Straight Hucklebuck

Yes, I’m not sure why the Bills act like it is illegal to line up in a Pro Set with Allen under Center and hand off. Nope, let’s start 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage and get hit in 0.22 yards.

Callers who said this were run off the air after Week One. The Bills have become dependent on Allen, not as far as Seattle has with Wilson, but dependent. He is asked to dodge pressure, overcome no run game, be the leading rusher, pass 47 times a game, see every check down, yet stay aggressive. My one beef with Allen is he tends to be loose with the football in terms of fumbles. But he gives it absolutely everything he has to win every week.

I think the real answer here is the Bills have to keep pumping resources into pass catching options and protection. We tried the stand pat/continuity path this off-season and the league catches up.

He threw 47 times for 260 yards at 66% completion. The answer is he needed to dump off more?

But our line is bad. Regardless of Spencer Brown and John Feliciano, our line is bad. Allen makes it look alright most of the time because he is so mobile. After Week One, the line was Pittsburgh is unique, nobody can do that. That has been proven false. A lot of teams can collapse our line. The Bills have 3-losses now, with the offensive line playing a key role in all of them. Can’t just write it off anymore.

Nothing comes easy to this offense right now. The Bills don’t get any 2 play, 75 yard drives. We have no over the top speed, or big play ability. Our YAC is 2.87 yards right now.

For the WGR crowd, we definitely pass a ton. Allen had 47 attempts on Sunday and Singletary had 6 carries. So I know they beat the drum of pass = aggressive = points and run = conservative = low scoring. But Allen has had 47-42-47 attempts the last 3 weeks, and Singletary has been 5-7-6 attempts. So realistically, we are passing as much as we possibly can as a team, and this line is crumbling.

Agree, I am listening right now, and it's mostly this message - the 2021 Bills haven't been physical enough, disciplined enough. It feels like McDermott is going to take the reigns more on offense and he's going to make a concerted effort to run more. But was this Press Conference any different than the usual? Not really, nothing specific. There is nowhere to turn on the offensive line personnel, and I don't think Gilliam can provide anything as a fullback, so I expect it to look pretty ineffective actually.

Spencer as a limited of course is good news.

I don't think we're a very good run team. Moss stinks, so you're shoveling carries into a landfill if he is your primary back. Singletary has a great average, but it seems we never see him get more than 10-carries, so hard to tell how efficient giving him that many snaps really is. Right now Allen is 1/3rd of our run output (Singletary 355, Moss 233 yards, Allen 319 yards).

Anybody but Zack Moss.

Besides the obvious on Sanders getting more time, I wonder what his health is, his conditioning. He’s a player you don’t hear anything about. We saw he was running routes immediately after being drafted, but he hasn’t felt like a ascending talent this year.

Bills still have the #1 scoring defense in the league by a nice margin.

I think its a no brainer for us. Our lineman grades on PFF are abysmal.

Furthermore, this is why there was an undercurrent for drafting another WR in the first round last year, or at least second round. Always add to a strength. The Chiefs are finding this out. If Kelce loses a step, or Hill gets banged up, they have no established 3rd target on that offense.

Well the Bills can help themselves by getting Zack Moss off the field, and putting Breida in. Zack Moss does not help a teams run game.

I don't think we miss Brown. He had one season where he stayed healthy and functioned as our #1 WR. We miss a WR that has size/speed element, and that's what Knox became this season. We are returning to the smurfs again.

All of our WR's are not physical mismatches. With Ja'Marr Chase you have the speed, Debo Samuel, DK Metcalf and AJ Brown are huge hulking WRs, Hill with blazing speed, Hopkins with body control, Adams is a combination route runner. Diggs is a precision route runner, but I agree with Simms, he isn't imposing in terms of speed or size. Sanders and Beasley are Pro's, but we don't have size or take the top off speed with any WR. Knox and his 4.59 speed at his size is clearly our biggest physical mismatch.

I don't think Zack Moss brings anything unique to this team. He fits that Sean McDermott slow, plodder type back. It wasn't surprising that we sniffed around Adrian Peterson, that's McDermott. But with Moss, an example I can't stand is that he immediately gets to come into the game in the Red Zone, as if he is dynamic weapon. Singletary has to go to the bench and it becomes Moss time, why? He talks about "business decisions" and it's like dude, you're a fringe NFL running back with zero speed. Every time we chose to get him the ball instead of Isaiah McKenzie on a dump-off, I don't get it.

