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The offense looked a lot better in the first 3 qtrs last week because we were getting other players involved. Namely Shakir, Kincaid and Davis. All 3 can make plays if we use them correctly. The 5-8 yard routes we mostly run where the receiver is stationary when catching the ball make it very difficult for any yards after the catch. Hit guys on the move with passes as we did w all 3 last week especially with Shakir and Kincaid and good things will happen on offense. And the same goes for Diggs. Throwing 5-8 yard turn ins where he is stationary looking at Allen when he catches the ball doesn't do much. The DB just comes in and tackles him. Diggs is a big time talent. Hit him running vertically or running deep crosses where he can use his speed and elusiveness after the catch. And the offense has much more big play potential. One other issue. Dawson Knox. He is just talented enough to be playing a lot other than in the red zone. Guy has lousy hands, and very limited mobility. I think he bogs down the offense. And Josh for some reason looks for him far too much when he is on the field. Inside the 10? Fine he can be helpful in the end zone because of his decent size. But Kincaid is light years better as an overall receiver.

Not having Milano is a big loss against Cincinnati. Get a good pass rush on Burrow. And play press coverage on their WR's. Can't give them the 8 yard pass all night because we are afraid of getting beat deep. Bills just need to play tough hard nosed football against the Bengals. I hope Douglas and Joseph are on the field. They are both good tough smart veteran players. We need to keep the score close and let Josh win it for us in the 4th quarter. Lets hope the coaching staff can come up with a gameplan that actually gives us a chance to win. McDermott teams have fallen short in big games in that respect.

I forgot about him. Good call. I just looked up his stats. From 2006-2010 he put up some solid numbers. And given a lot of the crap QB's playing in the league today, his numbers would look real good.

How many really good ECU players have their been ? QB Jeff Blake had a solid career. Did former Titan RB Chris Johnson play at ECU? And didn’t Zay Jones also?

Jimmy G is terrible. No one wants to celebrate his b day. The Raiders should trade him for Russell Wilson😂😂

Someone needs to be thrown under the bus when things go bad. That shows no accountability on anyone in the organization period. He is completely ineffectual as leader of the organization. Elam can't play a lick and its an ankle injury all of a sudden. Lets get real. This team needs to man up and stop making excuses for always coming up short. Lets have an aggressive game plan against the Bengals. And play like we owe them a beat down. McDermott being all schmoozy with Zack Taylor before the game doesn't quite set the "we are going to kick your ass" mentality that this team has been missing for some time.

He looked great against Tampa. I expect him to be on top of his game against Cinci. McDermott on the other hand coached a terrible second half against Tampa. And should stay in the tent on game day.

That's right that Hyde started out as a nickel corner w the Packers. I honestly knew nothing about Poyer before he came to the Bills. Both have been great players and professionals for the Bills. I wish all our free agent signings turned out close to what those two have meant to the team. At best they each probably have one year left after this season. Would love to see them go out as champions.

Nothing more original then that? The guy couldn't coach a winning season in pee wee football. But what about Jimmy G. He looks awful immobile scared and disinterested. The guy has become an NFL scrub. Sit his ass on the bench.

If that's the case (that they think he can't play pro ball at all) then someone needs to be canned for that kind of BS scouting. He played and started at a big time SEC program. If they watched his film, they can tell what kind of player he was. You don't draft guys in the first round randomly, who don't have athletic ability. I thought he looked solid last year. And then this season, he isn't dressing to start the year. And when he did play against the Jags and Giants, he looked like dump (as my daughter fondly likes to say). Something had to have happened to this kid in the offseason. We just don't know what it is. Hard to believe we started Levi Wallace a player of very limited physical ability for 3 years, and won't let Elam a 1st round pick even dress. Does not make sense. I would not completely write him off just yet. But someone on the team needs to take him under their wing and teach him the finer points of playing CB at the NFL level. Hyde and Poyer would be a good start even though they play safety.

That's a riot. My 3 kids are all young adults. But have been Bills fans since they were young even though they all grew up in the Atlanta area. They live all over the U S now. But watch all the games. And its something we can all connect with. The same with my two brothers who live on the West Coast. I remember my daughter used to wear a Brian Moorman jersey all the time when she was young. That shows how bad we were in that era w our best player being a punter. Enjoy your son. They grow up fast. And then the mayhem will start.

That’s awesome brother. I remember when my daughter was born in the 1997 football season. I am a big Michigan college football fan. When she was little she would sit in the bouncy seat next to me while I watched us go undefeated and win the National Championship. Great memory. Now she is 26 and is a big Bills fan living in Arizona.

I live in Fort Lauderdale part time. Hard to sit inside all day on a beautiful Sunday afternoon if the Bills aren’t playing. But I certainly will watch some football every Sunday and follow on my phone the games I bet on. The Seahawks-Browns game was excellent yesterday to watch btw. On YoutubeTv you can watch 4 games at once. And choose which one you want sound on. For my money Kevin Harlan is the best NFL announcer. And Gus Johnson is the best college announcer.

The second punt on 4th and 2 was ultra weak. Most coaches go for it there. We had momentum on our side and likely get it. Another score and the game was over. We should have won this game by 3 TD's. Offense was killing it up and down the field. The play call on 3rd and goal at the half yard line was terrible. The two 4th down penalties on the illegal contact and face mask were bad. Johnson is a good player. But he can be exploited because of his size. Overall a real good game by both offense and defense. Coaching is the weak link on the team.

Shakir and Kincaid are much better weapons then Knox. I think that was obvious tonite.

