Big Turk

I don't think people realize just how many plays a game the Bills run RPO's on...it's A LOT and it's far more varied and diverse than most teams in the NFL. See the breakdown I posted with JT O'Sullivan QB School from Week 8 against TB and he breaks down their RPO game quite a bit and is amazed and cannot heap enough praise on how exceptional it is from pretty much every standpoint.

Ah...I missed that one...so he takes Johnson's spot on the PS essentially. Wonder if he is the odd man out when Harris comes back.

Josh Allen is elite. I can't see how they are measurably better when Taylor has his offense looking like they belong in D III for the first month of every season. How about Joe Burrow not coming out in Week 1 every year and throwing for 82 yards or 4 INTs? Every year it's the same thing...dig themselves a big hole they have to climb out of. Good coaches don't have teams that do that on a consistent basis. Congrats he figures out how to fix it, but how about not having the issue every year to begin with?

Bills have never been great tacklers and seem to focus on getting more people around the ball versus making 1 on 1 tackles. I'd bet most of their missed tackles come on run plays where they sometimes have 3 or 4 guys not bring a guy down and then the final guy brings him down. Seems to happen on runs where they stretch out the RB a lot behind the LOS.

Did Ty Johnson get claimed this time?

Think he takes Ty Johnson's spot on the practice squad with a few call-ups til Harris gets back.

I'd say 90% probably don't. They see some highlights one week of a team that looks great and scores a ton and then think that's how they are every week. The NFL doesn't work like that. Never has, never will. It's a week to week league with very little carryover from games one week to games the next week. Injuries, matchups, schemes, etc are all different week to week. Thinking one team should do "X" because they did that to some other team and thinking that will carry over to the next game doesn't make much sense. And for all the Bengal skill position players, they always seem to leave you thinking they should score far more points than they actually do.

Yes, pretty much all the games on TV with a laptop streaming another game that looks good.

Only cause his DC is a genius and knows how to make quality playoff level adjustments to slow teams down. Their defense and special teams has won them far more games in the playoffs than their offense has if we are being honest.

For all of their skill positions and weapons, you would think they would score a lot more points than they actually do. It looks like McD runs a lot of simulated pressures where you don't always know which 4 guys are coming and sometimes it's overloaded to one side and guys drop out from the other, or some combination of twists/stunts to confuse the OLine. You see a lot of guys at the line, but most times guys drop and only 4 actually rush.

Sometimes what looks like Josh "taking the easy money" actually is Josh playing off script and NOT taking the easy money. Like when he ignores the hot read on a blitz and goes to other side of the field after a half rollout away from the blitzer(think throw to Shakir in the flat against TB where he turns it up and runs over the defender on the sideline). Honestly, think he is allowed to have his own set of rules he plays by because he is able to do things nobody else can is where I end up with. Sometimes that gets him in trouble when his answer isn't there, but the easy one was right away. We can't have it both ways tho...when you LOVE the play Allen makes off script by not taking the "easy throw" but then hate when he "doesn't throw hot" when it's there on a play where it didn't work, it doesn't make a lot of sense, because both start from the same place. At the end of the day, we are just going to have to live with it, because it works a lot more than not.

The more you listen to sports radio, the more you realize that if you are of above average intelligence, it will be exceedingly hard to think like the majority of callers who call in and try to make sense of their "logic" since it makes no sense other than to people like them...which unfortunately, are a lot of the American population these days. Sometimes I listen to people calling in and I just can't even get myself to a spot where any of what they said makes any sense whatsoever...but the problem is, trying to explain to them why would leave them with glassed over eyes and not understanding what you are saying anyway, so the best thing is not to even bother saying anything to them and just move on 😂

Dolphins are not very good against quality teams who are fundamentally sound. They rely on teams not being in position a lot, which is bad coaching and having undisciplined players on D far too much, IMO. The only potential saving grace for the Fins is overseas travel. It effects everyone differently and there is no way to know how it will effect individual players until you play the game.

That's not how it works in the NFL. You know this, stop being ridiculous.

KC cannot be a fraud since they have won 2 SB's, lost a SB and made it to 5 straight AFCCG's. Their defense is also top 5 in the NFL now which makes them possibly even more of a tough matchup in the playoffs. Until further notice they are always the team to beat in the AFC. I guess it's a good thing Rodgers tore his Achilles then and not his ACL?

Not really...they rotate their D-Line pretty regularly. He is a backup, so he is getting less snaps. He actually had 31%, Ford had 38% of snaps. AJE has been fairly productive since the start of 2022 tho...he has 11.5 sacks in that timeframe. I question if people on this board actually forget about games the minute a new one starts because I am not sure how you can be complaining about a guy playing part time with 11.5 sacks, a bunch of pass bat downs and an INT returned for a TD in part time duty.

