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I'm inclined to think Bates at least earned himself another chance at a start.

I wonder if he got them for all the receivers or just Diggs? At $23k a pop, Christmas could get a little expensive for a QB 12 OL (he's included PS in the past) 4-5 TE/FB (5 if he includes Waring) 5 RB 10 WR That would be getting up to 3/4 of a million $$ Not chump change even when you did receive $20M to tuck into the bank Perhaps he limited it to the OL, the TE/RB on the offense, Diggs and maybe 1 other WR, and got something nice but slightly less costly for the rest of the guys That would keep it under $500k

My primary disappointment in Sanders has been that he's failed to haul in a number of passes he should have had. He has 6 games where he's caught less than 50% of the targets he had, including one game where he was 0 for 4 and one game 2 for 6. He's only scored as having 3 drops on 72 targets, but the eyeball test for "yeah, a good NFL WR makes that catch" is higher. I'm with you - I thought that too and I've been disappointed. But part of it is how teams are playing us and our inability to get them out of it with the run game and short passes. I've seen some signs of promise the last few games.

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Someone said in his post-Pats presser he said he got them watches - haven’t seen any details on what kind or anything

Pay attention Dabs and Allen, this guy knows your flow

I think Feliciano is a perfectly fine backup G and C but it’s time to see what Bates can do I hope so too, but one question is what do we do for the rest of the season?

I'm a poet and my feet know it ....(they're Longfellows) But let the record show I did not call him that I said his YPA were measly this season (which may not at all be his fault, since the biggest decrease is YBC)

Yeah, that's why I think Sills and the NFL medical experts went down a "wrong road" relying on masking and distancing to curb intra-facility covid transmission vs. Testing for All 🤷‍♂️ Plus, a lot of these guys are friends and will be getting together outside the facility, whereas if they know they're infected they would isolate. So then we're down to hoping and praying they're right that these infections are largely asymptomatic in young NFL players. But, they're the ones with the Data on contact tracing and transmission so we'll hope they're on the right path.

Dude, watch your quotations, I did not say what you quoted me as saying (that Star was manhandled on Henry's long run. Thanks. I think DL is next to OL on being the most suspect of PFF's ratings. They don't know what the assignment is and they have dudes in Ireland to whom "football" is played bareheaded, in shorts, with a black and white ball, doing the grading (my understanding)

Is this like a freakin' TBD New Years Tradition or something? Seems like we get this every freakin' season. Edmunds is not an NFL DE. It's not just the 40 time, it's the bend and the agility.

Get it some other week You're putting the cart ahead of the hoss here. The goal is to make sure 100% we get INTO the post-season first. We aren't there yet.

If you're symptomatic, I believe you get tested regardless. The Covid tests have a substantial false negative rate especially on the first couple days of symptoms. If someone is symptomatic with symptoms that might be Covid, better to keep them home than to have them come into the facility and get other people sick if they're not perfect with their masking and other protocols.

Thanks. I sit corrected, it was Carolina where it was 29% (coming back from toe injury)

Not That's for Beane and McDermott to say and it's worth noting their assessment seems to differ from others

FWIW against Tennessee we did a fairly good job containing Henry until that One Long Play. Dunno who was on the field for that. Might not have been Star, might have. Star was returning from toe injury and only played about 30% of the snaps against NE in the first game. Again for the long run don't remember who was on the field, think it was Harry

I see your point, on the other hand people have also been speculating that Star is fleeing the Bills locker room due to Covid fears and is "checked out" of football. Given that all we know right now is "personal issue", such speculation seems out of place and inappropriate and yes, damaging. It's not about his on-field performance, it's speculating about his absence.

I'm not ready to toss Beasley to the curb, but the fact is we know Father Time comes for us all. Beasley's YPA have been (relatively) measly this season - from 9 y/target to 6.4 y/target, both YBC 7.4 to 4.7 and YAC 4.3 to 3.8. YBC have to do with how the play is designed, so not on him perhaps, but there's also the question of why the play design has changed. His 1st downs are "down", from 53 to 43, in part I'm sure because of playing through a rib injury (we've seen him give himself up where last year he would have fought for every inch) That's all very well, but perhaps uninjured McKenzie > injured Beasley and Beasley's gladiator attitude of playing through anything is also "dog in the manger" and hurting the team a bit. What was startling to me watching McKenzie last Sunday is how fast he was relative to Beasley. Beasley is still the mastermind of picking apart the zone, but too often Josh is on his back or running for his life before he's picked it. It seems teams have been flooding the middle and taking those middle of the field routes away, and I don't think Beasley is fast or quick enough to get to the sidelines as McKenzie did. JMO. But please note that the above assessment has nothing to do with Twitter, NFL Fines, vaccinations, or Covid.

Entirely possible, but he could also have gotten vaccinated since then, a number of Bills players did. I'm wondering if it might be Cody Ford (he expressed reservations about the vaccine in a tweet) and Micah Hyde (the mask). But just speculation. If Poyer could change his mind and get vaccinated, Who Knows?

Cam Lewis, who was just added yesterday, is still on the list. So apparently is Cody Ford, who was added to the list on 12/24, same day as Gabe Davis. No word about Quintin Morris, who went on the Practice Squad Covid list 12/22. Ford and Morris would appear eligible to come off if "symptoms resolving" and no fever for 24 hrs with no drugs.

That's been my feeling as well. Not quite on the same page as Josh, not quite able to adjust and haul in the ball as well as he could. Maybe it's vision, or reaction time. Maybe it's hearing footsteps - perhaps they get louder as the years mount up. To be fair there have been times he's been wide open and Josh hasn't taken the throw, but there have also been times when he's been targeted and dropped it.

I believe unvaccinated players are still taking daily tests.

They're 7-8 and the 10th seed in the NFC right now. I suppose you could call that "in the hunt" but it looks unlikely. To be fair, that's about the same or a little better than Belicheck had the Pats last year with a motley crew at QB and a bad cap situation.

Exactly my feeling. Was it a perfect throw/could it have been better? No/Yes. Was it a catchable ball that Kumerow was able to get both hands on, also Yes. Does an NFL WR need to finish those, hell to the Yes. Is Josh Allen going to throw his guys under a bus in the presser, ever? No, he'll always take the blame "I need to make a better throw". But for an NFL team to win, NFL WR need to haul in those imperfect throws, and our WR seem to have gotten the notion that they don't need to. Mac Jones has had a high completion percentage this season because of the circus catches his group of relative "JAGs" have been hauling in.