colin

i get blackpilled in the moment, im guilty of that. looking at this team the way a handicapper does, the defense simply has to get back to competency, and you have the match up nightmare we've been for 4 seasons now. at times it feels like it will never happen, but adding a guy or two before the deadline would help, DT followed by corner and then WR (or RT, but i don't think that's possible right now) would make the biggest impact. if our d just pulled its head out on a couple drives we win 2 more games even with the trash we have put up. i just hope mcd can get taht going, but my faith is not high at the moment.

i keep thinking the o is falling apart, but the more i read and look into it, the more awful the d looks. a couple early scores will help w that, but mcd has to get the guys who are healthy lined up and going the right places.

the handicappers still have us as big favs, like we were the last two weeks. i think the read through is vegas figures we will right out defensive struggles, which will lead to us running up the score on teams again. i hope they are right, because we have dumped so much into the d, we have to get some kind of return

i think you misread that alpha. those offensive numbers are only weeks 5-7! i rewatched some stuff from those games. the issue is our D is doing what it did in allen's first year here, just getting boat raced constantly. that was the year mcd stepped in and took duties (from time to time) from frazier. i really hope he can right this ship like he did that one, because our d is just the worst it's been since then. missing guys or not, we let mc jones dog walk us on like 3 or 4 different drives. if we are built to stop the big play, we can't just not allow it over the top, we have to do something to prevent it underneath too. screens and sweeps going for 30 yards due to lack of flowing to the ball is just inexcusable. it's basic football and our coaches have to get who they have healthy to play it.

if the o just features cook and kinkaid, along w diggs and a runner in allen, it isn't possible to stop it consistently.

i think this kid is a star, if we pass to him 7 times a game he will lead the nfl. the whole EP offense is based around match ups and a lot of that is TE. i really want him, diggs, cook, and allen to be the whole show.

dorsey is bothersome, but honestly, his offensive stats last year and this year are close enough to dabol's it's not like we lost andy reid and picked up dennison. the big issue, and it was an issue under dabol too, is that we just don't have a scheme that puts us in an advantage position. everything new england did vs us on d and on o was a function of scheme and execution of that scheme. pre snap reads, basic play action, screens and sweeps when linebackers weren't being disciplined, easy quick developing passes based on the pre snap line up, etc. for us, it seems like we just call something, which nearly every second down is the wrong thing and the d has it dead, or we go hurry up and allen just uses allen powers to do allen things. we would be 2 wins better if we just elimated the bad play on offense as much as can be done. but without a base/identity to fall back on and to get ahead of the sticks, every play we have is like a flip of a magic 8 ball, might work, might not, and we have no idea when we flip it.

we are running stuff that doesnt' work, we are running stuff that does work, and we are running some real goof stuff that needs to get gone. we still can score on anyone, allen is still allen. im for whatever change up will loosen things up. one thing, we nee allen, cook, diggs, and dalton w the ball in their hands making plays more, not less. bringing in murray to run picks and knox to drop targets just isn't working. allen isnt' running at all now. that's a serious weapon we haven't taken the safety off of yet. i do think if we can get better prepared pre snap sooner (we figure it out, but late in the game), and just design stuff to hit those 3 weapons and allen, we can be monsters again. on d, we need mcd to earn his paycheck

and a weird emotional one after hamlin. it's pretty constant.

the way mcd teams get up and down, and get run out of the building a time or two every year, makes me think we are NOT consistent in our preparation, certainly not in mind set at least. i think this team went ape for miami, and kinda shot their wad. there was a real hangover, guys didn't sleep well getting to london, and lack of sleep is the number one predictor of injuries, so there we go. our team, and our qb, are front runners. when we get up on people, we murder them (look at all the next gen stats for years), but when a team can have any advantage on us, our d wilts and our O struggles. so, i do think we just played down to our opposition 3 games in a row due to lack of prep,

watching a replay of the final drive, you san say what you want about guys being hurt, but mac the turd was throwing right on time to guys streaking open all off of pre snap reads. the opening screen play for half the friggen field had nothing to do w guys being hurt, it was an obvious d call that the pats read because we don't change jack, and unprepared players making mistakes. when the chips are down, mcd comes up short and is an open book to well coached teams.

