colin

the new mcd D is head and shoulders better than the old frazier d through the first 3 games, but clearly these are not great teams we are playing and it's just not enough of them, miami will give us a lot of data. The d is more aggressive in that players are reacting and making decisions more quickly than they did under frasier. even if the scheme and most of the play calls are similar to what frazier did, mcd is a superior coach because he has his guys better prepared, more confident, and they don't tend to spiral after bad beats (long run vs jets, the miracle td pass to wilson vs jets, the clock work drive vs raiders, etc) but under frazier they turned into a pumpkin in phases and for entire games at times. now, miami might be more than they can handle, but i have a feeling the d will make plays to win the game. one thing we can say for certain, our d looked like it had a high priced DL and zero pass rush most of the time before, now the mcd coaching it directly, and still no von von, we are seeing maniac and screaming barbarians just pillaging all day.

i haven't seen season stats comparing different teams, but we must be just the worst team on 1st down. sacks, no yard plays, and only a couple of big ones seem to happen for us on 1st down. im thinking like that one dude said, every single 1st down should be an under center snap, lets us run and run play action out of it.

he and milano aren't fast nfl LBs. they aren't slow, they are better than average, but they aren't either as fast as edmunds. what they have, is a really green light and a hair trigger with no safety. they see what they want and they go full speed. they are also agile and don't get their body twisted up so they have to waste steps and motion, which is worth more than like 1.5 tenths on a 40 at that position. they are both pretty strong (milano more so) for being short and not that long armed of lbs. and perhaps most of all, they are both smart and instinctive football players. edmunds getting played like a fiddle vs kc yesterday reminded me of a scout breaking down his first game as a bill (unmitigated disaster). the qb just attacked him over and over again, he bit on everything, and made every mistake. edmunds improved on that, but never got rid of it. TB and MM have very little of that in them, and they just ball so hard in our D.

they have. if we look at the line now, new contract dawkins (since mcbean took over), FA signing Mcgovern, FA signing Morse, Pick O'hamstrings, pick brown. im still shell shocked from brown's glass back year last season, but what we are seeing out there right now is mcbean getting the horses and spending the resources perhaps later than i'd like, but still spending them.

i think we are figuring some things out. all plays to harty have been trash, screen game is so bad. gadget stuff (seems to have a high overlap w harty) is cheeks. the penalties have frustrated me. some playcalls have been head scratchers, and our red zone O is just not there (the failure to get it on 4th and short w josh allen as qb is nuts. how is he not under center for a play like that? even if we don't sneak it, the D gets frozen) beyond that, the O is the best it has been. more deeper passing and a higher td% would be better, but they will get there. all those chip new england teams thugged up on the oline and ran we power and speed down people's throats.

if we keep doing what we are doing on O, controlling the line of scrimmage and running a strong balanced offense, then miami will be forced to go for bigger plays. if we disguise coverage and absolutely body tua, he will make mistakes. milano and the new force on our D TITAN TERREL BERNARD just need to get some free hits on tua and he will crumble. one thing that really sucked vs dc was the penalties. we killed at lest 2 drives where i thought we'd get a TD, and we extended drives for them too with really badly timed penalties. a slight improvement there and we woulda had a 50 burger.

i made excuses for him because i saw him with big potential and making plays here and there. the issue is he never made BERNARD level plays, and he also sucks enough of the time vs good teams to be a liability. he can be tricked and good qbs do that and target him. that happened to him in his first few games as a bill, he was the biggest hole on the pitch. he cleaned it up, but reverts to just no knowing how to play way too often.

i think dorsey has been good this season. obv a couple bad ones, but overall called plays that had our team on cruise control to win both games. i really like how the d looks w what mcd is doing. and i like how mcd was aggressive in a fairly smart way. i get he maybe shoulda gone for it on the first scoring drive vs the jets, but w rogers out against that d, i see why you take the points where they are.

it was 100% right to let him walk, bernard looks like a good pick so far this season (so far, i am not sold he's our long term answer), but he was far from a bad or wasted pick. 5 years starting at MLB on a top D is way over expectation for even a 1st round pick. he's just simply not as good of a football player as he is of an athlete.

I gotta say, this board goes banana sandwich during bills games where the bills don't dominate (i do the same, i am the board) but the pithy comments and sarcasm when it's two teams we don't particularly care about make otherwise not so interesting games fun! I dislike the browns, kinda hate the steelers, but the qb is from down the street from me, so i am generally curious about how he does. he played vs us in buffalo last year, i think his first start, and had like 300 yards but in a game where he'd have lost if he had 500.

i think it's because the biggest win of shotgun, bigger passing plays, have gotten harder as the entire nfl has shifted to disguised coverage, nickle base, and a lot of shells and mixed coverages, as well as generally less blitzing of decent qbs. if the upside is less, or even gone, in shotgun, then you are better off under center. this is why the prototype tall strong arm decisive qb was made, because he does best under center to make quick reads. then, defenses adapted to that, and the more seat of pants dynamic qb type came and did well, but now defenses are adapting to that, so under center might be en vouge again. the nfl goes through these trends all the time, o gets ahead, d catches up, d gets ahead, etc etc. i think allen can be both the run and gun shotty type, as well as the under center "prototype"

these daboll genius narratives aren't supported by the data, simple as that. Josh is erratic, he's got to get better at that right now, it's just that simple.

