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  1. 57 minutes ago, Rubes said:

    From the Buffalo News:

     

    I mean, you don't pay a defensive-minded coach to excel at defense for three quarters and then ***** the bed at the end when it counts.

     

    If I'm Pegula/Beane I'm asking wtf I'm paying 8-10 dlinemen if we're not going to perform in the 4th quarter? That's the point of having all the depth at DL, is to perform well at the end of the game. Seems like there is an issue there. My thought is the players are used to getting X amount of snaps and they go over that, they're going to be tired. Doesn't matter if X is 20 or 40, once it's over that, they're tired. For me that is something that needs to be improved upon, if you have that many guys you have to make sure you're practicing them at a high enough level because they need to be able to go beyond their normal conditioning at times. It's tough if you're trying to dole out first team reps in practice and half of them are standing around, but that's what we have.

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  2. I assume McDermott will be back next year even if we don't make the playoffs (not an option on the poll). Because of the issues on offense and what seems like problems getting guys to play well in it (all the miscommunications, I forget who, but one guy who came in said it was complex) I hope we revamp the offense with either Brady or someone new. I also think we should hire a defensive coordinator.

     

    I think McD will get fired if Pegula/Beane want changes to the staff and/or operations and he refuses, like if he wants to retain the DC role and they want someone else, for example.

  3. 1 hour ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

    I really can’t believe this, but the Steelers will probably end up as the 1-seed with home field advantage, and yet  there are probably at least 20 better teams in the NFL.

     

    check out the remainder of their schedule:

     

    @ CLE (Dorian Thompson-Robinson)
    @ CIN (Jake Browning)
    vs AZ (Kyler Murray)
    vs NE (Mac Jones/Bailey Zappe?)
    @ IND (Gardner Minshew)
    vs CIN (Jake Browning)
    @ SEA (Geno Smith)
    @ BAL (Lamar Jackson)

     

    https://x.com/steelersnetwork/status/1725601870121672977?s=46&t=uEztWLHQe9squs0mVCzJCQ

    They absolutely have a chance, don't know if it's a probable yet. Half of those are backups and there could be more by the time the game is played. The Ravens lost Andrews for the year and possibly Odell for a while too. Pickett will have to stay healthy to continue their barely treading water qb play, but I would say they probably will win the division now. Kind of bad of the Browns and Bengals to have so little behind their starting qbs. If I'm Haslam I'm kicking the browns gm squarely in the nuts for trading Dobbs preseason.

     

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, CincyBillsFan said:

    It also shows a bad form of negative complimentary football between the O & D.  Part of that differential is the D allowing the other team to score 1st quarter points.  Remember Cincinnati, LV & NE.

     

     

    Sure, but if your offense can't come out early and put something together it is a drain emotionally. Thoughts like "why have we been practicing this stuff all week if it's not going to work on Sunday" type thoughts. That erodes confidence in the coaches. That can be overcome but you're just digging out of a deeper hole. I wouldn't mind seeing where our first quarter time of position sits compared to the rest of the league.

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  5. 16 minutes ago, DCBongo said:

    Dorseys play calling was not consistent.  He took away scripted QB runs, he never took Josh on.  Daboll would reem him when needed and pump him up when deflated.  I hope Brady stays on the sidelines so he can talk with Josh instead of QB1 sitting alone and looking despondent.

    The stat for me was when they showed our -11 point scoring deficit in the 1st quarter. That speaks to the scripted plays which have been designed by him and practiced all week aren't working. That's a huge problem. No momentum built, just nothing helping about that. Hopefully Brady has some different ideas, but all that should have already been tossed out there when they went over the game plan. Maybe Brady will be able to make the right choices.

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  6. 1 minute ago, boyst said:

    The cucks for McDermott will say defense isn't the problem and blame it all on Dorsey. From the fumble, to the Josh fastball, to the benching of cook, all the way to Dorian getting the penalty

     

     

    Dumbass needs to ride the bench if McDermott is gonna live up to his bull#### mantra. 

    If they talked pregame about doing things like getting down etc because Denver is aggressively turning the ball over and Cook comes out and fumbles on the first play, then yeah that's pretty irritating.

  7. 16 hours ago, theRalph said:

    From the moment the Bills made Dalton Kincaid the 25th selection in the draft, the talk was about the offense running 12-personnel as a base package. The three early dominating wins saw the Bills running in 12 (the plays were there to be made vs. the Jets too). With two pass-catching TEs, the Bills run game was developing by putting opposing LBs in no-win situations. 

     

    Dawson Knox injured his wrist vs. the Jaguars and, though he tried to play through the injury in the next 2 games, let's be real: If the injury was bad enough to require surgery, I cannot imagine he was very effective during those games. See the 4th down drop vs Pats.

     

    With the absence of Knox (along with Q-Morris being out with a high ankle), Dorsey seems to by trying to apply 12-personnel concepts to the 11-personnel sets he's forced to run. You can blame Dorsey all you want for the Bills' recent failures—he should be able to adapt back to 11-personnel better than this. But if you really want to place blame, the Bills' offensive woes nicely coincide with the absence of Dawson Knox. Hopefully, we'll be back to Dawson and 12-personnel before it's too late. 

    If we were really committing to 12 personnel, why would we only have 3 TE's on the roster, and with all of them with seemingly different skill sets? They should have had at least one other guy like Dawson in case of injury. Kincaid was slated to be a glorified slot receiver, which it seems like is a good role for him. So I don't think 12 personnel was the plan, at least not in the traditional sense, and if it was McBeane should have had a fourth TE on the roster.

  8. 16 minutes ago, Charles Romes said:

    Their off-season was an epic fail. Jones should have signed for 20 and thanked god for Daboll salvaging his NFL career.  Getting blown out by Philly should have ended any thought of more than a bridge contract. After all they won only 9 games, with everything falling perfectly into place for about 7 of those. Instead Jones held the franchise over a barrel for a near max contract. To add to the mess Schoen allowed himself to get pushed around by someone with no leverage. All the giants needed to do was sign Barkley for 2 years, then franchise jones as the 1 year bridge, and they would have been 30-40 million better off than they are right now. 

    All can be made better by picking the right qb during the draft. If they don't, might be done after three years.

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