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I don’t believe this is the case at all. I believe McDermott is setting expectations, knowing that it’s difficult for a WR who doesn’t know the language or scheme to immediately be able to walk in to make a consistent difference. I would suspect that he’s happy to potentially have a WR who can win man to man matchups and that he could give this team a boost heading into the playoffs.

People tend to over exaggerate. The Bills in 2 of the last 3 years were arguably 1 play away each year from beating the Chiefs and being the SuperBowl favorites. The Chiefs were barely the better team. The difference for me is that in those critical moments either the coaching wasn’t up to par and play makers such as Chris Jones made an all world play to disrupt an eventual TD whereas our players like Diggs doesn’t come up with a play and Bass misses a FG he should make. We weren’t that far off and even in a mini rebuild year like this we are right there.

Strengths - Really good route runner - Has more speed than Diggs - Very good against press coverage Weakness - Doesn’t always give it his all and takes plays off

This was without doubt Josh Allen's worst game. He threw balls that easily could have been intercepted, he was forcing passes down the field when there were many times throughout the game open receivers for underneath routes. He bailed out of the pocket too early missing receivers on numerous opportunities. On that last drive where everyone were blaming the receivers and McD/Brady, on two of the plays, specially the 2nd down play he had Kincaid open for an easy 7 yarder with a possibility of more yards afterwards, he also had the WR at the bottom for a 6 yarder and he also had Shavers who would have been open on an anticipation throw that would have been for about 12 yards. Honestly, I think his mental timing was off because Houston was getting decent pressure and he began rushing himself and in the 2nd half he tried to make big plays down the field rather than going for the easy stuff which was there. It happens to the best of them, hopefully he gets back to basics and looks for those underneath passes that are there to be had.

I think the key matchup for the day will be Shakir. Shakir has been phenomenal when targeted and the Ravens and Hamilton have been very weak so far this year with the intermediate passing game. Buffalo by design is an “everyone eats” sort of an offense but I do believe the rate of the equal distribution we have seen is somewhat unsustainable and I believe we will begin to see some receivers begin to emerge and breakout from what we’ve seen so far. Today’s game most likely will see the most competitive game yet for the Bills and I like Shakir’s matchup and I think you could see a 7+ reception game from him today.

Buffalo’s wide receivers relatively speaking suck. At least that’s what some on this board say You can make a strong argument that this is one of the best metrics to determine quality of WR play.

Definitely not this year but we do have some big decisions to make in the next year or so. Rousseau Benford Bernard Cook Rasul Douglas Shakir You can’t keep all of them. Most likely have to let go of 2 of out of this group and my guess is that Douglas and Cook would be at the top of that list. Which is why priority #1 for the Bills is to re-sign as many of them as they can and accumulate picks to continue to keep drafting well to replace the ones we can’t keep. The idea of going after shiny toys in FA (cough cough WR) or via trade is most likely not in their plans. Thankfully Beane has put us in a position to have lots of money to re-sign many of these guys with lots of premium and overall draft picks.

This is the point that I’ve been hammering away since before the draft, that most SuperBowl winners over the past 20 years have done it without true prototypical “1” WR’s How many stud #1’s did NE have out of their 7 wins? answer 0 How many out of 3 KC’s wins ? answer 1 The New York Giants 2 wins? 0 New Orleans 1 win? 0 GreenBays 1 win? 0 You can go back and find even more examples if you dig deep enough. The Bills Wide Receivers with combination of great play calling, elite QB and their ability to execute, not drop the ball and get lots of YAC is a winning formula and they have the horses to go the distance. It’s just a matter of the entire team does it for 4 quarters when they play the Chiefs in the playoffs .

Keon is so sLoW

Using yards receiving stats as somehow being indicative and proof positive that the Bills WR’s are a “middling” group is peak idiocy. We could do the same for the TE production and it would be somewhere in the middle as well, RB’s the same. I guess if that’s the stat line we are going with then we just have a middling group of offensive receiving talent that is miraculously performing at an elite level that no other offense has equaled this year lol. You guys are a hoot

Thats the only scenario I see the Bills making a trade for a proven upper end WR prospect. If there are no significant injuries to the WR group there will be no trade

Absolutely not! I strongly believed going into the season that we had better receiving talent than the loudest voices on this board and that it wasn’t necessary to have a true “#1” wide receiver to make it work. Out of the 10 superbowls that were won between Brady and Mahomes only 1 time was there a true WR. Shakir is fantastic, Kincaid and Cook are really good, Coleman and Samuels are effective and Mack Hollins is a good role player not to mention Knox is a high end TE 2 and the other two RB’s are well above average receiving threats. You combine that with our top 5 O- line and top 2 QB this team is good to go on offense.

Von is 6th in pass pressure win rate in the league. You saw signs of this in the pre season, you could also hear it in his voice and words that he had something to prove to everyone including himself. He’s pretty close to where he was 2 years ago and this version of Von is a huge plus for the Bills and their prospects going forward for this year.

MVS got open for two deep passes and Josh overthrew him. The 2 for 5 is most certainly not MVS’s blame. Didn’t see this. Yep

You also thought paying Spencer Brown was a bad idea. He’s going to get waaaay more than that. More like the range of 3/4 ish type money.

Im guessing he will be signed to a deal somewhere around $22M a year and he’s totally worth it As much as I would like to keep Rasul, he’s most likely a cap casualty. We still have Rousseau, Benford, Bernard and Cook to consider to re-sign.

More stats indicating that Josh Allen is getting lots of help from his pass protection:

Spencer Brown and Dion Dawkins

It's early but so far the Bills are winning in the trenches on all fronts, pass protection, run blocking, pass rush rates and run stopping. If this continues this bodes extremely well for a potential deep run in the playoffs.

The Chiefs are vulnerable at both the tackle spots and that is a weakness that can be exploited. The Ravens have a below average offensive line unit. There are opportunities for the Bills to win against these two teams.

So far so good

He violently separated at the very end to get that catch.