Mango

Good post. Letting the season play out before I commit to anything, we have seen a rollercoaster with this staff in the past, but the net result has been very good. Re: The Defense. I think you make a good point. I think the athleticism of Milano and Edmunds give Frasier and Co. a lot of options. But I think the defense has played better when I see Klein on the field. I have no data to back this up. Just the eye test, I seem to see him on the field a lot during some of the bigger plays and stops. If I were to guess, in those moments, Milano is playing more of the role of the big nickel safety, and Edmunds has some responsibility taken off of his plate so can play a lot faster with Klein owning the responsibility between the tackles.

Kind of, but only in season and around the draft. I have worked at home for a bit pre pandemic, it is just back ground noise in my office.

Disappointed in Peyton and Eli. Feels like ESPN is trying to get Eli to catch on so Peyton is sitting pretty quite and just letting Eli continue to talk over each play.

Washington needs a ton of help and could be a place. Honestly, I don’t see Carolina or New Orleans as a landing spot. Darnold has been OK and Winston is 7:2 TD:INT at the moment. Both will either ride them out and/or draft a guy. But it doesn’t make any sense to jump on the FA merry go round for those teams.

Hi Mr. Pegula, Welcome to TBD. I appreciate your efforts to fear-monger the City of Buffalo, however futile. I understand that you want to add PSL's for your own bottom line, but they are not good for the fanbase. The bolded is most certainly wrong. Off the top of my head the Rams and Indianapolis have also won Super Bowls play in domes and have won in the last 20 years. Sincerely, Mango

Josh was lights out. Super glad I NBC an put my ptsd to bed.

Championship athletes in pretty large numbers across a ton of disciplines use cupping. Rallying against it like it is some feng shui is silly. I get the sense that people mocking cupping are the type of people that pour vodka on a cut at home, even though the have neosporin in the bathroom...because tough guy.

I fully agree with all of this. The psychosomatic/anxiety diagnosis is particularly frustrating. I had one doctor call it “lazy doctoring”, along the lines of, “sometimes the body does things and we don’t know why, something like half the time. Most psychosomatic symptoms don’t start in the head, they start because something is wrong. “I don’t know why this is happening to you” is better than you can’t trust your brain”

I have my thoughts on chiropractics in general. I generally think their are a lot better ways to manage the spine than forcefully adjusting. But part of the reason people rely on them is because medicine pretty much fails at addressing the spine for daily issues with aches and mobility. Your MD deals with precisely that. Medicine. Greater access to quality and affordable physio would really ease the reliance on chiropractics. That isn’t my point though. Cupping isn’t just some weird pseudo science. I know a number of olympic people physios on staff and athletes who swear by it for not just pain relief, but recovery as well. And honestly, let’s just say it’s a pseudo science, it isn’t harmful in any way, shape, or form. So if cupping makes somebody’s neck feel better, who cares. Sage makes me feel less anxious. My doctor isn’t prescribing sage either.

Most people don’t realize what a bad doctor is until something non-traditional or scary happens to them or a loved one. I was just at the Albany Med ER a few weeks ago with some chest pains. A woman came in, she was there the night before after a car accident. They gave her a once over, scanned her noggin, etc. told her everything was normal and sent her home. They called her and told her to come back over a day later because she had a brain bleed on her CT. But because she didn’t have any symptoms when she came in post accident nobody actually waited for the radiologist to read the CT. Similar story, my father in law was diagnosed with cancer after a car accident. But not at the hospital. A month later when he follow up with his GP. The hospital took some imaging of his back. The doctor found a 2 or 3 tumors on his kidneys, but didn’t mention it to him because he thought he probably already knew about it. I trust medicine and science, but doctors miss stuff sometimes.

PFF has Allen as 28th heading into week 3. I don’t have the subscription so I can’t see the notes. Seems low. But not wildly low if you just look at those two games aside from 2020. I think he’ll be fine. He’s pressing too hard at the moment. But I also think he deserves honest criticism for how bad he’s been. It’s part of the territory for a franchise QB.

I think ticket sales will be fine. It is about 1% of total capacity. I do not know how stadiums split season vs. single game tickets, but google tells me it could be as low as 60%) and as high as 90%. Either way it seems maybe 2-3% of ticket holders are kicking back to the org. That said, I am sure there will be some late season games with sub-max attendance, people will shout "VaCcInE mAnDaTeS" and ignore the fact that the Bills didn't even sell out playoff games after going to the previous two Super Bowls.

