WideNine

Where are all the trolls happy to see the Bills losing? Trolls that claim to be fans I should say.

Miami is not so good up front that they are not holding - time for some equity on the flag fest

I have only seen one holding called on Miami

Did not see any hyper extension, going to assume it happened with the contact on the ground. Sucks because Duke is that physical receiver with hands we need.

that is the rifle from Allen he has to tame

hoping he just bruised a rib falling on the ball, but collarbone is likely falling on that shoulder

We built this line with guys that can run block - Daboll has to lean on that not to shield Allen, just because it is the smart way to play Miami. Damn just saw Duke go down.

Dude... this defense is getting eaten alive by a team that has not been able to move the ball on anyone. I know you have an agenda, but just because they had a save by White on the goal line does not negate the fact the Defense has let them eat most of the 3rd quarter and march all the way down to the goal line. Both sides of the ball are sucking today and penalties have breathed life into a team that really is not ready to roll over.

Phillips celebrating while the ball is on the ground.... ooooboooy. I am trying hard to keep my calm.

I think they should have gone for it.

But he is really good against those shallow zone defenses... he is eating that up with his bigger receivers and TEs

Not dominant, but able to play MIami.

Wallace is getting out-muscled by these bigger receivers

Good hands on that TE

The offense cannot get on track with all the false starts and penalties - Marcus Easley. Sometimes using all the personnel packages and complex offensive formation can backfire as you cannot get into a cohesive rhythm and you are using guys who do not have a lot of real-game time experience. Daboll gets a bit cute and he is up against a defensive coach who know his tendencies. It shows.

This is not a team ready to play today. This is on McDermott.

I figured the board would be blowing up by now. Just is what it is, every team has an upset capability in them and we have about 70 yards of penalties that have kept MIami drives alive and have killed ours. A lot of game to play, but the zebras are leaning towards the under on the Vegas spread.

Fishes jumping ship Tanking ship losing its fish How fishy that ship

Just to add to the subjective nature, your analysis is a great example...and I am not knocking it. But I was thinking about YAC and got to thinking about how NE for years has gotten away with illegal pick/rub plays that allow all their short completions to go much further. In fact when we played them McDermott was keyed in on that tactic and even threw a challenge on one pick play. The refs got it wrong saying there was no contact...but the rule actually states that it is legal to have contact and rub a defender off a receiver within 1 yard of the LOS, any blocking or impeding a defender covering a receiver beyond 1 yard is illegal regardless of contact. So stopping directly in his path and leaning a leg back to force him to make a move to avoid you so you can free your receiver is illegal. Tough to get the right call from these guys, but if they start to get it right against NE because it is so blatent, NE's passing offense will have to be revamped.

Honestly anyone sticking up for Jarvis Landry over a Bills player loses all credibility... Just me, but I would not sweat it.

As much as I love our defensive stops I would not mind seeing a pick or a fumble that gives us a short field too.The Bills have been really good scoring once in the red zone. I am trying real hard not to jinx my team as I want to believe that there is no way McD brings the team out of their bye not ready to go to work. And yes, they need to run some up-tempo offense or something after the half because they do seem to come out flat with little energy.

I still cannot get over the fact that the idiot while in Russia handed one of his Super Bowl rings for Putin to try on and that gem of a human walked off with it surrounded by his KGB escort. Kraft then got a call from the WH saying that it would be best if Kraft dropped the affair and just said it was a gift. ...America the gift that keeps on giving (and I will stop there before I get booted to the political discussions board)

Folks that tested Josh prior to the draft came to the same conclusion. His release was over 70 mph, and when tested on intermediate and longer throws that required dropping passes onto spot, the passes he was "feathering" into that area were still traveling on a rope at 50 mph. His arm is literally almost too strong for his own good, but his accuracy was not an issue. It was how hard he threw the ball, it was that lack of throwing to a spot with touch and anticipation because he never had to because he could wait till he visually confirmed a receiver coming open and rifle the ball there. Allen has some amazing abilities, but he has a lot of new muscle memory that he has to develop to play consistently and at a higher level in this league. There are things that the Bills can capitalize on with that arm, and that is that Allen can throw that deep out like no one else in the league as most other QBs just do not have enough velocity to get a pass there without it ending in a INT. Daboll can work a lot more of those deep outs and come back routes and have success. They have to find receivers who can catch hard passes with their hands, and Allen has to get better. You can tell that Allen is thinking about his touch on his shorter routes and they have been better. That lob to Lee Smith would likely have been a bullet bouncing off Smith's hands last year. The longer balls, I don't want him to force it as a lot of teams are keeping safeties deep, but he has had some long shots to Knox that were right on the money. Some is Allen, some have been that this is a young team with young team growing pains, and some have been good defensive plays.

I thought the Jets brought in a decent GM in Joe Douglas who came in after Adam Gase and Greg Williams were installed, but he has a head coach and a defensive coach who are both liabilities and disastrous distractions with titanic egos. He needs to do himself a favor and clean house before one or both of those idiots manage to destroy everything he is trying to build. Or Joe could keep both those guys around and we will get to dance around that Jersey dumpster fire for many years to come.

No worries. I keep coming back to this site because I learn a lot from folks here. Plenty of knowledgeable posters and we really don't have to agree on anything other than our team's success. I always thought Allen was going to be at least a two year project with one year spent learning behind a vet, and the last thing I wanted to see was him forced to start year 1 as he was just that green. But here we are, and at 4 and 1 it is better than I hoped. So I don't get too wrapped around the axel if he does not measure up yet to other NFL starters would have been shocked if he did.