colin

Manna from heaven!! Still down by double digits, we need some miracles

Ty Johnson is head and shoulders. Better than the rook, time to bench him!

I was really high on him coming out, but he's absolutely cheeks so far

Another three score deficit. Clearly there is some holes in talent, but I'm thinking back to how the team fell apart for a while last season. I wonder if mc clap might be losing the team

Just a bad d

The bills team is easy to play. Poorly built and poorly coached

Aaaand special teams join the suck party

All has lost the plot here,

Oof

Should that have been challenged?

The number of bad plays behind the Los is shocking. Three bad screens today, the flea flicker and other trash vs bmore. Is Brady high?

Lol, miracle stop

If this d isn't coming forward they are useless. Let's see if our brain trust can figure it out

What the heck were the back 7 doing on that pitch and catch?

Just another awful play on 3Rd down This team seems to have hung it up after the Jax blow out

Sooooo, are zona Miami and Jax just absolute trash, and we aren't even good then?

It kinda looks like the book on how to beat us is open. Can't pick up a blitz on o, any motion or misdirection kills us on d

Awful play on that 3rd down

our OC and DC got taken out behind the woodshed. baltimore changed up what they do on O to trap our gung ho up the pitch rush on the dline, their d simulated pressure and took the middle of the field away, and what stood out the most was the eye candy and misdirection. they had so much misdirection on o it looked like an army offense, and on d it was all crazy formations and changing who drops where. they bet that our coaches wouldn't know what they were seeing, and they were 100% right. kind reminds me of the rams vs pats super bowl. the rams were like 1 or 0 of 13 on 3rd down. the pats did not have the roster talent to match up to the rams, and had huge struggles on O because the front of the rams was near all time great (darnold and suh just obliterating everyone). but billy b knew young HC of the rams never saw a bear from D, and he ran it to perfection daring the rams to change up what they do to find easy success but the rams just couldn't. the coordinators better learn some life lessons quickly, because an OC with like 15 games experience and a dc with 4 games experience isn't a great look. as much as i whine about mcd, it's kinda shocking the team with the 2nd most wins since 2020 can't spring for a solid vet (not dust bin frazer) coordinator. that might be our biggest coaching hole. let's hope these guys are rapid up and comers.

lol, im sure it won't happen, but if this team can add adams and budda baker without breaking the bank, the talent level in the field in the playoffs will be an entire tier above what it would otherwise be. our d is soft and slow right now, buddah (along w TJ coming back) turns our back 5 from giant gaping holes and horrible tackling to 5 guys with real athletic ability making life hard, and if we added adams to the outside we'd have coleman and adams creating problems for the teams 2 best corners and best cover safety with cook shakir and kinkaid in the gut, and josh allen w the ball. one extra touch down possession and one extra forced punt woulda made this team get to the superbowl at least 2 of the last 3 seasons, and that woulda been facing philly and sf (mayyyyyybe they beat cinci and play vs the rams, which woulda been a lay down win). I think we would have had both of those.

that hit to his leg looks so brutal. he's not the fastest and isn't small, so i suspect that will hobble him for quite a while. with what i expect from him, and what we saw from von and tre falling off hard after lower body injuries, i'm always amazed looking back at terrell owens. he had his leg snapped to bits and that year in the super bowl he was the best player on the field and if mcnabb didn't fall apart he woulda won the game for the eagles. adrian peterson also came back from a horrible injury to be a top 5 offensive player in the nfl the next season. some guys are built different and will simply not rest in pursuit of rehabilitation, others let the injury get in their head and never come back.

less pre season to get in the groove and more real games is gonna have this impact. schematically the o was eating the d's lunch for a few years, and now the d's have figured it out, but there is a gap between the white board and the grid iron. coaches have more tools and data and are doing more than ever (remember when top coaches would just run their scheme all the time and never adjust and would pile up strong records? now most coaches have more looks and more ability to adapt than before). but the players practice less and easier, do less as a team in the offseason, and don't get the warm ups they did before and play more games. the result is poorer execution. i hate the refs and laundry days worth of flats ruin games, but some of these games are shocking. i watched the chargers vs jets, it was raining but my gosh was it a slop fest. the ball was falling out of guys hands, i counted a dozen pre snap penalties between the two teams, and they execution was weak when it did happen. two bad os and two good ds, but it did not look how a pro football game should look.

in the biggest games coaching has hurt us as much or in some cases more than the roster. beane did get us josh, so that counts for something. the real failing of beane is his contracts and extensions, and i suspect mcd has a lot to do with it. he's drafted well, his weakness in drafting has been not getting players for the positions we are thinner at, but that is largely a result of being tied up with bad contracts. before we signed jags (star, that DE from DC, settle, addison, a bunch of special teams only guys) to far too high contracts because mcd wants his guys who fit a scrappy plucky but not big or fast profile. the real hurt comes from the von contract, the knox extension, the milano extension (great player, but the greatest ability is availability), paying spain and trading teller, signing non impact wrs to reasonably high contracts (samuel and hollins and mvs so far, he got a bit lucky w beaz and brown, and has gone to that well too many times) and signing DQ and that other DT who just got hurt to more than they are worth. what is teh cap we have in von, milano, diggs, knox, mvs, samuel, bass, poy, and hyde? three of those guys are off the team, one is hurt and not playing, one is suspended and injured otherwise, one is usually injured and just not good, two are non impact, and one just fell apart after his big contract. that's like a third of our cap on players who on average can be replaced with street free agents (right now, w injures or being off the team). if we never had those we'd simply have had more burn for williams who'd have improved, and be able to sign a heap of talent who could contribute. Josh allen on the chargers, the raiders, pittz, and possibly the jets and miami are better teams today than the bills. so i wouldn't say beane has totally failed, but between his mistakes and mcd in the playoffs we have squandered some of josh allen's great years.

a hall of fame pro football player making it to 85 is an absolute epic run. i think the idea is guards are not higher impact players, they are steady contributors, and the difference between most guards who even make the nfl is small. a top flight guard, particularly a hall of famer, can make a real impact on a team though. a great one makes the guy to either side of him a better football player, and thats why people will start a guard who was drafted late or undrafted and just picked up off another squad for years, but will put a 1st or 2nd round pick into a guy who can make a difference, and pay a top guy a multiple of what a replacement level guy costs. i never saw him play live, but from his accomplishments and some of his film, a guy like billy shaw is a contributor to a championship level team. more than 1/11th of the reason why they win. RIP

doesn't their D kinda suck? correct me if im wrong but i feel like they are a bit sloppy and le up big plays too much. exciting team for sure tho