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Just now, frostbitmic said:
As many as it takes.
It's so easy to tip the balance when the teams are so close. Holding and pass interference are the favorites because they wipe out good plays for one team and negates bad plays for the other, both keying on plausible deniability. Beautiful money-making system, you have to hand it to them.
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3 hours ago, H2o said:
The Chiefs are going to load the box against Cook, and take their chances playing a bunch of cover 0. Spags will be dialing up the blitz early. I hope Brady and Josh will be ready for this.
The passing game will have to be an extension of the run game this week, just until we can loosen up the box a bit. Slants, quick passes in the flats, quick in routes in space, and it would also be nice if we actually hit on some screen plays as well. We still need to get Cook in space. If they do this, and execute, we will have a chance.
The Chiefs are 4th in the league, allowing only 277 yds per game. To me, this feels like the Atlanta game all over again. I don't have much faith in our coaching staff, especially on defense, to come up with a gameplan to stop what the Chiefs do. I think, again, we will see the disparity in coaching rear it's ugly head.
Yet some reason, Brady has utterly refused to put Cook in space this season. It's getting bizarre. In clutch moments, he sits the only A+ weapon he has and puts his faith in the C+ firm of Coleman, Moore, Samuels, Johnson, and Shavers. It's like pulling Myles Garrett for Joe Tyron-Shoyinka.
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11 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:
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Player/Position Position Wednesday Thursday Bernard LB Full Full Bosa DE Vet Rest Full Davis RB DNP Full Jones DT DNP DNP Milano LB Full Full Palmer WR DNP Limited Phillips DT Vet Rest Full Prater K Limited Limited Thompson LB Limited DNP Josh Palmer upgraded... Shaq Thompson downgraded...
Am I the only one who trusts Shaq more than Bernard and Milano?
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He does seem distracted. This is bleak and nothing to joke about, but she could have had a miscarriage. That can really shake people up.
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2 hours ago, 90sBills said:
Mahomes was dancing around in the pocket and inevitably someone breaks open. On that long Kelce play, Kelce was an inline blocker and the receivers took all the defenders way downfield. Kelce just slid out for a 5yd dump off that turned into 30+ yd.An under-appreciated aspect of Mahomes' success is his running. Nothing open, he runs for 12 yards, again and again. Keep him in the pocket, and he still makes great throws/reads, but if nothing his open you can sack him. Of course, you'll get called for PI or RTP, but that's just NFL football in today's America.
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1 hour ago, thenorthremembers said:
Just kind of a moving forward thing because I see it over and over again, Our GMs last name is BEANE with an E at the end.
If you're going to roast him at the very least spell his name right.
Me, I hate comma splices. If you're doing to complain about spelling, at least get your punctuation right. 😇
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1 hour ago, billsfan89 said:
The Diggs money they are out from under on, Von after this season they are out from under on. Teams eat dead money all the time, KC has consistently had a dead cap around 15-22 million a year. The Bills have been fairly comparable in terms of dead cap outside of 2024. From 2019 to 2023 the Bills dead cap numbers were in the 12-22 million range mostly in line with KC. 2025 the Bills at 30 million dead cap are a bit higher but still mostly a good healthy number by NFL standards.
I think both contracts were attempts by the Bills to keep going for it under Allen. Von I didn't like as much at the time because he was older but it looked like it could have worked had he not gotten hurt on a somewhat freak injury. Diggs they extended him in his late 20's after back to back great seasons. It kept him happy in 2022 when he helped carry an offense that outside of him and Josh didn't have much (poor RT and guard play along the O-line, lackluster TE and WR's outside of Diggs, and RB's that were pedestrian) and then in 2023 he got hurt after a hot start. The Bills were still able to get a 2nd round pick worth of value for him in a trade so it isn't a big deal esp since the team improved in the year they were getting out from under that deal.
Von's deal being reworked in 2024 made the out in 2025 less bad. But I don't think that the Bills fortunes in 2025 are that much more dramatically shifted if they had 7-9 million more in cap space to work with. I don't think they make a trade for DK if they have a moderate amount more space to work with. The WR's signed above Palmer weren't that great outside of Devante Adams whose 13 million more than Palmer AAV on 2 seasons (with a large 14 million dollar dead cap hit for 2026).
