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Im all for DHop and getting guys like Cook, Hines and Shakir more into the pass attack. Im not saying Dorsey can't improve, the hope certainly is that he can. But the point is, he does have a lot to improve on, he was not good last year. Any schmuck off the street could be the Bills OC and see them finish in the top 5 in offense because this team has Allen. So the year end totals mean nothing to me if I am being honest. What I cared about was situational awareness, situational football, creativity, use of personnel, play calling etc...and he was just not good enough in those areas IMHO. My point is, this isn't intense hindsight scrutiny. Everything I said in my post before and this one were the same things I was screaming at the TV during each game last year. Those opinions were formed live, during the games, not at the end of the season. Hopefully he grows this year...but like I said before, makes me nervous to bet the prime years of Allen and Diggs on an inexperienced OC who is learning on the job and needs to take a big leap in year 2.

Yet... Daboll averaged 45 PPG in his 2 playoff games in 2021. Dorsey averaged 22 PPG in his 2 playoff games in 2022. SB trophies are won in the postseason

Bahahahaha you win the internet today. Well played!

Personally, I’d rather watch the games than stat check when the season is over. Dorsey was had problems every week once his offense was figured out, the evidence was gushing on the field of where he was coming up short and it’s why everything was so much harder on the offense.

Im on board with your take here...Allen absolutely carried this offense and saved Dorsey from being an even bigger issue. I can't fathom how anyone can defend Dorsey's coaching job last year. He was without question a big part of our offensive issues. He utterly terrible in how he called games in the redzone, he poorly integrated our run game, he failed to get guys like Cook, Hines, and Shakir involved consistently in our passing game, and just how outclassed he was in the playoffs by opposing DC's. It also took him way too long to realize we should throw the ball to Knox, especially in the endzone. Opposing defenders would talk about the minimal routes guys like Davis would run and how predictable it could be. And it showed up on tape where our WR's struggled to get open and too much of our pass attack success was on the back of Allen improvising and extending plays so receivers could break off routes and find a spot for Allen to get the ball. Our OL is not good enough to keep relying on extended plays. The offense came out fast and furious, but then it was figured out by the time we played GB who gave the NFL a blueprint on to disrupt the offense that was never countered properly by Dorsey. In defense of him, it was his first year as an OC on any level. So, he can take what happened last year and build on the positives and work to mitigate the negatives. But, not going to lie, it makes me nervous gambling on Josh Allen and Diggs prime years on an inexperienced OC who is learning on the job. This team absolutely needs Dorsey to be better this year and to understand how to make much better adjustments. And that was the BIG difference between him and Daboll...is that Daboll was always changing the offense and gameplan each week and it was one of the big reasons that under him we were known to have one of the most complicated offenses in the league for players to learn. But at least Frazier is gone...another guy whose post season performances are indefensible. Im much more optimistic that McD is calling plays than I would be if Frazier was back. The last time McD took over play calling from Frazier our defense immediately improved and significantly.

I don’t think the book “Th DaVinci Code” had this many secret signals and hidden messages as this thread has allegedly indicating Hopkins is coming to Buffalo. Maybe Dan Brown will write a book and a movie about this saga too one day. I hope it happens tho, Hopkins and Diggs would be sick

I will add in that if Tre doesn't bounce back this year close to his old self, he very likely will be gone after this year because they can save a bunch by cutting him after this season. And he is too expensive if he isn't the player, or at least close to the player, he once was.

Im totally in if there is still room

I hate to burst the bubble of fun, but the guy in the chiefs pic on the left is not the same robber pictured on the right wearing a different wolf mask. The robbery pics on the right are from a different robbery unrelated to the ones alleged to have been committed by "Cheifsaholic" guy in the outfit to the left. Doesn't change the fact that he did in fact rob other banks, just saying this story as posted is not true in terms of those being "pictures of him robbing a bank in the same mask".

