Kelly the Dog

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's very often a goose. So that "it's a duck" crap is *****.

Methinks if that were the case they would have done this over a month ago and the only reason they did it now is because we are out of the playoffs.

I think he just gave up on the team early in the season with Nate. There were moments with Josh that he actually played pretty hard. The game Josh got hurt he had two great long catches with 100% effort and defenders all over him. There were flashes of effort but way a piece of crap as far as being a teammate. Half the routes he was running lazily, which is intolerable.

Yep. I don't mind the move at all. I applaud it. I was sick of him a few games ago and I stuck up for him more than most. But good riddance, and I want the guys like Foster and Zay and McKittrick to get more reps and balls, too. It's a good move. But it doesn't make us a better WR unit. Ray Ray is a second rate Isaac McKittrick, who is third rate. Small, shifty and talented who cannot hang onto the ball. Let's hope this experience, since we are out of the playoffs, somewhat rids them of the dropsies (meaning mostly fumbles). We don't know this for sure but if we are still in the playoff hunt at all, I don't think they do this (otherwise they would have done it weeks ago)

I understand addition by substraction, but that's really not going to be the case here. We are adding Ray Ray McCloud and losing Benjamin. We now have no one the defense even considers a threat. I hated KB and his ***** attitude, and if I thought for one second that he was bringing the team down with it, I would agree it's addition by subtraction. But it clearly hasn't. These guys all work their ass off but him. But 31 GMs in the league would still rather have Kelvin Benjamin and all his baggage versus Ray Ray McCloud and all his first names. We have no size, no experience, no one the defense has to be concerned about and our best WR was the worst WR in the whole league last year. He's getting better but he dropped a pass early in the game that was a first down, ran the wrong route in the endzone on a sure TD, and dropped a perfect pass on the five yard line that would have all but won the game in the last minute.

This move does, however, take us from having the worst WR corps in the league to having the way worst WR corps in the league.

Looks like I was right in my prediction from Sunday, that the bag from Popeye's that Josh was carrying was to give KB one more biscuit that would turn him into a TE.

90% of ducks are the equivalent of lobs, with no velocity, and lose a lot of oomph. His pass wobbled but in no way was it a 'wounded duck." It still had a lot of velocity on it from where and when it was thrown. It wasn't a duck at all, it just wasn't a spiral. It got there pretty quick.

Name all the short and intermediate passes that were obviously inaccurate. I know there were some but not that many. Most of his incompletions were significantly downfield. He threw a few bad intermediate passes early, no question. But no more than the average game of QBs I'm sure you would consider consisting accurate.

Steve Young was way better. Just sayin'.

The lob to DiMarco was perfect touch on an intermediate pass and example he took a lot off his throw. He threw a couple darts on short passes to McKenzie. He threw a very accurate short pass to McCoy on the second play of the 90 yard two-minute drive just when we needed it.

That was an excellent throw, right on the money. All four of the passes on the last drive before the bomb and not just throwaways were very accurate balls. I don't think people realize how many poor or inaccurate passes a game even Brady or Rodgers or Ben make. I'm not of course inferring that Josh is as accurate as those guys seven games into his career. He's never going to be as accurate as Brady. But he is a strange guy, and I can't recall another like him, where his inaccurate are sometimes WAY off but the majority of the time he's right on the money. Detractors will isolate those bad throws which are sometimes gimmes. And proponents will ignore them and mention all of the good ones, which I do. But the "completion percentage" that detractors point out are not really the same issue. He misses the same amount of makeable throws as a lot of good and great QBs. He just misses them more off, not more of them. The amount of throws right on target are equal in proportion to QBs people think are much more accurate.

Inaccuracy takes a lot of forms. Two of the latest Bills QBs were inaccurate passers, EJ and Tyrod, regardless of their completion percentage. Many, many of their completions were not really accurate passes, hitting players right on the numbers or easy for RAC or getting a first down because they were reaching for completed passes. Josh, however, guns many of his passes right on the money, often through tight windows. He's very often extremely accurate. An "inaccurate passer" doesn't do that nearly as much as Allen.

