BarleyNY

Because NFL officiating never makes a mistake?

Now you’re just being silly.

And anyone who understands basic logo can tell you that you throw the challenge flag because the cost to you is zero and the potential benefit is large, even if the odds are small.

Because refs are infallible? Or are you saying that it wasn’t worth risking nothing on the off chance we get the call overturned and maintain the TO?

Chances might’ve been slim - they weren’t 0.0% - but the cost was nothing.

My post that you responded to very clearly referenced only the play with 3:30.

WTF are you talking about? The timeout we are discussing came with 3:30 left in the 4th qtr. It was after the pass to Cook on the sideline that was ruled incomplete. McD called a timeout rather than throw the challenge flag. At that point in the game the challenge flag would have been the correct decision if he was going to call a TO anyway. That’s because the Bills had both challenges left and challenges can’t be used after the 2 min warning. So he wound up wasting both. Better to have had a chance at getting the call reversed - especially since it would have cost the Bills nothing.

Exactly what I said at the time too. There was only 3:30 left in the game and we had both challenges left. It would’ve cost us nothing to challenge. It would have given us a longer TO even if we didn’t win it.

I honestly can see the Bills trading for a WR. It feels like it’ll be too little, too late. The team needs more than that to compete for a title (though it would be a good start). Even if they do make it to the playoffs they have to win there with a HC that has a consistent habit of freezing up and making mistakes. Allen can’t cover up all the deficiencies and that too. He needs more help than one WR can give him. Though an Amari Cooper or the like would make the season a lot more enjoyable.

Gotta find ways to scheme some people open more often. Utilizing Samuel in some rational way would also help.

That’s not remotely true. Lotta folks here bought into that exact narrative that the Bills pushed through their mouthpieces. Everybody eats! We won’t have just one stud WR that teams can key on and take away! No team wins if they have to pay an elite WR! This is the smart way to build a WR corps! All that garbage was posted here ad naseum. It was posters drinking the kool aid and being hopeful. The biggest issue this is causing is what we’ve seen the last two games. Allen is holding the ball because no one is open and that’s getting him hit a lot more. That can do damage to him and this team that lasts beyond this season.

After our 3-0 start I posted that I’d be stoked if we came out of the next three games 5-1. Also I wore a Bills sweatshirt a couple times this past week. So I’m pretty sure these last two are on me.

Combination of turf toe and horrifically poor usage.

Josh probably thought he was throwing to a competent NFL WR with at least bare minimum NFL speed.

Notably Allen was 0-5 passing after his head bounced off the turf.

Agreed. But it could’ve been done differently. They have really set Allen and the offense up for failure.

It’s worth listening to the media that parrots the company line. It’s easy to spot them since they all seem to get the same memo at the same time and say the same thing. The “everyone eats/we are gonna spread the ball around” shtick started like that. All it told me was that the team wanted me and the rest of the fans to believe WR wasn’t going to be a problem. And when they have to sell the fans that hard on something like that, then we should all know it’s gonna be a problem. Because they know it’s a problem.

He stopped taking my calls after I told him not to draft Elam.

It’s ridiculous that Hollins is seeing the field at all, much less as much as he is. But there are better answers to that problem than Doubs and his attitude.

Easy. Because Diggs was an elite WR and Doubs is nothing more than a complimentary WR. It can be worth taking the chance on a problem child if the talent warrants it. No reason to do so when it doesn’t.

I don’t see how acquiring him could possibly go wrong.

Difficult to blame Beane while looking at the overall body of work. He put enough talent on the field to win it all, but coaching has blown that. As for this season, it was a planned step back and financial reset. I believe that it was originally planned for next offseason, but injuries to White and Miller plus Diggs’ push to leave caused the Bills to move it up a season. McD and Beane have both been given extensions so I expect them both to be here for the rebuild. I think we’d have to see a big catastrophe and/or McD would have to lose the locker room for Pegula to move on from them. As for this season, there’s still time to make a trade for a player like Amari Cooper. fingers crossed

That’s some serious revisionist history. 90% of this board was in denial about him pushing his way out, thought he was untradeable and said we needed his talent on the team. That only changed AFTER he was traded.

No. We are saving almost nothing due to Miller’s reworked contract. Between salary and active roster bonuses Miller will lose about $375k. That comes off the Bills cap, but another player will replace him on the 53. The league minimum salary for a first year rookie is $795k. Four games of salary at that rate is $187k. So the most cap space the Bills will save is about $188k.* * Edited to add: A player that we are already paying who is coming off IR would not add to the cap. We could get the whole $375k in savings in that case.

Amari Cooper is the obvious choice if the Browns continue to struggle and he becomes available. The “everybody eats” shtick is just being done out of necessity. The Bills need more talent at WR on the outside if they want to compete in the playoffs.