McD is obviously right, no one in their right mind wants their QB (probably the single most important individual position in any team sport) out there playing like a LB or FB taking extra punishment then is necessary. At the same time, you don't want to strip away some of the instincts and greatness from someone like Allen and make them play hesitant either. Allen is too competitive to give himself up in a moment the team needs a play from him, so that is never going to change. The middle ground however is to mitigate the toll by taking the slide or getting out of bounds in the situations most often where it is not necessary to take contact. On 3rd down, if he runs and is past the first down marker, then it's ok to give himself up for example to avoid taking a big hit, not to mention to prevent the risk of a fumble. Now in situations where he has the first down and has an opportunity to keep going for a big gain and possible score, I would not expect Allen to just slide and give up on the play either and take the opportunities there while being smart about getting out of bounds or sliding before unnecessary contact happens. And I think that is where the biggest change needs to come...to learn he doesn't have to put his body on the line in moments where the payoff isn't there, the team doesn't need it, etc. Its ok to take first and goal on the 6 yard line versus putting his head down into 3 defenders and trying to run over them for a score. Or on 3rd and 9 to get the first down and not try and fight for an additional 5-10 yards where he is going to take punishment. When the contact is necessary to extend a drive, get the score, etc I think that is just part of his game that comes with the territory. But if they really want to help Allen avoid more contact, there needs to be a lot less designed runs where the defenders are still near the LOS and contact is almost inevitable. Roll Josh out with the option to run or pass, let the recievers take the defenders away from the LOS where Josh can take off if he chooses and get chunk yardage before contact and get out of bounds or slide. We need to seriously reduce the number of plays where its a designed run off the snap in moments where it's just not needed. I get QB sneaks, or using the immense weapons of Josh's legs to get convert in a key down 3rd or 4th down play. But too many times we have called plays like that in moments it was unnecessary. Obviously you don't want to be too predictable either always running just on 3rd and short and no other times, but establishing a better run game around Josh, rolling Josh out, etc is the best way to do that.

Huh? You're comparing them based on the market value of different positions now? Dude, the top WR's make $30M a year...the top safeties, MLB, etc don't make anything near that. So OF COURSE Davis is a higher GUESSED market value by some website. This is just another one of your weird and irrelevant takes all together. Nothing in here is useful information of any kind towards the conclusion you are trying to paint.

I find it ironic he is called “Big Game Gabe”. Because he is literally exactly that…one big game a season where he has literally only 3 career 100 yard games, one in each season. He has literally never had more than 1 game with a 100 yards in any season. And in 7 playoff games, he’s only had 2 big games. KC last year and Miami this year. This is a classic case where the lore of one game (KC) creates this inflated reputation that isn’t really accurate.

Have you ever had an accurate take on something?

😂 if this thread hits 100 pages some people around here need therapy 😂

😂 Nice, this literally made me laugh, touché 😂 But you ain’t lying…like 20-30 pages of the same people debating the same things from the first 80 pages while we all scour for any kind of tweet or rumor of new info lol

I can't figure out why anyone would want the Bills to draft a TE in the early rounds. We have a lot of money invested into a good TE we don't even use that much as it is. We don't need a new starting TE, sure we could use a backup or a guy to run some 2 TE sets with, but this offense is not going to maximize 2 TE's enough to warrant investing premium early round draft resources into this position over all the other needs of the team. I absolutely do not see the fit, value, or reason to go TE in the first 3 rounds of this draft when we just extended Knox who already does not get enough touches for himself. There are so many other needs now and in the near future on both sides of this ball over a luxury pick who will be barely used behind a good TE we already don't use enough.

More like I’m that busy, but all good

That doesn’t work. Sure if there was a conclusion maybe, but new info easily gets buried many pages back you gotta keep going back pages to find. I mean I just did it in this thread earlier this morning where like 8 pages back I found some posts that were new since I last saw updates.

Ahmen...personally I hate trying to keep up with a developing story in these monstrous threads. You go away for a short period of time and its just more pages of stuff you got to sift through of the same regurgitated debates or comments just to find out there is no new relevant information. And forget about it if you check back in later in the day when there are all kinds of new pages that takes forever to go through just to find it was a total waste of time, no new info, just the same stuff the same people have said for 100 pages.

Thanks for the link…yeah that’s the tweet from last night and I couldn’t find it on Twitter because I think he took it down. But definitely was interesting t when he posted it.

Do you have a link? If so I can tell you if it’s the same tweet from yesterday

I don’t see anything new on his Twitter saying that. He did tweet yesterday in reply to someone’s question that DHop was on his way. But nothing I can see today. So just wondering if you were referring to yesterdays tweet or is there another one today I didn’t find or am missing?

Wrong! Andy Reid is literally awful at evaluating talent on the OL! 😂 😂 just kidding. I just wanted to know what it felt like to say something that absurd.

Its dated March 23rd when I click on it.

It is from today, not weeks ago. Chiefs are not one of the two new teams entering the picture they are referencing. And its on twitter too.