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Not a shocking statement, Allen played a lot like Mahomes did in the Super Bowl. Tried to ditch the pocket early, looked downfield too often, and tried to superman his way to a win. Every QB has these games - Allen needs to reset during the bye week and move on.

Zach Ertz Finally, the Bills get who they've wanted to go after for years

Walker is a monster, a bit of a unicorn with his size and agility. If he can continue to take advantage of the guards and centers setting the line on run plays and use his lateral agility (which is other world) to shed and tackle, he will be a first and second down staple. if he learns to shed and collapse the pocket through the middle? He is an every down player. at 21 years old? This was a swing for the fences pick that has shown great return so far

Singletary. Averaged 5.1 a carry as a rookie sharing with Gore. Similar to Walker producing and ramping up over the fast half of the year.

I compared the last three drafts (not the current season, too soon) of Buffalo compared to a few other teams who have been in similar situations as the Bills (Division winners since 2020, high end QB). That pretty much leaves Baltimore and Kansas City. And with that, Baltimore had a few down years (21-22 and 22-23). Bills: Draft Picks: 2024: Coleman - Meh so far Bishop - Meh so far Carter - Bust Davis - Meh Van-Prager - Bust Ulofisho - Bust Solomon - Bust Grable - Unknown (they like him a lot) Hardy - Bust Clayton - Bust No standout talent Ravens: 2024: Wiggins - Good Rosengarten - Meh Isaac - Bust Walker - Bust Tampa - Meh (bad year so far) Ali - Bust Leary - Bust Samac - Bust Kane - Bust KC: 2024: Worthy - Meh/Good (He has had big games, but his career stats are almost EXACTLY like Colemans') Kingsley - Meh Wiley - Bust Hicks - Meh Nourzad - Meh Hadden - Bust Hanson - Bust 2024 Summary: None of the teams hit on a stud in this draft. Worthy has shown a flash or two, but the production doesnt match the way some speak of him here. Wiggins is probably the best player of the group to date. No superstars or even stars out of the group yet (maybe Wiggins, but I'd say that's a stretch) 2023: Bills: Kincaid - Meh/Good (Trending well but injured frequently) Torrence - Good (Maybe really good) Williams - Meh Shorter - Bust Broeker - Bust Austin - Bust for the Bills, Meh pick overall Ravens: Flowers - Good Simpson - Good Robinson - Meh Kelly - Bust Laulu - Bust Vorehees - meh KC: Uzomah - Bust Rice - Good Morris - Bust Conners - Meh (decent player though) Thompson - Bust Coburn - Bust Jones - Bust 2023 Summary: Again, all similar results to date. Baltimore with probably the best results, but you could argue the Bills have had two legit impact players on their offense in Kincaid and Torrence. KC with the worst draft of the group, Uzomah was a massive bust 2022 Draft: Bills: Elam: Bust Cook - Great Bernard - Good Shakir - Good Araiza - Good (Bust for Bills) Benford - Good Tenuta - Bust Spector - Bust Ravens: Hamilton - Great Linderbaum - Good Ojabo - Bust Jones - Good Faalele - Meh Armour-Davis - Bust Kolar - Bust Stout - Good Likely - Good Williams - Bust Badie - Bust KC: McDuffie - Great Karlaftis - Good Moore - Bust Cook - Good Chenal - Good Williams - Good Kinnard - Bust Watson - Meh Pacheco - Meh Johnson - Bust Summary: Really strong draft year. Baltimore really lucked into Hamilton this season, the fact that he fell is crazy. Elam bust stick out, but the Bills had a really strong rest of the draft. Overall, I'd say all three teams had a great draft - hard to differentiate impact. Overall summary - None of the teams have been head or shoulders above the others over the past three drafts (22-24). Each team have had their share of hits (McDuffie, Hamilton, Cook), and their share of busts (Uzomah, Elam). If you try to compare the Bills draft to any other teams, they tend to have picked much earlier than them from 2020-2025, which drastically impacts the results. At the end of the day, if you are upset with the Bills draft results from the past few years, you could be a fan of KC or Baltimore and saying the exact same thing. I'll need to cover FA in another post

Would have been a bad hire. daboll is not a good HC.

How did I think Rice was a 5th? My apologies I totally thought he was a 5th. They also never traded a first for an established player like Diggs, but recently they did use an additional 2nd compared to Beane.

I think 1) Brady isn't using as much motion pre snap so the defense is disguised better and 2) Allen is overthinking and overcommunicating to the line which is leading to breakdowns. I understand Allen trying to learn the pre snap reads and grow that part of his game. However, at some point he needs to settle down and let the play calls operate naturally

KC hasn't made every effort. They have spent nearly the same on the WR position as Buffalo Worthy - Coleman - within 5 picks of each other Rice - Shakir - both 5th round picks Hollywood Brown - Palmer - FA signings Hopkins - Cooper - Vet acquisitions That's not a strong argument that Buffalo hasn't done the right thing in their offensive personnel. Choosing the wrong players is one argument, but the allocation of resources has been nearly identical.

Allen is a GREAT QB, an all timer, but there are a few instances in his career where he goes into these short spurts of poor play. they aren't as frequent as 2019-2021, but they still occur. I hold him to a standard because he is the leader of the team and he has shown levels of play where he has been steps above. There are legitimate issues with this team, I find most of them to sit on Babich with his system that obviously is not working for the team. However, Allen has been an issue the past two games. I haven't liked his body language, he is late to alert on the line, and is jumping out of clean pockets. The NFL is evolving to stop HIM, as he is the MVP and that caliber. He needs to be better because he is the best in the world.

Every player needs to own their part, and Allen was a major issue last night.

I think it has to be a hip wrap and drag, and I think this was more a grab and drag. Do I make sense there? either way it sucks

Agreed, but who do you replace him with? Does Sean takeover the defense?

Two TD drives kept alive by BS penalties. And I’m usually not a fan of panning the refs, but this is getting stupid

He and Oliver were MAYBE close to the neutral zone. but calling that ***** first play when it’s that close pisses me off, especially when Floyd was Offside on the second and long and they don’t call it

I don’t think Rousseau was even Offside… crap start

Yea I’m not trying to disrespect, I just think the defense has a chance to do alright. bijon starts hot. They like to get him involved early. Bills will need to be ready to cover him out of the flat and play gap control to get him to move laterally. i think he still goes for 120 all purpose yards. But I don’t think it will be a 250 yard rushing performance from the Falcons

He has run hard, but they are giving cook a legit workload so far. It’s taking snaps away from Johnson

Is penix drake maye? We will stack the box and force Penix to beat us. Front 4 actually played the run well last week but Maye and Diggs made plays

The same run defense that held the Patriots to 71 yards last week?

He also is playing a BAD hurt secondary KC can win any game, but they are at home against a secondary that has a safety who can barely walk playing

St brown has shown up this drive. They are running the offense through him, and then using his focus to create the screen game

We just saw Baker shed a sack, scramble left, make a backer miss, and then power his way with a stretch to convert a 3rd and 14 but who has seen a QB run for 4 yards on a 3rd and 7? The magic!

Can't make it easy for KC by not getting any pass rush. It was the only thing keeping them in check in the first half. Detroit will need to 1) march down and score a touchdown this drive, and 2) generate a pass rush if they want ANY shot at winning this thing.

So do missed jams at the line