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Watched each of the three plays he broke down. It was Bills vs Jets. Here are my thoughts: 1. First play: Josh is looking at his outlet (TE, I think) who is uncovered but takes the sack. Why? 2. 2d Play: Josh misses the deep cross. Why? 3d play: A running play to the left. Play design requires Dawkins to cross the face of the DT lined up inside him to block him (LG pulled to the left). He can't make the block & the DT blows up the play for a loss. Poor play design? Your thoughts?

You are not wrong. BUT drafting a QB that develops into a good one is a crap shoot (actially the odds are worst than a crap shoot). Maybe if the drafted QB sits behind the starter for several seasons so that he has time to grow into the role you'll have a starting QB. What happens now, even with high draft picks, they get on the filed much too early and get ruined -- their confidence is shot.

Or Kemp and Lamonica! This was light years ago in another galaxy that did not have free agency. Teams need to pay their starters so much more nowthey cannot afford another starting level QB as QB 2.

Tua & Dak are laughing all the way to the bank. FLA & TX have no personal income tax (also Nevada, Washington state and Tennessee)

Johnny Unitas

Shades of Willie Galimore & Cedric Benson.

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You can't make this stuff up: https://www.aol.com/ex-no-1-pick-jamarcus-155717451.html

The NFL has an antitrust exemption. Without it each team could make its own deals for TV broadcasts and the small market / mediocre trams would have less money to spand on facilities plyers, etc. The salary cap would fall apart. Guess what would happen to the league -- the deep-pocketed teams would out bid others for the top players. What do you think would happen to the small market Bills team? Josh Allen would soon be wearing a Jets, Giants or Cowboys jersey.

Shirt happens!

For you young wipper-snappers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game Imagine if, in the 2022 Bills' OT loss to KC, the network had cut to Heidi instead of showing the last two minutes of regulation.

Belichick has always been good with Xs & Os.

Conrad Dobler (look him up)

That's Rich.

Watch his You Tube highlights. He was fast even in slow motion. It's not old man hype, he was that good! You don't rush for 2003 yards in 14 games (avg. 143 yds per game) often against stacked boxes wothout being that good. Props to the Electric Company (his OL because they turned on the Juice). My dad & I rooted for the Baltimore Colts before the Bills came to town in 1960. After that our teams were AFL: the Bills; NFL: the Colts. I remember attending games in the Rockpile with my dad. You'd pay a homeowner to park on his lawn because parking was a nightmare. When the Rockpile was built not everyone owned a car. My butt still hurts from sitting on those concrete bleacher seats despite the folded blankets we sat on.

Good point. Add to this that in NFL defenses, the zones aren't static. They often adjust to the route combos being run so the zones may shift or convert to man depending on the combos. This puts a premium on a CB being able to read several WRs routes quickly.

Perhaps this is because in play action with the QB under center the QB dropping back must turn his back to the D so that the play looks like a running play. He then fakes a handoff to the RB then pulls up and looks to see who is open because a D player got sucked in thinking it was a run. If the QB glances back at the D while retreating from under center, he gives away that it's really a pass play. The in the play action pass, tehre is no option. The play is pass all the way but designed to fool the D by looking like a run. The RPO is a true option; it may be a pass or a run depending on how the D reacts. In an RPO, the QB in shotgun or pistol can focus on the conflict defender and, according to what the defender does, pass or run; that is, if the defender plays pass the RB keeps and runs and if the defender plays run the QB can pass. With Josh, the RPO has the option for Josh to keep and run. Is this analysis correct?

The Bills had some success with condensed formations last year. It's not something you can use all the time but it allowed us to run the ball effectively up the middle. It can also get receivers into space. The outside receivers can run to grass outside and that can open up the middle. For those not familiar with condensed formations there are several Youtube videos explaining the concept. Here is one: Here is an explanation you can read: https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/07/why-the-49ers-use-this-type-of-formation-more-than-anyone/

Poyer was a stand-up guy. When he had a rib injury and could not fly, he drove himself to and fron KC so he could play in the game. That's hardcore!

Belichick's dad Steve wrote a book on scouting old school. I've often wondered whether Belichick's ability to draft well (mostly at the end of the various rounds) for so long (for example, Brady and Edleman not drafted until round six) and his ability to trade vets just at the cusp of their future decline was learned at the feet of his dad and honed by Belichick's experience on the coaching side of the NFL.

This was meant as a tribute to Buffalo and the people of WNY but when I said solid small town values some might have thought I meant narrow-minded people. No, I meant the positive small town values of neighbors looking out for neighbors, helping out one another, saying "hi" to a stranger you pass on the sidewalk and more. WNY was a great place to grow up and I did not appreciate that until I moved away.

A thoughtful gesture. Josh is the way he is because he was raised in a small town with those solid small town values. I'll add that Buffalo is the biggest small town I have ever known.

"People are strange when you're a stranger"

One other factor in the closing of the gap between stud and pretty good receivers: WRs coming out of college have been playing in pro style passing attacks for years, even in HS. That means they are much more experienced in that style of attack.