Straight Hucklebuck

I am going to comment before and after I listen to it. Before: I enjoy Cosell, but I would say that he doesn’t give any opinions on how things will actually go, he’s not a paid analyst, but that does take away some of the intrigue into what he says.

It’s disrespectful to sell the tickets, but not disrespectful to say they are going to get that W.

According to PFF (Playoff snaps only) LT - Jackson Carman - 49.6 LG - Cordell Volson - 52.3 C - Ted Karras - 69.3 RG - Max Scharping - 42.0 RT - Hakeem Adeniji - 41.2 Bills LT - Dion Dawkins - 70.5 LG - Rodger Saffold - 64.7 C - Mitch Morse - 61.0 RG - Ryan Bates - 69.8 RT - Spencer Brown - 69.0

Goodberry said he is Cody Ford 2.0. Said he's strong as an ox, but has horrible feet and can be beaten by speed. Lawson is a veteran, so he gets first crack. It would be interesting to see if Epenesa can get around him.

No excuses this week. Bengals are down 3 lineman, that should cancel out no Von Miller. They don't have their #1 corner, we don't have Hyde. We're at home.

He's had a nose for the end zone since he arrived, that's what I've seen. He's not blazing fast, but somehow he gets on top of guys.

The QB efficiency standard now in the NFL just keeps increasing. Elway's stats now are nowhere near Top 10, same with Kelly's and so forth.

I wonder if the Bills employ more rotations, both at corner and WR. Because with Beasley on the roster now, McKenzie looks to play, and Shakir who showed speed and ability last week. I wonder if we see more of the 2010 Bills with 4-wide sets? This has trailed off, IMO, because our RT is not good. Also, it sure looked like the Bills and Ravens could run on the Bengals, especially with Cook.

Real question Bills fans - has this been one of Josh's problems forever? He goes deep too much? Or is this the Patriots and Miami game that we're complaining about? After Pittsburgh, has Allen "only" looked deep? To me, this season was a lot like 2021, there was a lull in the middle, BUT the Bills did much better in one score games. Hopefully Flowers is out too. He's been a DNP two straight days.

Elam has been on the bench all season, because they love Jackson.

Except Hyde. McDermott was quick to throw cold water on that potential game changer.

Yup, this is it. We've seen this from McDermott and Frazier before. They don't change anything. It looked obvious to me where the Bengals wanted to go that night. But our struggles with Kelce over the years, Jefferson this season, have shown me this staff will not employ a true double team. I expect a soft zone Sunday, and would be surprised if the Bills start Elam over Jackson.

He's good against man because he can run go routes. Cincinnati is going to try and funnel him to the middle of the defense. Sidelines Gabe is going to have to make those kind of catches, utilize his comeback route. EXCEPT HYDE. 12 days into his window he's not available. But IF the Bills win, they would have to activate before KC. This is where all our fans say 7-days makes a huge difference, but man could we use him this week.

On Monday, as soon as Tre White jogged over to Chase, and you didn't see a safety in the picture, everyone knew that's where Burrow was going. Can the Bills keep Ja'Marr where the Ravens and Patriots kept him? 8-9 catches, 80-90 yards. He can not have the nuclear game. My worry is really Frazier and McDermott, just trying to play a straight up game. Belichick or other D Coordinators would do something like a true double team all game. But we've seen this before against Kansas City, where the Bills can't figure out anything against Travis Kelce, and he just rips them apart all game. Even late, we aren't bumping at the line, he's allowed free releases.

Cam Taylor-Britt or Eli Apple. Gabe has to win that matchup. The Bills are going to move Diggs all over the formation. Diggs has to be present for 4-quarters.

This is why I wanted Miami, and said so in the poll. The Bills secondary needed reps against a great WR group, to get one more look at that level of speed. And on offense? Had to go up against a solid defensive line with corners jammed in their faces. Cincinnati can sit in their zone, but find Eli Apple and go at him all game. That’s who the Rams went after in the Super Bowl. I think we’re kind of in the same spot as them on the offensive line. Our RT has to play better. He can’t get beaten as routinely as he has been. If he could keep it down to 3-4 pressures, instead of 6.

There is some truth here. Brian Daboll had low ranking offenses for his NFL tenure (especially in the pass) until Josh Allen and Buffalo. When he replaced Dennison, the fear was more of the same run-based offense.

Listened to a Ravens insider last week, and Roman was not liked in Baltimore. The consensus was he can design an outstanding run game, but never could do much with the pass. He described as a high-school level simplistic. DeCosta is the long-time FO member there, so I would expect them to start investing more in pass catchers.

I would think Jackson would go. And the Bills still have Benford available.

It was awesome today listening to Chris Trapasso contradict everything that Howard and Jeremy were saying all week about Allen being too aggressive. After actually WATCHING THE ALL-22 he concluded that Allen largely made good decisions throwing deep and that the Bills should lean into it if teams want to do that. Said there wasn’t a lot of open receivers short and because of the pressure Allen made plays. Our media and HC McDermott are sickening quite frankly always talking about reining it in and playing safer. Beane, bypass McDermott and get Josh more skill talent and Line. Dorsey has the right idea, not our bozo media.

I've been there. It was an old-school kind of diner. Was it good though? Not really. Huge spaghetti noodles.

Thanks Field, we all knew that. ESPN pointing out obvious things.

Chris Trapasso on WGR this morning after looking at All-22: "no many open WRs underneath" and Bills should "lean into this" if teams take this approach again. DING DING DING Cincinnati might sit back, so it's Beasley, Diggs, McKenzie more, with shots to the outside with Davis so as not to play into the Bengals plan of funnelling everything to Pratt and Wilson, but amazing, Cover 0 - and Josh Allen goes deep and was a drop away from 400-yards.

Chris Trapasso after Watching the All-22: "Not many occasions that there were open receivers even on the intermediate level" So once again WGR was completely wrong. Allen went deep because it was the best method to attack - Dorsey said this as well. CONFIDENCE. Cincinnati has it, does our Head Coach?

Mixon had two runs on MNF for 12-yards. Historically, he is 3.9 yoc - 4.1 ypc. Last year he had 4.9 ypc, but it was his only year not in the 3.9 - 4.1 range.