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Are you saying Allen can't throw the ball? Otherwise, I'm missing your point.

I'd love to have Kenny Golladay on this Bills team. The kid's a stud and he has a great attitude that would fit the Bill's culture.

Is the talent on the Lions a result of it being Detroit? And does Buffalo have a similar challenge? I'd say yes. Obviously the owners, GMs and organizations all are factors. But holding those other factors equal among all locations, Buffalo has the same challenge in attracting talent that Detroit does. I want the best talent Buffalo can get, but Buffalo will always struggle with getting enough talent to regularly compete for the Super Bowl. There will always be more attractive locations to play at.

Good God, these bye weeks are brutal!

If you went back to 2017 and worried about who you'd pick in the draft, vs. putting everything you owned on the NBA, Stanley Cup and NFL winners, you are $%^*&*^%#^, period!

Somebody has to ask him about this. So very hard to believe.

I'm not sure the Bill's defense is the factor in Josh's performance as much as you think it is.

There isn't a poster that believes Josh is anywhere near a completed product. It's this kind of hyperbole that fires up folks. Good post!

The jury is still out on most of the offense in this fan's opinion. It's better than last year but still has plenty of room for improvement. The edges on the O line have been very poor. WR separation, hands and winning those 50/50 balls is still pretty poor. Our WR aren't very physical, more of the finesse type. TEs are young and are making rookie mistakes. We needed to see the O improve over the first 1/2 dozen games - I'm encouraged. I agree with our D being a huge benefit, but I was talking our offense. The o/u was because it was Buffalo.

Allen wasn't given keys to a car with much of an engine in it either. There have certainly been improvements made this season but I don't know that the Bills offense is much more than a 5 year old, reliable, car one would give their college kid to drive.

Fly to San Diego for the weekend and catch the Wyo vs SDSU football game. Isn't that what everyone else here does?

That 20/20 hindsight is oftentimes a killer.

I don't get the difficulty in understanding this philosophy. It's there and it's valid. Spot on my man! McDermott isn't the only coach with this philosophy and it's intentional.

Actually, it wasn't clearly one or the other, which is why it's a controversy. People are seeing what they want to see. Where Wycheck and Dyson's body parts were don't matter. I think the still photo evidence is actually pretty solid. I don't understand the argument that it isn't. One of those calls that comes down to the officials judgement. Either way this was called, I don't think there's enough evidence to reverse the call on the field.

Rest my case

When does working the clock have it's place?

LOL. There's a fine line between conservative play calling and poorer execution. The % run vs pass doesn't prove your point as there are conservative run plays and conservative pass plays. But this is a tangent that I don't care to take with you. Call it whatever you want to call it. We get up, we don't score as much as easily as we did. We need that pick 6 either way.

Of course every team wants to score on every possession, but that wasn't my point. Many teams don't want to score as fast as they can. They want to use clock, tire out the opposing defense and give their own defense time to rest. Methodical drives down the field are important to winning, and of course winning is everyone's job (rather than scoring as many points as you can). Don't confuse total points scored with the number of possessions a team is given. It's not that I believe it, but rather a fact that game plans exist to limit the number of possessions an opponent gets. You limit the possessions your opponent gets, you limit the possession your offense gets.

I'm actually not as concerned as you are in regards to average points in the league. Coaching philosophies dictate that to a large degree. Slower, methodical, offenses score fewer points while giving defenses more time to rest. Pass happy, explosive offenses have their defenses on the field a hullava lot more. Of course, I've always been a disciple of defense. I enjoy 21-17 pt games more than I do 45-38 type games.

I don't think any of this is all that very surprising given all of the new talent on offense. I think the most frustrating thing for me this season have been the motion penalties on the O line. It seems every time we are already starting deep, we make it deeper. Everything changes when we go first and ten from the 15 to first and 15 from the 10. Drive killers before the drive begins.

We get up by 10 our play calling gets very, very conservative. The only way I see getting from a 10pt lead to a 17pt lead is a pick six by the defense. This will require a boat load of money put on the Dolphins. I don't see it.

While I get this, I never like depending on another team to win or lose. We take care of things ourselves and good things will come.

This is where I'm at. I love the moment but I'm going to be cautiously optimistic regarding how this year turns out. Playoff success will depend on most every position on the offensive squad. All positions will have to play better than they have so far this year.

I'm certainly not giving up. I'm as hopeful as the next guy. I agree that the Bill's success this year depends on the offense coming together and getting on the same page. With 8 new guys, that is a tall order. I hope they do and I am encouraged. I guess I'm saying I'm not going to be disappointing, like I believe some posters will be, if they don't. I want to see continued progress all across the offense, including Allen. I think the interior of the O line is pretty salty. All other aspects have to get better in order to win the division.

Very fair article and spot on in my opinion.