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3 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
That's really good. It explains why the Bills always seem to leave the flats exposed. It's what you give up when you play these complex pass defenses.
Interesting that he says one solution is to get your QB under center. People here have talked about that a lot this season.
I've been interested in a comment or two that I saw somewhere recently that said that the Chiefs and the Niners seem to have the personnel for attacking these schemes. Neither has the classic stud #1 - in fact, the Chiefs unloaded theirs. Instead, they come at you with a really good tight end and with three wideouts with decent size, decent speed, good hands, and brains. Why does that work? Because unlike in previous eras, when the pass defenses left particular areas exposed for the whole play, these defenses are reacting and adjusting. The result is that instantaneous openings to attack appear, but then the defenders react and adjust, to close those openings. The openings are still there, they just aren't there long. So, you need receivers who can see, actually anticipate, the openings and who have the ability to take advantage. And that's why you need to put the QB under center, because it's easier to get the ball out quickly to good players on the run. And that's why Kelce is such a good weapon. He has size and hands, but his real value is how well he sees the defense and adjusts, and he has a great quarterback who's thinking along with him.
Bills have Diggs, who until this season seemed great at playing that game. I don't know if he's lost it or he was injured (I'm thinking the latter). We all were excited this season watching Shakir, and I think it's for exactly this reason. He has the smarts and the skills to take advantage of instantaneous openings, and Josh clearly was thinking along with him.
Put another way, winning football for the next few years may not depend on getting a Chase or a Lamb or a Jefferson. It may depend more on getting one or two receivers like an Ayuk or and guys like him. Why not the real stud receivers? Because the whole reason these pass defenses were developed was to stop those guys from going for 150 yards on five receptions. And those defenses are working.
Kincaid.
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The question is: do you draft potential future #1 to replace diggs (do it all prospect) or do you draft a deep threat? The deep threat would seem like a "need" with davis likely departing in free agency, but with the way teams play vs Allen, the deep shot is rarely there, if ever. I'm stuck on prospects myself, will be doing more digging in future weeks!
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Rewatched the bills/steelers game yesterday and the chiefs/fins game today. I was a lot more pessimistic about this upcoming game prior to watching these again. The chiefs are super vulnerable, specifically:
1. The chiefs o line didn't look all that great. Fins missing their top DEs and the chiefs had to stick to the short game because pressure even with just 4 rushers was getting home. Also, a noticeable amount of balls batted down at the line on mahomes passes.
2. They didn't run the ball as well as you'd think. Pacheco had a few longer runs, mostly On their first drive/first half, but not a great running team and minus a run or two in the second half, they were held in check. Chiefs scored 7 points in the beginning of the 4th quarter due to field position they obtained in the end of the 3rd.
3. Chiefs struggled getting the ball in the endzone, kelce seems slightly old and unless he finds a soft spot in zone coverage, he's not really getting open.
4. Mahomes is human, especially if you hit him a few times, it doesn't have to be sack, just remind him that you're coming for him every snap. He missed quite a few wide open easy throws and receivers (including kelce) dropped others.
5. The chiefs defense is simply not all it's being hyped up to be. The dolphins game was easy for them because all the dolphins could do was try to run the ball or throw screens because Tua simply doesn't have a good enough arms for the game conditions.
I truly believe if the bills don't beat themselves with silly errors/penalties and the refs don't screw them , they can win by even double digits. All that being said, I could be completely wrong and we get killed by mahomes/kelce/rice. Either way, Go Bills!!
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The big play we've been waiting for, thank you AJ
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Every Dorsey play call seemingly plays directly into the Jax defensive play call. At the very least josh hasn't forced anything stupid....yet
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Color me confused. I'd understand if it was a discount, but that's top dollar.
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Lol, does Beane trade back? Don't see much of value on the board now. Go crazy and double down on OG with Zavala? Or go OT with Jones still on the board?
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Completely ignorant and random question (I have not checked weather forecasts for any neighboring areas), any reason the game wouldn't/couldn't be moved to the Carrier Dome in Syracuse? Mostly just curious and think it would be cool to see the Bills play there.
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What I find personally disappointing is not the picks themselves, rather how it seems, at least at first glance, that they're prioritizing needs over BPA. I could be wrong, but just how i see it. I thought this draft would be a great opportunity to just go after BPA, especially after yesterdays CB pick. Hopefully allow the BPA to develop behind whoever is the starter if they're not ready yet
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1 minute ago, The Wiz said:
The door is over there.
I've found it, more than once. The problem is, it's revolving 🤣
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Bold move Beane, took a 3rd round RB for the third time as GM, except he took this 3rd rounder in the 2nd, that should work
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1 minute ago, CountDorkula said:
~Signed the Buffalo bills trading for Stefon Diggs with Cody Ford, Quninton Spain and John Feliciano as 3 of its 5 startling o-line.
You think Tua would've thrived in that situation? Lol, seem to miss the fact that Josh Allen is just a bit different as a QB than he. You may also notice that the only left of those 3 is Cody Ford, who may be on the bench if Bates is brought back.
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A mismanaged team with an unbalanced owner who's been trying to make a splash for years. The Chiefs did not go undefeated with Patrick Mahomes throwing the ball to Tyreek Hill, you think you should be worried about Tua? They have a lot of speed, I give them that, but they hired a new offensive minded coach who's philosophy is to run run run and set up play action, contain the run and watch for screens. Not much else for them passed that. Did I mention, their QB is Tua?
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58 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:
We better pick some DBs up somewhere! I'd much rather have the elite aspect of my D be in the defensive backfield than up on the line. Line play is grossly overestimated and it just doesn't have enough of an impact on wins and losses.
