colin

Those were two back to back outstanding play calls and execution tho, for what little that's worth

Huge flip in mo

I like how we are taking advantage of the same looks ds give us, where outside coverage is up and over, and instead of a fade it's a pure back shoulder

Me and alphadawg are gonna high five about our pet theory: mccoach put two boots up dabol to make him suck a bit less, and he's involved more on D now.

I admit, I was h8n last season late. A lil bit at least

I was laughing at how bad this football is today! No kicker might just ruin the panthers

Josh does look a bit off, ankle and all. Also, the line and play calls together look like no one on the field thinks the plays will work as drawn. Lil innovation we had in 2nd, and bang we get a brain dead penalty

sucks for dawkins. if brown shows up for a couple weeks, especially against NE, and plays well, i think dawkins gets moved to RT or G. Williams has not been great at RT, but if he can handle it like he did last year, Brown, Dawkins, Morse, Mongo, Williams might be our best combination. Big loss right now tho.

one thing i've noticed, dawkins looks a bit sloppier this season, williams looks tubby (but i recall him being a bit of a funster last season too) and most of all ford looks like he's eating himself into an early grave. i know covid and injuries and such all contribute, but ford looks like he's fighting a free safety sized belly every time he changes directions.

not being cute, but omicron could well decide who wins the superbowl this season. dozens of people i know, including me, have gotten it, every single one was as vaxxed as they could be, and we've seen what it's done to the browns.

well, we have the rest of this season and hopefully playoffs to get a final 4 year grade on edumnds. he has the attributes physically to be really good or great, but his skills and his mind are very much in question. part of the issue w how mcd runs his d (which has had great success here and in other places, so you can't just say blow it all up right now) is he demands such a variety of skills from his LBs, puts his DBs in an advantage position (which is great) and needs his DL to be endlessly running so he wants basically 8 starters there (mad expensive, and in our case we have two lines of solid back ups, but lacking in top notch talent and just a dearth of physicality). so while i'd love to see edmunds upgraded, im not sure who can come along and be the keuchly for us.

if our FO picks him over dabol, i'd be a bit worried it's just a risk averse type of change, but frankly i've seen enough of dabol to assume removing him for someone else who the FO knows well is a good move. my gut tells me dabol tries to play mad genius tinkerer too much, if dorsey would circumvent that along i think he'd be an upgrade.

the all red's a nice from time to time. i don't get the huge reaction to a little change up here and there, it's not like we have a bad usual outfit, although the drought era kinda patriot looking uniforms were junk.

awful. anyone who's ever boxed (or kick boxed or some such) should know how dangerous a punch to the back of the head is. There was a bout not too long a go where a young prospect took a lot of rabbit punches to the back of the head, he made it through the fight, but became quite disabled after the fight. this boxer seems to have made some progress, but i doubt he will be symptom free at any point. hope this guy gets better (evidently, there is a better chance to recover from one big hit than from many many accumulated hits). and i know it was likely a fluke, but make sure your kids learn to tuck their heads when they go down, no matter what sport or activity the partake in.

i said this about the last too weeks, but im a bills fan to a fault so i'll just pretend i didn't and say it now: our playoffs are now and how we do over the next two will set us up. we obv have to handle biz against the panthers, a good d to get some mojo going against. vs the pats, the team needs to play with great confidence and physicality. stepping up large in that game will tell the world and most of all tell the locker room that we really are just a few plays from being the top team in the nfl. except for indy, it was a fine line between losing or winning all of our losses, i think we are on a finer line right now, and crossing it with flying colors is the set up we need.

aside from perhaps just not being good enough, i think dabol suffers from being too clever by half. i wonder if mcd is too nice at times, letting his coordinators have all the rope they need to hang themselves.

i suspected it before, but alphadawg convinced me, mcd went riot act last week at half time and woke dabol up, and basically took over the D (he's taken over the d before). the data shows us frazier is a solid DC, but McD is simply a better one, so when he steps in on the D, it gets better results. i think he may have to take a page out of billicheat's book and always have a hand as being a shadow DC or whatever you want to call it, not saying he is as good, but mcd simply has a feel and understanding of D that most don't. the bigger issue coaching wise is on O, obviously. I think Dabol struck gold w allen and digs and co, and that alone is the polish on his turd CV as an OC. in 2019 allen had like 3rd in the nfl total TDs, and our O was basically putrid statistically (remember the no 300 yard game threads?!?!?), and that was with dialing up some horrible stinkers early (remember that NE game, which we still had a shot of winning!!). if you look at dabol throughout his career as an NFL OC, he's been nearly the worst every time, with the exception of 2020 and 2021. given we have a WR who came in having been a top guy, and our QB was good enough to get the biggest guarantee in NFL history, i think our shortcomings are clearly more on coaching than players. our OL stucks, but they have gotten worse while adding more talent, and the inconsistency is a pretty strong indicator of coaching issues (it's not just play calling, it's also preparation week to week and through out the season). in short, keep mcD (that might change if we really capsize and miss playoffs), shoot the O coaches out of a cannon, and consider changes on D.

