BarleyNY

Excellent read about our game plan for week 5 against KC. Long read, but quality information there. Notably it looks like the same basic plan as we employed against NE last weekend. KC has a great offense too. Their defense has some players on it, but also has flaws. The coaching chess match will be fascinating. Should be some scoring in this one. LFG! https://readoptional.substack.com/p/bills-josh-allen-daboll-offense-scheme

Most stadiums have a lot of tickets for sale because of businesses that scalp tickets. They own a lot of season tickets in addition to the tickets they buy and sell. They often have relationships with people working in sales for teams/venues. Plus there are always individuals looking to make money on their tickets.

It would make a lot of sense to have them come as a package deal. It is so important to have the GM & HC on the same page. I have not seen a report that Daboll interviewed with the Giants, but he might be waiting on Schoen’s hire first. I have seen that they are interested in him though. https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/amp/bills_oc_brian_daboll_considered_favorite_for_giants_hc_job_if_team_hires_bills_asst_gm_joe_schoen/s1_127_37026797

You call them clowns but think Leno was funny? There’s never been a bigger, albeit very well paid, hack than Leno. He was the epitome of how not to do comedy. He did for late night TV what Little Hug did for kids drinks.

Fun fact. Prior to marketing Marlboro cigarettes with The Marlboro Man they had aimed their campaign at women with the slogan Mild as May. Same exact product.

He’s a Pats player that just signed a 3 year, $12.75M extension. What else would he say?

Yes. Want the home game.

Josh Allen, Brian Daboll, and a gameplan 800 days in the making Excellent article from Read Optional that talks about the Bills game plan for the week 5 matchup. Very much worth the read. I thought that the game plan for the beat down of the Pats looked very similar. I expect more of the same plus some added wrinkles this time around with KC. Both teams have explosive offenses and can put a lot of points on the board, but the Bills have a better defense than the Chefs. I expect that to be the difference.

Bills vs. Chiefs Point spread: Chiefs -2.5 Point total: 52.5 Moneyline: Chiefs -135, Bills +115 https://dknation.draftkings.com/platform/amp/2022/1/16/22884259/bills-vs-chiefs-odds-divisional-round-2022-nfl-playoffs-opening-point-spread-lines-total

Wonder what the over/under is gonna be?

Cowboys aren’t very good. 6-0 in the NFCE, 5-6 against everyone else.

As long as BB doesn’t have a good QB up his sleeve I am not too worried.

Here’s an article from just after the KC game that talks about what Daboll and the Bills did with our offense in that game and prior. It also touches on the development of Allen and the offense prior to that season. https://readoptional.substack.com/p/bills-josh-allen-daboll-offense-scheme

There’s so much money at stake in the NFL I’m sure there is plenty of seedy behavior already. The official cozying up of the NFL and the gambling industry will certainly lead to greater issues.

Daboll is a very, very good OC. I’d like him to stay, but he’ll probably get an opportunity to move on and get a HC job this off-season. Also it’s getting to be a better time for him to do so in his personal life. (Nothing nefarious on the personal side.)

Been thinking about where the Bills are and what lies ahead in the playoffs and I keep coming back to this: Looking at the whole gauntlet of likely opponents is a lot more daunting than any one game they’ll have to play. They are right there with the other top teams. I’d expect the Bills to win a given game against many teams we could play - NE included - and the others are still beatable. You never know. Prepare well and play your best games and no one knows what’ll happen. I am prepared to enjoy the ride. I hope everyone else does too. Go Bills! *I’m not sure that this deserves its own thread, but I had no idea where else to put it.

Gotta make sure the bar’s kitchen is still open too. Probably will be some open late due to crowds watching the game tho.

Mitch Morse requests that Josh takes all snaps from the shotgun. None from under center please.

Club pricing is to keep out the riff raff. Businesses taking/sending clients to games don’t want some idiot puking on or starting a fight with them.

Yes. The rule is one 3rd round comp pick in each of the next two drafts.

Yup. Always depends on the price. Not a bad idea to tell him to check out the market and keep us in mind. Maybe if the offers he sees are modest we can match and he can play here, in a place he likes with teammates he likes.

Could just be that the Bills had a convo with Shaq’s agent about signing him if we need him due to injury in the playoffs. Or they’re keeping the door open for next season (though I think that is less likely).

No. How that is presented is a little deceivingly. It is purely guaranteed salary the Jest owe him and are eating. If a team had claimed him off waivers, they’d have been on the hook for about $9.2M next season. Now he is a FA.

Do they though?

Firstly, I’m not sure how you turned “get lucky” into “seriously consider”. I by no means suggested that Trubisky or someone like him should be someone’s primary strategy. As for who has made the jump on their second team after being replaced early and/or after little or limited success with their first team, I’d say Tannehill certainly qualifies. If you go back further, Kurt Warner is an obvious example. Alex Smith qualifies and a case can be made that Brees does too. While he wasn’t a total flop in SD, he did not play well enough soon enough that he wasn’t replaced. That all said, I do not have high hopes that Trubisky will be successful as a starting NFL QB. But I can allow for a slim chance that he could. In any event, I think he’s good enough to be a bridge/backup QB in the league. Combine that with a poor QB draft class and it makes sense for a QB needy team to go with someone like him that gives them an extra out (to use a poker term) rather than someone like Tyrod where there is zero chance of improvement. He makes sense in a place like Denver if they miss out on Rodgers and Wilson and have to draft a QB. A three year deal that’s really a one year deal at relatively low salary with a two year option at starting QB money makes sense for a player like Trubisky. He can go into a good situation there and try to raise his value.