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Have we stopped a single 2pt attempt this season?

I just knew this let down was coming. Always does, but we've mainly been playing sick os

That's literally the truck call

Comment above about quick whistles was spot on. Ball was moving. And nice td!

If we can't win the one on one on the left side (vs a monster today) our oline has no answer. Really wish we didn't cut spain

Off a bye week, center and best g are back together for the first time (except like 3 snaps) and we do a shotgun qb sweep on 3rd and 1 on our own end of the field. Dabol really sucks a lot of the time, crap like this keeps the o out of rythm

baltimore tenn saints steelers kc browns (perhaps a fluke, but i remember a super bowl where both teams had a total of like 7 or 8 former browns) gb seattle seahawks

watching the steelers vs dallas, i really don't think they can cover any of our WRs

he's a reasonable JAG defender who can start at CB2 for our D. that's not a knock on him, average at one spot back there can get the job done. i think the poor record without him is more a function of how awful our depth is behind him. its crazy to me how much FA money and the picks (1st, 2nd, and a 3rd) we plowed into the DL to get like totally average play from it. between who we have and our scheme something is plainly wrong w our D this year. enough individual players make enough individual errors to break the 1/11th thing that you have to wonder about it.

i dig the talent part of OP's post. Your dominant teams tend to have just total superstars, a few really good guys, and then Jags and perhaps the odd weakness. Looking at O, we have two Super stars in allen and Digs. we have two really good guys in Brown (when healthy) and beasley. i think our LT is really good, and our C or RT might qualify there in a pinch. Our interior line, particularly w the injuries, is trash, and our entire TE and RB roster is cheeks. On D, White is the only one who flirts w super star status, and frankly he has simply not been there this year, although i do think he is hurt. beyond that at CB, i think we struggle to hit JAG w the injuries. at LB, assuming both of them can heal up and be 100%, in a long stretch, milano and edmunds might qualify as really good, but i think just good would be an improvement from where we are now. beyond that we are below JAG at LB. at DT we don't have a single 1 tech on the team, Star was like JAG+ when he was in there. maybe oliver or houghs would qualify as really good, but i think that's a stretch. the rest are over paid JAGS, or even below. i suppose harrison is a 1 tech, but he mostly watches games now. so, looking at this with a bit of a devil's advocate bias, i really do see how our record is better than we have played. to me, the big difference now vs other years is with (if healthy) a few weapons at WR and a killer QB, you always have a shot in the game. if we can elevate the play of our LBs and our DL figure something out, that could be enough for the D to get back to being decent at least, and hopefully the OL getting healthy means we have an ability to stop the interior pass rush and push some teams around in the run game.

one thing to note: seattle just beat zona due to running and stopping the run better than we were able to do on sunday, and their D is cheeks overall. a very small change for us in those two things would result in very large differences on the field, so im all for it.

maybe once covid is over you can start up a successful English store and recoup!

every time josh sneaks, it looks like we get a pretty good push. i think our short distance running w the backs is a problem because of the play calls/designs, blocking, and perhaps the biggest impact is the RB themselves. they really don't blast into the hole and power through. we've seen our team get run on in 3rd and short situations where an LB or DL knifes through only to get the tackle broken and the back lumbers forward to convert, but we don't seem to have what it takes to get that done ourselves.

boooo! well, that means that any likely season outcome where we beat miami in week 17 gets us the division at the least.

as it stands, we are a better team than everyone we play except miami (roughly equal) and pitts (worse). what is interesting to me is that the teams we have for the rest of the season are some outside pass rushing monsters. depending on health of course, but these teams all have a really strong ability to win 1 on 1s vs OTs and get sacks, pressures, and turnovers. im happy our OT is the strength of our OL, but it's still scary considering our only o is 17 passing to the WRs. these teams can also run the ball well too, so just like the first pats game, there is a match up issue of them being good at stopping our strength, and us being bad at stopping theirs (for all 6 games, really). i expect us to come out strong vs the chargers, if we lose my confidence in the season will be shaken, but how we do on the road in SF to me is a huge test. we played pretty poorly in all phases of the game at times vs zona, yet it took a miracle and a mash unit of a D for them to beat us. i will feel certain we take the division if we go 2-0 going into the pittz game, so i agree w opie, that game has the makings of being the statement game of all statement games for the clap master.

is head to head the division tie breaker? i thought it was division record first

wait, does this mean that the signature wins that were missing in mcclappy's career have been pouring in all year? assuming we can beat up on the weak sisters of the poor and new england, SF, PITTS, and MIAMI are gonna be just huge games. also, if we get hot or the fish get cold, that week 17 game may not matter anyhow, so really SF and PITTS coming up quickly are gonna answer all the questions we have coming off this bitter loss into the BYE. gonna be some pretty exciting football into Dec for bills fans, you love to see it.

fact. yeldon doesn't have the issue of needing to get into the feel of the game either, he can come out and hit holes hard and catch passes. he's maybe less dynamic than our other backs, but they are slow enough it doesn't seem to be working anyhow. our O outside of OT, QB, and WR (particularly with all the injuries) is just about woat. ironically, those three positions are the biggest ones in football (outside of corner and DE) and we look pretty stacked there. but the middle of our line is trash, our RBs are pretty much JAGS, and our TEs are near the bottom of the NFL. hopefully ford and morse coming back will fix the guts, and maybe make our RBs look like NFL players.

consistency is more important than net yards or gross yards. that punt basically cost us 3 points. he's not an asset to the team, but the whole team is so inconsistent that i wonder if the issue isn't deeper

how could he be on every roster in the nfl?!?!??!!? is this a league for ants!?!

good question. id bet that if he were capable of playing yesterday he would have been a better player than knox. both addition through subtraction of the bone head stuff that knox does, and he'd maybe actually catch a meaningful pass too.

im still a 1pm truther. just seen this team be so bad on prime time games, basically not showing up. this team getting healthy over the next two weeks going into the chargers game is HUGE tho. if morse, our DBs, milano, and ford can come back, along w our TEs and brown getting back to healthy, this is a much much better team IMO.

that is such a good point. playing back as hail mary eraser would allow a pitch and catch underneath, but who cares? clock woulda stopped at 00. the biggest gap between buffalo and the pats has always been situational preparation. the pats always have an idea and a plan, doing nearly anything to get better results at ends of halfs and such, we are just terrible at it. they flashed a state, prior to the miracle 58 yard kick by bass, that the bills were the worst 2nd quarter 2 minute team in the nfl, coming into the game w 3 points.

we really lack talent at the TE and RB positions. one guy at each of those who can make meaningful plays would transform this O, and possibly have us up 1 or 2 in the win column this season. i really wanted that TE who left TB for big money this offseason. we coulda ditched some of the scrubs we signed on D to afford him, maybe cut kroft.

ive been taking a dump on the bills d all year, but honestly the loss today was less on them then the O. yes the dbs messed up stopping the hail mary, but that was a super fluke kind of play anyhow. if the o avoids the 2 picks, or turns a single FG into a TD, we walk away as winners. im still angry and defeated by the loss, but given how bad the team played in all 3 phases today. kicker was sick, but return game was net negative, catching the punts and letting the kicks to out of the endzone would have netted us like 60+ total extra yards, d flopped at the end and get walked on a few times, including a few 3rd and longs, and the o was terrible on 3rd down, allen handed over the ball twice (and tried to 2 other times), and singleterry dropping the once perfect screen ball was shocking. i meant to add: given how many guys are missing on our D right now, given what they had i think they actually played decent overall. sad.