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The "only it's one game" or "bad bounces" crowd apparently has ignored his whole Bills tenure. Would love to know what Dorsey and McD really think about him, but guessing he'll transition to a new role on the bench.

But, but, but...I drafted him in my fantasy league and he scored 10 TDs last season! As if that clinches it. LOL

I remember Billy Joe Hobert.

Tepper is another know-it-all owner who has no clue what he's doing. Doesn't help that the organization took half-measures trying to get a QB with Bridgewater, Darnold, and now Mayfield. And, IIRC, Rhule went all defense in his first draft.

Josh's accuracy on deep throws is so much better this season. He had missed some in 2020-21, but this season is vastly improved so far. Taking nothing away from Davis, but it's Allen hitting on throws that he previously did not.

Just don't ask Estelle to get a certain...shall we say...undergarment. LOL

It’s the airing of grievances and it ain’t even Festivus yet! Frank Costanza, is that you? TBD Grievance committee members unite! ✊

Pulled hammy again CT? Bills strength and conditioning is letting you down still.

In all this talk about weather, people do realize Buffalo visited Miami last season on Sept 25th? With the same temperature in play for that game, but the difference was Buffalo walked all over the fish 35-0. Weather wasn't a factor in that result. But now it is? As to injuries, that's been a built in excuse for decades around here. Perhaps having more than 2 boundary NFL caliber WR's on the roster would be good to hedge against that. Or, finding better OL depth and not signing a 13 year vet whose PT has decreased the last few seasons. You can't cry about injuries when the off-season priorities didn't make that a focus. Besides, Brandon Beane's and McDermott's expectations are SB after signing Miller in UFA and having Josh. It can't be anything less. The issue with the offense is a lack of talent and it won't change this entire season. That work needed to be done in the off-season and they chose to improve other areas or bring back the same offensive guys who they thought would make a difference and really hadn't before.

Adding in the stats from LAR and TEN makes the offense looks better, but the trend is down: In the first 2 weeks they had 65 offensive points and Josh was averaging 8.6 per throw with 7 TD to 2 INT . They've scored 42 points these last 2 weeks and Josh is averaging 6.2 yards per attempt with 3 TD and 1 INT. I'm not blaming Josh, but if that isn't struggling for an offense that I saw some people talking in the off-season about being the highest scoring in NFL history. 21 PPG is league average BTW. Baltimore came in giving up 350 yards passing per and limited Buffalo to 213. Josh had 400 yards against Miami, but needed 63 passes to do it. There's gonna be ups and downs in the regular season and they ain't scoring 35 per, but that's a drop off by any measure.

You do not understand what an NFL GM and HC are responsible for. They spend all off-season seeing what went wrong, what's getting worse, and develop plans to fix but more to anticipate what will need to improve. In this light... They came out of last season with Diggs, Davis, Beasley, and multiple WR 4/5/6 and PS caliber types. On a team with Josh freaking Allen at QB. The response? They proceed to cut the now-retired Beasley and sign the similarly sized Crowder to replace him. They used a later round pick on another slot type receiver and signed the now departed Tavon Austin. (EDIT: they re-signed McKenzie - another slot guy). And it's a surprise the passing game is struggling? A big part of the problem is their solution to offensive issues in the off-season was to improve the running game. With UFA's on medium to low cost short term deals. And, for the 3rd out of 4 years to use another pick on a RB. It's roster negligence given what the NFL has been as a passing league the past 15 or so years. It seems the GM and HC just expect Josh to elevate WR 4/5/6 types, that Diggs and Davis will not miss time, they'll become a strong running team and the defense will be elite enough if that doesn't work. Talk about going down the wrong path.

It cost 11M in cap space to sign Jones, Settle, Phillips, and Lawson to that DL. Shades of 2018 when they preached being cap poor to clean out the previous regime's issues but still had the money to sign Star to an inflated contract. And that doesn't mean trying to run the ball more or find more slot receivers to shorten the offensive field for Josh. In the cap era you can't have 2 elite sides of the ball nor should a team with Josh Allen expect him to make things happen on offense. He has to be surrounded with better talent.

