colin

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.

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?