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My take on Today: Allen, Diggs, Davis, Knox vs. Bengals DB's including 2 replacement corners. Great Josh needs to materialize Bills OL vs. Bengals mostly solid DL, Hendrickson is a special talent. Bills [expensive in terms of $ & draft choices] Pass Rush [w/o Von] against Bengals mostly replacement O-line Burrow, Chase, Higgins, Boyd, Hurst, vs. Bills secondary. Can Elam play at a high level two weeks in a row. Is Poyer Healthy? Can Hines add a special play on PR KR If the weather is bad, is Bass-o-matic an advantage McDermott, Dorsey, & Frazier need to have great games. Go Bills

Bills and Bengals have played 12 common opponents. Bills are 10-2, Bengals are 9-3 in these games Bills have averaged 28 on Off - 18 on Def In those games Bengals have averaged 24 on Off - 19 on Def. Of those 12 games, 6 home, 6 road. Bills won at KC, Bengals beat Chiefs in Cinci This should be a classic Go Bills

GMFB was saying today that look for Shakir to have a breakout game.

Interestingly Spotrac has Saffold, despite what most Bills fans consider to be having a mediocre or worse year, as having a predicted 2023 contract value of 5.4MM. My head was spinning when I read that.

If I recall, Thurman Thomas tore an ACL at Oklahoma State and his backup was a guy named Barry Sanders. Thurman claims to have played his entire 13 year career with a torn ACL, ~2900 carries and ~500 receptions, 16,500 yards from scrimmage.

Delay of game is IN the Field Judge's job description. Do your Job. Did I understand that the Wild Card zebra crews will not get any more games this year?

Just saw this re: #24. Rookie Difference Makers in Wild Card. CB Kaiir Elam, Buffalo Bills Round: 1 PFF overall grade in 2022: 56.7 Wild-card game grade: 88.1

Adenji [RT] has played 278 snaps. Scharping [RG] has played 88, Carman [LT] has played 32 snaps. Volson LG 1173 snaps is rated 67/77 starting guards. Karras 1166 snaps is 18/40 centers.

The Fish's Wilkins and Phillips are a tall order for any team, they were lining up against Spencer Brown, we weren't keeping Knox in to block and ran a lot of 11 personnel. I feel a little better [not a lot] that Hendrickson usually lines up over Dion. Bengals outside corners can be exploited as long as Josh gets the ball out quickly and doesn't try to play hero ball. Running plays/screens have been known to slow down the pass rush, perhaps Dorsey might have read the memo this week after 7 sacks including a TD. This is a time when I wish we had a running back like Barkley and not our collection of smurfs. Not good when your QB is your best 3rd & 1 option.

People forget that the Hunt family founded the AFL, and still gets a Rooney like deference from the other owners.

Atlanta proved that a few years back.

This would tell me that a great offense [KC] can trump a great defense [49'rs]. For years the talking heads have said defense wins Super Bowls.

7 sacks with a QB known for his Houdini like escapes, I would say the OL has MAJOR problems. Mongo looked pretty competent yesterday, Saffold didn't. Brown redeemed himself with the fumble recovery but he may not be the solution at RT.

On the contrary, Gabe hasn't been great since his ankle injury, Crowder got hurt early in the season and has been on IR. McKenzie has been mostly meh. Brown and Beasley signings indicate that other than Diggs, Josh & Dorsey were looking for answers. i know they don't grow on trees, but if Davis doesn't step up and we don't pick up a second contract, we need to be looking somewhere for a #2 with some size to give Josh another option in the red zone.

And our QB took SEVEN sacks

But no Mostert, and probably not as effective a running game [188 yards] as the last game in Buffalo.

With how banged up the Fish are on the O-Line, I suspect a lot of dink and dunk, and quick passes to Hill and Waddle and let them create YAC.

Kumerow, when healthy [BIG if] plays teams, and gives Josh a 6-4 target in the red zone.

Our 3 losses were -2 at Miami - game played in a sauna, missed FG, Josh short-arms pass to open McKenzie, Milano drops pick six, McKenzie can't get OOB on last play -3 at Jets - Josh Intercepted at 9 yard line, missed FG, Interception on pass to Davis in own end, Penalty on completion to DIggs at midfield -3 home vs. Minny - Bills scored 33 points!, Josh 2-INTs in Minny end zone, Josh fumbles exchange in own end zone, I would say we were a handful of plays away from 16-0. -

Wonder if some of our DE's issues getting gashed are scheme related, we usually only play nickel, and Milano is often looking to defend the TE on obvious passing downs

Last season he played 692 snaps, this year 41 between Buf and Tampa. I did notice Tampa had him playing special teams, wonder if that had something to do with him leaving there.

I have a feeling that Fitzmagic will be doing color before long, and will soon become the best color person on any network. Guy just thinks at a different speed than most humans.

Yeah, I was looking at their injury reports from Sunday's game and last week. They have 14 players that were/are out, doubtful, questionable. Their QB, OT, RB, and WR positions are all dinged up and down to third stringers in some of those cases.

I would think they could fashion a chest protector similar to what Josh wears without impeding his mobility or coverage speed. The flak jacket hasn't slowed Josh down to any extent.

He actually has nearly 100 more snaps than Diggs, which is interesting, with his 50% catch to target ratio.