Hapless Bills Fan

I agree with you there. More fair and more standardized ref’ing (at least within a game) seems like it ought to be achievable

But he ran into the defender from behind, helmet to helmet Ford did much less and got flagged for it in the Texans game

I kind of reached that conclusion myself. Also, with Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, we hear that their careers will be shortened if they put their shoulders down and charge into guys for extra yards. But Aikman doesn’t seem to see that as a problem for “the Saints Starting QB”

He got a couple of snaps - literally, 2 snaps on offense, and a handful of snaps on ST. 18 snaps in the Colts game, but only touched the ball 7 times I'd like to see Gilliam play, but it would make most sense to play healthy guys.

I'd want to have some evidence on that last point that it's reality and not a student's perception. Like I said, if it were unambiguously the most accurate model, they'd use it (and not keep running several different models). They run them all because sometimes one gives a better result, and sometimes another one does I only know "Jill" about meteorology, but I spent years working with weather forecasts from various sources from a week out to just before in the course of flying across the country, Bahamas, Canada and stuff in a small plane that can't handle much weather. We learned rapidly that you can predict that bad weather is gonna be between here and there, but you can't predict ***** about when it will get to specific locations two days out, or (sometimes) exactly where it will hit perpendicular to the front's travel. And if your bud told you you can forecast accurately when bad weather will arrive at a specific location or how bad it will be - 4 days in advance - I don't want to be rude, but I'll just say he/she was having you on, Big Time. Heck, it happened more than once that the forecast went to crap while we were enroute, in a plane with a 4 hr range, and we wound up asking for vectors to the nearest airport in the clear - when we were supposed to have had a clear flight well ahead of the front. Just to note that little phrase I bolded "stay tuned for further updates and details on intensity and timing" Like I said, they've already slowed it down from predicting it would arrive Sat-Sun, into arrive late Sun-Mon. Could slow down further and not arrive until late Mon-Tues. Could speed up. Probably won't veer north or south given the geography of the area. And they think there's gonna be a "high wind event" "sometime during Sunday night to Monday night". So it might or might not impact the game.

Moss, Breida and Singletary were all active for the Colts game. Gilliam was active. Kumerow was inactive. Pretty sure Moss, Breida and Singletary were also all active for the Dolphins. (rummage, rummage). Yes, yes they were and so was Gilliam AND Kumerow - looks like they went with 8 DL instead of 9 that game.

Chef Ruiz: "Now can I please get my $10,000?" Fun fact: AB's salary this season was $1.1M. By starting off a chain of events that cost AB a 3 game suspension, AB is out $183,333. Way to save money by stiffing your help, Dude!

Well, Well, Well, Well, Well, Well. I truly didn't think the NFL would take any action.

Very bad. See "recommended" post by Weatherman. What we can know at this point with fair accuracy: bad weather that is likely to go through the area between Saturday and Tuesday What we can't know at this point, is exactly when it will get there. Right now, the forecast shows the front slowing down and arriving Monday rather than Sunday, with the worst of it through the area by Monday night. It's also forcasting warmer weather to be associated with the front. And yes, windy, but not 50 mph winds. 22 mpg. But we're really not going to know the timing with any accuracy until Saturday or so. There's really just not much sense everybody getting their knickers into a knot over it at this point.

1) No, the Euro model is not unambiguously the "most accurate". If the Euro model were the most accurate, meteorologists stateside would be using it. They don't care who invented it, they just want an accurate means to forecast the weather. It tends to be the most aggressive about forecasting bad weather at times - that doesn't mean it's the most accurate. 2) This is Thursday right now. We know with fair certainty that some bad weather with a front will go through between now and Tuesday am, but we don't know exactly WHEN. We won't know with reasonable accuracy until Sat. night/Sun. am. OK, thank you for giving your source. This is a general forecast for the period Friday through Weds, to give advance warning to people who need to "batten the hatches" so to speak. It's over a broad geographic area - 4 counties, about 100 miles N/S and E/W- and "Monday" is kind of choosing the middle of the time period.

Do you think you could be specific on who "they" is and where you are seeing this?

Where do you live? Status quo in NE is not just playoffs, it's deep into the playoffs every season. One year of missed playoffs last year and there were all sorts of calls for heads and rolls. I think you more or less have it backwards.

New Orleans, which was 5-2 at Week 8, is now reeling from 4 straight losses. The Cowboys, who were 7-2 at one point, have lost 2 in a row. Can New Orleans recover from their apparent conviction that if they just pay Taysom Hill enough money, it will compensate for their lack of a franchise QB? Tune in and discuss!

