SageAgainstTheMachine

Agreed. I was thinking of an analogy to baseball earlier today. Modern analytics have shown that teams actually score quite a few more runs by embracing a higher variance strategy of hitting more home runs and striking out more, which is counterintuitive to the classic strategy of having a couple power hitters and filling out the rest of your lineup with guys who will hit singles, bunt, steal bases, hit and run, etc. Old hats still consider the latter to be the "right" way to play the game but statistics show it doesn't actually work. Of course, even within that paradigm, there come plenty of game situations where it's best not to swing for the fences. Runner on 2nd and nobody out in a tie game? Yeah, move him over to 3rd. Just like Josh probably shouldn't have thrown those two bombs down the sideline when we wanted to chew clock midway through the 4th quarter.

I think he'll blow by 276 easily.

3 Saturday games and 3 Sunday games is a perfectly fine option.

This may seem trite but the transcendent athletes in every sport all break the mold. Josh's best game comes with about twice as many mistakes as the average QB and about 5 times as many highlight reel plays. Can he improve on his decision making? Yes. But only to a point because the risk taking is in his DNA somewhere. Let Josh be Josh.

Heh. I guess the depressing thing is that my post was easy to take seriously because so many Bills fans are earnestly turning on Josh right now.

Dammit, I want you to watch the video because it's the Rick Astley video Guess I'll never make it as an interent troll. Of course our window is wide open.

I can't put it as well as he does in the video.

If you say so. I challenge you to watch the video I posted and counter a single argument.

Exactly the kind of contract we need to not be doing right now. Someone will pay him too much because there aren't enough pass catching TEs to go around but he struggled mightily this year while the offense around him improved.

I encourage you to actually watch the video I posted before criticizing.

I don't agree with Nick Wright very often but his analysis of Josh here is pretty spot on and enough to have me worried that our window isn't as wide open as we thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

All “objective signs” do not point toward us falling short. Your anxieties point to that. Vegas still has us as the team second most likely to win it all, slightly behind KC. THAT world is about objectivity.

Commentary on the thread. We’re on an 8 game winning streak and like 80% of the threads are slamming the team.

I'm not one of those people who's down on the Bills right now but -5.0 seems like a lot. I think the line is reflecting the Bengals' injury problems on OL but we haven't really shown a front four that takes advantage of that.

FFS

Interesting. I always thought it was more like holding where the spirit of the penalty is less about safety and more about that life is too easy on blockers if they can block someone in the back who's gotten leverage on them.

Well said. The worm always turns eventually in this league and the next time the Bills are mediocre certain fans will regret not being enthused for the playoffs.

Refs are (either consciously or unconsciously) biased against making calls where 70,000 people will start yelling at them.

Kirk Cousins is the epitome of a QB who will put up volume numbers and get you to the playoffs but never win one. Sort of taken that mantle from Andy Dalton.

You may be taking this too seriously.

Gabe definitely does some Popeye/spinach type thing when the playoffs start. The hands were back, the toe drag swag was back. Just a different player.

Our offense and special team gave up points to the Dolphins, not our defense.

I was wrong. Nice 4th down play!

Sorry for the spoiler but Greg Roman is going to call a stupid play on 4th down that gets stuffed.

I’d still say it’s a higher chance than winning in OT.