Big Turk

I would like it...Williams is violent and sudden, something we lack mostly. Reminds me a lot of Bradham in that way.

Huh? Can you please stop making things up? Saying what you believe to be true is cool, but not when it is completely contradictory to facts...then it's just silliness.

You realize we lead the NFL in offense and are 3rd in scoring at 29+ points a game, as well as top 5 in virtually every other metric across the board, right? We also lead the NFL in explosive plays, defined as a pass play of 20+ yards or a run play of 10+ yards with 44 and are the only team in the NFL to average more than 5 of those per game. You seem to either be in the twilight zone where you aren't actually watching what's going on, or simply not paying attention to what is happening with other teams in comparison.

This is the Josh Palmer I thought we were getting...I have no idea WTF Brady is doing with him. He essentially has neutered him.

Darnold will implode in the playoffs. They will be out in the first round again.

They need their defense to not be 2 TDs worse against KC in the playoffs than they are in the regular season on average. That's what they need.

That's not the way they choose to operate. They lead the NFL in offense. Just because you don't like the way they operate, doesn't make them wrong.

Bills 37 Fish 14

I'm not complaining that they don't have a #1 WR. I agree it's by design. I am more complaining that they are not maximizing what they DO have in a way that would be helpful to them and not make certain situations and games more difficult than they need to be, or cause failures in situations where they could do something else and succeed.

He was injured and is coming off knee surgery. He played with the injury last year until he couldn't anymore and it required surgery at that point and he had made it worse than it was initially.

But even in the Pats game the issue was more that Allen was just mentally way off...had happy feet, bailed from clean pockets where if he waited a half second longer guys were coming wide open, wasn't taking wide open rush lanes in front of him and would force passes instead. Most of all there were multiple times he had easy layups that he has been taking for the past year and a half that he just refused to take and was looking downfield. That was right after the media were pressing him and Brady about why are they never throwing downfield and it almost seemed like they wanted to "show them" instead of just playing the way they normally did which might not be sexy, but almost always works. I'm not sure what it is but for whatever reason, Allen and the Bills in general seem to have a 2 game stretch every year in mid October where they look completely out of sorts and like they forgot how to play football. Then we never see it again. Last year it was against Baltimore and Houston back to back...

Yeah, I am not talking about we have to find solutions for problems we don't have solutions for...I am simply wanting them to use the solutions we DO have to fix other issues. IMO, the offense chooses to eliminate needing a WR1 by it's design in most cases. I think we need to just accept that they have decided to choose a different way of getting it done than most teams do and although we might not agree with it, it's extremely effective as they are one of the most efficient teams on offense since they have done it, lead the NFL in offense and have averaged over 30 points a game the last 1.5 years, which is the best in franchise history. Most teams are looking to get 300 yards passing and 100 yards rushing to get to 400 yards of offense while the Bills are perfectly happy to have 165 yards rushing and 235 yards passing to get to 400 yards. But they also have the Ace up their sleeve of allowing Allen to be Allen if and when it ever requires that, which is usually only a few times a game. Essentially, protects Allen from himself, lengthens the "peak" years of his career by him taking less physical punishment and sets him up to excel from the pocket once his movement skills decline some.

Not worried about the secondary...we've had far worse against the Fins when they had Prime Hill and Waddle and shut them down, they can do it with lesser talent and no Hill now.

Which should terrify the NFL since they are the #1 offense already

Then get him in more stacked/bunch formations or have him in motion at the snap...eliminates that problem immediately.

Wait til the playoffs when he disappears when you need him most. And that game was more about Allen refusing to take layups, bailing from clean pockets constantly and having happy feet. He was just off...no different than he has been at some point in mid October for 2 games in a row his entire career it seems, then course corrects and we never see it again. Last year it was Baltimore and Houston. Knox is 28...are we really going to start claiming that players in their 20s are now declining from age?

Diggs was not being utilized the last half of the year, plus he never shows up against KC in the playoffs. He also got rid of himself.

He was even decent with the Jets when they started using him... I mean the guy has had revolving trashcans at QB his whole career and the least production is with Allen?? Makes no sense. He got hurt early in the 2nd quarter against the Falcons. He caught a 40 yard bomb on the first play of the game and then caught a nice 20ish yard pass for a first down where he got pulled backwards on the tackle and hurt his knee... Clearly they had a plan to use him more in that game and I'm thinking he will have his usage ramp up.

