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BIG ED!!!! I want to take care of the ball on this drive, but man.....I really want another TD for the offense here.

BOOM That is Josh MFN Allen.........

That was a hell of a play by Oliver. Can't overstate how good that was.

Throwing to the backs regularly is a MAJOR adjustment and we have some explosive ones. This scheme shift alone could open up the offense in a huge way. You can't change then entire playbook overnight, but you can run the parts of it that have been severely underutilized. That is the one thing that stood out about Brady in Carolina. He loved throwing to backs. If this is any indication of where this offense is headed, take the over on RB catches every week. PS. The STs are a disaster.

Scored on 4 out of 6 drives. Sure, you'd like to see at least one more of those drives end with a TD instead of a FG, but I'll take scoring 4 out of 6 times all day. We moved the ball well until the redzone. It's hard to fix everything in 5 days.

It didn't end well, but for a majority of the half, there were several positive signs. A ways to go, but you can't expect too much in 5 days of work. Put another half of football out there that looks semi competent and we'll see what happens. Not terrible overall, though.

We are severely handicapped without a real #2 WR on this team. Gabe Davis is just invisible. Awful.

Just when you thought we were going to get the ball back with a chance to put the nail in the coffin, these coaches pull out their vintage stuff and let a terrible team that hasn't scored a TD since the ice age stroll right down the field for a TD.

I know that is called in today's game, but man..... I hate it.

Just glad the dude is moving. Obviously a nerve issue. Just hope and pray it isn't serious.

Just remember all this happens because these idiot coaches didn't just put 2 gunners out there up 16.

Well, that was a major pick that wasn't called...... And now we'll have to pull people out of the stands to play DB at this rate.

How in the blue hell do you let that happen? That is embarrassing.

It hasn't been perfect, but the offense looks competent. For once, they used motion for a purpose rather than just running someone across the field for no real reason. They identified Cook's guy and set him up. There was no way for him to get all the way over to the other side of the field in time to stop that. That was a beautiful play design there. Offense is moving up and down the field against a great defense and finally put one in. Keep the pedal down!

Bear hugged him for 10 seconds and questioning the penalty????? REALLY?

Inactives: S Damar Hamlin LB AJ Klein DT Poona Ford OL Germain Ifedi OL Alec Anderson I know he hasn't set the world on fire, but Poona has shown me more than Settle this season. Settle always has a great preseason and is the talk of everything and then never makes a single play in the regular season. Been that way ever since he's been here.

No chance this happens against that defense, but man.....could you imagine if all of a sudden Josh was Josh again and this offense dominated like that (assuming that the points came from the offense and not like 3 pick sixes)? It would be incredible, but how would it all feel knowing we still wouldn't be in a playoff spot with so many tough games coming up? I'd love it to happen though so we could find out how we would be feeling.

Yeah.....this is a tough one. While he has nice ball skills, he is an atrocious tackler. If you don't want to ever use him as a box safety, and you just want him patrolling the back end, I think he could probably do something like that. But in today's NFL, you want safeties that can creep up and be that extra tackler in the box and he has just never shown that he is a good enough tackler to do that. Would be a tough ask, I think, to have him convert unfortunately.

You want to see Allen's INT count go down? Let him run more. Get back to the designed runs (5 a game would be enough) and tell him he has the green light to scramble anytime he sees an opening. Right now, teams are not respecting his running ability anymore because they see that he isn't doing it nearly the way he used to. And because of this, teams feel real comfortable sinking into coverage and just waiting for him to make a mistake. He may as well be any statue QB you want to name back there. Sure, he moves out of the pocket to buy time, but he isn't using his legs as a true weapon and teams know this. There are several times this season where you watch the tape and see a chance for him on a 3rd and medium to just take off and pick it up with his legs, yet it VERY rarely happens anymore and teams again know this. All you have to do is put that fear back into defenses that at any moment he'll burn you for 40 yards or a critical first down. They will start having to creep back up and that will in turn loosen up the coverage down the field and create more openings and opportunities. I mean, most of this season, teams are not only not respecting his legs or ability to burn them running, but they are actually baiting him into mistakes because of it. They'll initially squat on the underneath stuff, particularly the shallow routes to the sidelines and then as soon as he starts moving out of the pocket, since they know he isn't going to take off and run, they fall off those shallow targets and sink back waiting for him to try and hit the honey hole. He's made this throw so many times in years past and he's amazing at this. But who else knows this? The defenses we play, of course. So, teams will constantly continue to do this until we make them pay for it either by letting Allen take off or create their own counters by changing up the underneath routes. We run this concept so much, teams can see it coming a mile away. This, along with our mesh concept, have become way too easy for defenses to figure out what we're doing at the snap and then easily take it away. Here's hoping Brady fires these concepts to the moon for a while and gets away from the predictability they come with and just let Allen loose. I'm telling you, while the INTs may not completely go away, they will be dramatically reduced by letting Allen use all of his physical gifts.

I swear with a little practice, teams could design plays specifically to get the call.

This game is so bad. Just tossing up prayers waiting for flags.

You can flip into the endzone..... Just don't point at anyone.

Weak call

Yes.....until next week, or the week after that, or the Bye week. He was a dead man walking and it was just going to be a matter of when it was most convenient for McDermott. McDermott blew the game and he knew he was going to take a lot of heat for it. Dorsey getting fired distracts from some of that narrative. It was the perfect time for McDermott to pull the trigger. If I'm the special teams coach, I wouldn't be feeling very good. Next time McDermott screws up and costs us another game, you can bet he'll be out the door.

Daboll's offense running at it's peak coupled with this defense, although riddled with injuries, would have us in contention for the top spot in the AFC right now. We can all rail on the defense for coming up small in the biggest moments protecting a late lead, and that is very frustrating knowing that it is coming every time, but it is a lot easier playing defense when playing up 2 scores than down the entire game. It changes the entire game if you can get up early, but this team can't get out of its own way for most of the game lately.