MasterStrategist

Only 10-7 after another horrible offensive half. At some point, you decide who you're best players are and scheme around them. This offense finally has an Oline that can hold up and we want to play small ball always. You do that at times, but that's become an identity of a Josh Allen offense. That's on Brady, and hope he realizes (and McD), that you have to play more aggressive. Playing down to a 1-4 team, by playing into their hands. Somehow we're the only team in NFL that refuses to play under center/roll the pocket for easy TE/RB dump offs. The point of a running game is to keep the defense honest. Difficult to do that consistently out of the gun.

I'm ok with defensive effort. Offense laying an egg- Joe Brady FFS, in the 2nd half can we go under center more. Run/playaction

Exactly. To his credit, Brady has a solid run game. But his pass schemes are about bottom 5 as it gets.

Honestly, had hopes in Brady. He's just shown to be incompetent in passing attack. Basic as hell on offense, zero misdirection. 2 solid TEs and we can't get them involved, because we want to run 90% of plays from the gun. Just a cluster passing attack. Pitiful 1st half

Joe Brady playcalling has regressed massively.

Drop by Cooper, 1st down. Drop by AJE, possible pick 6. Yep that's on Coach. Players need to make plays.

This short game offense just isn't Josh. Get some more deep crosses/posts and then a check down to the RB/TE. 4-5 yards a pop passing just won't get it done. Dotn care if they're in 2 deep, need more intermediate to deep passing layers.

Herbig is still out and their rookie starting center is banged up. Highsmith and Kazee come back this week. That should be a HUGE difference. Vegas is completely wrong on this matchup. Steelers matchup very well and with Russell back in at QB, I expect some early rust then a 2nd half going up by 6+.

Questionable at best. I'd take Cincy and Steelers over Jets. First glimpse tonight. Steelers by 6.

Agree. Some misdirection and get to the edge against a stout middle DL.

Yeah the NFL didn't think of this loophole. And if they did, their solution is very bad. I agree with those saying to "tack it on" to end of kickoff result. So touchback comes to the 45. Return and a holding penalty, net +5 from spot of foul...etc. Return for TD can nullify the penalty. This should be a rule modification that gets implemented, as soon as possible.

Still holding out hope on Bass. But leash is shorter by the week. Let's hope this new kicker, albeit average at best, can be a sounding board/someone to pick up things from. Even the smallest technique/observation, might put Bass back on track. Mentally, it could help to have someone on the sidelines as well. We shall see, best case Bass gets back to his best form, but even if he can get more consistent that will be a plus.

Haven't read every comment. But in the future, I hope Coach puts Hollins back deep and takes our 2 DTs off the field/rush with Groot and Aje. Also Bernard needs to be told to come up much faster once WRs clear him. No reason Groot or AJE should've been defending sidelines 10 yards downfield. That's like wasting 2 defenders. Put them up to rush and put Elam/Ingram in those spots, while Hollins deep for his height (or Keon).

I'm glad they made the move. Personally, I think leveraging any future assets to go all in this year is foolish. A 2-4 team, with a 40 yr old QB that's a major injury risk, just fired their head coach, demoted their O coordinator, poor OL/aging tackles. List goes on. Just don't think this moves the needle for them. We shall see, but I see them losing 2 of the next 3 and wheels start to fall off at 3-6.

I don't think there is anything to read into Coachs interview. Our offensive identity this season won't change. We just have a much better option for Josh. Just McD style to stay even keeled and focus on this week at hand. Hines was a special situation IMO. First, he was a hybrid/3rd down type of back in a somewhat crowded room. 2nd, Dorsey was clueless on how to use him (or any of our backs in general). 3rd, I dont think Dorsey had Josh looking to check down much. It took Brady taking over to finally unlock more of Cooks potential, and have Josh be more balanced with risk taking/being ok with the 5 yard drop off. It's a more efficient brand of football and less turnovers. All that to say, Cooper will be easier to integrate. He'll need to ramp up/learn the playback, but will get more acclimated each week. 1 or 2 explosive plays a week, would be nice to see (20+ yards) and is a fair expectation until the bye.

Jets are really kicking alot of $$$ down the road. Re structured Adams deal, with 2 void years. It will be an ugly collapse at some point soon.

Dion has been a consistent pro, on and off the field. He's certainly a top 10 LT, if not top 5 range. Unselfish and great leader. Horrible troll job. Maybe go back to the kitchen/your food threads, that's more your realm.

100% agree. That's why I said "contain" us. Made a key stop in redzone, rest was our own mistakes and/or poor officiating. Agree about the refs. We also shot ourselves in the foot. Dion penalty, too many false starts/illegal formations. Brown call was atrocious by refs. So yes, a mix of bad officiating and poor discipline. Jets didn't stop us, contained us is maybe generous. Refs + self inflicted. Thought this was a good gameplan by Brady. Very promising to see our OL come out and dominate.

Some questionable penalties, mistakes on both sides, both kickers struggled with wind...this is where better team finds a way to win an ugly game. This game was 20-10, fluke hail Mary and the roughing the passer, made it 20-20. Jets found a way to contain us in 2nd half, but make no mistake our defense stepped up in 2nd half as well.

Need to win ugly games. Puts Jets back where they belong, and we're sitting in a good position. Ray Davis looks like he's ready to start taking more snaps from Cook. Finally a nice 1-2 punch. Still need another WR, but this defense looked good when it counted... missing Milano, Ed, Von.

Rapp and Taron....two of the best plays all night. That's how to play ball!

How does this work, can we move our kickoff coverage up 15 yards? If so, def need to kick into drop zone.

So?! This isn't a hockey make up call. That was a critical call that cost us. Same as the AJE horrible call. I don't blame refs when they call it both ways. But we've had 2 major penalties go against us.

"late" is not what happened on that play with Spencer though. He literally was finishing his block, as taught.

Bass costing us 4 points. Beane can love this kid, but he has to make a move.