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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.

honestly, i think most of us just remember our teams from prior seasons based on our insane playoff production on o, horrible playoff d, and the felling of how close we were to beating kc (or cinci). like, does anyone (besides quoted poster above) look back at the season record, stats, or game logs? in 2021, the year we were supposed to be the best we have been, we were 7-6. we got super hot and won games (but not necessarily total domination all the time). in 2022 we totally dominated the regular season (we looked weak vs cinci and didn't complete the hamlin heart stoppage game tho). we lost 3 games by a total of 8 points, one was the miami 120 degrees disaster where we out gained them 2 to 1 and lost by 1 point. one was vs the jets where it was some kinda last second bs, and one was vs minni where we had a fumble on a goal line allen sneak, and on 4th and half the field jefferson cought the ball off our worst db, who honestly helped jj catch the pass on accident. that was cook's first year, and we had von in rare form until he blew up his leg again and took 120mm of pegula dollars down with him. in 2020, the only year we made the afc chip game before our current coaching and team design when we made it last year, here is who we had qb break out josh allen, electricity in qb form! wr diggs in his best season ever, brown, gabe davis (rookie), bease, iseah mak LB -- milano, edmunds, backed up by dodson and still living aj klien secondary -- prime tre, prime poy and hyde, prime taron, levi "someone has to be cb2" wallace all those position groups were really good to elite. i'd say top 3 or 4 secondary, allen was top 5 or 3 that season, wr was like top 3 or 4, LB was def top 10 here is the rest of the squad RB singletery, yeldon, taiwan jones TE knox, gilliam (rook), croft, lee smith (he was so banged up at this point) OL dawkins, bates, butger, morse, feliciano, williams, nsekhe DL zimmer, phillips, oliver, murphy, rook aj, butler, addison, jefferson houghs our secondary back then was better, wayyyyyy better than in playoffs last season once christian went down (not even close). once we are up to full health today, our current secondary will still be worse but maybe not by so so much our LBs were better, maybe much better since milano was better, but shaq has been pretty flipping good our wr's were much better, especially with outside threats. our DL was bad, star sat the season out, and the pass sucked. Our RBs were CHEEKS. our tight ends were awful (knox was still kinda raw, and the rest were bad, gilliam was basically a full back). our OL was a disgusting pile. we have multiple back ups who would start on that line now. so, if we are objective in comparing rosters, it's better now, just not at wr and secondary, small nod at LB to the old one. everyone is talking about how allen and the passing game sucks now, look at his numbers after week 8 last year (MVP year) and now. it's the flipping same ish. we have a top 6-8ish DL right now (if oliver comes back, along w dq and sanders it might be higher). we have a top 2 or 3 OL. we have a top 3 or 4 RB room, we have a top 3 or 4 TE room. We have a top flight qb. our D maybe perhaps will put something together where they can get a couple stops and turnovers in the playoffs. we win a super bowl if we can have good health, especially where we've had stacked injuries, and we ride our big players to the promised land. run the ball on everyone, maul them with the most mauling oline in the nfl (cook had like 140 yards before contact last sunday, that's OD), use the big person formations and pass to TEs, Backs, and the occasional wr. control the TOP when we want, score when we can, wear out the opponents. that's it, that's the formula. it might not happen but we have at least as good of a chance as it happening this season as we did last season. we have the best RB, QB, TE, OL, DL combo in the nfl. big people, plus the two positions that touch the ball the most. last year that combo belonged to baltimore, and everyone was afraid of them, now it's us

we had walker, phillips, bosa, groot out there, and we had aj 55 obiwan and walker on another drive. that's quite the mix of big strong (kinda) fast and a lot of nasty. im scared to face kc, but they've had OL issues and mahomes has had some errant passes, if we beat them the DL will be a huge part of the reason why.

