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Knox is still by far our best tight end (with respect to all the things the role provides) Edit: Kincaid is a better receiver and should be on the field, but to the OP's point, Knox being injured/out has had a significant negative impact on the O.

Winning the division is still a better path than wild card. Stay one game behind Miami and beat them to get in. Many paths to wild card, but the AFC losses make it a harder road.

This. When we got the ball (4 or 5 mins?) You have to commit. Either play the clock and try to leave as much as possible, or work a 4 minute offense where you don't leave enough time for the other team. The runs weren't Dorsey adjusting to Den, they were him trying to go slow. Pretty sure our odds of winning actually went down on the scoring play, not up. There is no perfect answer in this, but it is an(other) example of Dorsey not understanding when to use what plays. All we needed was 2-3 more plays and we won the game. We have running plays that don't average 13 yards per run. We should have mixed in a few of those and used that excellent running game earlier when it made sense.

Maybe I'm getting old, but that wheel of fortune thing was pretty entertaining

Forward and tipped

Chiefs scored 9, btw

Cook isn't benched due to fumble imo. Gameplan looks like Murray decisive runs and pass protect are are plan with Cook in scat back role.

He had to. The window was closing with the LB coming across. Good throw imo.

Except they don't seem out of it at all. It's just you

Didn't know the browns had Bojo and Hopkins reunited.

It feels like you are looking ahead. Don't underestimate the Broncos. On a related note, we may not get our home game against the Chiefs next year.

So-so game against a good team. O and D played well at times. Can't lose turnover battle and be sloppy. The D seems to be finding it's way in a post injury world, but clearly lacks the talent/speed to be top 5 anymore. O clearly runs best when Allen gets to the line with 20+ seconds.

Probably that the Bills have only beaten bad teams

Pretty sure this was a bad enough loss to qualify for "wheels are falling off"

You wanted us to go for it at the 50, with a 6 point lead and 30 seconds on the clock?

Kincaid is the better receiver. Knox does other TE things better at the moment.

I was yelling for the timeout at 30 seconds, but with Tampa showing they were going for it on 4th you don't really want to stop the clock for them. End result was disappointing, but understandable.

Everyone going to complain about that shotgun 3rd down run?

As an interesting point of context, the Bills are in the top 10 in the league for fewest punts attempted over the last 3 weeks. Source: https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/punt-attempts-per-game Turning they are "not playing as well as they were before" into "worst in the league" is absurdly over dramatic.

Seeing as McDermott pioneered some of the defensive concepts that other teams are trying out I'd give him a better than average chance at grasping it.

Not much different than the first half, it's just working better.

Not sure what game everyone in here is watching. I see a typical football game that has only had 5 minutes of scripted play calling. The red team looked to have early momentum, then had the ball knocked out. The white team has mostly negative plays outside of 1 deep hookup. If I had to project how the next 50 minutes were going to go, I'd say it will appear to be closer than play shows for 1.5 quarters and then then the Bills will pull away for 2.5 quarters.

With that turnover the Bills will win and somehow be ahead on yardage this game

Not enough people giving Dorsey some of the credit for this. It's not like the front 5 turned All Pro overnight. We are primarily calling plays that either get the ball out quick or have extra protection. Many of the clean pockets were with 6 or 5 and a chip in protection. I'm sure it's impacting play calling to some degree, but it's really helping Allen find a groove.

You found a guy that writes news articles with an opinion. Kincaid was not open on that play while coverage was active. He only opens up after Allen starts his throwing motion and zones are vacated. It would have been a contested catch. Diggs is the completion over the middle that would probably have been caught and 50/50 he has enough for the first when the LB crashes on him. Given the situation I could buy the argument to throw to Diggs and hope he bodies for the first, but Allen's decision against that defense was not the primary culprit of a bad result on that play.