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He'll be on our team next season. ... I kid, I kid.

I'm with you here. The past two seasons we've had the #1 and #2 defenses, yet they collapsed in the playoffs in the 13-Seconds game and last year against Cincy, and we were hardly above-average much less #2 in facing Skylar Thompson's Fins with essentially no RB. So I'm in the have-to-see-it-to-believe-it mode re: our defense in the playoffs. Seems to me that if the offense doesn't carry the games as it did in our four playoff games in '21 and '22 except for the Ravens' game, with no offense by the Ravens, and averageing 36 PPG in the other three games, not sure we do much. Having said that I'm hopeful. Also thinking that maybe being a 6th/7th seed might be the kick-in-the-pants that we need to win one. We've also only played three teams ranked in the top-12 in scoring, so it's not as if our D has played the best offenses. Philly took our D to task. We got the best of Dallas, but they're slumping, so how much is related to that. And Miami was early in the season.

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Especially when the game is in the winter months.

That right there. Coaching It's not limited to him offensively.

You're also leaning defense, which has failed us in the playoffs. The question should be, and is, can other coaches get more out of Allen and therefore the Offense. That's hardly a stretch. It's difficult to envision anyone getting less out of him and this offense.

You named a lot of teams.

Which skill positions on the Ravens are better than ours? Also, I thought you just said that's they were also underachieving? You seem to be arguing against yourself here.

Sounds like a little hedging there. 🤨🤔😁 The others don't have Allen. We should. Miami's coming in with one receiver, one RB, the receiver they are fielding injured, an injured QB. They're as decimated by injuries as they've been all season. If we can't win it, it'll make a bigger statement going the other way. Winning is expected for this game, we're the better team in better shape.

So iyo McD is optimizing Allen then?

A fair discussion would also link the QBs on all of their teams as well. Then contrast with Allen. McD doesn't have Palmer, Dalton, or Ryan to work with. He has Allen. Is he making the most of that opportunity?

The VR tour on those would be fun.

11 of our 16 games however have been against teams ranked in the bottom half of scoring. The other five teams are the Jags and Chiefs (13th and 12th), Jags did better than their average against us, the Chiefs slightly worse, but w/o Pacheco who's a good part of their offense this season. Otherwise Philly who also lit us up. Miami early in the season. Otherwise, Dallas amidst a three game streak where they can't hit the 20 point mark. Caution entering the playoffs is advised. LOL Do with the info what you will, but we've hardly had a difficult slate of offenses.

It was hard for McD to move on from it.

Well, LOL, unless they come down quite significantly from that first "survey" that they put out, that's exactly what people should anticipate happening though. Buffalo/Erie County isn't the place to be gouging people given what our fanbase is generally speaking. Many long time STHs here have even stated as much.

They originally said that the VR Tours would be available last March I think it was, Spring anyway. We're coming up on a year after that. We're all curious, but the big mystery seems to be why they would be holding it back. It's being built, under construction, yet no great details have been provided as to what the final product will look like. Other stadium projects have provided the info when they've had it, for sure well before now in their projects, past and current. Yet here it's some big mystery. It definitely begs the question as to why. The only logical explanation as to why they'd want to wait would be a "big reveal" of sorts, but that's no possible given the monthly or so drone updates. It's just odd. It's definitely going to be interesting.

Pitch it to Josh, we're told that he makes the backup QB decisions. 😁

A lot more people are probably wondering too what extent or illustrious head coach factors into it all.

We have to quit wasting Allen's years. Get in and get hot and who knows. Maybe getting in as the 6th seed will be motivation. Not making the playoffs in a season where the AFC is as weak as it's been on McD's watch is inexcusable. KC ain't going anywhere, Jax is floundering and may not even win their division. Miami shouldn't be what stops us, especially with Waddle out, Chubb out, Hill injured, Mostert injured or out, etc. The only team playing with any consistency this season in the AFC has been Baltimore and we haven't had to play them. Our offense has seen no significant injuries and had the best OL play we've had on his watch. We added Kincaid and Shakir took a step in his second season. At some point we need to cut bait on the mismanagement of our offense.

This question will be a hot topic when the season ends.

It's definitely not running on all 8 cylinders, that's for sure.

Thanks! It's a legitimate topic for debate, which is why all the ruckus here, LOL, but everything you said in para 2 falls on coaching. People deflect it to the OC, first Dorsey, now Brady, but at the end of the day, another legitimate topic for debate, is that many believe that it befalls the head coach since he's the one A, choosing those OCs, and B, ultimately able to override them, particularly generally speaking and from game to game, which we haven't really seen. What we have seen is a continued focus on highlighting the Defense, seemingly at the expense of a superior Offense. Again, another quite legitimate topic for debate. But here's where I would also throw in, if that's all we're doing, "complimentary football" while minimizing the passing game like Baltimore, why do we need a gunslinger like Allen with the arm strength that he has. Remember, they drafted him for his arm strength and because he could "make every throw." Not for his abilities as a game manager, which seemingly is all that's required under Brady's O. I firmly believe that at least some of Allen's INT issues are related to the play-calling and game management. As to the rest, agree that we're a playoff team, but what's that really saying, but that we're currently not playing anywhere near well enough to advance past the D round if even the WC round pending the matchup. As to your last para, it would seem that the logical thing to do is to formulate your play-calling and game-plans to be able to optimize your strengths and have them shine as a direct result, using the other players/weapons to "compliment" that. Not to minimize one of the best QB/WR tandems in the game, turn a seemingly prolific pass-catching TE into a short-yardage specialist, and otherwise force running the ball when other than for a single game skewing the stats, your star RB is averaging an incredibly poor yards-per-carry average.

Oh yeah, I am, sorry 'bout that.

Maximize: "increase to a maximum," "make the most of," 1 & 2 in Webster's. Too much focus on a semi-meaningless stat in isolation. It seems that we could have gotten much more from him this season, particularly in terms of TDs and YPR. He's 8th among TEs for Receptions, 4th in Catch%, but 13th in Yards, 26th in TDs, 15th in YPG, and 27th in Yards-per-Reception, and among many incredibly pedestrian TEs in some of those latter cats. Hope that helps.