That's an oldy but goody. Takes me back to 1976 in 5th grade.

At least we didn't resign Edmunds to a ridiculous contract. But our drafts have certainly not been good enough under Beane. Basham, Ford, Moss to name a few.

I think you summed it up perfectly. The team gets no energy from its coaching staff. And they don't out scheme anyone. Josh is still a baller. But needs to get the ball to Kincaid Shakir and Harty more. All 3 can run. And Josh himself needs to run more. The Dolphins are a lot of style and not much substance. Their defense is still nothing special. But I am sure a lot of teams are saying that about us as well now. Hopefully we can get it turned around tonite and then next week in Cincinnati. If not, time to blow it all up.

You summed it up perfectly SC. It seems like Oliver is nicked up every year. Playing DT at his size is a disadvantage. The Bucs offense is lousy. We should not give up more then 10 points at home to them.

If things continue to spiral downward, I think Diggs will implode and definitely want out after this season. I don't think he is a McDermott fan. We still don't know what happened at Mini Camp when he left for a day after talking w McDermott. I am sure Diggs would love to play for an offensive minded head coach. I am sure he likes Josh. But he is a smart guy. Been in the league for 9 years now. He knows how offenses work. You don't think he sees what KC has done w Andy Reid, Mahomes and Kelce. He is our Kelce. Josh is our Mahomes. And the missing piece is.....

Klein is better then Dodson. He is not great in pass coverage. But he still moves better then Dodson who has as much lateral movement as a kiosk, is tough, can pass rush and lay the wood. I thought our D looked soft against the Pats. Milano brought the attitude and toughness for the defense, and he did it well. Poyer and Hyde try. But when the attitude is generated by your aging safeties in today's game, we have a problem. This is not the era of Ronnie Lott and Brian Dawkins laying people out. Klein can certainly help.

Very true Gunner. Phillips, Settle, Ford and Vickers were trash. That's on Beane for filling the roster with crap. Have we even drafted a DT since Ed Oliver?

You are the man SCBills. Your posts are always reasonable and make sense. I agree exactly about the offense. Davis and certainly Knox are not explosive players. Get Shakir Kincaid Harty and Sherfield involved. All 4 can run. Its criminal the way this offense is set up. Get Cook out in open space as well. And speed up the tempo. We plod to the line of scrimmage, and can barely get plays off in 40 seconds. Get Josh running more. When our offense is humming, we can be unstoppable. But playing at such a slow pace puts no stress on the defense. Good defense is great. But this is an offensive age. The Vikings won last night because they attacked the 49er defense. Kirk Cousins wasn't dinking and dunking. He was throwing darts 15-20 yards down the field where his WR's could run after the catch. And make Kincaid a big part of the game plan. Just like Hockenson was for the Vikings. Other then Diggs he is our best receiver on the team. We need to blow the doors off of Tampa. And then go into Cinci with an aggressive offensive game plan. We play small ball they will bury us like they did last year. And we will be looked at as pretenders. In general this coaching staff has been the teams biggest weakness over the past several years. They have come up small for the most part. They can change that perception over the next 10 games. Or be done with.

Everyone is talking about the Minnesota-San Fran game as a comparison to the Buffalo-New England game. The game last night was a great game. Both teams competed hard with Minnesota getting the big pick on Purdy at the end. I thought Kirk Cousins was a baller last night standing strong in the face of a strong pass rush and hitting everything down the field. Purdy looked good as well. But not as good as Cousins. Even thought the 49ers lost, they played with much better effort then the Bills did at New England. The Bills-Pats game was hard to watch coming off the Giants-Bills game. And the stinker in London. The season certainly isn't over. But the team does not have a look of a champion. Can they get it turned around? Sure. Is it likely? We shall see in the next two weeks. We should beat the Bucs by 30+ points. Their offense is terrible. But the real test will be Cincinnati. Joe Burrow is one cool customer. And they have a talented roster, regardless of their record. I think their coaching is better then ours. This coaching staff should not have goodwill from our fanbase. McDermott led us to the playoffs to break the draught in 2017. So what!! The offensive game plan that day was awful. We scored 3 points. We have disappointed throughout the playoffs under this regime. McDermott has taken no ownership and accountability for the 13 second fiasco. The players will never forget that. And neither will the fans. That being said, we can turn things around. But there certainly needs to be some emotion shown by everyone in the Bills organization (besides Stefan Diggs) come Thursday night. The vibe of the team since stepping on the field in London has been off. That needs to change come Thursday night. And it had better be a whole lot different when we play Cinci next week. If not, you have to really question whether the McDermott regime has run its course.

We have not been prepared to play the last 3 weeks. It's that simple. We sleepwalked through the first half on offense 3 weeks in a row with nothing changing. That's on the coaching staff. We came out against the Jets the same way to start the season. With a player as talented as Josh Allen, everything should go through him. He looks almost disinterested at times now. We can barely get a play off in time without the 40 second clock running out. We finally threw to Kincaid over 10 yards down the field today. The kid looked good. He is a first round pick. It took til week 7 to throw a vertical pass to him. They had to watch the film of him at Utah, otherwise why would they have drafted him? What the hell is going on? This coaching staff has sucked the life out of this team. And combined with the injuries on defense and a tough schedule coming up, things could get ugly real quick. We need a huge performance against Tampa to get some confidence. And then going into Cinci the coaches need to dial up a big time game plan, otherwise we could be embarrassed. And if that happened, I would can McDermott after the game.