Einstein's Dog

Yes, the 3 seed looks quite possible but would you really prefer it over the 4 seed? Both would get home playoff games for the first round but if form held up the 3 seeds second game would be in KC while the 4 seed game would be in Balt.

Thanks for stepping in and keeping this alive. J Allen is #103 now in passing yards, which should be your lead (since the OP is about passing yards). Today Josh can reasonably make a claim for spot 100! Needs a little over 200 yards to pass Danny White, J Winston, and Carson Wentz (who both were on teams on Thursday).

I disagree, You take what the defense gives you. If the Chargers saw last week and load the box to stop the run (like what Seattle did in years past) we need to make them pay through the air. A huge advantage in this game is J Allen >>> E Stick. Not a mismatch at RB, Ekeler = Cook, and Ekeler is one Charger who isn't going to quit, he's playing for a contract next year.

But Ty Johnson does look injured. Can he play through it? Probably. But the odds then increase that Ty will just get more banged up as we go. The RB core we had last week won't be of the same health in the playoffs if we keep rolling out semi-injured players. This is when not having cratered depth makes a difference. You can rest and heal Ty while putting in what we think to be a near replacement level player.

Would they give the Defensive players warning if it was anywhere close? I don't get that.

I was personally afraid they would go back and pick up the flag. Say something like it was inconsequential to the play. That is what seemed to happen in New England - remember the illegal man downfield flag, oops never mind, although the replay showed it did occur, it seemed to be deemed to have no affect on the play. It was a big gainer for New England but on the sideline and the illegal man down field didn't have anything to do with the play. Obviously that one still burns me.

No, Diggs is not done. IMO, he is playing through an injury which happens. May need the same thing next week, having a hurt Diggs will still draw Gilmore. Diggs hasn't been getting the calls IMO. Looks like several times he got mugged. There have been more drops from him than usual. And the drop at 2:12 is borderline inexcusable. I do like that he is being quiet. Don't give excuses. Don't get caught up in controversy. Stay quiet let your rejuvenated play the last few weeks and into playoffs say what is needed. As mentioned his play may not stand out against Dallas but he should be getting more calls at home.

It may not have worked. But it seemed like a reasonable call. A very safe pass with a high reception percentage to a veteran trusted player. Might not have given them a lot of yards but reasonable to think it would have been caught and run the clock to the 2 min warning. And to me, i don't think run would have netted any yards.

So, you wanted them to get incredibly conservative with over 2 minutes left in a tied game. That's one approach.

I don't think you or the guy you are responding to understand what they were trying to do. With 2:12 left Brady felt KC would be stuffing the line for the run, he called an incredibly save pass play to one of our better steadier playmakers, Diggs. 95% of times that is caught. 65% of the time in that instance Diggs would have gained about 7-8 yards and the clock would have gone to 2:00. From there we would have run the ball to try and pick up the 1st. If successful then the we would have played the time game. Once that high percentage passed was dropped the whole complexion of the end of game strategy changed. Brady wanted the TD. KC was going to have time either way. The TD attempts were more valuable than the difference in amount of time KC would have.

Kind of like the inconsequential 12th man on the field for a FG. Got to call that though. Tough way to lose our Denver game. Bit what about the illegal man down the field at NE. The flag was thrown and the replay showed him downfield but they picked it up. That still annoys me.

The refs called it a catch and fumble. It was reviewed and it wasn't overturned. The announcers said it was a catch. I was NOT sure he controlled it at first and was of course worried. But after seeing the review I agree with the call.

It was a high percentage pass play to a veteran big time playmaker. Not a ridiculous call at all. A very surprising result though. Not catching that pass changed the complexion of the next several plays. If he caught the pass the time would have gone to the 2 min warning. Then probably followed up with a run to force KC into a timeout w under 2:00 to go. Without that the goal now was to score a TD regardless of time constraints.

And they conveniently fail to mention when Cook came back in, it appeared he hadn't quite figured out why he was put in time out. Cook ran harder but put the ball on the ground 2 more times.

