Pokebball

Unfortunately, our coaches have become accustomed to our defense shutting down the opposing offense. It was very clear that was the case in the fourth quarter yesterday based upon their play calling

I wasn't the one that used that characterization, and it does fit. The defense performed much worse than they have all season.

Got to give our rushing game some of those percentage points. Ignoring Allen's rushing yards we racked up less than 50 yards yards for the game.

You realize they are 12 win team because of their defense, right? I suggest you go look at the offensive stats in the Pats prior 4 games including Brady's qbr. Then compare that to yesterday's stats. That will give you a better idea of how poorly our defense played yesterday.

I honestly think our offense is able to put more points on the board. When the last leg of the relay team runs 5 seconds below what they normally run, I think they deserve criticism.

He took them on a 14 play drive, 57 yards to the NE 8. Lot of success on that drive, but yeah not perfection.

And of course it means that every first round draft pick will always beat the veteran. And it also means that every play of every game includes this dynamic.

If only it was that easy for second-year, first round draft picks

An agenda

These are the things we don't know and the coaches do

The offensive line struggled all game. Then we lost perhaps our best offensive lineman. Those last four plays we're going to take a miracle I think better protection for Allen will do much more for his accuracy then footwork will. Some context for you is necessary. Josh started 24 games in college. Lamar Jackson started 49. Both started their first year in college. Josh played for a G5. Lamar played for a P5.

I'd probably reverse the picks, but I agree

They are one of the best in the league. They had a pretty poor game yesterday. No reason to defend that.

I don't want this to sound like any sort of moral victory kinda of crap, but the Bills are undoubtedly getting better. I'm impressed withe off season additions to the offense. I'm impressed with the progress Allen has made. Last year this team went 23-3 and 37-16 vs the Pats. This year we had the ball driving for the winning/tying score to end both games. Success breads success and the success we've had this year has made all of us impatient. It has me anyways.

Brady is Brady and he's deadly heading into the playoffs. Brady is better getting rid of the ball when pressured. But I would counter that his O line is mostly the reason for his better play. He had significantly more time than Allen. Allen seemed to be constantly under pressure.

This is text book McD and we all knew it was coming. I guess it's worked more than it has failed us. A 7pt lead wasn't enough today. The performance of our D up to this point made that pretty clear, didn't it?

Less than 100 yds rushing and Allen got almost half of them. We got punched in the nose all afternoon in the trenches. Somebody above said we went to the run because Daboll couldn't rely on Josh passing the ball. LOL We got beat physically, very, very badly.

I'll buy

Oh, I was sure you saw it somewhere. I just wanted to show you that I didn't pull it out of my arse

https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/gamelog/_/id/2330/tom-brady

Brady's QBR today was 90, his highest since week one. His QBR in his prior five games was 32, 38, 29, 39 and 36. That's on our defense. Could Josh had been better, of course. Josh didn't have time to go to his 3rd read, much less his 4th

No he wasn't. Got a clip?

He was lucky he didn't get hurt when he got hit 0.5 seconds after he let it go!

I think Belichick would take Josh in a heartbeat after Brady retires...next year. Imagine what Josh could do with that NE line and WRs.

Most people care about QBR. But I get it. It doesn't fit your narrative.