it's not true that i think that? what do i think? look, it may be mathematically true that we don't need to win out to win a superbowl, but in terms of swag, mo, and confidence, i think we finally showed some as a total team at the end of last night, and we are in a fragile place and need to keep that standard to win.

i think our playoffs started in the second half of last night. we gotta win em all to be champions.

agree. i think posters talking about not having the horses on OL, TE, and RB (and even big WR) are 100% correct, but we have to go to war with the army we have, not the army we want. i think allen can help the team in some small and subtle ways, mainly being less predictable on RPOs, but far far too many plays we call are obvious and doomed from before the snap.

im down on him, but i think he light a fire in the second half yesterday, ill give him the rest of the season. daboll needs to go, along w just about all of our Offensive corches. on D im kinda more 50/50, i think it's mcD's D, and frazier is just managing it, but i could be wrong. if we miss the playoffs, i don't think the pegula's would do it, but that's a fair time to fire them all. not saying it's the smart move, but it wouldn't be totally unjustified.

i love the pma! tbh, the only reason why i'm not entirely shutting down football for the season is that i think mccoach put the boots to his assistants and is now our DC and "pass run allocation" coordinator

nice take alpha. i responded to a post of yours in another thread w some of the same ideas, so of course i agree. i don't know that im as optimistic as you, but you make a strong point. and to his credit, i think mccoach put his foot up in everyone at half time, and the results were much better. go bills!

i've been down on mcclaps this season, and he deserves it (lol, i bet it tears him up that colin on TBD has had harsh words for him!). what i think happened yesterday: he let dabol do his thing, and he let the d and frazier do their thing in the first half (unsure how much he is normally involved in the D, im sure it's not zero tho). at half time, he pepped the team up, and in his own way read the riot act to daboll, and made some small adjustments on D. the d played great after half time until the breakdown on the OT pass, and with a few stumbles the O was the josh allen show w guest appearances from his pals from time to time. if we win out and take the division, which i'd love to see but in no way expect, i could see dabol keeping his job but as above i agree w you that the OL coaches are toast no matter what. if we stumble but make the playoffs, i'd put it at like 70% that dabol gets the hook. if we miss the playoffs, particularly if it ends up in a run for the bus finish, at least dabol, if not more, coaches walk, and mcclap's seat gets super hot. i don't think josh being hurt will give them any slack either, it's do or die time. i've been down on mcclaps this season, and he deserves it (lol, i bet it tears him up that colin on TBD has had harsh words for him!). what i think happened yesterday: he let dabol do his thing, and he let the d and frazier do their thing in the first half (unsure how much he is normally involved in the D, im sure it's not zero tho). at half time, he pepped the team up, and in his own way read the riot act to daboll, and made some small adjustments on D. the d played great after half time until the breakdown on the OT pass, and with a few stumbles the O was the josh allen show w guest appearances from his pals from time to time. if we win out and take the division, which i'd love to see but in no way expect, i could see dabol keeping his job but as above i agree w you that the OL coaches are toast no matter what. if we stumble but make the playoffs, i'd put it at like 70% that dabol gets the hook. if we miss the playoffs, particularly if it ends up in a run for the bus finish, at least dabol, if not more, coaches walk, and mcclap's seat gets super hot. i don't think josh being hurt will give them any slack either, it's do or die time.

assuming i'd get forthright answers, i'd ask "how well does your staff scout yourself?" i'd ask that because we are just horribly predictable at the worst times. in the past two games, both against great teams with great coaches, we made 4th down mistakes that we gave the key away too. last week, our final drive we march up the field w sanders on for every play, and the last play we sub in davis. D keys on this, defender on bease peels off, looking the whole way to play zone out of man to help, and the pass fails. this week, we go for a fake punt. the thing is, breida, our fastest player on O!!, gets subbed into the punt team. tb had seen us punt all day, and had seen our tape of punting. they know that's not what breida normally does, so they key on him. then we get a zero disguise run into a wall, and lose posession. this has been a common theme. remember when the pats blocked our punt, which ended up being the difference in the game in 2019? they noticed if they overloaded the punt rush team on one side, we simply didn't adjust. they saw that on film, tested it lining up that way, and then pulled the trigger. i honestly think our coaches like over study and over prepare and stress out about everything, but simply are not capable of identifying what the low hanging fruit is to make the team better. we are too clever by half, trying to press for a slightly better lane for our gunners, or thinking we will have a monster return game on special teams, or on O dabol still thinks "if i call a play that surely won't work, the d will never expect it!"