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Every week I somehow forget how ridiculous this game day thread is 😂. Somehow a quick out to an absolutely wide open cook is a bad call?

I’m still not over the bills loss to the jags in London on that phantom pi call like 10 years ago lol

Another team with garbage coverage linebackers, one great pass rusher, and a mediocre offense. Feels like a redux of the commanders game only thing keeping this close is the big time travel disadvantage

They also hate ocyrus Torrence lol I don’t think pff even normalizes their score based on opponents so there’s really nothing to support the bills having a bad pass rush. If they got less points for beating up on bad olines maybe that would hold them back a bit but I don’t think it works that way

Unfortunately we have been regular season second place in wins which has given the chiefs a huge edge in the playoffs and this all began just after the 2 seed stopped getting a bye people talk like regular season success doesn’t effect playoffs and that is absolutely not true The nfl playoffs has a crazy high variance and it is especially high for teams that don’t get home field/a first round bye. The best team winning the superbowl is pretty rare in general if you’re looking at an individual couple of years everyone’s spoiled by what NE did but really most teams with an elite qb are very good for a decade or more and they only win 1-2 superbowls the chiefs have been insanely lucky as far as seeding goes…any time they haven’t been the 1 seed the 1 seed has pooped the bed and they get the home afc championship anyway 😂

Idk I think there’s some nuance to this as josh had the best two game run for a qb in the playoffs probably ever and the defense failed him miserably. On the flip side, burrow has played pretty average in the playoffs and he has been rescued by his defense on quite a few occasions If we were comparing a superbowl winner to a non superbowl winner I’d def side with you more, but burrow and Allen both don’t have one. As bills fans have learned from decades of jokes, almost winning a Super Bowl isn’t worth diddly until burrow has got a Super Bowl win I think comparing playoff stats/regular season stats between Allen and burrow is more than fair .

Browns give them trouble too and they’ve also got the Seahawks left. 1-4 might be the end of their playoff hopes. They’d probably have to finish 9-3 to have a chance which would be pretty tough even for that peak bengals team we saw last year

Afc player of the week has been won by a player from the dolphins or bills every week so far haha

Torrence seems to be the 2023 edition of good bills players that pff hates lol somehow he’s at a 59 right now which doesn’t make a lot of sense unless he’s consistently getting embarrassed when run blocking

The pats are actually still trying to compete this season? I’d just play for draft position at this point

We face the bottom 3 offensive lines in the league still in addition to the jets lol crazy we could be seeing all them With von miller

Both diggs/Allen and mahomes/Kelce have such a great rapport that the receivers can improvise based on the coverage and the qbs will still know exactly where they’re gonna be. Kelce feels like he does a ton of damage finding weak spots in zone coverage. playing man against either of these teams gets tough too because they’ve got a lot of pretty good receivers and the qb can take off running diggs is such a good route runner too that he’s hard to double even. True double coverage really isn’t that successful against great wrs…I think I saw some tweet last year that diggs was open like 60% of the time anyway against double coverage

9 minutes a few timeouts and the 2 minute warning is plenty of time to score multiple tds if the team with the lead goes three and out a few times

Oh i didn’t intend on moving the goalposts or disagreeing with you lol i absolutely agree with your eichenberg point. I was just furthering the discussion…maybe I jumped the gun but the implication seemed to be that our defense is great but the rematch will be a much different game if their offensive line is fully healthy but I would be shocked if their offensive line is fully healthy for any future game is the jist of what I was saying. williams and armstead just absolutely cannot miss any time for them to be successful which is quite a calculated risk. and yea I would put some blame on beane for our pass rush completely vanishing after von went down. Investing in backups is pointless if they’re not good 😂 literally the biggest criticism we could make of beane so far is he’s thrown a ton of money at the defensive line depth and not really gotten anywhere near the return on investment up until now.

I don’t want to say this didn’t age well because it comes down to personal feelings but man is this an exciting team. Even from that poopy jets game it was pretty clear we have made big strides in the trenches I will say though that the last few years have really made us all understand how hard it is to win a Super Bowl which is pretty discouraging at times. The best team winning it is pretty rare to begin with and there’s 0 margin of error for the team that has to play that fateful arrowhead stadium afc championship game. Someone’s gotta stop these fools from getting the 1 seed every season 😂.

I can’t believe I’m about to go to bat for Zach Wilson but I can see the jets rolling with him given who’s available. At least he’s bad and mobile rather than just a pretty bad pocket passer lol matt Ryan would get killed behind that offensive line

I definitely agree but at what point does it become the dolphins front offices fault that they are just not pursuing quality offensive line depth. They are one offensive line injury from a disaster at any given time which is the danger zone for a team starting terron armstead. I don’t think there’s a team in the league that makes it through an entire season without having to shuffle olinemen due to injury I’d file that more in the flawed team category than bad luck category The bills for example lost two corners and were down a safety to start but they have quality depth at those positions so there wasn’t a big drop off

They themselves were a playoff team last year and they beat a playoff team last year though. If ‘oh we’re playing a lot of playoff teams early’ is a valid excuse there’s major problems I’d excuse getting stomped by the cowboys but sneaking by the cardinals and getting blown out by the Seahawks is rough

He had a trick play thrown in that absolutely blew up and killed the drive too lol I think we hit brian bingo

If Daboll had serious elbow injury josh/2022 bills oline his offense would’ve been considerably worse than dorsey’s imo. I think Daboll is going to go down as one of the more overrated head coaching candidates in recent history. That first year is gonna be his pinnacle McDaniel is bordering on overrated for me too but that’s more of a ‘he’s very good but people are saying he’s some kind of genius’ situation. They just don’t beat playoff caliber opponents but his track star team is well suited to blowing out bottom feeders. He’s now 2-6 in the regular season against playoff teams(assuming the bills make it this year) and those two wins were flukey, very narrow wins over the ravens and bills who were decimated by injuries. The bills outgained them by like double the yards in that loss despite being down to backups or the backups of backups at nearly every position I don’t think McDaniel should be crowned for scoring a bunch of points against horrible teams because in the grand scheme of things your performance against the good teams is really all that matters especially when you’re all in like the dolphins front office is. They are in cap hell the next few years He deserves a lot of credit for designing a successful offense with a bad offensive line built around a qb that can’t use the whole field or do much of anything when the pocket is collapsing but at some point when do you start blaming the OC/head coach when tua doesn’t get better at those things. If his first read isn’t open within a second or two of the snap the chances the play will be successful drops to pretty much 0. Tua hasn’t improved at all under McDaniel the system is just really successful at masking his issues against bad/mediocre defenses

Good god if the giants don’t get some offensive linemen back by next weekend they’re gonna lose by 100

Imagine the ptsd Miami fans have watching josh Allen march down the field though lol he’s done it his whole career against them his worst game against them is 366 total yards 2tds 2 ints (should’ve been 3 td and like 50 more yards)

I was absolutely thinking the opposite and I’m on record saying it in the gameday thread lol it was objectively harder for Miami to score than buffalo those first few drives…I think some of y’all are biased due to past football related traumas 😂 The bills were absolutely steamrolling the dolphins. The dolphins had a couple flukey plays drop in to sustain drives on offense early

He does seem like he’d be the type that’s a little too much of a players coach

Idk where he’s getting that from…the dolphins had a supremely lucky play go their way on the first two drives. The bills had absolutely 0 difficulty scoring on offense it was pretty clear sal had that tweet backwards. Nothing really changed at all their luck just ran out