Tim Tindale

Sharks with lasers on their heads.

I had to remind myself that we went through 20 years of Hell pre-Beane and McDermott. Then before the Kelly years, pretty much 20-25 years before that wandering in the desert. No one has a right to anything. No one is owed.

Why does it look like he’s being beamed up to space?

There is no way he could have gotten enough on it to get it to Cook. That would have been a nightmare.

Jimmy V said it best… Survive and advance, boys! NEXT!

It was a very dark period between Chuck Knox and Marv Levy…. But it did lead to the Kelly and Bruce draft picks.

Following the Jets loss in NY in Game 9 of 2022, when Allen hurt his elbow late (and still uncorked a 65 yard pass for the win that Gabe dropped), everything felt like a grind the rest of that year. Nothing ever felt easy, despite the 7 straight wins to end the year excluding the Bengals/Hamlin game. It always seemed like their nose was just above the water line. Honestly, if I’m a Chiefs fan, I have to be feeling similarly right now about their current team. For the 2024 version of the Bills, only 2-3 games that felt this way, in my view. They were the Texans game (loss) and first Patriots game (win)… where you can’t shake the feeling that if the Bills played a middle-of-road, clean game, they win by double digits and the outcome assured by the end of the third quarter. Every game in the back half of ‘22 was that type of grind. This year has felt more like watching a Brady-led Patriots team for the most part. Just a surgical blood-letting. My Broncos friend told me how proud he was of his team, giving the Bills a scare. I let him take the moral win… but I’m thinking “31-7, 42 minutes of possession time, more than doubled them in yards, what’s he talking about”. We completely dominated them, but I remember making similarly absurd comments about the Bills versus Brady teams during that era. I’d submit this version of the Bills has some of that vibe and certainly not the vibe of the second half of 2022. That team was strangely exhausting.

Stuff the box, keep Lamar in the pocket, and let’s take our chances. I like Allen vs Lamar in a game decided through the air. That was generally the game plan against the Henry-Tannehill-AJ Brown Titans at peak powers. Not saying it will “hold them down”, but I think we want to give in to a shootout though the air. I think it’s the best game plan. If Likely and Andrews beat us, so be it.

Josh can’t throw the deep ball.

4th and 2 last week. MVP plays are becoming routine every week.

I wonder if Collinsworth caught that guy called “Josh Allen” run a bit over the last few years…

Some of our castoffs are finding their way… MVS, who looked totally lost for us, has had two nice games back to back for the Saints.

Poona Ford with another sack! Could not get on the field for us last year.

Noticed it too. He looked gassed. Epenesa should have been in

Given this rule, if I’m a QB, I jump and “not fumble” every time I’m about to get sacked. It’s a lot of saved possessions in a season, given more manageable down and distance thereafter. It’s why it’s a dumb rule - you are incentivizing bad behavior (essentially grounding), imo.

I actually don’t think we are that far apart, but I’m in shock at how open some of these targets (RB’s, WR’s, and TE’s) are running. Not to mention, this team is always in an advantageous position - 2nd or 3rd and short. That tells me that a lot is going right to make this look easy - scheme, run-blocking, protection, etc. But, a lot is clearly happening as fans we cannot see, especially at the WR position, including crisp, efficient route running, run blocking (and likely some blocking after the catch), no drops, no illegal motion, no taking plays off, no making terrible decisions on option routes (looking at you Gabe). In other words, no eye candy that you would point to as a splash play, but notion that this is plug and play… Steph and Gabe couldn’t do it and other teams aren’t doing it. But, the eye test says “man, these guys are running wide open”. Josh is putting the ball on target, of course, and making the right decision with the ball. This is as wide open as I can recall our targets being on game day. Some of this has to be very efficient route running, which we as fans would not appreciate.

I disagree. I think “fine” minimizes just how difficult it is for an offense to look this seamless. Everything looks easy. I’m sure most of us have played sports who are fans. How often have you been on teams - or faced teams - that execute on an elite level and make it look easy? It’s rare, but especially at the professional level. For that to be true, I’d submit that the pieces in aggregate aren’t “fine”. They are doing their jobs extraordinarily well, and most likely, the pieces fit together uniquely symbiotically. My hunch is that not any NFL WR can be plugged in with the same result. After all, Diggs and Gabe, in the same offense, made everything look hard and it was a grind even in the back half of last year. I respectfully disagree with the assessment of “fine”. When it looks this easy, the pieces are fitting uniquely well.

Bills 27 Jags 16

Keep running the football, make the game a grind.

24-18 Bills

I heard that neither kids or pets trust Claypool. PASS.

Irrational confidence >> training, data, and experience.

Like a more refined Waterboy.

Given how raw and athletic he is, I wonder about TE or FB rather than T. Put the ball in his hands.

Humph. I had him ranked #238 on my board. But, a top 5 on my Major League Rugby board.