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I think Baltimore did a nice job on D. But I also blame a lot of our offensive woes on the wind. Guys were open, but throws were off or not attempted due to the wind. If Baltimore did one thing pretty well, it was bracketing Beasley. They doubled him more than I thought. If this happens this week, the Bills really need to feed John Brown a lot more. He had a lot of opportunities last week, and he will absolutely kill the chiefs if they cover him with their 3rd or 4th best DB. Cover 1 guys seem to mostly support me:

Great win against Miami tonight. Defense clicking and the offense looks a lot better when the guards can make baskets. Nice to see Edwards get some minutes. Tough stretch coming up.

saban just collects his buddies needing a career re-boot. What a soft landing spot. They will win a few national titles and those guys can move back into the NFL.

Only the jags promote their failures. I thought for sure Marrone would land somewhere in the organization too. Good luck to Urban Meyer!

I know our receivers are banged up, but I believe this game will largely depend on the play of our WR’s. In the games we have won, our receivers have made critical catches and executed at a super high level, especially in the red zone. Toe drags, diving endzone grabs, fingertip catches. We are going to need them all to bring their A games, and make championship level plays.

Ready for the off-season? He’s going to be ready for this Sunday.

When I re-watched the Week 6 highlights, I couldn’t even recognize the Bills. The offensive Sets looked dramatically different. The playcalling was very different, on both sides of the ball, but especially on O. And the personnel looked different too. I am not sure who all was injured, but Josh Norman seemed to get a ton of snaps (maybe Levi was out), and the D-line rotation was different. I think this game will look nothing like the first time around. I think both teams will figure out ways to throw the ball a lot more. And there is no chance the chiefs run the ball as much or as effectively. The Bills scheme and personnel is a lot better. Not saying they will shut CEH down— but he is not going to have gaping holes every play.

The media chatter re Mahomes, including the stuff from the chiefs, is horribly speculative. There is a reason there is a process. No one will know anything concrete until like Friday or even Saturday.

that is what is shocking when you go back and look at that game. The offense during that game looks nothing like the offense now. A lot of the game josh was under center too.

is this for real? Apparently, teams just nominate their worst guys now.

You are really playing with some major jinx fire here.

Anyone see any good write-ups re KC’s defensive schemes and tendencies? I know spags likes to mix it up— but curious to see what coverages he favors.

the recency bias is getting comical. Literally 4 days ago they talked about how bad the Bills defense is because of what the colts did to them.

Having two Kumerow threads going on at the same time just feels so right.

This is why I have gone on record advocating that we play all games in Arizona. Terry— git r Done!

one day we can all hope and dream for a game when Kumerow, Duke, and Antonio Williams will all be active and on the field at the same time.

Great thoughts!

ironically, the weather is looking pretty perfect in Buffalo next week— 20’s and no wind. Apparently, can’t win with the weather!

its amazing how highly leveraged the Saints have been for years. I remember when they signed Jairus Byrd way back when, and they were way over the cap even then and folks were scratching their heads. They always seem to find a way to restructure everyone.

From what I read, ravens do this as a courtesy to these guys— Cut them right away so it frees them up. Did the same to RG3 Today too, I guess.

Kind of interested in how KC defends the Bills. In the first game, they blitzed Josh a lot. He was pretty so-so against it, making them pay with his legs a few times, but otherwise didn’t do much damage finding open guys in the passing game. Will they blitz him, or rush 4 and try to play coverage, similar to what Baltimore mostly did?

Dumb question— but could one of the remaining playoff teams sign him, similar to Kenny Stills or Freeman?

I really hope that the issue was personnel then, and that we are much stouter up front. The gaping holes last time we played was not pretty!!

I just watched the game highlights from last game, and am kind of shocked at how we played those guys and the success we had. Outside of Kelce juking out Edmunds on an option route for a TD, we kept both Hill and Kelce in check. The guy that hurt us in the passing game was their 2nd or 3rd receiver (DeMarcus Robinson). i am also surprised that our rush did pretty good in Mahomes and we even blitzed him with some success. in terms of the Run d, the d-line just got gashed, and our Lb’s and safeties were just missing lots of tackles. Maybe they run the same scheme and hope they cleaned up the execution errors. I will say that we were pretty close to making that last one a game. They scored a a TD on a 4th and 1, and we missed a long FG before the end of the half. Pretty good, for getting totally gouged in the run game.

One thing that KC does great, which I wish we replicated more, is their jet sweeps. They constantly run them, and always seem to bust one for a longish gain. They also almost always motion the jet sweep. We have occasional success with it, but not the weekly success KC has.