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You can’t come on here defending your team as a fan and then call out others for their own loyalties and thoughts on their own teams. For example, anyone watching the first Pats vs Bills game knows that the Bills beat themselves a lot more than the Pats beat the Bills. I mean we lost to the Flacons for same reasons, and no one believes Falcons are better than Bills. Now you also have a Bills team full of critical injuries all year. Substantially worse than the Pats have gone through as well. The poster you are mocking for saying even if we drop a game again this week while still hurt and missing key players, he still thinks we have the advantage in the playoffs if we are healthy. Why can’t he believe that? Bills have proven to be a dominant team when healthy, Pats haven’t really been dominant and have also seen their record benefit from a relatively easy schedule. Pats are good and they are well coached and capitalized on Buffalo slipping up against lesser teams multiple times this year to take a cushy lead in the division. But come playoff time, which team has all the post season experience? Which team has the NFL MVP who has many all time NFL post season QB records already at only 30? I mean, come on, you are talking about Mayes first post season, only his 2nd season, and a roster that isn’t as talented overall when everyone on both sides is at full health. Pats are an up and coming team, but they are not battle tested in the post season yet, especially at QB. And their record is inflated with the ease of schedule, which doesn’t mean a lot other than whose stadium the game is in come playoff team. Everyone is 0-0 entering the playoffs. There is a reason it’s know as the 2nd season or the real season. I actually think Houston and that defense are a worse matchup for anyone in the AFC than the Pats who have the better record.

It was unreal throw and an incredible catch by Shakir too

I honestly don’t know but if I had to guess I would say probably not intentionally. I think he’s one of those people whose emotions show up in their work, wear them on his sleeve kind of guy. So if he is frustrated, down, disappointed, etc then it tends to show up on his tape and the field. That’s just me speculating though, just my opinion based on what we have seen thus far.

Someone I know who has been plugged in before told me barring some sort of abrupt change or breakout to expect the Bills to trade Keon this offseason. From the outside looking in, that obviously seems like a very plausible scenario regardless of what anyone hears. But he has been hearing this going back to before the healthy scratch game that the Bills are not seeing what they expect out of him and without a big turnaround are looking to move on. My personal opinion on what is going on with him is a combo of his offseason praise and hype from teammates, coaches and FO combined with his big 4th quarter game week 1 set a level of expectations of what he just expected his role and season would look like this year. And when he isn't seeing that, his motivation, effort, and focus diminish as he isn't happy with his role and wants to be a bigger part of the offensive game plan. And honestly, we saw it last year too after he got back from injury and his role wasn't the same between the offense rolling while he was out and Cooper taking snaps too. He looked like a different guy completely before injury that had him on a 1000 yard season pace the 5 games prior to injury. But when he came back, he wasn't close to the same player even though the type of injury he had wasn't one to linger or keep affecting his play. Poor effort, motivation, and/or focus is one of the fastest ways to get yourself cut or traded in the NFL, specially with this regime. Someone needs to get to Keon to help get his head on straight and fast or I can't see him on this team next year.

Someone I know who has been plugged in before told me barring some sort of abrupt change or breakout to expect the Bills to trade Keon this offseason. From the outside looking in, that obviously seems like a very plausible scenario regardless of what anyone hears. But he has been hearing this going back to before the healthy scratch game that the Bills are not seeing what they expect out of him and without a big turnaround are looking to move on. Him and I were talking and we both think the issue is a combo of his offseason praise and hype from teammates, coaches and FO combined with his big 4th quarter game week 1 set a level of expectations of what his role and season would look like this year. And when he isn't seeing that, his motivation, effort, and focus diminish. And honestly, we saw it last year too after he got back from injury and his role wasn't the same between the offense rolling while he was out and Cooper taking snaps too. He looked like a different guy completely before injury that had him on a 1000 yard season pace the 5 games prior to injury. Poor effort, motivation, and/or focus is one of the fastest ways to get yourself cut or traded in the NFL, specially with this regime. Someone needs to get to Keon to help get his head on straight and fast or I can't see him on this team next year.

I came here to say this too. He looked like he was running at half speed every play as if he was trying to make the DB slow down and then try and run by him or something. I don’t know what it was, but he looked like he was jogging out there. My hope for Keon is starting to fade with each passing week. I still feel there’s been missed opportunities to get him the ball, poorly placed throws on some of those back shoulder or 50/50 tosses, and a lot of misuse by Brady. But effort is all on him, and he of can’t find a way to play harder, play faster, and smarter when he is out there, he won’t be here next year, at least he shouldn’t be.