I don't think those deals are the sole reasons for Josh not winning. I think it has been a combo of a lot of things, some on the roster building side, some on just the luck side of things, some to do with coaching and coaching decisions
Thanks for the detailed response. Certainly there have been a lot of other factors that have led to the current state of affairs, and both contracts looked like good moves at the time, or at least defensible. I'm just taking the long view, trying to get a handle on how we're going to look back on the Allen era. I hope it will be fondly, with all the Super Bowls he will have won. But even in that rosy future we might rue the "missed" years of 2021-2025 when they could thisclose to going to the Show, if only they had x, with that x being the players they could have signed in 2022 instead of Von and Diggs. I won't play the game of "they could have signed this guy," but I think it's fair to say that Beane could have improved on the yield from those two contracts, even with Von's reduction and the second-round pick for Diggs. Could've been should've been. It is what it is.
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1 minute ago, thenorthremembers said:
Titans, Giants without Nabers, and ironically the Raiders are all pretty bad.
Calvin Ridley is 30, but I would take him over every Bills receiver except Shakir, wouldn't you?
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1 hour ago, Dunkirk Donski said:
Big game Gabe WR4
To go with the five other WR4s.
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40-13 Chiefs. Sorry, guys. Nobody wants a Bills win more than I do, and nobody despises KC more than me.
The blowout will be too late to galvanize Beane into action, but maybe McDermott will finally fire Brady and close the chapter on Babich.
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Question for those of you who follow other teams: Do the Bills have the worst wide receiver group in the league? That would be ironic: the best QB throwing to the worst WRs.
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1 hour ago, billsfan89 said:
The Bills are usually very good at managing their dead cap. From 2019-2023 the Bills were bottom 10 if not bottom 5 most years on dead cap. 2024 it spiked up due to the house cleaning they did on the roster but this year the Bills rank 21st or 11th lowest in dead cap just outside the top 10 lowest dead cap numbers. And that's with the Bills eating a lot of money on Von and Tre's old contract both combining to about 19 million in dead cap.
The Bills do figure to in 2026 be taking probably a similar dead cap hit in terms of cap percentage as they are this year (around 35ish million) largely due to void years from Milano and Bosa (totaling 18 million) and some other smaller void years from AJE and McGovern (Combining for another 7.5 million). Those 4 void years will total 25ish million. Add about another 10 million on cuts like Samuel (3 million in dead cap) and a few other smaller cuts and you get to around 35 million.
You obviously don't want large void years eating up 10% of your cap but the Bills needed to get out from under a large Diggs and out from under a can kicked down the road on Von. Afterwards you then also have some other vets to clear out but I think the Bills largely should be in a decent place regarding dead cap going forward.
So the last Diggs contract and the Von contract were two huge investments that the Bills are still paying off, with very little return. Blame aside, both contracts were objectively mistakes, hobbling the organization during prime Allen years.
I just haven't heard that stated concisely before. I hope it's not the epitaph on Allen's career.
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30 minutes ago, No_Matter_What said:
Mahomes, and it's not close. I "hate" how he walks, how he talks, how he looks like, his voice, everything. And I hate how good he is. He is the main reason we don't have Lombardi by now.
Totally agree. Also, the way he whines, how he never gives sincere credit to other players, the way he prances around with a limp wrist held up in the air (not that there's anything wrong with that), and especially the way Collingsworth and lickspittles glaze him like he's the Messiah. That last bit isn't his fault, but I want it to be.
Back to the therapy couch....
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On 10/28/2025 at 7:38 AM, Pete said:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP7AykAkeQg/?igsh=MTZuM21xdzljZmtreQ==
The Bills have a problem and his name is Keon Coleman
Coleman is a basketball player playing football. He's tall with a crazy vertical and elite body control--when the ball is five feet over his head. Allen and Brady have assumed that with his athleticism he could catch back-shoulder throws, making up for his lack of separation. Makes perfect sense, only he simply can't seem to adjust to those throws. Bizarre but true. That makes him even more one-dimensional. The good news is that one dimension can be spectacular, as he showed in college. Give him fades and high jump balls, and he'll win every time. I don't recall which game it was, but remember that high ball in the back of the end zone that he skyed for and caught, only to land out of bounds? Compare that to the "fade" in the end zone in another Baltimore game that was chest-level. He might have caught it if he weren't interfered with, but my point is that if Allen had thrown it ten feet above his head, he would have climbed the ladder and brought it down.
So there's hope! Maybe we have a star here who Allen and Brady (of course not Brady, who can't figure out anything) haven't learned to use yet.
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6 hours ago, Paup 1995MVP said:
Shell of Allen??
Thats pretty harsh. Some of you on here talk about Josh like he is Nate Peterman 2.0. He hasn’t been great. But he certainly hasn’t sucked. If anything blame Brady for his conservative game plans and unwillingness to send guys deep. And Beane for putting together a joke of a receiving group that has very limited ability.
But this team will be ready come Sunday. These are grown men who are a proud bunch. I think we see a revved up group on both sides of the ball. And have a solid chance to win.