Last night I saw the best YAC guy in the NFL take one 51 yards after a 6 yard reception for a TD. Crowder and McKenzie have never done that. Shakir aint't that guy and Cook as a RB isn't going to do it either. All of the WR's you mention are short to intermediate guys save Davis, who has been/is hampered with injuries 3 of his 3 seasons. Backs don't typically take passes to the house, nor do slot receivers. Maybe the offensive philosophy needs to change and then the type of receivers/OL to do that.

The issue is OBD made (again) a decision to invest more on defense this off-season and I say that fully agreeing with the decision to sign Von Miller. They recognized that Josh was needing to do too much and too frequently need to run to extend drives. Fully agree there as well. They decided the best way to help Josh was taking the ball out of his hands and having a better running game. To do that, they believed the new OC, same RBs, changes to blocking scheme, a 13 year vet on a 1 year deal and a 2nd round RB would accomplish this. They proceeded to throw token attention to WR, a position the GM (IIRC) admitted was thin during camp. Through 4 games RB/WR have 64 carries for 277 yards and 0 TDs. Josh is still running it on average 8 times a game and has 40% of their rushing yards. He was, through the final 7 or so games last season running it about the same number of times. The better answer was to find another solid outside WR and improve the OL with guys who could give Josh time to throw. And not need another 4 DL (save Miller) to keep McD's defensive rotation intact. It's early and the schedule was not kind to begin the season, but early returns are not good .

Absolutely no one around here was talking about either of these players experiencing injuries. Or, that the team needed more WR help. No one.

People replicate article titles observed on news websites whether they know it or not. It's why so many thread titles now ask a question as opposed to making a declarative statement.

Last season and the year before doesn't matter anymore. It is what you do now that does, as in this season. This is the problem after the 17 straight years of missing the playoffs. Being a perennial playoff team and being relevant (i.e. getting national attention) has now become satisfactory. But to stay in the conversation it's gonna take getting to the SB, not falling in another divisional game. Because going from being a ~.500 team and making the playoffs is a lot smaller leap than it is to go from playoff team to a SB contender. Right now, this coaching staff is showing their vision for how to play football is flawed in some respects. They turtle when the big moment arrives and that's on the HC and his staff.

I've always wondered what the interaction is like between the HC, his GM and the offensive staff during off-season reviews. As in, how they determine which areas on offense to improve after the playoff loss, then establish UFA targets and assemble the draft board to meet that review. At the same time, how much pull in that org chart does a rookie OC have to push for players who'll allow him do what he believes is effective? Does Dorsey have a voice in that room to say he needs better talent than 13 year vets, more slot receivers, and another highly drafted RB when their WR depth is minimal?

There are defensive luxuries they prioritize and offensive needs they insist aren't as essential. Catching up to McBeane quick this season.

Well, I get into trouble discussing McD's decisions, in-game, post-game, or off-season.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/McDeSe0/challenges/ He's 6 of 24 career now. By comparison Belichick is 9 of 23 in the same span (2017 to present). Not making any statement citing those numbers.

How many of his catches are contested compared to his total receptions? Who is throwing him the ball? Is the route tree he's running putting him into positions to need to make a contested catch? Does he struggle to obtain separation? These are all considerations/questions necessary to understand whether contested catches are an issue for Davis.

I'm sure it was hot...but the US Military operates in areas where the weather is exceedingly worse and more life threatening. I was in FL this past June when the heat index each day was 103+. Playing a sport in those conditions is darn difficult, but it could be worse.

Had the same thought...and Davis' catch rate in seasons 1 and 2 were below 57%. And considering that he has Josh throwing him the ball and not some pedestrian type QB, that's sub-par for this team.

Imagine a married priest who, with wife in the rectory, is confronted with an issue that pits her opinion against the views of the parish. Sure it's a hypothetical, although very real possibility. A man cannot serve two masters and believing men who could marry as priests would result in unforeseen and unintended consequences. The dearth of under retirement age priests in the Catholic Church cannot be solved by changing the rules about celibacy.