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That freakin attempted murder + child endangerment + domestic abuse

At some point you have to let McKenzie have an opportunity to win that job

If the Bills are healthy on the OLine, I'll be honest I don't see this being super competitive in the 4th quarter. Teams that are going to give the Bills problems are teams who disciplined enough to stick to a conservative defensive game plan, and have a front 7 that can stop the run without blitzing - and can win their matchups on the dline - without blitzing often. I can Reich getting points though. Can see this as a 38 - 24 game or something

Jonathan Taylor is loudly having a better year

If the bills hadn’t turned this into a blowout though the bills would have had a chance to keep them under 250 yards. gotta give up the underneath stuff to trade yards for one now

Jets are playing a bit stupid but the improvement in the Bills run blocking is really welcome - even against a bad run D

Think they had something with Ford. If he was the mauler they thought he’d be, this is a very different conversation

Don’t really care about that drive. Bills get 2 possessions in a row. can the oline block enough for deep crossers? That’s the key

That’s a pass

Well. They can’t run block effectively, they don’t have a RB that can make up for a sub par offensive line blocking, and they can’t protect against any kind of blitz that allows for longer developing routes that can beat deeper zones. so this is more Beane than Daboll

Really not too complicated. Defenses has decided that Allen is a legit MVP type QB, and took away the explosive plays. Bills don’t have a counter punch to that

It’s actually been ok. They’re playing coverage for the most part. Don’t have an elite pass rusher just a bunch of good ones - this is what you get

Would like the see some traditional run game play here. Making it too predictable right now

Especially with Tommy Doyle at LT. You knew the Jets would bring an extra or two to make 1v1 match ups. Both backups lost their matchups there. no passing lane for Josh

He was frustrated with the protection- or lack there of

Yes to both. He's wildly underrated because about half his game is creating a no flu zone so the ball doesn't come near him. Edmunds is the future of the linebacker position. Micah Parsons came after him, and actually PSU might even have another in Brandon Smith. Tall, agile, loves to hit, can cover like safeties in their zones, and wildly athletic. Sheer weapon in the middle of the field

In other news, I'm starting Singeletary on my fantasy team

You don't want one of the 5 best LBs in the League?

because they don't add anything to the table the Bills already don't have.

Don't think this inhibits the Bills from claiming OBJ, as I'm sure they could convert someone's salary to a bonus to add the $4M neccesary

I really want it to be Buffalo. We need something better than the Davis/Sanders monster at the X, He's still so fast and smooth in his routes, even if he's lost some pop after the catch. Bills OLine will get healthy. Only 2/5ths of the starting OLine was available against the Jags. Most NFL teams don't have enough depth to roster 8-9 starting quality lineman

It's your 2nd sentence of which I I'm really going to have a hard time agreeing with. 'However, Josh's job is to make the right decision in every circumstance.' I'm trying to find a good metaphor for this, and keep coming up short. Basically there's no amount of training - short of the psychological rebuilding we did to those soldiers in WWII to get them to CHARGE near certain death on DDay - that's going to allow Josh to maintain the right mental state to keep making the right decisions, when you had the Jags consistently blowing through the line off the snap. I wouldn't be surprised if their pressure rate was about 50% I don't know - maybe boxing? I'm nailing you with body shots for 5 straight rounds, and sure the first few rounds it didn't hurt, but by round 5 you're feeling them every time, and sure they're only landing 33% of the time, but man it hurts. So in about round round 7, I fake a body shot, but you react to it anyway, opening up a clean hook cross combo, and BAM. Well that's what happened to Josh eventually. He took enough body shots, that his body & brain began to fail them, and they degraded his mental training. You're asking to not just have perfect mental recall under unpredictable pressure, but to also overcome his basic fight/flight instinct. He's not a cyborg. He's still human, with human mental frailties - which are actually strengths because they keep you alive. His brain was putting more resources into not dying than it was towards diagnosing the defense.

if you're going to say Josh sucked, then you need to put that in perspective, because this was what Josh was dealing with yesterday look, any QB is a MASSIVELY mental position to play. If you don't trust your protection off the snap, then you're already in a losing position for that play, and those turnovers were probably a function of mental panic from Allen. When you have anxiety you speed up, you miss things, you lose your basic mental training. And Josh was dealing with deplorable protection. Rail on him all you want for those turnovers and not finding people open or diagnosing defenses when he had a clean pocket, but that can't be done in a vacuum. Everything is a function of his confidence in his protection, and then his confidence in his WRs.

I have my issues with the RBs, but that's a moo point if you can't run on the weak side of a defense that has basically 3 guys against your 4-5. I haven't seen Josh run around like that since he was a rookie. That probably wasn't something he wanted to do, or the game plan called for. I do think this is a bit fixable once Mongo and Brown come back, but I'd like to see some experimentation with Ryan Bates. I don't think he could be all that worse than Ford. Last point - we saw this when COVID ripped through the Liverpool lockeroom, so have some evidence. That disease has lasting impacts on athletes, and Dawkins is simply not right. You lose capacity and endurance and he's CLEARLY a shadow of his former self. The problem is that the Bills have nothing to replace him with, so they just have to struggle with him. If you have a finesse offense - which the Bills do - then the MOST important position (after the QB of course) are your tackles.

yes. You don't actually need a great OLine to win in the NFL. Just a not crap one. The Bills JV line just ain't it. It's exactly what caused the Chiefs offense to look so pathetic in the SB