JohnNord

Worthy is pretty much the WR we thought he would be in the Kansas City offense. The lamenting from some Bills fans is ridiculous. It’s interesting how with the WR injuries in KC, everyone is talking about making a trade. I think it speaks volumes to Worthy’s role in this offense. With that being said, I wasn’t crazy with how the Bills approached the WR position and would love for the team to have someone that can threaten to go deep like Worthy He passed the test by catching 3 balls 👍🏻

Why would a looming suspension affect the game on Sunday? Von didn’t play because the Ravens never had a 3rd down! Why would a looming suspension affect the game on Sunday? Von didn’t play because the Ravens never had a 3rd down!

There’s a few issues on this play and Oliver is only part of it - I think the bigger problem is that he has a way of just disappearing in big games. Far too often he’s had a stat line on 0’s

At the rate things are going now, Saleh and Douglas are getting fired at the end of the season. Even if they make it into the playoffs, the expectation was championships since the Rodgers signing. if Raiders are serious about tradings Adams, I have no doubt that he ends up on the Jets

It was essentially the same exact game plan Indy used against Buffalo in 2021. Oh yeah… also the last time they were blown out. Bills defense figured it out then and I think the DL is better this year.

Yeah, my only concern about Coleman is that he wins downfield with contested catches and I’m not sure how sustainable that will be. Either way, we need to see more snaps from Coleman, Shakir, and Kincaid and less of Hollins, MVS and Knox He played 42% of snaps and Hollins played 61%. Coleman was at 73% and Shakir at 59% partly due to injury.

He wasn’t always in a spy role. Don’t be fooled Oliver had a bad game, as did DaQuan and the rest of the DL. Here he gets blasted out of the picture on this wham block. Reminds me of the Indy game from a few years back.

Every loss is on coaching and every win is on the players…makes sense

The Ravens confused Josh and OL with their pressure - mostly without blitzing much. But at the end of Sunday, Josh had the 3rd longest time to throw. While there was pressure Josh wasn’t getting the ball out like he did in past weeks. Baltimore covered everything short and dared the Bills to throw deep and make their WR’s win. They couldn’t do it. This is going to be a problem throughout the season with this WR room. Shakir is their best WR but doesn’t threaten downfield. Teams are going to put their best defender like Humphrey to cover him. When you take Shakir out of the equation the options are four receivers in Coleman, Hollins, Samuel and MVS who don’t separate.

He‘s mostly a special teamer that has played decent as a starter at times. The past few games make it pretty obvious that they need more from the position. I would be surprised if Mike Edwards didn’t get some snaps

He had a couple bad missed tackles for sure. Overall though, he’s been average. There’s a reason why Cam is a backup and not a starting NCB. Fortunately Johnson will be back soon

He’s putting up WR2 numbers

He said it was his lower back in the press conference

When they fell behind early, there were times when Josh had time in the pocket and couldn’t find anyone. Also for a team that plays cover 2 shell it didn’t look like the Bills had receivers open underneath

He wasn’t crapping on Shakir. I get what’s he means. Shakir is a good slot WR but not good enough to be the first option in a passing attack. The Bills need more pieces than just him.

It’s not a dumpster fire but what I saw tonight was a WR group that’s extremely limited in certain game scripts. This was my biggest concern with how the position was addressed. Tonight the Bills fell behind and they needed to get open deep downfield and really no one could. I was fine with moving on from Diggs but always felt that the Bills didn’t do enough to replace him.

I have the same concern at WR as you do and was hoping it wouldn’t come to this. But as pressures as Josh was today there were also times when no one was open downfield and this is a major concern to me. Shakir is a good receiver but outside of him, you have a bunch of JAGs at WR. Coleman is a rookie so I’ll give him a pass. But the Bills are getting nothing from Samuel, MVS or Hollins at WR. The lack of overall talent at WR bit them in the ass today and I worry it becomes a trend this year

It just seemed too random for it not to signal “trick play” to the defense. Samuel never lines up in wildcat and Josh never is out wide. The execution was terrible but so was this play call

You can argue they were playing their best football last season as well. Ultimately the difference in their loss was injuries and a “superstar” WR and K that failed in the clutch

Every football team has tried to “bludgeon” the Bills nickel based defense. I remember when Tennessee was going to pound Henry and let Tannehill cook off play action in Week 2 in 2022. How’d that work out? The Bills usually have a plan. Lamar is Lamar. He’s gonna make plays but the Bills have kept him in the pocket and fared well against him in the past. The Ravens defense is far from the powerhouse they were under Mike McDonald. They’ve surrendered the most passing yards and don’t have a great pass rush. I’m not saying the Bills will win - it could go either way. But I don’t know how you could watch these teams the past 3 weeks and think the score will be that lopsided

I would definitely take him. At this stage in his career he knows he’s a role player in an offense and he’d be a more effective option than MVS.

I think it’s easily the best. McDermott seems to have grown into the CEO as head coach very nicely. The two coordinators are young, smart and bring new ideas. They also can relate to the players on the roster. Then you have some of the assistants - like Aaron Kromer (OL), Rob Boras (TE), Al Holcomb (LB) and Jamal Addai (DB) - who are doing a great job w/ player development. What’s most encouraging is that this team is ahead of the trends in the NFL on both offense and defense rather than chasing them

It’s early in the season and Buffalo is 3-0 so far. I expect them to take it slow with both players. I would guess that Taron starts practicing in a limited capacity this week but don’t think he plays until Houston and I’d guess Bernard returns at home versus Tennessee Different injury though… also they put Brown on IR fairly quick and declined to do so with Bernard.

It’s not really an equivalent situation though. Morse had multiple concussions over the span of his career starting in college. Tua had multiple concussions over the span of 2 seasons. We’ve seen Tua move into the fencing response on two of those concussions generally indicating more severe trauma. Not saying he should he retire but these situations aren’t the same

Buddy Nix was a really bad GM. Every GM has hits and misses with the draft. What determines a GM’s success is what they do at the most important position on their roster - QB1… and he was completely clueless. He killed any leverage he had but telling the world he was drafting a QB both in interviews and in the famous leaked phone call. The selection of EJ was a complete reach in a very weak QB draft class. He probably was a 3rd-4th round talent with 1st round expectations and that was part of the problem. Still knowing this, Buffalo should have had a better option for a start than injury mid QB Kevin Kolb. Fitz had his issues but provably would have been a better option both as start or mentor. But that bridge was burned. To be completely fair though, we’ll never know if this was a Nix or a Whaley selection - as Buddy “retired” right after this draft.