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I am very concerned with how invested we are in both cash and draft capital and our lack of meaningful production.

So, like, are we not doing a game ball thread today?

I don’t think the OL is garbage. I think it’s “meh”. Allen/Dabs could help the line out quite a bit too. I don’t know what The deal is this year, but JA17 seems to be staring guys down from the snap. Even when it comes to screens. It’s not helpful. I get it, Josh is a different breed. He excels at plus that take some time to develop. He is also good on the run. But Jesus, sometimes you have to be able to get behind center and let the ball fly when you hit your back foot on your third step. I put that in Josh and Daboll. We don’t call it, and Josh never lets it go.

Allens choice to go to Diggs on the final 4th down rather than Sanders who was right in front of him cost the team the opportunity at a tie.

No defense of the OL or Daboll here. But…. The last offensive play of the game felt like a microcosm of some glaring offensive issues. Allen drops back. Protection holds up. Allen rolls right for no real reason. He has Sanders open at the stick, but instead decides to thread the needle to Diggs. Allen was bad and the OL were also bad.

Some juju can’t be overcome. We are good enough to win this game with blue pants OR Allen on the Manningcast. But not both. Universe 1, Buffalo 0.

Im not going to defend the O-Line or Daboll a whole lot. But it feels like the last offensive play of the game was a microcosm. Protection holds up fine. Allen rolls left late for no real reason. He has Sanders open at the pylon in front of him. Tries to thread the ball to Diggs. That feels like Josh all season. You can’t be consistent with that type of decision making. He’s young and a great QB, but he has to stop that.

We keep a lot of guys for ST who are waaay down in the depth chart. Does Taiwan Jones block for field goals? He is like RB7, if he’s not blocking that feels like a very teachable skill.

I think number 3 will benefit 1 and 2 greatly. And really the only way we can relieve the pressure off the OL mid season at this point.

What is the context of this text message? Who is it between/from? Good for the league to push this off to the Packers, I guess. But does the league not keep track of who is vaccinated and who is not? Did they have no idea that Rodgers was not vaccinated and was not following league rules? From a 1000 foot view the “well it’s the team responsibility” answer makes sense….unless you spend 8 Mississippi’s thinking about it. Then it doesn’t make any sense. I think there are a number of scenarios in how this all plays out. I am curious how it all unfolds in terms of punishment from the league or lack there of.

I am one of the screen game Haters. Not that we don’t run them, but traditionally they haven’t been very good for us. I noticed it was much better vs Miami. But for whatever reason, screens feel like so much work for us. Peyton made note of something last night I thought was interesting. It has looked to me like Allen has been locking in on receivers early this year, screens included. Peyton made note that Mahomes had been locking in on his screens early in the game, but started to hold the safety’s for a second with his eyes then hit the screen. Not sure that’s thing that’s been happening with Josh, but it is something I immediately thought of when I heard that.

Gahhh…typo

Thanks for the education, sansei…

Totaly get that. I’m saying you’d think a young QB who WAS an emergency QB, would understand how important availability is to the league and his employer/team in general.

If so, consider Fromm no longer an employee of the Buffalo Bills come season end.

Right. Get that. But I would think that a guy who was an emergency QB would place more importance on getting vaccinated and how important availability is to his employer.

I am sorry? What did I get wrong? Josh is on IG in close contact with Tanner Gentry. If he doesn’t have the vaccine league rules may provide insight into JA’s vaccine status. Nothing in what was posted shared why Fromm is on the list. And if Fromm isn’t vaccinated, which is entirely possible, it’s wild to me that an emergency player wouldn’t be vaccinated.

We are about to find out if Josh got the Fauci Ouchie real quick. Interesting that Fromm was the emergency QB all last year because of the pandemic and he still might not have gotten vaccinated.

Did Jake Fromm getting covid/close contact cost the Bills a 2nd for Mitch?

Can you imagine? One year, you’re starting for the the Chiefs and blocking for Mahomes. Then the next year you’re on the front lines fighting a pandemic. A year after that you’ve lost your starting job. And a few weeks later a pandemic still rages on but now you’re on the NYJ blocking for Mike White.

I think he has like 3-4 years before he’s a UFA. His cap hit next year is $26M. I don’t know how much of that is tied up with Philly. But he is SUPER CHEAP after 2022. Converting his salary to a bonus alleviates a lot of the issues I believe. I don’t think he needs to take a pay cut at all.

He has a $26.5M cap hit next year.... How about a 5th with a conditional 2nd if he restructures. Even that fees wonky.

That is a MAJOR issue with talent ID if true... Beane has invested a ton of draft capital into the defense. OTC also has us with the 3rd most expensive LB corp. and Spotrac has us with the 2nd most expensive DL. (I used both because OTC separates Edge Rushers, and we run a 4-3). Oliver - 1st round Epenesa - 2nd round Groot - 1st round Basham - 2nd round Edmunds - 1st round Philips -3rd round

I would much rather have Fitz than Cam as a backup, Fitz cycle aside. Cam is toast. RFP would be fine in the locker room.

In college I believe the play gets blown dead immediately if somebody loses their helmet.