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Maybe Josh Allen will stiff-arm Josh Allen while running for TD?

Has he run for a 2pt conversion? That would complete the cycle and seems achievable!

This is the kind of post that can bite you in the a$$. Beware of Manningcast Curse.... https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/is-there-a-curse-on-the-manningcast-monday-night-football-guests-bills-josh-allen-could-be-next/

Bills are back in town Dolphins are on the menu On to the Super Bowl!

The article I was referring to seemed to indicate that Whaley/Monos were kind of dismissive of Pegula's input on picking Mahomes. Maybe if they were on the "same page" with him and believed he should be the pick at #10, that would have all played differently? That's not a one day pick, but a three month process leading up to the draft. Maybe that's why he was ready to can them right after the draft??

Its a hard topic to consider what might have happened under the scenario of drafting Mahomes, the QB of the future, at that time. Several trades such as Watkins, Darby and Cordy Glenn trade-up, may not have played out like they did if you already had the QB on the roster than if you were clearing the field in advance of picking one the following year. There was an in-depth article on the road to find Allen that touched on that draft a while back. I want so say it was on the Athletic by Tim Graham, but could be wrong. It reported that Pegula was really pushing hard for Mahomes, but the draft experts (Whaley and Monos) thought he would last longer and they could pick him later. If they embraced Pegula's thinking from the get-go make the pick at 10, maybe they never get fired and Brandon Beane never comes our way, he'd be Panther's GM and we'd never know what we missed?? Our next two picks of the 2017 draft in the 2nd round were Zay Jones and trade-up for Dion Dawkins. As a guess, I'd imagine they still would have picked Jones to support the Mahomes pick, but probably after that they would have needed to turn attention to Defense rather than picking Dawkins. The next five CBs taken (before end of R3) after where we picked Dawkins are Ahkello Witherspoon, Fabian Moreau, Shaquille Griffin, Jourdan Lewis and Cameron Sutton. So 1 in 5 chance of somebody that could even start to be in the same conversation w/ Tre White. So flame-out WR and CB in rounds 2/3 were likely. So you may want to change the poll up top to Mahomes vs. Allen/White/Dawkins. That pick could be Butterfly Effect-ed all sorts of crazy ways.... To that end, I'll add a fun fact!! Assuming we picked Mahomes and he was red-shirted similar to how KC did and Bills planned to w/ Allen, then Tyrod Taylor was still our starting QB. Ready??? Tyrod got hurt in week 13 and Peterman (unlikely we would have picked a 2nd QB in that draft) started the Snow Bowl against the Colts. Ipso-facto... Mahomes would have been our QB for that snow game.... now that would have been fun!!

That is some insightful and next-level analysis! I gave you a beer for that one!!

So we'll beat all the really bad teams, but lose to anyone .500 and above? 14-3

I'm not sure how any system would handle the sequence from last week's Chiefs game where there was a phantom hold on Morse wiping out Allen's run for first down, giving us instead 3rd and 17 from our own 8. Then the make-up call of phantom RTP on Clark wiping out an Allen INT to essentially give use the first down anyway. While the end result was a wash, nobody had to feel good about the sequence. If Allen had held the ball a moment longer, Clark would have had a clean sack, which really would have screwed the Bills on the original mis-call.

The blurb isn't negative about him, just that he might be even more effective if they used him a bit less. He's 33 at this point...

Great article! I wish the graph was interactive and you could mouse-over the points to see the player, but we can figure out most of them.

More crazy context to this thread. If you add fourth down stops to the Bills Toxic Differential metrics, they are off the charts!

This is absolutely normal and nothing to see. I work for a Fortune 500 company and we do media interviews on new products and other initiatives. Its not at all uncommon for journalists to come back and check that they got everything right and nothing was mis-stated before publishing. They don't want to have to issue retractions or corrections. There is nothing wrong with this particular item. This does NOT go to the topic of "trust in media"

Lovin' Hyde, lovin' Poyer, but....... Bryce Paup was DPOY the first year he came to the Bills. He's in some legendary company.

I didn't like the Oliver RTP, but he did go for the hit low on the legs, which does get flagged. I think the Clark RTP had nothing to do with that, it was a make-up on the Morse phantom hold that wiped out our first down the play before.

I don't think games are fixed or that refs "favor a given team. But, I would like to see some stats on officiating crews in primetime (TNF, SNF, MNF, Thanksgiving games...). I want to put to bed in my own head that there's not a tendancy to over-officiate for the cameras. Also, I think there are definitely make-up calls. The Clark roughing is a good example of one that might not have been called if they didn't screw up the Morse holding on the play before. The Morse penalty was an enormous mistake. Allen had run for the first down and they set us back to 3rd and 17 way back in our zone.

I actually had a thread on this just before the draft. Looked back at two "way too early" mock drafts that were published just AFTER the 2020 draft was completed. Thought the mocks are quite different from each other, both had listed Rousseau as top 5 picks based on what he had done that year before opting out. If you make the assumption that if he played, he would have stayed healthy and had a similar year, he likely would have been a top-5 pick

I just saw an article saying he wants $15m/year. I can't see that happening this year coming off of PUP

Right price? Isn't his contract guaranteed after week 1? On Pats. Is this similar to Le'Veon Bell situation w/ Jets where they cut him, owed him the money and whatever he made at next stop that season (KC) was netted off what the Jets owed. That enabled him to essentially sign for the rest of year at near minimum as former team is on the hook for salary. Or am I wrong??

Saban-esque?

So what was the call on this punt muff? I've only seen the clip above, but its not clear how the play resolved?

Herve Damas??

This is the Ryan Bates revenge signing....

Buccaneers lost their opening game last year. But that's OK because it was on the road?

Wikipedia says that he currently plays for the Zappers