Dubie54

Will be very frustrated if he comes back, but have resigned myself to the reality that’s it’s likely a given that we make no changes to DC or OC. Am more concerned with the state of the overall D with question marks surrounding Von, Tre and Micah. It’s no given that Tre returns to his former self and at Von’s age it will be very interesting to see how he performs. Micah is probably more likely to be ready but he also could be one injury from hanging it up. With the possibility that neither Edmunds or Poyer return, we will have major holes to fill. I have a very hard time seeing this defense performing anywhere near what we were seeing at the first part of last season and with a few injuries to a few key players during the year it could be a very tough year for the defense, especially given the brutal schedule we have for 2023.

I agree with the fact that were too many plays to count that Josh was forcing a long ball when at least one guy was open short, but I can’t fault Josh entirely for that. They reviewed the film and saw what we saw - was it just Josh that was blind to the fact that the short pass was open constantly - I can’t buy that entirely. The big variable this year was the change in OC and I think there was a long ball mindset that Dorsey came to rely on at the expense of a more balanced attack. Sure Josh has to take a lot of the blame for not looking to his secondary receivers, and it’s quite possible he decided to try and carry the team on his back instead of letting the game come to him. But as a coach, when you see that happening, isn’t it your job to deal with it and manage the player?

Hines was a proven weapon. Avg. 50 rec/yr over the last 4 years with Indy. He very easily could have been utilized but Dorsey lacked the creativity to figure that out. Singletary never had more than 40 in a season in his entire career. Hines provided skills that we did not have out of the backfield, and at the very least would have drawn attention out of the backfield as a decoy. Dorsey never even made an attempt to add him into the mix which I stand firm on was a big mistake. He could have been lined up in the slot, or wide, or out of the backfield in order to mix things up. Sure more reps for him would have impacted others but that’s what happens when you have a variety of weapons and a creative and dynamic offense.

Exactly - not using Hines more effectively was an enormous blind spot for Dorsey and should have resulted in his being fired. Our offense could have been so much more dynamic and much harder to defend if we had utilized play action, screens, short dumps, to counter the deep ball and our running game.

I enjoyed your write up and felt you covered all of the key points to our season very well. Maybe it's just me, but it seems there are plenty out there who are very frustrated with what we have seen out of this defense. And for me, it all goes back to the 13 seconds and the fact that the Bills org seemed to dodge the whole accountability question. We continued to see very similar "soft" schemes this past year and plenty of instances in the Bengals game. When you look at the 4 teams that played this past weekend, I would argue they all looked and played much more aggressively on defense than what we saw from the Bills at the end of the season, and all use the blitz very effectively. I would argue that we have the personnel but we're not putting them in positions to be as successful as they could be and that goes for the offensive side of the ball with players like Hines and Shakir, and not being able to effectively run screens. The Damar Hamlin injury had to be a distraction for the Bills and probably did take some of the energy out of the locker room. But I also don't put a lot of stock in what Saffold says because he hasn't shown much energy the entire season.

Dynasty is not coming from this organization just based on the all of the draft picks we have missed on while other teams like KC and Cinci have excelled. We have dug ourselves a hole in tying up massive amount of cap space on a select number of players with limited opps in FA for the coming year. We have to nail the draft this year and hopefully find some value players in FA that can outperform. I am also concerned about Beane's excuse of a press conference - is that really going to be the position of the front office - that we weren't bad enough to get someone like Chase, while discounting all of of the bad draft decisions he has made. Just like the 13 seconds last year - where is the accountability?

I understand your points, just don't agree with it. Our offense became predictable and we didn't maximize our talent. * Knox would be invisible for long stretches at a time. Does that happen with the Chiefs and Kelce? Knox is a weapon on offense and we should have a game plan that mixes him regularly. * We never figured out how to use Hines effectively as a receiver, and to some extent the same can be said for Cook. But I'm more dumbfounded by Hines, because he was a definite weapon in Indy. How can the OC not be able to integrate a talented back like him into the offense? * I know Davis had issues with drops but I would also argue that the routes they had him running didn't utilize his skill set. He destroyed KC last year. * How do let Hodgins get away from us? He moves on to the Giants and look at how they are using his skill set. I am not at all convinced that this OC knows how to maximize what he has in front of him and is far too inexperienced for what the Bills need right now. This bend but not break Defense is far too soft. * Take the 13 seconds - it says everything about the mentality of Frazier and McD. The same thing was happening in the Cinci game - no one attacking receivers at the line of scrimmage on key plays. * Why is it that other teams seem to use the blitz so much more effectively than us? We seem to have an aversion for it and it speaks to a general lack of aggressiveness that I see in this defense.

Sure, fire the safeties coach when the guys in charge of the overall scheme are still around.

Who wants a washed up DC as their head coach. The 13 seconds debacle and the fact that he runs a soft defensive scheme. If the Bills don't move on from this guy my faith in the front office is gone. He should have been let go last year after the KC game.

We're gouging them in the run game and we keep passing. WTF is up with Dorsey.