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When you look near the top of the AFC standings, you’ll see a very familiar sight. Right there, leading the AFC East and sitting in second place in the conference with a 9-2 record, are the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo has won 11 or more games and the AFC East crown in each season since 2020, so it shouldn’t be surprising to see the Bills there once again.
It shouldn’t be surprising to see that the Bills once again rank inside the top six in point scored, which they have also done each season since 2020. And it also shouldn’t be surprising to see that Bills quarterback Josh Allen is, once again, one of the most effective and efficient quarterbacks in the NFL, leading one of the league’s best passing attacks.
That might be where the similarities between this year’s Bills offense and that of previous seasons end, though. Because Buffalo’s passing game is much different now than it was between 2020 and 2023. Which, again, is not surprising. When you remove a player like Stefon Diggs from the equation, as the Bills did when they traded him to the Houston Texans this past offseason, things are going to shift pretty dramatically.
And that’s exactly what’s happened. The pass offense is now much more egalitarian than in previous years, with no player on the offense receiving more than 20% of the total targets. By way of perspective, consider that Diggs had a target share between 25% and 27.9% in each of his four seasons in Buffalo.
In the table below, we’ve laid out the target shares for the Bills’ top five pass-catchers in each season since Diggs arrived in 2020, up to and including this year. You should be able to the difference pretty easily.
1st27.9% (Diggs)25.0% (Diggs)26.8% (Diggs)27.6% (Diggs)19.3% (Shakir)2nd18.0% (Beasley)17.1% (Beasley)16.2% (Davis)15.7% (Kincaid)17.3% (Kincaid)3rd10.4% (Davis)11.0% (Sanders)11.3% (Knox)14.0% (Davis)10.5% (Coleman)4th8.7% (Brown)10.8% (Knox)11.3%…
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Author : Jared Dubin
Publish date : 2024-11-30 23:00:00
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