Big Turk

That has to be McD influence trying to be "ball control".

Git 'Er Done Beane!

What if McD is causing issues on offense especially in the 1st half by trying to force Allen/Dorsey to "dial it down" and help the D by staying on the field and playing more ball control but then when it doesn't work and they have to play catch up in the 2nd half, he takes the limiters off and they go back to looking like normal? I am starting to get a sneaking suspicion McD is causing issues he doesn't need to be causing. McD preaching "complimentary football" but what if that means it works far better by letting the offense get into a track meet and forcing teams to play catch up all night?

Scott Novak can get the Bozak

Oh really? How is that working out for Jackson and Hurts who were 50-60+ more than Allen last year?

Regular season I believe.

There is optimism they can both return at some point before the end of the year.

100% agree, but for people saying the offense has sucked, it's not exactly true. You can only score points when you have the ball and when the offense is on fire in the 2nd half and you only have 3 or 4 possessions cause the D isn't stopping anyone, that doesn't help. O is not helping D in the 1st half, D is not helping O in the second.

2nd half it actually looked pretty great...lack of possessions is where people got fooled.

Not sure...I don't know why it can't be both tho...

Apparently per John Wawrow it was cause the Bills were out of cap space from Knox going to IR?

Mahomes has more...33 on the year, he is running more than ever. Allen had 124 rushes last year to Mahomes 66, almost double. Now Mahomes has more than Allen. That isn't maximizing anything, especially when a bunch of Allen's "runs" have come on QB sneaks and the final failed lateral attempt last game counted as a run.

Maybe he should be able to recognize where he should be looking to throw the ball on a blitz like he would have been taught in HS football more? You know...start your progression on the proper side of the field and throw it to the open guy instead of always starting the progression with the side of the field where Diggs is lined up? If the answer is he knows it has to do with film study and he doesn't want to do more film study then perhaps it is because he knows the issue but is unwilling to do anything to fix it?

Perhaps like at anything, when you are still learning to be really good at it you spend lots of time and focus on it but as you become good then you don't spend as much time on it because "you already know all that stuff" and slowly over time it starts declining and then suddenly you get to a point where you actually aren't very good at all at it anymore?

Typically they let players decide the games on their own at the end. The issue I have had is that you don't even know what you are getting series to series from officials in the SAME GAME, let alone from week to week with the same crew and then with different crews. Look at the Bourne TD where Henry literally blocks 3 Bills players and knocks them down but there is no offensive PI called which was FAR WORSE than what Murray did that was called earlier.

I would suspect the wrist played a lot into that and is why he is shutting it down for surgery.

Except they have been making calls all year more and more that are impacting outcomes of games and many times deciding them. They virtually handed the Browns a win against the Colts with flag after flag and call after call...that was pathetic. I would be incensed if I was a Colts fan.

The problem is almost always more execution related than gameplan related.

I bet I know where he is putting in the work...in the bedroom with his new girlfriend. So much for never being more focused on football in his life...that all went out the window when a new woman entered the picture. As my High School Biology Teacher used to tell us constantly about the 5Ps: "Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance"

He actually HAS been a pretty high percentage catch guy the last 2 seasons, that's my whole point! The first 2 years, it was low 50% area. The last 2 years has been at 69% and 73.5%. That's Kelce, Kittle, Andrews, etc territory and in some years better than them. People keep trying to say he drops the ball but they simply are maintaining an initial bias from their first opinion of him that no longer exists. This would be like people saying Allen doesn't complete a high percentage of his passes and isn't very accurate based on his first 2 years.

It seems to me from what I remember is that protection is better and he has more time. They also seem to be running the ball better keeping things more balanced. I know the Giants game it all stemmed from running the ball more.

Orlovsky is saying a lot of the same thing...Bills are very inconsistent with being "prepared" for situations when they don't already know what's going to happen. The thing that is concerning to me is these are basic concepts of what to do in those situations that we are failing at...like "replace the blitzing player and throw the ball to the voided area" or "read hot if this player is coming". Too many times the plays are there to be made if basic concepts are followed but instead it causes Allen to hold the ball or try to flush. Look at the players in those breakdowns and how wide open they are right away and Allen doesn't know where the answer is to those and HE SHOULD by now. That's a concern. Literally it's a simply see it and throw it to a wide open guy. Who does that mainly fall on? Allen? Dorsey? All of them? These are simply base concepts they are failing at far too often.

DHop would likely even be a pick swap candidate..like trade a 5th for a 6th back and DHop.