Bleeding Bills Blue

You try not to put much on film in a meaningless game. Run the same plays a bunch, and generally try and force your playoff opponent to try and guess a bit more.

Janine Talley said Darryl used to vaseline up his legs and then put on pantyhose under his uniform... for those looking to combine that with this idea to really get weird with it.

Does that work..? asking for a friend...

If the border is open, and covid restrictions lifted you could probably spin a profit. Hopefully they don't have as many home games in december.

I think getting to the playoffs for them should be considered a solid accomplishment. If kept i doubt he would change his staff much, and he has a couple of former HCs in Cable and Bradley on staff which helps too. He seems like a good leader and solid HC material, the only pause i would give would be looking at what happened with Kitchens in Cleveland. Make sure the turn around was him getting the guys up, and not something else.

Little less recent but Marv Levy was a ST coordinator prior to becoming a HC. The other notable example is Mike Ditka.

Well... my buddy is a ticket broker and he had some thoughts. 1 - covid, you are dealing with a limited set of fans who can attend and many of the ones who would brave this weather already have seasons. If 60% of fans are vaccinated, and many of them have seasons, then you're left with a condensed market. 2 - canada, there are something like 8-10000 southern ontario bills season ticket holders. Those tickets will be on the marketplace. You also have to deal with the non-season ticket holders who traditionally could buy secondary market tickets who are also unable to attend. It's not a massive chunk, but its another couple thousand fans who are essentially shut out from tickets. 3 - weather, most of the season ticket holders and die hards (who are vaccinated) already have tickets. It's left to the rest of fans to buy out the remaining tickets from people who can't or don't want to attend. 4 - The stadium is far too big for a football market this size. The closest comparison population wise would be maybe Green Bay which is about 90 minutes (and no border crossing) from Green Bay. Buffalo has some regional counterparts in rochester that definitely drive down to games, but losing the fans up north definitely complicates issues. Buffalo should probably have the smallest stadium in the NFL attendance wise.

Since it won't be particularly windy i don't think you really have to change much. Maybe aim your fastballs a bit more into the body? As for the particular plays? If the field conditions are slippery i tend to like hitches and comebacks, some double moves if they are in man. In slippery conditions screens can be a challenge because of all the moving parts along the line.

Yeah - they whiffed on that protection though. The twist came in and was barely touched.

cuz its literally the lowest amount you can pay a player. His deal is up and he had 1 sack this season so he's very unlikely to be coveted on the open market. If he doesn't play its free money for him, if he does play and plays well he might get another good payday.

I think there will be a new gameplan and i expect it'll be blitz heavy.

Couldn't find some defensive home/away splits so here are some i came up with Total yards: Away - 315 yards per game Home - 235.22 yards per game Passing yards: Away - 213 yards per game Home - 119 yards per game Rushing yards Away - 102 yards per game Home 116.67 yards per game (with Takeaways: 17 - Away 13 - Home I dont' think i need to do first downs to show the discrepancy here is pretty stark. Teams struggled to move the ball at all in the inclement weather in buffalo - Even NE with 200+ on the ground only had 11 first downs. The colts game was the big outlier and in that one some injuries and missed fits resulted in some big plays. Allen performed much worse at home - but other QBs who already performed poorly against buffalo's defense performed insanely bad.

I feel like a lot of that 3 game number is tied up in the falcons game where he had a 17 rating.

Honestly - if he was pissed about all the gabe davis targets... he and i are in agreement. Davis was absolutely awful in that game.

How are their red zone numbers in comparison to other teams?

I mean - i don't know that this even happened. But it could have been frustration with officiating, coaching, his own play, or just his role in the game. We have no idea.

I could see raiders/bengals beating tennessee.

They were 0 blitzing on a lot of 3rd downs so the play should be a boundary throw to diggs/davis in 1x1's. Easy read and unlikely to be a turnover. They finally hit knox on one in i think the 4th quarter.

I initially thought it was a covid thing. I don't know if he can kick FGs well but there was probably the thought that he can kick FGs more effectively than Haack if Bass were to miss a game for covid. He was a rugby player so he can probably do it decently in a pinch.

Those 3 players were all 1st round picks in the draft that was supposed to turn them around. Jackson - a LT who has since moved to G and isn't even good at that. Igbinoghene - a hybrid inside-out corner when you already had 2 of the highest paid corners in the league, and Tua - Honestly he is fine, and gets too much crap because of who was picked after him. They still need wholesale Oline changes, they're going to bring in a suspected serial rapist at QB, and the defense is still rather overrated.

If they beat Cincinnati they play tennessee if buffalo wins, or KC if NE does (I'm assuming pitt loses because they can't score points). I'd say most likely scenario is they win and play tennessee - a team they are fully capable of beating if they can continue to limit the opposing run game.

Would you rather play KC or Cincy? They were 0-3 against both, but they were totally blown out by KC in both games.

Well they were going to run a play on 3rd and 4. Likely a run... and staley called timeout for a personnel change. The new personnel gave up 10 yards on a run play they knew was coming - thats the sad part in all this. If its a no gain stop I think the raiders run the clock out - I'd rather play KC than have this blocked or returned, and play no one.

the key to me is tackling for buffalo. Keep them in tougher downs and distances and keep them on the NE side of the field - don't let them have any big plays in the run game and force them into punts and FGs. the key to NE is takeaways. They need to win the turnover battle in this one so i expect them to try and rip out every ball they can, and to try some different zone looks to try and get an allen mistake or two.

It turns into basically 2 years 20.2 M with 2 additional years at a total of 23.8 with some throw in workout bonuses. A lot for a running back, but a lot less than the 4yr 64m that they gave him. If you figure patterson and edmunds are looking for the 7-9M range his cap hit of like 8+ in 2022 is pretty reasonable. You could cut beasley and re-up mckenzie for some cost savings to make it work. He's not a straight slot WR like bease by any means, but you can absolutely use him split out as a weapon and challenging matchup for LBs. Obviously availability is an issue - but he would not be getting 400 touches most likely. Figure a chunk of beasley's that don't go to mckenzie, and the majority of RB targets. Figure 80 current running back targets, he'd get say 60 - and of beaselys 107 he might get another 50. Buffalo's leading rusher only has 170 carries, and it moss/breida adds another 120 or so. Take that 290 + some of allens and you have maybe 350 total carries to go around. I'd like probably like him to get like half of them. He'd be ideally more Ekeler or Kamara - not taylor/henry. All of this would be highly dependent on asking price, and how his physical goes.