I am just hear to drop my second Vlad Ducasse reference of the week.

Right. I am an idiot and was typing a response, half reading the article, while also pretending to listen to my better half. Unsure if makes it any better, but at least I got something out of the article. I have zero idea what she said.

To play devils advocate here. I found 3rd down conversion rates for 3rd and 9 or 10 to be 31.4%. I couldn’t dig up 4th and x distance rates since I am out of pocket. But in general 4th down conversions are about 48%. I’d imagine the last DSS get better as distance shortens. But I don’t have the exact numbers. By those numbers Culley didn’t make an wild decisions by declining the penalty and taking his chances on 4 and 2.

I am a big Allen the leader, the person, the playmaker. I have been admittedly hard on Allen the passer. I have said since he first started, he is the most exciting QB in the league for better or for worse. Anything can happen. I rallied that the odds were not in his favor, not that he couldn't do it, just that he would be an exception. But anybody who has watched Josh Allen at any point in his NFL career can't root against him. That said, he had a better year than I thought he ever would last year, so he CAN do it. From here on out it is on Josh to do it regularly. We are locked in on him for a long time now, whether he is great or terrible he is here. We may see some clunker years and games. It is frustrating. The fan base can and should talk about those games. But we are sooo far from calling Allen a mistake or permanently not good.

I will add to this that Allen seems to get in a groove when guys are making plays with the ball in their hand, not just completing catches. So I think it is less about completions, and more about guys making plays. It feels like in the past completing 6 curl routes in a row with a total of 10 YAC between all of them, doesn't get Allen going. Hitting guys on the move does. Totally agree on getting Allen going with his legs. Sometimes it feels like him getting tackled after a big game gets him locked in.

Josh is like a freight train. Sometimes he is tough to get rolling, but once he does you can't slow him down. Some of it is easy completions. But sometimes it is getting him moving around in the pocket or on QB powers. But when guys make plays with the ball in their hands, Josh tends to as well.

Let me just say, I looked forward to these from @Bill from NYC, and I look forward to them from you. You have done a tremendous job in taking the reigns. Thank you! I agree on most things...except for one thing. Then one add on. 1 and 2 Not to take away from AJE, but I saw that Jerry, Star, and Ed Oliver had higher win rates vs. the OL. Which is remarkable given the snap count for some of those guys. AJE may not have shown up on the stat sheet but he had a helluva game. Similarly, AJE made some splash plays, but the rest of the DL was right there with him in terms of productivity. 5. Thunder and Lightning At the risk of beating a dead horse, Singletary does not have very good top end speed. The difference between elite top end speed and Singletary is literally the percentage difference (8.7%) between Tom Brady, a meme of a professional athlete running 40 yards, and Baker Mayfield, somebody who most would consider reasonably athletic QB in the league. For reference, Daniel Jones had an 80 yard carry last year. Nobody would consider him to have good top end speed.

Peyton gave an open invite to Pat at the end. McAfee seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself. I wouldn’t be shocked to see something get done with those two going forward. I hope it does. They’re a perfect match.

I watched most of the game on and off. It didn’t seem like Goff was erratically missing any throws or not finding the open guy. The OL seemed barely good enough in the first half and Goff did a pretty good job of moving in the pocket. GB came out hard in the second half. The OL didn’t stand up, and Goff was just chucking balls up. I get that playing two high was death by a thousand paper cuts for Detroit but once they dropped the safety down they were getting murdered by Rogers.

Eli gave a BS answer that room two plus. MaCafee was physically waiving him off to stop talking. Peyton gave Eli a hard time. Then the producers took Eli off the screen. God, this is the greatest broadcast. MacAfee and Manning are born to call games together. Pat and Peyton are awesome. Eli sucks.

Its unfortunate since Goff seems to be playing OK.

OK Pat McAFee might be the perfect cohost for Peyton. Honestly, I would normally turn this game off but I’m sticking around for Peyton and most definitely Peyton and McAfee.

If we are lining up Knox, Kumerow, and Davis, with some combination of Beasley, Sanders, and Diggs on the sideline, I think you’ve pretty much played your hand. I mean, I guess they could. But as soon as the DC sees the sub and the package, there is no way we are getting cover 2 like we are seeing in this game. Part of a successful screen game is being able to run it out of a lot of different packages. Having to put out the back half of our WR depth chart doesn’t quite do that regularly. Which I think was sort of the point the OP was getting at regarding our guards and the screen game.