Hapless Bills Fan

I don’t have a problem with the refs calling the hold on the Bills TD return. But they need to be consistent with what they’re calling a hold. If that was ahold on the TD return, it was a hold/illegal block on Tre White on Henry’s TD.

Challenge! Challenge that!

C’mon Pack, Long drive - Grind it out

Dang hate to see that great return canceled out That was pretty ticky tack as a “block in the back”, but maybe that’s how they call it these days

Things I did not have on my bingo card: Packers running the ball down the Cardinals throat That RB is a Dawg

So far I’d say the Cardinals understand the Packers pass routes better than the Packers receivers do

That would be great with me but I'm not feeling it with the Packers WR core in mothballs.

I think it could be more Have they actually said he could return for playoffs?

I would actually love to see it but I'm leaning towards blow-out, Cards. The Packers are walking wounded on offense at WR and have no run game.

It's not just Davante Adams. Allen Lazard is also on the Covid list and Marquez Valdez-Scantling is still on IR. Aaron Rodgers will be throwing to Randall Cobb, Amari Rodgers, Equanimeous St Brown, and Malik Taylor. It's somewhat analogous to Allen having Manny Sands, Isaiah Hodgins, Kumerow, and Isaiah McKenzie (actually that might be a better group)

Too True

So, the Cardinals meet up with one of the teams most likely (on paper) to foil their "undefeated" season Unfortunately for the Packers, football games are played on turf, not paper. Arizona's offense is smokin' hot and I don't think the Packers have enough of a defense. Thoughts?

So with the bye, the 2nd game would be just short of the 3 week timeline. But of course that would mean, he starts practicing after 2 weeks. I don't know, that sort of seems like "more haste, less speed" to me, but I suppose it depends upon whether they can fashion some kind of brace or support for him and whether or not it interferes with his playing abilities. Might also depend upon how Sweeney looks.

Oh, lets see. New York Jests. New England Cheatriots. Marine Mammals (don't trust a mammal) Baltimore Poe-Birds (this comes from them putting a variant of a Poe quote on their webpage "Always More, Never Less"). Seattle Sea-snakes (their logo looks like a snake to me). Cincinnati Bungles. Back when they were the Phoenix Cardinals and St Louis was salty, we used to call them the "Penis Cardinals"

A point is that if there were concern that a casual trip or fall or a guy slamming into him accidentally or some ill-judged horseplay would cause a setback to fracture healing, they would send him out there with a splint on that hand, at least. The fact that they're letting him be out there with just a light surgical dressing on the back of the hand says there's a lot of confidence in the stability of those fractures and the surgical repair. Evidently allowing him to maintain flexibility by being able to use the hand naturally without putting stress on it (there's another clip of him handling a football with the injured hand on the Twitters) is considered more important than protecting the hand by the sports training staff. That's what has me saying he doesn't look like a guy who'll be out for long. Or our training staff could just be "living on the edge" but I don't think so.

Imma put this here: Good analysis of interior OL play by Skarekrow on Buffalo Rumblings. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2021/10/27/22747737/all-22-analysis-buffalo-bills-interior-offensive-line Even if you don't agree with him on all points, he puts a bunch of film up there and you can roll your own conclusion. For example, his play 3 is also a play analyzed by Cover1 who point out that essentially it's a "pick" on Morse - the Titans understand that the Bills blocking scheme calls for Feliciano to pass his man to Morse, and in the process the defender uses the pass to knock Morse off balance and give him a rushing lane. I don't think it's a "chemistry" issue? He puts his bottom line up front: while the IOL may be a "weak link" at times, it's a weak link in a fairly strong chain: Good points all, but I suspect that if you looked at OL performance in the two games the Bills lost, you would find that the overall percentages are deceptive - a sort of "on average the duck is dead" where there's a cluster of shots to the L and a cluster of shots to the R. My $0.02 is that when these guys are getting beat, it's somewhat by design, meaning it seems as though the pass rush is well-schemed to take advantage of weak points in a zone blocking scheme - for example, the scheme calls for one defender to be passed to the next OLman, but that OLman is already engaged and can't readily pass his guy off to the next OL. Then instead of two properly balanced OLmen engaged with good technique, they wind up with one OLman with nothing to do and two guys who are off balance and "behind the defender". What I know about OL protection schemes could be written on a nickle and lost, but that can't be the best way to function with guys who aren't "maulers". Hopefully this is something the Bills looked at in some depth during the bye.

