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I won't disagree with your assessment with O'Cyrus actually. I was not as critical as you are here because the OL play around him covered for him a lot. But it was a poor outing for sure. And totally agree he looks out of condition, which is partly why I am not as concerned as I feel I should be. But his poor preseason now is bleeding into the first week, so something to watch. And yeah, Hollins popped on film. He looked like what people hoped Claypool was going to be. His routes were crisp and hands soft. And he was flying around as a blocker too that helped spring some of those nice runs. It is just 1 week, but it was an impressive debut for a depth receiver.

Dude stop. Did you watch the film? If you didn't then don't tell me the grade is "fake" because you base your grades solely on your fantasy football stats and are more committed to being right about your negative view than offering an unbiased review. The grade is based on how well they did their job. Period. We only threw the ball 23 times - 18 of which were completed, and they caught every pass. They were getting open all game giving Allen easy looks. They blocked about as good as I can recall ever seeing a group block and play so unselfish. Allen had just 2 pass attempts when we started our final drive before the half. We still scored 34 points. So...how about you don't do this all year long where you REFUSE to acknowledge good play because it doesn't fit your bias. Go watch the film on Hollins, the guy that even after Sunday you refuse to even soften your stance on and insist he is a total scrub who shouldn't be on the field. He played great, and so much so, other people reviewing this game have specifically pointed him out. I am going to critique the game based on what they did on the field. Until you spend the time to review their job performance instead of checking your fantasy stats, please don't come at me with these silly accusations that it was a "fake grade".

All I can judge him on is how he did with the guys lined up across from him. I don't care who they were, he had an excellent game. If you want to diminish that because you feel the competition was sub-par, well fine. I will admit, "one of the best players on the field" may have been a bit of an overstatement, so I will give you that and that was more of a reaction to seeing you kind of downplay is outing. I should have said one of the best OL on the field as so many other players also had great games. But if this is what we get every week from him I will be thrilled. It was awesome

What a way to start the season...I won't have time to do one of these every week, but I was just very interested in this first week as we finally got to see the veil removed on a lot of the unknowns. I spent most of the time reviewing the offense as that was what I was most interested in and excited to see since I have limited time. Feel free to expand on the defensive stuff for anyone with more insight there... QB - Grade A++ Its almost a waste of time to write anything here. He was a beast Sunday and showed why he is an MVP favorite this year. OL - Grade A- This was certainly an area I had high interest coming into this game and was excited to see. Between life after Morse, Spencer's new deal, O'Cyrus 2nd season, etc it had a lot of interest for me. I have to say 4 out of the 5 guys on the line really had a very good to outstanding game. The only one who didn't was O'Cyrus, and while it wasn't a disaster, it definitely was a down game for him and is what kept this groups grade from being an A+. I am still not too concerned, but he also had some struggles in the preseason games, so def something to keep an eye on. Spencer and Dion looked like one of the better tackle tandems in the league this week. Some early rust with some penalties, 2 on Dawkins who only had 6 all year last year. But outside of that, both had an outstanding game IMHO. One of my favorite plays of the whole day was watching Dion road grade in front of Shakir on his TD catch. It was a thing of beauty, and if you haven't seen it, go watch a replay from the endzone angle. Edwards had a very good game as well and McGovern didn't miss a beat replacing Morse out there and had a great debut as our new center. WR's - Grade A+ This group looked good this week. Not only were guys getting open regularly for Allen, but they were flying all over the field blocking for anyone running with the ball on catches, runs, or Allen taking off. This was a very bad day for the "our WR's suck crowd" because they played excellent team ball and consistently were giving Allen easy looks. Its one game...so despite the stellar showing, it does not yet prove anything. But for all the disaster and doom and gloom, this group went out and said "Hold my beer" week 1. Coleman could have had an even bigger game than he did. Allen had him on an easy slant for a TD on one of Allens TD' runs. Allen said he should have thrown it to Keon, and he isn't wrong, Keon beat his man for an easy TD on the slant. But Allen still scored as he saw also the easy run lane to get in as well. And Keon was getting open and position all game, but more importantly, he was flying to the ball as a blocker when the ball went elsewhere. My favorite Keon moment was when Shakir scored and he asked Shakir if he wants the ball and he said yes and Keon immediately went to the stands to try and get it for him. Shakir had to actually call him off of trying to get it as they needed to get off the field. For the "Hollins is a scrub crowd"...well go watch his film Sunday, if that is what a "scrub" looks like give me more "scrubs". He ran crisp routes, was open on several other plays where the ball went somewhere else and he was mauling people as a blocker on other plays he was out there. I said it in preseason...he is our WR5-WR6 essentially as a receiving option (Kincaid, Shakir, Keon, Samuel and then maybe Cook/Davis) probably be end of season. And I think you will be hard pressed to find a better WR5/6 on most teams. Shakir - This man is a beast. He was open all game long, and not only that, despite his size was out there blocking with the best of them when he wasn't getting the ball. And when he gets the ball, good luck tackling Deebo-Lite. And he is emerging as a leader for this group, go listen to his Mic'd up for this game. I can only imagine what he would do with 8-10 targets a game. TE's - Grade A On one hand, it feels weird giving a group an A that had 2 catches, but honestly, they did what was asked of them consistently all game. AZ focused on Kincaid and he sold his routes that opened up the field for everyone else. This is EXACTLY what I said all offseason to the "but Diggs is gone to draw double teams" crowd. It was unrealistic to think that no one else was going to attract extra attention just because Diggs is gone. And I pointed out guys like Kincaid, spying Allen, and trying to defend Keon's size is going to take extra attention. Literally all 3 of those things were on full display week 1. DISCLAIMER: Its just one week, we still need to see what this all looks like as DC's get more film and try to adjust to this new look offense. But none the less, this is exactly what I and many others expected to see. RB's - Grade A- I wanted to give this group an A, but dinged them a little for the efficiency drop later in the game. But Cook looked fast and more decisive than he had looked to me in pre-season, and Davis showed why there is so much hype on him. Interesting is Ty, he is clearly the passing down RB and Davis right now is the guy who spells Cook. And that is because Ty is better at pass pro than Cook, and Davis (who will probably prove to be the best at pass pro by seasons end) is a rookie and they aren't ready to trust him in the 2min drill like Ty when he took every snap on the TD before the half. Because of my limited time today, I again didn't spend as much time on the defense. So here are just some quick notes that stood out from watching the game live and skimming through it in review. How does Rapp keep hurting teammates? I can't think of another player who scared me when he was out there of hurting his teammates. Rousseau was a beast Sunday. He looked like one of the best DE's in the league for this first week. Even on Von's sack, it was Groot who made that sack possible IMHO. Von looks much better than last year, but it still isn't "vintage" Von which I think has always been an unrealistic hope. But it was encouraging to see that he has some value to this team. Babich impressed me with how they adjusted in the 2nd half. To go from what felt like a very scary first half (in terms of the rest of the season), to holding them to just 3 offensive points in the 2nd half is the kind of stuff I want to see from a DC. Bernard seemed very frustrated early on in that first half, but it was great to see him settle down and help lead the defense back. Dorian had a so-so game, his second half was better than his first. Did not expect to see so much Ingram this game, and didn't have a lot of expectations coming in, but from what I saw he played a pretty good game.

