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Curious if there’s some gamesmanship here. We know Allen/Diggs like to attack challenges like this. I think it’s possible Miami says “Ramsey is watering at the mouth to take Diggs out of the game” to get this offense to go after their best defender early and often, taking some pressure off of Apple.

As a total smooth brained NFL outsider, I get the sense that McDaniel is a good coach and a good x and o’s guy. Whether he sticks around as HC forever, I don’t know. But I think it’s a little unfair to put all their success on their WR. They’re fairly well coached too. I think Tua is a tier 2 QB. Good but not great. Whatever tier Kirk Cousins is in. I think once they pay him and they can’t afford the weapons around him they’ll start to struggle a bit more. They gave us fits with Skylar last year. I think McDaniel could have some Shanahan lite in him.

And the CIN WR’s with Burrow have over a full standard deviation more separation than Browning? Or that receivers with Flacco under center are a standard deviation worse than with Watson? Curious of how this is calculated in general. Also wondering if this is separation based on the intended receiver or all receivers per play? Which would maybe explain some of the Giants woes. One thing I do know, WR separation is not nearly the black and white metric some posters seem to think it is.

The issue with Josh a lot of the time is attempting the pass he could make vs. the pass he should make. When he scrambles and/or he's hot there isn't a better QB in the league. But when those wow plays don't go our way his game can be clunky. He often makes plays nobody else in the league can make. But that means that sometimes he overlooks plays every other QB in the league would make and take the profit for the next play. This doesn't make him a bad QB. But leveling this out and picking his spots better would improve the offense overall. I love me some Josh Allen, but this is something that will frustrate a good portion of the fanbase for eternity. It doesn't frustrate others as much and that is OK too. Both groups are correct.

What is interesting here is the wild disparities in "separation" on teams who have started multiple QB's. Browning vs Burrow being one of them. That is a great corp and somehow under Browning the separation is a full standard deviation less than it was with Burrow? The biggest thing I am taking from this is that WR separation has a lot of variables and not the black and white stat that a lot of posters seem to sell it as.

I don't get this one. Allen has had worse offensive lines than this one and Diggs and can play every WR position. He can easily be moved around. I don't know what it is going on, but it is a little weird.

Mea culpa from me on that one. I raked Beane over the coals for not having anybody else in house.

The Bills want KC at home for once. I think being a seed better than KC is likely personal for the org. That being said, I think Miami, Buffalo, and Cleveland are capable of going in to Arrowhead and beating this years version of the Chiefs.

Totally agree. The advantage that Allen/Mahomes has is they can make something out of nothing at times. Even in reset years it means that they will always have a chance. KC and Buffalo likely misses the playoffs with Tua at QB.

They took the ball out of Josh’s hands. We missed a number of open pass catchers today. Unpopular opinion, but better QB play today and this is a blow out. Full stop.

I think a guy like Rice can continue to work, volunteer, etc. but also never ever be celebrated. There a chasm between being shunned by society forever and celebrated/honored in front of almost 80,000 people.

Aaron Hernandez honorary team captain will be calling the coin toss tomorrow. (Yes I know he’s dead)

Yeah. A big part of being reformed is accepting that people may not forgive you, maybe some never should. In order for real change I think it’s important for abusers, addicts, etc. to internalize that. Theres no need to celebrate Ray Rice, reformed or not.

I had to do a double take to make sure I wasn’t seeing this on a meme page but it’s happening. I generally like the Ravens and Lamar. But this is a terrible look. What’s next? Tyreek Hill getting the Presidential Medal of Honor? https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/ravens-will-honor-ray-rice-on-sunday

With AJE and Jones possibly in the line up, I’m curious if they keep dressing Von. He’s still yet to be productive. I just don’t get it.

Also good thing Rodgers was never activated. Could you imagine Rodgers testing positive for HGH? It would be incessant interviews about how “blowing belugas naturally increased my bodies natural production of HGH, but main stream media doesn’t want to talk about that”.

What? Hasek was must watch hockey for everybody in the league. His run in the late 90’s was one of the best stretches by any player in any sport. He single handily won the Olympics. Wayne forking Gretzky said Hasek was the best player in the world while he was playing. He is the only goalie to win the Hart trophy twice. And he did it back to back. Nobody ignored Hasek then woke up in 2010 like “oh shirt, have you seen this excel sheet. I think this Domink Hasek guy might have been pretty good”. Hasek was as big of a star as the league had to offer at his peak. It’s insane to say that people across the league didn’t recognize Hasek as a historical goaltender while he was playing. The only way I can wrap my head around this is it’s some sort of weird hipster flex like “oh I liked Hasek before other people liked Hasek”.

Im glad we have Josh. He’s always been a great teammate. That said, Mahomes weapons suck. Once Tua gets paid and that contract starts to get reflected in cap dollars, I cannot wait for the implosion. If Mahomes is playing like this I cannot wait for Tua to tank that franchise.

This is where just about every defense runs into trouble. Just about every OC and QB says “force them to cover every blade of grass” during the pregame and/or half time.

Right?!? Hasek is at a Brady, Manning, Montana level of conversation. Nobody thinks Hasek is an afterthought.

This one is a win-win for Buffalo. With a KC loss to the Bengals our week 18 game @ Miami is for the 2 seed. Obviously you want to make the playoffs first and foremast, seeding is secondary. But it’s not like a KC loss ruins anything for us. It just changes the stakes for the final game. I get what you’re saying. This has also occurred to me. But let’s not call 3-2 any sort of major statistical advantage. If the Bills win week 18 then win the wild card that record is 3-3 over the last 20 years.

Totally agreed. I was focusing on the offensive side of the ball. That fingertip catch from Diggs kept that drive alive. I think they were looking to put up some Madden numbers on the outside with Davis and Diggs in a statistical slump and Cook going off. The Chargers defense got it right, the Bills offense got it wrong yesterday.

This is a road I am generally pretty quick to go down, but at this point this is basically playoff football for this team so I’ll take the wins where and how I can get them. That said, unsure if it was Brady or Allen, but the game was played deep and outside. I was really frustrated we didn’t get Cook, Kincade, and Shakir going underneath. Chargers were asking for it. A couple key catches from Diggs and Davis kept this one alive. Go Bills baby!

0-6 in games decided by 3 or less. Absolutely brutal for that fan base and locker room.

This is a route I’m quick to go down, but with 2-3 games left and “do or die” I’m happy to take the W. More than “Screw Pegula, Fire McDermott, and Beane is a bumb” rants, I think this game should have highlighted Kincaid, Knox, Shakir. But the team/Allen came out trying to win the game on the outside. That alone almost cost us this game. Luckily Davis made a few key plays for us.