Chaos

No team pursues a single strategy on offense 100% of the time. However there seems to be two competiting philosophies on the fundamental approach to moving the ball up the field and scoring: Three plays designed to total 10+ yards. The prevailing "Woody Hays three yards a cloud of dust" philosophy which dominated football for decades. Three chances to gain 10+ yards. We had the misfortune of watching Tom Brady run the greatest and most consistent offense for 20 years. There are no running backs of particular note (maybe I am forgetting someone) for that entire time. During this era my impression was the Patriots core offense was based on running plays designed to go 10 yards or more if they succeeded, almost all the time. And the Patriots maintained the same rythm on 3rd and 10, as they did on first and ten. (side note, they never seemed to take negative plays and their line did not seem to generate many penalties. Two seasons ago, I thought the Bills prevailing philosophy was "Three chances to gain 10+ yards". This season I feel like they have no prevailing philosophy. Maybe this is good because it keeps the defenses guessing. Maybe it is bad because the team seems to struggle establishing a rythm against the better defenses. Within a single four down series It appears to me to be counter productive to switch back and forth between the philosophies. As a fan, this frustrates me in the second and 10 scenarios, after an incomplete pass, where the team runs a running play that even if successful seems designed to gain 4 yards, leaving a third and 6. Converting third and 6, is not much different than converting third and 10, so it seems like a squandered opportunity to gain more on second down. A similar frustration is invoked when the team runs on first and second down, and gets to third and 2 or 3, and third down become a passing down. I get that third and 2 or 3, is easier to convert overall than third and 10, and I always feel like the 7 yards gained on first and second down, does not serve any particular utility. I don't think it matters what strategy the Bills pursue against the average and poor defenses, their talent level simply overwhelms the defense, but against the better defense, I feel like the Bills, on a particular drive, or at least series of downs, would benefit from a more consistent philosophy.

Preseason Fans/ Media: sugar rush Josh has to focus on short quick passes Season. : Allen focuses on short passes with record setting completion percentages Fans : OMG yards per catch production is down As best as I can determine there are spme fans who anything short of 100 Percent completion rates and league leading YPA totals means “something is off”

this game stinks

Yes. If Roth and D'Angelo had gotten married, would that have saved their jobs?

Terry Pegula is involved with Kim Pegula, former president of the Bills.

It is shame. They met each other and fell for each other. She is a general counsel level attorney. Hard to imagine she is not capable of making her own decisions. To the best of my knowledge Terry Pegula and the former president of the Bills have a romantic relationship.

Von Miller is widely understood to not be as impactful as Jones? Interior line play is now more important in the NFL a than edge rusher. salary structure is whacked.

I have a question regarding Jones. I keep reading how he is our best defensive player along with Milano and White. Is this analysis based on the first games of this season or was this everyone’s understanding coming into the season. I would have thought in a preseason ranking Rousseau , Poyer, Miller, Hyde and Oliver were all viewed as more important pieces.

I was a huge fan of the Kincaid pick. I preferred him over Mayer or LaPorta. But one thing I notice watching those three players is that Mayer and LaPorta look much bigger and stronger than Kincaid. I was hoping Kincaid would be a combination high end slot reciever/ high end tight end. But watching him against NFL talent, I am a bit concerned that Kincaid is a "tweener" talent not quite fast and elusive enough to be an effective NFL slot and not quite big strong enough to be a high end tight end.

Its part of the NFL's ongoing experimentation to see how much pain and suffering they can inflict on Buffalo sports fans.

The raiders have an equal chance of scoring whether they have the ball, or Jordan love has the ball. More time just gives them more time to score.

why are the raiders not calling time out?

Dak is mediocre.

Love is awful

The Jags players themselves are saying they had a huge advantage. Etienne mentioned he knew how much harder the game was to play the previous week, compared to the second week, after assimilating.

It is a legal requirement for all commentators on packers games to inform you that he is in fact the annointed successor.

It really is a scandal. It really calls for an independent investigation from outside the league.

I am wondering if they could make this experiment more interesting, but having the Bills play the chiefs in Arrowhead this thursday, just to see if f'ing the Bills over one week can then help the chiefs the following week.

Will the league be disclosing what other experiments they will be running? I know we have this time lag experiment. And I am aware of the ongoing experiment to call defensive holding penalties on the Bills, but not their opponents. Any others?

Its an organizational embarrassment. So bad, the NFL really needs to pass rules to prevent other teams from making such a blunder.

I think the Bills should sign Darius Rush from the Chiefs practice squad. Not sure how he fell so far from grace since before the draft. But he is 23, vs Normans, 123 years of age.

The other way to analyse that statistic is to say the defense couldn't get off the field.

He did the Toy Story call last week in London.

Proably Jet lag. I jest, he was horrible yesterday. I really wish the NFL, would move away from national broadcast teams as the only option, and in the various expensive streaming services allow fans to pick home team announcers (or away team announcers) properly synched to the game. In this situation choices are good. I suspect, they might find the majority of fans prefer to listen to the local guys rather than Collinsworth or Booger McFarland.

No NFL QB hits 40+ in the air passes with 100% in stride accuracy. Allen hits a higher percentage than almost anyone else. The difference is that this year we have neutered the passing offense, and there are no many occassions in a game for the long ball, so when there is a miss, it sticks out more than in past years.