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Also, Houston's d is a disgusting monster. They are so flipping fast and dangerous

Pilz might be the dumbest built team. Let a top wr go, pay big picks and dollars for a fading one trick poney, get a semi retired cantankerous star for QB, put all dollars in an aging and underperforming d. Have no blocking or run game.

I'm happy about that if KC does it. load up vs the run when we have 1 wr, 3 TEs and cook out there and their horrible play action pass d, and bad covering LBs will be 1 on 1 with knox and kinkaid who will catch balls over their heads all day. also, cook has faced an average of 7.65 guys in the box this season (4th highest in the nfl) and is the per game leader in yards. if end up running on 7s and play action passing over 8s, he'll be running against a light box (for him on average) and we'll have the TEs 1 on 1 vs kc's far and away biggest weakness (worst in the nfl in fact). at some point all of my opinions will just be whatever joe marino said on his last podcast, but i've honestly been saying this for a while (not like im the only one). an EP offense looks its best with a sick run and tight ends, adn we have those, no more 1 on blanketed quick passes to WRs on the edge.

that makes sense, but the data on the field doesn't bare it out in the bills case. our O faltered vs atlanta and ne because we got caught having to drop back in obvious passing downs, and we were over 80% run from under center and over 80% pass from shotgun. going back to the playoff game vs kc last season (where we had a lot of offensive production running, but a lot of it was josh taking it himself) we score quite easily in drives where we feature cook, and struggle to do so in drives where we don't. i'd love to have an actual good wr on this team on the outside, but given we go to war with the army we have, not the army we'd like, i think we should put our best players out there and use misdirection and play action fakes out of an advantage run set to get our best results. if we use our best guys and make the d guess, we can score a lot. we did last year with basically the same set of sorry wrs

we have bad WRs, but great RBs and TEs. the solution is to put our best people on the field and be balanced running and passing. it just so happens our QB and RB are two of the best runners at their position in the NFL, and our OL is a run blocking machine. allen looked uncomfortable vs carolina because he is uncomfortable playing under center. he is also a better qb playing under center. who cares if he's uncomfortable? let's just put up 40 points and embarrass opponents.

Bills 38 Queefs 27 garbage time scores for KC makes it look closer than it really was.

i think we hold some, and get called for it way more than other teams. part of that is how many people we have blocking (as mentioned, lots of wr and te blocking vs most teams). on the other side, i think the way we rush the passer and play the run (pass rush has been great, run d not so much) has our DL pressing gaps and lots of inside pass rush, vs having a burner outside pass rush or creative blitz scheme, so it's just like physically harder for the ref to see the holds. it seems to me when we have holding called on us, it's most often an outside guy or one of our Ts, less so interior lineman, i think that's nfl wide (altho i think holding is done kinda evenly, just not seen as much). lastly, guys like vrable and bellicheat before him trained their dline to do some kinda fake dive move, throwing their hands up when the play is beyond them, and i swear it gets them calls. our guys just like never do that, and i think mccoach would look down on taking a dive in general.

allen wasn't feeling it vs carolina, but i heard he had the 9th highest epa per play for week 8. basically, he's not a fan of the passing game, and isn't playing his best, but that's still nfl top 10. his numbers are just so so similar to what they were week 8 last year, and our WR group sucked just as bad (i think if we throw palmer back in we are a smidge better now) then. we had the same number of losses, the o looked as bad or worse in our 2 losses then. the difference is we now have cook running like a hall of famer.

sure, pick on my, i'm an easy target. yeah i worry to much, but don't worry too much also.

lol, could you not tell i was making a joke?

i gave brady stick for the middle 4 games, including the 2 losses, because he is stubborn and arrogant and doesn't self scout and kind of just called madden type plays, but ya we have to take the full account. allen doesn't like under c vs shotgun, but does better in it, so he can be uncomfortable while we win. brady just needs to be deeper in his bag wrt not being predictable. we had two awful driven ending mistakes vs carolina (first two) and still destroyed them (in 40 mins, that was insane). i think aside from the d crushing them, it was the o with brady dialing up a near 5050 blend of pass and run and carolina still has no idea what play is coming next.

von would be de4 or 5 on this team

i'm concerned that we will have no answer for the speed at wr on kc, and that they will sell out completely to stop cook. if we lose that's the most likely script. i looked back at the box scores of our two games last season. it kinda showed how narrow the margin is between top nfl teams. in the reg season game, we didn't have spencer brown and james cook did jack ish. allen ran the hell out of the ball. our d really frustrated them at times and forced some good stops. coleman was out and it was a pretty sorry batch of wrs. in the playoff game, allen ran a lot but only had so much production (remember the bad call from the reff on the tush push?). the wr's were pretty sorry for us, altho hollins had one miracle bomb TD (34 yards). we failed to convert on 2 4th downs (tush push and the kinkaid drop) and missed two pretty early 2 point conversion attempts (we suck so bad at those). our secondary was raw rookie bishop, ghost of douglas, and kiar elam, taron, and freaking damar. dline had oliver who played nasty, dequan seemed banged up, groot was ok, and just lots of trash otherwise (aj i suppose was ok). in that game we hid james cook and had davis and ty johnson taking snaps on 1st and 2nd down runs. cook had 13 runs, and 3 catches. he was our best player on O, and he was featured in 2 drives and was off the field in the most important plays. kinkaid was hobbled and there was lots of short pathetic passes to wrs, but we did convert more of them than we seem to now. as sorry as that roster was on that day, if cook got 25 touches we win that game. i think we need to keep up the mo on D this sunday, and feature cook and our big people. if kc sells out to stop him, we punish them w passes to backs and tight ends, and allen runs on scrambles. the d we have now should be much better than the trash heap we piled up in kc in the playoffs. our two losses this year, aside from badbabi taking a dump in the first half vs atl (and bernard just sucking so bad) were from idiot turnovers/killed drives, penalties, and simply not passing enough to ends and back or featuring cook. if we go heavy and mix it up, no one has shown an ability to slow it down. miami stopped the run with having like 4 dts on the pitch, but we just chose not to throw it over the fatties. it's there if we want it.

if he can play i'd put gave davis out there and give him large burn until palmer is ready. if palmer, kinkaid, shakir, and cook are on the field we can threaten several areas of the d on obvious passing downs. right now we just don't throw to backs and allen is like the least passingest qb on "neutral" downs, so we either run and dominate or get to 3rd and long and struggle schematically. if we can be closer to 50/50 run and pass from jumbo under c and out of shotgun (we can go shotty w multiple TEs too) then teams will have a problem stopping it. also, do we ever run draws? i saw a stat that said cook runs into 7.5 or so defenders in the box on average, the 4th highest in the nfl, and has the highest epa per run (0.2, which is disgusting). in 4 down territory him running on 3rd and 7 out of shotgun might be our best option sometimes.

i thought he'd be good when he was drafted. i now think i was totally wrong and they likely just sucks (he could develop, but he kinda went through that and moved to another college team to fool us into drafting him in the first place). that said, we have groot, bosa, 55, and aj (say what you want, he's had some massive splash plays this season). those 4 have been super productive this season, and i was honestly shocked that a guy with alopecia never plays special teams (i made a most special team of all joke when he was drafted, no one laughed) so he never beats out solomon. i thought going into this season the one player that would super charge us the most was garrett (still would love to have him, obv) but now i think it woulda been pickens.