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All good, my original point was the comment (I think you made but could be wrong) that the Bills faced Bears and Jets after Vons injury implying the stats being a little better because of competition quality. And my counter is the Bills played some bad teams before Vons injury too, so that balances out.

Disagree. Crowder is as good or better than any WR on this team right not named Diggs. Davis - What a disappointment he’s been. 51% catch rate, lacks focus and awareness out on the field and is playing with a lack of confidence. You can see how dejected he is after every missed opportunity by him. McKenzie - His best attributes are speed and rapport with Josh. But he is not good in traffic and drops too many passes. Beasley - He isn’t the guy he used to be. Brown - Yes he made a big play, but he was cut multiple times after leaving Buffalo, not sure he has enough in the tank to be a feature player and is better suited for making some plays here and there. Also, he isn’t a slot player and if he is to take snaps from someone it’s probably Davis. Shakir - Can’t seem to crack the rotation yet despite struggles at slot position on this team all year. If Crowder can get some timing down with Josh, he could be the boost we have been needing out of the slot assuming he also gets his game conditioning amped up quickly too.

I have to respectfully disagree, they didnt look good at any point of the season. They were a veteran and SB team, they were not going to be terrible the rest of season solely because we had a big game against them. And point is, we played bad teams in the 12 games Von was here too, so discounting the stats because we played a bad team or two after doesn't make sense.

I mean the Rams were terrible week 1 and we had other games while Von was here against lower competition, so that can be said on both sides of the Von injury

What am I missing here? How does this have any sort of Micah Hyde tie in? Nothing about this tweet seems to suggest anything about Micah Hyde unless there is something I am not catching.

I get your post here is rather positive about Beane...but there is one thing in it that gets said a lot and I think it needs to stop. People need to let go of these "misses"...go look at every GM in the league, the "miss" list accompanies all of their resumes. If you compare Beanes resume to any GM in the league since he took over as our GM, you will be hard pressed to find anyone with as good of a draft record as Beane, if any. He completely rebuilt every single roster spot on this team in short order and turned it into one of the most talented teams in the NFL, mostly built through the draft. There has never been a GM in NFL history who didn't have misses. Bill Walsh is consider the GOAT by many, yet he said JJ Stokes was the next Jerry Rice and Jim Drunkenmiller could be the next Montana. Back to good things about Beane...I would also add he is one of the best in the league, if not the best, in getting value in trades, retaining talent on balanced deals, managing the cap to keep they guys they want or acquiring ones via trade/FA.

Yeah, which is what exactly I said in the post you responded to

Buffalo Bills pass rush weeks 1-12 (With Von Miller) QB Pressure % - 29.2% (17th in the NFL) Pass Rush Win Rate - 43.8% Buffalo Bills pass rush weeks 13 to 18 (Without Von Miller) QB Pressure % - 33.8% (8th in the NFL) Pass Rush Win Rate - 44.8% (Higher than with Von) No doubt, the players and staff (and fans) would love to have Von out there still. But the stats say that we are no worse without him right now, and even a little better since he got hurt. The reality is that where Von will be missed more is in those big moments, as that closer kind of role. But, at least we didn't see a big drop off when he went down, which is what we all feared the most. Still a question on whether or not our other guys can be that closer in key moments, but I think Von's biggest impact has been to help elevate the guys around us through his energy, teachings, etc and hopefully that translates into closing out games like we signed Von for.

This is my concern as well, our D isn't going to match up well with any of those 3 teams we are likely going to face. So, it is going to come down to whether or not we can eliminate the shooting of ourselves in the foot with the turnovers and bad penalties, can we run the ball, and can some of the other guys step up to help Diggs and Josh because Davis is not the same guy right now. He is not playing with confidence right now and it's a concern.

All this is great...but if I am being unbiased and honest of looking at the team we saw in the playoffs last year and this team heading into the playoffs this year...I see 2 areas of concern: Dorsey - His offense is lacking. He is not helping Josh at all because he doesn't scheme guys open. Go watch a Chiefs game, and look at all the creativity they use to SCHEME guys open. Dorsey's offense 100% relies on guys winning their routes, and the big issue is they are not doing it often enough. Most of our passing production comes off Josh extending plays and guys breaking off their routes and finding a place to get the ball. Dorseys lack of adjustments have been very concerning as well. This is why the offense can look so stale and pedestrian and yet still have enough explosive plays because of Josh to put up a good amount of points. Josh is just that talented, but Dorsey's offense is hard to instill confidence in, not to mention, he is an atrocious play caller in the red zone. Gabriel Davis - I have great concern for him right now, and I think if we are going to get to the SB we are going to need other guys to step up like Brown, Knox, running backs, etc because Davis is playing with no confidence right now. He looks dejected out there and he doesn't have any of the swagger we have seen before him. The routine throw to the sideline against the Pats he had so much space to easily get 2 feet in, that is a standard NFL play just about any WR is capable of making. But not only did he not do that, he didn't even get one foot in bounds. He just has no focus or awareness right now. Then he dropped what should have been a sure TD pass and even made it more difficult than it needed to be. What concerned me the most was just how distraught and dejected he looked right after he dropped it. This team 100% can reach the SB and win it...but at the same time, our secondary has been a liability, so I think its going to come down to whether or not our offense can play smart and efficient football. If our offense finds a similar groove to last year, I don't think anyone can stop us. If we get more of the same from the second half of the season out of the offense, then its going to come down can we eliminated the self inflicted wounds more in terms of dumb penalties and turnovers.

