Straight Hucklebuck

Maybe the fans can cheer for him harder at the next home game. But snap out of it, 2 games ago you had 11 catches for 99 yards. And sorry Sanders and Knox are more explosive now.

They were anointing themselves a dynasty after their Super Bowl win. They’re just people, like New England, when you’re on top you get used to it. Nope you’re just regular people, when it is pouring rain and you’re down 24-13 you leave the stadium and go home. Just like Seattle had the “best fans” and “12th man” and you don’t hear about that anymore either.

Yeah you look back at it now, and he gets rid of Sammy Watkins, Marcell Dareus, they start phasing out LeSean McCoy and how smart does that look now? I never thought we’d get there with a modern pass offense. McDermott came in giving interviews on the radio about snowy weather and running the ball with physicality.

I’m a Bills fan and thankful for that roughing the passer makeup call (after the ridiculous holding penalty), but my gosh did the officials over-legislate this game. What in the heck was that NFL?

Who runs their Twitter PR? Brittany Mahomes?

It would be hard for a normal team to get up for the next game after Franchise changing win like this, but this team can put 40 on the Titans. They're that good.

“All it takes is a spark” “Do they go for a FG here to cut it to 15” “I’m not saying it was a bad call, but”

How’s Mahomes’ wife holding up? Still crying about getting no calls?

He’ll duck and cover tomorrow, and make it into an excuse fest just like he did when Lamar choked last year.

He was just begging for the Chiefs to get back into the game. Just fawning over Mahomes.

How’s that poop sandwich taste? What’s up Kingdom? How are you doing Nick Wright? Wonder if Colinsworth is done crying over his boy yet?

We need a play, might have to go back to Sanders.

Well, play a 3rd Safety in the box to cover

Mahomes plays QB at the highest level this league has ever seen. And as much as it’s still Kelce and Hill making up 70% of their offense, that triangle has been hard to stop.

It’s a team game. Mike Schopp and his put it all on Josh, Jeremy White says the same thing, Josh needs to win the game for us is amateur. When I think in reality we all know a bunch of things went wrong last year in both games. Our offensive line stunk up the joint. Our WRs struggled to get separation. Daboll was stymied by Spagnuolo’s 3-Safety looks. We didn’t run the ball effectively or enough and Moss was hurt for Game 2. Josh was pressing. Whether we got gashed in the run game or played soft coverage, the defense couldn’t stop the Chiefs. The got whatever they wanted. I think the truth is they have Michael Jordan. We are trying to beat Michael Jordan and the Bulls. So it’s going to take that kind of locked in effort to beat that team. Diggs has to show up, Beasley has to torch Ward if they put him on him, Moss and Singletary need that 5 yards per clip, Chris Jones needs to keep struggling, Daboll can’t leave our offensive line on an island with 5-wide sets if they are struggling, McDermott needs to get on the radio and back aggressive shots into the end zone. We can’t have goofy backwards pitches that don’t work, flea flickers thrown late, guys playing 15-yards off WRs, missed tackles. It’s going to take Playoff level execution to beat these guys.

Sal was guessing because of the DNP on Wednesday and Thursday. These guys around the team, Sal and Chris Brown, don’t actually know anything about what is going on with injuries, trades, free agent signings, draft picks. They’re like the rest of us, waiting for Shefter to break the story.

100% Scott. I'd love to see Mahomes react to being knocked around. And you're right, our game plan in the AFCCG was S O F T coverage.

I though the Bills were on upset alert against Miami, and then again verses Washington according to Nick Wright. Those games don't pan out, now it's they haven't played anyone.

Generally, two DNPs Wed-Thursday mean out Sunday.

Agree. Great find. I listened to Staley's entire interview and it was awesome. He broke a lot of football down with specifics. This is thing that people who never played on WGR (Howard Simon, Jeremy White, Mike Schopp) don't understand when they say things like, just pass the entire game with no regard for the run. Howard for instance, is talking about how his pant size is way larger than 34 and laughing about it. In their minds the game is simple, pass = aggressive = scoring, running = conservative = bad. And that's it. After the first two weeks, callers who said that it heaps all of the pressure on Allen (and the offensive line to block) when you're calling 4-wide and 5-wide sets all day, were immediately run off the air because "it's not the Bills identity" or "you just paid Allen $200M to be that guy". As long as Daboll is not getting cute with the run game (running of shotgun, running delayed handoffs, trying to sweep with Zach Moss with this crappy OLine), I think it makes sense to mix in straight runs out of Pro Set with Moss and Singletary. They are averaging 4.2 ypc and 5.3 ypc, respectively. So trust that. And Staley is 100% right, it gives your QB a break. Schopp talks about how Allen can be our leading rusher too. And I don't think that's smart. He can scramble, he can make plays with his legs. But it's a lot on Allen to expect 300-yard games passing, him being our leading rusher, and running for touchdowns in the Red Zone. Staley is 100% right to point out the team aspect here. Our line got destroyed last year AND our none of our receivers were a physical mismatch for their corners. We didn't have a DK Metcalf on our team that could muscle their corners. They got hit, held, pushed, grabbed, and it worked, they got no separation. This is where running can help, and Dawson Knox.

I think this is the consensus. In the AFCCG we played soft zone against Kansas City, trying to keep the play in front of the defense, and then missed tackles anyways. Hill and Kelce just ate that cushion immediately and ran past our coverage. Guys running wide open. Without Milano, it will be even more important for the Defensive Line to win one on one matchups quickly and get to Mahomes. If he has a clean pocket, it won't matter what coverage we play on the back end, Mahomes will see it, and deliver. So maybe this shifts the game plan to man coverage on Hill, with a bracket, and Poyer playing closer to the line of scrimmage to shadow Kelce. I know there has been back and forth about who is more important, and I'd say Hill is the player that has the ability to tear a game wide open with 200 yards and multiple TDs. If that guy gets loose, Kansas City is unstoppable offensively.

Gunner, again, this is the test of our Defensive Line. Can the Bills win up front and get pressure? And when the Chiefs decide to run, does Star L make the big difference? And to your point, you'd take 85 yards between Kelce and Hill 10/10 times. Tampa's Defensive Ends were crashing further upfield that just taking a bee-line to the Quarterback?

Thanks for passing this along. Going back to the beginning of Mahomes, their offense has been Kelce-Mahomes-Hill. This year was supposed to be the plug-in of Hardman, and that hasn’t happened much more than historical.

Yeah 700-yards was just a gut number, but it implies that your Tight End is a real factor in the offense. The Bills as a franchise never seem to get anymore than 200-300 yards from their Tight Ends. And if Knox is taking catches away from Beasley, I’m okay with that. He’s bigger and arguably faster.

1. Passing in neutral game script. 2. 4 and 5 wide formations. 3. One factor in this offense that has been missing since 2018, is a consistent deep ball. Diggs hasn’t really provided that thus far, and we haven’t seen it consistently since Robert Foster. I assume Sanders is our deep threat now and if so, do the Bills get any easy 2-play type drives on Sunday? Not a fan of empty sets. Yes, I see two problems with Bills on empty sets. 1. Pittsburgh showed the Bills Offensive Line is not consistently good enough to protect without help, and I don’t think those problems are totally solved. 2. Daboll can get carried away and blinded by 4-5 wide sets if that was the gameplan coming in. He can get pass happy even if the strategy is not working.