Straight Hucklebuck

Is any reporter going to ask about Gabe Davis or Vernon Butler. I guess not. I guess its more important to revisit 37 years ago when McDermott was a boy watching football on TV.

Our media is absolutely obsessed with emotions and stories and feelings. So far 3/4 questions are feelings and stories.

Wow what a privilege. Being mentioned with Lamar in conversations between Stephen A and Max Kellerman. What an honor.

Dude I know, what can you summize out of DNP, and both players in question came back in for stretches of the game Saturday. Davis did get landed on, but he hobbled through the rest of that game. If it was a horrible ankle sprain the immediate swelling would knock him out of the game completely. You see this all the time in basketball with bad sprains. On the quad, I have no idea. Never hurt my quad. No idea how bad that was. Unlike the weeks prior with Cole Beasley the media didn’t ask about the nature of Butler or Davis’ injuries specifically.

But the problem is same thing was being said last week about Cleveland @ KC. Oh well they have Nick Chubb, they have Kareem Hunt and the best line in the league. And the Chiefs can’t stop the run. And what happened? They fell behind 19-3 and the run game largely vanished into the background. The Browns only really moved the ball when Baker threw to Higgins. Chubb’s average was nice, but when they tried to run at the end of the game, he went for -1 and a 4-yard dump off. Hunt went for a 2 yard dump off to make it 4th-9 and punt. Passing is aggressive when it’s the Bills style of 4 and 5 wide. Just like last year in Houston, I got a bad feeling about how much they were going to use Gore, I hope McDermott doesn’t push his thumbprint into this game offensively by shoehorning the run game in too much.

McDermott is done talking to the media for the week isn't he? Just a Monday and Wednesday press conference. So other than Friday's practice report and practice squad call-ups, there will be no further updates.

I didn't think Davis' injury was serious, but I am questioning whether he plays now.

Watkins is still a decoy till this day. The thing he said that scares me is that there needs to be more balance on offense and that Saturday against the Ravens was way out of balance. I hope the Bills don't overcorrect Sunday and go conservative. They have to throw. A lot.

I don't disagree that the Bills tend to play prevent type defenses earlier in games that I prefer. And I also agree with your point that the Bills go extra soft on 3rd and longs. Because even if you hold the Chiefs to 4th-2, 4th-3, they're going to go for it and likely get it.

No fan of Bills football should want their team to keep signing running backs who have fallen off a cliff statistically. But here we are.

He looked fine Saturday, has no injury designation now, and said he felt much better heading into the Ravens game than he did a week before in Indianapolis (a game in which he caught 7 passes for 57 yards).

Regardless of where we stand on the decisions Marrone has made, I think we all can agree that he was the exact opposite of the "dynamic" hire that Russ Brandon said he was. Instead, he still talks about punting, and playing field position. The importance of running the ball and bad weather. When Marrone punted on 4th-5 from the Pittsburgh 36 yard line down by 2 scores in the 4th quarter with a 3-6 record it showed his DNA. He was another in a long line of Bills coaches that played for close, low scoring, running and defensive games, trying to win with late Field Goals.

Beef on Weck

That's what you get when you let Russ Brandon, Buddy Nix and Doug Whaley lead a "no stone unturned" search for a Coach that lasted 5 days in Arizona. I am happy to have the "Promote from Within" culture gone, hopefully never coming back.

And in that game it was the drive where we ran three straight times and had to punt, or had Allen try to run outside on 3rd down, lost yards, and had to settle for a FG.

I think he's going to play. He came back in after initially being hurt. Diggs was also a DNP today. I think the Bills are being extremely cautious.

I just hope McDermott doesn’t force Daboll to overcorrect on the run to where we try to get too conservative because he mentioned being way too unbalanced Saturday night.

Field positioning doesn't matter to KC. Time of possession doesn't matter to KC. Down and distance doesn't matter to KC. 3rd and manageable doesn't matter to KC. I think the only way to beat Kansas City is to win a shootout. Hope that it is a back and forth game and your team has the ball last.

The fact that Gabe Davis finished the game out doesn't make me worried. I know someone on this board will tell me that guys play on torn ACLs all the time, but it looked like someone landed on his leg.

Based on what we've seen through 18 games, the last thing I want the Bills to do is go run heavy on Sunday. We haven't leaned on the run game all season, and I just hope there isn't a forced overcorrect/overreaction to McDermott reacting to the Ravens game. The media isn't comfortable with it, because they're still repeating "establish the run" with old fired Coaches and retired players on set. But our best games - Seattle, @ New England, have been when we've ditched the run to go pass.

When he reached for the touchdown, the corner landed on him as they both went to the ground. He limped around from that point on. It looked like a Charlie horse.

I hope so, I don't like McDermott saying "it got away from us" and "way out of balance". We'll know early, but the logical thought would be don't do what the Browns did and try to lean on Chubb or something like that, or else you'll be down 13-3 like they were before they woke up and started to pass.

Listening to these press conferences, I just hope McDermott doesn't overcorrect/overreact and press Daboll to run too much. The Bills are best in 4-wide, 5-wide, and sure can you sprinkle in some runs, but give me the pass-happy game plan over trying to control clock and all of that garbage. The Bills win because of Allen, Diggs and the WRs, not because of Singletary/Moss/Yeldon. I just hope they don't overcorrect trying to establish a rhythm or some old 2017 Sean McDermott thought process. He's let go of the reins and everything has been better offensively this year.

I think Daboll is going to stay with a heavy pass slant and he should, but I do think mixing in runs intermittently (6-8 times) can be productive. Just avoid trying sweeps to the edge. Learn from the Browns, the Chiefs shutdown everything is from the edges, and just hit it up the middle. And if the Bills haven't learned anything else, hopefully they stop trying to run on 3rd-1 because it never works.

Zach Moss was not much of a loss. I've thought all along that Singletary was a better running back. Similar to what we saw pregame with the Chiefs and Browns, that Chubb and Hunt are good, and the Chiefs are average stopping the run, so the Browns must run it, I think the same thing applies now, where it's being said that Bills can't run the ball. Singletary is fine and I do think he needs 6-8 carries in this game, along with a couple of touches in the pass game. But I would expect this gameplan to still be overwhelmingly pass heavy and think it should stay that way. The Bills are best in 4-wide and 5-wide. Agree, we get no push and lose yards everytime, especially when we try to stretch to the outside. 3rd-1 is a passing down for the Bills.