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(was never activated off IR) Hyde said he was medically cleared near the end of the week and could have played next week if the Bills had continued.

I feel like I just said "blahblah ginger blahblah" and you're missing the point I'm trying to make Back to the Chris Simms thing: Von Miller is an elite playmaker who can make game changing plays. The Bills prioritized him because he's a player who can get sacks. We lost him in November. Oliver was drafted in 1st round to be an elite player. He is, sometimes - and not others. He was obviously playing hurt at the end of the season. The big question the Bills need to answer is how often does that happen. IMHO the Bills need to go after top talent on OL, not DL

Respectfully, I believe you to be conflating "difference maker" with "putting up stats". Putting pressure on the QB is Chris Jones job. It is not Daquan Jones job. His job was what Star Lotulelie was supposed to do, and with few exceptions never did - soak up OL and free the 3T to generate pressure up the middle. And he was doing it. Settle told us we were gonna love him, but he isn't in the same league. That's more than a "complementary piece" to my definition. Someone like that is actually foundational and fundamental to being able to get pressure in McD's defense.

That's actually what I came here this am to find

It's not just the sideline "I want the ball" thing, it's the taking his stuff and shooting out of there pronto. That's just not what an actual leader does Chase is open because he's #15 for targets and #17 for receiving yards - owing to having Tee Higgins at # 20 for receiving yards. Does Diggs actually want to share the spotlight like that? I feel like this whole season for Allen has been a push-me pull-you between expressing the philosophy "our offense works better when we spread the ball around" and "we've got to find a way to get the ball to Diggs more". I don't think both of those things can work at the same time.

He's not wrong about the talent on the offensive side of the ball - the OL and skill players - not being comparable at all to the other remaining teams in the playoffs. When he starts going off on how there's no (this player that player) on defense, I think he's missing that we lost Von Miller to injury and that we were playing without DaQuan Jones who has been key for us, and with Oliver and Phillips hampered.

Please don't confuse lack of expressing an opinion as "unity" with an opinion being expressed. A lot of sane and sensible posters normally avoid TBD for 24-48 hrs after a loss and even longer after a playoff loss. So the opinions expressed may have merit, the opinions expressed may not have merit, but they don't represent "unity". The Bills decided, after last year's playoff loss, that they needed to rebuild their DL, from the interior out. The two best players of the 4 they added didn't play, and 2 more were playing hurt. We spent 1/5 of the game with Jaquan Johnson and Dean Marlowe as our safeties and half the game with Poyer and Jaquan Johnson. We know Poyer has been playing on a torn meniscus. Contrary to popular opinion, we CAN keep doing this or worse - and one of the ways to do that is to succumb to knee-jerk "fire everyone" itis. There will be major changes among the players, because we can't afford to keep everyone.

Somehow seems to fit post Divisional loss move Lyrics

They got outcoached in the Eagles game. IMO. Your mileage may vary, that’s fine

I’m not sure what this means. What do you mean by it? Hopefully we are not confusing people choosing to not weigh in on a knee-jerk postgame thread as “no support” That’s how it always is, Josh said it years ago, win and you’re awesome, lose and you suck and we should fire all the coaches.

Giants got blown out on both sides of the ball yesterday. Can say they don’t have the horses yet, but they appear to have been outcoached

Thanks! Yeah, Diggs needs to take a Chill Pill and understand that he isn’t necessarily open when the QB has to throw the ball

This, IMO. If you’re truly my slime, my friend, you’re there for the bad times, you don’t bail

Assume the change above is what you meant Yeah, it’s totally fair to praise the game’s premier players, and I can even live with them not doing wrong. But when he is praising the great play of stumbling up the middle and dieting the ball by Mahomes, or saying of a good, rising player on the opposing team “we’ve seen Mahomes do that so many times”, etc etc it’s rising to the level of Parody. At least refrain from praising a crap play and give the opponent their propers while they’re on the field.

I’m actually not sure about the “inside track”. We have Mike Shula, who was Dorsey’s boss in Carolina and OC under Shurmur for Daniel Jones rookie year, where he looked competent. Bills previously proposed that moratorium and were shot down. Joe Brady has already been an OC with the Panthers and was fired mid-season, fair or unfair. If he wants to climb the ladder, he needs to make sure that this time he isn’t stepping onto a rotten rung - ask Daboll what OC gigs with bad Browns, Dolphins, and KC teams did for his career trajectory.

Hyde. Bring him back too. And while we’re using that Heal spell on both teams, DaQuan Jones and BigJ9797

Pretty sure that’s a coat I’ve seen Hamlin wear

I had that thought myself. Both Oliver and Phillips can play 1T (don’t like to, but can) They might spend some time there with Rousseau or Basham rotating inside

One of them. Jones and Settle are the 1TDT, Oliver and Phillips the 3TDT. Of the two (Settle and Jones) Jones is the bigger stud and has been getting 70% of the snaps. In theory, Jordan Phillips is HUGE and should be able to play 1TDT but it’s not his thing. We have also used Oliver at 1T last season but it limits his best skill. Both Oliver and especially Jordan Phillips are playing through injury - Oliver hasn’t been on the report for weeks but he’s playing with a brace on. 5 DE is new, will be interesting to see what Frazier has in mind there.

DaQuan Jones inactive is huge for us. 5 active DE is unusual

I like this response:

Is this the actual Bills locker room or some kind of "NFL Experience" thing? The pants look ridiculously short and I thought the Bills lockers had a different configuration.

I'm fan enough to soak up all the footage, but this guy Brasky is just making up words to match with it when he tweets it out. Is it just me, or does he set off the metal detector and just keep going while the security guards go on about their business?

Is he really? In past years, I've appreciated his web site "Sharp Football Stats" although he isn't keeping it up this season. I'd mock him for his absurd Conspiracy Theory take about the NFL selling neutral site tickets - as though the Bengals, KC, and Buffalo weren't also selling Championship game tickets.