Please do not sugarcoat it, mannc doesn't know what he is talking about. He states things as declarations yet has no idea if true. When called out on it, he goes to the "it's the internet, everyone has an opinion". The reference to mannc with "Perhaps you have a legal background" is hilarious. Yeah, known as the hanging judge.

Reading through this thread i have now seen multiple posts saying Beane's "Out of Character" comment was a mistake to say, and False. Do you posters really think you have more information to go on than Beane? Beane has spent some time with Von. It comes across as arrogant to me when posters think they have greater insight into Von's character than Beane. And if Beane feels it's "Out of Character" for Von, I'm glad Beane is saying it. It's not a mistake, and I bet it's much appreciated by Von and others in the locker room. If McDermott doesn't know Von very well, then McD's more reserved response is appropriate.

Several responses to the bolded. First is, yes, I have issues of trust with G Davis, and I think an intelligent OC should too. G Davis mistakes have cost us dearly. Just because people do not think Davis is good does not mean we think there are better options on our team to take his place. So no, he would not be off the team entirely. Davis criticism is nothing like Bernard criticism. People have seen Davis play for several years now. Dorsey was in part fired because of Davis' gaffes. If we won the NYJ and Denver games I doubt a switch would have been made. Part of the reason for the resurgence of the offense was the lessening of the targets and dependency on Davis, and to increase the role of Kincaid and Shakir. I thought Brady knew that. You assume what the Bills organization thinks of Davis. If the rumors were correct inquiries were made for both OBJ and DHop. "Misunderstand?" I can't believe you would be that clueless to think the OC has no control over what plays are being called. Brady has some responsibility here and it doesn't reflect well. On top of that Brady is now part of the regime that took part in the disgraceful 20 seconds debacle.

C'mon Shaw, that's a low blow to Dorsey. Gabe pretty much ended Dorsey's time here. Dorsey didn't ruin the Gabe/Allen connection, other way around, the lack of Gabe/Allen did Dorsey in. While i like the two game trial run so far of Brady, Brady had a lot to do with this last loss. Assuming Brady has seen everything I have seen this year, there would be no way, an important clutch play should be going to G Davis. No need for the kill shot there/then, just move the chains and take the end zone shots on first or second downs.

The Bills are more talented on offense this year because of the addition of Kincaid! The quicker and more involved he gets the better the Bills will be. Kincaid is a star and needs to be fast-tracked into a larger role. Allen/Diggs/Kincaid and a bunch of decent role players Shakir/Cook should be a top offense (it's better than Detroit's Goff/St Brown/Laporta)

Appreciate the time and effort to do a more thorough look back. Not nearly as bad as the OP is making it out to be. But two comments from me. First for 2022 I was hoping they would go WR - there were two (IMO) premium picks sliding down, C Watkins who GB took that had great camp numbers, and G Pickens. Secondly, I think you should have included the 2023 draft where the first two rounds went to offense and are great picks. Would have thought that would have ended these kind of stupid OP rants.

I like Brady but this quote doesn't show me anything. What's he doing having Davis in a key spot? Those plays at this point should be Diggs, Kincaid, Josh run, or maybe Shakir/Cook. That's plenty to choose from - those ridiculous plays with Sherfield and/or Davis were terrible. Not the time to get cute. If they anticipated a blitz that ball should have been going to Kincaid.

To the OP, I grade the same way as you. This last draft has upgraded my view on Beane drafting. I was disappointed with the 2022 draft, mainly because I was hoping they would take a WR over the CB in round 1 (c Watkins/G Pickens). After the draft I felt they went too needs oriented and that Beane was being a little too conservative. The 2023 draft shocked me in a very pleasant way. Beane put to rest the defense domination criticism. He took a risk to move up for a player in questionable positional value (TE), where we already had a player (Knox). The move up was quickly justified to me when I saw the video of the Dallas draft room. And personally I've seen enough of Kincaid to call him a star, I'm excited about at least another 4 1/2 years of him.

Need a lot of mistakes out of the nerd today. Hopefully that was the first one.

Reviewing a 5 yard gain?

Terrible call