Hapless Bills Fan

With all respect, comparing us to "every talking head who states the Bills are a one trick pony" isn't a very credible argument here. Even now, the national media doesn't pay a lot of attention to the details of Bills football, while we all do. Here are our last 4 games: Rush attempts: 14 Pass attempts: 47 Rush attempts: 28 Pass attempts: 28 Rush attempts: 13 Pass attempts: 40 Rush attempts: 32 Pass attempts: 28 I think it's simplistic to say "the Bills are a one trick pony". We can run - when Daboll puts his mind to it in the game plan. We could last season. We have this season. The problem is more that Daboll looks at certain teams and decides that the way to attack them is by passing, so it's clear when we take the field that our plan is to play from the shotgun and Let "er Rip. And we'd become very predictable with running from under center 75% of the time, while passing from shotgun 75% of the time (probably more if situational down-and-distance tendencies were taken into account). IF McDermott has succeeded in "coaching his coach" that a credible run threat is a must-have Every. Game. Whether You Think You Can Beat Them Passing Or Not., we might get someplace. But I'm currently unpersuaded.

Actually, @PatsFanNH, it's not true in my view "last year ...we had the ability to do everything". Last year our run game was objectively worse than this year. Last year, we were 18th-20th in attempts, yds, y/a. This year, 5th for Y/A, 12th for Y, 17th for attempts. But that may be deceptive. Last year, we had games where we hardly tried to run at all, interspersed with games where we ran all over people and boosted our average. And then we had games where we needed to run and tried to run and couldn't. We were "one trick ponies" a lot of the time. Last year, Josh Allen took offensive coordinators by surprise. We started the year with "play man and blitz, make him stay in the pocket and be a QB" being the strategy. When Allen started dicing that up, it turned to "play zone and disguise coverage to confuse him". When we adapted to that and became one of the "Teams to Beat", that changed again. Now DCs have a very good book on what Allen and the Bills will try to do in the passing game, and how to take it away, but Daboll still came into the season with the idea that he could be one-dimensional and pass-centric in his game plan. Pittsburgh laid out a blueprint of how to defeat that in Week 1 but Daboll still didn't "Get the Memo". If a team doesn't have to worry about defending the run, they can simply overload one side of the OL while only bringing 4 defenders, they can stunt and twist, and that's next to impossible for the OL to block and certainly not with an empty backfield. Add in that our OTs have both regressed in their play and we keep trying to play a guard who simply doesn't seem to be NFL caliber. Put the three together, and it's a recipe for offensive frustration. The #1 thing is for Josh Allen to be patient and make good decisions with the ball. #2 Avoid pre-snap penalties. If we're in a 3rd and 15 or 3rd and 20 hole, then we pretty much haven't been explosive enough to gain that on the ground and teams can key off on the pass. #3 thing to me is for McDermott and Frazier to not coach scared. When I hear them in game-week pressers saying stuff like "we have to try to come up with a game plan to limit their big plays" I say to myself "Damn, it's going to be a hard Sunday".

No, we don't know. If Beasley actually broke ribs when he got speared in the Miami game, broken ribs are usually a 4-6 week injury to heal. This upcoming Monday would be 5 weeks from the original injury, and that would be assuming that he didn't re-injure them the following week vs. Jax. The Jax game was the only game where he had a game-time "questionable" status. This past week he had a "full" practice designation one day; the previous weeks he's been either DNP or limited. So in theory, he's getting closer to healed but ??

That game last night was stunning. Sometimes I feel that Allen and the Bills offense have had it so ingrained in them "don't turn the ball over. we can't win if you turn the ball over" that once the turnovers mount up, they psychologically give up. Ravens: 4 interceptions, No Problem. I hope the Bills took note, not that it's OK to throw 4 interceptions, but that a Terrible Horrible Very Bad Turnover Day can be overcome.

The Magic Eight Ball says "unless change occurs, Highly Probable". Not because of what he said to me, but because the attitude "you need to chill before you piss me off" after being questioned is fundamentally incompatible with the kind of discussion we're trying to foster here. Yes, he did. Reportedly, he also had more muffs and looked less comfortable in pre-season, so it remains to be seen if he's less of an adventure than McKenzie was.

If stating your personal opinion as fact and being challenged to "show your work" is gonna piss you off, you might want to reconsider your life choices to be here. If being asked to "show your work" and back up what you say is gonna be interpreted by you as an "internet superiority attitude", ditto Sharing an opinion with someone else doesn't mean you're right. McKenzie has one muff and one fumble this season. If you want credibility here, and you see something else, Stand and Deliver - prove it. Which games, which quarters, which plays.

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What is 538’s prediction record?

I thought the Bills tried playing Neal on the boundary in preseason, and while he didn’t suck, the results weren’t good either

C’mon Brownies My god their graphics are tacky tonight

Here’s Collinsworth talking about the inability of someone to ever hit Lamar hard again…..

Mute Collinsworth and unmute when you need to find out what the penalty was. The game becomes much more enjoyable

Good question I can not disagree

Ouch

https://youtu.be/zQf2TiwBFHo

I was thinking that myself, would be a great opportunity to pontificate about how Mayfield needs to eliminate such plays from his game

Now that was a boneheaded move by Mayfield

Immigrant song being played in Baltimore, nice

Also fawning over how the Ravens have limited the Browns run game without acknowledging that Mayfield is moving the ball on them in the air, and that the game would be tied if the Cleveland kicker hadn’t missed a 46 yd FG And that the Browns are pretty well shutting down both the Ravens run game (except for Lamar) AND their pass game - and have now picked off Lamar TWICE.

Post to which I responded: “ Didn't you guys just beat a Saints team without their starting RB and starting QB(along with other injuries)? A game in which Allen thew 2 picks?” sure looked like down playing a Bills win from here Didn’t say that in the post to which I responded. Go back and look at my post. I quoted the posts I regarded as taunting/trolling. Take it to heart and back it down or don’t, I don’t care. I suggest you look at the posts of your fellow Pats fan @PatsFanNH who can come here and disagree and argue and is not taken as taunting or trolling.

To be fair, the 3 weeks last year Josh was playing with a linebacker brace on his L arm, he didn’t look so good.

These graphics are getting tackier and tackier - the Myles Garret sack stuff Soooooo lame Oh, and there’s a nice hit on Lamar Jackson for no gain on a run

Browns are not looking good

Why is Baltimore called “Charm City”?

Cleveland winning the “weird penalties that make us seem disorganized” contest