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WideNine
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1 hour ago, 3rdand12 said:
I think you might be focused more up last season's effort. Swore he had an upper body injury
But though Diggs was a beast with the ball in his time as a Bill. 💪
Last year , not so much
Always a tough decision with a player who has been really good for us.
Diggs was able to reinvent himself a bit with this club.
The Texans made some noise last year who knows how well he will do there.
This Org usually holds onto players past their expiration, but when you are working against a thin cap margin you have to be able to retool with cheap rookie deals.
Wish him well, just not against us.
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Ahhh hell it hurts, but is what it is.
Got the game at home and our kicker can't kick and once again we are down to backups of our backups on the defense.
But someone summed it up best, it comes down to players making the plays in clutch situations.
Oh well guys, perhaps I will start thinking about the draft, but plan to just bury myself in work for the next few weeks and try not to think about this game and another loss to the Chiefs blocking our road to the SB.
Just sucks...not much more I can say
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Just now, Aussie Joe said:
Cook drives me crazy .. does something good then something bad
He is getting that reputation of the guy who drops critical walk-in TD passes.
It's deserved this year and a concentration issue he has got to correct.
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Kincaid is such a smart player... Great draft pick.
Just say'n
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Have wondered if there is going to be a CBA amendment of sorts to expand rosters a bit more.
The NFL keeps expanding venues for the $ and I think it is getting harder for teams to keep enough healthy depth.
Just interested in seeing if some changes are expected
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I don't think there has been much secret sauce and no team has just rolled over and given the Bills anything on this road to the postseason.
They have just been so focused and determined... I don't recall a Bills team quite like the makeup of this one and I have been watching my Bills for 40 years.
Coaches are putting in the work getting our players ready to step up and play well when needed and coming up with game plans and adjustments that have been effective.
Josh has been decisive and in the zone, OL has been blocking hard to the whistle, RBs hitting their gaps and running hard, and our offense as a whole has been executing and stacking reps. No blinking.
They are taking care to secure and protect the ball while still taking calculated big play shots.
The defense has been disciplined with their rush lanes, but determined to push the pocket and win up front. They have made it a focus to snuff out the runs early before they can get traction. They have have been effective making teams more one dimensional with hard work up front.
Our back 7 know where they need to be and are covering to the whistle and tackling well too, so giving up very little RAC when teams do complete a pass.
Our STs have shored up their coverage, but we do need that kicking game to be more consistent.
Just see a team of guys all doing their 1/11th and committed to working the entire 60 minute of each game - including the last 13 seconds.
Wishing each of them much success and a well earned victory. Go Bills!
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Texans have been pretty consistent this year too and Stroud has been money.
Not sure how they will fair stopping a mobile QB like Lamar. They eeked out a win against the Cardinals, but other than that they have not really run into that many this year and the one game against the Ravens early they lost.
Ravens should not be sleeping on them as they seem to be peaking at the right time, but I don't think they pull it off, but you never know.
A Cinderella year for both the Texans and the Lions and good to see some fresh clubs make it to the post season.
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I have concerns with officiating getting in the way of this game - hope they just let them play.
Josh is usually a wild card in my mind for the past season and a half. What Josh shows up to play? But I feel like he is dialed in and I am really glad for his sake as he lifts the energy of the whole offense when he is in the zone.
Jones can be a game-wrecker in the middle and I think he is playing on a 1-year deal so basically showcasing his play to either go FA or simply put himself in a great negotiating position. So (as usual) we have to be aware of where he is at and provide some help, but effective running is best way to slow down him pinning his ears back and reeking havoc in the backfield.
I do think we have great depth with our defense that has been tested to the max, but we are now very thin at LB and I did not see any roster moves to shore up that depth so that has me a bit nervous - will see what that injury report looks like at the end of the week.
Perhaps the biggest ***** in our defensive armor is missing Taron Johnson and I think Pittsburgh realized pretty quickly that Cam Lewis in a tough spot filling in for Taron was our "Waldo" (referring to interviews with those who have worked with our OC Brady and how they said one thing he would always do when game planning was to find a player or players on the defense that they could attack - "where's Waldo" )
Knock on wood, that our strong run defenders on the line play the dominant way that they can as KC has been leaning more on their run game. So yeah, I am just trying to enjoy the ride and enjoy this improbable run this year and keep my Bills OCD mania in a healthy place.