Important, if true, which it's not.

That’s not true. It wasn’t that kind of route. There was no “read” option. And he didn’t really have a man chasing him. He was wide open. Zay said it after the game. “My job was to sit.”

I totally agree. It’s my biggest pet peeve. I wasn’t saying that though. I was just making the comparison of how we only lost by four. NOT that the game would have played out the exact same way and just add those points at the end of the game. I think everything will have been different for the rest of ANY game following ANY play that is called or made differently.

I agree about Zay. When I mentioned it was a tough catch I was only referring to how he ended up dropping it. He could have made an easier play on the ball. He definitely was interfered with. The officials made the right call on the drop but wrong call on the PI which of course they cannot consider. But all around, the Clay catch was a lot easier than Zay’s.

13 yards farther would have been out of the endzone. Go back under a rock.

Those stats are extremely misleading. Percentage completion for a QB is only sometimes an accurate indicator of accuracy. The last two weeks Allen has led the league in yards in the air per pass. When it is third and 20 he throws a 20-30 yard pass not a completion for 6 yards and a punt. He rarely throws screens and WR screens, maybe two a game, which are completions and gin up percentage stats for 2/3 of the quarterbacks in the league. He rarely if ever dumps the ball off to a RB if his WR are covered. The Bills don't even have those guys in the play calls. The Bills also have the worst WR corps in the entire league, no run game and terrible blocking. Allen had a 8-19 stat line last week and he was very accurate most of the entire game. If he threw two more called screen passes a game, which most teams do, and are almost guaranteed completions that have zero to do with accuracy, his completion percentage would jump from the 50s to the 60s with no better throws.

Edwards did not at all look like the next Kelly. People gave him credit for doing things he never did. He had a couple good games but he was never a dynamic player, none of those five wins was a great game by him, he was a lot like Peterman except better arm. He missed one week and the first game back from his injury may have been his best game of his career, so the injury and never was the same theory is nonsense. He was never good under a strong rush even when we had that good start. He could never get the ball downfield with any consistency. He was a good presnap read short passer and that's it. Fitz is a huge overachiever and he was pretty good on the Bills. But he also showed the bad Fitz. Allen is WAY, WAY more talented than either of them and to me, comparing them just because those guys had a few good games and wins is somewhat foolish. Neither of them had any chance at all of being franchise quarterbacks for ten years. Josh has a decent chance and he's better than I thought he would be and most everyone thought he would be already. That doesn't at all mean he has arrived. He has a long, long way to go to be a franchise QB. But so far it's highly encouraging imo.

He tackled himself.

Zay almost blew that. He made a nice move to get wide open after the pattern broke down but he had no idea where the back of the end zone line was and almost went OB as well as making the catch harder than it should have been. Still, he got open smartly and did get the TD so you can't take that away from him. The second TD was a decent or good catch right in his hands, but a very nice throw. The angles of most of the replays didn't show how great of a pass that was. Josh threw it before Zay looked and split three defenders. That was an extremely accurate pass that went for a TD.

I thought this before this weeks game but I think that if you put Mayfield on the Bills with this coaching and OC and line and WR and running game he would not look any better than Josh has, and I like Mayfield.

1) Josh said after the game that he didn't like how the ball left his hand, which was obviously referring to the wobble versus a better spiral. Which makes the length of the pass even more remarkable. 2) I think that fans don't realize how many completed passes are not good spirals, when they appear to be great passes shown live.

I thought the officiating was pretty bad too. Inconsistent. But the PI call on Milano was the right call. He interfered before he went for the ball. The reversal on Zay Jones was the right call. The unsportsmanlike on Phillips was the right call even though it was petty. Even the head tackle on Josh may have been the right call. At first I thought it was awful. But he was grabbed by the jersey and thrown down. Only right at the end did the Dolphin have his helmet. After he was already on his way down. He wasn't at all tackled by the helmet. Yes, they could have called a penalty but it looked way worse than it actually was. They are ridiculously undisciplined. On all three teams.