We need a healthy elbow!
FSU WR K. Coleman #33
Utah DB C. Bishop #60
Duke DT D. Carter #95
Kentucky RB R.Davis #128
Georgia C S.VanPran-Granger #141
Washington LB Edefuan Ulofoshio #160
Troy DE J.Solomon #168
UCF OT T.Grable #204
Penn ST. CB D.Hardy #219
England OT T.Clayton #221
Singletary isn't a threat. Cook goes down too easy. McKenzie has always been a #5. Davis was a really good #4 behind Diggs, Sanders, and Beasley, but he's not a consistent #2 now that defenses are aware. Knox is solid but we don't ever feature him. Hines is meh.
Diggs is really it and defenses figured out that if you limit him, we don't have anyone else.
Couple that with a progressively more porous O-line and you have the disaster yesterday.
Lone Stranger (01-23-2023),notacon (01-26-2023)
I know the stats don't lie, but neither do the eyes. Our offense just never seemed to be fully in a grove after the first couple weeks of the season. There wasn't one game where we played like we did at the end of last season or in the playoffs last year. Or like the Bengals offense played yesterday. Maybe it was Dorsey, or maybe it was lack of talent behind Diggs. But it was something.
Wake up, brush your teeth, and get ready for a day of hating the Dolphins. Or the Pats? How to choose?
Also, Dorsey isn't ready to lead a Super Bowl offense and I think he and Kromer never got on the same page.
Lone Stranger (01-23-2023)
The team needs an explosive playmaker in the ilk of guys like Tyreek Hill, Deebo Samuel, CeeDee Lamb...a guy you can get the ball to quickly out in space and he can make a guy or two miss and turn a 3 yard slant or out into a 20+ yard gain. Or a guy who you can run fly or post patterns with to take the top off a defense and allow the underneath to be open for Diggs or Knox or another Beasley type receiver, if not him directly, for easy 7-12 yard pickups.
McKenzie isn't the guy to do this even though some people, and the team, thought he was based on a couple good games he had.
Last edited by Mr. Pink; 01-23-2023 at 12:04 PM.
Lone Stranger (01-23-2023),notacon (01-26-2023)
We need a QB that understands what it means to use those weapons appropriately in the playoffs versus just lighting up the scoreboard against lightweights in the regular season.
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I would let Mckenzie go and see of we can get this guy back instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ARAya3xpA
How can you say we don't need more weapons when we sent 4 WRs to a game this season? Do we even have a #2 receiver? No!
Not totally arguing your points but we need new coaches and more weapons.
The whole idea of “we don’t need more weapons” is a pure knee jerk reaction that has little footing in reality....especially if one just looks around the league.
The biggest issue this season was the falloff of the offense. Too inconsistent. No threats to keep the pressure off Diggs. Too dependent on Josh Allen being superman. Even yesterday, the offense was the big failure in not taking advantage of the opportunities presented to them.
As KC has shown us year after year, defense is nice, but dynamic, dangerous offense trumps that every time....just like Cincy’s dynamic offence minimized the Bills (up until then) very good defense (missing DaQuan Jones was huge).
Gabe Davis, McKenzie, Singletary, Cook (at least so far), Shakir (so far) and even Knox are not comparable weapons to every single of the four teams that are left in the playoffs.
KC:
Pacheco
JuJu Smith-Schuster
Hardman
Valdes-Scantling
Kelce
And especially Patrick Mahomes (who has shown he is head and shoulders better than Josh Allen)
Cincy:
Ja’Marr Chase (better than Diggs)
Joe Mixon
Tee Higgins
Tyler Boyd
And especially Joe Burrow who has now surpassed Josh Allen at QB.
Philly:
AJ Brown (better than Diggs)
Davonte Smith
Dallas Goedert
Miles Sanders
San Fran:
McCaffrey
Kittle
Aiyuk
Deebo Samuel
ALL better than the Bills players mentioned above.
Cook might develop into a real RB. The Bills needs to draft another one. (BTW, I wanted the Bills to draft Najee Harris (they should have moved up to get him) and Breece Hall....can anyone doubt that this would be much better team with either of those at RB????) It is critical the Bills improve their running game....from RB’s.
Davis is just not a reliable #2 WR. He should stay for 2023 because he’s cheap ($2.9M cap hit), but the Bills MUST find a real threat at WR#2. OBJ is a perfect fit. JuJu Smith-Schuster is a UFA and could probably be signed for a relatively reasonable cost. He would be a clear upgrade over Davis.
Plus they have to consider a spending high value draft pick on a WR.
McKenzie has got to be cut. It would save $2.6M in cap space for 2023.
Crowder could be a viable replacement, we really never got to see what he could do. And he would be cheap for another 1 year contract.
The Bills absolutely need “more weapons”. (Not so say that they don’t need other upgrades...they addressed the pass rush last year with Von Miller and his injury was a HUGE blow) They have no chance to get better and attempt to surpass KC and Cincy unless they do.
We had these conversations when Daboll was here, some would say Daboll sucks and others would point to Josh playing hero ball and not hitting open receivers.
This year it's Dorsey sucks, and others are pointing out Josh playing too much hero ball and not hitting open receivers.
If a change is made I'm pretty confident next season will be Brady sucks and others will claim Josh is playing too much hero ball and not hitting open receivers.
Daboll...Dorsey...Brady or whoever...the common thread is Josh playing stupid, not the OC.
Mace (01-23-2023)
Offense was a juggernaut heading into the bye, Allen was on a pace to break Peyton Manning's single season passing yards record.
Allen was wobbly coming out of the bye against the Packers, next game was the Jets and he was more wobbly. Injury happened near the end of the Jets game, so the decline actually started sooner.
YardRat (01-23-2023)
I think a lot of people understood daboll was great, i didnt see a lot of "good hes gone" posts. My biggest issue was his lack of balance or building of the OL. Passing game wise, his concepts worked and our receivers got open under them. Same core, and theyre blanketed all game now
Not here to be right, just here to have interesting discussions about my impulsive opinions