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Talk about nonsense, our D back then was no different than our D now. We also had Kyle Williams whose better than any DT we've had since him. Hughes was here, as was Lorax, so was Lawson in his prime. We had Poyer, Hyde, White too. Offensively we had McCoy, also better than any RB we've had. The WRs weren't great but Taylor also threw for half the yards that Allen does and half the TDs, and that was hardly all because of the WRs. It's ridiculous to suggest that that team wouldn't have been incredibly better than 9-7 with Allen playing the way that has otherwise.

Also for instance, put Allen on the teams that Bledsoe had, or Williams' teams, and IMO Brady and Belichick are short three SBs and we have 'em.

If you're interested in rating each of our starters from 1 to 10, let me know. There's a reason for it. : D

What I said in the post that you responded to, again, ... Allen easily adds 4+ wins to any team that doesn't have a top QB in mine and many other peoples' opinions, it's not a reach by any means. So, as a case in point, take the 2009 team, the one where Fewell finished the season at HC for Jauron. We were 6-10. 10 wins makes the playoffs. Convert just the 5 games we lost by 7 or fewer points to wins and we not only make the playoffs but win the division at 11-5. Put McD on that team and it finishes no better than it did. I wouldn't even say those 6 wins.

You completely leapfrogged the point.

Outside the QB position, numerous teams that didn't make the playoffs during out drought years were better than what we have on the field today or have during Beane's watch. If we had the opportunity to swap one or more of those teams wholesale, while keeping Allen, we'd have a stronger team with some of those swaps. It's incredibly difficult to imagine even those 6-10 or 7-9 teams making the playoffs with Allen at the helm. That's the point. It's easy to envision Marrone's or Mularkey's 9-7 teams finishing 13-3 or better had they had Allen. Does that mean that Mularky or Marrone were good coaches? No. But their teams overall had better talent at the other 23 positions, generally speaking. Imagine if you will, how would McD have been coaching ANY of those teams from 2000 'til 2016? It's ridiculous to think that they would even had a chance at the playoffs.

Allen has turned the Bills around from being a laughing stock. Most of or past coaches would have done the same, some that got 9 wins without him. Those two have underachieved, I suppose it's possible that they don't continue to underachieve, but i'd say is unlikely.

That's a big part of the issue here. They've essentially been running it, and apart from them only succeeding to the extent that Allen does everything, they've underachieved, ... drastically. The tough question (s), in keeping with the thread topic, is good much longer will that continue, and what will be done about it. If they stick around, why would they manage/coach differently than that have? It's been 6 seasons. Just asking the questions.

Allen needs an offensively-minded head coach. The team and fans need a coach that is capable of not giving games away in the playoffs due to bizarre and never-to-be-explained in-game decisions, and one that understands that it's idiocy to hand our opponents huge chunks of yards in the most critical of situations, and thereby costing us playoff games. Apparently, from what we've read, highly-paid "experts" are needed to understand this.

Agreed. And last year they had a $1.99/mo. for 12 months intro deal. I got it for the SNF games which they carried. We had two I think, so even $24 for the two games is fine. As with you, if you can't find a free feed, you're not looking. LOL

Yup, but IMO it's going to be a more difficult task w/o Singletary, who was a much more versatile RB than Harris is, and frankly, a better rusher too generally speaking. Harris repertoire is pretty limited.

Thanks for the polite response. 🙄 I didn't think it was so "duh". The varying doctor-by-phone services are significantly less than appointments in person are. I'm not surprised, just didn't think it was "duh" obvious.

I haven't looked, but it's quite possible that they made a mistake. I've pointed a couple out over the years, one fairly recently, a simple clerical error, which they corrected quickly. They're really good with that. Here are Allen's playoff #s tho; https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/A/AlleJo02/gamelog/post/ Here are the team's playoff #s; https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/playoffs.htm I wish I had time to sort them out, I've gotta get outta here though. On a quick glance tho, Allen's got 63 carrries for 417 yards and 2 rushing TDs in his 8 PO games. The team has in those same 8 games has 884 total rushing yards if my (very quick) math is on. 417/884 = 47%. I would run the same analysis using only '20 - '22 tho. Allen was a shell of himself in '19.

