MasterStrategist

Everyone eats is the nice way of saying we have zero divas at WR/anyone that we need to force targets too. I dont mind the saying - just rather we get more creative with our pass route concepts and get less predictable on offense.

That's because we telegraph our run game. Kincaid comes off the field --- 90%+ chance we run, because we usually bring on some combo of Hawes/Gilliam or use Hawes/Knox. Shakir- hes still battling thru his ankle, IMO. I fully expect we see his snap count increase after bye week But in theory, I hate our personnel groupings. I dont want to see Gilliam on the field, or Shavers. Both these guys ZERO to the pass game/it becomes almost a guarantee we are running the ball. Teams have started to adjust to our personell groupings. Hawes, I dont mind seeing him, but rather we roll with 12 personell than 13 on 1st downs. Keep the defense guessing if run or playaction. Id be saving 13 for inside the 10/3rd or 4th and short.

I think Keon has been battling thru the groin still, as is Shakir with his high ankle to some degree. Keon stats reflect an ascending player, keeping in mind he is super young still. Obviously has maturity issues, which hopefully improve. I also think hes been "held" ALOT. Its not getting called, so maybe there's something he can do differently, but every game this year its occurred multiple times. He and Josh are not fully on same page yet with back shoulder throws. He was on the 2nd one, but Josh put that first one in a horrible spot (might be Keon to blame as well for not getting to his spot quick enough). He needs to use his physicality more , so much potential there, its been inconsistent. Thats his path to success. I'd also like to see him out of the slot more , but mostly Kincaid filling that big slot now. I'd also like to see Keon on downfield crossers. We dont run enough of these route combos. And sending Keon to the post. Have we ran any post patterns this year, by the way? Bradys route combos are not great IMO

Coordinators get "figured out" in year 2. Dorsey had this problem too. Tendencies and formation/personnel groupings are studied and analyzed at a high level. Babich has McD and Nielsen, certainly some experienced coordinators to lean into. Injuries/suspensions, are making it difficult to assess. Missing Ed, Milano, and they were counting on Max's speed/him to start. Now we are likely down Milano for a decent amount of time...who knows when they will trust Max to take the field (might require an injury to Tre). Brady: When you design an offense to be "efficient"/grind it out with little explosive play design, then you better not turnover the ball OR get any significant/have a penalty problem. We had the killer combo of both of these, which to Bradys credit, kills drives and playcalling rhythm. Im not a fan of several things: hes too predictable, too slow to adjust his gameplan, route combinations I dislike, lack of RB use in passing game this year, and the horizontal passing game. Coordinators sometimes get figured out in Year 2 (like Dorsey). But I think Brady will ultimately make some scheme changes. Keon year 2, Palmer year 1, Samuel basically missed most of last year --- then I think Shakir is still fighting thru his high ankle sprain to some degree. Get this W, and I typically hate early bye weeks -- but this works to our favor this year IMO. Suspended guys returning to practice, hopefully Max IR practice window opened, and coaches a chance to make some changes.

Another tough game. Falcons offense is better than Pats, IMO. And they are coming off a bye week, at home. Hopefully Bills dont lay an egg 2 weeks in a row in primetime. Time for team to step up the level of play

True, no clue how I forgot that. Excellent point, and unfortunate outcome. Its funny how replay assist is used for certain penalties -ie: illegal man downfield, illegal forward pass, but not for others (judgment calls). Seems like there still is an opportunity to improve on that, but as you said, takes the NFL being more forward thinking

Never understood why penalties (called or not), cant be reviewed. Purpose of review is to improve the quality of calls. Why not include penalties in that? Keep coach initiated replays to 2 per game-but include penalties. Easy and improves integrity of the game.

100% on all this. Im vented about the lack of. boundary WR talent, we continue to hope/pray Keon can become a X, Palmer was brought in to be a separator, then LY it was Samuel. As you said, no diva = not elite. most of timr at WR. This is on Beane and also giving Allen too much leeway into decision making. I disliked the WGR interview earlier this offseason, would be their chance to bring this up again now/after last night's debacle.

