Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

What do we need Brown for with playoff Gabe!! Think it's more due to McKenzie healthy now, so with him plus Beasley, Shakir, Davis, and Diggs, not really room. Does worry mea little though as not much outside backup at WR. But that's kind of been that way all year.

OK, I must have missed the TO TX!

Definitely noticed those two in bold.

Was half time around 3:00, add 15 minutes for half time, so 3rd quarter started around 3:15. 2nd half wasn't that bad then overall, 1:35. 2nd halves typically take more time. Was just extremely slow 1st half. Watching the game, not really sure why though either??

Would be interesting to see if McD would go that route. My take on Dorsey is as an ex QB he's too enamored with the pass. So not sure I'd want to grab another ex QB for OC position. That may have been the advantage of Daboll, not being an ex player.

Can see it either going two ways. He realized himself he can't do this and retires Or He chalks it up to too many distractions, the divorce, injuries around him weak team, and comes back another year on a better team to prove to everyone he's still the greatest. Whether that works is another question.

NFL teams are averaging about 6.4 net yards per pass attempt and 4.3 yards per carry. When you have a Josh Allen IMO that's a bad idea because of above. I found that stat for the entire league, I'd imagine if looking at teams like Buffalo, KC, Bengals, you'd see an even larger difference. Certainly can pass from formation you're suggesting but keeping three wide increases your chance, assuming the three are good to better WR's. Having an elite QB also makes the WR's and d TE's too look better. Having said that do feel the Bills need more WR help than present.

I think the offense is and would continue to be more effective having 3WR's on the field so don't want to take one of them off the field routinely to go with 2 TE's. So not worth spending the money for those few times we may want to have 2 pass catching TE's on the field. I would rather spend money to sign a FA WR or draft one in 1st or 2nd round. 2 TE's on the field are good for weak arm QB's who live on 5 yard passes over the middle.

If that's the case people on this board surely have a strange way of showing they agree with that. Granted not that posters here are exactly experts on NFL play calling even though we think we are.

Wasn't that why in basketball years back they went to a clock that shows tenths of a second, that when the clock shows 1 it really means it's between 1.00 and 1.99 and when it shows zero it's really between 0.00 and .999? This won't be a popular take, but officials are kind of trained to "let them play" and don't blow the whistle for trivial things and make it out that they are the center of the game. I'm a volleyball official, when you blow the whistle for a player to serve, they have 8 seconds to serve it. If after 8 seconds they haven't served, you blow the whistle again and that team loses the serve. But as an official when I get to 8 if I see the player has started to toss the ball or even just looks like they are ready to toss the ball, I'm not going to blow the whistle for that. I'll give that to them even if that means they really had 9 or 10 seconds. The goal would be to let them play. Granted there's no viable clock, so no one has any idea where I am in my count. I suppose could make it like soccer that the official on the field has the clock in his pocket, so no one else on the field has any idea how much time is actually left. I find it interesting that a soccer game never ends when a team is running down the field on a semi breakaway or in the middle of shooting. One rule change I would like to see is like in basketball a team has 5 seconds to inbound the ball, but once they reach 4, a team can't call time out. Make it that once the play clock hit's 3 seconds, teams can't call time out. Who knows maybe that's why they get extra time, the umpire is supposed to once the clock hit's zero look to see if the ball is snapped. As common as it's become, maybe before looking at the ball, they are first looking to the sideline to see if the coach is trying to call a TO! LOL

Allen lobbied hard for Dorsey. Have to wonder if it's a situation where he wanted him for the job, but still thinks they are in the same relationship as they were last year as his QB coach who'd kind of make suggestions, give him him a pat on the back and understand him. He doesn't really respect him as a boss. He's not knowingly trying to disobey him, just figures things are like they were last year. I relate it to situations you sometimes see in office environments where a bunch of people who worked together, all got along well as peers. Then one of them gets promoted to boss, but the others just continue to see him as their buddy and peer. Assuming the Bills don't win the SB, would McD replace him or just sit down with him and tell him, this year was your one mulligan, you were inexperienced. I'm giving you one year to figure things out, else next year you're gone

I thought it's the same as in a soccer game when the referee pulls out his can of spray paint and paints the line across the field??