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8 hours ago, Einstein said:
Keep in mind that playoff ref crews are not the same as the regular season.
Hochuli doesn’t have his same crew as he did during the Philly flag massacre.
He has a mixed crew of men and women who were assigned this game based on how well did they did in the regular season.
In theory, these are the best of the best refs, as all refs in the divisional round are eligible for the Super Bowl assignment.
I do appreciate the ray of hope this provides that what should be a great game won't devolve into a flag-fest of epic proportions where we are forced to endure the long delays where his crew huddles together to somehow produce baffling conclusions.
His response to criticism regarding his crew's performance during the Eagles game just solidifies my opinion that he is an unapologetic and deeply flawed turd that I was hoping we could flush for the remainder of the season.
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1 hour ago, hondo in seattle said:
Sure, coaches are wrong sometimes. Talent evaluation is an inexact science. But comparing dedicated professionals to the amateurs at PFF is a stretch.
Coaches have expertise in football. PFF's analysts have expertise in statistics. PFF's graders are young guys with no credentials and boring lives who sit at home watching out All-22 handing out subjective, uninformed grades.
Coaches, on the other hand, consider the assignment, the situation, and what the player was coached to do when giving out a grade.
Yes, coaches sometimes evaluate guys poorly. But let's remember what an analytics guru once famously said, "If Josh Allen succeeds, the Bills will have outsmarted basically all regular humans and the entirety of math itself."
I'm not saying there's no place for analytic sites like PFF. I trust they do the math right. But I'll trust the football professionals to evaluate football. If the coaches' grades don't line up with PFF, my hunch is PFF needs to get better.
Well, those that prostrate themselves before the alter of data analytics can still hope.
Perhaps someday in the future they will be suffiently rendered down to enough bits and bytes that they will not actually have to try anything because their predicted performance will be provided in a KPI report.
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5 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
What is your evidence to suggest the analysis is flawed?
They are never flawed, just ask them. They just run into anomalies and statical outliers like Josh Allen.
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1 minute ago, BullBuchanan said:
Typically sarcasm has to have relevance to the point being made.
Well it was.
Your point regarding dinosaur coaches not being in alignment with empirical analysis.
The relevance being let the champions of empirically incomplete and often flawed analysis (pfffft) try to coach an NFL team successfully.
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1 minute ago, BullBuchanan said:
Why would you want PFF to coach a team? What point is it that you think you're making?
That was sarcasm.
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3 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:
I mean, most coaches are awful and the majority of the rest are painfully mediocre former athlete dinosaurs. Is it a surprise their grades don't correlate 1:1 with empirical analysis?
Would like to see pffffft coach an NFL team.
Yeah, that would work.
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20 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:
For real?
Taron has been relatively healthy for the past few seasons, but yeah this sounds about right.
His first few seasons with the Bills... He was an ambulatory magnet.
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1 hour ago, eball said:
Love this. Many of us have been "skeptical" (I'm being kind) to the grading system PFF uses to assess NFL players.
Thank you JJ!!!
Some of us have been preaching that to the analytics choir here to no avail for years.
Those tools are just tools (no pun intended)... Coaches look at a lot of other factors when it comes to player evaluation.
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1 minute ago, PetermansRedemption said:
I’d also argue a professional athlete should be able to run 20 yards without pulling a hamstring.
My guess is he did not show up for McD's Zoom stretching sessions.
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2 hours ago, Dr.Sack said:
Gabe gets 3 or 4 deep shots per game and we are good. James Loftin role.
I don't feel the need to pile onto an injured Bill, but you nailed it role wise.
Brady features a more balanced offense and more short routes to the flats. Quick answers for Allen to keep the chains moving, get him into a rhythm, keep us in manageable down and distance situations, and maintain the threat of running the ball. That is just not Gabe's forte. That is more suited to Shakir and Harty (who seems to have recovered from that nagging turf toe). Both those guys can get open on those quick routes.
