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We all saw how Thompson improved our D when he played. The main argument is Thompson being bigger, maybe healthier. But Cover 1's Erik Turner brought up a good point. Maybe Thompson is better at recognizing all those eye candies/motions etc. and setting the players to the right places than Bernard. Recency may have bias, but I remeber we had a lot of defensive plays this season when a bunch of players were totally fooled or out of positions. Since the 2nd half of Houston game, it came down to almost zero. I don't recall once in the Steelers game we had a breakdown.

Grass is always greener on the other side when looking from a distance. Had Coleman and Worthy switched places, there will be equal amount of people complaining we picked another smallish guy, pointing out Coleman making those TD catches etc.

I recall in post game, Allen said he threw to the wrong side of Gabe.

The last throw in the Texans' game brought new light on why running your route precisely is what separates great ones (Jerry Rice is famous for) from a JAG receiver. And Yes Diggs is someone Josh can trust and Palmer is someone Josh can't in stress scenarios. I'm not saying Josh is perfect. Just like Warner pointed out, as well as many others (cover 1, Marino etc.), the Steelers game INT is all Josh.

Well the rub worked and Knox was open from the get-go. Pretty sure Knox is the first read. But the unaccounted for defender jumped, took that option away and Allen saw Keon which is an easier throw. It is 4th down so Allen was looking for a sure thing.

You are assuming they are still husband and wife 10 years from now. For people in Hollywood, that's like 3 life time.

@ganesh is right. As a QB, especially in Bills everyone eats world, Allen should NOT have that in his mind at all. In fact I'd say that's the difference between the MVP last year and this year. In his early years, he tended to use his legs in similar situations. It is a shame but it happens to every QB. Mahomes did this. Rodgers is notorious for that as well. He could be overly cautious, especially after the 1st INT. When the running game is going and our D has a strong hold, you can afford to be conservative, taking easier throws. Brady has said on TV before that he always advised Allen to make easier throws than risky ones when given options. The problems with this Bills WRs is that options -- multiple guys getting open -- are not often so Allen has to pull the trigger the minute he sees one. Again I think he may not have the confidence of his mechanics right now to make a perfect throw.

I think the reason Allen didn't throw those seemingly easy passes is because he does not trust guys like Cooks (yet), and Coleman (who let him down too many times). There is also a confidence issue with himself based on the last few stretch of games where he didn't play particularly well throwing or decision making. It's funny thing about confidence. If the Bills getting on a row to get thru the next 2 games, I'd believe Allen's confidence will be right back.

And get them all at their prime together. Allen is 29, ~ 6 prime years left. Cook is 26, max 3 prime years left. Shakir is no Andre Reed but he's best weapon we have and he's 25 and likely play thru Allen/Cook's prime years. Defensive side... not much to look for. If we really, really, and really stretch for it, say Deone Walker can become that player we are hoping for, the 21 year old need to show us a giant step next year. Lots of DT mature 3 years into their career and Walker is very young coming into the league. You want him to coming up before Cook gets too old.

Hoke, a DT on the Steelers for 11 years, talked extensively about the difficulty when playing 2 gap scheme against Cook - mainly his sudden change of direction in small space - like "I'm holding onto the O-Lineman seeing you in the left gap then next moment I don't see you at all." I remember Rex used to talk about Shady McCoy jumpcut you in a phone booth. Cook does that without a jump.

"Just woke up from my senior moment"

Glass half empty guys will tell you coaches trust Tre more. Glass half full guys will tell you Tre sux because when he's in there, the Bills D can't get off the field.

The Bengals do have a few extra days to go over Bills tapes and watch the Steelers game. So it is reasonable to guess that they may have plan A, B and C to stop our running game. It is an advantage to them -- if you have less talented, you need to scheme more and for that, the more time available the better. On the other hand, the Bengals are 0-10-1 coming off a Thursday night game, which includes the latest rendition of losing to the then winless Jets by 1 point on Oct 26. Let's hope that trend isn't broken this Sunday.

In this season, I throw all the general statistics out. Team has no business of losing lost. Team has business of winning won. Recency matters and I go by what they have done since Burrow back into the lineup.

Well, you can look at last week's game when a defense actually played well after the Cook TD. Then what? Probably nothing other than letting Allen do his thing, which nearlt pulled off at the end. The plan from McDermott's staff probably banked on stopping one of worse offense and it didn't quite work. Strategy wise, not unreasonable though.