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With all respect, when we watched the Bills in pre-season and opening day against the Rams, many of us thought our run game looked very promising. But that didn't last. I think the bottom line is that we can run well against weak DLs, but we're still struggling to run between the tackles against top DLs. Unfortunately the Bengals fall into the "top DL" category, so I'm not anticipating 250 yds, but I'm hopeful that between the Vikings the Browns and the Lions, we've identified some run strategies that can work. Against the Browns, we rushed for 171 yds - of which Allen had 7 He's just a short armed blocker ATM because he's not getting open. He's not getting releases when he plays on the line, he's not decoding the zone correctly when he's playing against zone, he's not beating his guy when he's playing against man. This is from what I've seen, and I'll make the caveat that I haven't watched all-22 of every game nor does NFL+ make it easy to pull out individual plays. Agreed, that was a sick move. I think the correct term is "progressing" How many of those throws do you want him to haul in?

Morris can get a good release off the line, and run really good routes, too. when OBL had Cosell on he commented "that's a very good route for a TE" on a couple of Morris clips. It's because he's a converted WR of course. His TE skills like blocking are still coming up to speed, though.

I do think that Daboll had an ability to beat that out of Josh that Dorsey and Joe Brady somehow lack.

So here's the paradox: Josh CAN do it. He did it against Miami Week 3. He did it against KC Week 6. And he did it against NE week 13 to the point of making Bill Belicheck look like a fool - his defense was set up to prevent Josh from racking up long runs and to prevent deep throws. And Josh smiled sweetly, handed off to the RBs, and It's like he does it when it's in our game plan and those are his "marching order" from the start, so we know he CAN do it.

Part of that is, Josh seeks the deep throws and when he does take the checkdown the space has closed around the checkdown receiver. QBs who get lots of YAC are taking the checkdown early in the play when there's a 10 yd cushion. I don't doubt you, but I'd like to know where the stat on this is 'cuz, can't find. Link please? Um....the reason the GM is being asked to sign guys off the couch (not practice squad) is because we have 2 receivers on IR I had hopes for Hines also, but when a guy is buried on the depth chart for a "meh" team (#4 or 5) at both receiver and RB, it doesn't argue that he's Eckler or CMC in waiting. I would like this 1000x if I could Which INT last week are you talking about?

I do watch other games and see receivers haul in contested balls that I think our guys don't manage, and I do feel envious. On the other hand, it has to be realized that there's some cause-and-effect involved. Brady and some other QB play in timing offenses, hit your drop, make the throw most of the time. Since these are often shallow/intermediate throws, it kind of opens up the deep game.

https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jones-gets-standing-ovation-as-giants-return-to-postseason-a-special-mome Anyway, congrats to Brian Daboll on reaching the playoffs his first season. But playoffs at 9-6-1 and #3 in their division? Who would have thought?

Yeah, seemed as though the after-game shows started out proclaiming the Chiefs the #1 seed. Then someone must have poked them and they started saying "if the Bills do win in Cinncinnati, they become the #1 seed again" I thought it was kind of reluctant. Some people say it's hard to beat a team on hat-and-t-shirt night For conspiracy, NFL-is-rigged theorists, though: -on the one hand, my sense is that the NFL really wants to see the Chiefs #1 -on the other hand, if the Bengals lose, they will be playing the Ravens next week, in Cinncinnati, for the division title. And I'm pretty sure the NFL wants as many meaningful Week 18 games as possible. So maybe we'll get a fairly called game.

I think it's looking better than we've had for like, a month.

And be sure they got enough jelly. Have the dental floss ready next to the orange slices.

Thunderstorms usually mean wind, but if it's actually thunderstorming, I would expect them to delay the game as they did in KC one year

Yeah, I actually had to go look because I thought people would blame that 5 game losing streak on playing without Tua. But 4 of the 5 losses were 100% Tua.

OK, fair POV He wouldn’t be the first QB whose performance was significantly downgraded by contact with McDaniels

Well, I do, but that may have nothing to do with what’s best for the Bills in the playoff picture.

Say more about this, because I have the impression that Saleh is a man of pretty deep integrity and would have sorted this kind of thing before he signed on. I could be totally wrong of course Do you really trust Derek Carr as a starting QB? He can play brilliantly but he can also play ….um, not brilliantly

I can agree with that. We need an upgrade at WR this off season, maybe 2 upgrades To be fair, that was the same problem both Beasley and John Brown had against the more physical, press man coverage teams in 2019. There’s only so much a short, 170-180 lb receiver can do to compete for a ball with a bigger, heavier back. Davis, though, has the 6’2” 210 lb frame that he should be able to compete for contested balls. Persuasive!

A number of both Davis and McKenzie’s completions are secondary route concepts aka “scramble drills” aka the receiver “helping the QB” by giving him a target when the play breaks down

They’re putting Shakir on the field a fair amount recently - 16,12 , 22, 25 snaps or 20-39% They have to be liking something he’s doing for them - maybe blocking down field? You can’t expect a lot of blocking from McKenzie, Cole, and Brown or as Beane once said “the Smurfs” OK, I saw the glimpse that time. In the white puffer jacket. You see what I mean about Saffold though? Seriously, he looks like a TE OK, who is it then?

Did he? Didn’t see him in the pics BTW pretty sure that’s Roger Saffold walking next to Josh Allen, and if so holy Toledo it explains how he gets pushed around, he looks no bigger than Allen. He does not look like a top OLman

Hi. Can you share the source of this data on INT for every QB in the league, fumbles for every QB in the league, QB rating for every QB in the league, since week 8? I’d really love the chance to review these data for the entire league. Thanks (PS not to doubt you, but that seems so startling that if it’s true, I tend to believe I’d be seeing and hearing about it all over the place)

Poyer had a pick and was totally robbed of it vs. the Jets We had 2 forced fumbles/recoveries against the Jets Dane Jackson (I think) forced a fumble against the Bears OK I won’t count the Peterman interception

I don’t know if Allen had a concussion, or got his “throwing engine” messed up a bit with some of the dings and hits he took running - little shoulder sprain, not enough to go on injury report that week which players loathe and try everything to avoid. But there was a big difference in Allen’s throws and completion % between the 1st and 2nd half, and it wasn’t all on “adjustments” - Allen was throwing balls into the dirt, off target, etc.

I would like this 1000 times if I could.

LOL Minnesota one snap with 10, one snap with 12 - it averages out to 11 I’m sorry to hear that. I hoped he’d do well enough to sucker the Airplanes into thinking they Had Their Guy

I dunno about “blueprint” - what exact “blueprint” do you think GB gave the Jets? Losing Poyer during the GB game and having Milano injured during the GB game meant that our starting safeties vs the Jets were Damar Hamlin and Jaquan Johnson and our starting OLB in place of Milano was Terrel Bernard. That’s a problem, but it’s not exactly a blueprint GB handed the Jets. What the Bills learned is that Bernard isn’t ready to play LB for Milano and losing both Poyer AND Hyde is a step too far. We signed Klein and traded for Dean Marlow to have different alternatives. The other “blueprint” is that we’re gonna struggle if Josh Allen throws so many stupid interceptions.