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I mean their defense has looked just fine without him so far.

The refs are there to maintain control, if the chiefs are mugging us we should return the favor and dare the refs to keep things civil. Feel like that’s why we got pushed around in the afccg, they were pushing us around and we didn’t dare push back.

Gawd people here panicking about Davis Mills and talking trap game nonsense. We're a good team and our defensive scheme eats rookie QBs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. People gotta start realizing that our defense is tough to get a read on and we're like Belichik with rookie QBs, we just grin and sneer, "fresh meat".

I guess when you have LVE and Micah Parsons out there Jaylon Smith becomes irrelevant. Sure he's on a big contract but if you know you're gonna not play him and he knows that he's gonna be ridin' pine why not do each other a solid and just cut the guy and let him find a home somewhere?

I just wish he’d stop tweeting ffs and focus on what matters: crushing KC this Sunday. I don’t tune into a Bills message board for Beasley’s spicy vax takes. I’m here to talk X’s and O’s and piss and moan that we haven’t traded for Ertz yet.

I don't agree with his vax takes, and I think he should have been more self aware before kicking this wasps' nest. He should have known his stance would piss off a lot of people. He seems to be struggling to deal with that blowback and venting on social media about it, which I'm not sure is how I'd go about it but to each their own. That being said, don't boo your own players jfc. That's some gutter ***** Eagles fan's do.

I think its also a coaching mentality with the Bills as of late, we come out looking for blood and its not something we used to do 2-3 years ago. Since the second half of 2020 this team has simply decided that there will be no close games. Bills are either gonna lose or just crush the other team.

He invited scrutiny by taking a vocal position that is extremely controversial. If you don’t like the heat, don’t shine the light on yourself.

Love that Buffalo feels like football camp for a lot of players. Come to Buffalo, focus on football, focus on yourself and be your best you. All goes well you leave with a ring.

The Frazier/McDermott defense is not friendly to inexperienced QBs, or even a lot of experienced ones. I'm expecting at least a couple of ints because of well disguised coverages and hurried throws forced into bad windows.

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It’s a close game but this feels like two very ‘meh’ teams just beating up on each other.

The fact that he, one of the players furthest from where the ball was picked, was the first one there to make the tackle says something. Reminds me of Jim Kelly, he was always so pissed off when you picked him off and he was sure as hell to let you know it too.

I think we give Mills the Heinecke treatment, take away his first read, confuse him, hurry him up and the DBs feast. Between White, Wallace, Johnson, Hyde and Poyer I'm seeing at least 2 INTs.

Was great seeing him run for the Bills for the 2016-2017 years when the Bills led the league in rushing. He had a good run, earned a solid second contract and picked up a couple of rings in the twilight of his career. Not sure what else he had to prove at this point.

I think in that same media session with Frazier, Frazier mentioned that the dline played well and that sacks don't tell the whole story. Personally I never thought this was gonna be a destructive day for the dline with tons of sacks, qb hits etc. For as much as people love to ballwash the WFT dline and their defense they're not giving the WFT oline enough credit. That is a very solid unit and they pass protect well. Heinecke also has really great pocket presence and is excellent at evading pressure, he just sucks at going through his reads and making throws on the run. Our dline played well, they made Heinecke just uncomfortable enough to force bad throws and while that doesn't show up on the stat sheet, it makes a big impact. If we'd gotten 3 sacks in that game I would have been amazed.

I mean I don't know what voodoo magic PFF uses to grade linebackers in coverage but I know what my eyes see. He's quite good to great sideline to sideline and reacting to passing plays, he naturally dissuades QBs from throwing to his area because his frame and speed means he covers a larger area of the zone he's protecting. His issues, as I see them, are with biting too hard on play fakes and he's below average in run support. He's a bad downhill run stuffer, is easily fooled on running plays into vacating his gap, doesn't shed blocks well and takes too aggressive a lane downhill towards runners or receivers out of the backfield because it almost seems like he thinks he's faster and can cover more ground than he actually does, or he underestimates the ball carrier's speed.

We need to stop having some unrealistic expectation that refereeing is some binary black/white thing where we expect games to be officiated perfectly and everything to be perfectly picked up and flagged. The NFL rulebook, almost by design, is massively complicated and very open to subjective interpretation if you read some of the rules. The idea that you'd perfectly call and flag any holding that happens in the trenches is laughable. The idea that you'd perfectly call any illegal contact, holding or pass interference calls for an entire game is equally laughable. Bad calls, missed calls etc are part of the fabric of the game. They're amazing when they bounce in our favor and fill us with rage when they don't. It's part of the excitement, the anger and the passion that we feel as we watch our team play every week. I like how soccer has kind of leaned into this aspect of refereeing and said "yeah we mostly call the game to keep things under control and let it flow, yeah we're going to make some bad calls, miss some others and it might impact the game one way or the other. That's just the way it is in the beautiful game."

That feels reasonably solid, think his rushing numbers are going to trend down and the passing yards will likely trend up. TDs and Ints look very reasonable. Rush TDs feels a bit low.

I think teams are also planning for 13 this year after he posted very solid stats for a WR3/4 in his rookie year, he roasted defenses on broken plays and sideline plays all last year as teams just didn't give him the respect he deserved. He's getting that respect now, and its going to make the targets drop and the throws that come his way a little more difficult to catch.

He's a good to above average, sometimes excellent, coverage linebacker. His ability to cover sideline to sideline and use his large frame to close distance in passing situations is extremely good. He's almost like a giant nickel corner or extremely large safety. It's just his run support that holds him back. He over-pursues, takes bad angles and seems to misjudge his closing distance relative to that of the runner or receiver trying to get the edge.

Heinicke is just a tough guy to sack, very good at feeling pressure and escaping away from it. He's only been sacked twice in 3 games in 2021 so far, against LAC, NYG and BUF. The WFT OL is very solid and not the set of turnstiles that we played against in MIA. This, coupled with his escape ability and his tendency to throw pretty quickly, always meant this was going to be a tough assignment for our DL. Never thought this was going to be a high sack game for our defense.