colin

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.

I've played football and rugby. it'll happen on accident sure (like head on head collisions) but with some practice and an enforced rule, i think it will happen less. people said what you said about going too high or low on the qb in the pocket. now, if you are saying the rules are overly officious, sure i agree, but we've seen less insane hits on QBs than there used to be, so they can do something about hip drops too.

you can "hip drop" your hips away from his legs, will be an effective tackle as well. i think this is enforceable if they make it the grab, the drag, and the body onto the back of the legs. eliminate one of the 3, no flag.

you bring up some good points, but i feel like we lose, or barely win, the games where davis breaks out. if him doing better doesn't make our team results better, then i gotta think he's not making the team better.

ive not been following college football, so i dunno about this guy, but the likelyhood of any given guy busting out is like close to 50%, and of the remaining 50%, you got lots of room for good but not great. i say we trade everything and draft him.

it probably is impossible, even if we had something to trade for him and he wanted to come here, due to the cap. that said, diggs addams and davis, w kinkaid and cook and allen is a legit unstoppable O. in games where we play bad like we did vs jags, giants, and jets, we'd still put up 30+ points.

a three possession second half is crazy. missing long field goals has a much more negative impact than i think it is thought too, especially for us.

so, the nfl has almost entirely copied what mcd (and others, lets be honest) more or less pioneered, the disguise coverage deep safety very balanced 4-3 D. that can be run more or less aggressively, but everyone is 4-3 nickel base now. So ya, it makes sense they put this stuf fin to slow down mahomes and allen (and have done so, for the most part). to me our issue is the oc and allen together don't read things presnap to punish the d for being biased in their D. we sort of try to beat all defenses w every play, but if the other team is playing advantage football taking one thing away, it should leave them soft vs something else and we don't do a good enough job of reading that and exploiting it. not having a zone buster like bease makes us hold the ball too long vs zone, josh not running doesn't punish man enough, and imo a big issue is our protections are simple and exploitable, so when there are long developing zone beater routes, we might get a stunt and overload on the spencer brown side, and then we have what we did vs jax. it's all correctable, but do we have the coaching to do it?

at 17:00 or so we faced man coverage and people were covered, josh had a huge running late to his left. if he can just identify man coverage and his general advantage or disadvantage, and green lights himself a few more times, we win this and the jags game in a laugher.

having zero athletes on O besides cook and diggs is an issue. davis is ok deep, but is not fast or big. knox is an athlete, but just can't catch. maybe kinkaid will work out, but honestly, we shoulda let hines and harty walk, and signed hopkins or someone. we'd be 4-1 or 5-0

its gotta be easier to d us when we don't run the best (or tied) running qb in the nfl, can't do a screen play, and are allergic to quick slants. you just avoid man D, disguise what you are doing, and let the bills call something stupid. not to say we aren't good on O, we are near the best, but we are too ready to beat ourselves.

Einstein (name appropriately) pointed out how the g men were very determined in what they were doing, biting on nothing, and stunting and gaming up front to disrupt longer routes. if they aren't gonna bite, running out of an under center formation would be productive, which it was, but we decided to not bother with all of that, and to just play into the D's trap instead. we need some zone beaters, and to figure out where our run game gives us the best returns. imo we can absolutely run the ball, but we power into loaded boxes and do foolish things like a telegraphed sprint draw from shot gun over and over. to me, josh's biggest weakness is reading the pre snap d and adjusting protections or audibling into a better play for the situation. its clear we need to run play action, and we need to actually run the ball. the runs and passes should look identical to the d, and the thing is they don't. we have such tendencies that guys just know what we are doing.

aside from miami, this is the theme of our O. the plays we call do not set up future plays, nor make sense in the context of the score, time, and field location. dorsey is playing madden like my 7 year old son. just calls whatever pass or run pops up first.

Dorsey is too slow on the uptake. he has to learn to adapt better. i don't know that he's worse than dabo tho. i remember harping on about dabo just like calling random plays, not rhythm and no bread and butter stuff, same w dorsey.

aside from far too many junk play calls (shotgun runs right into the d has happened like 6 times off the dome, and each ended a drive), imo our real issue is the Ds know our routes, and most of all our protections stink. every time an overload, a creative stunt, or some kind of pressure or coverage disguise is put out there, we just don't pick it up cleanly. Josh does not process stuff before the snap well enough, and blah pass rush teams can create pressure off of design because we just don't pick it up. im starting to get on board this wagon (im pretty much on). josh and some of the guys we have are getting a bit wasted.