Virgil

In this game, yes. Overall, they've been good

I'm not saying I started it in the 3rd quarter but......

Addison and Jefferson have been fine

Edmunds and Oliver are not living up to their 1st round statuses. That is very true

A series circuit is great when everyone is working together and puts on a great light show. But when you're totally reliant upon in and one part goes down, the whole thing goes down. 1 - Tuesday Night Game - Say what you want about COVID rescheduling and if the Titans deserve responsibility, both teams still had to go out any play the game today. Both teams were missing key players. Both teams had their normal rhythm thrown off. But only one team decided to not show up tonight and I have no sympathy for millionaire athletes who don't show up. Yes, that probably sets the tone for the rest of this. While I do give credit to the Titans for having a good defensive game plan against us, we also have coaches who's job is to game plan and get their players up for the game. 2 - Mistakes - I was going to call out a few players with their own individual thoughts, but by the time we got to the 3rd quarter, I stopped tracking. To say we weren't mentally in this game today would be the understatement of a lifetime. If the false starts weren't enough, every receiver, besides Beasley, found a way to drop a pass. Roberts took dropping a pass to a new level, and tried to make up for it with some ill-advised kick-off returns. Neal lost his lane on the huge punt return. The defense contributed with some really stupid late hits on 3rd down, poor tackling, and other mishaps I'll get to later. Even Allen was a team player and threw his first real interception of the season, and boy was it a bad one. For anyone watching the Bills in their first evening prime time game, it'd be very easy for you to think this was the same old Bills. 3 - Allen - While I credit the Titans for running a similar 3 deep coverage and making Allen beat them with small passes downfield, Allen also had quite a bit of time to throw. The ridiculous amount of drops couldn't have helped his confidence, but that's not something that's really ever shaken him before. However, come third quarter, you could see that Allen was rattled and making some throws we aren't used to this season. Not a single throw was attempted more than 20 yards downfield and his interception really was that bad. I get that Brown was out, who has really become Allen's security blanket, but that's not enough to excuse this offensive performance. 4 - Ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea, Thinkin' well how it may blow in all good company, If I tell another what your own lips told to me, Let me lay 'neath the roses, till my eyes no longer see. 5 - Rushing attack - While the Titans have made the play action a fundamental part of their offense, our play action is as believable as those tax refund scam callers. We maybe ran 3 times with Allen under center. Everything else was out of the pistol or shotgun. Motor had no head start on the defense nor was called for any outside zone runs. I'm really starting to get concerned with our rushing offense and I think it's more about Daboll than Motor, especially against a poorly ranked Titans rush defense. We've got to have some form of rushing attack that opposing teams can respect, and not because Allen is scrambling. 6 - Norman - Hailed as one of the defensive heroes last week, Norman was anything but this week. On the first touchdown of the game, Norman didn't even seem to be aware he was in on the play as he made zero attempt on the ball. I'm not sure if Angry Runs includes plays called back on penalty, but I'm sure Norman hopes not. Norman played like a guy who had to settle for a one year deal and missed the first three games. Opposite of Tre and being able to play more zone, I'm sure Norman can be a helpful part of the team, but he wasn't ready for AJ Brown at all today. 7 - Taron - I debated talking about multiple defensive backs, but Taron Johnson also got abused tonight On a 3rd and long, he got absolutely abused on a route and the look on his face afterwards said it all. He was badly beaten on a few plays and overall showed that DB has to be a priority in FA or in the draft. There's no reason our defensive backs should overall be this bad without Tre, especially when the Titans were without their #2 and 3 receivers. 8 - Defense - The best way to prevent Allen from showing his 4th quarter magic (that probably wasn't going to happen tonight), is to not let Allen see the field in the 4th quarter. We not only allowed a rushing TD to Tannehill, but also a 20 yard rush later in the 4th quarter. When we did send pressure, it was up the middle and had no affect on Tannehill's passes. We made him look competent, and you know how hard that is to do. Oliver non-existent again. Yes, we also gave them great field position on a few plays, but our defense did nothing to make Tannehill uncomfortable. We didn't generate a single turnover gave up 42 points to the Titans. Yes, we got BLOWN OUT by the Titans. Take away the short field for two of those touchdowns, there's still 21 points out there and our complete inability to get them off the field in the 4th. 9 - Edmunds - Unless he absolutely loses a game for us or turns it around, this is the last week I'm going to talk about Edmunds. I don't know the extent of his injury, but Edmunds is not playing anywhere near up to his potential. He had one good 3rd down break up pass, but that's about it today. He fell off of multiple tackles and was terrible in coverage. On one play in particular, Edmunds was covering the middle of the short field and had no offensive Titans anywhere near him besides Brown, whom he proceeds to make a catch within a few yards of him and doesn't react at all. If I'm being to hard on the kid, let me know. But when is the last time his name was mentioned in a positive or dominating way. 10 - McD/Espenesa - On 3rd and 7, Espenesa jumped Offside on a hard count by Tannehill. While that was par for the course tonight, the reaction wasn't. Unless I've missed it, I've never seen McD pull a player off the field for a mistake and it goes to overall show how bad tonight was. If McClappy and captain positive himself had a moment like that on camera, then that's all you need to know. I also found it interesting that McD called a timeout when down 35-16 instead of letting the game end. I take that to mean he's trying to prove a point about not giving up and executing correctly going forward. However, in giving up two more touchdowns afterwards, I don't think that message landed. I would love to be a fly on the wall in that locker room and hope the beating is worthy of this performance. The streak of not getting blown out is also over. LVP - It's hard to pick one person in this pit of misery, but Roberts has to get it or me. The fumble at the end of the game wasn't going to change anything, but add in the early interception, the poor return choices, and drops....Congrats Andre. You earned it! One of the unwritten rules is to not post one of these so close to the end of the game and let things simmer. However, it's Tuesday, I'm tired, and this wasn't a game. Also, ***** you Vrabel and Tannehill for the last touchdown pass. That's a dick move and you know it. Titans climbed up the list of hated teams with this game and entire mess. 4-1 with the Chiefs coming up. We need to get healthy quick. Go Bills