I do...they don't scare me at all in a rematch. If only all games were played on paper and not on the field where a lot of this stuff is overrated and doesn't take into account the week-to-week nature of the NFL, matchups, tendencies, gameplans that might confound a team LONG ENOUGH to limit their production/scoring, etc.

Diggs leading the NFL in receptions now with 64, 4th in yards. Allen leading NFL in total TDs, QBR and completion percentage, 2nd in passing TDs, 3rd in passing success rate, 4th in yards, 5th in QB Rating, 3rd in sack percentage(lowest). IMO, he is having a career season even if all of the games don't look amazing.

I don't know how you just don't try to end the game there. Jets had been trying to stop Barkley all day and he still was putting up good yards. I'd hand the ball off to him and try to end the game. That's one of those games the Bills used to lose all the time and it would be almost unfathomable as to how it was possible to put yourself in a position to lose. Giants should have won that game easily, Jets were terrible. I don't know if I have seen a team win uglier than the Jets do in a long long time on a consistent basis.

Josh Allen is like: "I am not throwing away my shot... I am not throwing away my shot... Rise up When you're living on your knees, you rise up... Tell Diggs that he's gotta rise up... Tell your D that they've gotta rise up..."

Lamar is terrible in the playoffs mostly. Burrow is average and Cincy has shown they can get it done up to a point. I still don't really buy Jacksonville. I know they beat us but I would take a rematch with them in a heartbeat even if it's in Florida. KC might be more dangerous than ever because their defense and special teams are top 5-7 now. That's scary paired with Mahomes.

The Jets remind me of the Dick Jauron Bears where their offense was abysmal, but the D was so good they could steal a game as long as their QB didn't puke all over himself and actually did literally anything of value in the game. Pretty much every game other than the Cowboys game was a nail biter because their D is so good it keeps teams under 20 points for the most part. Pickett has been pretty garbage mostly this year. Their offense has been bad.

Bills are still Top 5 in DVOA. Vegas sees them, and rightly so, as a very good team.

Agree, everyone is enamored by the Fins in the National Media because they are the shiny car that goes 200 mph but can't brake at a red light.

I was watching the last episode of Quarterback Season 1 on Netflix yesterday morning and Mahomes was on talking about the Bills-Cincy game and about the two teams since they already beat Jacksonville at that point and knew they would be playing one of them the next week. It really stung when Mahomes said he thought Cincinnati was a better team but that the Bills could definitely still win and that he thought they matched up better with the Bills than the Bengals. I can't say he was wrong tho. They came out and T-Rolled us on both sides of the ball. I can't say the Chiefs are overrated because they have won 2 Superbowls in the last 4 years, lost another and been to the AFCCG 5 straight times. Until they at minimum get knocked out in the divisional round, they are still the team to beat. Now their D and Special Teams are actually really good too and they have become more balanced as well. Jags are overrated. Bills as currently constructed with their defensive injuries are probably overrated as well. Doesn't mean they can't figure it out as the year goes on, just means right now they haven't yet. Ravens and Dolphins are both overrated. Jackson doesn't play well in the playoffs. He tends to play his worst in those situations. Has happened many times, including against us once. Dolphins can't beat good teams, they got smoked by us and lost to Philly as well although they hung with them for a half and tied it after looking like they were about to get blown out initially. Not sure how anyone could say the Fins are underrated since everyone seems to be salivating about their offense and them scoring a bunch of points. Bengals are underrated. Every year it's the same thing...they start out really slow, Burrow looks like he isn't even a DIII level QB, then by week 6 they start turning it on and go on a hot streak and finish near the top of the AFC. Their DC is a really good playoff DC and knows how to limit Mahomes and apparently the Bills as well...offense SHOULD be better than it is, especially in the playoffs, but they win because they play very solidly as a team. Browns are underrated...they have a menacing D that can help keep them in any game and have been doing fairly well with Watson and their backups playing not great...if Watson comes back and gives them anything approaching good QB play, watch out. In the NFC, it's looking like San Fran and Detroit are overrated...IMO, Purdy is starting to be figured out by opposing DC's and I think you are starting to see him fall back down to earth. Their D isn't quite as fearsome as it looked earlier in the year either...Lions got absolutely demolished by the Ravens and it showed they have a long way to go in terms of being taken seriously in the upper echelon of teams, IMO. Seattle is probably underrated. They now lead the NFC West and have great WR's and CB's...Geno Smith continues to look like a solid, if unspectacular QB for them.