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Convenient to leave it out? 1st Down - Guys are wide open and Allen throws a bad pass that Romo called a "throw away" it was so off. 2nd Down - Guys are open and Allen has a his ball batted down at the LOS on a throw to Samuel that would have been a first down. 3rd Down - Allen completes to Cooper on a WR screen, he doesn't fall down, his back foot slips a little but even so, the only way the play can work is if all the blocking also works perfect, which it doesnt and Cooper is tackled for a short gain. 4th Down - Guys are wide open but Allen shifts the protection to the wrong side as Spags confuses him, our team, and coaches leading to free releases on the blitz and Allen doesn't see a wide open Shakir to his left for an easy first down and more and is forced to throw to what was a wide open Kincaid down field but under duress falling away which ends up being a prayer ball that Kincaid tries to adjust to and can't complete the catch. We did not lose because we did not have guys open or because who was on the field. We lost because on the final 4 down series we had guys open on every down and we failed to take advantage of them. So for the last time, our series ending had nothing to do with not having open targets for Allen to throw to. End of story. And the only reason we were in this position was once again our defense let the Chiefs score over 30 (for the only time this entire season) a week before another team completely shuts them down (3rd time in 4 of our Chiefs losses in the postseason Chiefs would get shut down a week later and lose). PS: If (as you claimed earlier) we would have scored on that Cooper screen (which he was not going to do even if he didn't slip), Mahomes still gets the ball back with over 2 minutes and timeouts only down 3 or 4 (depending if Bass converts the XP). Mahomes is the only QB in history with a 100% success rate of scoring on the final drive to tie or win the game in the postseason. And not only is he perfect, he has the most attempts at while also remaining 100% and no other QB is even over 50%. And given our defense was amongst the worst in the NFL at allowing first downs and amongst the worst in 3rd down conversions, if you think Mahomes who gets 4 downs now to keep moving the ball isn't scoring the go ahead TD on that next drive then you have not been paying attention or watching this defense trying unsuccessfully to stop Mahomes late in games.

Hollywood Brown ran a 4.27 40 at his combine, he is a guy who has another gear down field. He isn't a big WR, but outside of this year when he missed all but 2 regular season games from an injury in camp, he has been relatively durable for a guy his size with only one other season with less than 14 games played. He is still only 27 years old. Slayton is quite a bit undervalued IMHO after playing in such a desolate QB wasteland. He is a former first round pick in 2019 and just been in QB purgatory there in NY. Not as fast as Brown, but he ran a 4.39 at the combine, still plenty fast. He has shown to be a big play guy for the Giatns despite the woeful QB play during his career. I am not saying either guy is coming to Buffalo and becoming a top 10 WR, but both bring an element we are lacking as a downfield threat and would come at an affordable price as well. I think both will have an opportunity to be the best versions of themselves here with Allen in this offense.

I mean we were the 16th best in history, best all time for the Bills. If that isn't good enough you got other issues wouldn't you say?

Don't get me wrong, I get your reservations fully, which is why I said you still draft one early if you sign either of those guys. I personally don't put a lot of stock in what PFF says, especially with the situation hes been in compounding that further. Slayton IMHO is certainly better than PFF is giving him credit for and its why he will have suitors too. I honestly havent seen what Browns market is estimated to be at, I just know he was cheap last year and did nothing to change that this year given he didn't really play much thanks to the injury. If you are saying $18M per year for 2 years then yeah, thats gross and I wouldn't be interested either. But if you are saying $18M for the 2 years, or $9M a season, I would be fine with that because if healthy he is a better WR than a $9M a year guy and he adds an element to the offense we lack. None the less, signing either of them (or Cooper) needs to accompany drafting someone early still.

