Hapless Bills Fan

Well....since you asked someone else...I'll answer As a rookie in 2019, he played in 6 games while both Kroft and Knox were hurt, and showed flashes in a couple of his early games. In the final game vs. the Jets, he was basically much of the Bills passing offense 5 receptions for 76 yds. He looked good. This off-season, the Bills chose to keep Sweeney on the roster above Jake Hollister, who has actually played in the league 5 years and when given a chance on offense, looked competent, at least at the "replacement level" So since the Bills chose to keep Sweeney above Hollister, the natural conclusion is that they saw Sweeney as a better player. My understanding of how Ertz is regarded around the league, is as a big heavy tough additional WR. He's not the "complete package" as a blocking TE, thus not "legit 12 personnel" Good question. He got double-digit snaps weeks 2 through 5. Since then, 🦗. Active but 0 snaps yesterday.

Where is that?

That's where the TE is so important. It takes a bit more time for a smaller guy who can be manhandled off the line to get open.

Exactly. On the one hand, there's only so much motivating of a bunch of highly-paid professional athletes a coach can do. I think it's kind of like parenting a stubborn teenager in a way. McDermott can say "everything is earned, nothing is given". He can tell them "if you go in there expecting to win in the NFL, you're gonna get your ass whipped". But eventually, they're going to be like "yeah, yeah" and need to actually suffer going in there expecting to win and getting their ass whipped in order to take him seriously. The coaches do need to look at whether some of their actions in how they prepare and their attention to detail that week are "tells" to the players that the coaches aren't too worried about the game and they can slack off. IMO.

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And frankly, I think that decision needs to be re-examined.

That was ...sarcasm? Although if Josh felt trust in his OL, he could maybe take a little bit more time and make a more accurate throw. That's a wholly catchable ball though. I'll put it out there, I think the coaches are giving too much latitude to Beasley's self-evaluation that he can be "full go" for games where he's seriously injured. I think when Beasley drops a throw like that, it could be a sign that he's playing hindered enough that he needs to sit his ass down and give McKenzie a chance. Likewise, Sanders is a problem IMO. He gushes about Josh in practice, but for whatever reason, he is not coming through in games if the ball isn't perfect (and sometimes not even then). He couldn't practice all preseason due to "foot" and now he can handle 84% of the snaps in a game? He played >90% of the snaps in the 3 games we lost and was 4 of 8, 5 of 8, 4 of 8. Now some of those throws were deep overthrows from Josh but that begs the question - why? Is Josh throwing to a guy he sees in practice, to the spot that guy can get to in practice, but can't hold up and turn it on the same way when he's playing that many snaps in a game? I think our WR and offensive coaches need to do some self-scouting of game performance. These guys are professionals, these guys are competitive, they want to be out there and they want to get the ball. They're also 34 and 32. The fact is, Josh isn't getting some of the clutch catches that he got from Davis (and early in the season, from Smoke) last year. Playing time vs performance is one of the things the coaches had better examine.

Just what exactly do you want Daboll to call?

Care to explain exactly what firing Daboll would accomplish at this point? Oh, noes, Silly me, of course you don't.

The problem with "uptempo short passing game" is that when teams can flood the middle of the field with 7 defenders, it takes time for even guys like Beasley and Sanders to get open, and throws are dangerous and must be pinpoint accurate to avoid disaster. The first MIA game, Josh's INT on a short passing game throw to Diggs is an example of this. The throw was at or just a little bit behind Diggs instead of leading him, and the defender (playing tight) was able to pick it.

