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FinHeaven is absolutely paradise today

This passes the eye test. He looks faster, and has maintained the shiftyness. Once the OL gels he's going to have some solid gains

At some point soon, the WFT DL will get their act together. They have a ton of talent, and at the end of last season they were terrors. Let's hope Daboll remembers that he is allowed to call run plays, and that short passes are also ok. Let's try not to put the fate of the team on the OL being able to hold blocks for minutes at a time

needs more mustard

He was throwing off his back foot all day. He knows better.

And it seems like it's been that way for a while, years

I'll take one Travis Kelce and one Trent Brown please also a CB2

To South Florida! pass pass pass, now 4th and 1 Huh? what's a punter? Miami week now! "Josh, are you ready to run?" Daboll, calling plays Hard Rock Stadium Veritable Smorgasboard Daboll Eats too much

Dolphins Week Again! Hard fought, very close battle Daboll for the L

The point he makes is that the Bills O has been, frankly, terrible over the last 3 games. 4 TDs in 3 games? I dont see why anyone is making excuses for Daboll at this point, and maybe McD should take over some of the play calling, at least if Daboll cant get his act together, like immediately. Things I hope McD said to dogballs this week: No more planned QB runs. We just paid that guy a ton of dough, let's not get him killed in the hope of gaining 3 yards. We have RBs that can do that. No more slow developing plays. I dont know if it's the play calling, or Josh Allen, but hanging onto the ball forever behind a pedestrian at best OL isn't going to work out. Hey, maybe let's mix it up and throw a few runs in there! And not with the QB! Say, maybe something designed to check an aggressive front 4? If the D is dropping 7 guys into coverage each play, maybe let's see what we can do underneath. Here's a playbook from the Bills glory era, i want you to pay particular attention to how JK used TT out of the backfield, and maybe some curl routes too. You don't have to swing for the fences on every play! A long time consuming drive might be just what the doctor ordered! Anyway you get the idea. 3 of our next 4 opponents have good Ds with strong front 4s. Is Doublestuff going to game plan for our opponents, or for his dream playbook so he can beat his kid at Madden?

You're correct on a technical level that it wasn't garbage time. However, if you were watching the game, you had to know it was over. Nothing in the 2nd half of the Bills performance gave any indication that they had it in them to take control and force the game in their own favor. Pitt was moving the ball at will, and we were busy calling plays like an 8 year old with his first copy of Madden

the way the Bills were playing, both on O and D, and our inability to stop the Pitt O, 10 minutes left was garbage time. The longer that game went, the worse the outcome would have been. I can only imagine the type of zany plays Dogballs would have called if they had another quarter

That's Queens, NYC has a whole extra set of rules.

You're right of course. The other kind of related factor, that seems common to most of the losses during the McD era is that even (especially?) when behind they are just lethargic. Slow getting the play in, slow getting to the line, just no urgency whatsoever. When there is 10 minutes left on the clock, the game is a few first downs from over, they need to start acting like it. The only possibility i can think of is that the D is in such bad physical condition that McD is more worried about making sure they can catch their breath than he is in displaying any urgency on O Talk to a football gambler, they will tell you that almost every football game swings on 5 plays. Given that the team cant afford multiple coaching brainfarts a game. I dont even know how to classify the blocked punt, that was just a breakdown that is inexcusable for a team with pretensions to getting back to the AFCCG

Or, hey, i have a nutty idea, what if we used those guys to help augment our low effort OL? Obviously we can't block 4 with 5, maybe we can block 4 with 7?

He'd probably be stuck in it. you could just stand there and make fun of him

throwing the ball backwards, that's what went wrong the goal is to move the ball forward, Brian

Another problem with Daboll's schemes is that any time there's an RB on the field, it's a run. Some pedant will point out the 15% of plays where that's not true but for the vast majority of plays where there's a RB lined up in the backfield, that's what's gonna happen. Allen & Co aren't good enough to telegraph plays and get away with them

Yeah that play was definitely Daboll's Master's Thesis for his Clown College degree. The committee advanced him.

As they say, we could always do worse, like we did yesterday

Daboll is in love with his own cleverness. I expect there's a reason he didnt even sniff a HC job yet. Offensive production shouldn't depend on extraordinary play

imma gonna go on and criticize that one play call.

This is my point. When you have proven playmakers at (almost) all your skill positions, and a really good QB, why are you having a HB throw a ball to an OT, at a critical juncture in the game?

Don't get me wrong, this was a team loss, like virtually all of them are. It was a tale of 2 halves. The Bills squandered their opportunities to go up by more than 10 in the first half, McD got outcoached by an order of magnitude in the second half. Insult to injury that we had a bunch of guys looking like they would rather have been anywhere but in a football game.

what play do you think was called on the 4th down when we were still in the game?