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The Play Sheet [VIDEO]: What's Going On With Josh Allen and the Bills?

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The Ringer

Sports

4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Ben Solak takes a look at one of the NFL's most confounding teams: the Buffalo Bills. The Bills have a winning record in the brutal AFC and an offense that ranks highly in all the important metrics. However, if the playoffs started tomorrow, they'd be out of a spot. Is Ken Dorsey's offense to blame, or has Josh Allen regressed this season? Ben makes the case that the Bills are probably fine, though Buffalo fans might not want to hear that. Watch 'The Play Sheet' on YouTube or Spotify every Wednesday at 8 a.m. PT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Howdy? I'm Ben Solac. This is the play sheet. It's a weekly pod we do on Wednesdays. It is a video pod. We're going to break down some film. So click into the Spotify app, watch the videos you listen along and enjoy.

0:14.9

The opening script. What's going on? What's up with Buffalo? Man, how we do? How are we doing? The bills are 5 and 4 and it feels like the sky is falling man.

0:24.6

They are outside of the AFC playoff picture right now because like everybody in the AFC North is 5 and 3

0:29.6

and they're also losing the division to the Dolphins who are 6 and 3.

0:32.6

We're at the halfway point of the season, so it might feel like early to be talking playoff picture, but it's not especially

0:37.7

for Buffalo. According to Impredictable, the Bills have had the fourth easiest schedule to this

0:42.1

point in the season, and again, they're five and four. The upcoming schedule is the second hardest.

0:46.7

They have road games against the Eagles, the Chiefs, and the Dolphets, and they have to face

0:49.7

the Cowboys, the Chargers, and the Jets at home. Now, much of the anxiety around the Bills is centered on the offense, where it feels like

0:55.4

the units just kind of like stuck in the mud.

0:57.3

Ever since Brian Dable, who was the old O.C. of the Bills, left to become the head coach

1:01.1

of the Giants, there's been a lot of scrutiny on Ken Dorsey, the new offensive coordinator.

1:05.2

And some of that is just the nature of like relative measures, right? When Daibble was coordinating the offense, Josh Allen was like really

1:11.3

bad and then he got really good. The bill's offense exploded and they were the, the team that

1:16.3

could potentially beat the chiefs. There was this huge improvement under Brian Daible. With Ken Dorsey,

1:21.1

there's been no huge improvement and so it feels like he's not doing as good of a job. But when

1:25.8

you look at the numbers, the Dorsey offense has been just as good,

1:29.3

if not better than the dable offense.

1:31.3

Across the board, the offenses are basically the same,

1:33.3

but Ken Dorsey's offense does have a slight edge in EPA per drive,

1:37.3

which expected points added is just like a good way

1:39.3

of measuring how valuable your yards are,

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