HappyDays

Ah... shows you what I know.

That's not really a good example of Coleman having an issue with separation. He actually does manage to get leverage and create a window, albeit a tight window. A better throw and he would have had a chance. Their feet got tangled up so maybe it wouldn't have mattered. Anyways there's too much analysis over a single rep. That's Jaylon Johnson, one of the elite CBs. There is no shame at all in Coleman not getting yards of separation in the tightest area of the field against an elite CB in his first ever live action. Clown Football is an appropriate name for that account.

Good: Shakir - Picked up where he left off as a dependable slot option that always manages to pick up sneaky YAC. Solomon - He showed flashes including as a run defender which was supposed to be an area weakness. Ray Davis - There wasn't a lot of space to be had in the run game but as a pass catcher I thought he looked right at home. The contact balance showed up. Samuel - Really just the one play but it was good to immediately see the juice he adds to the offense. Explosive plays downfield will be hard to come by this year, we need his YAC skills to show up. Bad: Trubisky - Every ball he throws is half a second or more late. Even the 4th down conversion to Shakir, he was standing wide open for a while and it took Trubisky forever to find him. He airmailed a TD pass to Morris and forced the ball to Coleman twice in the endzone. The interior OL - Pretty much all of our runs were dead on arrival no matter which string was on the field. I'm especially worried about Edwards/McGovern. We're trying to be a ball control offense but we can't open holes in the run game. It's concerning. Even depth players who looked good last year - namely Anderson, Vandemark, and Gouraige - looked worse today. Cook - He went down on first contact every time and was directly responsible for Edmunds getting in Allen's face on a blitz. All the camp reports on him have been negative, hopefully it is all a mirage once the real season starts. MVS - He gets my c'mon man award of the day. The one player you don't want to see drop the ball and he does it on the easiest catch opportunity you'll ever see. I have PTSD from some of the ridiculous drops Allen has dealt with throughout his career, I don't have the stomach for anymore.

Did you enjoy watching another team's full preseason game? I really respect your commitment to the game of football.

MVS... starting to wonder if he's going to be too frustrating to be worth a role.

Not impressed with Cook at all so far. Going down on first contact and completely misdiagnosed the blitz.

I hope not! Ball out of his hands in 2 seconds and get him off the field after this drive. Trubisky can be the guinea pig for our downfield passing game.

Genuinely excited to watch Samuel get all the screens that pointlessly went to Diggs last year

Caleb looks good. The game doesn't look too big for him.

Running to the left is gonna be tough this year. Edwards and McGovern are not a good run tandem.

Sigh of relief

Unless... 😉

Injury updates from an always reliable source:

I actually would have been fine with this decision if they had double dipped at WR in the draft. If the goal is to rebuild the team for a run in 2025, great, get two young studs on the field with Allen and get their chemistry going. I just don't understand drafting one WR, then only signing a gadget/slot player, and calling it a day. Their personnel decisions on offense tell me they have a ton of unearned confidence in Brady to be an offensive genius. Hopefully a mid-season trade for a WR is the plan because I think it will very quickly become clear that the offense as it's constructed does not have the juice to make a deep playoff run.

Honestly I've never felt under any of our three OCs in the Allen era that the Bills offense has ever over-performed relative to its talent on the field. The closest we got was under the playoff run with Daboll coming out of the 2021 season but it's hard to separate that playoff run from the QB performance and that's the same season we put up 3 points against the worst team in the league and our offense was disgustingly bad all through December, so 🤷 FWIW I thought Brady made some good changes when he took over, most notably redirecting targets away from low efficiency players to higher efficiency players. But there is some selective memory going on. The best offensive game of the year came under Dorsey against Miami at home. Brady was in control for an almost disastrous loss to the lame duck Chargers. Diggs completely fell off a cliff halfway through the season and the defense statistically was the worst defense in the league for a stretch in the middle there. Those factors are what led to a mid-season slump. The offense had its typical ups and downs throughout the year regardless of who the OC was, the only difference is that under Brady the highs were lower and the lows were higher. I also never cared for the Dorsey hiring to begin with. I figured with Allen and Diggs in their prime, why hire a first time play caller? But I don't feel much better about Brady because we didn't actively try to do better. He got the job pretty much handed to him. At least he has some play calling experience unlike his predecessor but I don't expect him to overcome the personnel issues. He will have to be an elite OC for our offense to be ranked better than 10th IMO.

They don't really have a choice, right? The personnel is going to dictate a low-risk low-reward style of offense. Explosive plays will have to come after the catch, not in air yards. We're going to attempt to resemble the 2023 Chiefs offense (which finished 9th in yards and 15th in points), but without a generational talent at TE and without a generational offensive coach. We will have to string together a lot of 10 play drives, and hope that our defense can execute well on the relatively low number of drives they get on the field because our offense is not remotely built for shootouts. For reasons that I don't understand that is the philosophy that this regime has intentionally chosen to move forward with.

One update from Matt Parrino:

Last day of training camp. It's almost here...