Reality...our secondary's weak spot is speed. If Tua plays, they are certainly more dangerous just having guys like Waddle and Hill, even though we should, and likely still, beat them handedly. Without Tua, it will be like last years Pats game, and curb stomp. What delusional Dolphin fans don't understand, is the one game they beat us in like forever (in Miami this year) is that the Bills utterly dominated every aspect of that game statistically. The only reason we lost that game was a botched snap before halftime by our backup long snapper costing us a FG. But...more importantly, by the end of that game, we had 14 starters or guys who started that game in place of starters either not play, leave the game for good hurt, or go through heat exhaustion and leave the field multiple times. We had to trot out a 3rd string TE with on the OL just to finish that game who had a torn ACL and still played 5 snaps on that torn ACL because we didn't have enough OL to put on the field. And still...we could have won the game if those exhausted OL could have gotten down on the line 1 to 2 seconds quicker where we could spike and kick the short game winning FG. But these Dolphin fans like to over look all that and just pretend they decisively beat us...heat, injuries and ourselves beat us that day, the Dolphins had actually very little to do with it.

His numbers are better because he’s been the #2 all season, so it’s due to the target volume. Last year he was never really a number 2 WR with guys like Sanders and Cole here. And he is under performing significantly of expectations and reliability. I almost cringe now when we throw to him because he is so unreliable.

I don’t think Lamar will play next week. Reports he still has bad swelling in his knee right now still. Doesn’t sound like a guy who is a lock to play, and for his own self interest probably shouldn’t play given the state of his contract.

Take away this game (where Hamlin didn’t play) and Hamlin was the leading tackler for the Bills this season. Yes he is no Hyde, but he had value.

Regular season doesn’t matter in the playoffs. And they played us close in one of those losses. Again, I expect to win. But I’m just saying it’s silly to disregard them as if this will be some cake walk.

Im no Debbie downer, but if you think this matchup isn’t a tough one then you haven’t been paying attention to where the Bills have shown themselves to be vulnerable. I believe we will win this game, but there is no question we have the absolute hardest road to the SB in the NFL right now. Our beat up secondary has to go through Dolphins WRs then likely through Cincy’s to likely face off against Mahomes and KC again. Yes we can win all 3 if that plays out like that, but we are down to our 3rd string safety and Tre isn’t all the way back yet and lacks the burst against those fast WRs. Mac Jones just out scored our offense today 24-21. We can’t bank on ST TDs every week. We need someone besides Diggs to step up on offense to help Josh out. So again, we should win this game, but to mock anyone who sees it as a tough matchup seems off base to me. It is a tough matchup, and no gimme.

As bad as that was, not getting a single foot in bounds on that sideline throw was inexcusable. I mean he should have easily had both and didn’t get one.

Agreed, it’s almost like he has regressed this year in several areas.

He isn’t worth the investment. I’d rather draft his replacement this year than pay him any where near what he will get on the open market. And this is from someone who thought he was going to have a big year. But he has shown me he is a low end number 2 WR probably better suited as a 3rd WR. His drops, lack of awareness at times, bad feet, and lack of consistently getting open has all just been too much this year to consider paying him like a #2 WR.

There was definitely an out clause if Colts were going to need the venue or the deal was concluded once they knew that even if they made the playoffs they wouldn’t be in position as a high enough seed to host the AFCCG. I mean that was pretty apparent a while ago with the Colts.

Lol, I assure you the players don’t give 2 s**ts about those articles by people trying to get clicks and reads. The biggest issue is we won’t have cap space to bring many people to Buffalo despite a lot of players may want to come here. Von Miller contract coupled with Allens deal kicking in already and guys like Poyer, Edmunds, Oliver, Singletary having major contract decisions to make are going to keep us from being very aggressive in the free agent pools.

What about this crazy idea: Move struggling Tre to Tarons spot and try Taron at Safety. Then start 2 of Dane, Elam or Benford at CB. This solves the bigger problem, Tre struggling on the outside. Yes I know it will never happen…so don’t flip out lol. Just more making the point, I think Tre right now still remains the bigger liability and the most exploitable than who starts at FS when it comes to facing teams with dangerous WRs like Cincy, Mia, etc.

What is confusing to you? Eagles were 1, Bills were 2 the week before/ Then Eagles got dropped 3 spots and everyone else bumped up one.

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