where's sherlock when you need hiim?

sad to say it, but he's not wrong. the kubiak breakdown was great -- bottom line is 38% of the bills chance to score got shut down by allen's decisions, not to mention the better field position, momentum for the jets and the fatigue and demotivation for the bills d

josh was just unprepared and impatient. immature is the best description i've seen of him. he was told what to do, he knew what he had been doing was failing, but, once the rubber hit the road, he did the thing that he did before and not what he was told to do. It's pretty clear at this point that Josh is not good at reading defenses. the safety picking him off 3x means he basically didn't see the guy 3 times. part of reading a d is moving one's eyes away from the disadvantage match up towards the advantage match up. Josh sees a match up he wants to work (deep ball, etc) and stares and process it looking for a way to make it work. the tight ends running open, even diggs open shorter on the one pick, he simply doesn't move towards them enough. I think he (perhaps subconsciously) just decided to play that way after the drive we scored a FG on early (where it was 4 and 2 and mcdermot kicked, which i don't have a beef with). he threw the ball a tad late to the rb who ran a long way on third and long but ended up just short. IMO this and a couple other plays like that lead josh to saying "ok, i tried the game plan on 3 or 4 snaps, and it was close but didn't get there, so now im justified in just doing my own thing" in his head. there is something wrong w our play design/what josh is reading tho because we were so so bad on 1st down. 1st down is max advantage for the O, but either the jets baited us like masters (lol) into getting sacked and making mistakes, or we just aren't doing something right as a team there.

we were 7-6 13 games into dabol's last year hear, and that includes him getting totally outcoached by urban friken meyer. it's possible daboll is just better than dorsey, its also possible they both suck. the willies and the joes matter much more than the x's and the o's, and we were set up to win monday night and josh allen just delivered four abortions. we can get right this week vs the raiders.

the more i read about this, the more i think (and it's still not really clear to me) that trotter thinks he's got something on jones (i dunno if it's true or whatever, maybe it is) and the pegula thing and perhaps some other stuff in there is just padding to make it more of a bombshell. this reminds me of like lore of old famous people or athletes and so on. some interesting thing will happen and the story will get told and that interesting thing gets a little more interesting over time and other details get magnified and even changed over time. it isn't even necessarily anyone being dishonest, or at least not intentionally dishonest, its just people remember the lore more than the event itself, even if it was on camera or what not. goes to show the value of building and reinforcing a narrative. if we don't have hard evidence and tests for the validity of things, perception can be and is (in many cases) much more important than reality.

the savage irony of you posting about not understanding growing up cuts deep.

dorsey is not great, and he's not good so far this year, but lets not pretend dabol won us a chip or something. the total performance 2021 vs 2022 on O was about the same. we just had less vol in 2022 so we won more games. in our first two losses, we simply had too many red zone turnovers, so dorsey changed it up some and we got less. it was more boring at times but the results were decent. the one thing i'd put on dorsey last night was how we got smashed on 1st downs WAYYYYYYYY too much. being behind the sticks was a bad look for us. the rest of it is all allen. we are gonna figure out the O as we go along, new players all over the pitch and all, but being a spaz in a game where your D is basically dominating is totally uncalled for. the only real same issue we had was some bad run fits (tre white is kinda washed IMO) and allen just ignoring open guys to throw deep picks and then panic fumbling.

presuming that what the article said is true, would this suit not have to basically prove that the NFL investigation was just a cover up and lied by saying that? what you typed reads like trotter heard a dude say something ABOUT a zoom call that dude was on. as opposed to heard dude allege on a zoom call that he heard something some other way. if the supposed comment by pegula was on a zoom call, and it got investigated, then it should be pretty black and white (har!) because there would be notes and a recording and all kinds of stuff.

i think this is a factor here. i remember the documentaries about the bears in 85 and how ditka went mad hollywood and it just blew the team up. not saying allen is like that or that bad, but if you're profile goes from "he's a bust" to getting 8/9 figures for ads, you better not drop an ounce of effort form "the process". diggs was there to make josh who he is, so if he's loosing his gourd over that, i totally understand. that whitlock narrative is gonna get hotter and hotter until josh shows improve.

anything is possible, but after gruden got taken down, and that was him red handed with emails (LOL, so boomer) that someone was sitting on for a while, i just don't know how the nfl media reporter, who is willing to say this outloud on a zoom call (which you presume is recorded, you'd have to think reporters would know that), would not leak this or report it themselves. i suppose this could be how that got leaked/reported or whatever, but it just seems uncanny.

so trotter is saying that he (trotter) heard some person (nfl reporter) say in a zoom call that pegula said this? is there (according to the article or whatever) a recording of this call, the name of the person who said they heard pegula, or any details of when/where pegula said this? i've got to think if an nfl reporter heard pegula say that, especially in like summer of 2020, it woulda come out, no? also, is there a requirement for trotter to disclose who he heard this from, and when/where the call was?

dalton was open (and obviously so) several times, including on two of the horrible allen turnovers. allen just needs to NOT force the ball downfield, especially to trash like davis (i can live w the odd ball forced to diggs) and we walk away nice and easy.

was that bomb the first one? if so, i disagree, because he was able to trot for a 1st and more. he showed no awareness.