mannc

Seeing ghosts

He does not look good. He’s got happy feet and he’s looks like a deer in headlights. I hate to say it, but it’s true.

He looks way too hyped up…

We are the worst screen pass team in the history of the NFL—both offensively and defensively.

It’s definitely an issue…

Who was that screen supposed to go to?

Bills WRs just are not getting separation…

No one open on that int.

Stop with the play action—you’re fooling no one.

Apparently it’s now legal to hit the QB low…must have been a rule change…

Don’t you have to work on Friday?

I don’t think so

Well, they aren’t used the same way, which was kinda my point…

I want to see what Stevenson can do, but I don’t like McKenzie being inactive…seems too much like scapegoating…he’s actually been pretty good this year on his returns.

Is there any reason the Bills couldn’t use Edmunds the way the Cowboys use Parsons? The guy is just a wrecking crew…

It’s the league’s Achilles Heel

I don’t think so. Refs on field ruled it incomplete. If someone “upstairs” called that incomplete, then that someone needs to go…

Total incompetence by McCarthy not to challenge it.

Fumble. No question.

So it’s not possible for both to be priorities?

Desean Jackson, taken 8 picks after the Bills selected WR James Hardy in the 2008 NFL draft…Calais Campbell was the next selection

Bills’ receiving corps is definitely not the problem, but they aren’t the solution, either. It’s a solid (albeit aging) group, but they lack the real speed that’s needed to spread the field, especially with a QB like Josh Allen. Davis is OK, but to have added only a WR 4 in these past three drafts is pretty poor. It’s going to be a much bigger need in 2022…

This is an underrated Bills need…the past three WR drafts have been deep and full of difference makers and we’ve added….Gabe Davis…sorry, not good enough.

You could make the case that we are now fighting just to make the playoffs—that the first seed in the AFC is a pipe dream—in which case, sure, we should be rooting for NE to lose, since we’ll probably only be able to split with them anyway, the way things are going. That’s probably a more realistic way to look at it.

McBeane deserve a ton of credit for targeting and drafting Josh Allen (it’s the main reason neither is on the hot seat) but I disagree that Allen has been put in a perfect situation, and I think it’s silly to argue that Allen would have failed elsewhere. In his first two years, Allen had probably the worst receiver group in the league to work with and an average offensive line. Since they took Allen at number 7 overall, the Bills have used most of their premium draft picks on defense, and three of the high picks they have used on offense have been busts or JAGs. I hate to think how unstoppable Allen would be if the Browns had drafted him and given him the same offensive weapons and o-line Faker Mayfield has had in Cleveland. Yes, the Bills have done a good job developing Allen, but it’s been far from perfect. There’s no excuse for him to be working behind such a porous offensive line at this point, and I’d argue that his offensive weapons are at best slightly above average. Neither Beasley nor Diggs ever had anywhere near the production they’ve had since they were paired with JA. And although Knox is developing nicely, most teams have at least two viable TEs on the roster, and the Bills’ RB room is, as we now know, pathetic. Lastly, the idea that the Jets poisoned Darnold should be firmly laid to rest now that he’s flamed out in Carolina, after less than half a season. You could make a better case that Darnold poisoned the Jets; certainly trading three second round picks to move up to select Darnold—when Allen would have been sitting there at 6—was a Chernobyl-level catastrophe for that franchise.