Magox

Our offense is not a boundary WR centric offense. You are all dreaming if you think there will be a premium pick or FA selection this upcoming year at the boundary WR spot. They will hope that Keon develops and look to get a competent replacement for Amari if he doesn't return. The only way they would use a premium pick is if the player was too good to pass up. This will be a year when both FA pickups and premium picks will be used on the defensive side of the ball.

This draft is loaded with DT’s which is the biggest need that the Bills have. CB will be another huge need as well with Rasul and Kair most likely not returning.

This is exactly what I’ve been saying the past couple days. People can want to blame Rousseau or Von and the lack of pressure, but it would be misguided blame. Andy Reid schemes open plays and Mahomes was able to read the plays pre snap and he was consistently throwing to his first option and each time it was netting 8-12 yarders. The problem wasn’t personnel from the ends, you could have had Myles Garrett and he wouldn’t have gotten to Mahomes on time. You can’t when Mahomes is getting the ball out in 2.29 seconds. The defense has to show new looks and disguise their coverages more effectively and not have Mahomes constantly throw it to his first read. The biggest problem from the defensive side wasn’t personnel but rather our defensive gameplan and it’s predictably

I would say 10 - 15 more years

I'm as pained as anyone but this idea that you are going to get rid of the entire defense and start over is ludicrous. Who are you going to replace them with? I'm ok with replacing certain players but you better have someone in place to take over their spot that you think can do the job better or just as well at the least. Honestly, the biggest problem on the defensive side of the ball wasn't individual efforts from the players, it was schematic. How many passes did Mahomes make where he threw the ball to his first read within 2.25 seconds? Tons Time after time the Chiefs were able to scheme up where someone would be open very quickly and time after time Mahomes was able to read it pre snap and know exactly where he was going to throw it and time after time that player was pretty open for an easy 8 yarder. They just ran horizontal routes all day long and they executed them, not to mention the Mahomes called runs which we had no answers for. The defensive philosophy needs to change, they need to run more disruptive plays/blitzes, they need to have lots more disguised coverages with men in the box and they need the CB's who can execute man to man coverages for these sort of plays. With that said, here are the list of Unrestricted FA's RB Ty Johnson FB Reggie Gilliam WR Amari Cooper WR Mack Hollins OL Tommy Doyle DT Quinton Jefferson DT Jordan Phillips DT Austin Johnson DE Dawuane Smoot CB Rasul Douglas S Damar Hamlin LS Reid Ferguson Out of this group the keepers are: Ty Johnson Reggie Gilliam Mack Hollins Jordan Phillips (on a minimum contract) Reid Ferguson If they can get a good deal then these are the ones open for consideration: Amari Cooper (If they can get him for under $10M a year, which I doubt) Tommy Doyle Dawuane Smoot Damar Hamlin (if he could agree to a minimum contract with the thought that he will be a backup) Extend: Cook Rousseau (I know everyone is down on him but he didn't have many opportunities to get after Mahomes, Mahomes was getting the ball out so quickly that the ends didn't have many true opportunities) Benford Bernard FA/draft needs: Will need a man specialist to replace Rasul Will need to get someone to replace Von Miller If Amari doesn't come back we need his replacement Need to get two big monster DT's that can stop the run effectively and push the pocket. Player development needs: Need Kincaid to step up Need Cole Bishop to take a nice leap of improvement Need Keon Coleman to improve The Coaching Staff: On offense, not much needs to change philosophically. Brady was excellent On Defense, gear up this defense to stop the Chiefs. More blitzes, more disguised coverages, more man to man.

- Andy Reid Schemes up good plays against our defense - Mahomes is great at reading the defense pre snap and is able to get out the pass very quickly to that first read for typically an easy 8 yarder (Reminds me of Brady) - When the combo of Andy and Mahomes scheme and execute that quickly it takes out the edge rushers effectiveness - Spags dials up great blitzes in high leverage moments - KC typically converts in high leverage moments just a tad more efficiently than the Bills Yes, the ref spotted the ball incorrectly which very well may have changed the outcome of the game, but even so the Bills were stuffed on 4 Tush push's that is more than they were stuffed all year. Gotta tip your hat to them scheming and executing that play incredibly well. Kincaid made a huge drop, with that catch the Bills would have been in the drivers seat with a 1st down at the 35 yard line with just under 2 minutes to play and 2 timeouts. With that said, the Spags blitz was executed perfectly, it completely fooled Josh pre snap and Josh had to make an incredible play (which he did) to beat it, unfortunately Kincaid didn't come down with the ball. But even before then, it shouldn't have gotten to a 4th and 5 situation and the Bills didn't make the plays to avoid that situation. I think what drove me the craziest this game aside from KC constantly executing those quick 8 yarders throughout the game is that time and time again the roll out run for Mahomes was never stopped, you would have thought after the first time it worked that they would have not allowed that to happen but it happened 4 times and each time was a positive play for them. Whatever happened to Milano or one of the other LB's spying Mahomes? If you have a spy then that play doesn't work all 4 times and when the Bills did put a spy Milano ended up making a great sack on Mahomes trying to scramble away from the play. I honestly think that the Bills defense needs to go back to the drawing board and change up how they play defense, a sort of defense that is tailor made against limiting the Chiefs. Study up on what the teams that do the best against them do, look at their personnel, look at their scheme and change it up. Tinkering around the edges or getting another piece on defense is not going to stop those quick 8 yard passes that are thrown within 2 seconds of the ball being snapped. They need to play with tons of disguises and do something unconventional because what this defense is doing against the Chiefs just isn't working. On the offensive side of the ball, the offense is right there where they need to be. If Josh could maybe do one thing that is better than he is already doing is learn the art of the quick pass similar to Brady and Mahomes and take the quick easy yardage. On that last drive, on the first down, Josh had the RB out wide that if he had made the throw to him it would have gotten anywhere from a minimum of 4 yards to very possibly depending on how well the ball was placed to a first down. Aside from that, you would like to see your players make clutch plays and this is two years in a row where last year Diggs makes a big drop that was hugely important to an even bigger drop by Kincaid. When it's the 4th quarter and the game is on the line, you expect championship teams to have their players come down with those passes. How many championships have been won by players making unbelievable grabs? The Giants and the Patriots both had incredibly difficult and huge catches that they made. The David Tyree catch in 2008, without that catch the Giants don't win that game. Or Julian Edelman's catch, same thing, without it Brady has 1 less Super Bowl ring. Those players made the plays, two years in a row now our players when given the opportunity don't.

