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Bills receivers got credited with three official drops yesterday. Interesting.

I think he absolutely got outplayed when you consider the context. Lamar was on the road in a notoriously difficult place to play vs. the slightly better defense by most metrics and without his top target for most of the game. Josh had every advantage and yet Lamar passed for more yards, ran for more yards, did it more efficiently, and his team won.

One of the main issues I continue to have with Josh is his poor starts. On the year in the 1st quarter he's thrown for 613 yards, 6.1 Y/A, 71 QB rating. It's just so rough when your QB comes out not executing. There were many people to blame throughout the game but Josh set the tone early with all those poor passes and the fumble. I don't think dejected is the right word as he's obviously not ready for games like this (see NE) and so expectations were lower but it's hard not to be disappointed when the defense plays so well and you lose. To those putting up the 146 yards number, don't forget to include his rushes and sacks (some of which were his fault). It was 114 total net yards on 2.78 yards per drop back. That isn't just the result of some drops and play calling.

We definitely got some suspect calls in our favor, especially on the final drive. Those were weak personal foul calls and that deep ball to Beasley wasn't catchable, trip or no trip. I understand the case for PI to Foster but ultimately the DB was playing the ball and Josh just threw it up for grabs. You can't expect to get bailed out by the refs in that situation.

I would give him a D as well. 114 combined net yards on only 2.78 yards per play. A couple bad sacks which took us out of FG range. Two fumbles. Receivers let him down in the second half but he just wasn't good enough vs. the blitz today. I thought the ankle injury really hampered him.

Yes but some of that is recognizing when they're going to blitz and either audibling to better protection or a different play, or if they surprise you it's knowing where your hot read is and getting the ball out quickly. The fact he doesn't seem able to do that is exacerbating the problem. It's not like we're getting destroyed with four rushers on every play.

I thought Daboll had a really bad day. Him moving to the booth and reading the defense pre-snap for Allen was a big reason for the offensive turnaround IMO. Today we didn't have the proper protections when they blitzed and the times we did max protect or when Josh changed the play (likely due to whatever Daboll was seeing) we played right into their defensive scheme. This doesn't excuse the awful performances from our QB and receivers, but it was a rough outing for our OC.

I think Josh making strides as a pocket passer, reading the field and making good, quick decisions vs. the blitz, is going to determine whether we can become legit superbowl contenders or not. Right now he's so dynamic if/when he escapes the pocket but games like today show where he's at when he doesn't. We can draft/sign all the good players we want but until the pocket passing improves there's a hard ceiling for this team.

Our defense is certainly legit. Feel like we already knew that though.

Great effort by the defense today. They had poor field position a bunch and only gave up 257 total yards, 61 of which came on one play.

Give Lamar credit. He's a very cool customer in the face of a pass rush.

Our receivers are all smurfs. Why are we throwing it up for grabs there??

These drops are just demoralizing

Josh has been awful today but think we need to put the ball in his hands and live with the results. We're not getting push in the run game and Ravens are basically stacking the line on us. Go shot gun. Go early so Daboll can read the field.

F#%&

A little OT but this 49ers vs. Saints game is lit!!

If I was opposing OC I'd only run WR screens against us. It's our kryptonite.

Hauschka responding with the only statement that matters after the failed waiver claim this week.

For those keeping score that was Knox's 437th drop that would have led to a first down this year. Edit: at least we responded with points. Need another turnover from the D.

Refs keeping us in it

What is Poyer doing there?? Ouch

My options weren't very good. Came down to Houston at home or Pittsburgh on the road. I didn't see Denver being able to throw all over the field like this.

They're about to boot me out my eliminator pool. They could have picked a better week to be better than I think ?

They're second overall in yards and first in points by a mile. There hasn't been a whole lot of struggling.

Defense has been really good so far,. Keeping us in it. Ravens offense is no joke.