Hapless Bills Fan

Fine by me but appears unlikely

The difference in how he talked about Buffalo last week vs how he’s talking about the Steelers is …..marked

It seems to be a contest as to whether Seattle’s incompetence on defense will overcome PIttsburgh’s incompetence on O

Big Ben damned lucky that deflection wasn’t picked

Well, the First Q was exciting

Given that the Bills lost to the Patriots on Saturday Sept 21, 2019 after an obvious missed face mask on Josh Allen during the 3Q on a 3rd and 4 led to a 3 yd gain and a punt after which the Pats scored a FG, I Feel Your Pain about being hosed. (His head was wrenched around violently to the R, it was very clear). I see.

Yes

Speaking of Looking the Part....😍 this

Pretty sure taunting is applied after the result of the play

Sounds like "Next Year's Your Year For Sure!" PS Most teams are literally a few plays each game away from a win every week

Or not..... Say more?

Huh What? is exactly my reaction. Darnold is not getting the help he needs from his WR OTOH...does that mean he's not able to inspire them to put in that extra effort for the team? Darnold looks better than he did with the Jets OTOH he has 7 TD and 7 INT right now, that's Not Good Mayfield >> Darnold at this point

I thought WFT D came out gassed in the 2nd half 🤷‍♂️

Do you have to do some VPN skullduggery to put yourself in the market area?

I think it's just possible that going from Chan Gailey to their two-headed duty-sharing OC monster was a downgrade, as well. I think the argument was that the team had been gutted to "tank" for the #1 pick, so getting 5 wins from that roster was "amazing" (self-defeating, if the goal was the highest draft pick, but "exceeds expectations" for the coach) Yep!

I’m not entirely sure it’s Mahomes decisions. For whatever reason, his ball placement is just “off”. It’s kind of like watching 2019 Allen - sometimes the play is there but the ball is low, high, left, or right. A “safe” throw into a tight window is now an interception or an incompletion. Simms was saying that he thought something was physically “not right” with Mahomes. Maybe he needs to call the biomechanics guy? Or, maybe it’s just getting a bit less time from his OL.

I actually thought the guy being interviewed did a pretty good job of making clear Josh Allen is responsible for Josh Allen’s progress, however the article author tried to spin it.

I missed that, but I agree with him. I’d be interested, do you recall where he said it?

This is great stuff. Note how in the WFT version of the play, the DB thinks the ball is coming to Sanders and actually runs up and grabs both his arms while the ball is still in the air - Josh musta been selling something with his eyes. (you can see it much better in the film). Also that's Singletary to the bottom of the screen. After the fake handoff, he ran through the line then released to L flat as a checkdown. Note how much green grass his defender is giving him - he believes the probability of Josh taking the checkdown is super low

Tying threads together, I'd just like to point out that this analysis by Cosell (who knows something) seems to contradict this guy's assessment about our "simple" or "simplified" offense and running completely different plays vs. the Chiefs. He shows the same play being run from a different personnel set (actually an empty set) vs. the Chiefs as was run vs. WFT.

The one thing that rots my socks in that otherwise excellent article is the beginning, where it is implied that Allen was basically unservicable before the services of this Hess dude: It's really overstating the case IMO. Allen did have 12 picks in 11.5 games his rookie season. That's not great, but it's actually about the same as other rookie QB (Sam Darnold for example) who did NOT have that "much of the time he'd toss it to the other team" narrative about them. The following season, before he met Mr. Bionics, Allen cut the INT % to 2.0% and improved his completion % 6 percentage points, the Bills won 10 games and went to the playoffs. That's better than "barely serviceable" no matter what Sam Momson says. It builds drama and tells a better story when written that way, I suppose.

🙄 Experience suggests I would not, in fact, have saved myself time. The reasons that is so shall be left as an exercise for the intelligent reader.

Key quotes: What impresses me about this assessment is that one guy here (a former player/HS coach who scouts a bit for the pros) just watching Allen without the fancy setup, said the same thing - that Allen was throwing with just his upper body/arm. It's amazing to me what the unaided but trained eye can just see. Remember that hit by Joey Bosa where he corkscrewed Allen into the ground then went around babbling at our OLmen while Allen spent a couple Looooooong minutes on the ground? After that hit, we had a "Josh Allen is Gumby" thread here, but also Dr Kyle Trimble aka Bangedup Bills explaining that Allen probably escaped serious knee injury because he has good hip muscle flexibility, so his upper leg could rotate and protect the knee. Law of unintended consequences: I wonder if the extra work with strength/PT to loosen his hips so he could adjust his throwing motion, wound up saving his season? Short answer: you can post quotes from the article. Show that they're quotes - either quotation marks, or use the " symbol in in the tool bar to bring up a quote window you can paste into. Longer answer: we try to follow copyright law, which allows reproduction of excerpts for "fair use" or "transformative use". So if you quote an excerpt to make an extra point or add onto it, totally fair - or a few excerpts to give the flavor of the article or make a key point. See what I did above? I put in a quote to make a point about "eyeball scouting" and about "Josh Allen is Gumby". Just don't repost the whole thing. It's not only against the law, it's tacky to the site that is hosting the work, and to the author who may get paid by traffic. And Last but not Least: THANKS for posting that - GREAT read!

My guess is that it does not mean he's assessing how he's throwing the ball during a game, but that he's putting in extra throwing work on his own beyond the game plan install and the practice against the scout team looks.

He mentioned that he was too shallow. He was at about 13 yds, IIRC. I can't find statistics, but I've been looking at punters carefully since then, and my eyes in the same game (so not adjusting for wind or punter preference) the punters are closer to the LOS when they're punting from inside their own 20. On the other hand, I've also been watching Haack since then and he tends to stand 13 yds back from the LOS consistently.