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My take too, and there were some passibly knowledgeable posts with insight about the Bills players and strengths scattered between the less informed nonsense. There was an expected amount of homerism, but no reason for them to think their team can't get a win. I have visited worse boards.. Going to be a tough game.

Did not see this Syracuse article earlier this year and maybe its in the TBD archived articles, but a lot of great insight and comments from Beane about bringing in Diggs and why he gave up what he did to swing the deal. https://www.syracuse.com/buffalo-bills/2020/04/buffalo-bills-trade-for-stefon-diggs-among-10-worst-moves-of-offseason-says-cbs-sports.html

If I were the Rams I would seriously consider simply running at the Bills and hitting the short stuff to drag this game out and keep Allen and this offense cooling its heels on the sideline. Allen is on fire and we have a ton of offensive weapons so the best defense is long drives that keep him off the field. I do not envision a wide open game, but we will see.

All the love and seething silence from the other side just tells me the Allen-haters out there are going to be that much harder on him when he has a tough game. The team needs to stay focused and take it one game at a time and keep an even keel, but Allen is growing up before our eyes and it is awesome to watch. Need a bit more from our running game to keep the chains moving in those stagnant 3rd quarters and to be able to flip the field, and we need our defense to get healthy and play better. Next up - the Rams.

Folks keep saying "RUNS" lumping them all together. There are different kinds of QB runs - that is the distinction I am trying to make. The sweeps with pulling linemen force Josh to slow down, and both follow behind and wait for blocks to develop. He is not a tiny RB that can get lost behind linemen and he is getting rocked and turning the ball over on those sweeps. The read option runs and QB draws, or just scrambling when the defense leaves a lot of green in front of him are quick and just require Allen to beat a man or two to make yards and decide whether to head for the sidelines, or slide, or lower his horns and drive for more yards. Those appear to be more productive runs for him IMO.

New England is the team to beat till we beat them. Anything else is just a bunch of chest-thumping non-sense about how good we are on paper or how well we have played against other teams. Does not matter till we dethrone that team. Belichick will always have a well-prepared team, and the Bills will always be in a dog fight with them. They are not going to give us the division, the Bills are going to have to take it from them pure and simple.

Not sure if a lot of folks are waiting to say I told you so, just that those Josh Allen designed sweep runs have not been working. Not only have they not worked since the first few games last year when they caught teams off guard, they too often result in negative plays and turnovers. On top of that Allen has been rocked trying to run behind a bunch of pulling linemen. I don't mind Allen running and there are some designed option runs that fit, but there are some designed running plays where the risk/reward math is not working and the Bills have to be smarter. Seems like we did not lose a lot of productivity by not leaning on those in Miami so not sure how much we lose jettisoning a few of those that are poorly conceived.

Defense could not get off the field and he got the ball once, maybe twice deep in our own zone, one of the possessions he was in the shotgun under his own goal posts, but why should that factor into the narrative right? Yeah... I know you were being sarcastic.

The Josh Allen is PFF's Schrödinger's cat analogy? He may be good QB or he may suck, but you have to actually open the box and watch the game to know.... something like that?

Wrong is safe. Couldn't resist😁

I think he probably said something or Dabs in hindsight thought that Josh getting flipped like a coin and nearly landing on his head/shoulder and fumbling the ball when we are up 3 scores should be a situation to be avoided. Those sweeps have been featured in just about every game since the midpoint of last year thru the Jets game, and against Miami there was only one adhoc Allen scramble and one designed QB draw play... not sure if I saw anything else and this was against a team that touted a strong secondary and showed considerable gaps containing Newton the prior week. May have been coincidence, but my money is that it was likely a point of discussion between the coaches. The negatives of that particular sweep play have outweighed the positives and that does not mean that Allen cannot take off when he sees real estate or use some designed option plays.

So Jimmy G. left with an ankle sprain in the 2nd half and outperformed Allen - go figure. Must be more of that infallible math they keep touting as part of their "data scientist" team using their BAYESIAN EPA forecast to prognosticate who is going to be successful. It is such an oversimplification of using historical trends that it does not in any meaningful way to capture all the other variables that go into the growth and maturation of a player. Per PFF's end of December 2018 article "Breaking down the futures of the first-round QBs of the 2018 draft class" "It will seem hard to believe for many, but the numbers show great confidence that neither Allen nor Darnold will become the best passer, by PFF passing grade, of the class. That said, unlikely outcomes still happen, and there’s still a greater than a 1/20 chance that either will eventually be considered the best selection."

