Tanoros

Not saying it makes it any better, but there are careers out there where people do die more often than you’d think not to mention long term disability/ailments. At the end of the day, just as in football, people sign up for this stuff. I can’t ever think of a football player dying from playing football and what we say tonight appears to be a freak occurrence. How many years how football been around? The game is safe than it’s ever been, this game isn’t going anywhere and rightfully so.

I see what your saying and it is frustrating, it seems like other teams have more breakout young guys than us in this McDermott/Beane era. But also, that is the norm for these young guys, come in and improve each year, and most aren’t stars right away. At this point in time, we do need to shift more towards guys who have an impact sooner, but that will be at the expense of something else (athletics traits, or not a position of need, etc). Unless things fall into place perfectly, there will be some give and take. One good thing to consider about developing more guys than we can afford is that we will have seen them in our system and will not be gambling as much as someone in FA from another team.

Spending the money doesn’t guarantee a good player, even more so if that player will fit in the scheme. Drafting and developing is very important, and the team should instead put a priority on offensive positions moving forward in the draft. As hard as defense can be these days, the Bills have s good one, and we all see the major drop off when Edmonds is out. To me, he is the number 1 resign based on age, position, play. He’s stepped up huge this year, and for most of the board him being, “young” and developing has been running joke, yet here we are, he has taking a major step forward. At this point, there is no reason to doubt that he won’t continue to make strides in his overall play. He’s definitely playing with a lot more confidence this year.

I certainly he has the potential to be an elite weapon and I was really hoping to see him or Davis break out into a bonafide elite player this year (or anyone else, but those two seemed to have the highest probability).

Cool turning into that elite player would be amazing and not out of question either. The only thing I see about Cook being a slight issue, is Allen would need to do a better job of looking his way earlier on certain down/distances. Allen tends to look deep first, which is why I would prefer that additional elite weapon to be a wr, preferably a 1B to Digg’s 1A. It would compliment Allen as he plays currently a bit better. However, I believe the more explosive Cook shows himself to be, that should help Allen look his way more often. Hopefully someone emerges down the stretch/playoffs who we can feel good about for next year, but unless someone steps up, I hope we continue our search for another.

Agree, for us to have two #1’s we are going to have to draft and develop for the second. We need contributors on rookies salaries in order to afford everything. As much as I’d love a second #1 wr, more than anything I just want another elite player on the offensive side of the ball. We have Allen and Diggs which is great, but we need one more atleast. With this upcoming draft, I feel like we need to land someone early who can be a major contributor on offense with the ceiling to be elite. I’d even settle for an elite offensive guard. I’d prefer another position, but an elite person on the o-line wouldn’t be horrible. It’s going to be an interesting offseason. Now that things are getting tight, I’m curious to see how Beane handles things and which direction we go.

Completely agree. Allen needs more help on offense. We need one more elite player on offense. Preferably a skill position, but even OL would be fine. Whatever is done, Beane needs to emphasize the offense more. Our best weapon is Allen, so he needs all the help he can get to maximize our teams success. Having an offense that can score points at will, will take pressure off of the defense anyway, forcing the other teams to be more one dimensional.

THIS! I’m in the same spot and questioning playing him. My backup option would be McKinnon. Who has had some big games lately, but he is also a big gamble.

I was able to get ahold of a similar service. Like you, I can watch just about any major sporting event. There are just so many streaming options. I’m excited to see what happens with NFLST on YouTube tv though. I’d like to hope they will be open to reimagining the whole affair. For instance, being able to watch games from an All-22 perspective like Thursday Nights, “Prime Vision”. Hopefully YouTube is willing to create some positive change making the whole ST and football watching experience easier and more enjoyable.

If so, it will be a game that’s nationally televised and available via NFL+. If you have that already, then you will be covered. On a side note, having NFL+ and having the option of watching all of the local games on my phone is awesome. I’ve been able to more flexible and still seeing the games.

Your a very right. In many ways Allen is still a young qb, and finding the right balance between being aggressive and taking the easy stuff is something he still needs to figure out. The way I see it, we have games (a lot this year) where we fail to put drives together because of many compounded reasons (stuff at the line for no gain or little, pre/during play penalty, dropped pass, tough contested drop, and throw away). When we are having these issues, there are plenty of times Allen will look to hit a deep throw, instead of taking the easy stuff and getting a drive going. What I’m getting at, is besides finding the balance in general, I think Allen could benefit from recognizing in game, when it’s time to dial up the aggressiveness or dial it back. Allen has worked hard every offseason to improve, and I expect finding the right balance between being aggressive or not is something he will work on for the rest of his career.