Its all good bud, and make no mistake about it, we need to and will add another boundary WR this offseason. I am not against it at all, its just we better do something to help the defense get out of the bottom of the league at 3rd down stops and first downs allowed or its hard to imagine things being much different. I would love to throw 2 firsts at Garrett then turn around and try and entice Seattle with a 2nd and maybe one of our 4th or 5th rounders and see if they bite. Will it happen, most likely not, but if I was in Beanes spot with a team this close with this few of glaring holes, I would be trying to make those 2 trades happen (or Crosby if not Garrett)

I get that, you play the better teams the games are naturally closer, like the Ravens game. But even in that game, our D didn't come through, someone just dropped the ball and it gave us the win. And look at what the Eagles DL did...they made sure there was no narrow margin of error just the Bucs did when they smashed the Chiefs too. At one point the Eagles were up 34-0. 29 points should have been enough against this low scoring Chiefs team that had not scored 30 all season except the game they beat us in the AFCCG when they scored 32. And as I have mentioned previously, in the 4 games KC knocked us out of the playoffs they went on to lose their next game 3 times. In their wins over us they average 35 ppg...in those 3 losses the following week (including 2 SB losses) they averaged just 17 PPG. So, our defense is clearly the one putting us into a low margin of error situations every post season by just folding like a lawn chair and its hard to expect different results if we cant get some people on that side of the ball capable of getting off the field on 3rd down a couple more times a game.

Personally, I think Hollywood Brown or Darius Slayton could also be the guy they bring in while also maybe drafting a guy. And honestly, I think I prefer one of them over Cooper as they at least bring more of a downfield threat that this team lacks elsewhere.

I think Tee Higgins either stays in Cincy or ends up with either the Pats or Commanders.

My preference is we trade this first round pick in a package that gets us back Garrett or Crosby. But if we still have the pick, I am guessing at 30 the BPA will likely be someone on the DL as the draft rolls around. Of course trades, FA, and the combine can affect a lot of things heading into the draft, but just looking at it now that is what I would guess.

Hate Josh Allen? I might actually be his biggest fan. But facts are facts...we had guys wide open on our final series and we didn't make the plays to get them the ball. So for people to pretend we lost this game all because we didn't have a Chase, Jefferson, etc type player is just not reflective of what actually happened.

One, that point is irrelevant as the actual point was 2 guys on the routes they were assigned by our OC were wide open in Shakir and Kincaid. Second, I disagree, it was 4th and 5 and the defenders were way off Shakir and he has made that play to convert for a first a bunch of times as he is a dawg with the ball in his hands, especially with that kind of cushion and only needing about 3 yards from where he would have caught it. Regardless if you want to debate Shakir, Kincaid was still wide open 30 yards down field without a defender remotely near him if Allen can set and make a clean pass. Once again, it was not personnel, we had 2 guys wide open. So to attribute our non conversion to the WR group we we had a ball batted down at the LOS where he had an open WR, and then we end with 2 guys wide open but the wrong protection called is just not at all accurate. Yet...if we had just one player on defense that could have prevented just one 3rd down conversion...literally make just one play more than we did in that game...that gets us off the field instead of allowing a scoring drive, then that is one less score we give up and we win the game...not to mention, that would have also put the ball back in Allen and the offenses hands to give them another shot at a scoring drive. Rather than expect my QB and the offense to have to be perfect for entire drives to win games...I would rather just find one guy who can make one more play or two on on defense throughout an entire game.

Those were the players...you can say that about every single game and every single team. Having a 3rd party like the refs completely alter the game is out of the players and coaches control. And once again, if you don't want lose close games then maybe field a defense that doesnt give up 35 PPG to a team that loses the very next week scoring an average of 17 PPG.