Well, a shell of arguably the best player in NFL history can still be a lot better than Nathan Peterman, or even most other quarterbacks in the league. But you're right, it was too harsh, reflecting my anxiety. I get it that he's playing with a set of receivers who are just a cut above practice-squad quality, and I also get it that this mediocrity downfield might have gotten into his head, thrown off his rhythm, etc., even if he's given (and gives himself) oceans of time to make the throws. But even so, I'm increasingly concerned that he might be broken, at least in the short term, maybe the lingering effects of a concussion, a mid-career slump, or whatever. The contrast between the announcers mechanically intoning that he's the "best player the league" and his play on the field is jarring. I keep waiting for him to snap back into the jaw-dropping Superman we know so well. Maybe he'll do it against the Chiefs, but if he struggled against the Panthers, Saints, Pats, and Dolphins, is he really going to suddenly come alive against a Spagnuolo defense, working with the same set of mediocre receivers?
As others have said, my heart is hopeful but my brain is not. My intuition, lying somewhere in between, tells me that to save this season, Dr. Beane needs to inject some adrenaline, fast.
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KC beat the Lions at home only with big help from the refs; they should have lost that game. Then the beat the Raiders (wow) and the Commanders without Daniels. I don't see a juggernaut. But neither do I see lesser team than last year. It's the Bills that have changed. Their defense has gotten a lot weaker, and the passing game is positively alarming, no sugarcoating that. On the other hand, the newcomers on D and McDermott helping to call plays might be enough to overhaul the defense, and maybe Cook and the run game will provide enough offense. I say that last part with much less confidence. The Patriots and Falcons showed the league how to stop the Bills: stack the box and blitz Allen like crazy. With this receiving crew, that's just printing money. I really thought Brady and Allen would have it figured out after the bye, but the Panthers game showed they haven't, at least not yet.
I will be surprised and delighted if they win. But with the shell of Allen we've been seeing and Brady calling plays, I think there's a greater chance they'll be embarrassed. Maybe that's a good thing. Like others, I'm tired of them beating the Chiefs in the regular season and losing in the playoffs. Maybe it'll be the reverse this year.
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18 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
If they want to stack The box James Cook is going to hit them for a couple big ones
Only if Brady sticks with the running game instead of pulling Cook off the field when they're down two scores and betting the house on the intimidating crew of Samuel, Moore, Shavers, and Coleman. I don't know how Spagnuolo will sleep this week. 😕
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Watch him get ten sacks. That'll put a bow on the whole debacle.
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3 hours ago, billsfan89 said:
I am slightly disappointed that Landon can't get in at least back end rotational snaps. BUT if you go back and read the scouting report on Landon most reports read that he was a freak athlete with decent college production in a good conference but that he was somewhat raw and might need a year or two to develop but the upside is Pro-Bowl caliber given that he as previously mentioned is a freak athlete.
The Bills after taking a corner in round 1 and a DT in round 2 the Bills had addressed two of their most urgent defensive needs and the Bills with a early 3rd round pick were in a good position to take a pick on a guy who might not be as impactful year 1 but has massive upside. Similar to how the Bills got Walker a late 1st round talent in early round 4 due to his back injury. The Bills aren't in a position without a massive trade up to get blue chip draft guys. The Blue Chip draft guys they are going to get are going to be players who have flaws and drop. Injury concerns, needs development, character concerns, etc.
So I am a bit bummed Landon thus far has struggled for the most part. But I am not writing off his career just yet. Give him a rookie season to put on some tape and another full off-season to work with the coaches and let's see how he looks next season before we straddle him with the bust label. I would rather the Bills have taken a chance on a guy whose got very high upside but might need a year than go with a lower end athlete who might have been an earlier contributor but is a more limited athlete.
Funny combination of crazy-good RAS score (9.95, 10th best score out of 1829 DEs since 1987) and a stiff body, with little bend to go around the corner.
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11 minutes ago, BillytheKid said:
Poyer has looked good the last 2 games he has played him. 2nd half Atlanta and Carolina.
A lot better than what had been going on back there.
Yeah, Rapp was really struggling, especially his tackling. Interesting we got the Poyer/Hancock, White/Hairston rotation going on at the same time. Along with Walker stepping in for DeQuan, we're seeing the defensive starters getting younger in front of our eyes.
