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For whatever reason it is a home/road issue. Bills are 5-1 at home and 2-3 on the road with the only two wins being over Justin Fields and Andy Dalton. They convert 50% of third downs at home, 36.4% on the road. Bills score a touchdown on 72% (4th) of red zone trips at home and 46% (t-25th) on the road. They average 32.5 ppg at home and 23.2 on the road. I could go on. So this will likely be a tougher game than it should and the Bengals game will be a shootout but has a very good chance of going our way.

Do not sign mid tier FA wide receivers…it’s so rare they do better than they did on their original team and the contracts are expensive due to the premium position. Two summers in a row with Samuel and Palmer…

Our passing production is actually more prolific this year on average compared to last year. More yards, yards per attempt, a fraction less passing touchdowns per game. Our yards per play (3rd) is higher than last year and and points per game (5th) is still pretty solid. Our biggest fall offs from last year is we went from the best average field position in the league to the third worst only ahead of the Bengals and Titans. This is heavily attributed to our decreased turnovers per game (almost 2 per game last year to just over 1 a game this year). So the production we do have just isn’t getting us as close to scoring position as it did last year. We are also still an elite team at scoring when we get into the red zone at home, getting a touchdown on 72% of trips. But on the road that has sunk down to 24th. Certainly the offense hasn’t looked great consistently all year, but it is very similar to last year imo. Just its flaws were complimented by the Bills defense better last year with the amount of turnovers they got. That was the one good thing the defense did last year and has now fallen off. And Bills points allowed per game has dipped from 12th to 17th which I think is causing Josh to press more which is hindering the offenses other super power from last year - lack of negative plays (turnovers + sacks allowed). All this is to say our offense is pretty much the same as last year. But as many pointed out in the offseason (me included), banking on our historical turnover differential to continue was foolish. So without any real upgrades to the offense over last year, the cracks that were there last year just are showing up more now. Definitely a failure so far on Brady not diversifying his scheme, Beane not adding offensive talent, and McDermott not elevating the defense.

Josh led Bills are 6-0 so far against Jalen Ramsey. Josh is never forgetting those trash GQ comments.

Bobby Lane

Yep I’d do it. Addison is a good player who will help the team immediately. Worst case scenario he isn’t worth a big contract and you let him go in free agency where the FA market is expensive, so you would wind up getting a good comp pick in return. If he is great then you can sign him or tag and trade him for more than you paid. This is the kind of work (among other moves) Beane has to put in to the WR room to fix this mess.

Cowherd has been critical of the Bills coaching for awhile too. He thinks McDermott is a good coach but that head coaches need to be offensive minded in this day and age. The criticism is finally catching up to Beane who had evaded it almost entirely for years. McDermott rightfully gets criticized for not having what it takes to get us to the Suoerbowl. But Beane sits right along side of him as an anomaly in this league. Every GM that has been tenured longer than him has been to a Super Bowl. He made two good moves in his tenure, drafting Allen and trading for Diggs. He stopped making big trades, his one big FA signing - Von -didn’t work, and his one top 10 pick post Josh has been just ok (both big Defensive splashes of course). Too many misses, not enough swings. Not f’ing things up too bad can keep you around for awhile, but not hitting on enough should get you canned.

He did pass on Mahomes 😬

Have you heard any rumblings about changes to the front office? Because what is crazy is I think Beane really does feel he has invested significantly at WR. Keon was his first draft pick in 2024 and Palmer was his biggest free agent signing in 2025 (And he would probably argue that Kincaid is a receiving threat too and he was the first pick in 2023). Obviously they are woefully inadequate when you basically neglect WR for the previous 4 years. Someone will be available next offseason via trade, but will Beane have the gumption to spend the picks and the money to go get them? with all the criticism he has taken he may… As for Aiyuk, if he makes it to the Bills on waivers he needs to be added. Best case scenario he is the piece that unlocks our passing game and helps us go on a playoff run that likely goes through playoff newbies in NE, Denver and Indy. He is a really good receiver when healthy. Or maybe he just accrues some good stats and then he goes and gets a decent size contract with another team in FA and we get a comp pick in 2027. Or worst case scenario is he does nothing, he walks at the end of the year and you move on like the Ravens did with Dionte Johnson a few years ago.

Omg omg omg omg

Bills squad has some takes I hadn’t thought about before. Like how Beane and McDermotts posturing through interviews may be pointing to a bit of a rivalry between the two - part of their post trade deadline discussion. Jeremy is goated for taking Beane’s outburst in stride and pretty quickly being vindicated by the teams play this season.

Read the first three words of the title really excited, then the next 6 sad

We added Josh Palmer! 😂

I think this team is too flawed to do it, but if there was a year make a run as a wildcard, this is the year. Broncos, Patriots, Colts, and Steelers have not won a playoff game since 2018 or earlier. Experience does matter in the playoffs. Bills, Ravens or Chiefs could find a way to beat inexperienced teams with young or mediocre quarterbacks.

Yea Beane has not figured out how to build a roster with a star quarterback contract in the books. He still wants to make moves in free agency like he did when Allen was on his rookie deal and we could sign all the middling free agency’s he wanted without screwing the cap terribly. He needs to sit early free agency out for a year. Add guys on one year, near minimum contracts later to let some of this dead cap fall off and focus on the draft. Or preferably another GM will do that this year.

It is time. Not sure Kromer or Ronald Curry will better, they may even be worse. But the trade deadline is past so our roster is basically set. McDermott isnt going anywhere and any changes to defensive coaching won’t affect how the D is designed due to that. So the only real change to try is at O Coordinator. See if someone else can design an offense to improve our weaknesses. If it goes sideways and we lose a few more games, who cares. We aren’t winning a Super Bowl with this current formula anyway. Lets hope a real shakeup can happen this off season.

Finally the discussion is being had

2020 we drafted Gabe in round 4 2021 Stevenson was a round 6 pick 2022 Shakir was a 5th 2023 Shorter was a fifth Not enough investment regardless of who is in charge

Shavers looked great today. He is nothing special speed wise but he got himself wide open for three big plays today. Looked like the tuddy they got him inside and Diaby (DE) rode him to the sideline and then released. Shavers took it deep and was fast enough (long striders can be deceptively fast on those longer routes) to beat the safety comfortably. Josh buying time was critical. Shavers had the deep in where he just found the soft spot on the zone. Then down by our own goal line, he got in his DBs toes and when he turned broke it to the sideline to be WIDE open. Really good showing for him today. He isn’t going to be a superstar but if he can be our Romeo Doubs that would help so much.

Only 16 games in 2022 due to Damar too Diggs averaged more yards per game and a higher percentage of his qbs yards than Reed did. Reed was very good and had great longevity but I agree with Bull, Diggs was better just brief.

This was my reply to the other poster not you. Strange to quote that.

Stuff you are hearing, or just what he has done (and not done) on the field?

Is Beane’s home life that bad? Now I feel bad for the guy

28:00 was a great discussion. I don’t listen to a lot of pressers so how they broke down how Beane and McDemott are answering questions it is enlightening. I have my gripes with Joe, especially his pre draft evals and how he talked about Cooks value for a contract, but I think he hit it on the head when it comes to Keon. Diggs forced his way out and Davis became a free agent. We went into 2024 with no one with significant stats with Josh. So drafting Keon and making him a starter out of the gate especially one who is basically a boundary receiver was not fair to him. Now he may just not be an NFL level player, but I don’t think this was conducive to him maximizing the talent he does have.