Spencer Brown was a manimal on Sunday as was Dawkins. Our tackles were mauling people out there. It’s only week 1, but his new deal versus his level of play Sunday is what I would bet will look like a bargain here pretty quick if this continues. Brown was literally one of the best players on the field Sunday. Are you trying to say different? And what happened to your “it’s just one play” defense of Diggs drop against KC? You want to disregard that Brown was mauling people all game because of what feels like a negative bias recount of one play?

If only it was true and not AI It’s not, it’s AI

Lmao Aiyuk…fought for all that money and then drop that lol

Rousseau for Skelton straight up.

Dude, the head of the “Diggs was the problem crowd” is Beane and Josh Allen. Take it up with them.

What I said was you can blame one or the other…or you can look at it as more something was not clicking and working between those two in the big games.

Because so many in the shout box and game day thread declared the game and season over in the first quarter and the football karma gods said “hold my beer” 🍺

Huh, we had a fine discussion. Did not realize the prerequisite for said discussion is that I had to end it being persuaded by you to yearn for Diggs.

I have 3 leagues, and the one I got him in I had the 8th pick and took St. Brown. I did not love Bijan at 8, so it was really Saquan or St. Brown as my pick was one away and then he took Saquan at 7 making St. Brown the easy pick for me. Then it went Bijan, AJ Brown, Johnathon Taylor, and Garret Wilson. So Puka came back around to me. Although I didn't love Puka with a healthy Kupp in the first, was still happy to get him in the 2nd.

