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I would ask - did these same players screw up less under Daboll? You're right, there is, but he has little chance at the ball (he is too far away). I have a hard drive with plenty of this exact throw by Allen throughout the years that made it. I'm not sure why he is underthrowing these.

Yes Kincaid is open, but Davis had his guy beat and it would have been a nice pickup. Davis was Allen's 1st read and he took it. It was just a poor throw. I could post a dozen others. It's just an example to represent the whole. This happens fairly often. Not fall down - no - but so tight in spacing that a WR has to slow down or alter their route.

The Bengals ran a similar dual A gap swim later on in the game and Morse picked it up. I'm thinking it was Morse responsibility (though I don't know for sure)

This was a very frustrating game to analyze. 1) For those who wanted to keep running and establish "balance". It simply wasn't happening. They could have ran 50 times and we simply wouldn't have scored. Very frustrating run blocking performance for several linemen. Example of this (GIF may take a moment to load): 2) More o-line issues. We are 9 games into the season and still having miscommunication between linemen. Torrence clearly thinks he has help from Morse. 3) Why isn't Josh throwing the ball? Well... to whom? Separation is non-existent on many pays. 4) Torrence got tripped up on the screen play. Had he not been tripped, Cook may have scored on this screen. See the following two photos. 5) No defense is convinced by our WR's pretending to be a screen option on shotgun darts. And it's actively hurting us. Instead of our WR's blocking the CB across from them, they fake a screen and then THAT CB goes and plugs a run whole. Shakir's defender on this play is who makes the tackle, stopping the run for a 2 yard gain.

Allen reads Gabe (high/low read) first on this play. He has coverage both in front of him and behind him. Image below: Allen wisely moves off of Davis, and onto the 1 on 1 Hardy has, with no safety help .This is This is the correct read. When Allen makes his decision to throw to Hardy, Gabe Davis still has a shallow defender just waiting to intercept. Allen made the right read. .

Allen made the right read on this play. He had Hardy 1 on 1 with no safety help You take that 100 times out of 100. It is what we signed him for. In addition to this, when Allen was releasing the ball, Davis had a defender shallow of him that has INT written all over it. He did not break out from this zone until the decision to throw was already made. Have you ever watched a football game and yelled at the QB to 'throw the ball!!!' because it was taking too long? That's what happens when you ignore the correct read, hoping that someone else would get open (like Gabe eventually did). The tweeter does not understand this basic concept. Joe Marino is just as bad at this.

The run game was not working Sunday night. Dorsey could have ran 50 times and it was not going to work.

If we can win the next two (Broncos/Jets) I think we will be okay. That would put us at 7-4, needing to go 4-2 or 3-3 the rest of the way. Perhaps 4-2 is a more realistic need, since we lose a lot of tiebreakers at this point.

I’ve never liked critiquing coaches on things that likely don’t matter at all on the win/loss column, but you’re right that those post game speeches are pretty rough 😂.

Why do you feel no one else could have success with this roster?

Top flight offensive minds typically get head coaching jobs.

Sounds like “balance”. Sigh.

Sorry I didn’t catch the actual press conference yet. Just catching up on tweets.

Make of this what you will. Mods if this belongs in another thread, please feel free to merge it. I didn’t know where this exactly fits in.

The problem is we currently lose every tiebreaker. Our AFC record is abysmal. We may need 11 wins.

Personally I think of all games this season, Elam should have been playing last night. Man is his jam.

That's all speculation on your part. Remember, Shoen was hired first. And the Shoen hired Daboll. Not the other way around, like it was done here.

Did Daboll became GM and no one reported it?

Whether in FA or the Draft, we really need competition for Spencer Brown. That was one of the worst games for a RT i've seen since... well... the last time Spencer Brown looked that bad.

Now I think it is fair that we win the game with an extra quarter. The Bengals defense was really slogging at the end. I just dont think the fumble would have changed much, based on how our defense reacted when we needed that final stop. I think if we are asking a good "what if" question, it would be, what if we adjusted to playing man-press very early. Preferably before the game started, since we have played Burrow 1.25 times in the last 10 months. It was so incredibly obvious that he would pick apart the zone, and that didn't stop until we moved to mostly man, but by that point we were already in a deep hole.

I've heard people say this, but where is the evidence? Say we score a TD on the Kincaid fumble drive. Then we score a TD the next drive (like we did). Let's say we even went for and got the 2 point conversion, like we did. It's now 25-24 Bills. Bengals get the ball and literally drove 60 yards in a minute and a half. They are a few yards away from field goal range for a game winning field goal when they kneeled the game out. How do we win this?

Sorry friend, but this thread was a bad idea. Just from a "jinx" perspective.

Some of you really need to watch some other NFL games. Allen is not perfect, but he is better than 30 of the other QB's starting right now.

Judging by the lawsuit footnote that mentioned Daboll wanted out of Buffalo, even if it was for a lateral move, and that cold-as-ice handshake after the Giants game, I'd be shocked if we ever saw Daboll in Buffalo again.

Total points = / = Consistency. Our 2021 offense scored 27 or more points 78% of the games that season (discluding the hurricane game for obvious reasons). That is consistent. You know, entering games, that there is close to an 80% chance that the Bills offense will score 27 or more points. That puts a lot of pressure on opposing defenses and how they play the game. We have reached that mark 33% of the time this season and 58% of the time last season.