Nihilarian

"Sometimes, you have to look beyond the obvious to see how things work in the future. The Rams got a much, much, better quarterback at a time when they have everything else they need to contend. The Lions just hamstrung themselves with a supremely limited quarterback at a time when they’re going through a massive rebuild. Draft picks or not, the Rams won this trade in a landslide, and that’s why." https://www.yahoo.com/sports/why-rams-won-stafford-goff-044505617.html

Okay, I get it now. "Why Matthew Stafford will be a franchise-defining bargain for his new NFL team Everything McVay wants to do — passing out of run-heavy sets, play- and run-action, the ability to hit total route concepts all over the field — Stafford is far better at all of this than Goff will ever be. Period, full stop. And the Rams have a $33 million cap hit for Stafford in 2021, and a $26 million cap hit in 2022. Stafford will turn 33 on February" https://www.yahoo.com/sports/why-rams-won-stafford-goff-044505617.html

So many teams looking for a franchise QB. Falcons...draft? Panthers Bears Cowboys? Dak won't sign for 30+ million per-Trade even up for Watson? Denver Colts... this team might have gone after Stafford hard. Jaguars...draft. Dolphins? Jets? Eagles? Washington? Patriots. So many of them could have been after Stafford and now are looking at Watson. What are the Texans going to ask for Watson if Stafford is worth two firsts?

Did the Rams think they were trading the Texans for Watson in giving up all those picks? For Stafford...? Since the Lions now owe Goff more than $43 million in guaranteed money over the next two years... The Rams, 7 years with no first round pick... Anyway, I'm of the frame of mind that all other NFL teams are looking at Buffalo and saying how did we miss on this kid? The Jets...the Browns 2x...Denver...the NY Giants...Indy...

I don't get this at all. At first I thought the reason might be to get the Rams outta cap hell... Current Contract Jared Goff signed a 4 year, $134,000,000 contract with the Los Angeles Rams, including a $25,000,000 signing bonus, $110,042,682 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $33,500,000. Whoa... Stafford signed the five-year deal is worth $135 million with $60.5 million guaranteed. I still don't get it... Stafford kinda stinks... err, well, so does Geoff at times. Lions 5-11, Rams 10-5. Shouldn't the Rams be getting all the picks?

Actually, Ritcher was a first round draft pick by Buffalo in 1980 by HC Chuck Knox (who was an O linemen in college himself) sat for a few seasons behind LG Reggie McKenzie who was part of the "Electric Co" for OJ. How good was that line when your first round pick doesn't start? McKenzie played 11 seasons for Buffalo and Ritcher 15 seasons. The Bills had Ruben Brown and recently Richie Incognito who were also all pro's at LG. The Bills need to find some of those types for the line.

If you watch the video all-22 on the runs on page 4 in this thread you would see why the Bills struggle with the run game. The old saying "practice makes perfect" is so very true here. Packers HC Mike Holmgren used to make the players run the same play over and over until they perfected it. No mistakes, no screw ups and they would need to run it several times perfectly before he was happy. Its clear that the Bills simply don't put enough emphasis on the run game to make it work properly. There is also the point that RB's usually play better the more they run, 15-20 carries and this usually wears out a defense chasing them down. Running the ball should be the easier for an O linemen as they know which way they are going and get to put all their weight into a surge. In pass blocking they are on their heals in a defensive position hopefully getting into proper position to hold long enough to allow the pass to be thrown. Primary concern should be in upgrading the Buffalo offensive line, JMO

Build a better offensive line. It all starts up front with top talent and then actually call run plays to build that run game. One or two run calls a series won't do it. Wanna pass? Sure, pass to get a lead and then work the run game to wear out the defense and eat the clock.

It was in the playoffs... Calling plays for Peterman that his arm simply couldn't do when he was in Buffalo.

The last place I'd like to see him go to...NE. The Jets, they'll screw it up somehow... He would be a threat in Miami, but they'll screw it up after awhile.

That kinda makes me wanna see the GOAT get his super bowl ring on the Bucs. Plus, it's another burn to Belicheat! Brady was the biggest reason that team was so good for so long. Glad he is outta the AFC East.

Exactly! Buffalo shut down KC's deep passing game so what did they do in week 6. They handed off to Chiefs RB Edwards-Helaire, 26 carries for 161 yards, a 6.2 ypc avg. BALANCE! When the team has difficulty in one area of the offense it helps to be able get another to work to win a game. Last season it was more pronounced as Minnesota, San Fran, Ravens, Titans all made a huge impact into the playoffs with a stout run game. Their failure was in their passing game. Buffalo already has one of the very best passing offenses in the NFL. Now get that run game working!

