CodeMonkey

Injuries are the Achilles Heel of the models and is where humans have the distinct advantage, But the upsets should adjust things a bit.

Geno looked as bad as EJ yesterday. Holding onto the ball and taking the sack or running out of bounds instead of throwing the ball away. Good stuff (for the Bills that is). Fitz has some kind of ligament damage is what Schefter said on the radio this morning, not sure how long he'd be out. Plus the Jets D looked very beatable yesterday as well. Good news all around for the Bills.

Ahhhh the old "you are not a fan". Never gets old. Well actually, yes it does.

Added current model standings graph. Elo is over 70% for the season, not bad (even after picking the Bills last Sunday )!

Yeah I asked a sober habs fan at a sabres game once why so many of the habs fans were hammered to the point of puking during the games on a consistent basis. His answer was the bus packages. All you can drink on the bus combined with no driving had many "trying to get their moneys worth" with beer consumption on the way to the game.

Marshawn Lynch, Mike Tyson, I could go on. Not that I'm saying Watkins is stupid, just you can be successful in sports and still be stupid. Much harder to be successful and stupid outside of sports however.

Bottom line, I don't know what was wrong. But if they plan on moving forward with this (and I have to believe they are), I sure hope Yahoo does.

Basically yes. No one gives a rats hairy ass about what some random dbag Bills fan says (except apparently Watkins since it was about him) so no one pays attention to it. But a lot of people care about what Watkins says, otherwise they wouldn't be following his twitter, or instagram or whatever that post was on. So people react to Watkins when he posts like a dbag. You don't have to love it, but that's the way it is. I suspect there is a way he could block specific dbags, or everyone, from posting to him.

Agreed. But my quality of the game was never as good as a HD TV broadcast which leads me to believe the compression was too high overall. The commercials, which I assume originated in the US instead of the UK, were higher quality and not choppy. I suspect fearing the worst from the UK broadcast they compressed it more. Might have been the differences in the color encoding systems (PAL in the UK versus NTSC in the US) as well. We'll probably never know for sure.

I know everything is compressed, which is why I said "compress the hell out of it" If you compress too much the resulting video degrades. Not sure about how much appletv was buffering. I read somewhere that the Roku stick seemed to have a bigger buffer than most other devices and people were generally happier with it than over devices. So maybe buffering helped.

Soooooooo now you devolve it into a TBD censorship discussion?

They are both equally childish. The difference being that the people attacking initially are just anonymous dbags. Watkins is in the public eye and needs to be better than that. Being the target of dbags comes with his job, unfortunately. Like I said earlier, if he can't deal with that then he should get off social media. All posts aren't going to be "oh Sammy, you are so awesome! All men want to be like you and all women want to be with you".

He acted childish which is why he probably realized it and deleted the post later. He is in the public eye, at least in Buffalo. If he isn't thick skinned enough not to let the anonymous troll posts get to him then he shouldn't be on social media. It's just that simple.

You know what though, he got a 5 year $27.5 million dollar contract, apparently all guaranteed. I predict no matter what, he will be laughing all the way to the bank.

It may have been aimed at dbags, but it was absolutely a dbag post by Watkins. Kid needs to grow up and grow a pair.

Even if it ends up 1080, it will still look like **** if you compress the hell out of it. Which is what it looked like to me.

Not just after a paycheck. He is a media whore who loves the attention. But he is a hustler, conned the Pegulas into that contract. To move onto greatness there has to be a better coach, that would accept the job, that could be hired to replace Ryan. That plus getting a QB.

Added Amos.

He did practice in the UK, then stopped abruptly and EJ was announced as the definite starter. So it is conceivable that he aggravated the injury. I suspect though, being so long in the future, that if anything this rumor is just the Bills doing due diligence and being prepared just in case. But to answer the question, Manuel obviously.

Good read.

Darby and Schmidt.

Defensive linemen, who get payed very !@#$ing well to put pressure on the QB, dropping back into coverage a lot screams of one. Not just against the Jags, but in general.

How does it play out? In all likelihood not well ... not well at all.

I don't know man. The main cause of the losses (other than injuries) has been dumb ass mistakes, players and coaches. More practice isn't going to help that, but maybe a cold reboot after a week off will. At this point, what have they got to lose.

And still some would complain.