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Bills have to decide on many extensions this year. Groot, Benford, Bernard, Shakir and Cook top the list. They likely can’t keep all of them. I love Cook but he’s the first off that list that I don’t extend. This is the “problem” with drafting well, particularly with most in a single draft class.

Dude has been fantastic this year. In order to finish you really need two guys getting pressure as it’s too easy for the QB to get away from a single guy on the edge. If he had any help you’d see his numbers skyrocket. Most games it’s Groot and nobody else doing anything in the backfield. They need to start manufacturing pressure since the DL as a whole isn’t getting it done with 4 games rushes.

I love the fans who proclaim the Bills as incapable of winning the AFC and if they lose in the playoffs they’ll point to the results as proof. Well - no *****- taking the field over any single team is the right call and you’ll be correct the majority of the time. That’s true for any single team (yes, even the Chiefs.) It doesn’t mean they didn’t have a chance to begin with, it means that their chances hover around 25-30% to get to the SB - which is roughly what most contending teams have.

He had some splash plays but down to down he got moved off the LoS on a pretty consistent basis. Not sure how much help he’s going to provide.

Wait, so "pre-season expectations" equates to Beane not doing a good job? That's one way of looking at it. The fact that this offseason the Bills are going to have to find a way of re-signing a bunch of their good, young, drafted, players tells a different story. Groot, Benford, Benard, Shakir, and Cook are all extension eligible and not all of them are going to be able to be paid - which is a good problem to have. That's a GM restocking the shelves and knowing when to move on from an aging roster because you realize that you have up and coming talent to fill the void. There was talent there, it's just that many people didn't realize it. I'll agree that his FA signings haven't been great, so that's on him, though Rapp and Hollins have been good additions to the roster - and that Rapp contract looks better by the week. It's interesting to me that you're going back to the offseason talking points to talk about team building issues, and not the ACTUAL issue with the team - the DL. They have one stand out player there - Rousseau (who, btw, is WAY better than most give him credit for, he's a difference maker.) Unfortunately, everyone else is a JAG or a good player that just isn't having a good year - Oliver. My only hope here is that Miller finds the fountain of youth for a 3-4 game playoff run. I'll put the DL weakness directly on Beane. It's been an issue for years despite resources being piled into it. I'd love to see McD "cover up for Beane" there, but unfortunately it's the weakness that gets us bounced in the playoffs pretty much every year. That said, overall Beane has done a good job with this roster. Not perfect, but it stands up overall to most of the other top rosters in the league with the exception of Philly and Detroit...and maybe Baltimore. Sure, it doesn't have as many household names, but that doesn't mean it's not loaded with good to very good players.

Have you only watched them on Thanksgiving? They tend to keep their starters in late into the 4th quarter and are still dropping back to pass with Goff on deep overs even when up by 20. I’ve had the exact opposite experience as you: I wonder why they’re trying to impress the selection committee instead of protecting their starters.

It couldn’t possible hit the net where it did while going through the goalposts unless the kicker has Sandy Koufax’s curveball.

Torrence looks bad this year

2nd down and short has been an issue for a couple of years. They always just want to pick up the first down and nothing more. I get it, not getting to 3rd down is extremely helpful, but in a league where big plays are in short supply that's a spot where you can get chunk yardage. And it doesn't have to be a bomb. I'd love to see some play action, even if it's just a crosser over the middle with the potential of making a guy miss and he's off to the races. They have to mix something - anything - in there on 2nd and short that isn't simply a run up the middle to pick up the first down.

Feel like an opportunity was missed here to simply ask… ”any updates on this?”

Miami was horrible in the trenches on both sides of the ball vs. Jax. As such… O- The OL (Cook &Davis by extension) D - Oliver & Groot

They were not similar games. I don’t think you watched the MIA game. Dolphins looked soft. Jax ran the ball at will on them and Miami’s OL couldn’t get much push either. If McDaniel can’t scheme up quick, open looks the Dolphins’ O gets pushed around and Tua is hesitant. Miami got dominated for 3/4 of the game and a few flukey plays got them the W. That is not what happened in Buffalo.

I was only responding to your response about Allen and the potential for this offense to do something similar the KC the past two years, that’s all. I still have plenty of concerns about this team, particularly the defense, when it comes to crunch time against good teams. I also expect the Bills O to struggle early in the season while they try to integrate a lot of new players and kinda/sorta a new offense. However I expect the O to get things together by game 5-6, though with this schedule that might be too late…

Defensive performance in the playoffs, plain and simple. The Bills’ D, either do to players, coaches or injuries has not produced like the KC D. Football is a team game… There’s also the idea of trying to use such a small sample size as playoff football to justify a take, why not use the much larger sample size of “all games played.”

Reading between the lines what I see is, “ Mahomes pads his stats with 1 yard TD passes that Andy Reid schemes up.” Am I doing this right?