Not liking Spencer Brown on there. The good news is that we have a good RT on the roster in Williams. The question is how would they handle the guards? Not a fan of putting Cody Ford back in the lineup. Can Boettger play RG, or would they put him in at LG and move Feliciano to LG? Flowchart for determining excessive shortness of shorts: Can you see Peter? Yes -> too short No -> they're good

So here's a photo. I wouldn't call that a "band aid" but it is a relatively small surgical dressing I think Banged Up can actually do a little bit better than that. Judging by the position of the bandage, it seems most likely that the two bones broken were the 3rd and 4th metacarpal bones, not the 5th (pinkie) or 2nd (pointer). This may be a Good thing, because in addition to the plate that was probably put in (see Trimble's analysis with a nifty picture here if your tummy is up to it), the 3rd and 4th metacarpals will be self-splinted to some extent by the 2nd and 5th metacarpals that flank them, vs needing something to splint them. My understanding (and this is NOT my lane, I just know a hand surgeon) is that the 5th metacarpal bone is a very common injury during an outstretched arm fall, and would need prolonged protection to prevent re-injury. I believe the 2nd forms the critical "pocket" a properly caught pass thumps into. So if he has to break his hand, these may be easier to heal/protect. Which is not to say that they don't matter, and don't need to heal for a couple weeks. But it doesn't sound as though Knox be going on IR and he may only miss the MIA game and maybe 1 more. ( @Muppy "looks good in shorts" alert)

I dunno, when a guy shows up at practice like this 10 days post break and 9 days post-surgery, it doesn't shout "give him time"

Several guys have posted about ticket availability to the MIA game in the forum designed for it, but some newbies don't know about it. So trying to give them their Propers, if you need Miami tickets, check it out - https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/forum/4-bills-tickets-and-gear/

Well, Yes But....Let's not overlook Hopkins part in that. He signed a huge contract extension on Sept 5, 2020 ....after there were plenty of "Trainwreckage Ahead" signs, 5 months AFTER the Deandre Hopkins trade It's really simple if you want a change of scenery .... just DON'T SIGN THAT CONTRACT, then he'd be a FA after this season and could go where he wants. (Yeah, there's the franchise tag etc but there are counters to that too).

Waiting for the Labatts ad where he brews his Labatts coffee

I watched that with trepidation in my heart and after watching I gotta say - That was Da Bomb!!!! Good find, Thanks @Wacka Brother Bill has made his soft drink affiliations clear for ages

So here's a question from a different perspective (I should probably start another thread, but I can't stomach Yet Another Watson Thread clogging up the board): Suppose Ross waives a fairy wand and all Watson's legal troubles vanish like Dust in the Wind. Watson gets traded to Miami ====> Is it a given he's the same blue-chip, top-of-the-league QB that he was in 2019 and 2020 in Houston? Assume his skill level is unimpaired (a big assumption since I think there's some "use it or lose it" in field vision and decision making) What's on my mind is the ever-elusive "locker room leadership" intangible. Over and over we hear that the guys play harder for Josh because they know he will put it all on the line, put it all out there to win for the team; he won't make "career decisions" and hold back. Watson has just pulled the ultimate "career decision" of quitting on his teammates and holding back to get what he wants (out of Houston). Will that automagically be washed away on the first brilliant downfield scoring drive saved by a scramble and a top-of-the-league deep pass? Or will it linger in the back of his new teammates minds, like the stench of a dead woodchuck under the porch "He quit on his Houston peeps, will he quit on us?"

I agree with this guy: If you want to complain about what was literally said or not said, Pot Kettle Black. We weren't talking about his "off season nonsense" or about him being a drama queen. We were talking about his comment about calling his coaches by name. You said "I am really getting tired of Aaron Rodgers and his shtick & arrogant little comments "those of us who played" as if he is one of the anointed ones.. Whether or not "getting tired of his comments" implies he should STFU, and whether or not "as if he is one of the annointed ones" implies "he is JAG", I leave to the intelligent reader.