KOKBILLS

Can we get some freaking push?

Well.. There goes Palmer

We can't do this and win...

Teams are going to dare the Bills to pass it until they do... It's crazy because everyone knows how good Josh is, but that's how little teams respect our passing game overall... They are going to be aggressive at the line of scrimmage and gamble that we can't get anyone open.

Well... Now we can't run...

We had them off the field and the refs gave them life... But then of course our Defense decides to just suck.

What a freaking joke

The 3rd down pass to London I have seen teams get at least a million times on this Defense... The holes in this zone are there and they are free

That 3rd down call was a back breaker and like this Defense always does... they wilt

You have got to be kidding me

Why does it seem this year more and more that when we get the rare stop on Defense we cannot capitalize?

And Brady is back...

Solomon uncovered at the perfect time...

OK... Track meet it is...

Well... Already 2...

Lead him inside Josh...lol

We don't have a prayer... That's the whole thing... The idea that some day in this fantasy world everyone will be available and this magical unicorn great D is going to show up is just not reality... They are soft, they are always banged up, and the scheme is meh...

I mean... Whatever...

So soft

Incredible

GO BILLS!!!

However anecdotal, further proof of this would be the long TD pass to Douglas today... The Pats sent 2... 2 WR's into routes and had a check down on that play today. The Saints had Douglas bracketed. But watch Maye, they dialed that one up special. And good grief that Saints Safety helped them... But there are 4 Saints Defenders covering no one on that play... One of the TD's to Boutte there are 3 Saints Defenders in the vicinity... They are just brutally attacking secondaries, they have no run game at all, and none of their receivers is Ja'Marr Chase... I mean... Come on folks... We have Josh Allen... This is a problem...

This is exactly correct and what the Bills want to do... 100%... However, all that being said, I don't think the Bills want to stall out on these drives and put themselves into longer down and distance. Penalties aside which always seem to rear their ugly head from time to time. At the risk of beating a dead horse... The Bills have become one of the best run offenses in the NFL... They have earned that... So... every time they get a team into base defense...that is earned. They Drafted Dalton Kincaid...at least I imagine...for exactly this...mismatches... So when a team like NE presents the Bills with base defense 14 times in a game, they are basically saying...we are going to give you a mismatch...probably a LB on a TE... we dare you to take it... And the Bills instead ran into that base D 12 out of the 14 times. The 2 times they passed it... 2-2...43 yards... These passes vs base D are generally not going to be field stretching passes to WR's, because most of those times the Bills will be in 12 or 13... They will be chain movers mostly... Probably designed... Watch around the NFL you will see this constantly... In fact NE is very efficient at this with their TE's, especially Henry... I think if they can just bump that % in a game like Sunday night's from 14% to 50%, you're going to see a HUGE improvement. Teams will be on their heels more in base D, and probably more reluctant to use it, which means the run game is even more effective... In theory of course...

Poona Ford and Tim Settle have played every game but one (Settle missed a game last year) since they left and have combined for 83 total tackles, 9 sacks and 20 run stuffs as rotational DT's...

I'm not sure we can get anything exactly right on that side of the ball... Benford was a great pick as a 6th rounder... But... That's a 6th round pick... If we were really that smart we would have taken him a lot sooner... And if our 1st round pick that year is even an average CB we are light years ahead of where we are now... In the 1st-3rd rounds of the 2022-2024 Drafts our best pick on Defense (so far because we don't really know anything about the rookies yet) is Bernard who is definitely a good player as a leader and where turnovers are concerned, but also has size limitations that show up often at MLB. Outside of Bernard, McBean added Elam who completely busted out, Dorian Williams who is massively inconsistent, Cole Bishop who looks to be improving at least...but let's be honest...he is no where near what the Bills thought he would be at this point. Then there is DeWayne Carter... And that's it... Since 2022 after the 3rd Round they added Benford...great! Alex Austin who they let get away... Could have really used him as depth these past couple years. Javon Solomon who seems to be just an undersized special teamer. And lastly Edefuan Ulofoshio who they cut. So during the 3 KEY off seasons when logic was screaming to McBeane that their top tier guys on D were going to age out, the Bills basically added the three B's, Benford, Bernard, and Bishop in the Draft before 2025, and a couple JAG's... That's it... And that is a REALLY tough way to keep up unless you are knocking it out of the park with UFA deals. And they're not...