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Bingo…

Or the Chargers or the Patriots or the Giants… etc.

Miami is a problem. Not because we can’t beat them, but because no one else seems to be able to.

In my opinion it’s a bad look for McBeane either way. It’s either: 1) The Bills misjudged McDuffies skills (he is playing like one of the best CB’s in the NFL right now) because of his size. OR 2) The Bills liked him but allowed KC to outmaneuver them. There is no way to make the situation look good. Personally, I *hope* it’s number 2. Mainly because I am not a fan of teams who judge players by their physical traits rather than their football ability.

McCaffrey is a cheat code I remember when the Bills were rumored in that trade cycle. Great move by SF.

Yeah i’m not sure I understand why people think he was good as a rookie. He gave up a reception 76% of the time he was targeted last season. To put that into perspective, Tre White, coming off of an ACL injury and a year off football, was at 53%.

I wouldn’t assume Williams is the starter. I think it will be a split role. The real problem is the secondary. It’s in shambles. Not just due to injury. But also age.

Kincaid has the highest catch % of any player in the NFL right now. Just not many targets.

Jones was literally playing the best DT ball of anyone in the league.

This is just my personal preference. Allen doesn't "need" this to be good (he is already great), I just kinda personally wish he had more of it. I was watching an interview with Brady recently, and he talked about how he doesn't understand players now. They hug after the game, and exchange jerseys, and are very friendly with the opponent. He said in the interview that he doesnt understand how these current players can go from being at war with the other team during the game to being friendly after. He was essentially calling todays players out for not having the fire he and players from the 70's, 80's and 90's had. I remember Fitzpatrick being upset that Brady wouldn't shake his hand after some games - just ran to the locker room. But that's who Brady is. He saw each game as a war and he was not interested in making friendly with the opponent afterward. Quite frankly, the players being all friendly with one another on other teams is something that has never sat well with me either. I understand why they do it - I just don't love it. I hated Brady for those 18 years, but I respect him now, and as much as I love Josh (and I really do), I can't help but wish he had a bit of that a-hole in him. .

Any d-line that can wreak havoc on an o-line is a bad matchup for any team.

I love Josh. He is by far my favorite player. But I do wish he had a bit more fire on the sideline. I wish we saw him doing what Brady did for 20 years and pumping up his teammates on the sideline and getting on people for making mistakes and showing strong leadership. It seems that is more of Diggs role on this team.

I think Casey Heyward is still available and he actually played well last year.

Our two most impactful defensive players this season. Gone. Hard to imagine a worst case scenario on defense.

Allen has won 2 of his last 3 games against Mahomes. And in the one game he lost, he left the field with the lead (and only 13 seconds left).

Another interesting note that Jeremy White made is that Dawson Knox's YPC has been steadily going down each year of his career. 14, 12, 12, 11, and this year it's 7.

I have a feeling that part of that is because teams know they can leave an individual pass rusher on Spencer and still win, whereas on the left side they may need to send an extra rusher, so the back is instinctively floating left to pick up any free runners.

It was an incomplete pass to Knox.

Yeah I mean we lost the LOS battle on nearly every snap. At first I thought it was a rub play with Knox clearing out. But then he didn't. And then we had 3 players all running to the strongside boundary. It just seems asinine.

1) Dodson played 62% of the snaps. Dorian played 36%. Dodson was by far the higher graded of the two, with an 85.5 grade compared to a 32.7 for Dorian. PFF has Dorian missing 40% of his attempted tackles. They are essentially saying that he was flying to the ball, but not finishing. 2) Allen had the highest CPAE (Completion Percentage Above Expectation) in the NFL this week at 8%. This means Allen completed 8% more of his passes than he should have. Allen’s adjusted completion % (completions + drops / aimed) was 86%. 3) I don’t know what we are going to do about Spencer Brown. The Bills are giving him help on more than 50% of his snaps and he is still well below the mean. This chart shows how often NFL tackles are left on an island (no help). Brown is 2nd to last in the entire NFL. The only player needing more help is Jermaine Eluemunor, who Raiders fans universally want released. 4) With play-action, Allen completed 87.5% of his passes with a 14.9 YPA yesterday. He completed 62.5% of his passes with a 7.5 YPA without play action. To really drive this point home, look at his EPA per play both with play-action and without. He has a 3x larger EPA per play with play-action than without. 5) Kingsley Jonathan was the highest rated Bills defensive player yesterday at a 92.1. He had 2 hurries, 1 sack, 2 stops and 1 forced fumble. Epenesa was right behind him at 85.7. 6) James Cook had an 11.3 pass block grade, which is the lowest I can personally recall ever seeing. Damien Harris had an 82.3 pass block grade. 7) DaQuan left the game after the 4th play. Milano left the game after the 11th play. Rousseau never played. Tre White never played. Benford never played. That’s FIVE starters out. Yet the defense still forced 2 turnovers and 5 punts. 8- Dawkins really struggled yesterday, especially with the other Josh Allen. It was clear from watching the game and PFF saw it too. He had the lowest pass blocking grade of all the linemen. 9) McDermott mentioned after the game that it’s hard to win when you can’t run. EPA shows that he is correct. Our EPA per dropback was top 10 in the NFL this week. Our running EPA was towards the bottom in the NFL. 10) Elam gave up 6 receptions for 93 yards and was eventually benched. No other Bills player gave up more than 3 receptions. Dane gave up 3 receptions for 30 yards. 11) Taron Johnson was very vocal after the game about how poor the turf was. Mentioned his feet would get stuck. For those interested you can see his comments here. 12) Spacing has felt off all season long. There are 4 Bills receiving options, all within 10 yards of each other. We are not making them defend every blade of grass. We are making them defend a very small piece of grass. This was a big 3rd down that we didn't convert. 13) I have absolutely no idea what we gave Harty a $10M contract for. He played roughly 25% of the snaps this week and is averaging 2.2 receptions per game. His special teams contribution has been 5 returns for 40 yards. I just genuinely don’t understand what the plan is for him. 14) Last note on Allen. HIs passing chart shows solid numbers to all areas and depths of the field. 15) Lastly, Ben Johnson is the most innovative, fun, creative play caller I have ever seen. I hope he is hired by an NFC team. This is one of the many plays he calls. It constantly keeps defenses guessing.

Jackson only gave up 3 receptions for 30 yards... Elam gave up double that.

I honestly doubt it. The 2021 squad matches up with the Rams really well. In fact, the Rams were built (at that moment) similar to KC who we should have beat. An incredible interior d-linemen but the rest of the defense was average, and a high scoring offense. I will always believe that 2021 was our year. We were clicking on offense unlike i’ve ever seen before. I’ve had a very hard time forgiving McD for the coaching blunders in that game.

I didn’t hear that in the press conference. Well that explains that. It was a TD all day if hit in stride. Did he mention what happened on the first long throw to Diggs? The one where no defender was within 15 yards of him?

Copied by the 49ers just 8 hours later. That was fast!

Clinically speaking, you spent your Bills formative years in a constant state of hope. Every 3 years you got a new coach and QB and there existed renewed hope for a winning combination that would bring home a Lombardi. Now, you don’t have any new combinations coming. You got the QB - long term. And the coach isn’t going anywhere. You know there is no new combination coming. You just have to hope that your current combination will figure it out. Every year that the long term combination doesn’t work, you feel more and more hopeless… because there is no hope for a different combination in the near future. Or not. I’m not a psychiatrist.