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Does anyone think this Bills defense would get a stop either way ? I like the aggressiveness of going for 2 there. Interestingly enough it was an identical situation to the Bucs game last week, only the Bucs defense got a stop. I liked the challenge too. It 100% should've been overturned.

Too many cooks in the kitchen as it were If Douglas comes in and wants to be the vocal leader of the defense I could see that leading to some issues

Do the Bills REALLY need another veteran leadership type guy? Don't we already have Hyde, Poyer, and Von Miller leading the defense? Like him as a player and it's a great fit on paper for a position of need. Hopefully he doesn't clash with the leadership guys we already have

I think Purdy and the offense are who they've been all year. The last 2 weeks the DEF has been shredded. Purdy and the O are not nearly as good when playing from behind and he's a turnover machine when trying to make something happen late in games.

List of in-season trades in the McBeane era: 2017: Marcell Dareus to the Jaguars for a 6th 3rd+7th to the Panthers for Kelvin Benjamin 2018: Marshall Newhouse to the Panthers for a conditional pick AJ MCarron to the Raiders for a 5th 2019: Zay Jones to the Raiders for a 5th 2020: None 2021: None 2022: 7th round pick to the Falcons for Dean Marlowe Zack Moss + 6th rd to the Colts for Hines 2023: None yet Really the only notable trade was Benjamin (barf)

I think there's a decent chance Beane was in on this and got into a bidding war. Seattle is giving up a lot for a rental

Divisional game at Chiefs

McBeane targeting a washed up has been?

Dak Prescott out here wondering why he couldn't get a ref like that

This reminds me a bit of the situation McD faced with 13 seconds. Do you go for a kick short of the EZ to take a few seconds off the clock, risking a big return, or do you just take the touchback? The answer is it doesn't matter. You have a 99% chance to win either way. Thibodo'h jumped offside, Zach Wilson made 2 great throws, the Jets got an ENORMOUS assist from the refs with 'spotting' the ball, and the rest as they say is history.

The Bengals are having an interesting season. Offensively they've had 2 great, 1 mediocre, and 4 awful games. Defensively has been great the whole year outside of an inexplicable pounding in Tennessee. Obviously they are trending in a better direction than the Bills with those 2 great offensive games coming in the last 3 weeks. One of those was against the Cardinals (possibly the worst team in the league) and a suddenly reeling 49ers team. The Bills have avenged their last 2 playoff losses to KC with regular season wins at KC. I think we'll do the same to the Bengals this year with our offense finally hitting high gear again.

McD skews the stats on his 4th down decisions by taking delay of game penalties in situations that we should really be going for it. 4th and 2 from the TB 44 is just about the perfect scenario to go for it. McD takes a delay of game penalty and now it's 4th and 7 from the 49. The 4th down models only look at the actual play (4th and 7) and determines he made the correct decision to punt. For OP's point, I agree this game was overall very similar to the Pats game for the offense if we average out what happened over the course of the game. Last week the offense started slow and finished strong, this week we started strong and finished slow (exacerbated by McD's cowardice on 4th downs). The offense played well enough to win both games even if they were not dominant. The DEF was much better this week

Didn't we used to sub in EJ Manuel to do hard counts and sometimes QB sneaks ?

Kirk Cousins has had a fully guaranteed contract for years and I doubt the Vikings have any regrets about that. Also, medically cleared to play doesn't necessarily mean he SHOULD be playing. Dawson Knox was medically cleared to play the last 2 weeks and was a detriment to the team. That's just from the team perspective. No idea what it was costing him personally/professional in both the short and long term to play through that. Edit: It's more than a little ironic to call a guy that grew up to a single mom on welfare a "trust fund baby"

I'm a ref complainer, but I'll stand by that Bucs game being the worst and most lopsided officiating against the Bills in the McD era. They were bad all night but the end of that game was really something. The refs let the Bucs hogtie Diggs on our 3rd down pass to the end zone at the end of regulation with no call. Only to follow that up in OT by calling DPI on Wallace when Brady underthrew Evans by 5 yards. Evans bear hugged Wallace so he couldn't turn around and the call goes against Wallace.

I could see McD firing Dorsey after another loss. I don't think it would be a good idea to do so at this point in the season, but it would be a nice distraction from his tire-fire of a defense. Kinda like Rex Ryan firing Greg Roman in 2016 week 2 after losing 31-37.

Knox is an interesting case study. From a catching perspective he was below replacement level his first 2 seasons. Then in years 3 and 4 he improved dramatically to being one of the best in the league. I really thought he had worked the drops out of his system. Now in year 5 he's back to being as bad (or even worse) as he was earlier in his career. He leads the league in TE drops despite not having many targets. Can we blame his poor performance this season on the injury? Is the 'real' Dawson Knox the guy we saw in years 1+2 that couldn't hold onto the ball? Is this just bad luck from a small sample size? This would be like if Allen suddenly dropped back to a sub 60% completion rate.

The Bills offense scored 3.125 points per possession (I'm not counting the end of either half as a possession). If my math is correct that's the 4th best offensive performance of the week trailing behind BAL, PHI, and NE. Our defense easily had the 2nd worst performance of the week (at least we were better than DET). So why are people blaming the offense? 1) The QB (and therefore offense) always gets too much credit and blame for wins/losses 2) Our offense has been sputtering in the last 3 games relative to putting up a perfect game vs Dolphins in week4 3) Injuries on DEF changed our expectations and we now think that as long as we're not allowing a TD every single drive the DEF is doing their job 4) Our DEF minded head coach places the blame on the offense

Absolutely this. Should be a 3rd round pick (or a 4th at worst) unless Beane murders the comp pick formula. Hopefully we see a repeat of the Jaguars throwing stupid money at non top tier WRs.

Well you see, if the offense had been putting together 10 minute TD drives on every single possession than the DEF would've been on the field for 1-2 fewer possessions and only allowed 22 points to the worst offense in the NFL.

McDermott must love that the offense is distracting from the fact that his defense just got carved up by the Mac Jones Patriots. We're arguing that Josh might've left some meat on the bone while ignoring that the DEF had the 2nd worst performance of the week across the entire NFL. This loss was almost entirely the defense's fault.

Dawson has twice as many drops as Kelce on half as many targets. Kelce has 5x the yards in 1 fewer games. Obviously it's not fair to compare Knox to the GOAT TE, but he's had a disaster of a season so far. Knox is paid to be a top 10 TE and his play isn't even in the top 30. I'll never be happy that a Bills player is injured, but it's easy to make the argument we'll be better with Knox out of the lineup

How does this trade make any sense for the Titans? Titans get: Edmunds 5th rd pick 6th rd pick 8.8mm dead cap in '23 13.3mm dead cap in '24

I know Allen endorsed Dorsey for OC, but I feel like it's revisionist history to say that was the primary reason he was hired. Everyone in the organization was ok with Dorsey being promoted. It's not like we were holding open interviews and Dorsey was some dark-horse candidate that we brought in because of Josh. McBeane are loyal, to a fault, and tend to go back to players (or coaches) they are familiar with. How many times have they tapped the Carolina Panthers connection ? Do you think Josh was whispering in their ear to sign Josh Norman to the PS? Josh and Dawson are friends, but I don't know how much of an impact that had on his contract. A bad contract for Knox fits the McBeane MO perfectly.