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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.

He did what just about anyone would’ve done, he went to the team that was guaranteeing him a lot more money and a starting position. Now that no team is going to pay him disproportionately more, he’s going where he wants to go (among the teams interested).

I don’t think a brand new FO and HC are looking at players like Trubisky as their long term options. On a short, reasonable deal while they draft their future, sure. They would realize that there is a possibility of getting lucky with such a reclamation project, but they wouldn’t bank on it.

I see Trubisky getting a bridge QB job next season. He can use that to try to prove himself and get a real shot somewhere.

Has not and I just looked.

Meh. A single key catch against NE would do little to move the needle. A game winning catch on Saturday would get him some momentary love, sure. But it would be fleeting. And anyone would get that. Ditto immortalization for a game winning SB catch. Knox, Mackenzie or a practice squad player would get that.

Honestly think he might’ve been pissed about the shot he took on the field. Looks like he took one in the head. That said, I think the biggest take away from this thread is that Beasley seems to be losing support amongst some of the posters here. That is certainly indicative of nothing but the fall off of his play. He’s not that expensive next season, but he could certainly be a cap casualty when the Bills go looking for space in March.

Cam Newton was a great comp when Allen was a prospect, but the divergence started immediately after he started playing in the NFL. Totally different - opposite really - career and performance arcs.

Well you know he can’t take Trubisky with him

Can anyone say when this happened so I can look for it when I re-watch the game? Even which quarter.

No, no, no. Stats only get thrown out if they’re unfavorable. Sometimes you have to dig just deep enough and look at them just the right way for them to finally become beautifully favorable.

Tough to fire a coach that went 8-1 in his last nine games of the season. Such a turnaround from their 1-7 start. They have to give him another season to see if he can keep that momentum going.