First off why then didn't the other games also take 4 hours? Think there were just stoppages, challenges, etc. The NFL doesn't dictate the commercials, the television network decides that. Likely in the TV contract it states how many minutes of commercials per game. Could the NFL have said no, sure but the networks need the revenue to pay for the rights. I guess the NFL should have told the networks, not don't pay us that much we want less. I'm sure the players would have supported that and gladly taken less in salaries too.

May be they just have goal lines monitored as have a straight line to use as guide, so not able to use for first downs.

Can't argue with success!

The last three games of last season plus two playoff games, Allen was 113 out of 180 for 1310 yards 62.7% completion, 14 TD, 3 Int and all three were in week 15, last 4 games zero Ints. They also ran the ball much better in that same timeframe. That point in time corresponded with when they moved Bates to starting lineup. On the other hand, we couldn't sack the QB and were very weak against the run last season. Move to the off season with limited resources $$ wise, they put most of the money on the defensive side, brought back 4 of the 5 lineman and signed Stafford in place of Williams which in hindsight may be a small drop off. I can recall pre-season the announcers commenting how the Bills backups are better than some teams starting 5. (probably true based on experience only) So all in all didn't seem like a bad place to be st the time. What else has changed since, new line coach which was supposedly a step up. But new blocking styles mean learning curve, could also be some of the Bills starters aren't as good in this scheme? Add to that Brown missed all actual on field work all off-season, plus training camp and pre-season. For a guy like seasoned vet may not be that big a deal. But for a 2nd year player now in a new scheme, that likely set him back some too. Think we'll see the Bills draft an interior lineman high, I'd prefer WR 1st round OL 2nd round and also sign a good vet. If Morse were to retire then need another starter. But to many people's dismay IMO Dawkins, Bates, Morse, and Brown will be next years starters barring injury or some surprise move. I'd also draft another OL maybe around rd 4. They also have Doyle coming back. I've seen crazy [posts here draft all lineman. If you want a better stronger team in 2023, you don't want all rookie backups so that really makes no sense. I always like to say, whomever you draft, you need to have a landing spot on the roster for them, else it's a wasted pick if you turn around and cut them. Maybe 6th and 7th rounders can take a chance on sneaking to the PS, but not anyone higher.

Only when it's over 15 yards. Under that we don't bother, we just stop them. The long ones we like to give them.

Yeah remember seeing that and thinking was very similar to Jet game play

What was different about that today? We've been doing that all season. LOL Missed tackles is our thing.

Most of these items are related to offensive playing calling. Is Dorsey struggling some, likely yes. Assuming we don't win the SB Is it enough to go in another direction and fire him or do they give him another year. Was listening this morning on Sirius NFL radio and they were talking about Staley in LA. Do they give him another year based on all his mistakes or look at it as he's still young and learning and keep him. Same could be said about Bills WRT Dorsey. Daboll struggled a fair amount too in earlier year and got better. Difference is the entire team wasn't ready to compete for SB so team could put up with learning curve. Now the team is more "on the clock" to win now. Overall though Allen seems to have regressed, though not sure either Int today was really his fault. But there were other passes that were off quite a bit. Seems like when he throws it 20 yards it's spot on, but 5 to 10 yard passes are all over the place.

Just read a story, that most all contracts contain a clause stating that fired coaches are required to some level to look for another job. Never knew that! It may be one of these things owners don't enforce as gives the ma bad look? https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/kliff-kingsbury-s-lack-of-interest-in-other-jobs-could-jeopardize-his-buyout/ar-AA16mR2E?cvid=a8e0dee89d3f49758f78a4ebcdbaf5c3

Hamlin just stated he's watching game from home

Neat

This may be wishful thinking that none end up either with Jets or Miami. I'd be kind of surprised to see Rogers go anywhere. I think he'll either stay in Green Bay or retire. Not sure too with his contract if worth any team trading for him unless bad team just trying to sell tickets.

Maybe next year will improve some and make Pro Bowl!