You should be banned

Agree 100%

There's a reason he dropped as far as he did. There were quite a few red flags. Good for him in regards to getting it together, but it wasn't a slam dunk pick. Many people passed on him for reasons. He looked like a David Boston type who got so ripped, he didn't have much agility

I think you are partially right. Mahomes usually does a lot of his damage when rolling out to his right. However, that’s when he does it by choice. If you are going to force him out, have someone waiting for him so he can’t reset his feet.

I hope Fitz never ends up on the Pats. Unless it’s against the Bills, I can root for him anywhere.

In watching the Raiders-Chiefs game, I noticed a lot of 7 deep coverage and 3 safeties. I didn’t watch the All-22 of the Bills-Raiders game, but I remember the commentators saying the Raiders did a similar thing against the Bills. What’s interesting is how quickly and easily the Bills adjusted and didn’t slow down in their movement down field. This may not be thread worthy, but Mahomes and the offense had less than 50 yards in total offense in the second half until they scored a touchdown. Mahomes looked lost out there and they couldn’t adjust. Credit to be Josh and Daboll for adjusting seemingly easily and moving through it. They also handled the 3-4 season of the Rams with 30+ points. I look forward to see what we do against the Pats defense and other schemes.

This feels like a kiss of death thread

And yet Gase survives....

Milano officially ruled out for the game

Milano ruled out for the Titans game

Butt stuff, do you not understand my process yet?

Titans 20 Bills 13 Bills overlook the Titans who they assume will be overmatched having to start so many backups. However, a well rested Henry abuses the Bills defensive line enough to force the entire defense to play up in the box. Similar to the Rams, this allows the Titans receivers to play over the top for just enough big plays with Tre out of the game.

Make them hire Adam Gase

Great article that I think does a great job of summing up Josh's career from college to now.

This is crap. The Chiefs/Bills game should be moved to Monday night. The Bills shouldn’t be penalized because the Titans can’t socially distance. However, the Bills do get an extra two days to prepare/rest for the Titans and now an extra day to prep for the Chiefs.

He's getting a Team Superstar Update tomorrow as an 89 overall. 90, if you do his power-up

I've thought about this, and if the Bills did it, I would understand if they had to forfeit. The league just can't keep accommodating teams that violate the rules. On some level, the Bills would get a break because maybe their game could have been rescheduled instead of the Steelers game, so who knows. Either way, I think the NFL should add a bye week in Week 18, but the Titans have already gotten their pass with the re-schedule

Multiple bubbles (4) shorter season (8 games). Even that is two months. Highly doubtful.

I'm starting to get a lot more critical of Edwards and think we should starting to see the ROI by this point. We should be talking contract after this year possibly and I think Luke Kuechly is a fair comparison, as they were both 1st round picks operating in a similar defense. He's yet to really be a difference maker for us and I'm starting to wonder if he will ever be more than serviceable.