colin

Is it true the only td allowed to a wr by the jets in double digit games was diggs in week one of this year? If so, that's insane and really means we have to go under center and run josh in the red zone

I like what I see so far. The one thing is delayed runs and stuff to the edge isn't clicking. Need a lil less of that

if bmore smashes up the afc north, and i think they will, it's indy, houston, and us in the running. 3 wc spots, so we have a decent shot there. i think we make the playoffs via winning the division. once again, we will have a road game in KC in the playoffs, and in the regular season. kc has had a nasty d but pretty weak O. if we score two passing tds vs the jets in a win, im declaring us back!

you're just defending her because you know she reads the board and you are waiting for that late night text. respect.

it's just that simple. if our bills rip off two solid wins in the next 9 days, go into the bye 7-5 and driving their own bus of destiny, then it's smiles and laughs and jokes again. maybe with a more serious backdrop than say 2021 or so, but comfortably loose. if we also beat kc, this team's confidence will be galvanizing.

w all the back up qbs for the teams ahead of us, and them playing each other, it seems like the raves will smash up their own division taking care of clevland, pittz, and cinci for us (they are all not great teams w their current injuries and pittz has to have its luck run out). the texans and colts will likely have at least one fall down (i think colts), and the afc west honestly looks like kc and no body. as bad and as dumb as we have been, we can keep up w miami and beat them last game for the division (which means we will likely have room to lose 1 maybe 2 more) and likely can land the 7th wild card if we are 10-7 if the d can continue to play above its station and not be asked for end of game stops, and the O can turn the super high efficiency stats into more points via removing the bad play (driver enders, turnovers, just a couple of those turned into FGs and we are winners) then we are in. if this team can't make that happen then they need to make it happen next season with an entirely new front office.

That's a mostly fair point IMO. we can drop a game or two, as success pointed out, if we are one behind the fish for the last game, it's win and in. i think miami drops at least 1, maybe more. beating philly going into the bye might be necessary tho, from a momentum and confidence point of view.

is that right? we'll have the tie breaker sweeping them?

he's made horrible mistakes, but vs denver and new england if the d stops either of these trash offenses in the last drive, we win. vs the bengals, it's maybe a stretch but kinkaid not fumbling and we have room to win that game. against jax, we had a garbage time td, but we had a drive where we did a cover zero blitz and let up a big conversion, if we don't give that big conversion we have every chance to win the game. so if we just get stops on the two games vs the worst opponents above, we are 7-3 and cruising. he's been bad turning it over, real bad vs the jets, but better play calls on either side of the ball, just a few, even with the turnovers we are in the driver's seat. the man beater routes vs zone and the hole shot outside play (seems to always be mirrored on both sides according to the talking heads ive seen) need to be thrown out.

it's possible a 5-2 run gets us in, but that means wild card teams in front of us fall down badly, or miami loses a bunch of games, including to us.

i would never! bite your tongue.

every nfl head coach is a dictator. that's what they are hired to be. the biggest issue w our team this season is how close we are. losses of d players suck, but the d has held most opponents to a pretty low point total. yet they give up scores vs bad teams on 4th quarter drives most weeks, and when they didn't (nyg, tb) they come super close to giving the game away at home vs bad offenses. our O turns the ball over terribly, and looks out of rhythm on like 5 or 6 of every 8 drives. they are super predictable and make bone headed mistakes over and over. yet, allen has walked off the field w a lead, or was driving to the end zone more or less every week of our last 6 games, and we have a great td% and epa and all of that. yards per play is top 5 in the nfl too. good situational football and better play calling/feel for the game would turn some of these close losses into wins, and frankly that's the difference between champions and no one's in the NFL. an ironic stat i saw is that while our td% we have even since week 4 has been good, our fg% is awful. once we get out of our own end, getting a FG here and there would put us in a pretty sweet position to win these close games. some advantage play calls allowing the o to gain a few more yards, or the d to get off the field earlier, or slightly better punting, or any combination would set us up for wins. all of that is a coaching issue. so mcd is a dictator, but he's supposed to be. that's fine. but if he's a dictator who won't accept accountability and no idea how to right the ship, he should be sent packing once playoffs are out of reach to send a message that this is simply not acceptable.

