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I also wonder with the upgrades we've done across the DL this year if that's had an impact to Star's game. Could be that lackluster DT and DE play, or lack of depth was an issue. DL is a lot like OL, if there's a couple of weaker links in the chain it ripples across the performance of the entire line. Will say he looks great this year and is playing excellent. Credit to him for keeping in shape during his opt out and coming back rejuvenated.

I'm just going to trust that McDermott and Brandon Beane have already looked at the roster, the cap situation and have roughly the next 2-3 years planned out. They both seem way too detail oriented to not operate this way. I like how they fill the roster top to bottom with good/great, but not amazing players and let it all be greater than the sum of its parts. I like how Beane uses FA to strategically address needs or gaps in the roster so the draft is BPA and BPA only. I feel like the only two times they've deviated from this strategy and reached for need (Zay Jones, Cody Ford) it hasn't worked out, we know it and so do they.

Damn Dillard didn’t even react when Barrett ran past him

If there's one team I don't want to see in the SB its the Brady led Bucs, even if we're the better team. Call me stitious but that's one meeting of fate I don't need in my life in Feb of next year. I'd rather have the Cards or even the Cowboys.

On offense I see possible good games for Moss/Singletary against their suspect run defense or a ton of targets to Beasley/Knox to abuse the middle of the field on crossing routes if they're gonna play a zone 2-high. On defense our Dline feasts, their OL is banged up and Tanny holds the ball longer than most. As long as we can bottle up Henry for most of the game this feels like a long day for the Titans.

NO is an absolute enigma of a team, a big number of their starters are on IR or suspended due to various disciplinary issues. The NO team we're seeing right now is basically Payton winning by making chicken salad with beaks and gizzards. The NO team the Bills will likely face in the end of November will look quite different on offense and defense than the NO team you see now. They also seem to blow hot/cold, winning decisively against teams that are much better than them on paper and then inexplicably dropping the next game against a substandard opponent. I frankly have no idea what to expect and Sean Payton (despite having one of the most punchable faces in football) is a great coach who really maximizes what he has to work with. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was one of those 'huh?!' losses the Bills had this season.

Not to put the juju on us or anything but there was that legendary Chargers team that was 1/1 on off/def but failed to make the playoffs on absolutely HORRENDOUS special teams play.

Love that both sides of the ball are feasting, best way to compliment an explosive offense is a defense that gives it back to that offense.

Like Josh said about the franchise tag: “ew”

I figured coming in that this game was gonna be heavy on the yellow laundry. Bills D came in to make a statement, was playing things very physical and dared the Chiefs and the refs to counter. Refs threw lots of flags but the Bills were willing to eat them if it meant pushing the Chiefs around and slowing them down.

Exactly, 5-10 years from now no one except stat nerds and television taking heads will bring up that Josh might have won MVP. A Superb Owl win will be remembered forever.

The Poyer/Hyde combination FA signings will probably go down as one of the single best decisions of the McBeane era. Those two have been just absolutely rock solid since they’ve come here.

Who here thought on the first play from scrimmage against the Chiefs that we’d come out in the I formation? Definitely not the Chiefs. Love that we’re seeing the Bills become that super frustrating (for opposing teams) chameleon type offense where they go out and exploit what you defend poorly. It’s great too that our personnel is so strong that for weaker teams we can run a pretty vanilla scheme and still dominate, thereby not giving anything away for the stronger opponents.

Last 2 weeks Spencer Brown has been in the lineup and I don’t think it’s a coincidence. We’ve also played some kinda meh defensive lines as well.

For some reason the Titans defensive scheme (like the Steelers) has given Josh Allen and the offense fits the last 2 years. Let's see if this year we're finally mature enough that we can install a gameplan and scheme to attack what they defend poorly instead of trying to beat them the way we normally play (similar to what we did to the Chiefs). Their OL also seems weak in pass pro and prone to give up sacks/pressure. I think the Bills are built well enough now on the DL that we can harass Tanny into some of his signature MIA ints.

It's funny, the Bills deployed a VERY similar scheme last year but they didn't have the DL talent and rotation to create pressure with 4, contain Mahomes and defend the run to counter. Bills dared them to run and they answered by daring the Bills to stop it, they couldn't. This time the Bills proved that running the ball against our defense, even in a 2 high safety look, was a mistake. What a difference a couple of extra playmakers and a healthier defense makes. Really great read, thanks for sharing this!

I wonder how many people are gonna look at that completion % stat and claim Allen is regressing. I also wonder if there’s a correlation between lower completion % and teams that have a stronger rushing attack. Seems like the Bills this year have sacrificed some production on shorter passes that used to go to Beasley/Diggs and replaced it with more runs between our 3 way rushing attack of Moss/Singletary/Allen. I like our chances against Ten. Their defense is iffy at best and they’re not generating any pressure up front.

Feels like the Bills installed a custom offense/set of plays to exploit what the Chiefs defended poorly. They ran way more two TE sets, multiple guys in the backfield. More power based running, Lamar/Ravens style triple option stuff. Running pass plays out of tighter formations and causing major issues with busted coverage. This is not how the Bills want to beat you, but it did put up points effectively. The fact that the Bills could do this, even remotely competently, should terrify other teams. This team is starting to do that really frustrating chameleon stuff old NE teams used to do where you have no idea what the hell they’re gonna do on offense. The amount of stuff the Bills put on tape today should be keeping DC’s up at night.

Like Harbaugh (former ST coach) talking to Blankenship after the game. Colts defense got decimated this game. Their secondary was basically practice squad players by the end of it.

Are we in the right thread? 😂

Jackson really wants to throw it to 89 when under pressure. It’s who he was aiming at when Taron picked him off.

It must be getting coached, can’t imagine a rookie doing something consistently in a game that the staff doesn’t want him doing.

We have the number one offense and defense in the NFL atm and are out scoring teams with Madden-like numbers. I think we’re good.

I feel like there’s a way to defend Roman’s scheme and if you can do that to a decent degree you make them look very mortal. Lamar is an incredible athlete but he can only do so much.

Prolly the Jets, who would have promptly ruined him by making him play DT, as is tradition.