dave mcbride

Yeah, offseason. I'm just saying that I don't think he's reflexively opposed to Josh Allen.

start watching at the 7:50 mark: https://www.buffalobills.com/video/kurt-warner-i-still-think-josh-has-room-to-grow

Disagree. I thought it was fair. Allen has a terrible game even factoring in line play. I don’t think that’s actually arguable. This is kind of a false narrative. Warner has had complimentary videos about Allen in the past.

Getting back on track here, but my guess is that they signed him to get intel on the Bills. They play each other soon. Happens all the time in the NFL.

I’d love to see that link because that was one of the worst performances I’ve seen by a single offensive lineman for the Bills in decades upon decades of watching this team. When he wasn’t getting destroyed, he was blocking the wrong person. Did PFF give him extra high grades for triple teaming one DT while the other one had a free run to Allen?

Ferentz was a coach for Belichick in Cleveland and is close with him. May be a case of a low talent player benefiting from his dad’s connection to BB.

Because the line is blocking so poorly that they are getting hit immediately. They did bust a cover 2 last season vs NE when they ground the Pats into dust. The Pats were playing to stop the pass all game. The line has really been playing badly. I will confess to really liking Moss’s game - he is a downhill, punishing runner, but the situation right now sucks for him. Put him on the Browns as a starter, and people would be talking pro bowl for him.

In Marshawn Lynch’s final season and a half in Buffalo, many people on this board said he was too slow and not really all that good. It turns out that the advanced stats showed that he led all RBs the league in being hit behind the LOS in terms of percentage. People were happy to see him go not just for the off-field stuff, but because they felt he was mediocre and a worse player than Fred Jackson. Lynch will be in the HOF eventually. You see where I’m going with this. The Bills RBs aren’t the real problem.

No, then that would be negative yardage. Basically, the backs are getting hit behind the LOS about half the time, which averages out to just north of zero.

? - please explain with at least rudimentary analysis.

Ha! Definitely not my intent.

Do you really think this 5-3 team is that good?

??? - the Bills have to play them twice and pretty soon. And they are in our division. The team needs to focus on the Jets now, but last I checked neither you nor I is in on the team. Why?

From Peter King’s column this morning: ‘One coach told me over the weekend he thinks the Patriots are better than the Bills. “Excellent, deep defense,” he said, “and Mac Jones is every bit as good as Joe Burrow.” Interesting. The Pats are a half-game behind Buffalo, but there’s one important standings factor to remember: Buffalo hasn’t played the Jets yet, and New England has finished with the Jets. Jones has been terrific, quickly. Bills-Pats, twice in 21 days in December, should be fun.’ I have a very bad feeling about this Pats team, which like the Bills has an elite defense. But they have an offense is far more effectively multiple than the Bills. And Mac Jones is for real. The evidence is in: he is already a pretty good QB and arguably even a good one (with no qualifications). Also, to counter King, the Bills are finished with Miami, who are just as bad as the Jets (who have least beat a couple of winning teams). I know Miami beat them in week one, but NE was the better team in that game and should have won except for an inexplicable fumble (they could have kneeled at that point).

Totally.

Those were refs recently hired from the college ranks, where the reffing is even worse. But it was pretty even in its badness overall. Allen obviously fumbled on the second-last play (I don’t want to hear about forward progress/in the grasp, so don’t even start), and there was a play where Isiah McKenzie was *clearly* going forward before the snap in the fourth quarter after coming out of motion. Wasn’t called.

That run and fumble is all on Allen. It’s an option play and he always takes the ball instead of handing it off. It’s extremely predictable at this point. Allen was absolutely terrible yesterday. That second down play on their final possession was indicative — he tries for the crazy throw after he starts running when he probably would have gotten the first on a run. The hero-ball throw to Diggs on the final play was inexplicable given that Sanders was open and at the first down marker. Agreed, but as I said above, Allen deserves a lot of the blame. He made so many bad decisions yesterday. He wa of course not helped by his terrible line.

Defensive holding calls on run plays are a real thing. The interior d-lineman will hold a guard or center trying to shift across in order to let the LB get through to the RB cleanly. I have seen it called plenty of times over the years. I didn’t see it on the play because it wan’t replayed and i was in a setting where i couldn’t rewind it, but I am assuming it was legit.

The only thing i can think of is that they don’t think they have answers now on offense and need halftime to figure it out.

Teams let other teams dink and dunk because a breakdown happens at some usually and kills a drive.

Seriously, how could bates be worse? Ford is a friggin’ matador out there.

Give us 8 yard dumpoffs and wait for cody ford to destroy the drive with his incompetence.

The one thing that makes me think he is vaccinated is his unmasked attendance at an NBA finals game where masks for unvaxxed people were required. It was a policy that couldn't be enforced, but Allen has never struck me as the irresponsible scofflaw type.

Trubisky can definitely get you to 2-2 in a four week injury window. Fromm gets you to potentially 0-4. He can't throw. There's a reason why teams prioritize credible backup qbs. Also, there is no one left to sign.

I think that might land you a third rounder. He could well get paid this offseason given the weak draft.