GunnerBill

He still isn't going to make guys miss like Cook. But against a team with major beef in the middle like the Titans maybe I'd have flipped the snap counts last night. Worth saying on Davis's big run 3rd Quarter the Bills two guards did a terrific job on the two massive Tennessee DTs. Edwards took Simmons out of the play and Torrence had a terrific block on Sweat. COT has been an encouraging story the last two weeks. He had a garbage first month of the year but he has just played two good games back to back. Rather suggests those of us who speculated he had come into the season out of shape might have been onto something. Took him 4 weeks to get game fit.

That one was a freak injury too. He got stepped on. Hopefully once the swelling subsides there isn't any serious damage and it is a quick turnaround. He was dodgy first game back vs Houston, started to find his rhythm second half of the Jets game and was as you say - spectacular - last night.

They'd have beaten Miami and Jacksonville IMO. But that says more about the failings of those teams in those games. Our D won us the Miami game and Jacksonville's total ineptitude won us the Jags game. Last night's is an interesting question. Tennessee and Rudolph especially (who I think is v similar level to Trubisky) were clueless second half, but the Bills couldn't really get much going on the ground excluding the one big Davis run. So they had to win through the air. If that is Trubisky it's a 13-10 either way type game. I lean towards we'd probably be 2-4 with Mitch, possibly 3-3... but I think Arizona is a convincing defeat and Houston is as much of a blow out as Baltimore was.

Sean had nothing on it at the end. Hoped to for the Monday presser.

Yea Baltimore are an elite level team and on the day they outcoached, outmuscled and out executed the Bills. They played a top team who were firing on all cylinders and the Bills got whacked. I think Houston is a better example of their "let's see what they have early and then we will have an advantage late" working to an extent. They just couldn't pull it out at the end and they'd want, I'm sure, to have been better on offense first half. I don't think it is a big adjustment they need to make. But a few tweaks to try and get off to quicker starts are required IMO.

Yea I don't think it is a McDermott issue - though of course ultimately the buck stops with him - so much as it is a bit of a sign of the inexperienced coordinators. Brady in particular has gotta do a better job with his first 15. At the moment I feel like his first 15 are mainly used as a way of establishing to the opponent that the Bills are willing to run it at you if you make them. But run run pass punt; pass pass pass punt; run run pass punt - was the first three drives yesterday and I feel like that has been a common combination on early drives this year. When Dorsey had the O cooking in early 2022 he was a fan of the 1st down pass, 2nd down run combination and I wonder now with a better run game whether Joe could mix some more of that in. We have also got away from the shifts and motion that was so successful in the early weeks and for me we have to get back to it. On D I just think break tendency a bit earlier. Maybe run more cover 3 on those early drives and less 2 deep shell and dare teams to beat you over the top a bit. I know it is riskier but might just get teams out of their nicely scripted opening 15 if they think they have a chance for an explosive and maybe they overthink, take a penalty, make a mental error, throw a pick etc. Once the game is in its flow they mix it up well but they are a bit predictable early.

The standard of special teams coaching in the league overall is so poor. Gives the well coached teams in that regard a major advantage.

It's one of the biggest inconsistencies in the NFL playbook IMO. If you are a "runner" at the point you break the plane with possession it's a touchdown. If you are still considered as being in the process of a catch at the point you break the plane it is not a touchdown until you have completed the catch. I don't know how you fix it because if you go the other other way and say a player who crosses the plane while in the process of making a catch is in once he breaks the plane then you have an inconsistency with a player making a catch in the endzone who isn't credited with the catch, and thereby the touchdown, until he has completed all elements of the process. Personally, the bit of the rule they have gone way over the top with that played into Keon's play not being a TD last night is the "control" part of establishing possession. They are obsessed with "is the ball still moving" and in my view Keon caught the ball while his left foot was down, then got his right foot down and then the left came down again out of bounds. The fact that the ball was still moving when his initial left foot was in contact with the ground - so what? He had it, he never lost it, both feet were in with Keon having the ball. Don't get me wrong the officials called it right by the current rules and interpretation. I knew from the first replay it was not gonna count. But I think they need to look again at how they are defining this "control" point. Because it sucks.

Yea but not really after wins. When he got criticised was almost always after losses. If turnovers lead to losses that is when the talking heads pop up and if KC were losing at the moment you better believe they'd be all over Mahomes for his mistakes

What the Bills do on defense is pretty well established. And teams come out with all the stuff they have been working on all week to counter - all their clever design and their tendency breakers - and they have some success with it. But the Bills soon cotton on and adjust to take that stuff away and then it becomes less a gameplan game and more an execution of fundamental scheme game and once that happens against the bad to average teams the Billd have an advantage. But they have to find some way to tackle the slow starts. I suspect that means breaking some of their own tendencies early to mix it up and get away from the opposition knowing what they are going to get in terms of defensive looks those first few drives.

If Mahomes puts that in front Kelce makes that catch.

Skyy Moore sucks.

Would I? Yes. Do I think the Bills will? No. But I wouldn't make a change mid season to a guy who hasn't been here for 3 years. Would have to be after the season.

Meanwhile Patty Pick just threw another.

He had a bad half against Houston. Otherwise I think Josh is playing the best football of his life, especially given the context in which he is being asked to succeed. He has had the odd mistake here and there but he has been pretty faultless for 6 and a half of seven games.

Yea it is not being talked about because it isn't hurting. If they lose a couple of games and the O still stinks you better believe it will be talked about.

They are adjusting really well. But their first quarters especially are terrible. Gotta get it fixed. It is gameplan for a large part.

I wouldn't say the only reason but certainly a significant part. Totally outcoached first quarter. On both sides. The slow starts week after week are on them to get sorted. No question.

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Love it. Fair play this team was dreadful for a quarter. But they have been exceptional since. Gotta figure out the slow starts.

Yes. He was slowing at the end.

And when all you need him to be is your 2.... that skillset can work. Cooper Coleman Shakir Kincaid I mean it isn't fantastic. But it gives you a shot. Before the trade we didn't have that shot.

Put it this way... had he not been caught he would have reached the endzone.... On Thursday.

Yea he can come out now please.

Thats how to use Keon