From EJ to Sammy Watkins...this GM didn't know his elbow from his arse. Most of you are forgetting that "NFL football is a violent sport humans aren't meant to play"... One, in a long list of mistakes by Russ Brandon / Ralph Wilson. I, for one, am grateful for McD, Beane. The Buffalo Bills were just in the AFC Championship game. 95% of the Bills fans had the Bills winning 7 to 9 games this season...and the other 5%, less.

Good write up. What bothers me the most is this was the second time this season the Bills played the Chiefs. In that first game week six the Bills were beaten at home 26-17 by KC and it wasn't close. That first game the Bills employed this bend but don't break strategy by having their secondary play off while allowing no deep throws. So, Andy Reid and Mahomes took what the Bills gave them. They ran the ball down the Bills throat with their rookie RB Edwards-Helaire to the tune of 26 attempts for 161 yards, a 6.2 YPC AVG... 4 catches for 31 yards. Mahomes 21 of 26 for 225, 2 TDs. The Chiefs defense held Allen to 14 of 27 for 122 yards passing, 2 TDs, 1 INT. Allen rushing 8 attempts for 42 yards. Singletary 10 carries for 32 yards a 3.2 YPC AVG. Diggs was 6 catches for 46 yards, 1 TD. Allen 4 sacks, 10 QB hits. Now, you would have thought that the Bills coaches would have gone over the tape on this game endlessly and corrected everything that went wrong in that first game...they didn't. In fact, it looked far worse by getting blown out by the Chiefs passing game. That same Buffalo defense that held Lamar Jacksons Ravens to only 3 points... were they already mentally in Tampa awaiting the Bucs? NO, this is on the coaches. This was on Leslie Frazier and Brian Daboll. It kills me to see a 3rd year QB play his heart out attempting to carry an offense all on his own. Yes, Josh Allen is gifted, but he was not ready to put the team on his back again against the super bowl champs. Not with their holding and pass rush, QB pressure. Where has Brian Daboll been all through this playoff run? Allen basically carried the offense on his back against the Colts 24-27. What happened to that high scoring offense that just beat the Patriots 38-9 or the one that beat the Miami Dolphins 56-26? Daboll to busy working on his resume and going over his prospective job interviews to put an all in on the film for the Colts, Ravens, Chiefs? The Bills offense scored only 10 points against the Ravens... 37 called passes is a strong wind game...with the lead? Where has the run game been all though the playoffs...besides the QB? The Chiefs are noted to be an elite passing team and yet when Mahomes is stymied by coverages their offense fell back to the run game to carry the offense.

The AFC East will be a tough division this season. The Patriots have a ton of cap space and all those players that opted out over Covid will be back. All they need to do is find a QB, Stafford, Aaron Rodgers, a rookie in the draft? The Dolphins will be improved and might just draft a QB with that #3 overall pick. QB Zach Wilson? The NY Jets with a new defensive minded HC, could keep or trade away Darnold and draft a QB like Justin Fields with their #2 overall pick. One of them will probably draft WR Devonta Smith, Alabama. The division won't be creampuffs this season and I highly doubt the Bills sweep them all again. Buffalo will improve too.

Build a stout run game and fix the defense...shouldn't give up 38 points to any team.

I agree to a degree. The post season is something all the coaches need to get used to and make adjustments as they go. Look at Dabolls history and I was very against him at first. The thing is... the man is learning as he goes just like Josh Allen is learning. Yes, his past history as an OC has sucked and even this season the Bills never had a top rushing attack. Still, the addition of Stefon Diggs has changed the complexion of the offense in a huge way. Last season the Bills were 23rd in points, 24th in yards on offense. This season the 2020 Buffalo Bills have the #2 overall offense and its almost all due to the pass game. Look how the Bills played the Ravens last season as they sacked Allen 6 times and had 12 QB hits on him. This season the Ravens were so afraid of what Allen can do during a blitz they didn't even blitz him nearly as much, from 6 sacks to 2, from 12 QB hits to 3. Now, the Chiefs did something in this game I had never really seen happen in that the Chiefs covered the Bills receivers like superglue! With no run game to fall back on the offensive players were very frustrated. The Chiefs came alive in this game and played their very best all over the field. It's like they were watching Buffalo all season and just waiting to pounce. The Bills NEED to beat this team and I have confidence that they will figure it out. They play the Chiefs again this season at Arrowhead so they had better.

They were just as bad on the other side of the ball... 38 points and they made it look easy. No team up until this game had been able to take away Diggs. I suspect that all the Bills receivers we playing dinged up. We now know Beasley was playing with a broken leg. This is why the Buffalo Bills NEED a strong run game so when the passing offense is not working they have other options.

