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Josh was reading coverages pre snap like he has never done before. He was more deliberate on his throws in many situations staying within the play structure. Specifically in the 4th quarter. He has almost nothing in common with TB, but that last quarter he did display on time and on target passing like he rarely has. If that element goes into his game this year, it will be something nobody has ever seen in NFL history.

That was a slow response

Haha, I got one in the middle of a game my Senior year and I just fell over like that guy did. Couldn’t walk. Nothing you can do with it. If I was coaching a gotta have it play for 3 yards I don’t think I could roll with a guy showing those symptoms.

Yup. Can't do anything with it. It will drop even the toughest men to the ground in an instant.

It was an all time win. I don't think OP was diminishing it. It works both ways, I think we have shown to be the better team in the Chiefs games, but we haven't come up on the right end.

He just got laid

I don't know how coincidental it is they the Ravens always seem to make a critical mistake. That seems to be how they're at this point. Major credit to the Bills for being in position to capitalize on that if and when it occurred.

1%, which was our 4th quarter win probability

I haven’t seen the Bills do something like that in I don’t know how long. It gives me hope that this could be the year. It will take performances and resilience like that to navigate the playoffs. We aren’t going to win the Super Bowl without what is probably multiple comebacks. I’m still stunned. It was a very special night and very special game.

Dude, he’s been complaining about our WR investment for like two years straight

Thanks Collinsworth, all I need to do is run up a hill and I can truck Cole Bishop

This is what I expected, but still pissed we didn’t get a traditional one tech. We have to control the line more without putting 8 in the box. It’s just not a stable answer vs this team. Might not have made a difference but you could see Jones declining last year. We needed it and it was obvious.

Thousands of positive articles have been written about Caleb and McD. They’re still the overwhelming majority of media content about both. Caleb has been more neutral but it wasn’t that way when he entered the league or in his times at USC. Even a lot of his first year. I don’t want to keep on here, the point its scrutinized because it’s negative. Positive content doesn’t go thru that process. Both are just as likely to be missing the full perspective. So I don’t see a problem with his style. I appreciate it somebody who is willing to not just write puff pieces.

Do you consider the insanely glowing reports to be the truth? Reports like that were everywhere last year about Caleb. Doesn’t seem like those reports were all that true at this point? I really don’t understand the difference here. One is bias to the positive and one is bias to the negative.

How many unnecessarily glowing pieces have been written about Caleb Williams? The same for McD or anybody else in his cross hairs. The balance is the complete saturation of positive news angles for most of the people he is writing about. Not that Caleb hasn't had some critical pieces, especially of late, as has McD. But take his "hit piece" on McD. People actually DO feel that way about him. That is the case. Other people don't feel that way about him. We read those articles all the time. The actual truth is probably somewhere between these stories. I don't believe the truth is just the the droves of news that is all but Buffalo Bill sponsored content. Somebody SHOULD be writing about the other side because it gets as closer to what is real. I can't believe either the exceptionally glowing or the exceptionally negative. Nothing is ever so black and white and the reader should understand as much. So I don't mind his content. It actually gives balance in my opinion.

What does that say about what surrounds Josh. Put it like this, most of us know the Ravens are built to give us problems and probably have the most talent in the NFL. But we are only worried about them because it's the regular season. You guys fold harder than even we do, but in your case the QB1 is leading the charge. In our case, it is everybody but QB1. You swap QB's and the Bills are in the same place but the Ravens are SB champions and probably multiple times. Lamar's playoff losses Baltimore has allowed 22.4 PPG, in Buffalo? 31.3 PPG, Last 3 years? 20.33 vs 28.66. Allen has had to overcome over a TD more on average in defeat than Jackson. Again, you give Baltimore that ball protection and that production and it's lights out. They just haven't gotten that.

His career FG% on the road is 81.1% which is not great, that's lower the Bass at home or away. His last two years he actually played was 24 of 26 so a little more reassuring. I'm not so worried about the dome thing, but a bit worried if this lasts into the winter. Buffalo is about as far away from his historical kicking environment one could get. Even if you don't care for Bass much, which I don't, you have to like the fact that he understands how wild some of these kicks are late in the year and has attempted plenty of them.

I think it might bother them a bit to hear all offseason that the dynasty is over and the Chargers or Broncos are overtaking the division. KC is not losing a divisional week 1 game after how it ended last year.

Chargers always play them close, but I have a feeling Chiefs make a statement today.

Off script is outside the called route structure. It doesn't matter if everybody under the sun knows what tends to happen when structure is broken. You can't time that sort of thing and you can't cover a guy for 5 seconds. Its outside of the play, at which point Brady didn't contribute, most QB's aren't able to do it. It's all Allen and it's a big, sometimes, depressingly big, part of our offense. It's not a positive thing to be off script as often as we are offensively. It doesn't produce consistency in the ways traditional, on time passes do. But it's not like I blame Allen, how many match up winners do we have outside that allow him to be on time? From a pure production stand point, he is likely the best in the history of the sport. I think that stats back that up. He is an entire offense himself. An entire style that is unique to defensive coordinators to play against and yes, one that I will keep doubling down on as far as covering massive warts elsewhere.

When you jump into the debate of who is best, one thing is clear, Allen is responsible for more output than anybody. His off schedule plays are a significant amount of our production offensively. I can't imagine anybody in NFL history has generated more production off schedule than Allen. Which isn't ideal all the time, but when we value the contributions of #17 I think it extends a little further than a conversation of what an elite QB is worth to a team. I don't believe this offense can work without out him. Which you might be able to say about several others, but the decline would be so significant even with an average QB. Which is really saying something given it was one of the franchises most productive offenses ever last year.

and TBH we missed on a lot of really good kickers the last year or two as a result of sticking with him.

I imagine over the course of the next several weeks it will lead to a lot of reflection. The memories of the Super Bowls and those 90's are just so entrenched in my youth. All those ups and downs and times that followed. These seasons almost act as a time machine. You remember other times in your life and what it felt like in those times when you think about these teams. I imagine I will wake up for about a month straight and it will be my first thought and it will be incredibly positive and in a lot of ways peaceful. I think it will make me a lot more relaxed as fan as well. I can't disagree more with people that think one won't be enough. I'm sure you will always want another one, but it just won't be under the thought of potentially never being able to experience it.

I think is a really solid take, but I wouldn't make the assumption it will force Baltimore out of these sets. Likely missed time last year and Charlie Kolar filled in. Then they brought in Lucas Scott, a rookie, near 300 pounder to play FB. He is on the practice squad, but I would imagine they activate him for Sunday. Mind you these players are less impactful than Likely and Ricard, but I don't imagine these issues will force a complete identity change.

Or we blew a 16-0 2nd half lead to Houston. Got blown out in the AFC championship game vs KC. Blew a FG lead with 13 seconds left because of the defensive alignment and kickoff strategy. Got blown out in the divisional round to the Bengals. Failed to convert a TD or FG in our final drive vs KC, and they would have got the ball back after averaging almost 8 yards a play and punting 1 time. Failed to get past midfield on our final drive, then couldn't KC off the field as the ran out the clock. If we score, they again, get the ball back. If you think just scoring either of the two years vs KC is close, just ask the 49ers or Eagles what that looks like. The trend is clear, failure to execute in the last 5 minutes with our competition being nearly Patriot like in execution in that time. You see close, I see an ocean separating us. Lets also not forget, we aren't even talking about the Super Bowl. A game we have seen previous versions of the franchise go to a fail 4 consecutive years. We have a long way to go.