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This news came out after the Tampa OC said “no thanks.” It’s a disaster.

So Jacksonville They fire their HC, try to conduct interviews with good HC candidates with the contingency that Baakle stays (which of course limits their pool considerably) then fire Baalke after missing out on everyone lol. Brutal. Jags gonna Jag.

You’re not alone. A lot of folks think what an Amari Cooper adds to the pass game is more valuable than what a Mack Hollins adds to the run game. Most of the NFL agrees too, which is why Amari is approaching $140M in career earnings and Mack is approaching $11M in career earnings. So when you see the Bills continue to heavily feature Mack, even after trading a significant day 2 asset for Amari Cooper after demonstrating just how badly we needed a boundary WR threat, you start to wonder why. I get not throwing to Amari all the time, philosophically. I don’t get his snap count. Personally, I think there’s three options: #1 - There’s something else going on with Amari that is being kept from the fans. You don’t trade a third round pick midseason for a guy to barely play. We traded similar comp for Douglas last year and he basically was locked in as our starter for 2 seasons. Whether it’s a nagging injury or what is anyone’s guess. #2 - the Bills think that Mack Hollins/Keon Coleman is more valuable playing snap to snap than Amari. To this I would ask, why trade for him? I would also think they are, respectfully, wrong. #3 - Amari is kinda washed. Maybe all he had in the tank was a couple good games left and he’s been really bad in practice.

Everything happens to every team. Even great players sometimes fail to separate. Great OC’s call bad plays. Bad defenses can force TO’s and good defenses can fail force TO’s. The difference at the NFL level is the frequency of which those things occur. To my eye, there wasn’t a lot of separation by any Bill on Sunday. It was eerily similar to the last meeting with Baltimore (except on the defensive end where we managed to flip the script and forced Lamar to make some mistakes and play from behind). The idea for trading for Amari Cooper made a lot of sense to shore up our weaknesses on that front, but we have seen them go away from that more and more. He had 53 targets in 6 games with Cleveland and 36 in 10 games with Buffalo. I don’t know what the deal is. I’m resistant to blame Brady because he did use him to good effect to start. I almost wonder if there’s a behind the scenes thing or hidden injury thing going on. Ultimately, I’m hopeful it matters less this week because while KC has a better team defense than the Ravens, I don’t think they have coverage guys on the level of Hamilton/Humphrey/Wiggins. They have McDuffie, but as only 1 guy with that level of talent, his impact is lessened imo. He can’t cover everybody. The way Hamilton was flying around to stymie even the quick WR screen was probably the best individual DB play we will face the rest of the postseason.

Correct. Even back in Lamar's first MVP season, the engine that drove them was their running game. Flashback to 2019, the Bills held the future MVP and his offense to 257 yards, 139 passing yards and 118 rushing yards on 33 attempts. Now, we lost that game, in large part because Josh wasn't the QB he is today, but the formula has always been there. And Lamar is a MUCH better passer than he was back in 2019. But for whatever reason, when it gets cold in the postseason, they can be had living and dying by Lamar's arm. They doubled down on taking things off Lamar's shoulders with Henry but that's a mistake. They are mirrors to the Bills in a way. They need to invest more successfully to elevate his passing game, because that's where they are going need that impact come January.

I want it on record, I’m invoking “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all.”

Some. Very often you see those types of passes either broken up, tipped, or picked as well.

It’s Tuesday. By Sunday, you will be frothing at the mouth.

Ohio state fans ready to fire Day after the Michigan debacle to celebrating this win is almost too much to bear

How’s that for positive, Mr?

He actually thinks McD is terrible and will go to any length to annihilate him on any given post, even when it borders on annoying and completely unproductive. Yin and yang. You guys complete the board.

I consider @Mister Defense and @PBF81 to be two sides of the same coin. Yin and Yang.

Stop being so mfing reasonable

Sure but unless he magically gets healthy in 4 days….

I think the Bills are gonna win tbh. I was more worried about the Ravens.