CincyBillsFan

This is a great point. The game is changing and defensive SPEED is key to slowing down today's offenses.

The Chiefs have embraced and are exploiting their competitive advantage at QB. And so far it's paid off. Four straight AFC championship appearances, one Super Bowl runner up and one Super Bowl championship. The Bills seem a bit reluctant to follow this most obvious lead.

Seems like some fans are missing those good old days where we had a lot of picks and high ones to! And man more often then not we won the draft. I'm so jealous of Jets fans. When you're a sorry Super Bowl contender like the Bills these drafts are so boring and they hardly talk about us.

Curt Gowdy (the voice of the AFL) and John Madden.

It's not weird when you can pin three of the losses, games in which Allen shined, on the defense.

That Allen contract looks better and better.

You can also fool safeties with your eyes and Allen has become quite good at that. I think the guy in the video was spot on in showing how arm strength was the most important factor in those two plays.

Allen looks off the safety and his throw is freakish in that it has very little air under it.

Bingo. It's like to going to Outdoor World and buying ammunition randomly when you don't even own a gun.

And yet a lot of his passes that were completed were jaw dropping throws. That is what everyone is talking about here. I thought Allen was the best QB in that draft but like a lot of folks I was worried because so many of the experts were trashing him. Then I watched every game his rookie season and came away feeling really good that the Bills had their guy. And I had that feeling not because he missed easy throws and made head scratching decisions, which he did by the boatload, but the throws he made - HOLY COW.

Can Tommy Doyle play guard?

I agree. I keep having images of Jones under thrown ball getting picked by Hyde and Allen running through Barmore's tackle in the playoffs!

He was pretty damn good in the Vikings game - on the road against a great defense.

IMO they haven't "lost" the off season until after the results of the 2022 season are in the bag. My guess is that the Packers, Chiefs & Cowboys all make the playoffs with at least two of these teams getting to the divisional playoffs. It starts and ends with the QB. Clearly Rogers & Mahomes are worth the money and they will elevate the receivers brought in to replace the big name guys that got away. The issue with the Cowboys is that they grossly overpaid Dax. BTW, Allen is in the same company as Rogers & Mahomes. It's better to have an elite QB then make big splashy moves in the off season for skill players when you don't have an elite QB.

And John Brown & Robert Foster. In fact that seems to be the pattern. Allen elevates the WR's the Bills put on the field. This gives Bean a real advantage in signing these guys as Allen can turn a Beasley, Brown and I suspect now Crowder into 70 - 80 catches and 900 - 1000 yard receivers.

Looks like they're vying to hijack the Browns 2021 off season hype train!

This is solid evidence for the kind of offense Dorsey plans on running in Buffalo and I like it. This is a Super Bowl caliber team that lost because of bad coaching decisions at the end of the KC game. Keep the band together as much as possible.

Another thing Allen worked on in the off season and significantly improved. This part of Allen's nature may be the most impressive. As the late great Meatloaf would say "one out of two ain't bad".

He already is. They ought to rename the Sirius NFL Channel the "Aaron Roger's Discussion". They can't go 5 minutes without talking about him. And while it's hard to have much sympathy for Rogers let's not forget that the moron Packers MOVED UP in the first round to take Love with Rogers at his peak. Packer management own a lot of the crap they're getting.

Why so negative? It's more likely that what we saw this year was a better version of the 1989 Bills. There is more reason to be optimistic about the Bills Super Bowl chances over the next 5 years then pessimistic.

This. Burrow is a lot better then some folks on 2BD think but Allen & Mahomes are at a different level IMO. The Bengals had a classic NFL Cinderella run this season - good for them. But this guy is way overrating a Super Bowl appearance in putting Burrow ahead of Mahomes & Allen.

I don't disagree but on Cowherd the other day two different "experts" noted the bind the 49's are in. Evidently Lance did not impress in games or in practice this season. Maybe he's just a Mahomes waiting to be unleashed. But it wouldn't shock me if the 49's traded Lance. There are some desperate teams out there looking for their guy at QB.

I would settle for taking a 3 yard pass 20 yards. Now that happens all the time except on the Bills.

I'm hearing more & more reports that the 49's aren't convinced that Lance is the guy and they may not let Jimmy G go. It's one thing to speculate on how good your shiny new toy is when Jimmy G throws an INT in a playoff game. It's quite another to walk away from the solid QB that helped get you to the NFC championship game for a 2nd year guy that hasn't exactly impressed. The 49's are in a real bind IMO.

I really think that all the Bills need to do is tweak a few things to be lugging the Lombardi Trophy past City Hall. Why do I think this: * I don't believe they're going to go 0 - 5 in one score regular season games. If they go 3 - 2 they'll finish 14 -3 and have home field locked up. * The Bills have a large number of young players ascending who will be even bigger contributors next season. These include Oliver, Harrison, Groot, Singleterry, Knox, Brown, Davis & Allen. * yea I said Allen is still ascending and I believe it. It's amazing to think where his ceiling might be. * I believe that on the offensive side of the ball they will have better coaching next season. * A couple of modest free agent signings and the draft will be enough to fill in any holes.