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The last game is in Miami. But as for weather, it's actually good for the Bills. Flying down from the frozen tundra of Buffalo in January and getting off the plane to nice, warm weather - that will lift their spirits right away. And there are always a decent number of Bills fans at any Miami game, between the people that have moved to Florida permanently, the snow birds that are there for the winter, and the Bills fans that always make the trip. Only logical explanation is that he's an outstanding practice QB and is especially good at running the scout team.

So I can recall several runs out of shotgun that lost yardage, the most memorable one being against the Patriots* at the goal line. Were all of those a different concept than Dart or Inside Zone? Or put another way, if they are not "successful" by your measure (and I think your measure makes a lot of sense), how many are barely unsuccessful as opposed to genuinely negative (like losing yardage)?

Just curious - does your wife have an account on this board?

Have to be pleased with scoring 32 against the Jets - that's the most they have given up all year. Next best was Dallas scored 30 against them in week 2.

Bills 18-16

I think option routes can contribute to that, especially if all the receivers have an option route. Basically, you want to run to the empty part of the field. If everybody sees the same thing, that a certain part of the field is open, they all run to it. And they have a nice group hug when they all show up together.

It's kind of like Rex Ryan's defense. The players have a ton of options, and they have to all pick the right one (and the same right one) in a fraction of a second. Nobody can make that many decisions that quickly. That's why you see option routes where the QB expects the receiver to go deep and the receiver cuts it short. If everybody makes the same right decision every time, it's unstoppable. If any one player makes the wrong decision, or takes too long making the right decision, the play blows up and it's over.

Given that a big part of our problem is Josh Allen right now, I am wondering who had a bigger negative effect on Josh - the OC (Dorsey) or the QB Coach (Brady). I guess we will find out shortly.

I'm still surprised

Surprised that the Bills didn't activate Fournette for this game.

I think the Bills only had 7 drives in that perfect Patriots playoff game

It would be cool if he and Josh exchanged a couple of FUs for old times sake

It would have been fair to call two penalties - one on the Bills player that took off the helmet, and one on the punter that swung the helmet. And the punter should have been ejected. Since he wasn't ejected, the league should suspend him for next week.

I definitely thought the offense was WAY better overall last night than at any time since the Dolphins game. Even in those late comebacks against the Giants and Patriots they did not look as good during those brief periods as they did overall last night. Even the last 25 minutes when they didn't score, they looked at least decent. The second half against Tampa Bay was way better than the first half against New England or NY Giants or Jacksonville. But I still think the third and goal shotgun run in the first half was absolutely idiotic.

It's not just that they don't score. They almost always lose yardage, no matter the down and distance and where they are on the field. They stink at it. STOP CALLING IT.

It happened in a Bills-Patriots game. The same one where they were obviously short of the sticks on a fourth down pass and the sideline official said "just give it to them" Resulted in an untimed down. Pats scored and won the game. Bills had only a couple players on the field for the extra point attempt after the TD.

I would have fired him right after that shotgun draw at the goal line. Just tell Allen to go no huddle the rest of the game. Throw Dorsey right out of the stadium.

I also wonder if his teammates were aware that he was trying to be "low positive". If they weren't, then they would be thinking, like most of us, "wow, Josh is just sitting there like a doofus. What's wrong?" If they didn't understand his approach before, but now they do, that will help immensely. Could also be related to the point Diggs made, that they are coming to the line too late due to all the substitutions, so Josh doesn't have time to adjust the play to the late switch that the defense is making.

I kind of like this and kind of don't. I think there's general agreement that week 1 was a classic example of Sugar High Josh and it cost us the game. So getting that under control is absolutely necessary. The problem is he dialed it all back so when the whole team is in Sugar Low mode, the only one trying to fire up the guys is Diggs. It's finding the right balance. Maybe turn it up most of the time, but have a trusted voice on the sideline that can tell him "you're getting into Sugar High, you need to dial it back for yourself, but not the rest of the team"

You can still do that even with multiple personnel packages - just do it per drive. I.e. start a drive in 11 and stay there the whole drive, then start a drive in 12 and stay there the whole drive. Have a Latavius Murray drive and a James Cook drive. Substitute as little as possible within a drive. Especially in the first half. Second half might want to mix and match more since the opposing D worked out their adjustments to what we did in the first half, so in the second half don't do the same thing.

Josh Allen is trying to stay 'low positive.' Here's what that means for the Buffalo Bills quarterback https://buffalonews.com/sports/professional/nfl/bills/josh-allen-is-trying-to-stay-low-positive-heres-what-that-means-for-the-buffalo/article_c1a4bb80-72a0-11ee-af89-b3bab684408d.html This one's not behind a pay wall Quarterback Josh Allen says his new 'low positive' approach might be behind Bills sluggish starts https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/quarterback-josh-allen-says-his-new-low-positive-approach-might-be-behind-bills-sluggish-starts/ar-AA1iMGpx

It's because of their contract situation - they can only franchise one of them so are almost guaranteed to lose one next year. They are willing to trade one or the other, but not both.

It's got to do with waiver priority. If the Jets are planning to cut Hardman, they tell the Chiefs ahead of that. If the Chiefs kind of want him, and would definitely put in a waiver claim, they have to guess how likely it is that a team with a worse record would also claim him, and therefor get him. Let's say that the Bills are actually interested in getting Hardman for free - if they put in the claim the Bills would get him and the Chiefs would miss out. A swap of 6th and 7th round picks in a future draft is about the cheapest compensation you can offer. Maybe a couple of bags of footballs would be cheaper, but if the Jets are already fully stocked with footballs, then it's not very enticing.

Well, Norman hasn't been out of the league all this time. 2020 - 13 games with Buffalo 2021 - 17 games with San Francisco 2022 - 2 games with Carolina He's obviously not the same guy he was in his heyday, and probably not even the same guy he was in 2020. But he's just on the practice squad. And as another poster mentioned, he could be a good veteran presence in the DB room. I agree with everybody that I hope we never have to play him in a game, but this is a sensible move. And it in no way precludes any trades or stealing guys off other teams practice squads (which have to go to the Active Roster immediately). You have to assume that at least the top 96 cornerbacks in the league, and probably the top 128, are on somebody's active roster right now and are untouchable except via trade. Possible somebody in the 130 range is on somebody's practice squad right now, but you're taking a risk by signing him to the active roster.

Monday through Saturday, McD can certainly get in the OC's face and tell him what to do. But during the game, especially as the defense's play caller, that's pretty much impossible. It's an argument for why McD shouldn't call play for the Defense, but I think most would agree that the defense looks a lot better this year with him calling the plays than when Frazier was here. And with all the injuries on defense, McD will have to devote a lot of brain cells to shoring up that unit. Especially if we are at the stage of "Help us, Obi-Wan Josh Norman, you're our only hope" Dorsey is going to have to fix this on his own, unfortunately.