dorsey should be drawing up plays to get the ball to diggs, kinkaid, and cook over all others.

that's true, but the rams have an offensive genius HC, and they never had a qb like we do. spent big for goff, and spent way bigger than we ever have for staffy. to me the issue is mcd is too fussy about who plays what position and how on his D, and so he has to over pay for older less athletic guys. it seems just too fragile schematically, where we get trucked by literally the worst offense in the nfl if we have some injuries. and that's why i think we have these awful contracts which means we are stuck w gabe as our only guy when diggs is doubled. at least kincaid come out today

Loool It's crazy to me how every single one of the bills injuries is to a player who simply cannot be replaced, yet other teams lose guys and somehow still play well

We have so much money tied up in old ineffective players on d. We lose d Jones, a good player but the kind of guy most teams have and you can sign every year in fa, and our entire d goes to mush. Why do we piss away so much on gadget guys (Hines, Harry) and neglect big dts and an NFL wr not named diggs?

Other teams have injuries and don't just shart all over their fans like ours does. Cinci had no on st ol and rolled us last year. The giants and the pats were missing linemen, and we shoulda lost both games. I think mcd is a princess coach who needs every little precious thing going just his way (14 des suit up, hundred years old dbs get extensions, etc) for his precious system, but as soon as anything goes slightly sideways, it's a wrap. Not being adaptable and not being prepared are signs of a coach I don't want leading y team and pissing away Allen's prime

Knox, tre white, von Miller, Hyde and poyer, Harry and Hines are all guys w reasonably large or large contracts who are old, injured, old and injured, or just trash and don't make the team much better, certainly not vs their cost. Because of those foolish contracts, we rely on Gabe Davis for our super bowl (loool) aspirations. A guy so great they shipped in brown and bease out of their UPS trucks last season

Allen has been outplayed by Zack Wilson, dude in Jax, tyros Taylor and that turd in new England. Our d sucks, but our o and Allen have stunk. Three weeks in a row I've turned off the bills game early. This team is circling the drain, and it is McDermott thing. He used to have a blow out stinker once a year, now we have a team that got up mile high vs the dolphins and have sucked cheeks since. We should be on a three game skid, we were just lucky vs the giants. The injuries are long term horrible, but this is a team with little confidence. Starting each week poorly is a coaching thing. Idiot play calls and pulling cook out in the Red zone is a coaching thing. Lax slow low energy for 3 weeks in a row is a coaching thing.

Knox blows, but I think the bills have zero confidence in bass right now

I think it's safe to say we have the worst coaching in the AFC East

10 straight quarters of trash by this offense. Josh is flat out stinking, cook has been playing well but Dorsey can't help but call obvious drive killing plays. D is a mash unit and the team looks flat and unprepared. It feels like I'd we don't trick the other team, we get mushed. Soft

Allen just cannot read anything pre snap. He's so good at everything except that. To me, that's on coaching.

No co confidence or rhythm on O. This is the third week in a row that the team has played like total trash, that's one week short of a month, a quarter of a season. I think we treated Miami like our super bowl and are spent. Players leave a lot to be desired, but this is bad preparation and bad coaching

no, the point is he succeeds almost only in situations where other players on the roster, and many players in the nfl, would also succeed. he doesn't offer enough (or not enough above replacement level) to be an impact player. bease and brown, for the first two years they were here at least, were much more impactful players, and they weren't exactly expensive.

true, but that was a walk away blow out. im just saying, i think his production is from him being a JAG on a great O, and he doesn't make the guys around him better. said another way: he's not a real difference maker, he's just better than what else we have at that position behind him.