Big Turk

Well...I mean Poyer dropped 2 INTs last game and Tre dropped a pick 6 against Miami, Milano dropped a pick 6 earlier in the year, Taron Johnson dropped an INT...they are guys who regularly make those plays, so it's not like they haven't been in position to get more INTs than they have, they just dropped the ball. Literally.

I wouldn't say they rely on them as much as they are a byproduct of playing exceptional team defense that forces teams to execute at a very high level on offense to beat them and their ability to disguise coverages with post snap rotations very well. For long stretches of time, their pass D was a virtual "No Fly Zone" where 200 yards against them was the equivalent of 300 yards versus other teams.

So the Cowboys went Happy Gilmore on them? "The Price is Wrong, B!"

Out of all the positions the Bills could have drafted in the first round with McD's history of getting good CB play from literally street FA's, Tre being his first pick ever and turning into an all-pro at the position and McD basically being a DB whisperer, if you would have told me they were going to take a CB in the first round and he would never see the field for them in his 2nd year, espeically when a 6th round CB in the SAME draft IS starting, I would have told you that you were smoking something. Either Elam is really not very good or they have horribly mismanaged him in ways they haven't with any other DB they have ever had.

Those Lions metallic blue helmets last night were 🔥🔥🔥

Beane go get this man.

You would win if the line is Bengals -1.5, Bills would have to lose by 2 to lose that bet.

playoffs yeah, but they beat them there both times in the regular season.

You mean other than the 2 times in the last 3 games the Bills actually beat KC in Arrowhead? Once far worse than the Bengals ever beat them? And without an all-time defensive meltdown 3 of 3?

Cornelius Bennett. He basically single handedly destroyed the Broncos in his first game here.

Hawks have great CB's that might now be even better if Williams can help them not have to cover as long.

And the Bills coulda put 70 on Miami. Who cares? I am talking about week in and week out on offense, the Bengals are a "good" offense but not a "great" offense. You look at who they have and you think they should score more points than they actually do most games. They have been beneath the Bills in scoring every year with far better weapons.

How many of those were runs from the shotgun? Handing him the ball at the 4 or 5 yard line in the shotgun?

I don't think people realize just how many plays a game the Bills run RPO's on...it's A LOT and it's far more varied and diverse than most teams in the NFL. See the breakdown I posted with JT O'Sullivan QB School from Week 8 against TB and he breaks down their RPO game quite a bit and is amazed and cannot heap enough praise on how exceptional it is from pretty much every standpoint.

Ah...I missed that one...so he takes Johnson's spot on the PS essentially. Wonder if he is the odd man out when Harris comes back.

Josh Allen is elite. I can't see how they are measurably better when Taylor has his offense looking like they belong in D III for the first month of every season. How about Joe Burrow not coming out in Week 1 every year and throwing for 82 yards or 4 INTs? Every year it's the same thing...dig themselves a big hole they have to climb out of. Good coaches don't have teams that do that on a consistent basis. Congrats he figures out how to fix it, but how about not having the issue every year to begin with?

Bills have never been great tacklers and seem to focus on getting more people around the ball versus making 1 on 1 tackles. I'd bet most of their missed tackles come on run plays where they sometimes have 3 or 4 guys not bring a guy down and then the final guy brings him down. Seems to happen on runs where they stretch out the RB a lot behind the LOS.

Did Ty Johnson get claimed this time?

Think he takes Ty Johnson's spot on the practice squad with a few call-ups til Harris gets back.

I'd say 90% probably don't. They see some highlights one week of a team that looks great and scores a ton and then think that's how they are every week. The NFL doesn't work like that. Never has, never will. It's a week to week league with very little carryover from games one week to games the next week. Injuries, matchups, schemes, etc are all different week to week. Thinking one team should do "X" because they did that to some other team and thinking that will carry over to the next game doesn't make much sense. And for all the Bengal skill position players, they always seem to leave you thinking they should score far more points than they actually do.

Yes, pretty much all the games on TV with a laptop streaming another game that looks good.

Only cause his DC is a genius and knows how to make quality playoff level adjustments to slow teams down. Their defense and special teams has won them far more games in the playoffs than their offense has if we are being honest.

For all of their skill positions and weapons, you would think they would score a lot more points than they actually do. It looks like McD runs a lot of simulated pressures where you don't always know which 4 guys are coming and sometimes it's overloaded to one side and guys drop out from the other, or some combination of twists/stunts to confuse the OLine. You see a lot of guys at the line, but most times guys drop and only 4 actually rush.

Sometimes what looks like Josh "taking the easy money" actually is Josh playing off script and NOT taking the easy money. Like when he ignores the hot read on a blitz and goes to other side of the field after a half rollout away from the blitzer(think throw to Shakir in the flat against TB where he turns it up and runs over the defender on the sideline). Honestly, think he is allowed to have his own set of rules he plays by because he is able to do things nobody else can is where I end up with. Sometimes that gets him in trouble when his answer isn't there, but the easy one was right away. We can't have it both ways tho...when you LOVE the play Allen makes off script by not taking the "easy throw" but then hate when he "doesn't throw hot" when it's there on a play where it didn't work, it doesn't make a lot of sense, because both start from the same place. At the end of the day, we are just going to have to live with it, because it works a lot more than not.