WhitewalkerInPhilly

Yasssss Between this and the Poyer news things are looking like a storybook run

Better Nantz than Collingsworth

I believe more and more that the two teams decided instead of the NFL that this game was not going to be played. Also I'm so glad we moved to McDermott after Rex

Please let Hyde be back. Even if you are slowly rotating him back in that would be enormous

I mean, I get that, but in the examples I gave they are contacts given out to veterans. Stafford and Wilson were traded for, and then paid a pile of money. Watson was given 100% guaranteed money. Does this swing the pendulum back to paying a premium to roll the dice on a draft pick?

A big reason why the Bengals hit was so bad was the Tua still hadn't recovered. If they bench him and let him heal they don't go on a multi game skid and the Steelers hit doesn't take him out for as long.

Is that our record, or the players that spur us to glory? 😁

If the Phins front office has any desire to keep Tua long term they should bench him for the season and look to next year. I have a feeling that they wring him dry if they can

Yeah he and Allen are in very team friendly deals

Honestly, I think Hines sticks around. It's not just that he's managed to be solid in the return game, I want to see some more screen game in general. He had a nice long one vs the Pats, and then got a TD vs Miami. I think they are saving him for the playoffs, but at worse he seems like a nice quick out on pass plays.

I want to start off with this disclaimer: I am very happy with Josh Allen's deal. I think Beane did an excellent job structuring a deal that kept the best quarterback the Bills have had in a generation locked up through his prime, with meat on the bone for cap maneuvers. Since then, however, we keep seeing deals that make Beane's (already praised at the time) work look even savvier. Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen as 5th and 6th on average cap hit per year. In the meanwhile, Green Bay went back to the well on Aaron Rodgers, paying him the most per year out of every QB. Rodgers has looked nowhere near his prime, is considering retirement and now the Pack is in terrible cap shape while veterans are likely to walk. #2 is Russel Wilson, who cost the Broncos multiple 1st round picks to be a laughingstock. #3 is Kyler Murray, who just got college head coach was just fired. He is locked in for at least two more years (after which it's only a $33 million cap hit), while he is coming off of an ACL injury...where is greatest strength has been running and throwing on the run. #4 is Watson, who shouldn't have been back in the league. His money is fully guaranteed, and is going to be a $55 million hit every year for the next four years. As we saw with the Browns, they have a looooot of problems and Watson returning was not a magic pill. Only one player is going to be 20% of their cap. And that's not even counting Matt Stafford. The Rams pushed all of their chips to the pile last year and I'd be lying if I said I thought their devil's bargain wasn't worth it, but they are going to be paying a butcher's bill for the next few seasons. I understand that the QB position's importance. I understand that starting quality QB play is going to be overpaid but these four QBs are now liabilities for their teams, and in some cases the damage is going to take years to unravel. This was not "Let me overpay for Brock Osweiler they can be good enough" thinking, these players were supposed to transform the franchise. Does this change how teams think of contracts? I don't know. But it's interesting to think about.

I still don't get how we keep playing really good AFC teams on the road. I'm trying to recall, we have played the Chiefs 5 times in the last three years and only one home game?

I didn't see Tua being in extreme doubt to play. Maybe I missed it? But Mostert out is huge. He was gashing is because of the Cover 2 shell that we realistically will need to play again

As much as we love to complain about the defense, the Bills are #2 in the NFL in points allowed after the Niners. Every one of our losses has been a single score game so it's not as if the offense hasn't had its chances. Our scheme is purposefully built to force teams to beat us underneath. This does result in a lot of annoying 3rd and 4th down conversions. But that was the same last year too and the year before that. I think the issue is that the offense hasn't been as hot so you're not seeing the Bills clip teams wings early.

I'll put it this way: I am not spending even that kind of money for a single game when I am (and this is important) I will be busy and not able to watch until I get home and turn on my TV. I spend plenty of money to get streaming on every other network that plays football just because CBS wanted to be annoying

I do love Davis, but I do think he's best as WR #4. He has struggled as a #2

The routes have been there. I can recall multiple weeks where the receiver had the man beat and the throw was just a bit off. Josh finally looks back to 100%

The thing is, even if Lamar comes back I expect Cinci to still be heavily favored. If Tua comes back it's a much closer game

Everyone likes to pile on the zone defense that Frazier does in spite of the fact that we ended the season #2 in points allowed

I personally don't see it happening, but I would agree that Smith's track record and zone scheme is the best veteran coach we would see if Frazier goes.

From your lips to God's ears

Ugh. I did not want the 1 pm Sunday slot. One more day for Tua to possibly recover. CBS is the one football channel I get the worst reception on and I can't record and I have stuff going on so I'll miss the first half.

so wait, do we not suck anymore?

Not going to lie I had that thought. Now that Damar is looking like a full recovery I don't think it's ghoulish to ask what we do at the position. Bedford is a zone player and if he is slower on his return I'd see what he can do as a FS. At the least he has a higher upside than Marlowe