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The two #1 seeds in the NFL right now are led by new head coaches, and not so coincidentally those two coaches were the most popular McDermott replacement options brought up last year. There's a pervasive myth that turning around a team takes several years. It really doesn't though. Good systems work right away and if anything the newness of those systems will catch teams off guard in that first year.

I'm sorry Alpha but this is as basic as it gets for a WR: That isn't what happened. See the video above. He's just running into open space, there is nothing remotely high level about this other than what Allen does to manufacture a TD from an otherwise broken play. If I'm supposed to take this TD as a big positive step forward for Coleman, sorry but I don't. He has a very long way to go. Every time Allen looked downfield he wasn't finding any of his WRs open and Coleman is a big part of that problem. He also had another drop on a routine quick slant catch. Good to see Coleman back in the lineup but let's be honest about the performance.

There's a team every year where the analytics don't match the record and they always get knocked out of the playoffs early. Denver is that team this year for sure.

His passing TD is one that maybe two other QBs in the NFL could have made and his rushing TD was one that only he could have made. Allen is a TD machine every week. That's why he gets an automatic play ball. He had league worst pass catchers on the field with him today and had to drag them into the endzone, with some assistance from the run game of course.

Yeah I think that's fair. The Bills have shown they can win when their preferred game script goes well. When we can impose our will running the ball and eventually make the opposing offense one dimensional, those are the games we win by 20+. Of course you can't always expect that game script to work out. When we've been in situations where we had no choice but to pass the ball this year we have been mostly unsuccessful, and the vast majority of fault for that lies with Beane and his failures to seriously address the WR room. It is hard to envision us winning 4 playoff games in a row with such a glaring weakness but we'll get there and see what happens.

The official penalty for kicking out of bounds is that the ball is placed 25 yards from where you kicked. Normal kickoffs are from your 35 so that puts the ball at the opponent's 40 after the penalty. However when you get a 15 yard penalty enforced on the kickoff you get to kick from the 50, so kicking out of bounds puts the ball at the opponent's 25 instead.

Oh Allen REALLY got in his head.

One of my weekly highlights in subscribing to NFL Pro, is logging in when the all-22 footage is available and filtering plays where Hawes is on the field. It's basically just a slideshow of all of our best run plays one after another.

Off target?

That TD was all Allen, pump faking a free rusher and then making a sick jump pass. All Coleman had to do was run through the zone into open space. To his credit he caught a pass that hit him in the hands which was not a guarantee.

Anderson was terrible for most of the game. I credit Brady for giving him chippers and calling quick pass concepts. We should have had the same game plan against Houston.

Jalen Ramsey is now 0-8 all time against Josh Allen.

Allen Cook Hawes Bosa Benford Groot

Unfortunately you can't just find a way. The talent has to be capable. Ours is not.

Pittsburgh's defense likes to talk more than they like to play. Clowns

We broke two rushing records in this game

Jeez Knox looked like he had no clue the ball could be coming his way on that one. He had space to his left but instead just fell over

Knox tried his hardest not to catch that 😂

Steelers play calling is shockingly bad. Bailing us out repeatedly today

Looks like Milano needed to carry that

A quick slant should be a staple close to the endzone. Our WRs just aren't built for it.

Romo literally said Shakir ran the route too fast

It was slightly behind him because of his own route in any case. WRs are just as responsible as the QB for the timing and spacing of the play.

Ah yes a touch throw on a quick slant. I am begging Bills fans to please watch other NFL games. Please.