I agree with this, and even then, Diggs isn't a physical mismatch on the field. That's what struck me Sunday, without Knox, we have no physical mismatches on the field. You can't base an offense around Cole Beasley underneath, or Sanders trying to get deep. If Diggs can't be the go-to player, and Knox is out the Bills have no other options. Since Tennessee we have become rather obsessed with making Zack Moss a feature player in this offense for some reason.

1. Dawkins has stunk this year. A definite regression. Morse is 'ok' but we know he struggles to anchor against large DTs. Daryl Williams is playing like the guy who blew out his knee in Carolina now. Feliciano is bad, Ford is a bust. The narrative after Week 1 against the Steelers was, nobody else has those type of players on the Defensive Line to do that to the Bills. This has been exposed as false. Our line is just a bad offensive line. Josh makes it look easy as he gets out of most pressure. 2. Our RBs are slow. Just like their Scouting Reports said. I liked the idea of dumping McCoy and ending this reverent attitude towards him. I think Moss stinks. I think he is a slow plodder. I think the Bills become obsessed at times getting him the ball, immediately taking Singletary off the field in the Red Zone. 3. Allen is around the Top 5 I agree. His competitive fire is fun to watch. I loved that run against Tennessee on 3rd-6, he did everything it took to try and win that game. I feel like his arm is somewhat overrated, and not the clear runaway leader in the league, but he is a playmaker with escapability. There are these conversations I don't think are true, that Josh can be confused. I think we have no run game, and sometimes asking Josh to be our leader, leading rusher, elite passer, avoid sacks, takes it's toll. We have no deep ball, and haven't since 2018 with Foster. Josh doesn't throw it accurately, and we don't have the WRs for this. 4. Top 5? I don't think so. Diggs disappears too often this season. He dominated targets last year. This year, its 6-60. Sanders is alright, Beasley is alright, but neither guy can carry the offense. Gabe Davis has regressed due to no playing time. And after that there are no up and coming players. Isaiah McKenzie has been rendered useless in this offense. Would you rather have the Bengals group, or the Chargers, or the Cowboys, or the Rams, or the 49ers, Bucs or Cardinals? The Bills need to add a physical mismatch. I think we're trending back towards the smurfs. We do not have an AJ Brown or DK Metcalf. Diggs is a middle depth possession WR. 5. Defense, I agree with you, with the caveat that our Defensive Line will probably not get pressure in Playoff games. They struggle to generate sacks. But the Back 7 is strong, save an injury to White. Veteran group that has been kept intact. 6. Agree, I like Bass.

And in general this franchise has thrown scrub players at the problem forever. Ryan Neufeld, Lee Smith, Chris Gragg, Derek Fine, Shawn Nelson, Derek Schouman, Nick O'Leary, Matt Murphy, Joe Klopfenstein. Since 2010 we've drafted a total of four Tight Ends. Knox, Sweeney, O'Leary, Gragg. That's it. So this Coaching Staff and Front Office can talk all they want about recognizing the trends in the NFL, but players like Tommy Sweeney are still on the roster, Reggie Gilliam who can't play Fullback or Tight End effectively because he is a tweener. It's never been a focus of the Bills to get Tight End correct, we've got no depth at all, and haven't forever.

Not one question on why no Gabe Davis, why no Isaiah McKenzie. It’s all feelings with this media. Not where is Gabe Davis and where is Isaiah McKenzie. Stop talking. Warrow loves story telling and long walks in the park. Mookie Hawkins is too obsessed with being friends. Instead of dumping off to 4.74 Singletary, how about 4.43 Isaiah McKenzie.

Listening to Daboll’s press conference now and it’s all the same feelings types questions from our Buffalo media.

Daboll was asked about this earlier this season and he said Gabe Davis plays behind Diggs, Sanders and Beasley. So this has been a conscious decision to put Gabe Davis down the lineup and limit his touches. We all watched Davis’ touchdown against Green Bay in preseason., 31-yards, deep, and that component is gone now. This Coaching Staff rotates Defensive Lineman, but after the Steelers exposed this Offensive Line, the 4-wide and 5-wide empty looks have decreased, and the 3 WR - 1 Tight End looks have increased. The Bills have also made the decision to remove Isaiah McKenzie from the offense.