Josh had a tough day no question. But then, what does anyone expect when the entire offense is on the 3rd year QB's shoulders. Then when his receivers aren't getting separation it makes everything even more difficult. I'm going to put this loss all on the coaches on both sides of the ball. Frazier allowing 38 points when the previous game only allowed 3. The defense had no answer for the Chiefs offense. By the same token Brian Daboll has been even worse in his game plan/ play calling since the first playoff game. The Colts game was a lot closer then it should have been and against the Ravens the Bills offense only scored 10 points. OTOH, the Chiefs OC & DC had their game plans fine tuned as if they had been watching the Bills every move all year. They successfully shut down the Bills passing attack and with no real run game it made things easy. The Bills secondary was torched too.

What I see in the Chiefs was a team that simply wanted to coast through the season doing as little as possible to win each game. All the while just wanting to get to the playoffs as healthy as they could. Look at the wins since their bye week, Raiders 4 pts, BUCS 3 pts, Broncos 6 pts, Miami 6pts, NO 3 pts, Atlanta 3pts, Chargers week 17, 21-38, granted the most since week 7 Denver, 17 pts. Playoffs, Cleveland 22-17 and then Buffalo 38-24. it looked like KC was lying in the weeds and just outplayed Buffalo in every aspect, Offense, defense and special teams. The Chiefs beat the Tampa Bay Bucs in week 12 @ Tampa Bay. Interesting!

While I agree that the Bills didn't run like the Titans, Ravens, Colts. They did call many run plays a game. Against the Patriots week 16 the Bills ran the ball 31 times and most by Moss 12, Singletary 10. Against Denver week 15 the Bills ran the ball 24 times, Moss 13 runs, Singletary 8. Then against the Colts QB Allen was the leading rusher with 11 runs, Moss 7, Motor 3. Against the Ravens Allen 7 runs, Motor 7 runs, Yeldon 2 runs...16 run plays! The Chiefs, 18 run plays with Allen the leading rusher again, 7 carries for 88 yards. Motor had 6, Yeldon 3 carries. My point being that the Bills had at least a semblance of a run game they could fall back on with Moss. After Moss went out the Bills didn't even attempt to work the run game much...putting the entire offense on the QB's shoulders. That Chiefs defensive game plan smothered the Bills passing offense. World Champions will do that. In any event, the Bills played a Chiefs team that hasn't played that well all season. The Bills defense that held the Ravens to only 3 points suddenly gave up 38 to KC.

The run game basically went out the window when Moss went out. Talk about injuries, as I think the entire receiving core was battling lingering injuries. The way they were being shadowed by the Chiefs DB's left Josh Allen with nobody open most plays. Hence all the QB runs. Diggs normally gets most of the looks and makes his defensive counterpart look foolish attempting to cover him...not this game. 13-3 and the AFC Championship was an awesome season considering most had the Bills for 7-9.

BALANCE...been saying it for awhile now. The Bills NEED a run game and if they had a RB like Alvin Kamara...WOW! BTW, Alvin was a 3rd round pick. The offensive line needs upgrades as does the RB position. The defense too, surrendered 38 points. Don't feel bad boys, the Packers, Saints, Steelers, Titans, Colts, Rams, Seahawks are all sitting at home for the SB too.

I dunno what happened to Daboll as the offense was no where near as creative as it was for the last regular season games. Week 15, Denver 48-19 Week 16, New England 38-9 Week 17, Miami 56-26 For the playoffs, against the Colts they barely won 27-24. Against the Ravens the Bills offense only scored 10 points. My take is the Bills offense was exposed as a one dimensional team...a total passing offense with little or no run game...save the QB runs. The Bills rushed in this game 18 times and 7 by the QB which means the Bills RB's got only 11 carries. Meanwhile, with the Chiefs going man defense with their DBs shadowing the Bills receivers Josh Allen had nobody open most of the night. What did Tony Romo call it? Sticky defense? QB Josh Allen is only in his third season starting and is still learning. Andy Reid and the Chiefs have been in the playoffs since 2013. Seven seasons to fine tune his schemes. Another factor might have been lingering injuries to John Brown, Stefon Diggs.

I agree. Listening to Tony Romo the Bills were being "stickied" by being blanketed by the KC DBs and there was literally nobody to throw to for Josh most of the time. Dunno if there was residual injury that Brown and Diggs were dealing with... or something else? Like the last three games the Bills offense just wasn't the same that beat the Dolphins, Patriots, Broncos. Bills OC Brian Daboll having brain farts? I dunno. What I do know is the Bills NEED a run game, like the Packers, Chiefs, Bucs have to help support their QB.