dave mcbride

He was busy chastising the DB who grabbed his jersey. Seriously.

Arguing about a call instead of focusing on the ball.

That is not the play to criticize knox on.

Oh come on.

Well brady is the best ever, but allen is actually playing well. He is under siege.

I agree

He had a tackle for a loss earlier in the drive

Announcers have shifted almost completely to brady and gronk record-breaking talk.

That’s largely because TB can and will run the ball.

Note that i said “unable.”

Being both unwilling and unable is indeed a real problem today. TB’s rushers are just teeing off.

Not true. Watch the replay

He was the opposite of wide open. The de occupied the throwing lane

That was a good throwaway. It would have been a pick

Blowout’s a-comin’.

You know, the funny thing is that Darrell Bevell actually was a SB-winning OC in Seattle with a creative offense. And he got there again the next year albeit Seattle lost in the last minute on the Wilson INT (not as bad a call as people think because NE had brought in their heavy stop-the-run package and Lynch had usually been stuffed in those situations over the course of the season).

Yeah, but that’s *extremely* rare. It happens once or twice a season.

Trying to figure that out!

There is an alternative universe where they are 10-2, but since all of the advanced stats (not just FO) show that the Bills have performed poorly late in close games on both sides of the ball, they are a rightful 7-5 in the universe we actually live in.

Presumably, and the offense has performed poorly in three of four close games (pitt, NE, Jax). The one where they produced was the Titans game, although even that one was punctuated by a bad failure on 4th down.

Good points. I’m speaking out of emotion because his play - especially in crunch time and in competitive, important games - has been so bad.

Pretty interesting. As you gradually increase the importance of the “garbage time filter” for the Bills offense, it gets significantly worse (and Allen declines too). The defense doesn’t do so well either, although weirdly if you max out the GT filter it goes from being bottom-half-of-the-league-defense with the filter at 2/3 to a top D. The other thing is that if you choose, say, the last 7-8 weeks with the garbage time filter maxed out, it has the Bills ranked 27th in offense. https://rbsdm.com/stats/stats/ I can’t say I understand it all, but it feels reasonably accurate given the Bills’ struggles in close games.

Agree, but I’d add that Marv was very good at a skill that is very under-rated—capably managing the personalities that comprise an entire NFL squad, many of who are borderline psychos.

Nope re: Williams. His cap hit next season is $8.9 million if he’s on the roster and $3.6 million if they dump him. That’s $5.3 million in savings. A team-friendly deal, basically. He is not going to get any better, and I’d get rid of him. The only reason to keep him is to have him as a viable backup at RT, but isn’t that why they drafted the guy from Miami? https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/2022/ Belichick certainly has, but he is also someone no one should ever be compared to. He is sui generis.

Totally disagree. This team was by everyone’s estimation a SB contender. They have gone 3-4 in their last seven games and in the process have lost to their archrival because they were outcoached, got blown out at home by a team they beat in the playoffs last year, and lost to the worst franchise in the league over the last decade because their vaunted offense couldn’t score a TD.