To be fair, it's not Beane's job to rely upon the judgement of his coaches. He has made it clear that he and his staff evaluate the players on the team independently of the coaches. Obviously the coach's judgement factors in, and only Beane/McDermott know how much weight is given to each in the final evaluation. Beane has made mistakes about OL before. He said after the 2018 season that he regretted "not doing more" on OL. He said "we were limited by the cap, but I could have done more". I feel this season is going to go down as another "I should have done more - I was limited by the cap but I could have done more" seasons. Part if it is missing on their evaluation of Ford and of Feliciano as "able to improve with a full off-season of training". Far from improving, they appear to have gotten worse. To the bolded, it's not true, and it's a problem. Dawkins has it in him to be an excellent lineman, but that guy has only shown up sporadically this season. Dawkins played very well in 2019, earning a huge contract where he "got paid" like a franchise LT in 2020. He played well in 2020. But in OTAs this season, he showed up sloppy fat. People were like "if that's not something the Bills asked Dawkins to do, Yikes". Then he got Covid and missed a month of training camp and looked like a turnstyle when he came back. He's been "up and down" since, one game good, one game awful. That's symptomatic of the problems the Bills have had across the OL. Williams played very well at RT last season, again looking like a franchise RT, and Got Paid. This season, he has NOT been nearly as good at RT, to the point where a relatively raw rookie who is still making some pretty bad errors, has outplayed him. I wanted Creed Humphrey, but Morse is far from the worst problem on OL - we needed a guard, and from everything I've seen, Creed Humphrey has never played guard and there's nothing saying he'd be good at guard. Do we really think Creed Humphrey playing between Feliciano and Ford or Boettger and Feliciano would be an improvement, with Dawkins and Williams turnstiling the tackle positions? I am reluctantly coming to this opinion. I think the film is out there on how to confuse and bemuse the Bills OL, and more and more teams are picking up on it. This is an issue of how protections are designed, coaching, and how protections interact with the various play calls. Oh my how quickly we forget. No. 2018 OL was way worse, even given yesterday. But yesterday was approaching 2018 levels.

Not really. We had Boettger in at LG a good part of the season - 9 games towards the end We had Mongo in at RG Ford basically didn’t play after game 6 and went on IR game 9 Some of the same players just don’t seem to be playing to the same level - Dawkins, Williams, Mongo But I think part of it is that the tape is out on how to mess with our OL effectively That does point at something the coaches need to address and adjust

Which is all the more vexing because they were talking up “continuity’ on the line as so important. Of course, we have different guys in different positions, but they’ve known each other for more than a season, they need to figure this out

You can crown the Titans now. Tenn is wrapping up a butt-whupping. Yeah that pick Stafford threw from the end zone was atrocious. Might as well have gift-wrapped a TD and handed it to Vrable

I’m kind of going there. I don’t like to put stuff on coaching, but other OLs seem more able to handle disguised pressure and stunts, and the word seems to be out there that is the way to make the Bills OL sieve-like

The starting OL that was working reasonably was Dawkins-Feliciano-Morse-Williams-Brown The OL last week was Dawkins-Boettger-Morse-Feliciano-Williams The OL this week was Dawkins-Boettger-Morse-Ford-Williams When you change personnel, there is no reason they should all of a sudden be this terrible? Really? I do feel that the Bills offense has been “reading the press clippings” a bit and expecting to just show up and march down the field. And they let the Jags get under their skin, with all the penalties today

I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but I have had similar thoughts

https://www.cover1.net/buffalo-bills-jacksonville-jaguars-loss/ Article by David Faux Inspire: Bass Defense Enquire: I can not disagree Bobby Johnson, he’s looking at you:

Throwing up your arms looking for a flag is one thing Cussing out the refs because they don’t give you one you expect is something else

I hope you’re right

Titans D looking legit His exposure will have to be delayed until next week, apparently

There are a number of teams who have come close but not closed the deal, decided the problem was the coach, fired him, and sunk into mediocrity.

Allen was observed cussing and swearing at the refs in last week’s Miami game Of course, it was Jerry Hughes tunnel outburst capping off a usual practice of swearing and yelling at the refs, that have many of us feel he is “black balled” and doesn’t get the holding calls he should. Are the Bills as a team getting on the bad side of the refs, especially Allen with his all-too-visible frustration? Discuss

Winning doesn’t fix everything, but it fixes a lot. Just Win Baby

Maybe. But they need to re-focus and turn some stuff around, specifically on offense