Hapless Bills Fan

Dear Josh Allen, Please enable the Chandler#81 Exercise Program by making him jump his arse out of the couch on a frequent basis tonight.

I'm actually surprised a member of the media is willing to just come out and say it:

That sweater makes it look impossible he could fit into that jersey. I'm sure he's trying to make it harder for corners to grab him, but then the strange-to-me thing is when the weather gets cooler, he'll be wearing an undershirt that sticks out the bottom of that ultra-tight jersey like a handle that says "grab here". I keep waiting for a WR to perforate it, so that a corner who grabs it would just rip off the tail of the shirt. "No honest Mr Ref I wasn't holding! He... he musta had a shop towel tucked in there, I just touched it honest!

I saw on one of the Bills "behind the scenes" video vignettes, the equipment manager said most of the players put on their own pads and jerseys or have one person assist them, but some of the players like their jerseys so tight it takes 3 people to help them get dressed. I'm thinking Diggs needs 3 people.

Smiley Josh! Jerry Hughes looks like he's crankin' up a load of Whup Ass. Isn't it a bit early to arrive for the game though? 3 full hours. Though it looks as though the Titans may have a decent Visitors locker room.

IV and antiemetics. I'm sure NFL players get the Good Stuff.

Josh actually talked about "Buffalo people are chill" during his second year, about going out to Bar Bill to eat after the Tgiving game, and there was a $20 bill in his mug. So he was evidently able to go out and just eat in a restaurant and be left (relatively) alone at that point.

It's about the 3rd or 4th interview Allen has had where he mentions lack of privacy. I guess he was shielded from it last year because of Covid protocols, not going out, but I wonder if Buffalo fans have lost their "Chill" about giving players their privacy in public, or if he's talking more about the rest of the country - I would imagine that before last year, he could probably go out to dinner in S. Cali and not be recognized but now....No.

Fair, then. Both AJ Brown and Julio Jones were full participants on Thurs Fri and Sat and neither have a gameday designation.

One strategy is to have another guy who can throw some in on the ST unit, like we did to the Pats with Jaquon Johnson last season. Johnson is a backup Safety and takes most of his snaps on ST each week as the "Personal Protector". Something the Bills seem to do well is methodically assess the abilities of each player to make other plays (pass, catch, kick).

So usually just warm ups/position group work, not the game plan specific 7 on 7 or 11 on 11 stuff?

Both teams? Just the home team? I get 'allowing access' but to have the commentator providing info on what he saw seems inappropriate.

Griese is the color commentator for ESPN, right? Since when do they let those guys watch practices?

BIF they make those old alarm clocks with the bells on top in battery-operated versions now!

When are the Inactives announced?

I'm probably getting repetitive but figuring out the Chiefs vs. having the defensive hosses to be able to stop them, are two different things. A lot of Mahomes incomplete passes or picks IMHO are the result of having just that fraction of a second less time to set up and throw, due to his OL not being the marvelous upgrade that was expected after all the resources that went into it. It's not that they're bad, and they're better in the center, but they're not following up the play as well when he extends it (IMO). When a great QB looks bad everyone is all "oh, he sucks" "he's regressing" "what's wrong with him?" but just that little bit of extra time makes a huge difference. Again, IMO.

*****, now you've done it! I'm gonna be afraid to go to sleep, lest I wake up a Galapagos tortoise! You're welcome.

After watching that game, I'm not surprised our OL had a crap outing vs. Steelers. Cam Heyward and TJ Watt on the same line are a problem. That said, the defense as a whole is the strength of that team and if you look at the Steelers injury report, it's not too big a surprise the Steelers have been struggling: they have played without Watt for 3/4 of game 2 and all of game 3; they lost Alualu to IR very early in game 2 (probably for the season); they've played at times without LB Devin Bush and CB Joe Haden and backup DT Carlos Davis. So when your strength is defense, and the strongest players are out, what do you get? You get Pitts Weeks 2-3, and maybe Week 4 if the groin guys were still hampered. "Zombie Franchises" is a good term, love it. I would say both teams are hampered by inability or unwillingness to run the ball, though to their credit Seattle came out in the 2nd half pounding the rock. Geno for Russ is like trying to replace Milano with AJ Klein (that's probably a bit of an insult to Coach Klein, but work with me here...) - you can NOT just plug him into the same offense and expect good results. Lastly I must say again - I thought Cris Collinsworth might be getting an OD of "Homer Hate" from us after last Sunday, but Collinsworth was just unbearably awful in his commentary, babbling continually about Steelers history and yadda yadda yadda. Yuck-O. I don't think I learned a single insightful or relevant thing about the players actually on the field from him.

Glad to hear that, it was a really scary-looking injury. And just when the moribund Seahawks defense was sacking-up against the Stillers.

Agree.

It's not just that, it's that when they were sympathizing it was so *****in' condescending. Almost worse than crowing.

Great post, Chandler! You give me hope, because I am worried. Hopefully just a little case of BBFS and I'll recover by 11 pm tonight! To our beloved Bills: "Don't Eat the Cheese, Boys!" I think it's a Smokescreen, myself. I expect to see him out there.

Yes, we've already had quite a long discussion on this exact piece. Redirect there please. Recommend the existing thread, it was pointed out by several that his analysis of the Chiefs game itself is good, but his analysis of the Bills offense in general as well as what we did earlier in the season is shallow and incorrect. Cover1 pointed out he doesn't seem to watch much Bills game film. Greg Cosell on NFL Films diagrammed the exact same play run vs the WFT and KC, with different personnel. I did a debunk. Etc.

I don't think "suspended", but I feel there needs to be some systematic process of reviewing calls (and no-calls) and some form of accountability for refs. Right now we all piss and moan about certain crews or are happy with others, which says right there reffing is not consistent from crew to crew. Having calls be reviewable would be a nightmare IMO. I personally felt, based on the video, that the Cardinals lineman shoved the defender into Murray.