Yeah, you kinda need to get lucky and find someone that's mostly been cast as a deep threat and just hasn't had a chance to show off their route running ability as much. I thought Samuel might provide some of that, but Brady seems fixated on using him purely as a gadget WR, and he doesn't ever seem to be the first or second option when he runs actual routes.
I like the crossers idea in theory, but the interior OL getting crushed while pass blocking and Allen leaving the pocket a beat too early over the past two weeks has probably hurt that approach. It's a bit of a chicken or egg problem--you gotta hang in the pocket and throw under pressure to connect on some of those intermediate passes over the middle, but it's hard to trust the OL will hold up enough when they're constantly scraping you off the ground.
If you’re throwing deeper crossers, agree.
Down on vacation with family and my uncle was asking why I’m not as upset as he is. All I had was “they win, a lot, at some point I have to accept that they’ve been as good or better than every team out there but the chiefs at winning”. Everyone has down spots but over the last 6 years the list of teams that do better than the bills is very very short.
Do not disagree. I think it took Brady by surprise that the league caught up so fast. Combine that with a handful of key injuries and poorly timed flub by Allen and you get 3-2. Beat a jets team desperately trying to save half a decade and you pretty much lock up the division baring an injury to Allen. Leaving you all season to figure out how to beat the cover 1 and force teams back into the cover 2 Brady’s offense eats up.
The first bit is my feeling too. Revenge for last year when we got the Brady bump and smoked them 32-6 I guess.
Der Jeager said:
This is what concerns me most about Brady through 5 weeks. Unless he's banged up, it's hard to believe that Samuel's ability has just fallen off a cliff, and so we've turned a competent NFL receiver (>60 catches every season he's been healthy, catching passes from the likes of Taylor Heinicke) into an afterthought in an offense starved for NFL caliber boundary receivers to the point where the other team is thinking gadget play every time he steps on the field.
Sounds like he wanted to fire Hackett and Rodgers nicked it and he got fired for it.
Either that or Bass will shank a 40 yarder for us to beat them in the playoffs.
Rodgers and Salah have butted heads, Saleh was on the hot seat already, I'm sure the rift sealed it.
2024 was a reset year with 25% of the Bills cap being used on dead cap space.
No year is a 'go all in' year. Not until Allen looks like he's coming to the end of his prime at least.
I'm still not sure this isn't a go all in year. I need to see more.
I doubt the defense will be healthy prior to the trade deadline.
Giving up major assets (plus undoubtedly more future cap space than he'll ever be worth) for a 31/32yo Davante Adams, when you're essentially already paying Stefon Diggs NOT TO PLAY FOR YOU is a whole new level stupid.
It's more than he's a name and plays WR. The passing offense has looked bad the past two weeks. And given that a high ankle sprain is usually a 2-4 week injury (and can linger long after that), you could be without Shakir, who has been WR1, for a while. And who knows what he will be like once he's back.