Just watched again this with my girl and it reminded me of a certain group sports critics....

He's a clown, but gets paid good $$ to be one. He did have me laughing last Thanksgiving razzing the Cowboys and Damien Woody and throwing all sorts of love Josh's way. But he is supposed to stir the pot. One second Josh is the best thing, then it is Newton because he is with Belichick. Flip-flops as much as your average politician. Take it all with a grain of salt unless there is just a constant stream of hate going the Bills or Allen's way.

Give your linemen help, move the pocket with some designed rollouts. Slow the rush - don't give up on the runs, draws, and screens and Josh is not easy to bring down and has to be ok throwing some away. Don't play scared or not to lose, play to win.

Not thinking Daboll is the lime-light kind of guy stand in front of the team and reporters kind of guy; he's more a film room and practice X's and O's kind of guy who is more effective watching and calling plays from the booth. Who says he would even want a gig like that... I can't see it being nothing but a pain and a poor fit for him, but I guess a few million can buy a lot of pain killers so who knows Will burn that bridge once we cross it.

Yep - 67 at LG and 70 at RG.....Spain and Ford. Morse and Ford held out just long enough for Allen to unload, but Wilkins tosses Morse aside like a throw pillow and is right in Allens lap when he releases the ball and Ford was having his hands full with DE Ogbah #91 who gets by him on a swim move....the Dolphins have talent up front.

My thoughts too...love the beast mode and Allen makes an early effort to 5-point the ball to secure it, then shifts his hold to the arm away from the defenders....all good stuff they are likely drilling into him. Then inner Hulk-smash Josh comes out and ball-security technique just vaporizes as he shifts it back to the inside arm where all the grabbing and slapping is happening. Its probably just a subconscious thing about preferring his dominant arm, but all that ball movement away from the body makes it easier to fumble it. There was a definitely an effort today not to expose Allen to the same level of abuse he took against the Jets with those designed QB sweeps. A few scrambles and a QB draw and he did not take a lot of unnecessary hits.

McD was asked and said in his presser that they were rotating guys early to see what was working best so they could go back to it later... Only speculating, but sounds like Ford may have some competition for that G spot. Not a bad thing for the Bills to have that kind of depth and level of compete. Cody may not feel that way.

It is nice to see these young players come into a Bills organization that knows how to win games. We have had so many good players that have spent most or all of their career toiling for a pretty dysfunctional that could not get out of its own way to create a winning product on the field. Now we have these young players coming in expecting to win, expecting to turn a game around in the 4th if behind. That kind of confidence and experience cannot be understated as part of growing a winning culture for a team. Just looking at the poise that Davis and Moss have been showing - amazing to me. We need to tighten up that 3rd quarter defense, becoming a bit of a pattern even when Milano and Edmunds were in the games and I am sure McD and Frazier know this. We have a good team and a very promising QB - have not had this much fun watching our Bills for a long time. Lets go Buffalo!

Similar to the Ford block in the playoff game where the defender simply was not looking at all in the direction he was running as he was tracking Allen and all Ford did was brace himself a bit to ensure he was not the player that was going to fly back in the wrong direction. After that, I thought it was just a case of "stoppable force" meet immovable object, but the hankies flew. If it happens enough times this year they will work something out that will be more complicated and likely more terrible than what we have today... it is tough to make a violent game safe. Maybe they can build some kind of imminent crash warning into the helmets of players like my wife's crappy Subaru has. All it does is ding, whistle, beep, and slam on my breaks when I am backing up and the sensors pick up the deadly shrubbery at the end of my driveway ... then the final kick to the sprinkler when it warns me not to drive distracted. Perfect.

I forgot Davis hauling in a clutch TD as well... Allen was on 🔥

We're good. The peal back block reference was just part of the discussion about how hard it is to get a great block on a defender and not have it flagged. Not a part of this play. McKenzie barely moved and held his ground - even the game announcers mentioned that about 5 times. All McD and Dabs can do is send the tape over to the NFL Officiating Committee and ask, "Ok, how do we draw this up or execute it in a way that does not draw a flag, or is this a good block?". See if there is anything specific they are looking for or coaching their officials to look for. It is the grown up thing to do, or they could blast the officials during a presser and feel better but get fined.

Good call and reminder of how well Allen spread the ball around today.

I thought we were talking about Peal Back blocks and where the focus is on where the defensive player is heading not the offensive player. Sorry about the crappy insert lost a few pixels and turned into micro-text in the embedding - but yeah, I am confused with your confusion