I know, I know....man did I covet that guy. And while his contract is for $13.6M with $32M guaranteed, he only has a cap hit of $6M this season. Would I rather have Judon for $6M this year, or Sanders? DUUUUUUUUHHHHHH I understand why Beane didn't want to go that high for that long, but stilll.....dammmmmmmnnnnn

This is where I've gotten to after doing some digging. Peoples, Please Don't Feed the Troll. Shady McCoy could cut on a dime like "Snow? What Snow?" Seems like last year someone asked Diggs if he'd talked to people about how to play in the snow and he was like "No, I haven't talked to no one, I don't want to know nothing about it" But Shady is 100% the guy he should hit up for advice ~ Where in his interview did Stefon Get into Cow milking? I didn't catch it on first listen...unless the Bills edited out that part before posting on their web page?

That's the "Bruce Almighty" or whatever its name is, podcast that you like, isn't it? Do you know if these grades come from his own system, or PFF, or ???

Eh. "Never as good as it seems, never as bad as it seems" probably applies here. The OL has its jailbreaks and breakdowns in pass protection, but overall their main problems are in run blocking, where they struggle to hold their blocks and move bodies enough to help the RB's vision. Yes, absolutely Allen's pocket sense and ability to evade pressure help the OL look better than it is. But, the plays that appear designed to be read deep-to-shallow as well as secondary route concepts/scramble drills also demand a lot more of the Bills OL than other teams are demanding of their OLs. I can't tell you whether that's on how reads are set up/play design or on Allen. I expect it's some of both. And yes, I expect that if we had better coaching, we'd have a better line. Just my guess, but it's that last I believe has been keeping Breida off the field. But frankly, that may just be something Daboll has to work around. Speed guys are hard to come by, and by their nature I think tend to be not as physically sturdy or high-mass (since blockers do get into that F=m*a thing). If he's struggling with it, get him up to speed on 1 or 2 protections and give him extra coaching so that he isn't a total tell for a run, then otherwise play his ass for what he gives to the run and the quick pass game to the edges.

100% agree on the wish list....and add in a flyer on an IOL who falls for some reason if we like one For the run game, I'm sure you're right but with the Bills, playing a lot of (1,1) and counting on the RB in pass protection...it seems to me that the RB's playbook must be about as complicated as the OL's playbook in that aspect of the game, as they have to understand all the variations of who they're supposed to block in each protection too?

I agree with you I guess you could say it was "wishful thinking"

Heh. Well, there's a local Italian restaurant in St Louis which serves a pasta they call "The Eviction Notice". https://www.riverfronttimes.com/foodblog/2016/01/28/9-months-pregnant-try-frank-papas-eviction-notice-special I'd see if they could ship some to Hunter Henry's address, but if I were him I wouldn't eat food sent to me by some rand-o, so....

That's....sarcasm, right?

LOL every time I come here to post one of these. A few more guys on there than we thought. Gilliam with an ankle isn't a surprise since he was injured during the T-giving game, but hoped he wouldn't be hampered by it. He takes a large number of ST snaps each week. Interesting that Brown and Feliciano are not listed as limited.

Unsure what the drill is. That's LB Joe Gilles-Harris next to McD I think that's "Coach" Klein and Edmunds Is that Milano off to the R in a red "no contact"? While obviously like the rest of you sick-os I live for this content, I kind of hate to see it as well You just know Belichick has a team of assistants combing through stuff like that looking for clues

By "the All-22" do you mean Joe Buscaglia? My explanation is that Joe Buscaglia is not transparent about how he grades, I'm not sure how well he understands the nuances of protection schemes and assignments varying with defensive personnel, and Joe B's grades frequently don't make sense to me.

Mac Jones doesn't have elite talent at WR, but he's got one of the best 1,2 combos at TE in the league with Hunter Henry and Jonnu Smith, and he's got solid guys in Bourne and Meyers. A key feature of the NE Patriots system is how well the players are coached. You can have brilliant, far better players and if they run the wrong route on 1 out of 10 plays and it causes an interception, you might be better off with a lesser guy who does the right thing Every Time. I still maintain this is how Belichick enables consistent team discipline and morale. No one wants to be sacrificed to Bill's relaxation tub https://www.theonion.com/bill-belichick-forgets-about-loss-by-relaxing-in-bathtu-1819572993