Definitely calling out either Landon or Bernard on that specific play. We do tend run more contain/spy with LBs, but maybe a different look here? Confusion either way, which reflects poorly on player/prep. I will say, they adjusted in 4th qtr and used Shaq as the spy. Flushed the qb out and Shaq scrapes and makes the sack. I think we got too cute last night, as Coach said himself...on both sides of the ball. Confusion, out of position, penalties, turnovers--- poor execution and coaching. Beane hasn't helped either, when you see Gonzales and Davis lock up 1-1 on our boundary receivers all night and shut them down. Then you can funnel coverage to the middle and drop a safety for the run....takes away 2 of our strengths.

We need more talent at WR, DL, and CB. Thats the bottom line. Not expecting Hoecht and Oji, or Max after so much missed time, to be contributing much. Maybe Max in playoffs. Ed returning will certainly help, but only if he stays healthy...which is a big if. Maybe we can make a trade deadline move at WR...that would help to bring in more speed/downfield threat...but how long have many asked for that and Beane is refusing to do so. Changes with current coaching: 1. Defense: Babich is overmatched imo. I'd have Sean take back over, or possibly Nielsen getting more say to help Bobby 2. Offense: Brady has been "figured out". Dorsey was figured out his 2nd full season too. Some guys can adjust and adapt. Again talent deficient at WR, but Brady has to change his style. We've gone from Uber aggressive Dorsey to super conservative Brady. There is a middle ground somewhere. Also when Bills fans can predict plays 30%+, which I can easily do based on formation/personnel tendencies then you've become too predictable as a Coach Go find a WR with speed at trade deadline, and Brady change his tendencies. We didnt run the ball enough out of 11 personell last night either. We've started to use Kincaid more downfield. How about Palmer/Keon out of the slot, more middle of the field too? This team, either coaches or Beane, have seriously screwed up the WR room and wasted cap in the process. We've seen Keon enough to know hes better as a big slot, more dynamic there. The key 🔑 issue at WR, is lack of an X...still? Palmer isnt it. Then we couple his contract with a return/gadget guy in Samuel and weve wasted >$10m cap. Get a true X, actually 2...but thats next offseason. Beane is on thin ice to me. You cant live off the glory of drafting Josh Allen for this duration anymore, without improving his WR cast and lack of finding any true difference makers on defense

Thats a Beane special, which drives me nuts. Every year we look at what I call "optimizing cap space"-- Beane is not good at all. Comparing him to other top GMs, which Im sorry we will always be just 1 or 2 games short of a SB if we dont improve somehow at acquiring more talent. Samuel, Palmer, Knox, Rapp, etc. The cap space that gets used on mediocre / replaceable players. I like Knox, but not at his cap hit. Lets see what Hoecht and Oji do upon returning. They might be next on the list too. Most frustrating part of this team continues to be a lack of killer instinct/aggressive mindset on either side of ball. Our defense has injuries but its not a very talented group. Rapp starts on only few teams in this league, same with Daquon. Tre maybe starts for 5-10 teams. Milano cant stay healthy. This is Tarons last season with us too, IMO or should be. Hes lost a step.

Moore is meh. Samuel is our top KR now too. And he can run the jet sweep action like Elijah, and a better option in passing game IMO (more reliable in 1-1 option routes). Easy decision.

Lots of white in Lot1 / main sth lot...90%+

Thats because you bought the cheap option....yes $149 isnt chump change, but the $189 option has everything stitched on and way nicer/worth extra $40

Agree, but instead of Ingram (who they like as depth at alot of spots), its Codrington. I like Samuel at KR, fits him perfectly. And Shakir at PR is a downgrade, but not a huge deal.

