Coach Tuesday

Did we just quietly get better?

Hence my screen name, the nickname my late friend gave to Gregg Williams. Always sounded like a genius explaining what he had done wrong the previous game.

Leads!!

You don’t but oddly in the moment it DID feel like it was the critical turning point of the game.

I am not so sure. His legs still seem super skinny to me and he might have trouble putting on lower body weight to increase his power and stability.

It is uniquely designed to beat the Chiefs.

OUR 30.

There you go trying to forcefully skip late-stage capitalism again.

I saw this today too and found it interesting. Perhaps it's time to transition the offense based on how Allen has evolved as a player - they can't rely on him to make unblocked rushers miss like they used to be. The progressions, timing, and protection schemes need to change YESTERDAY.

Please. Stop insulting the fans. That is the issue. The issues the team has experienced this season were issues known and discussed by the fanbase all offseason (and last offseason). We are not idiots. And when Beane went on the air in August and basically goaded the fanbase by saying he's smarter than we are, because he found the "Right Josh" and basically said, stop questioning me, he brought this on himself. Buffalo Bills fans can put up with a lot, and they're wiling to reach into their pockets and spend a higher percentage of their disposable income on the product than most fanbases, so long as they're not insulted by the organization. Brandon Beane committed the cardinal sin - insulting the fans' intelligence - and he did so at a time when the issues facing the team were obvious to most of us and when they were asking us to dig into our pockets to buy PSLs for the new (largely taxpayer-funded) stadium. (And not for nothing, Sabres fans have been insulted by Pegula for like a decade.)

Happy to see The Single Worst Take In The History Of TSW still lives on all these months later!

Russini has become a weekly Saturday read for me. RIP to Joel Buschbaum, Len Pasquarelli and Don Banks, I never get tired of weekly well-sourced scoops although they’re (literally) a dying breed. EDIT: apparently Len P is still alive!

Self-preservation would be to dirt it as someone suggested upthread. McD knows that Allen could easily have suffered a severe injury the other night and then the season is truly over.

Some of that is just the crappy Thursday product. the Bills are taking every opponent’s best shot this season because the league is smelling blood and because there is extra parity this year. Them having to go on the road against an elite defense on a short week after a string of physical games was always going to be rough. And they don’t have cerebral coordinators, and tend to play it safe anyway - they tried to lean into their best plays on both sides of the ball and to rely on near-perfect execution given the limited prep time. It didn’t work, but it’s not Who They Are. But they now have (yet again) left themselves with near zero margin for further error.

Allen was running around and backwards like a rookie. I am not putting most of it on him but, why would he think he’s going to be able to turn his back to Anderson and Hunter and spin away from those guys? I thought he’d at least figure it out by halftime but he kept doing it!