DrDawkinstein

Absolutely. AJE is stepping up and taking Gabe's money this year.

Think it's more than a stinger. Cam Lewis went out with a stinger last night. Those are quick and temporary. Harris's injury seems more like either a neck muscle sprain or a micro-fracture vertebrae. Something more than a stinger, but not a spinal cord injury. edit: seeing now it's being reported as a strain/sprain. That makes sense. And luckily, not too bad.

Right. Could be Epenesa and Rousseau. Could be Erik Flowers and Chris Kelsey. Re-sign AJE.

Between rookie contract and 5th year option, we have Rousseau locked up until we can get out of Miller's contract in 2024. No problem there, the money will come. Epenesa MUST be re-signed. He and Rousseau are the future of our DEs. With the way AJ is playing, it is foolish to call him a backup. He's in a rotation right now, but could just as easily "start" as Floyd (who I love). I'd like to see AJ re-signed, and Floyd and Jones extended. Rousseau will get 5th year optioned. Then we dont have to worry about anything for 2 more years.

Tyrod had the best play for the Bills all game when he checked to that run before the half. Totally changed the game, and was probably the biggest reason the Giants lost.

You should clarify these numbers re all adjusted for after 6 games.

Josh needs at least 3 called designed runs, with at least 1 coming on the opening drive. And at least 2-3 real scramble runs. This keeps the Defense planning for it and sways the numbers game to our favor. I'm fine with 4 or more, especially when a couple of them should be sneaks/tush-push when we only need 1 yard. Which we apparently even stopped doing THOSE last night. Ridiculous.

Some fans who live in fear wanted that, but I never did. Josh DOES the hitting when he runs. QBs get injured in the pocket way more than on the run. Josh running was a keystone of our offensive success. Newton's issues were more from refs allowing defenders to hit him dirty in the pocket than getting hit on runs. RUN, JOSH, RUN!

Poyer needs to go, and as strange as it is to say, Tre White needs to be cut as well. We save $6.5M by cutting White that needs to go to re-signing Epenesa, Jones, and Floyd. Rousseau we have a 5th year option still and dont need to worry about that for another year at least.

Because Dawkins wouldnt stop standing over him trying to get at him. Nothing else for Thibbs to do there. They all might get fined, but there was nothing ejection worthy. Punches, or that disgusting helmet-to-helmet hit we saw in the Ravens game. Nothing from last night's little dust up was nearly as violent as this.

I get what you were saying. We're all happy to see the Bills have a real run game. But the correlation has been made between our new found success in a "traditional" running game, and this weird, disjointed, no identity offense.

He better be. We can and should be moving on from contracts like Poyer, Hyde, Morse, etc. Shift some of that money to Epenesa. If we let him walk it's a FO fail.

Is that the problem tho? Bills in 2023 have by far the best run game they've had in the McD/Allen era... and the result is the most lackluster offense we've seen here so far. I dont really think it's a "problem", but I would say our reliance on ONLY the RBs to run the ball, and not letting/calling Josh runs anymore, severely hampers the offense.

Another guy to not throw to? No thanks.

Epenesa, Rousseau, and Oliver arent making impacts on the DL? Seems more like the problem all along was the DC.

I'm not a huge fan of letting Von take 20+ snaps in real, live games to "warm up" but if he can turn it on for the playoffs then I guess it will be fine. Frankly, I'd rather give his money to keeping Epenesa, Floyd, and Rousseau

I actually thought they bounced back far better and quicker than I expected. I was afraid they'd cash it in pretty quickly because it was really starting to feel like 2022 all over again last night. I give em credit for fighting through it. Barely. But to your point, it should be discussed.

Sal just talked on WGR about asking Dorsey about this on Dorsey's Zoom call last week, and he said Dorsey indicated it's mostly on Josh being far more comfortable in shotgun then under center. Time for Dorsey to get him comfortable. Still no excuse for calling a shotgun draw on the 1 yard line.

Worst win I've seen this year This game reminded me of most of last year when we were squeaking out bad wins. Leaving the game frustrated and confused because we stunk but still won. Seemed like every week last year we were having these conversations. McD and Dorsey need to figure it out, or GTFO.

It was, but they just called a far more ticky-tack DPI call to give the Giants an extra try to win from the 1yd line. The fact they didnt run Barkley there is on the Giants. Lots of calls were missed in this game. And far too many were made. These refs were on screen all night.

Allen in his postgame said (Paraphrasing) "Just throwing to the open guy. When we're running concepts where Diggs is the first read, and he's getting open, I throw him the ball." I do think the offense is better when Josh is able to spread the ball around. That obviously means everyone is getting open. After watching the other WRs play last night, I dont blame Josh for going to Diggs so much. He did spread it around a little later in the game. Likely when the Giants started keying on Diggs. I still think that taking Josh's running game away has tipped the numbers game back into the Defense's favor and they have a much easier time of covering and defending us now. We need to run at least a COUPLE of designed QB runs and let Josh run when he scrambles. It's the biggest missing piece of this offense right now.

They didnt do anything ejection worthy. That is pretty much down to throwing a punch. Lawrence was close when he got Brown on the ground, but didnt swing.

Dude had his chance. Cant have this. Gotta go. Someone start collecting for the billboard.

Yeah, it's the NY Post, but they're saying the London trip did them in. https://nypost.com/2023/10/12/top-bills-sabres-execs-fired-over-brazen-romantic-relationship/?

He is the most hated figure in the history of Buffalo sports so dont expect too much around here