GunnerBill

Offense: 1. Daboll 2. Brady 3. Dorsey 4. Dennison Defense: 1. Frazier 2. Babich 3. McDermott

Don't think so. I mean I'd never say never if Josh lobbies for him. But I think they'd go another route.

It has been the case since 2020. The Bills have been a top 5 team in terms of 4th down aggression by the numbers since Josh broke out basically.

I mean most sensible sports are one game eliminations. Just your funny 'merican sports that normally are different.

Yea I agree. As long as the let them play is broadly consistent (and I think it was) I prefer it that way.

My personal take on the 1st down runs was they were precisely to remain on schedule. I'm not saying it worked as the Bills would have hoped.... I'm sure they would have liked to be getting 3-4 yards rather than 1-2 on those runs but it felt like "I am not going to let the Chiefs force negative plays get me into 2nd and 3rd and 10 plus when you get the craziest blitzes in Spags playbook." I don't think it was about trying to set stuff up later or wear the defense out or any of those theories. I think it was simply a means of trying to avoid negative plays. I think there was a confidence that the Chiefs secondary was vulnerable especially with McDuffie not in top form and Watson injured and there would be plays to be made on 3rd down as long as we were not "behind the sticks". The thing that particularly makes me think that is the obvious solution to getting stoned running up the middle is tosses and sweeps and run plays to attack the edges. While Cook's first TD was an edge run the next drive they ran a toss where he should have been tackled in the backfield for a loss of about 5 yards and instead scampered forward, kept his balance and turned it into a short gain. After that - no more tosses - which suggests the risk of being 2nd and 15 or someone was not one Brady was willing to take. They only had 3 negative plays on the day and all were for -1. Two on first down and one on second down so in that sense I think it worked, but they would have been hoping to be more effective that the 1-2 yard average on first down, no doubt. They need to look at how we crank some more yards out of 1st down (both run and pass actually) if we meet them again in January. But I think stopping the Chiefs defense from creating negative plays at the same time has to be part of that equation too.

Hahahaha. I feel insulted! Although Lidl are charging £13 for a turkey crown which is nuts.

Yea I normally cook during the Detroit game and eat during the Dallas game. Will be swapping that around this year. Late dinner I think 😆

The main person who didn't and still doesn't realise that is Aaron Rodgers.

Luck plays a bigger part in sport than most want to admit.

Saffold is the worst Bills player I have ever seen the team stick with as a starter for an entire year in my 22 years of fandom I think. I've seen other bad players have runs as starters but eventually they get benched. Not Ol' Rog. He was rolled out to make my eyes bleed weekly.

Benching him wouldn't have helped. The problem with Aaron hasn't been his throwing the ball. It is everything else. It is the poison that seeps out of every pore of the man. The toxic, corrosive, self-absorbed attitude. Once they brought that into their locker room for a 40 year old past his prime, they were dead. I think Douglas and Saleh were, two years ago, a Quarterback away from being the men that made the Jets relevant again. I know this sounds mad... they'd have been better trading for Derek Carr. Because all that young team needed was competent Quarterbacking and Carr, while limited, would have given them competent play without disrupting the chemistry of that young group in the locker room. Instead they sacrificed all the culture they had built to pander to the ego of a poisonous individual. When the story of Aaron Rodgers career is written in years to come it will be the story of one of the most incredible Quarterbacking talents to ever play the game whose biggest rivalry was with his own personality. And sadly the Quarterback lost to the person too many times.

My overall take on this year's schedule was tricky, but like the home slate, tough on the road. Next year I think tough home slate (but the Bills are great at home) but there isn't a single road game there that I go "man that's tough." Maybe Houston? Steelers and Falcons are not "easy" but the Bills are better than those two teams.

I think they have to keep showing they are willing to attack outside. It will open up those spaces that the Bills really want to attack in the middle of the field even more. I still want to see more Kincaid vertical when he returns. They managed to find that element when Brady took over last year but his depth of target has been down again this season. I know that is influenced some by the increase in his usage on screens and other catch and run concepts at the line but I want to see them find a way to get him vertical in that 10-20 yard range and I think spreading defenses out more horizontally my making them worry more about the Bills attacking outside will help. But we have definitely found a groove on offense in the past few weeks. Starting a bit better, putting up 30 regularly even with injuries, 3rd down conversions are up on earlier in the year. Definitely encouraging.

Orlovsky is the man. Great demonstration too of how you need the right call and the right execution to make a big play work. Great concept and a great job by the Bills players.