Merritt Island, Florida over at my dads and we will be watching the game together with him my mom and my brother, just like every other game! I just hope we can enjoy a Bills victory for him more than anything else. Go Bills!

It certainly is odd

From Von Miller’s IG account. He posted it today. Big game incoming from Von!

Great news! Improves our odds of reaching a Super Bowl next year and maybe making him next cycle’s Ben Johnson. Would have a lot more leverage in getting a huge payday and control of operations.

Fantastic read, this team is mentally ready.

No one has been able to stop it, I think the Dolphins in one of the games stopped a 3rd and 1 and the Bills proceeded to get it on the 4th and half a yard. That tush push TD went in easily and could have gone for 3 yards. The Bills scored easily on the TD from the 1 yard line. Not buying that at all Until a team proves they can stop it, you continue to go for it. It is the only play in football where everyone knows it’s coming and knowing that despite that fact and that the Bills have the highest success rate that goes well into the 90% range (along with Philly), you run it until it is stopped

What I don’t understand is the Bills hesitancy to do the Allen tush push on 3rd and 2’s. When they run that play they typically get 1-3 yards, I don’t care if it’s ugly boring football it’s effective and they should absolutely be running that play every time when they are on the opponents side of the field. That’s a couple times now that I believe that play should have been run. I hope they rethink that

TB will be very motivated

Marv sounds excellent for being 99, his mind is still sharp and I can only hope to be in that sort of condition at that age.

Hell of a comment from Kelce on Josh

I can’t think of anyone’s opinion on football that I would consider more credible than Belichek’s

This is Cole Bishop’s big opportunity and some of his strengths can be used against man to man coverage against Kelsey

This is great and nasty blocking from Spencer Brown against the Ravens, will need more of this against the Chiefs

I think that they thought that if you put Lamar into pure passing situations with 3 lineman rushing with a spy that he wouldn't be able to make the plays from the pocket to lead them to a score. What they didn't account for was that Lamar didn't make those plays from the traditional pocket, he moved around and bought himself space and time to hit receivers not on their original read and route but on off schedule secondary routes.

Not to mention that for whatever reason the Texans decided to block Karlaftis with their TE Schultz who gave up two of those sacks in the 4th quarter.

This is an awesome stat line. The Ravens and Broncos were two of the top three defenses against the run and against the Bills they gave up more rushing yards than at any time of the year. HOOOOBOY! This offensive line is playing their asses off and they are playing their best football both against the pass and run going into this championship game. I have no doubt that the Bills will try to run it against the Chiefs and that the Chiefs will game plan to stop the run.

What was encouraging about this aside from its effectiveness is that they used Dorian WIlliams and Bernard as the spy on different occasions. They should absolutely do that between the LB's, don't make it predictable who the spy will be and that will help make pre snap reads more difficult for Mahomes to diagnose.

I've been making a similar point, there are people on the board who want to allocate premium resources on a boundary WR, I do think they are still important but for this team they are not as important than other teams. It doesn't make sense to go after a super high value WR in FA or to trade up to get one under this teams current offensive construct. Resources should be invested appropriate to the utilization of the importance of that position to the team. Outside of Josh Allen, the offensive line is the most important position groupings for the offense. Even though boundary WR's will be important to any team in the NFL, it's not as high with the Bills than others. Getting good competent guys who can catch, block, get some separation, make some contested catches who won't demand the ball is all that is required from the position. With that said, Brady could end up leaving the team and then you get another coach who places more emphasis to the boundary WR's could step in. As far as this next year is concerned, I think I would opt out of trying to retain Amari and look to maybe trade for Cooper Kupp or wait for him to be released, he fits what the Bills are looking for on all aspects that is important to what they want out of the receivers, he can do it all and is versatile and he shouldn't cost a lot of cap money and draft capital and I think he would be more effective for this team than Amari.

I disagree with Simon’s view on Bernard, we all know of the huge play he made on Andrews but that’s not the only consequential play he made. This is one of my favorite defensive plays of the game, no one probably noticed it and it won’t show up anywhere in the stat sheets but it was huge. Watch the video below, watch Rickard and watch Bernard. This was the very first play right after the Bateman play that led to a first down from the 2. This set the tone for what probably everyone thought was going to be 7 points for this drive. Bernard takes Rickard on one on one and Bernard torpedos Rickard’s thighs and stops him in his tracks and causes Rickard to fold over and essentially become like a big 300 pound boulder blocking the path 1 yard behind the line of scrimmage and doesn’t allow for Henry to have any momentum and speed to hit the hole. He did his 1/11th and it was huge and consequential that changed up the Ravens hopes of rushing it in to forcing the Ravens to pass on 2nd and 3rd down and they eventually only get 3 points .