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1 hour ago, colin said:
i'm concerned that we will have no answer for the speed at wr on kc, and that they will sell out completely to stop cook. if we lose that's the most likely script.
i looked back at the box scores of our two games last season. it kinda showed how narrow the margin is between top nfl teams.
in the reg season game, we didn't have spencer brown and james cook did jack ish. allen ran the hell out of the ball. our d really frustrated them at times and forced some good stops. coleman was out and it was a pretty sorry batch of wrs.
in the playoff game, allen ran a lot but only had so much production (remember the bad call from the reff on the tush push?). the wr's were pretty sorry for us, altho hollins had one miracle bomb TD (34 yards). we failed to convert on 2 4th downs (tush push and the kinkaid drop) and missed two pretty early 2 point conversion attempts (we suck so bad at those). our secondary was raw rookie bishop, ghost of douglas, and kiar elam, taron, and freaking damar. dline had oliver who played nasty, dequan seemed banged up, groot was ok, and just lots of trash otherwise (aj i suppose was ok).
in that game we hid james cook and had davis and ty johnson taking snaps on 1st and 2nd down runs. cook had 13 runs, and 3 catches. he was our best player on O, and he was featured in 2 drives and was off the field in the most important plays. kinkaid was hobbled and there was lots of short pathetic passes to wrs, but we did convert more of them than we seem to now.
as sorry as that roster was on that day, if cook got 25 touches we win that game.
i think we need to keep up the mo on D this sunday, and feature cook and our big people. if kc sells out to stop him, we punish them w passes to backs and tight ends, and allen runs on scrambles. the d we have now should be much better than the trash heap we piled up in kc in the playoffs.
our two losses this year, aside from badbabi taking a dump in the first half vs atl (and bernard just sucking so bad) were from idiot turnovers/killed drives, penalties, and simply not passing enough to ends and back or featuring cook.
if we go heavy and mix it up, no one has shown an ability to slow it down. miami stopped the run with having like 4 dts on the pitch, but we just chose not to throw it over the fatties. it's there if we want it.
What is up with Brady sitting his second-best player on offense? Until the Panthers game, he's been doing the same thing this year. It's utterly baffling, given the pathetic WR room and mediocre play of Ty Johnson and Ray Davis this season. Even if he can't block, he can still catch and be a real weapon in space. Instead, Brady has Allen throwing to the likes of Coleman and Moore. Opposing defensive coordinators must be trembling in their boots.
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40 minutes ago, Low Positive said:
You say that now, but wait until the Bills trade a 3rd for Shaheed while the Pats trade a 5th for Meyers.
And the Chiefs swap late-round picks for AJ Brown.
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3 hours ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:
I'm sorry, what? You described blocking and said he's bad at it. WR holding is like the easiest call to make on outside runs, so you're kind of taught to let go.
There is no way you lead the NFL in rushing, and the leading snap WR/TE/RB is a "lousy blocker"
I think the underrated potential of re-capturing some of that chemistry with allen, who's deep balls have looked off since Gabe's departure.
Our leading TE (Kincaid) is an improving blocker, but I wouldn't call him stellar. Our leading RB is taken off the field on passing downs despite his receiving prowess, evidently because he's a lousy blocker. As for what you call our "leading WR" (insert vomit emojji), I stand by the evidence of my eyes that Coleman sucks at blocking, although I admit that's just based on the broadcast, not any all-22s. Watch him. He doesn't sustain his blocks, leading to his man making the tackle.
So, yeah, you very much can lead the NFL in blocking with your leading WR/TE/RB all lousy at run blocking, providing your other TEs/WRs/RBs are good at it.
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12 minutes ago, zow2 said:
I think the Bills D is going to make some plays, but KC will still score in the low-mid 20's. If the Bills D holds KC in the teens i will be pleasantly surprised.
Buffalo's offense is more concerning to me. The Chiefs will not allow Cook to go crazy. They have a very solid D across the board. Allen has to break out of whatever slumber or lack of confidence that is plaguing him. He will have some open receivers TE's and RBs. He needs to release the ball quicker or take off and run sooner. His eyes have become sloooooow when he's going through his progressions.
My theory is both he and Benford are suffering from the aftereffects of concussion. At that level, a little brain fog makes a huge impact.
Game week thread - Chiefs at Bills (Video preview on pg. 19)
in The Stadium Wall
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It seems to me all most of the numerous injuries have happened in practice. Taron, DeQuan, Oliver (the first injury), Strong, Hamlin, Hairston, Bass... Not sure about Shaq, Milano, Bernard, Prater, or Sanders, but at least some of these injuries have "popped up" on the injury report. Palmer and the punter Johnson is the only players I recall being injured during a game.
I wonder if McDermott is addressing the poor tackling by stressing physicality in practice, resulting in a lot of casualties. Oliver was (and is now, with his second injury) the biggest loss, obviously, but Strong is another one. He would have welcome back there, the way he was playing.