I’m torn to be honest - Knox is a good TE and Hawes is an elite blocker and been usable as a pass catcher too. Knox issue is he doesn’t start and is used more as a blocker now with Kincaid on the roster. I don’t know we miss a lot running Knox and Hawes than by running Kincaid and Knox. Kincaid is the superior pass catcher no doubt of the 3, but I don’t know if we need to spend the money when we still have 2 other good TEs who stay healthier. So for me, I voted extend on the cheap because I think that is what will happen. BUT my personal take is show us what you have the rest of this year. We are still waiting for Kincaid to become a critical weapon the way Kelce, Gates, Graham, Gronk, Gonzalez, Sharp, etc were at times for their teams. Kincaid makes some nice plays here and there, but he’s never been some force the other team struggles to stop really like other actual key weapon TEs have been in the past and like how he was supposed to be used here.

Exactly, and look I love Allen as much as anyone, but one area he has really struggled with this year overall is ball placement and touch. Too many times he throwing passes on a line instead with the arc and touch to get over defenders on what would be big gains, even TDs on better thrown passes. And on those 50/50 ones you are spot on, he’s doing the same thing there too often. Keon doesn’t get a pass, I feel like on some of throws Keon didn’t play the ball well either - in fact at times it’s like he doesn’t understand it’s meant to be a back shoulder pass and keeps running downfield allowing the defender to stay engaged to defend rather than realize he needs to come back at the ball and box out the defender from the pass. But many have just been poorly placed or bad trajectory by Allen from the get go too.

That is the real big difference right now IMO is that this iteration of the WR room doesn’t seem to be able to do much on the scramble drill when Allen buys time. It’s such a big part of Allen’s game too, and I think it’s a big part of what the staff is unhappy with about Keons effort consistency, like he doesn’t seem to really push himself in those moments.

This is a fair take and I agree with your core point for sure. I do still think there are more opportunities to get Keon the ball that we either haven't taken or we just are not using him in a way to do so. I want to see more slants, comebacks crossers, etc. I will also say this, many of the passes Allen attempted to get to Keon on those back shoulder throws or "50/50" balls have been poorly thrown and put in places that greatly reduced the chances to complete. Allen often throws them with the wrong trajectory, puts in a harder to catch spot, or in a place where the defender can easily disrupt or defend. So if we are going to run those back shoulder or 50/50 balls as often as they have tried to do them, then Allen, Brady, Keon, etc need to study how other tandems do it well and consistently. Like study Davante Adams both with Rodgers and Stafford for example. We as a whole have been trying to execute these poorly, and its both issues with Allen, the play design and Keon. We just do not execute these attempts with any consistency that will raise conversion probability. And I am not putting it all on Allen, plenty of times Keon also didn't do his part properly too. But its a collaborative failure between poorly thrown balls, poor play design, and poor execution by Keon.

Ah, was not aware of that, thanks for clearing that up

For the record, I do still expect to be in the playoffs. If was going to wager on if we do or don't, I would be betting we would. That being said, my confidence in this team is at maybe the lowest it has been since Allen reached elite level play. Unlike many others, the Steelers game really concerned me, that did not look like a playoff team offensively to me. Everyone is riding the spin and hype train because our ground game had such a good game, but we ran 2 plays essentially the whole time. TJ Watt even said he never seen anything like that, where a team kept running the same plays and the defense couldn't adjust and stop it. If you stop there, sure, that seems great, like Brady found a weakness and exploited it. On one level, that is essentially true. The bigger issue I have is that nothing else was working, the offense still struggled a lot in the passing game and any other type of offense outside those couple of run plays. So I didn't coming away feeling good about the offense as I don't think it actually looked good and we more got lucky the Steelers couldn't answer the call to those same couple of plays. Our defense looked great, but the Steelers offense was anemic and got worse in game losing Rodgers. Its hard to come away feeling like this is what we can expect more of given all the season long issues the defense has had, not to mention losing Bosa now too for some period of time. If not for the reeling Steelers offense, we might have been down 3 scores by halftime against another opponent between the turnovers and how bad the offense played. This is honestly the first time in the Allen era where I don't have confidence in this team going on a run down the stretch. I am not saying we can't, but in seasons past I have gone on record we would win out and we did. This year, feels like it can go either way any given week right now, no matter the opponent. Brings me back to where I said I was last week - I am in the mindset that as of now, everyone is fired, full regime change - BUT they all have 1 shot to win their jobs back, and that is find a way to win the SB this year. If not, its time for a sweeping change.

Imagine if Cleveland just kept Baker lol

You have the Bills missing the playoffs?

DK’s contract is gross.