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Wasn't D. Adams in protocol after he played the Bills ? He didn't miss a game

Disagree on Purdy. I think there's 15+ QBs in the league that would look at least as good as him if they were playing on the 49ers. Ridiculously good O-line, play-calling, and play-makers.

If there's a simultaneous catch the rulebook says it goes to the offense. I don't think Diggs did quite enough for that rule to come into play. It was close though. Spencer Brown is the worst starter on this team even if he's not showing up on the stat sheet with sacks allowed. Josh was sacked 0 times yesterday, but the O-line (Brown in particular) were awful.

I think the defense played admirably given all the injuries. HOWEVER We allowed 474 yards, 29 first downs, and 38 minutes TOP**. 1st asterisk for the offense playing poorly (especially early) which is a big factor in TOP. 2nd asterisk for the Jags drives being sustained by weak penalty calls. If I'm grading the defense I'd give them a C-. The 5 sacks and 2 fumbles bring them up from a failing grade.

You're going to say it's clearly OPI when you didn't even know which player committed the penalty ? I don't even know how to respond to that. There's no question Diggs contacted the defender as he went by. The contact was minimal though, and Diggs is allowed to run his route. 99 times out of 100 the refs would leave that as no penalty.

There were 4 holding penalties on the Bills (torrencex2, dawkins, and mcgovern - which was declined). I'll admit the plays were on the spectrum of plays that could be called for holding. I didn't think any of them were blatant that HAD to be called. Much worse goes un-called in almost every NFL game. You're making my point on the OPI call. It was such a borderline call the broadcast didn't even know who the penalty was on. The refs called it on Diggs for chipping a defender as he ran by (not on Kincaid for sealing a defender off).

Net positive towards the Bills ? What game did you watch ? Hands to the face penalty on Oliver was a ticky tack call on a 3rd down stop. Literally a 5 point penalty (assuming Jags kick the FG). Unnecessary Roughness on Poyer was also a ticky tack call. Also on a 3rd down stop. Multiple ticky tack offensive holding calls on the Bills. Let's not forgot the laughably bad OPI call that took a TD off the board. How does that balance out one ticky tack roughing call by the Jags?

I haven't seen an updated on Daniel Jones injury, but could you imagine this board if we lose to the Tyrod Taylor led Giants ?

Diggs wasn't double covered that play? Unless you're counting the defender that's 10+ yards away from him

Sorry, but you could not be more wrong on this. On 2nd and 15 Josh threw it to the chains on a broken play. Who considers 15 yards a deep shot ? What good options did he have on that play? Now that he's facing a 3rd and 15 from his own 41 it's time to take a chance. Can wait and see if someone gets open near the chain (they didn't) and then chuck it deep. It IS desparate, but it's far from giving up. I'd argue a dump off or throw away would be giving up by Allen to try and preserve the box score stat line. At least there's a chance of a deep throw working (and honestly Stef should've caught it). If Josh took a dumpoff on 3rd and 15 we'd be calling him captain checkdown. There's about a 0 % chance Cook would be breaking that for a 1st down.

It's 3rd and 15 from our own 41 yard line. Throwing a deep 50/50 ball isn't giving up, it's playing the percentages. It's literally the perfect spot of the field and down and distance to take a chance like that. I love that Josh is playing smart and still taking chances like that even though it hurts his stat line.

Cook killed 2 of our first 4 drives all by himself. Even in the games that he's finished strong I thought he got off to some pretty slow starts.

Von was pretty invisible and on the bench wearing a baseball cap by the 4th (likely on a snap count maximum for the day). The guy is 34 years old coming off his 2nd ACL tear. Think it's safe to say he's not at 100% game speed and the Bills are slow-rolling his return.

What a joke of a thread. When a throw goes 40+ yards in the air the goal is to just get a completion. Hitting the WR in stride would be a nice bonus, but rarely happens. These are deep throw stats last year https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-ranking-all-32-nfl-starters-by-deep-passing-performance-in-2022 League average looks to be under 40% completion on deep throws. Be happy we have a guy that can chuck it that far and still be accurate with it, even if he's not perfect with it.

McD played scared the entire game He punted on 4th and 2 from our 43 down 11-0 As you mentioned he chose to punt rather than go for a 59 yard FG It would be one thing if the defense was playing lights out, but we were getting gashed all game long. He also wasted multiple timeouts on defense

Mahomes was worse against the Jets than Josh was. He got bailed out by the refs big time.

NFL trade values can be weird sometimes, but I think we might be able to get a 4th for him? Comes down to how much teams value Elams status as a recent 1st round pick. As long as he's not a locker-room cancer (and I haven't seen a single report saying he has a bad attitude) I think he's much more valuable to keep as a depth guy than trying to trade him.

Buy : Josh Allen. I think we're in for a vintage 400 yard 4 TD type game vs the Fish Sell: King (of garbage time) James Cook Hold: Stefon Diggs. He's on pace for 140 catches and 1,600 yards. He's so consistently good nobody even notices.

Yup, they wanted to avoid having egg on their face from a quick whistle taking a Bills TD off the board. I think the play probably would've been ruled an incomplete pass after review, but calling it forward progress was egregiously wrong.

Calling forward progress on that play makes no sense at all. It's easily one of the worst 'forward progress' decisions I've ever seen. The entire tackle was completed in under 1 second. In fact the tackle was so quick the only question on the play was if it was a catch and fumble, or just an incompletion as the WR didn't complete the process of a catch. The refs didn't want the play to be reviewed and threw out 'forward progress' as a bull ***** excuse.

The refs we've had through 3 weeks have generally let the teams play. The Bills are averaging 5 penalties per game which is actually very solid, good for the 5th fewest penalties per game. 2 penalties per game by our opponents is ridiculously low. IIRC we declined 4 or even 5 penalties in the Jets game which impacts it a bit. Part of our opponents not being called for penalties is due to game situation. Who's going to call offensive holding on a team that's down by 30 and QB is getting sacked every play ?

How much of that is the DL over-commiting, our O-line steering, or just a great play by Josh ? I think it's a bit of all 3. I thought the Raiders were much better than Washington about staying disciplined and not letting Josh scramble. I'm being critical of our O-line but I'll gladly admit they are much improved over last season. Looks like we've gone from bottom 10 (borderline bottom 5) to somewhere around average. We may even be above average pushing top 10. O-Lines are so bad league wide you have to be happy when they're just not a liability.

46 of those rushing yards were Josh scrambling. 64 of those rushing yards came on our TD drive with 8 minutes left up 30-0. It's important to close out games, but that was 100% garbage time. If we had Howell back there I think he gets sacked 5+ times pretty easy. Josh is a magician

Everyone thought his production was due to playing with Donald. Turns out Floyd is really good in his own right

I thought they were ok today. Run blocking was a pretty big problem. We racked up some stats in garbage time, but really couldn't move the ball on the ground with any consistency until after the game was out of reach. Pass pro was good against a strong pass rush. Helps a lot when your QB can evade pressure and either scramble for a gain or make a pass downfield.