Brand J

Funny little ESPN video I didn’t see posted anywhere:

After Hairston played all 53 snaps against Miami and shadowed Waddle on 40 of 41 snaps, there’s absolutely no reason to platoon him and White. Coach can make this defense much faster and more aggressive with a few changes in personnel but he won’t do it. Poyer playing 80% of the snaps while the Bucs gash us is another issue - not entirely on him, of course, but the defense as a whole and its reluctance to go with youth.

Modern day John Lynch

Gotta be a way to reverse some of these obvious horrendous calls. That one came on 3rd & 9 and will decide this game. Putrid referees.

Oh, I see what you mean. Your message is to give Keon time. Yeah, he wouldn’t fetch much in a trade anyway.

The defense is abysmal, but there are 3 players I’d like to see on the field full time to give us optimal athleticism: Hairston, Dorian Williams, and Jordan Hancock. I really don’t care what mistakes they make either, the slow vets aren’t getting it done anyway. I’ll be interested to see snap counts for Hairston, Hancock, Williams, and TJ Sanders.

The alternative post would be something like “is Cole Bishop trade bait?” No one’s gonna advocate trading a young, productive player.

We’Re giVInG cReDiT tO [insert QB not named Josh Allen] fOR tHrOwiNG To OpEN rEceiVErS??”

I remember a poster last week mocking the fact that Drake Maye was finding open receivers down after down, like it was more scheme than the QB. I said then and I’ll repeat it now - the QB has to find the open guy, he has to know where to go with the ball and get an accurate pass there. The QB absolutely gets credit for throwing to open receivers!

Josh is not THE problem, but he is most certainly PART of the problem.

Inexcusable. I said if White starts over our promising first round corner this week I’d lead the charge for McD being replaced. I’m out front now, guys. Holding the flag.

Hairston played all 53 snaps last week and shadowed Waddle all game. No reason to go back to Tre as a starter.

White starts over Hairston. Wow.

I know in the playoffs both teams get a chance with the ball, regardless of what happens the first drive (thanks to the 13 second game), but in the regular season - unless they changed the rules recently - if the receiving team scores a TD on that opening drive, they win.

A marriage that has run its course after 9 years.

I don’t get not taking a lead in the 4th Q when you have that chance.

The funny thing is I think Belichick would be a decent actor as long as you’re not asking him to stray too far from his real self. If he’s playing the same monotone type of guy he would kill it.

Yeah, his acting is stiff, like he’s clearly playing a role. I call that wooden. There are working actors who are also wooden though, so it wouldn’t hold him back from a Hollywood career if he wants it.

I’m seeing Josh Allen in a different commercial every other break. He’s done well for himself and his commercial image! Still seems a bit wooden if he elects to pursue acting after his career, but no doubt Hailey could help him in that area.

I feel in some ways Puka Nacua’s gauntlet time at the combine the year before, doomed the Bills into taking Coleman. Nacua had an average 40, but the best or second best gauntlet time in his class and the Bills missed on him. Coleman had the best gauntlet time in his class if I remember correctly and that might’ve elevated him in the Bills eyes, given what Nacua did his rookie year.

Bills record with Elijah Moore: 6-1 when he’s active, 0-2 when he’s inactive. Get that goose egg corrected today!

NFL is definitely a week to week league.

Right, the “can’t get open” is so overplayed and has taken a life of its own. “Open” in the NFL is having a step or two on the defender. Not every QB gets to throw to college open players like Lamar Jackson. Whether it’s passing game design or Allen not pulling the trigger, the receivers in this offense, Brady’s offense, are not the best versions of themselves. It’s also no coincidence Diggs’ numbers plummeted once he took over for Dorsey.

I thought we were moving towards a youth movement and speed in the secondary? Why did Hancock only get 10 defensive snaps to Poyer’s 43? Hairston started the game and played every snap; if Benford comes back and McD splits time between Hairston and White again I’ll be at the point where I truly want McD gone at the end of the year.

This is why I keep coming back to scheme and passing design more than personnel. You can have different receivers running those same routes, but if the play calls are just as predictable it won’t matter. WRs in Brady’s offense aren’t the best versions of themselves and we have years of data that proves it.