he did well on that rep, maybe a more decisive turn and run post catch gets him more yards, but i'll take that all day. so the second angle on the post confirmed something i've been thinking -- dbs are eating josh's lunch because they 1) can predict our silly plays and 2) just play zone and watch josh's eyes. they don't get totally fooled if he looks off because they have an edge basically knowing what we are gonna do in certain (most?) formations and down and distances. when allen is under center, they don't know his throwing spot (which he likes to change as well) so they wait for him to stop his drop back, when he turns his back to hand off or fake a hand off, the lbs freeze, and most importantly imo the dbs don't have any eyes to read so they just stare waiting for josh to turn around. he's so athletic and good throwing the ball that he has a HUGE advantage in that situation. it's sets up such zone beaters i go crazy when we run man killing mesh/rub routes against the clearest and most obvious zones.

same here. i think mcd and beano are gonzo unless we have at least 2 good performances in the playoffs.

i voted yes because i want to win the chip this year and have no other choice but to keep mcd as corch. i don't think he can, but i'm super happy to eat some hot crow wings if he does.

you gotta chalk a chunk of that to inexperience. cook seems to ride the bench more than he runs routes, and dalton is a rook. it does almost seem like we don't really practice the plays we run, and certainly not on a situational basis. i really hope brady turns it around, but it's hard to have confidence given the position the team is in.

Allen does WHAT? when did this start happening and why wasn't i informed?

im good with blitzes, it's part of football. what drives me nuts is how badly we blitz, just don't have any flow to it, never seem to find the open gap, it's like they are so surprised and excited that they are blitzing they just run and bang into whoever is in front of them. there is an art and a science to blitzing, and we don't seem to grasp either.

that's a good point. joe brady has aspirations of being the best oc alive (they all do) and he's young and has had success. being the guy to get allen back to form or beyond is how you make yourself known. gase and hacket have made tens of millions off of very good qbs looking good under their coaching. brady might just mess around and get the bills HC job!

agree with this except the last word bruv. he fired the first OC, he fired the ST guy after 13 seconds, and he "fired" frasier. dabo walked for hc gig. it's only mcd now.

if i see a more purposeful O with lots of under center, i'm buying in. im a fool and a glutton for punishment. i'm dejected and hopeful at the same time. My name is Colin, and I'm a Bills fan.

allen's teams have also never won an overtime game. i remember a friend of mine (not a bils fan but a big football guy) who said the bills O (this is under daboll, 2020/2021 seasons) said the offense looks like guys just run around and allen either runs it or waits for someone to get open. teams have read the book on how to stop that (basic zone, cover the deepest route, bait sideline throws) and our coaches and players either can't or refuse to adjust to stop that. we've seen the evidence that we can actually run the ball, and we can run the ball and throw play action from under center in a way that baffles opponents, but we revert to type and go 4 or 5 wide out of pistol or shot gun and a disciplined d can just watch us not throw underneath and make mistakes. not being able to beat the constant zone d's we face is like a boxer not knowing how to face a southpaw. at some point it is going to kill you unless you figure it out. right now we are a boxer who doesn't know how to put his front foot outside and not get baited into counters, and every team we play just fights us out of southpaw. we'll run 2 or 3 drives where we mix in what works, but penalties, turnovers, or just doomed play calls (not to mention drops and missed blocks) put us out of synch for the rest of our possessions. the losing close games so often tells me the team is not confident, is not prepared to play winning situational football, and altho we have mad ability and some talent, we make the degree of difficulty against us super easy.

our d played with their hair on fire, but it ends up being too much of guys screaming all over the field and not making tackles. we just miss too many tackles over and over again. the biggest issue from my pov is that the opponents all do the same ish against us on D because the same thing always seems to work against us. i bet we see zone more than any other team in the nfl, yet we are dumbfounded to beat it. on the other side, we still go a great job taking away the deep pass (the entire nfl is doing that now, more or less, so mcd and co were at least innovators there), but up the gut runs, picked up blitzes, and just plain old zone beater routes means a smart O can just know what they have to do, usually based on the pre snap read.

allen isn't tuned into the O, but then again, neither are the other players. the frustrating thing about it is this team could just not make these errors, josh could scan the field prior to the snap, the backs could just hold onto the ball, spencer brown could just let one less terrible pressure a game. and this is why i've been banging on the coaching drum. the coaches set it all up, they have to make moves to reduce the bad and increase the good. under center, less blitzing (or, coach the team to blitz better, i can't think of another team with pass rushers up front who bring a blitz into the a and b gaps and get swallowed EVERY TIME. not one outside blitz), set up easy plays for the O. recognize we are getting D'd up the exact same way w a zone, and run zone beaters. how do we watch our zone get beat by zone beaters and not hammer those into our O?

a strong win and not showing predictability on o and d. also, need some kind of consistency.