Mr. WEO

Touting the O line as top tier but not as good as last year (when I don’t think they were among the best) isn’t supported by the results. Yes the WR room stinks, but it’s not materially different from last year, minus Dalton, who had a depressed sophomore effort last year anyway (was better this year before he went out, granted). Palmer is a WR 3/4 basically swapped for Hollins. His 3+ targets per game aren’t the difference…

Well, I didn't say the number of sacks is meaningless. I said he doesn't take nearly as many if he was a non mobile QB behind that line. Pretty simple. The logic of mentioning sacks (and pressures) is to point out that the O-line, as far as how it protects Josh Allen this year, is both subjectively and objectively worse based on end results. I guess Allen is just squandering this top notch protection with poor QB play, no?

you would never have to suffer through "Big Game Dak" threads....or many playoff games.

Exactly. Why hypothesize otherwise? The results are that, after 12 games, Allen has already been sacked twice as many times as last season and will easily ecclipse his # of scrambles (already at 38 compared to 42 last season) and pressure %

I think the "sports world" has simply noted that they have won 10 games in a row and lead a division (by 3 games) that the sports world rightly assumed the Bills would win walking away this season, while going from 30th in Offensive scoring to 7th and 22nd in points allowed to 5th.

as I qulaified, he O-line looks as it does only becuase of the skill and athleticism. Watching the games, that is clearly why he takes as few sacks asn he does. Hoecht's "flashes" are just as likely to have been simply that. LA didn't miss him at all--in fact their D went from 17 in points allowed to #2 without him.

The O-line, when healthy is bad at pass protection. A nonmobile QB back there would be leading the league in sacks every season. Also, it's impossible to claim "losing Hoecht (a guy who has been a Bill for 64 snaps) completely changes what the Defense looks like". Who knows how they would have looked had he not been busted for juicing and played the whole season to this point?

Jackson is a terrible playoff QB. "Best coaching"?? Harbaugh has won 4 playoff games in the last 11 years (losing twice to the Bills). McD has 7 in the past 5. Harbaugh is Baltimore's Mike Tomlin at this point--still eating free lunch off that SB win a million years ago.

public perception doesn't win games.

this should put an end to any of that insane "Dak should be in the MVP Conversation" nonsense heard since Thanksgiving.

if they lose tonight no way

Broncos schedule is pretty soft as well. 3 quality wins (I threw Dallas there but if they lose tonight they might be done at 6 wins after 14 weeks).

anabolics are a hell of a drug..

Falcons stink and they beat the BIlls. KC is at .500....1-3 their past 4 games and might not make the playoffs. Remember a few years ago when posters here said the Chiefs were "paper tigers"?

Tre White needs a mentor

Who would curb stomp both of them? Maybe Rams. But Eagles? GB?....Bears?? If NE is #2, who is at #1?

why not smuggle your own dogs in?

it's his 5th team in 5 years--he's not opening playbooks... this dude was the 34th pick in the draft.

Agree

it would make no sense to compare any top NY high school team to 150 other NY schools. The topic here is the game pitting the top 2 Catholic schools. the fact that Iona has a kid headed to NC doesn’t mean the quality of the game was better. But yes comparing to Texas or Georgia etc is what I was getting at. It’s not at that high school level…

it happened in 2019

Maybe the backups should be the starters. Starters get Josh killed.

True. My point was that the Catholic league schools downstate have to compete a lot harder for top players because of the number of schools. Iona hardly has a monopoly on them. I watch the games. This game wasn't great HS football.

No different than in Western NY. There's far more competition (teams from the City, Westchester, Northern Jersey) for top local players downstate than upstate. It's not like Iona or other City Catholic League teams are pulling talent away from Buffalo NY. Having said that, watching the game yesterday, the quality of football at this highest level is pretty mediocre.

There’s the Matt Stafford that’s been dying to come out all year!