My dogs name is literally Diggs. I was all about Diggs, I defended him and said he is more misunderstood than he is of a give me the ball Diva. I have no doubt in my mind that Diggs is more driven to win a SB than pad his own stats. But...for all of Diggs regular season dominance where he was a perennial top 5 and even top 3 WR at times during his four years here, he was also remarkably ineffective in our biggest games. That is just a fact. Now you can blame Allen, which most of your write up does above, or you can blame Diggs...or more importantly...you can look at it more as something just wasn't working and clicking in these moments with Josh and Diggs. Last year, Diggs is on pace for his 2nd biggest individual season of his career...but we are 5-5. And in 7 of those games, the offense went 2-5 to teams with a .436% win rate and we were lucky to not be 0-7 as Giants and Bucs blew the game on the final plays of the game. We also averaged under 20 PPG in those 7 games. Then, Brady comes in and we go 6-1 to save the season, average 8 more PPG than we did in the final 6 games under Dorsey while emphasizing Diggs less. And once again, we are in a big game against KC...Diggs has his moment to make the big play to get us over the hump and ball goes right through his hands. I care about wins...you win games by scoring more than other team, not padding the stats of one player. We won more games, scored more points, and had a better chance to win when Diggs was less involved. Those are just facts. And in 4 playoff exits, Diggs was not the man no matter what excuse you want to bestow on him. Shakir on the other hand made big plays in both our playoff games last year, including a TD in each and would have had the go-ahead TD too had Dawkins not been blown up by Chris Jones into Allen on the play you showed Diggs open. But once again, that play should have never even happened if Diggs had just done his job earlier. I think Houston is a good place for him, and I think the Bills are in a better place without him. It was a win-win split up IMHO. And lets be real, Diggs days as a top 5 WR are likely in his rear-view mirror. Houston already voided his contract after this season, he will be a 31 year old FA WR next year likely coming off a season with less than 1000 yards.

Browns looked like Clowns when they did the deal, and that was still when everyone thought Watson was a top 5 QB. Now they just look like some fool at a Homie Da Clown party

You know what we were replacing in Diggs was a guy who averaged 8.9 ypc his final 10 games here though right? And while he got 2 short TD's, he still averaged just 5.5 ypc in his debut with Houston. And as far as Kincaid goes, you know we scored 34 points Sunday with Kincaid only getting 1 catch right? And Coleman led the receivers in snaps, targets, receptions, and yards...plus Allen said he had a TD to him on a slant he didn't throw because he had an easy running lane to run the TD in, otherwise Coleman would have added a TD to his impressive debut. Shakir now has 3 TD's in his last 3 games going back to the 2 playoff games too. And Samuel didn't even get involved yet, guessing because of his toe. So I am struggling to get to where you are here in this post after Sundays game. I don't care who is on the field...if we keep putting up high scores is all that matters.

Of course he is after I drafted him in round 2 ha

Josh is Josh. Because he makes insane plays people say its all on him. Why aren't people asking if Mahomes is being asked to do too much when he puts the team on his back and makes big plays only he could make? Josh's weapons all came through all game long for Josh. But somehow its all on Josh again? And for the record, Josh literally said he had Coleman open for a TD on a slant but he elected to run the ball on his first running TD because it was there. He admitted he should have thrown it to Keon and that because of this play and seeing Keon win all day, he trusted him to throw up that deep shot for him. So a lot of this are decisions Josh is making in these moments. And when you can run the ball in with an insanely high degree of success, its easy for him to just do so. No risk of a tipped ball or misread of a defender, etc. Josh is not a running QB, but he will on his own accord take off without hesitation with his legs if he sees a path to a big gain, first down, or TD.

Post of the week hahaha, you win the internet

Dropping the pass is what led us to this play. So you are blaming him not getting the ball here, when this play should have never happened had he not dropped the pass before. And again, work up his last 4 playoff exit games. Hint...you won't be impressed.

Not when you don’t have enough of them and keep going home early. Think I care about stats against a lowly NE team, a Miami team with a bad defense and 3rd string QB in the first rounds? No, not in the slightest. I care about the big games against the teams that keep sending us home and keep us from reaching a Super Bowl.

Now do our last 4 playoff exits and see what it looks like

Neither did the team or Josh Allen 😁

I get that, but also to be fair, Josh said he had Coleman for a TD on his first TD run, but he had the run there and took off and scored. So some of that is Josh Allen making those decisions out there too. In fact, Josh made it a point to say he just has to trust the kid is ready after seeing him win his route for a TD and not throw him the ball and its why he let it fly later in the game for Keon's big catch. As the season goes on, I think Allen will trust he make more throws down low as well as he builds more timing and trust with this new group of weapons. I also expect Ray Davis will start to mix in more on the goal line too and short yardage. But the thing is too, Allen is such a weapon with such a high degree of success on running the ball in short yardage situations, it's hard to go away from him as you are not likely going to find other plays with same high level of success you have with Allen.

Yeah, that is where I think a lot of people have missed about this group who have been down on it. Brady can create a lot of mismatches and different looks with this group, including athletic size with just about any formation compared to previously just really 12 personnel. Still, it's week 1 and 5 or 6 weeks from now DC's will have a lot more film on this offense, so we need to see they can consistently do this kind of thing and adjust when say some things aren't working. Not gonna get out over the ski's here, but week 1 was exactly what I expected from the offense after they preached all summer that everyone eats. 2 things I want them to clean up though ASAP are the penalties (hopefully just some rust) and how Josh Allen was carrying the football Sunday, it was like a loaf of bread out there. With how physical he runs, he needs to be more protective with the ball instead of carrying it out there just palming it or fumbles are going to be an issue again. It looked like his first couple years again with how he was holding it.