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We did take a bunch of deep shots this week though. Josh just didn't throw them well.

This being the week everyone seems to have had their last straw with Coleman is just really odd to me. He hasn't developed as much as people wanted and I think the front office did him no favors just throwing him out there as our X with zero competition for snaps, but this was probably the best game of his career so far. If Josh had just gotten the ball to him, we probably win that game and are celebrating a breakout performance from Coleman. It's not even an exaggeration to say a normal Josh performance probably results in Coleman having over 150 yards and at least 3 TDs this past week. Instead, Josh continued to struggle with his ball placement and continued to just be out of sync, missing reads, etc., and Coleman's performance was wasted. It's fair to argue that having a big game against a terrible secondary still isn't impressive, but we've been begging for someone to threaten the defense down the field all year and Coleman was able to beat Miami deep several times and Josh just couldn't make the throws for whatever reason.

I think this is pretty fair to be honest. There's diminishing returns in replacing your best WR vs. addressing your weaker WRs. The issue is in retrospect, McConkey is undoubtedly an upgrade and that's better than what we've gotten from Coleman, and also, McConkey probably would have fared fine as our Z. My issue with Shakir is he's never been particularly good at separating against man coverage, and doing that from the slot is the easiest role in the offense so if he struggles with that, it makes things more difficult for everyone. Great YAC dude though and has generally done a good job of finding holes in zones.

I think folks (seemingly including Beane) thinking McConkey was only a slot WR was a mistake, but he definitely is not an X which is what we were trying to address. In retrospect though, McConkey would be a significant upgrade over Shakir in the slot and while that isn't what we were looking for, it would be nice to have even if Shakir is a decent player himself.

I assume OP means putting him in motion as a means to get him the ball, not this kinda thing where he's just trying to occupy defenders to open up space for his teammates. This kind of half-assing when the play isn't designed for you drives me up a wall though. First down is for handoffs into the teeth of the defense. We save the back shoulder stuff for 3rd and 10!

I still kinda wonder if he actually underthrew Knox on that play lol. Anyone see that play floating around on the All 22 clips yet? Seemed like a weird play either way with the two of them essentially running routes to the same spot.

It drives me crazy and was something I despised with AD Mitchell and Xavier Worthy in college. They almost literally wouldn't even move off the LOS when they weren't on the play side of a given play. At any rate, it's kind of funny that this game seems to be the straw that broke the camel's back with Coleman because it likely would have been a huge game for him if Josh was able to throw it accurately to him. Was probably the most consistently open Coleman has been in his Bills career lol.

I am definitely hoping the return of Palmer and Gabe opens things up a little more, but having said that, it's not even an exaggeration to say Coleman could have had over 150 yards and 3 or 4 TDs if Josh could throw an accurate ball to him yesterday. Coleman had Miami beat deep for potential TDs at least 3 times yesterday and Josh was only able to give him a chance to make the catch once. Got open on the INT in the end zone too but Josh was reading the left side of the field so he never saw him. Was open several other times as well.

Yes.

Definitely agree, though I'd argue there are basically no teams that should be trusted on a week to week basis this season lol.

We did just beat KC pretty handily. We're a flawed team obviously but this just clearly is not our day.

The 1st round pick is for 2027, so Dallas has more time to theoretically improve by then (or get worse!)

Would probably be easier for Schultz to mention who doesn't want out there.

Screen passes generally don't net you a ton of yards. He's averaging that low yards per catch despite being top 10 amongst WRs in YAC this year.

Much like Jakobi, Deebo is a fine player and would be an upgrade for us, but doesn't really bring the skillset that we're particularly lacking. Would mention he has more yards than any of our WRs this season.