Palmer was starting to come on in that Falcons game and then got hurt...excited to see if that continues once he is back.

Knox had a lot of key TD in high leverage situations in big games against KC and also in late drives to give them the lead.

My point is that those players can be used in those roles more often, but they choose to use Shavers and Coleman instead, which are obviously due to their run game blocking and I get it... The point I am trying to make is that we have shifted too far in one direction with it and need to be balanced, especially at the times when the defense has answers, which isn't often, but does happen. All too often, it seems their plan it to simply double down.

I honestly think they have enough if they just used them better. Moore or Samuel against most CB4's should win.

More and more what I am starting to believe is this team has enough at the WR spot and is just misusing them. There is no way you can tell me all of the following players under Brady who have shown the ability to get deep and make plays downfield before and after they have been here just suddenly forgot how to play WR and do that here: Stefon Diggs (had a phenomenal start to season under Dorsey with multiple 100+ yard games then went mostly silent under Brady) MVS (couldn't utilize his deep speed or chose not to then goes to NO after being cut and has multiple weeks in a row I am watching in game updates of him catching 50+ yard TD passes) Elijah Moore (always productive even with revolving trashcans throwing to him over his career, 4.3 speed, open a LOT in this offense downfield) Josh Palmer (saw plenty of highlights with Herbert targeting and connecting on deep balls with him) Gabe Davis (one of the best deep ball WR's in the NFL) Probably some others... Some of this is intentional as Brady prioritizes ball-control, clock-control offense where you take layups over and over again, minimize TOs, run the ball down the other teams throats and then rely on a handful of Allen plays a game to usually win comfortably. I believe this is also intentional on the way McD wants to play because it limits our TOs, we are super efficient at scoring points and TDs, it limits the opponent possessions meaning they have to score more efficiently than they typically do to keep up and we also are good at taking the ball away many times which further limits their possessions. All that is good and makes logical sense. But this STILL doesn't excuse the complete ignoring all too often of using what you have to attack the intermediate areas of the field to throw a barrage of short passes. Take this example in the Chiefs game: Moore is WIDE OPEN in the deep middle and if Allen hits him in stride it's at least another 5-10 yards on top of that. What happens? He checks it down to Hawes, who is equally open, but the pass goes awry and it's incomplete...and it's not this one example I am harping on to be clear...Allen was awesome in the Chiefs game. It's the Bills intentionally choose not to make themselves more versatile too often when they don't need to, almost as if they take pride in telling the D "here is what we are going to do, now come and stop us." Most times they can't, but sometimes they can and I don't think they have properly developed their answer to when that happens in critical moments and they are far too slow to shift to it when it DOES happen in those moments. My thoughts are that Moore needs to be playing a bigger role in this offense and Coleman needs to be playing a lesser one. Palmer needs to be getting some of these type of routes (which, to be fair, he started to in the ATL game before getting hurt). Currently it seems the only person they use on these outside of Moore every so often, is Kincaid, which is great, but it's like c'mon...let's open it up a little here when we need to. I mean even Samuel showed he has the ability in the Broncos playoff game where he took a deep over to the house and smoke DPOY Surtain... Maybe they are saving it for the playoffs when they need it, but IMO at this point, I think it's mismanaging who they ALREADY HAVE at WR more than them needing another WR that is the bigger problem. Bills seemingly favoring the bigger WRs that help them in run blocking and trying to prevent giving "tells" to the other team that we are passing by bringing in Moore and Samuel instead of Coleman and Shavers but at some point you have to be willing to give up a little in what you do amazingly well to add to the passing game.

Is there a reason we are acting like the Bills are some "iffy" team all of a sudden that actually loses these type of games all the time instead of wins them 90% of the time? They have a record of 32-7 after the bye week since 2020...I'd put my stock in that. It shows they somewhat pace themselves early in the year and then slowly press the accelerator down as the year goes on.

I mean Allen's performance was against one of the best D's in the NFL and Lamar's against one of the worst...so of course, they'll give it to Lamar... But don't worry, Allen has racked up half of his AFC OPOTW awards against the Fins, so there is always this week... Usually the Bills play one close game against them and one blowout. Last year the blowout came in Miami.