Coach Tuesday

Some of my thoughts: This was a game where we really missed Ed Oliver. There was almost no disruption up the middle and it would’ve helped on some of those long third down conversions. The Bills were helped by Bowles doing Bowles things - the bad challenges and poor clock management Jets fans know all too well, plus not going for it on that 4th and 2 (come on we were all feeling like they would’ve converted it). The Bucs are talented and scrappy but Bowles is an odd gameday manager. I am hard on Beane but you can see glimpses that the plan for this year could’ve worked. When you squint your imagination a bit there is a world in which the defense got an infusion of young and faster talent from the draft, younger vets like Dorian, Dewayne and Cole improved, and older vets like Bernard, Benford, Rapp and Milano didn’t fall off cliffs in the same season. And on offense if Keon was a professional who was doing more than the bare minimum to hone his craft, Palmer and Kincaid were healthy, etc., it could’ve worked. And I suppose it still can work - a lot needs to go right including getting through some tough road games without anymore major injuries - but it is not impossible. Gabe catching that 4th down pass on the first drive felt like a potentially season-altering fork in the road. Josh’s confidence in the entire system seemed to grow throughout the game starting at that moment. Can you imagine if it had clunked off of his hands? Watching Miles Garrett get like five sacks for a losing Cleveland team - Beane should go all in trying to pry him away this offseason. He would be the missing piece on d.

Fine I agree you hated to say it.

I don’t think you hated to say it.

How do you stop a player who can make that insane rope throw to Shavers AND barrel his way into the endzone for that final TD? He is a unicorn, GET HIM MORE WEAPONS.

They REALLY missed Oliver today.

12 men on field

Keon Coleman is so bad he has made me like watching Gabe Davis.

Agreed - he definitely does not seem to be trying to get the ball more!

Was Elijah Moore playing hooky with him?

They’ve surely know. About Keon’s attitude and reliability issues for weeks - this week was clearly the last straw - making it even crazier of Beane to hold the line on a 2027 first rounder for Waddle (if true). I’d fire him.

I will NOT have you sully the name of Reid Ferguson on this fine Sunday!

The biggest mistake he made was not double-dipping like he did with Benford in the Elam Draft. Coleman, man, what a clown. You have all of that God-given talent, a free path to targets, and Josh Allen as your QB. Work hard and you’re headed for a nine figure contract, no exaggeration. Some people are just low character.

Let's make sure to post this stupid fluff video every day for the next fourty years guys.

I haven’t read all 14 pages but my hope is that Josh is in between two stages of his career but is still ascending. Progress is not linear in most professions and aspects of life generally. Maybe he’s transforming into an elite pocket passer but needs to do it his particular way. That is my hope at least.

Rashoman!