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It's kind of unfair to "evaluate" the offense without Allen, because this offense is built around Allen, and also because Allen is one of the single most impactful players in the NFL. It's one thing if we were missing Diggs or Dawkins or some other important player. Allen is irreplaceable. And yeah, on the defensive side of the ball we're just missing way too many starters to make any meaningful evaluation of anything. We're almost back to the "missing our whole starting secondary" thing, only now with both linebackers banged up and without our second-best edge rusher.

Those are two 2nd round picks that I'd sure like to have back.

The Jets game sucked, but people are making too big a deal out of the second half against GB. Nobody was expecting them to run the ball that much down three scores, and why stop your opponent when he's helping you close out the game?

Forget this "spirit" business. I'm curious about whether Reich is still in game shape and what kind of chemistry he could pick up with Diggs over the next couple of days.

Nobody (I think) is disputing that the Bills have a good team with a loaded roster. If Davis is currently living up to your expectations, your expectations were set far too low.

People are worried because reading tea leaves is all we have, because the team won't say anything about Allen's injury and his talking about him the same way they talked about White and Poyer, who have missed a ton of time. If the team isn't to be communicative, I feel justified in drawing inferences from that.

Relative to what we were hoping for in Week 1, we're missing Poyer, Hyde, Tre, Milano, Oliver, and Groot. That's half our starting defense and every one of those players is potentially a Pro Bowler. This isn't the defense that any of us were expecting, and yes it's kind of trash if this is what we have to put out there.

Honestly, the Bills should still go 2-1 over the next three games even if Allen misses them. They probably lose to Minnesota and beat Cleveland and Detroit. None of those results are sure things of course.

Say what you will about Rapoport, but at least he's actually passing along what he's heard in plain English, instead of trolling everybody for clicks like the Buffalo media and Cover 1 guys are doing at the moment.

Username checks out.

I would agree with most of OP's suggestions even if we had won yesterday. It's not overreacting to acknowledge that McKenzie isn't getting it done and we're not utilizing our RBs properly.

Yeah, my opinion of some of the Cover 1 guys is going to take a hit if this turns out to be a day-to-day elbow sprain. I don't need that kind of extra drama in my life.

This particular issue has been brewing for a while. This team seems to take a lot of calculated gambles by sitting players who are banged up but still able to practice, especially against inferior opponents. I'm not opposed to this philosophically, but eventually one of those decisions is going to come back to bite you, and that obviously happened yesterday. We almost certainly win a tight, ugly game with Milano in the lineup. When you're already down both your starting safeties and an all-pro corner, it seems a little reckless to sit your best LB too.

Nothing says "I am a journalist" like teasing a story that you're afraid to break. Just saying.

Explanations are not excuses.

Davis Cook Whoever is making decisions about which slightly-injured players sit or start Spencer Brown

Honestly, yes. There was a clear, fairly large drop-off in Allen's play that occurred sometime around halftime of the GB game. He hit his head on the ground a couple of times in that game, and it wouldn't shock me if he was shaken up more than he let on. Pure speculation of course.

Good for him. I hope he goes on to have a strong career for the Giants. The Bills are stacked. We have too many guys at the bottom of our roster to carry all of them, and we're going to have to let some really good players walk in FA. This is what life is like for good teams. We never had to worry about these trade-offs during the drought years.

Did they trade for Mahomes or something?

I wanted Hodgins to pan out too, but the fact is he never really showed anything. Yeah, he was buried on the depth chart, but it's not as if he was leapfrogging over anybody. Or making it difficult for guys to leapfrog over him. I wish him well and I'd welcome him back to the PS, but I'm certainly not going to lose sleep over it if he gets claimed by the Giants or somebody. Also, I don't think we can infer anything about Poyer from the Marlowe trade. We knew we were a little thin at S, and this was basically a free pickup at a position of need.

This move makes a lot of sense for a depth perspective, but I hope Marlowe doesn't need to see the field. This isn't exactly the highest quality of depth.

Yes. I was getting pissed at McKenzie running the ball out of the end zone against the Packers this weekend. Just take the touchback! We don't need the variance.

Cool. I didn't know this. It would be nice if we didn't have to use McKenzie/Shakir in these roles, or if we could at least limit their ST plays.

I'm honestly surprised that Moss had any trade value at all. Shocked actually. Nothing against the guy because he seems like a good person, but it's not like he ever showed much of anything on the field. I don't think the Cowboys are looking to trade and that's not a priority position for us anyway.

I know nothing at all about this player, but I'm certainly not going to complain considering that we got him for a ham sandwich.