Ethan in Cleveland
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5 minutes ago, loveorhatembillsfan4life said:
We need Josh to shine the next few weeks and the. outduel Russel in our head to head a
If he does, Josh will be in the conversation.
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6 minutes ago, billsbackto81 said:
It's the front 4 that's killing this D. The LBs are being exposed because our D linemen and lack of pass rush. These guys just can't get to the QB and Hughes has been non existent all season.
Its both. They need Phillips and Oliver to improve, get Star back next year, and draft a couple edge players. If Phillips and Oliver are busts it will be very hard to fix the defense in one off-season. This assumes Edmunds is still their chosen one at MLB. They should let Milano walk, move Edmunds outside and find another option at MLB.
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If Ben stays healthy, I still think Pittsburgh wins that division. Not sure one player changes a lot but Bush meant a lot to that defense. I had Pittsburgh, KC, and Seattle as the toughest games of the year. Still think that is the case.
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2 minutes ago, loveorhatembillsfan4life said:
Rogers now drops in the MVP race?
It is Russell Wilson's trophy to lose at this point
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8 minutes ago, bobobonators said:
Todd Bowles is a good example of why some coaches should stay in their lane. He has been an elite DC in the NFL. He’ll likely get another chance to be a HC however.
Great point. I would have taken him in a heartbeat over Rex and McD. Same for Hue Jackson. I thought both would make great HCs. Similar stories for Wade Phillips and Norv Turner.
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20 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
I’ve been watching football since the 60’s. It may just be possible that the Jets are the worst team I’ve ever seen.
Seriously, they are giving the 0-16 Lions a run for worst ever.
1 minute ago, Penfield45 said:Tampa had an abysmal defense last season
How have they turned it around so fast, meanwhile we have a bottom 5 D in the league
Josh Allen
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14 minutes ago, NewEra said:
I really hope that we see us mix it up in the slot. The more I watch him play, the more I realize that Taron Johnson shouldn’t be our nickel corner going forward. He’s being targeted and taken advantage of on a weekly basis. His best attribute, imo, is that he’ll throw his body around vs the run. Considering his injury history, that’s the worst “best attribute” to have.
We should draft one CB within the first 3, possibly 2 rounds. DL and LB being the other. hopefully the draft aligns as such. TE and OL also under consideration
100% agree on your draft choices
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3 hours ago, DrPJax said:
Didn’t see anything on Knox regarding practice but just saw on NFL network that he is listed as out with a calf injury. Is that true? If so this continues to be. a frustrating season from him / for him.
Lots of nagging injury issues this year. Not feeling great about our o line with all the shuffling and seeing the run blocking looking quite bad; just saw Cynthia has us losing 27-25. After Tuesday it’s difficult seeing how we keep it that close as we let Tenn score 6/6 in the red zone, which is horrid even given short field etc Also since Frazier is ok with Edmunds playing hurt, I could see Mahomes dropping dimes to his TE all day after play action right around, behind, in front of, and over our LBS. 5 games with the D regressing reminds me of our backing into the playoffs last year. I don’t think we can have any confidence our d will keep it reasonably close enough to allow Allen to pull it out in the 4 th ; hope I’m wrong. Our only chance lies in no turnovers and grabbing a couple from them. Let’s see how we respond.
Agree, Kielce could go off for 125 or more yards. The game plan to stop great tight ends is to use a DB on them especially when they line up outside. KC and Reid love crossing routes. McD should know better than anyone how to defend Reid’s offense.
2 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:Yes Knox is out with a calf injury
I didn’t see him get hurt or leave Titans game. Smith will help the run blocking.
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8 hours ago, Don Otreply said:
Ethan, your so dramatic, you jump on board every thread that presents any aspect that the Bills are not totally dominant in game to game. Do you now consider Sean McDermott to be a bad coach when you were tooting his horn not so long ago along with these other doomsday profits? Is our personnel now lacking talent that everyone was touting not so long ago?
Sure the loss sucks, but Its one loss, one, in a long season, get yourself together man, nuthin but luv dude, but really? And that goes for the rest of the scared fans.
Go Bills!!!
I've been harping on the pass rush and the defense in general since the Houston collapse. Nothing new.
Only 5 games played, plenty of time to turn it around. During McD's tenure his defense has been thrashed a game or two each season. Baltimore, New Orleans, Houston and a few other games over the last several years. He has had to take over playcalling at least once that we know of. But the defense has bounced back. He will need to do it with new faces. Maybe a healthy White and a semi-healthy Milano will help.
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A healthy Moss should sit. Yeldon is playing better. Spain was benched when he was healthy. If they want him to play it will be interesting to see if they move him back to LG and FORD back to RG.
What is the over under on number of plays until Milano gets hurt again?
Obviously White being able to play is huge but Brown is critically important too.
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Thanks for posting. As much as it shows Bills OL has work to do it shows how good Tenn D is. And also how poorly the Bills DL is playing compared to a well coached team.
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Good topic. So far everyone is spot on. Allen needs to be patient and check down and keep moving the chains. Brown and Diggs just need to find the spots in the intermediate zone areas. And don’t forget about Knox,Beasley, and Singletary. Brown makes them all better even if Brown only gets a handful of targets.
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Wallace has never played nickel. Not sure how much Norman has. Johnson has regressed it seems. He was a guy that when playing he made the defense better and when he was injured in years past it was a noticeable drop off. I'm not opposed to any upgrade attempt for the defense, but nickel DB is far below the immediate need to get better LB and DL for me.
