colin

Fact. This is a soft team. I really look at the coaching. OL is cheeks, but the timely penalties and the lack of preparation shows a team that is just kinda doing stuff, not one with a plan it believes in

Once anything goes just the right amount of wrong this team just falls apart. Penalties vs Jax, the fg drive today, this is not a prepared team. I think we've massively over rated these coaches.

brown playing is a meaningful upgrade to 40% of our oline (because RT and RG get better). gosh i hope he can play.

makes sense. i think kc is just taking big hits on over loaded contracts, and we are simply throwing a ton of money on the d, to outstanding effect.

we have been crushing cans (on d anyhow), that much is simply a fact. but oh how have we been crushing them! only real turd of a game on d was tenn, and they balled out, and got some good luck and fortune along the way. if we play them again, especially without henry, i think it goes very differently. i complained last year about schematic issues with our team on D, basically it wasn't anti fragile, and that one guy making a mistake or us not winning enough 1 on 1 match ups could lead to too big of plays, all the while we werent getting enough big splash plays on D. this season it seems like frazier and mccorch have found their magic again, and while i still have a feeling (mainly because im a nervous bills fan) that we will put up at least one total stinker before the season is done, we are witnessing the mccorch vision in full effect. just a nullification defense. take away the big play, fresh d line always running a track meet vs the big fatties on the other team, everyone being physical and flying to the ball, and some kind of anti missile mesh concept in the back end where windows flutter open only once in a while and not for long. im pretty sure we are #1 or top 3 in D spending, and we have more than a few guys on rookie deals, so perhaps it really was the case that we were simply missing the guts up front last season that we now have w a growing AJ, star back, and boogie and groot making a mess up in the cut. you love to see it.

he can do a couple things, namely pass block IMO, but his lack of hands and fumbling puts him in the replace/upgrade slot for me. his first season and this season he's shown some get up and go, but i don't understand how you can have an RB on a top team who fumbles a bunch, it's just not a path to victory long term imo.

while the d really has had only one bad outing (tenn obv) the main problem w the team overall is consistency. the on balance play of the bills has been pretty great, even if we have just crushed 6 cans (don't think kc is a can tho). altho we let tenn just walk up and down on us, it really took them making great plays (and getting calls much of the time). we don't seem to get just plain old trucked like we used too (i remember the indy playoff game, just 18 wheel time in the 2nd half).

i dunno why we never did it much before, but on paper an athletic qb with a quick release should do better under center than in the shotgun.

aside from the fact that this guy is simply a common criminal, how money can one actually make selling weed? like, his pension has got to be a few hundo a year, and he musta netted like 12MM plus as a player. most of these guys have terminal stupidity and it's just a question of what particular idiot move is going to do them in.

they need to actually practice the plays they have, and he needs to not have complete obvious tells wrt down and distance (of our like 9 runs last week, i think 4 of them had the LB shoot the exact gap we were running into as the ball was snapped, we are too obvious).

So, i've said it a bit more snarkily in the past, but my take is that dabol love scheming up crazy odd stuff, and spends a lot of time on that. when it works it is lovely. the problem is, we don't spend the time building bedrock stuff that we can revert to in a pinch. we simply aren't good at the screen game at all, and we don't seem to get any quick hitters like slants and wheels going. the result of this is that when things aren't running well, we get behind the sticks and we get predictable. we really are the most streaky O in the NFL. dabol is a great play from advantage guy, can dial up plays that work when the D is off balance, but can't slow it down (during the game and during the practice week) enough to go back to base and get it going. i also think josh allen is looking for the bigger plays, our OL coaching is cheeks, and our OL is trash. not to mention poor RB play. after last week, and really has been a bit of a reoccurring problem this season, our O loses rhythm and just stinks out load for like, quarters and now games at a time. at this point, it's on the head coach. mcd has to do what he can to step on dabol and get the ship righted. getting brown and knox back provides the perfect opportunity against a trash heap like the jets.

i mean to write THAT'S MY HOT TAKE, SIMPLE AS.

Our O wasn't prepared and we had no change up that would work. dabol doesn't run the o very well, we just score and move the ball due to talent. THAT'S MY HOT TAKE.

ya, our play calling is simply not getting it done. what's worse, we aren't fooling anyone. we seem to run into a knowing D and pass into a D who knows our line calls and how to exploit them, and we are left with no answer.

coaching, fair or not, is judged by the end results. the end results of our OL is disgusting, and our OL coaching needs very rapid improvement.

ya man, our OL state today, and who they have shipped out of town vs who they kept just shows a bad job up at the top. dawkins, spain, morse, teller, brown, how much better is that then the trash we started the season with?

lol, the cover 1 post game, and i generally really like those guys, were sort of going on to say the penalties weren't he reason why we lost. im not sure if they meant to say the bills played horribly and deserved to lose (true) or if they were trying to not run afoul of the NFL by pointing the finger at the Refs. that said, they showed the 4th and 2 call of false start on us that was actually off sides on the D, a play call that likely would have changed the entire outcome of the game. maybe they have to say that for politics, and then they can show the truth in the program. i will say, and that ref from the NBA who called a couple games for whoever (not a network i don't think) showing the make up calls and favoritism (he's the one who got busted shaving points), makes it clear to me that while the NFL might not be in on some kind of fix, a really low standard of officiating and part time refs not making a whole lot of money is a bit of a vulnerability for gambling/shenanigans.

8 games in, the difference is our D has played way better, and instead of some stinkers and exciting close ones, we have 5 blow out wins and 3 really close (last drive of game in everyone) losses. On O, we are much streakier this season, with way more bouts of just sucking. Interesting stats OP.

the issues we have on O w the line and run game is a mix of coaching and players. the solution at this point, however, can only be coaching, because we ain't getting new players (guys coming back from injury and maybe a bit of a shuffle aside). and even then, selecting who plays on our roster is a coaching call. dabol and our clown OL coaching staff need to really make an impacting change, and fast.

im extra worried about the bills, but i fully expect them to show improve and destroy the jets. im pretty sure mcd is reading the riot act to fatbol on repeat, and the d coaches are telling the D "we are the back bone of the team right now, we have to be perfect".

bro, this is exactly it. we come in w a plan, if the plan doesn't work, we might attempt a lil switcharoo at half time (miami). if that doesn't work, well were fudged. i really think it's because we just don't regularly practice enough bedrock type plays that suit a team identity that we can just run when the fit hits the shan. cover 2 and some 3rd and long blitzes by a garbage team just nuked our O. that combined w how all our scoring the past 2 seasons has been largely a result of diggs, allen, and a couple other guys just being better than everyone else tells me where the biggest issue/easiest fix is.

another part of this is while we take risks and don't play with a formation/line up advantage most of the time, teams are getting pretty good at figuring out what we are calling.

it's in 20/20 hindsight, but a conservative move to take the rope out of the OC and O's hands is to force conservative calls w no non conservative audibles. just basically shoplifting the 3s w a small chance at 7 and nearly no chance of a turnover, but i don't think they did that at all.

we need better talent at OL, but the constantly missing blocks (as in not even attempting to block a free runner) and the way we get schooled by games and stunts makes me think our biggest coaching shortfall is OL.

they're gonna have to change the name to the XXXFL!