Im certainly not a blame the refs kind of guy, but facts are facts in this game. It was the 4th quarter, it was big a gaff as it gets in a game and it without question changed the course of that game drastically. Allen and the OL guys all said Allen shifted the coverage to the wrong side...there are only two sides...right or wrong, they chose the wrong one because as you said Spags called a great play. But you are missing the entirety of the point...we didn't fail on that last drive because Jamar Chase wasnt on the team, I mean Shakir who has some of the most reliable hands in the league was wide open and Kincaid, a TE was wide open down field. Josh got a poor pass off in duress because of protection was shifted to the opposite side giving the defense a free release at Allen, not WR personnel issues. And we would have not even been in a 4th down had Josh not had his pass knocked down at LOS to an open Samuel on that same series. So...that is why I keep pushing back when people want to hold the WR group accountable for this loss when it really isn't rooted in reality. Our guys were open, Josh did not get them the ball because he had a pass knocked down, I believe he also missed a throw on another down, and the protection was to the wrong side and Allen didn't see a wide open Shakir and then threw a prayer to what was a wide open Kincaid had he been able to get a clean pass off. This is my entire point of the offseason, what you said right here. When your margin of error is small...and why do you think our margin of error is so small? Because 29 points is not enough...or because our defense has given up an average of 35 PPG to the Chiefs in playoff losses who 3 times went on to lose the next game and average just 17 PPG in those 3 losses? When your defense is bottom of the league in 3rd down conversion, first downs allowed, etc...you are making your QB have to be perfect or near perfect with the smallest of errors. And worse yet, when you have small margins of errors windows, coaching because massively impactful, like how Spags for just one play just had to out coach our guys.

And they didn't win the SB until they rebuilt their defense into the #1 defense in the NFL and added a RB who put up one of the greatest seasons in history.

They needed that play because the refs flipped the game when they stole our first down twice on the same series. That was an 11 to 15 point swing in a game we lost by 3. And it was Josh Allen who shifted the protection to the wrong side. You do know that he had Samuel open on that series but had a pass knocked down at LOS. He then had both Shakir and Kincaid wide open on 4th down, one short for sure first down and one deep for a huge play and it was Allen who didn't make the play because he shifted the protection to the wrong side. So no, it wasn't that we needed Chase...we needed the refs to not F us and then we needed Allen to not shift the coverage to wrong side because he had 2 guys wide open. Eagles got back to the SB and won it because they rebuilt one of the worst defenses into the number 1 defense in the NFL this year and added an MVP worthy RB who had one of the greatest single seasons in history didn't hurt either.

Agree, no way Duke makes that TD...but the point is the TD haul had no impact on the game result as it was a blow out with or without that play. And if they don't score on that one pass doesn't mean they dont still score a different way that same drive with AJ, Saquan, Goeddert, Hurts on the team still. I don't agree though that it changes much about AJ Brown as the same players are covering AJ Brown whether Smith is in the game or not. Gotcha and yeah, that is who I thought you were referring to when you mentioned they didn't make an impact out the gate. My counters was that Kincaid did come out the gate strong though as he had the 4th most Receptions by a rookie TE in NFL history and 10th most yards. His 2nd year wasn't the step we all expected in this offense, but he did come out strong as a rookie and seemed on a strong trajectory to where our expectations were noticeably higher this year for him. And personally I think Keon was starting to do so before he got hurt which then seemed to kind of set him back. I do agree with you that we need them to keep developing and take another step this year as part of our young core of the offense. And I personally have confidence they can, especially once we inevitably add a downfield threat to the mix to shore up what the offense is missing. Kincaid it turns out did have some knee issues inhibiting him this season as well, so I do think injuries were a factor in both their seasons this year too. I think both will benefit from being healthy again and having someone who can threaten downfield which I am certain we will add this offseason. If we land a big fish like Higgins or a trade for DK, then they should benefit greatly. But I also think they will benefit a lot from someone like Hollywood Brown, Slayton or a rookie who is capable of contributing early.

No disrespect bud, but when didn't it work? We put up 29 in the AFCCG against a stingy defense with one of the top DC's and against a team that had not scored 30 themselves the whole season. And consider this...in the 4th, the Bills were already in FG range and up 1 with a chance to get a TD and go up 2 scores. Instead the refs stole the possession from us, not once, but twice within the same 4 down series. Kincaid had the first on 2nd down and then Allen again got the first on the 4th down. In both plays one ref spotted the first and was overturned by another ref. Chiefs would turnaround and score a TD and 2 point conversion making this at minimum an 11 point swing in the 4 quarter and quite possibly a 15 point swing (if we had continued on for a TD) in a game we scored 29 in and still lost by 3. And honestly, saying it works until it doesn't is something you can say about every team who loses a game in the playoffs about any topic you want about said team. Because whatever they did worked until it didn't when their season ended.