Strong wasnt fully healthy Wed tho...even if he got a full practice. McD even said he was working thru the neck issue during Saints game. Same as TJ with knee. These injuries were aggravated somehow, but not new injuries. Basically we have Ingram instead of Strong for next 2 weeks. That's ok imo- just need Tre to step up more and stay healthy for a short stretch. Then we get Max back as depth week 8 imo

must be assumed, they don't think logue is worth much more than our other dt options on p/s. plus oji returning soon ciarlo brings the s/t prowess, which will be 🔑 this week especially. Hairston will be back after bye, imo. Along with hoecht and oji. Need to squeeze out 2 wins and get some reinforcements

Don't like seeing Dorian Strong and TJ pop up on injury report mid week. Especially Strong with a DNP/neck, hopefully not serious.

Off base. Brace is likely going to become a "sleeve" soon enough, I expect we open his window either next or week after - basically target a return very soon after bye week, dependent on health of DB room too.

Yeah that wasnt my point either, just a nugget...all good

100%. He is better than Mac IMO, but hes a tier 3 QB in this league (maybe mid tier 2 in afc alone) - serviceable/does some things well, but hes not winning you games by himself. For example, hes not Jayden Daniels caliber. I'd put ahead of him, in no particular order: Josh, Lamar, Burrow, Mahomes, Herbert in the Afc (5 qbs). Hes "on par" with Stroud, Bo Nix, Tua, and Daniel Jones IMO. He has a ceiling of Herbert, but hes close to that yet. I could care less about stats - just watching him play in year 2. And for all those saying hes comparable to Josh year 2, that's just nuts. Josh was on entire different level, just was inconsistent/trying to do too much at times.

💯 I expect we see a vastly improved defense once Ed and Matt are both back on field together. Couple that with: 1. Rookie DTs getting more experience/more consistent 2. Hoecht and Oji return - Hoecht more so. I think he will have a valuable role and take some snaps from Groot/Bosa, giving them more juice for late game closer roles. Oji gives us another DT option rushing the passer, at very least some depth 3. Bishop getting more confidence. I think he is on the cusp of big things for our defense Dorian has been a disappointment to start the year. Im fairly certain that Shaq will be taking more snaps from him, if Milano continues to miss time.

💯 Our Lbs, including Bernard, have been slow to "fire"/see and react fast to the hole. Bernard getting better, Dorian has been super slow reading things IMO - this past week, the threat of bootlegs just had Dorian lost. Deone has been inconsistent, but had his best game this past week at staying with his leverage/technique and playing the correct gap control. Phillips was awful Sunday. Daquan has been slightly below.average for over a year, I fully expect his playing time to decrease when Ed is at full health and Oji returns. TJ hasn't been good at controlling his gap in the run game --- the combo of him and Phillips was so bad that 1st drive, that they split up the Deone and Daqaun combo. IMO, our biggest issue this past week was Phillips. His poor play directly led to us needing to switch DT pairings. We absolutely need Ed back healthy, and the 4 man rotation goes back to being a solid group. Next on list to me has been our DE play. We are being outleveraged on any zone reads/jet sweeps. Luckily this week, I dont see alot of zone reads. But the horizontal jet sweep motion/fakes, are holding our DEs and LBs. We need to "fire" faster at DE as well as LB. So quick response its mostly DL in totality, IMO. Then LB. Rapp has been below avg, but hes the least of our concern --- we are getting gashed up front

Loser mentality post alert ⚠️ Getting Spencer back this week is HUGE. Ed likely too, maybe Matt as well. Our offense dominated the 1st qtr against the Saints, then we went into some poor playcalling/execution for 2nd and 3rd qtr. Sounds familiar from Miami game --- I think Brady needs to be more dynamic/adjust faster. Don't let up any big S/T plays and contain Drake scrambling on the 3rd down passing game. I think we win by 10-14 again.

Lol, someone forgot about Baltimore. Patriots are an average to slightly above avg team --- this should be a W at home.