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But yet Crennel, Patricia, Flores...and in this age of NFL, if there's even a smack of a guy having an effect on a QB's development, he should be gone. Maybe it's as Hapless said, it's Bienemy's personal issues.

Why not Bienemy? It's funny how that band gets kept together every year...

Tennessee - Paper Tiger with a good defense and a recovering Henry. Green Bay - Extremely weak division, QB who seemed distracted much of the year. Tampa Bay - OL banged up, Godwin out. Plus I don't consider that place much of a home field anyway. I think you'd get more bang for your HFA buck at Highmark, and I'm sure the Chiefs got their share at their place.

I think the point would be that Mathieu was lost early in the game, and if you ask me, it appeared that they became more conservative once he left the game. My gut says they were trying to feather the clock to end Q2 with the ball, and got a little cute.

Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Indy. Those losses, two at home, completely murdered this season. I don't think this game is as close if the Bills are at home. But there was some kind of dysfunction through the Tampa game. Maybe it the vaccine distractions. Maybe it was some personnel troubles on the OL. Maybe there were some other locker room dramatics. Whatever the case, yes, they smoked a number of the lesser teams on their schedule. But they were not physically prepared in the three games I listed first. And I'd also add that I think the coaching staff slow played a lot of the early season to mask their preferred play calls/formations/strategies.

I think you should factor in this "culture" crap too. I don't think this head coach has the cutthroatedness to tell his defensive backs, "mug the WRs and Kelce at the line," which is absolutely what coaches like Belichick, Harbaugh, McVey, and many others would do. We're stuck with Mr. Clean, and more often than not Mr. Clueless.

OK - the yardage is kind of secondary in this discussion, in my opinion. You want where the rubber meets the road when it comes to "influencing" outcomes, here you go: Drive extenders. That's when the officials are earning their holiday "bonus."

Any idea when they used top draft capital on one? Or do you just want to argue that a 3rd/5th/7th are a veritable OL haul?

Another specialty is his seeming fetish for making sure the placekicker feels wanted and needed. Nothing changes about the endgame if you fail a 2pt conversion, but if you make it, Bass could have had a 2nd attempt at a tough FG into the wind at that end to bring it level. But I wondered at the time if we kicked the PAT because he wanted Bass to "get comfortable" or something utterly useless like that. Assuming everything else happens the same...which is sketchy to some regard.

Didn't see this prior, but it was pretty bad down below for the Colt game. Good money burned on a team sloughing off and a bunch of money-grubbers selling off their seats. Maybe they should miss the playoffs so that the "I'm going to sell my seat to pay for my playoffs" ppl get burned as they should.

I thought for awhile they were trying to put video down of some bland BS to save up the best for NE and the playoff stretch. Maybe they did, and couldn't do much to change it last night because of the weather. If that were the case, it might also explain a certain arrogance & lack of focus from the team - if they're being asked to win while hamstrung, maybe they would take that as a sign they don't need to take these games seriously.

He's very likely a born and bred Patriots fan, from that area from what I've read. How Bills fans/media tolerate his meddling is a strange question. I guess they figure he asks the tough questions, but when you spend some of the 17 years getting off to good starts only to have one media guy stir up ***** constantly to unsettle the team...

As far as fixing the offense - at this point Breida is the only guy who is finding the holes this pedestrian line is opening (when he hangs onto the ball). I think you need to give serious thought to trialing other backs (either off PS, another team's PS, or FA) at this point. Breida's ability to find those holes indicates it's not impossible, but you're forcing yourself to rely on two guys who are NOT getting the job done consistently. Very much so. Maybe in the 2022 Draft they can go out and get 2-3 more defensive linemen to help with this problem...

Here's a not-so-expert opinion on "the offense": - I think Daboll completely changed the offensive scheme to accentuate Allen's development as a passer. - I think Allen's development didn't progress this offseason, and may never progress further unless he takes the steps needed. To me, it looks like they've run a remedial offense, giving Allen hot reads knowing he can't read defenses. Last year they incorporated a lot more read-option, jets, and other option-friendly plays (i.e. good for QB's that struggle to read coverages). I'm guessing they started going to town on more elaborate route trees, and at some point - maybe as early as the Steeler game - they realized he's not actually reading the defense, and as soon as Read #1 is neutralized he's lost and scrambling for his life. This was a game they needed to have. It was a clear game where you didn't have to have any concern about the Tre White injury beating them. Instead Daboll played right into the Patriots hands with a 60% run scheme, compounded with some massive drops (especially from Knox, but if Diggs could have somehow hauled in the bomb the whole game changes entirely).

And it's easy to get the Bills to take themselves out of the game when they don't execute. They have gotten extremely nervy & don't handle pressure at the moment.

First down by penalty. That's your statistical clue to who the NFL is attempting to help.

1) Officials are asked to police too much. 2) Officials see Roger Goodell making bank on associating with gambling. 3) You do the math.

I'm sure you went through with a fine toothed comb to ensure the Steelers never ever ever in that game did a similar stare at the Bears bench. Ridiculous confirmation bias.

Passing yards per attempt > rushing yards per attempt. Very true. Also, if you were to graph passing y/a vs pass play %, there's going to be a curve generated. Most if not all of those curves would have a deflection point where defenses realize that YOU WILL NOT MOUNT A SUSTAINABLE RUNNING ATTACK. EVER. EVER. EVER. And then you're cooked. This absolutely all hinges on the offensive line. That graph I mentioned above is directly tied to OL. You can beat those kinds of zone coverage with time. With time the QB can move defenders with his eyes and expand the holes in the zone. But at the moment he's spending the first 3 seconds after the snap worrying where the pressure will be coming from. If you couple the Wyatt Teller debacle with the lack of development of Boettger & Ford, it sure looks like Johnson needs to go ASAP (the jury is still out on Brown, maybe Johnson hasn't had enough time to completely ruin him like Dawkins etc). You can't keep watching the same turnstiles.

Yep. But after every game, look at the players. Sure, they go in the locker room and put on a good show of despair and questioning. But it's a game for them. For some reason it's tough to take the same attitude as a fan. Probably because most of us aren't millionaires.

There were some bad Kelly era losses too. This happens. Forces unseen & untold. The other thing that these young'uns have watched is all these New England years where they rarely had a bad loss. There are reasons that happened that way too. We know a few of those reasons (a bunch of others were burned by Goodell). I didn't really think we had a chance at losing this game, but then again, I also wouldn't have gone out boasting this was a pushover game either. Of course, when the only reason a person is a Bills fan is to get drunk and jump through a table, I guess maybe there's not much crow to get eaten...

Unfortunately the table-jumpers never lived through the real pain of just desserts. These guys are 25 and think that 17 year drought was all there is. Try sleeping after losing a Super Bowl on a field goal. Try thinking about going to work the next day and facing friends who you may have been slightly arrogant with about your team maybe winning. But that's the Maf...

Welcome to the gambling-partnered NFL, where if you cover too much, they'll come to get you.

Teams don't really believe that, only dumb fans who need something to be aggrieved about, and irritated bettors who got pipped by the late TD. It's not like the game was 45-3 or something. It's as bad as that point spread at the end of the game, must have been a real blowout.

Wyatt Teller would be nice.