our passing o sucks right now. talent and scheme and blocking and josh is just all off. we are great when we go heavy jumbo and under center (when we mix it up so it's not all runs). like most green light qb's josh is less comfortable under center, but he's better under center (his stats show it, he just is comfortable being insane and running around and gunning). if we just pass more out of under C and jumbo to tight ends and backs our passing stats will jump like crazy. josh had goofy feet and two or three bad passes, but he tattooed two wrs (18 and 10) on the right sidelines for solid gainers and both guys couldn't just play wr and keep their feet down. if those two were caught his stats woulda looked better and we'd have had more downs to work with, leading to likely more passing production. we had the ball up 3-0 early at first and goal from the 9, but samuel lining up wrong (on a sneak, what was he doing?) and then wr's not getting open at all as josh bot a boatload of time lead to a big sack and fg instead of a td. shakir had two or three good catches including one absolute perfect run for nearly 60 and a tub, but aside from that the contribution of our WRs was like bottom of the nfl level. the run game is the best in the nfl, literally baltimore of 2024 levels. on d ed getting gimped sucks, but in that game we were out our starting S (rapp), both starting LBs, both starting DTs, and a meaningfully contributing rookie at outside corner (strong) and DT (sanders). so 5 starters all in the middle of the d and a top 4 outside corner and a 2nd round DT. we added in our 1st round corner, and our two FA roid signings. the players we replaced our SS, corner, and seemingly both LBs are simply better players at this point than our starters. i still have concerns about the D, but if we get dq and sanders back, a front 4 rotation of obiwan, dq, sanders, walker, and like jordan p at dt and de's of bosa, groot, aj, hoyt, whoever is a legit top flight unit. mcd should share defensive play calling with badbabi the same way J Lo shares the spotlight with her back up dancers. the juice from harrison, our lbs, hancock and even bishop was en fuego.

wrong, they are required to do something, and you do do it every single time. I just wanted to argue, carry on.

practically, it gets overpowered and allows explosive run plays and allows high quality os w decent play to run lots of plays moving the sticks with a low degree of difficulty. more specifically, it's a bit predictable because of how he had his guys lineup in so many high leverage down and distances, it overly relies on the front 4 getting pressure, and requires the nickel, two lb, and one or two s to make a great read and a really high effort play to stop run plays from being explosive, i.e. it's too high of a degree of difficulty for them vs the O. all that said, when it comes to getting young players coached up and ready to fire off the ball, and in terms of feel for the game and making defensive play calls, mcd is objectively really good. he should be calling this d, not clown shoebabi there was a question before about coaching trees in another thread, i think what will limit mcd from having a coaching tree (aside from like never hiring good/high profile guys) is that he has lots and lots of tactical stuff he does, but his scheme/strategy is really not ground breaking. contrast w like a shanahan tree, where they have a unique philosophy to operate out of (for better or for worse) mcd just likes his nickel base cover two look with some mix ups and disguises thrown in. it works well when he runs/calls it but that's as transferable as a strategy, or at least that's how it seems to me.

We were more disguised and even out of shotty and under center vs Carolina. Some obvious 3rd and longs had us less than like 50/50 in terms of disguise, but it was better than before. Carolina seemed to have their d set up to not get torched by okay action passes. How many times did Josh take the hand off, turns round and see sweet eff all open? Cook coulda run for another 100 if they kept at it in the 4th, so it's a problem now. Kinkaide being banged up and only playing 14 snaps was our biggest issue IMO. He's our best pass option, followed by shakir. With even mid level Palmer hurt the rest of the wr corps are just terrible. I remember a really well called TD drive that had us hit a quick slant to Coleman on the right side in one on one coverage. He got the 1st but he like lunge stepped to get the ball which took him out of stride and got tackled immediately. A good wr woulda been smoother and changed direction and maybe had a huge gainer.

Josh is off the last three games, but the wrs are just trash right now. I loved the o today, but what I still saw was a big lack of passing to backs and ends. There were like what, 6 or so targets to them? That's a lot of yards left on the field Also, we have one single wr that Allen trusts playing right now, and shakir is a small not super fast slot guy. That's not much for a d to take away. It's not a huge matter though, if we go jumbo and stay two dimensional out of it we can pass or run with insane success. Gilliam (who is blocking like an all pro) will be open for passes whenever we want to throw them. He might shoplift a tub or two in the playoffs.

Our d was decent that game, but gassed and fell off on the second half. The o was a disaster The cheats got a gift from son of the coward hockulie and our o was mentally handicapped. If we ran the same game vs the pats and dork azz ATL as we did against the Panthers we'd have no losses. We aren't forcing passes outside anymore

Oh, not to mention we were close to two more today but idiot penalties and such took them away. Odds are he woulda had at least one of them. Hell prolly end up 43-48

He's in pace for just over 41 in 17 games, and he's sat out one half this season.