We still take shots when those open up and need to keep that threat, but have a few options that we can lean on for that.
Gabe is able to uncover deep, but Allen rarely has that 3.8 second luxury and clean pocket to step up and deliver a lot of those. Trying too many of those shots were kind of a hallmark of Dorsey's 3-and-out offense. Also, no easy answers for Allen so he would just go off script, get in trouble and chuck it.
Running the ball was random and was not really baked into the game plan either.
Folks have twisted others comments about Gabe's blocking being his only redeeming quality. What was said was that many of our plays often require our WRs to block and it is a thankless task that Gabe performed well. Sherfield and our TEs also provide this on the edges so we don't really lose that ability if he is out.
Lastly, Allen was off a lot on his his throws this year and especially the deep shots to both Davis and Diggs. I think that factors into the productivity issues too considering where Gabe does excel. Allen has said that the ball is coming off his hand really good the past two games and you can see that in how he is accurately slinging the rock all over the field with a lot of confidence.
A great time for his throwing arm to get back into form. I have some theories around that and what can happen when an athlete plays most of a season compensating for an injury, but another thread for another time.
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Not just punting.
Martin got hurt because Bass is struggling to get his kicks over the opposing teams hands and he was chasing down that blocked kick.
Then Bassonatic shanks a 27 yarder into the rough... That is HS field goal range and would have given us the lead we needed to keep the game out of reach.
The kid has been shaky this whole season and is not looking much better down the stretch.
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Why that buffoon and his crew is allowed to officiate any playoff game after their multiple terrible performances and clear Eagles favoritism during the regular season is beyond me.
NFL says they grade these clowns... Sure. He and his crew are bent and terrible in all the wrong ways for us.
It will start out with phantom calls galore on us to kill any momentum, coupled with egregious non-calls on our opponents till they are safely ahead, then they will throw in some inconsequential calls our way at the end to make it look almost proportionate and fair.
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I think the defender had enough time to pull up when Allen shifted to a feet-first slide.
Instead he loads up the forearm goes towards to upper shoulders and head and he immediately throws up his hands in mock innocence once he follows through.
I am sure Allen was not hurt, but defenders know the rules. Those back 7 defenders hate mobile QBs and want to get that hit on them to send that "stay behind the LOS" message.
Oliver love tapped Rudolph with a late shove that Rudolph embellished enough to get whiplash and he got a roughing the passer penalty. It is just part of the game and defensive players have to be smart about hitting QBs.
WIth Allen they just have to wait a bit, he is sure to plow into their defense head first a few times during the course of a game.
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9 hours ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:
Clean.
No Jersey tug. No body turn or restriction. A legal play that 95% of non biased fans would agree with.
Right? It’s not exactly like this was a game changer. People are funneling their frustrations at the refs, and for once, they don’t deserve it here.
Every slot Corner plays those quick slants the same way.
Contact/jam/press within the 5 yards to disrupt timing (which is allowable), and then maintaining inside leverage with negligible hand contact with the receivers (hip) so they can mirror their movements yet keep eyes on the QB and play the ball.
That was text book slot coverage and a complete nothing burger. Of course Pickens would lobby for a flag, what did they have to lose trying to draw one?
Lobbying for flags are part of the game; however fans arguing the merits of a DPI there...not sure what they are looking at.
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4 minutes ago, Blank Stare said:
I don’t trust Bass right now. Do we really have a kicker and punter problem?
Need a cold weather kicker, or at least a cold blooded one... Our bassomatic has been glitchy.
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That kind of contact happens all the time in those inside slants... Not penalty worthy.
Does Josh Allen still work as hard in the offseason?
in The Stadium Wall
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This.
Professional athletes need to take care of their conditioning which includes rest.
During the season Allen scrambles and takes on more tackles than most QBs who may be more slippery and less likely to "lower the horns" and many fans love that about him, but the way he plays demands both conditioning and recovery.
You have to trust he has a good handle on both and I would not approach it from a punitive mindset because we have not gotten to the show.... Yet.
I would not lay much of our post-season failures at Allen's feet.