Magox

“Desperate”

Just like most debates on message boards, it's all black or white. Truth is, even if we hadn't had traded for Cooper this offense would be somewhere in the top 5 to 10 range. With Cooper, they are a top 3 unit. Cooper without doubt makes opposing defenses have to account for him whereas before they didn't have to quite as much. The team has plenty of effective weapons that are capable of making impacting catches, it truly is "everyone eats", it's not just some saying that they spout, it's backed by facts and everyone on this planet can see it except the hard headed dopes. Also, there seems to be this revisionist history that the Bills could have had a quality weapon like Cooper going into the season. Really? With what money? Could they have gotten creative and freed up money and committed $15 - $20 Mill a year to someone? Sure, but the Bills addressed it with their top pick and believed that they had enough weapons to still have had a good offense, in which they were right with that assessment. It turns out that the Bills were looking a lot better than they had hoped and were competitive with an AFC east landscape that was there to be easily seized. Beane worked his magic, got a competent #1 boundary WR for peanuts which fit into the salary cap without having to commit anything down the line and it cost them a third to do it, which is well worth it when you are in the hunt to win it all.

Von Miller Top 15% pass rush grade and top 25% run grade according to PFF https://www.pff.com/nfl/players/von-miller/6154#latestNewsWidget Miller averages a pressure 13.9% of his pass rush reps. That's just behind Greg Rousseau's 14.8% for the highest pressure rate on the team. https://atozsports.com/nfl/buffalo-bills-news/buffalo-bills-von-miller-crucial-role-greg-rousseau/#:~:text=Miller averages a pressure 13.9,pressure rate on the team. And there were some who didn’t think he played well against the Rams, when he was out there he was getting lots of pressure and stopping runs. For that game he had by far the highest rated game on defense and it wasn’t even close. With an 84 rating and next highest was Benford in the high 60’s https://sports.yahoo.com/pff-highest-graded-bills-players-144500820.html When the defense as a whole struggles and there are no sacks or splash plays from defenders it’s difficult to find any good from anyone on defense. Doesn’t take away from the fact that when he’s been out there, he’s been doing his job well. His snap count has been in the low 20’d per game, to put that into perspective Epenesa is getting in the low 30’s, Smoot is around 30, Rousseau is in the mid to high 40’s Even Toohill is getting almost as many snaps per game. His sack per snap rate is by far the highest on the team. The Bills are purposely managing his snap count and I fully expect him to be getting snaps in the mid 30’s in the playoffs.

Yeah, why consider zapruder film level analysis when we have WEO, famed message board warrior to tell us how it is.

For the doubters, here you go!

For those that are implying that Von Miller has been playing at a “meh” level, you’re talking out your ass and have no idea what you are talking about. He’s been excellent against the run and has been getting lots of pressures, considerably higher than your average DE. I believe he’s going to ball out come the playoffs.

Because Von Miller is playing at a pretty high level. With that said I would like to see the rook get more snaps

It's a metric and the way I view metrics is that they can be useful at least in a directional sense, with that said, look at what these ratings show for KC. I've seen enough KC games to believe these metrics have no basis in reality when it comes to KC and pass protection.

And no Cole Bishop either.

They aren’t bad offenses but sort of middle of the pack. With that said, their defense is getting better and Baltimore is a team that I’d rather not have to face early on in the playoffs.

It's funny to see how lots of people used to scoff at the idea of a core offensive philosophy of this team and Josh Allen of "everyone eats". How many catches and targets did Cooper get? I like Cooper and I do believe he was a factor despite his low stats of why this team put up huge points against Detroit, but it's clear that this mantra has held true throughout this year to a spectacular level.

This has probably already been shared but if not, enjoy!

My weekly reminder.

We need monsters in the middle of that defensive line and I expect that to be addressed with premium picks. They need 2.

This is true but I believe this more evolved version of Josh would have thrown it to Diggs. This is also true