Great post and great perspective. It’s so true how we fans want to find fault or praise from our teams players for our teams success or failures (especially the failures). About your comment of Allen not always taking the easy stuff, but the easy stuff IS there. It’s so true, I feel like this is the one area Allen really needs to find the right balance. Like you said, his aggressiveness is why we see some of his most amazing plays, but that same aggressiveness is the reason some drives stall out. Keeping the chains moving and having short down and distances consistently is a good thing. This season, too many times we’ve found ourselves in 3rd and long (for many reasons). Kurt Warner breaks down the film from the Dolphins game here. It’s a very detailed analysis, and he (Kurt) points out some opportunities for Allen to take the easier stuff. But it’s also cool to see what Allen is seeing and how the plays are drawn up. The breakdown on the TD pass to Hines is especially cool. We ran the same play twice in a row. Once with Singletary and then with Hines. Either way, the subtle difference of Knox’s position and body movement were all the difference in the play being a TD or not (we got lucky on the Hines TD, the LB got sucked forward at the start of the play, losing his angle to the corner of the end zone).

Just because it hasn’t happened doesn’t mean it won’t. I work in construction safety and one of the most common lines is, “I’ve been doing it this way for x years and have never had an issue”….until they do. Safety rules are literally written in blood, and we all know the risks of heat exhaustion or heat stroke, and it’s happened in an NFL training camp. Changes were made to training camp because of it, but changes haven’t found their way to an NFL game. Does someone have to die first? Be seriously injured? At what point is it too much? What I saw against Miami this year was too much. These players want to win too bad, so much so, we have guys like our backup OT Doyle playing on a torn ACL. Imagine how many of them must have had heat exhaustion and were pushing through it? That’s a recipe for disaster, it just takes the perfect heat/humidity index and the right condition within a given persons body, and there could be a serious injury. At a minimum the NFL should evaluate the conditions of the Miami’s feild/sideline and determine if any changes need to be made. They should at least do something, not pretend there isn’t an issue and keep plugging along like nothing.

Our current defensive scheme has become the go to scheme to slow down the high powered offenses. I’m sure McDermott has a hand to play with that, but Frazier is the DC, and the Bills have been a top 10 defense every year with Frazier. Not only does his D play well, other teams have adopted concepts from his D. What is your reason for saying the game is passing him by? 13 seconds? It’s goes without saying having as many injuries as we have had on defense this year is going to cause issues, yet the defense has still looked good even with the injuries.

I thought I remember reading Shakir had elite, “quickness” as in getting up to top speed quickly?

Yes the Bills did better in 2020, however, you can’t deny that the 2021 Bills were a better team than the 2020 Bills, especially the 2021 post season Bills. Another example is the 2022 Bills, in the beginning of the year when they were healthy, that was the best Bills team we’ve seen in the Allen era. We’ll see how the 2022 Bills end the season, but we already we’ve seen the best version of the Allen Bills regardless of how they finish.

When it comes to bad weather, Josh has more intangibles to play better than most other qb’s in bad weather. Weather has always been a factor in Buffalo, that’s why some were happy with Allen coming out of college, because his ability to play in bad weather. Like you mentioned, we need to build up the o-line to better handle weather games. However, dome or no dome, I don’t really care. A dome helps Josh with stats, allowing for a better opportunity to win MVP, but as far as wins are concerned, I think the weather can be used to our advantage with Josh and hopefully an improved o-line in the future.

I didn’t see the date of the post. However, it still doesn’t change what I say as being true. It’s hard not to respond to all whiney posters around here.

Von made plays that Jerry didn’t make. Getting sacks or pressure at key moments. We didn’t get that as much from Jerry. Comparing numbers alone doesn’t work, Von had a bigger impact than Jerry did any of the last few years.

We are in the middle of the season, what o linemen do you suggest? OBJ is available and can help take our offense to another level (especially if the run game stays improved like the last couple weeks). Also, as mentioned, Robert Woods tore his ACL mid November last year and was back for the start of the season. A big factor being that DB’s put more strain on their ACL’s and play more reps than a number 3 wr. Probably best to stay out of an OBJ thread if your sick of hearing about him. Because your presence and comment show that you want to hear/talk about him 🤦‍♂️

MN had a ton of contested catches, and even Diggs had a catchable contested drop. Anyway, that was how I felt watching the game.

It’s not just you OP, I’ve felt the same way this year, and that MN game felt like the culmination of that frustration. I don’t know why the Bills aren’t doing great with the contested catches this year, but our opponents have seemed to pull off contested catches better in the games we’ve played them atleast.

I know, but even though, “undrafted” is in the name, it’s still feels like drafting them. Either way, I don’t think any team actually, “drafts” that many o-linemen in one draft, so I also assumed and gave the benefit of the doubt, because it was how I read and understood the comment.

I imagine he is looking out for himself as he should. It is a business after all. Last year he tore his ACL in the Super Bowl screwing his chance for a new contract this season. If he comes back this season, he is coming back early and has a higher chance of Re aggregating the injury. However, if he waits until the offseason, he will DEFINITELY get a multi year deal. It seems to me, if a team is wanting to get him for a bit of a discount, while also increasing their odds for a Super Bowl win this season, then they have to show good faith and give him more than 1 year, otherwise I don’t see it as worth it for in (in the off chance he doesn’t get a new injury, and plays at a similar level as last years post season, then he would really cash in. But that route is full of risk and little guarantees).

I took that to include UDFA’s, with 1-2 actually drafted.