I get why you are making the comparison, but he is better than Price IMHO as he has shown that when he was the WR1 at times due to injuries and still producing at top end WR1 levels.

Im not going to help you be a fan. Some things are best discovered on your own

Really lol? You don't know this info? I have to help you be a fan now by catching you up on all the accomplishments our NFL MVP had? Sometimes I wonder if you are really a huge Bills fan or just a fan of arguing about the Bills, because as a die hard Bills fan I find it shocking you don't already know this info.

Nobody has ever said you didn't...its the degree to how much a team needs to leverage at the position that is being discussed. Some believe we need to give up anything and as much cap as possible to go get an elite one or we cant win...and that is just never been the case.

Well we were discussing this before the season began...and did the Eagles really do this? Because they have had AJ and DeVonta in the seasons past and didn't win the SB. Last year with an atrocious defense they didn't get close. Weird thing happened...Eagles added Saquan and put together the #1 defense in the NFL and poof...back in the SB and that defense dismantled KC just like the Bucs did. And despite scoring 40, the offense didn't put up gaudy production because the defense made that possible for them. So this isn't the evidence you think it is 16th best offense in NFL history and best in Bills history. But he won because "his cast was weak"? Allen set multiple individual records...the offense set multiple team records. But he only won because his "cast was weak"? The mental gymnastics you will try and do to push for your "Jamar Chase" is getting more creative at least lol

To answer your question...False...in no reality is saying a guy who has gone to 3 straight SB's with a rag tag of weapons as "falling off a cliff". You gotta understand how crazy that sounds, especially when his entire WR group kept getting hurt this year and he still carried them to a 3rd straight SB, although I do still say the refs are the reason he got by Buffalo this year. PS: The 2 seasons before they traded Hill...blown out in SB and shut down in AFCCG by Bengals. So what do you think Mahomes cares more about? His stats or his SB trophies? It does however describe Cam Newton with pin point accuracy 😉

No one is going to objet to Allen taking less hits, but my point is that its always going to be part of his game because that is how Allen plays regardless. But, we would all prefer he take as few as possible. No that makes no sense. Allen will be the first to tell you that his MVP was only possible because the guys around him. Allen won MVP because everyone, especially Allen, bought into the style of play, the philosophy, etc and he stopped being wreckless with the ball, stopped trying to always force it downfield when there was a smarter play to be made to guys who were open. Basically he started incorporating a lot of what another Brady, Tom Brady, has been saying to him for years. No not at all what I said. I never said that no team with a high paid WR ever won a SB. I said show me a team that went out and spent a fortune to both trade for and pay a WR big money that then turned around and won a SB when people were advocating for such a move for Aiyuk and other rumored available players via trade. I also pointed out the infrequency of top 5 WR's on SB winning teams the past 30 years during the passing era showing that it was not the "get it and win it" solution everyone was making it out to be. Sorry, don't buy you were referencing Mahomes and not Cam lol That is fine, but you are missing the point of others. No one is saying WR's don't matter...we all know we need to add another guy there. The push back is that we don't need a "Chase" caliber WR like so many keep pushing for as our "missing piece". Well this is where we differ...Shakir is a key piece to this offense and easily the most clutch player for Josh to throw to by a mile. Keeping him is important to the offense, and without any gaudy WR contracts he is more than affordable especially with the increasing cap. Shakir can be even better once we add someone who can stretch the field and even further open up where Shakir does his best work.

There is your original quote here above, and it came after you discussing the punishment Allen takes as a runner... Come on man lol, you don't really expect anyone to think that is Mahomes you are discussing and not Cam Newton do you? Either this is the worst description of Mahomes I have ever seen, or this is clearly Cam Newton you are discussing.