Big Turk

Anyone with All-22 Access, has the Bills lack of any real run threat in most of the last 5 games related to a return to them attempting to run zone schemes again? Just seems they are obsessed with zone scheme even tho in 4 years the Bills have ALWAYS sucked at them, to the point they switched to gap scheme a lot more after the byes the previous 3 years and got the running game going... This year they started out the year with gap scheme runs and were doing well but it seems lately they may have gotten away from it and gone back to more zone runs? Anyone with insights into this would be appreciated to chime in...to my eye it seems like they have gone away from gap scheme runs again to their detriment, as usual.

This is him basically saying "I delegate that responsibility to my OC to do what he thinks is best during a game and this is really on him, but I am not going throw him under the bus directly." Honestly, he is taking bullets for Dorsey right now and not publicly disparaging him. Behind closed doors, I wonder what is going on tho.

Jets are so bad on offense it's laughable, but that defense is something else...if they ever get even halfway decent QB play they are going to be a real problem for anyone.

Nobody on D anymore, that's part of the problem.

Not sure what he can do in that situation when he is somersaulting in the air like that and can't get his other hand on the ball. Just gotta tip your cap to the defender on that one for a heads up play. Sucks because we likely are scoring on that drive after he gets inside the 10 yard line. But Kincaid is starting to show why the Bills moved up for him...dude is going to terrorize teams for years to come.

8-1 Eagles.

I feel like I am watching the offense under Chan Gailey and Ryan Fitzpatrick far too often lately. Score easily on one drive and then do nothing for extended periods, then start moving the ball later in the game again. There is no excuse to EVER look like THAT offense with Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs on your team. They better figure it out. It's honestly flat out unacceptable on offense.

Daboll is showing he is a much better OC than Head Coach and that last year was an aberration. He has been brutal far too often, including in our game.

I don't know what is going on with this team, but I DO know that they are looking like the Ryan Fitzpatrick led Bills on offense far too often now for my liking. A good drive then long periods of nothing...struggling to get into the 20s in points way way too much... It's honestly just unacceptable with Josh Allen as your QB. No excuse, if Dorsey can't figure it out then bring someone else in who can.

No real excuse for this offense to be stuck in the mud so often. They need to figure it out.

Since 1933, the Steelers became the 34th team to be outgained in each of their first 8 games of the season. They are the first team in NFL history to have a winning record when that happens. This year, they are the only team that has been outgained in every game they have played and they have the 2nd worst net yardage total in the NFL at -790. Only the Broncos at -830 are worse (and 363 of those came in one game against the Dolphins). How this team is 5-3 is a miracle...pretty much last years version of the Giants winning by smoke and mirrors every week. The clock is going to strike midnight for Cinderella pretty soon I think, cannot keep winning in that manner, it's unsustainable over an entire year.

I am...and I am a dork 😂

I really want to hate Mike McDaniel, but I just can't...the dude seems like a good guy and is a cool dork...kinda reminds me of myself actually

I mean other QB's start the season injured. Other QB's don't throw 4 INTs in a game or throw for 82 yards.

That comment was in relation to Ronald Darby, which was the player being discussed in the post I commented on.

Sal C claims it's nothing to worry about and he is healthy as denoted by no designation.

Damn...Bills STILL best Pass Pro team in the NFL based on the composite rankings... Run blocking not so shabby either...6th in the composite rankings... https://twitter.com/benbbaldwin/status/1719728054111543370/photo/1

Boo!! I am not a Skyline fan...lived in Cincy for a little over a year back in the late 90s...was Team Gold Star... I caught a lot of flack for that 😂

No. The Dolphins don't beat good teams, they get T-rolled by them.

Hmm...can't add "another" if you don't already have one to begin with 😂 But here is the key question... Gold Star or Skyline?

I think the increase in players who train all year round and do drill after drill in the off-season likely greatly impacts this also...and the abundance of kids who grew up only playing one sport and training for it all year round which is a recent phenomena that we are only starting to see the results from(mostly bad in terms of injuries) since they just started entering the leagues within the last 8-10 years. Nobody did that when I was a kid...football season you played football, soccer season you played soccer, baseball season you played baseball, basketball season you played basketball, etc..now these kids join these training facilities that have them training year round in one sport and have leagues that go all year round, especially in the warmer climates. The body is no different than a car in that parts wear out after so much use. If your ACL only has, say, 25,000 cuts you can make on it in your lifetime before it ends up breaking down, repeatedly cutting on it in practice during the offseason is shortening the length of time before it is going to give out. Repeatedly training for the same sport growing up year round means that area of the body never gets a break versus the kids who played all different sports growing up where different body parts were strained more in one sport than another and different muscles used regularly, etc. Players used to rest far more in the offseason than they do now since everyone is trying to get a leg up with their offseason programs and since everyone else is doing them, unless you want to run the risk of falling behind, you also have to do them. IMO, off-season rest would help cut the injury totals down significantly, but how can you tell a player they can't work out?

JFC now Benford potentially pulled a hammy in practice yesterday and was limited today. We can't win for losing.

When asked why so many coaches are choosing to defer, the Houston Texans’ special teams coach Brad Seely explained that it “comes down to the chance to pair a score at the end of the first half with one at the start of the second. It’s the only opportunity a team has for two straight possessions and can be a chance to instantly put the game out of reach.” Seely explained that every coach would love to see their team get the ball at the start of the second half after a two-minute drive at the end of the first half. It’s a perfect game-winning scenario. Analytics showed that teams who defer average scoring 1 extra point per game and they have a 12% chance to gain an extra possession. It's only been around since 2008 when the NFL finally adopted it from high school and college. Before that, whoever won the toss got the ball first. Interestingly enough, if you win the toss and you want to kickoff you have to defer because the team that doesn't choose in the first half gets to choose in the second half. Remember watching a game back in the day, maybe right after they changed the rules to allowed deferrals, where the team chose to kickoff by mistake and the coach was going crazy on the sidelines because that meant the other team had the choice in the 2nd half, which it obviously chose to get the ball, meaning they received both the 1st and 2nd half kickoffs. Kinda seems dumb that you can't just choose to kickoff first and have to force the other team to choose to receive the ball.

Where do you think the issue lies? Playing too conservative? Play calling by Taylor/OC? Red zone issues? I was kinda surprised when I looked and saw the Bengals have never averaged more points than the Bills have under Burrow and the Bills offensively has Diggs and then "others" for the most part compared to 3 legit WR's and a very good RB. You would think they should be one of the higher scoring teams in the NFL and they are usually top 10, but you'd think they'd be Top 3 or even #1.