jets than Josh was. He got bailed out by the refs big time.

NFL trade values can be weird sometimes, but I think we might be able to get a 4th for him? Comes down to how much teams value Elams status as a recent 1st round pick. As long as he's not a locker-room cancer (and I haven't seen a single report saying he has a bad attitude) I think he's much more valuable to keep as a depth guy than trying to trade him.

Buy : Josh Allen. I think we're in for a vintage 400 yard 4 TD type game vs the Fish Sell: King (of garbage time) James Cook Hold: Stefon Diggs. He's on pace for 140 catches and 1,600 yards. He's so consistently good nobody even notices.

Yup, they wanted to avoid having egg on their face from a quick whistle taking a Bills TD off the board. I think the play probably would've been ruled an incomplete pass after review, but calling it forward progress was egregiously wrong.

Calling forward progress on that play makes no sense at all. It's easily one of the worst 'forward progress' decisions I've ever seen. The entire tackle was completed in under 1 second. In fact the tackle was so quick the only question on the play was if it was a catch and fumble, or just an incompletion as the WR didn't complete the process of a catch. The refs didn't want the play to be reviewed and threw out 'forward progress' as a bull ***** excuse.

The refs we've had through 3 weeks have generally let the teams play. The Bills are averaging 5 penalties per game which is actually very solid, good for the 5th fewest penalties per game. 2 penalties per game by our opponents is ridiculously low. IIRC we declined 4 or even 5 penalties in the Jets game which impacts it a bit. Part of our opponents not being called for penalties is due to game situation. Who's going to call offensive holding on a team that's down by 30 and QB is getting sacked every play ?

How much of that is the DL over-commiting, our O-line steering, or just a great play by Josh ? I think it's a bit of all 3. I thought the Raiders were much better than Washington about staying disciplined and not letting Josh scramble. I'm being critical of our O-line but I'll gladly admit they are much improved over last season. Looks like we've gone from bottom 10 (borderline bottom 5) to somewhere around average. We may even be above average pushing top 10. O-Lines are so bad league wide you have to be happy when they're just not a liability.

46 of those rushing yards were Josh scrambling. 64 of those rushing yards came on our TD drive with 8 minutes left up 30-0. It's important to close out games, but that was 100% garbage time. If we had Howell back there I think he gets sacked 5+ times pretty easy. Josh is a magician

Everyone thought his production was due to playing with Donald. Turns out Floyd is really good in his own right

I thought they were ok today. Run blocking was a pretty big problem. We racked up some stats in garbage time, but really couldn't move the ball on the ground with any consistency until after the game was out of reach. Pass pro was good against a strong pass rush. Helps a lot when your QB can evade pressure and either scramble for a gain or make a pass downfield.

Can I B word about the officiating in this thread? I'm still heated about the tripping call on Kincaid and the forward progress ruling on the MacLaurin fumble. They ruled forward progress had stopped when the question on the play is whether the WR had it long off to be a catch and fumble or was it an incompletion that he never had possession of. Washington also got away with a half dozen blatant holds. I guess if you're down 30+ at home just hold on every single play LOL.

McD has had 3 games this season as defensive playcaller. That's a ridiculously small sample size. The knock against Frazier was that the DEF would disappear in the playoffs and/or against elite offenses. McD has yet to playcall against a top offense or a playoff game so yes, let's wait and see. We allowed the Jets a season high in both points and yards. Allowing 16 points and 289 yards of offense would normally be a fantastic outing. But we were playing the Zach Wilson led Jets. The worst offense in the league. I wouldn't say the defense cost us the game, but they did not play well either.

I'm not seeing a big difference with the Defense. Under Frazier we would tend to feast on bad offenses/young QBs (other than the Zach Wilson Jets). That's the same pattern so far this year. Let's see how we do against the Dolphins next week and ultimately the playoffs before crowning the McD defense.

I thought he started the game quite slow with back to back poor/mediocre runs on our opening 3 and out. It looked like he was benched after that as Murray got the next few series and ran with some VIOLENCE. Then Cook came back in and played great rest of the game. Maybe he needs that fire under his ass

I think it would've been pretty borderline to eject Watson for it. The ref got in his face and Watson grabbed/pulled his arm a bit to move him. Definitely not egregious contact. I know in the past they've had a 0 tolerance policy for touching an official. Not sure if that's still the case. Even if it is, it's one thing to eject some random guy, it's another thing to eject a $230,000,000 QB. I'd expect Watson to be fined for touching an official but would be shocked if he gets suspended.

I didn't think the facemask penalties were much of anything. He went for a stiff arm and his fingers got caught in the grill. Don't think those would be worth a fine let alone suspension. https://x.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1703965949466915246?s=20 I know the league takes contact with an official pretty seriously, but going so far as to suspend a "star" QB ? I don't think there was enough here for that

I thought the hit on Kincaid was close to being a penalty, but ultimately a good no-call. Kincaid was a defenseless receiver, but the hitter did not 1) Launch himself 2) Lead with the crown or 3) Make forcible contact to neck/head area Rapp's hit was clearly forcible contact to the head of a defeneseless receiver. Good call and I would expect at least a fine for him. Putting him into protocol should be up to the Raiders and their independent neuro consultant.