If I understand that correctly the team averages are playoff games featuring Allen and Mahomes for their respective teams. Here's the thing, let's strip off the QB rushing performance from both teams during the playoffs, and I'm sure to some extent it mirrors the regular season. Subtracting 20% from KC's playoff rushing production we're left with about ... 19.3 carries for 97 yards and 1 TD Subtracting 47% from our playoff rushing production we're left with about ... 12.1 carries for 58.5 yards and .4 TDs What not everyone seems to understand is that our running game has less to do with talent at RB than it does with utilization. (AHEM, ... coaching decisions) IMO we're going to regret letting singletary go. Had we allowed Singletary, who's not even in his prime, to get 50% more carries last season, assuming that his ypc avg had been the same, he'd have finished with 265 carries for 1,228 rushing yards, and 7 or 8 TDs. That would have been good for 6th in carries and 6th in rushing yardage. He also would have finished 8th for RBs in yards-from-scrimmage. Who else finished with that stat line or close? ... Dalvin Cook, who's in his prime, finished with 264 / 1,173 / 8 and everyone seems to want him here. Harris and Murry aren't as good as Singletary, neither is as versatile, and Murray's past-prime. We'll find that out. But at the end of the day, if you don't use them, you're not going to get the production from not using them. One doesn't have to be a football guru to understand that, it's common sense, yet, it's something that our offensive coaching staff and quite possibly McD himself haven't come to grips with. To add a little perspective, if Harris gets the same 177 carries, based upon his 4.4 ypc last season behind a better OL, he'd log 779 rushing yards here. Would that cause everyone to say "yeah, great move by Beane?" It's pretty plain and simple really. Allen's looking at a significantly curtailed career unless it changes soon, and as I see it we're very fortunate that he hasn't sustained a serious injury in that way.

Do they charge the same on the remote calls?

The toughness of the division within itself is a big part of that. The Pats had some of the easiest schedules repeatedly because all three other teams sucked more often than not.

Thanks, I saved that map. Oh, cool, thanks!! How's getting out of there? Easier?

Are the far lots on the other side of ECC open on gamedays? I've gotta tell ya, for one, the parking issue will be a deterent for sure during construction. I suspect that it will lean in the nightmare direction. Even when they finish, it'll be a while, at least one season presumably, before the area where Highmark now sits is available for parking as well.

Doesn't seem to make a difference in the lower bowl since no one sits throughout the game anyway.

Yeah, looks like the typical state job.

Unless I'm missing something, and perhaps I am, all it shows is the percentage of blitzes in those games. Nothing else to relate it to. I'm not sure what the point is. Usually an analysis contrasts one or more things. ??

All that's there is Blitz%. What's correlated to that?

Nah, we just lost the Schedule Release. We can still win the OTAs. Did we win the offseason tho?

I wouldn't bet on us sweeping the Jets either tho, which makes that part of it a wash, at best. Same schedules except that we face the Bengals (Burrow), Jags (Lawrence), and Bucs (Mayfield), while the Jets get to play Houston (Stroud), Cleveland (Watson), and Atlanta (Desmond Ridder?) For the Jets that's two rookies and a QB that didn't play most of last season, and when he did he played average at best.

That doesn't mitigate it more than marginally if at all if we're comparing the two Ds and how the schedule impacted them. The Jets allowed 28 total points and only two TDs in both games against them, we allowed 50 total points and 6 TDs. We also allowed 405 yards to the Fins, in Buffalo, our third worst game defensively. 302 was the max the Jets allowed. Tua was hardly the third best QB we faced, and he had a pretty good game in that one. I'm not disagreeing with the original premise, but we didn't have a difficult slate of QBs either last season, whereas this season we will, so it would seem that our #2 D was significantly overrated as well. I guess we'll find out this season since our D is similar. And for comparison purposes, in our playoff game, that same Thompson's third NFL start and first playoff game ever, in Buffalo and the cold & snow, they got 24 points, just 4 points shy of what the Jets allowed in both games. We also allowed a passing TD to Thompson, something that the Jets did not do, in two games, and we also allowed 54 more passing yards to him than the most that the Jets allowed.