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Yeldon was better than Gore last year and he is better than Moss too.
Singletary should still start and get the bulk of the work. The run game is about the line than anything else.
Also Gilliam should sit. Lee Smith is more valuable as a blocker.
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14 hours ago, DJB said:
We had our chance. Chose a skinny DE over future super stud JK Dobbins .
I'm still angry about it
Yup. While I wanted a pass rusher when Dobbins was on the board he should have been the pick.
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You are correct in that the number 1 issue that needed to be settled this year was Allen.
But you should never put off a chance of winning now. No one knows what will happen with the salary cap and current and future roster makeup. Win when you have the franchise QB on a rookie deal. Now I don't advocate being stupid and wasteful like the Texans, but spending some future draft capital to win now is the right move.
It was the right move when Beane traded for KB. Even though it did not work out in that deal it should not dissuade future moves this year.
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I know I am in the minority but others have supported me. I hate the Bills mafia moniker. Especially the drunken table jumping morons. Its an emberassment to the team and anyone from the region.
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4 hours ago, MAJBobby said:
For all the Edmunds is Terrible group. I think Zo would know.
So if he was struggling would they give up 60 points?
I'm sorry but we can see and analyze the plays too. He is playing terribly. Now I'm sure there are many plays we can't tell who meses up. When they lost contain we don't know if the DE crashes inside and someone else is supposed to cover outside, who screwed up? Who knows.
But the eyes tell us Edmunds is still out of positon often and slow to diagnose plays.
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11 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I guess that would be why John Harbaugh said this:
And Marv Levy said this:
No question it helped the Titans a lot that the Bills had drive starts at the 9, 9, and 3 yd line thanks to their ST.
No question it helped the Titans a lot that the Bils ST gifted them a start on the 30 yd line.
The game was pretty much out of reach at the point where Roberts fumbled on a KR, but that surely iced it.
It seems to me the ST coordinator is supposed to coach the coverage and return teams to avoid this *****.
Even small details like Bojo being unable to turn the laces could cost us
My point is Bobby April has had top units and bottom ranked units. The concepts are very basic especially with the rule changes.
So praising of blaming the coordinator is useless.
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Special teams coordinators are meaningless. They are meaningless when times are good and when times are bad.
Roberts is a fine punt returner. He makes good decisions on fielding the ball. I do agree with OP that almost always if the ball is kicked in the EZ he should not bring the kickoff out.
The concern should be that the Bills waste roster spots on guys that only play special teams. We have a LB on the roster that is not good enough to play LB. Why? A single sixth WR that is a gunner or a back end of the roster DB as a gunner would be fine but nothing more than that.
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3 hours ago, Gordio said:
That Detroit, that was after their 4th super bowl, that team was definitely on the down swing and that game showed it. I remember I was in Nevada visiting mky cousins that Thanksgiving. I remember we had a whole bunch of cousins watching the game. I couldn't believe how they were bad mouthing Kelly. They thought he sucked. Which was a different perspective than one on WNY, where for the most part everybody thought he was really good. I was taken a back by it.
Ugh I took a bus with a bunch of Bills Backers members from Columbus OH to that game. Detroit ran a successful flea flicker on the first drive maybe even the first play. And it was downhill from there.
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5 hours ago, Livinginthepast said:
I remember that KC game and the thanksgiving massacre in Detroit in 1994 as being the worst non playoff national games that the SB teams played in. Last night was a mild flashback to those games. The big difference for me though is that those games were much more of a shock because the SB Bills teams were so stacked with talent. The KC game especially was a shocking comprehensive beat down of one the best teams in NFL history. We are getting very deluded if we think the current squad is anywhere near the talent of the SB years.
Don't forget the Dallas MNF game in the national embarrassment list
Maybe we were deluded as to how much talent those SB teams had. In comparison to other AFC teams, sure, but in the end not close to the best of the NFC. And it is the same issue again. Finesse versus power. Bills are finesse and dare I say soft at the point of attack. No different than the SB years. The big difference is the defense had Bruce Smith who could wreck a game plan by himself.
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5 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I dunno about strong side LB, but if they want him to be a Lorax equivalent (whatever you'd call him): Lorax was on the field close to 60% of the snaps for the last 2 years on D and 50% of ST. Low of 27% and high of 100%.
I will be honest I don't know if he was on either kickoff or kick return team.
Lorax played some stand up LB for both Rex and McD. I think he got most of his defensive snaps at DE # 4, but if I recall correclty he moved up and down th eline and ligned up at DT once or twice a game.
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6 hours ago, Gugny said:
Yeah, those have definitely run dry. Just like, "Edmunds is only 22!"
Edmunds has plenty of game experience to start using the bust label. The unknown is how hurt is he? Maybe the guy is playing with one shoulder like Biscuit did one year. Maybe he needs off-season surgery. If not then he has regressed badly.
As for Knox, he has barley played more than 16 games and in fact he is still learning the NFL TE position. Too soon to call him a bust but certainly is ok to be worried about his career trajectory and catching ability.
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The Patriots are 2-3
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Its not Cam its there o-line.
Pats nearly beat KC and Seattle.
Bills best path to the playoffs is to win the division. Bills need at least a split with New England and maybe need to sweep the division to win it if Miami gets hot down the stretch.