Grossly overestimated? You didn't catch that Bills-Jags game last year huh 🙄
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As a fan, I was all aboard the Jones train. If I was the GM, he'd be lucky to sniff anything near a 1-2 year deal at AAV of ~$10M , and honestly that's stretching it. That being said, Mahome-boy will be facing crosby/Jones, bosa/mack, bradley chubb and maybe another DE they sign 6 times a year, that may help soften him up a bit for playoffs on a yearly basis.
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4 minutes ago, Sheneneh Jenkins said:
Lol, wonder if the "Big name Defensive player" who reached out to Bills can be named now since F/A has started? I will go on a limb and guess we will hear nothing more of that.
Only if somehow Bills land C. Jones and not before, then that person will say that's who it was all along lol
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18 hours ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:
You do realize McD was also horrible in 2021’s AFC championship game too right? This was 2 years in a row. He hasn’t learned anything, Josh just gave him an all-time performance. And he still lost.I get the frustration, but saying "he hasn't learned anything" seems fairly shortsighted. His increase in agressiveness in terms of going for it on 4th down this year is a major step forward. He's showing less respect to teams that they should handidly beat (as he should), where he would previously punt on 4th and short or come into the second half with a small lead and immediately start trying to burn clock, as opposed to now where they come out of the half ready to finish stomping the other team out.
Forcefully changing his coaching style in order to better fit the needs of his franchise QB. It's not easy to adjust the way you approach things after spending an entire career doing them a different way. You learn something every loss, if you don't then you should be fired, I'm moving forward assuming he'll never approach a situation like those last 13 seconds that same way again. He's going to carry that all off season, just as much as Josh did last year. I'm fully on board with the idea that McDermott froze in those last 13 seconds, but I think he's getting better, at least I hope so.
Food for thought:
McDermott first 5 years HC record: 52 - 36
Belichick first 5 years HC record (Browns): 36 - 44
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The 2020 AFC Championship was a game were Josh Allen was out classed, took his lumps, and got a hell of a lot better for it. The 2021 divisional round playoff game versus the Chiefs is where the coaching staff (really McDermott and Frazier, mostly McDermott) took their lumps. If you've been paying attention, as much as Josh Allen has improved each year, Sean McDermott has improved as well. From the onset of that game (as he did versus the Pats in the second regular season game as well as their first playoff match up) he showed an aggressiveness he never really had before (until certain points earlier this year, going for it on 4th down etc). And McDermott carried that agressiveness through the entire game, until those final 13 seconds. It is a guarantee that Sean McDermott will never play that situation the same way again because of what happened, he's now better for it, and the team going forward will be better for it. It would never be an ideal time for that to have happened, but it could've just easily happened next week or in the super bowl. Now that it's happened, I doubt it'll ever happen again.
Colin Cowherd said something yesterday that I've been saying since Mahomes first "splashed" on to the scene, Andy Reid is above and beyond his perfect fit. Mahomes was drafted to an already playoff contending team (i remember week 1 that year they destroyed defending super bow champs the NE Patriots at home) by an offensive minded Hall of Fame coach used to coaching players such as Michael Vick and Donovan McNabb. Josh Allen was drafted by a defensive minded first time head coach. It was either going to work, or it wasn't, but it was never going to be quick. Allen had to work hard (off seasons with Jordan Palmer, hours of reps and studying with Ken Dorsey, learning from Daboll) and as Allen has had to work hard, McDermott has had to learn to adjust and better himself in ways that are uncomfortable for him. McDermott is clearly a more conservative/Bill Bellicheck type of coach, Josh Allen is not a system QB, he thrives in mayhem and havoc, which McDermott avoids.... until he started not to. McDermott has learned to take risks on the offensive side of the ball, he needs to learn to be a little more flexible in his defensive calls. And if this games ending doesn't teach him that, nothing will.
Hot take: This Chiefs loss ushers in a new Patriots like dynasty, and it wont be the Chiefs, but rather the Bills. The Chiefs are currently playing at their maximum potential, Mahomes can't play any better, they can't find another Tyreek Hill or Travis Kelce to sign. The Cheifs have a first roumder and 3 2nd rd players on their starting d-line, one stud and 3 well above average rushers a long with Tyran Matheiu. They lost two starting o linemen last year and replaced them with a franchise LT immediately. The Cheifs, quite honestly, can only go downhill from here, though I'm not counting on it, and I dont think they have to, because regardless of that. Josh Allen, beat them twice. McDermott went 1-1 vs them.
2022-2023 Buffalo Bills - #1 Seed (caveat - if Allen remains healthy of course) lots of regular season blowouts and guaranteed AFC Championship. A superbowl will fully depend on if Beane will finally let go of the draft and develop strategy now that we have a legitimate game tested and season proven window, and get himself 1-2 game wreckers. Feel free to like the post as a "bring Khalil Mack back home" button. The Bills have done well in house, it's time to add the final touch, apply pressure a second earlier, force one more throw away, anything, and we'd be posting about very different things this week.
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8 hours ago, glazeduck said:
Sorry to those of you who had the hots for him...
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Every team, across any sport, which has managed to sustain success has done two things: 1. Retain as much of their talent as possible and 2. Upgrade when possible. There's no cap $ available, prioritizing keeping our own was the right move. Upgrading was not possible this year because of the cap. Inter-division teams are going to make moves every single year, can't worry about the next team. The more pieces they add, in all likelihood, the better for us. It shows they're unstable. That said, relax and enjoy the process.
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2024 WR Draft Class
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So far I've only watched Brian Thomas Jr., Adonai Mitchell and Xavier Legette on tape. I hate the fact that Legette looks the best to me out of those 3. Haven't gone in depth yet but he seems to be able to do everything Mitchell and Thomas can do, but far more physical, reminds me of Deebo. Time will tell