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With the help of DPI on an underthrown moonball to Jeudy. Getting in the way of the receiver coming back from the ball will ***** the DB every time. Result was 28 yards on a 3rd and 10 and a 1st down at the Buffalo 17 yd line.

Pretty sure scoring more than the opponent scores, whatever that number may be, works anytime

They are. But just as they're the #1 pass rush team and it's not close, the Bills are the #1 least sacked team and it's not close. I expect our OL and DL to come up out fired up by the all-around All Pro snubbing So what was "Around the Horn" and "PTI"s pre-season take on our Billsesssss?

Wat? The Denver Broncos are not "the #1 rush team in the NFL". They're like #16 for yards, #21 for Y/R, but #13 for attempts. The plan is to "Play Ball!"

I mean, what are you guys expecting? It's the playoffs. Every team is going to bring their best.

Special teams, yes. Sean Payton. 14 years coaching with one of the all-time great, HOF QBs in Drew Brees. 1 Superbowl win, 2 conference losses, 4 division losses If he were coaching in Buffalo, we'd have been calling the plows for his removal in 2013 if not 2012.

Probably not much hope there. The players all read this kind of news. McDermott just needs to click his bic and the fuel will be there.

Don't try to make it make sense. Just hope it puts a little "***** in the grits" for Allen and the OL through the playoffs. He did. But last year when Allen had better statistics, we were told the award wasn't about statistics.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43359537/sources-browns-qb-deshaun-watson-retears-achilles-rehab I think Watson's GAF (give a *****) are GAF (gone as *****). He's all about the money.

Welp, Then. Actually I think the Bills coaches and players knew the writing was on the wall a couple weeks back which is why McDermott and the OL came out in public and said what they said.

I'm actually delighted by the upset talk. I think it's much easier to motivate the Bills team if they feel dissed. Zero first team all - pro's, talk of the Broncos upsetting them - LET'S GOoooOOOOOOOOOO!

And, their fans get to sit and watch while the QB they drafted #1 overall, Baker Mayfield, who took them to a winning record in his 3rd season before being kicked to the curb for Watson, leads another team to a 10-7 record and playoffs.

Well, the press does need a story, and a Cinderella story with a rookie QB beating an MVP candidate seems made for TV. But those who actually know something, like Dan Orlovsky, see the following: 1. Denver's defense is very good, especially against the run. 9th for rush attempts, 3rd for rush yards. 2. Some of that could be desperate QB trying to return to the LOS because Broncos are #1 for sacks, and it isn't close 3. Big part of the Bills offense this year has been a balanced attack with running the ball. Top-10 for both rush attempts and rush yards. Shut down the run, the Bills offense may struggle. 4. Denver has one of the best CB in the league in Surtain. The Bills aren't seen as having a particularly challenging receiver corps to take away. 5. Nix is not a genuine dual-threat QB but he is mobile in the pocket and has escapability. 41 rushing 1st downs. So he has to be contained, like a dual threat. 6. Nix has better stats than Josh Allen - more passing TD, more passing yards, higher completion % - in part due to a play action and screen passing game and.... 7. Buffalo's defense struggles against play action and screens. They depend on their front 4 to pressure the QB, which means they're always treading that fine line between being aggressive enough and overpursuing/coming too early. 8. Buffalo's defense has been very uneven. Against some good offenses like the Ravens, Rams and Lions, we gave up a *****-ton of points. Now, people who look under the hood say "yeah, injuries may have had something to do with that" but, the media doesn't look that far under the hood. By the way, good article by Joe Buscaglia https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6050954/2025/01/10/bills-wild-card-broncos-josh-allen-bo-nix/ And for you "Shakir returning punts" guys, that is Joe's prediction if Codrington can't go.

It would be one thing if there were no alternatives. But there are alternatives. Yes, there is risk all over the field in the game of football, but the risk on a punt return is objectively different. I mean think about it. On a normal play, the defense lines up with different objectives. 4-6 men are trying to get to the QB. 5-7 men are spread out across the field covering different players or trying to stop the run. On a punt return, 10 of 11 guys line up with one object: "Get to the ball. If a man has the ball, kill the man with the ball!" And the 11th man just has the distraction "punt the ball first". The level of mayhem and focus is just different. Andre' Roberts said "You've got to have a screw loose". Nyheim Hines said "I tell myself, I don't care about my life" Again, if there were no alternatives on the Bills who had tried to field a punt, that would be one thing, but Daequan Hardy was doing so in pre-season and until the Codrington trade, many thought he'd won the job, he looked adequate. Both he and Keon Coleman were fielding punts last year for their college teams.

Wow. Hope the way they treated McCloud is not something Schoen learned from Beane. Yuck - O. 1) don't ask a player who is starting to take a pay cut, while they're still slated to start 2) don't ask a player you just signed in the off-season as a FA to take a pay cut - if they aren't worth that, why did you recently offer it to them? 3) in general, don't ask players to take pay cuts during the season It's one thing if a team negotiates in the off season with a player on a long-term contract who is under-performing his contract (Knox, Von Miller), when the team is cap-crunched and trying to make moves. Everybody knows what's going on. It's another to do what Schoen is reported to have done above. Woof. Nick McCloud was a guy who was signed as an UFA originally by the Bills. "Bold" and "unusual" try "ridiculous" and "disrespectful"

That's the most logical interpretation of this.

Ah OK. Thanks! I mean, isn't that always true of the playoffs?

If the question is "who is the Bills most productive WR this season and far too valuable to the offense to be risked on returning punts?" then sure, Shakir is that answer.

the Joker in the decision making deck: Punt returns and whether or not Codrington can go

But Keon is so slow, and cant cut!

OK thanks. Not what I thought I heard but I could be mistaken I'm confused who is "they" in this sentence? The Broncos last played AZ in 2022 The Bills of course opened the season in AZ but, we only sacked Murray 4 times. Most Murray was sacked this season was 5x Browns, Colts, Chargers, and Bengals....Browns, Chargers and Bengals scored more than 30 points. I dunno what to make of that....if you happened to do something like that for the Bills D including the Rams and Lions games, we'd look like we fell off a cliff, I guess? Did they have some major injuries? Looks as though they were missing a starting CB for 3 of those 4 games but that's a bout all

The league average punt return is 1~0 Y/R (I looked: 9.9 Y/R actually) The Bills are 8th in the league averaging 10.8 Y/R The Broncos are 1st in the league with 15.7 Y/R No return vs 15.7 Y/R seems like a significant advantage to me.