Rocky Landing

It's impossible for a Bills fan to panic. We are in much better shape at this moment than any reasonable person thought we were going to be. We're used to this sort of hopeful start with a disappointing ending. Our wide receivers are terrible. I don't know if here is a worse WR corp in the league. I felt that way before Matthews' injury. As (rightfully) happy as many are with this new regime, this is one area in which they have thoroughly screwed up. It was (and is) the biggest argument for the "tank theory." They better address this situation.

Maybe we could start another wall called: The Wall of Mediocrity. It would have to be a very large wall...

If Kyle Orton were on the Wall of Fame, you wouldn't be able to read his name, or jersey number because it would be obscured by the entire defense that carried him. We weren't mediocre in 2014? Edit: or rather, our offense wasn't mediocre in 2014?

Whether intentional, or not, Taylor has been set up to fail in this offense.

Oh, well...

Damn. Elston looked great in preseason, I thought.

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Living like a bunch of animals??? You're a loon.

Do you live in Los Angeles?

There are, here and there-- mostly in the more affluent neighborhoods. But, I think that most of the people mowing them tend to be soccer fans.

A lot of people on here bashing Los Angeles. I curious, how many of you live in LA?

I'd be very sad for a while. But, I'd probably end up as a fan of one of the LA teams, which is where I've been living since '91. I will say, I tried to make the Rams my "second team" when they moved here two years ago. But, I just couldn't do it.

If Brady has the ball for over three seconds, he's throwing it away. TT (and Wilson, Tannehill, Cam) are far more likely to break from the pocket and extend the play to 5+ seconds. There are far more such outliers that will skew the average for mobile QBs.

I'm a little disappointed, myself.

It's OK to have an opinion, as long as you don't express it. Did I get it right?

Written without a shred of irony.

Of course, the fact that we share the division with the Pats* is still the elephant in the room. Some day, we will be discussing the real possibility of winning the division, not just a wildcard.

I'm quite certain that I've met some of this site's posters in person. But, I don't think I would ever let them know who I was online. They might make fun of me, and question my football knowledge, and I don't think I could handle that, emotionally. I look like my avatar on the inside.

Not everyone is so closed-minded.

Well, you said he never got his hands on it, and then the next sentence said, "... as soon as the ball touched his hands." Seems like a contradiction. I believe that the stat for dropped passes does not take into consideration the circumstances for why the ball was not reeled in. That would be too subjective a data point to make an accurate, or useful statistic. It just places a percentage of the number of passes that touch the hands that aren't caught. Clay was 3.5% last season, which is fairly middling.

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For those interested: https://www.mountnittany.org/articles/healthsheets/38136 Quote: "This injury will take from a few days to 6 weeks to heal, depending on how severe it is. Moderate to severe shoulder contusions are treated with a sling or shoulder immobilizer. Minor contusions can be treated without any special support."

He got his hands on it, and didn't pull it in. Regardless of where the ball went after that, how is that not a dropped pass?

FWIW, sportingcharts.com defines a dropped pass as follows: "This statistic counts the number of times an intended receiver touches the ball but fails to catch it. If the ball is thrown but the receiver never gets his hands on it, it is not recorded as a drop." I believe that would count the INT as a drop.

Wow. You're a troll, and you're not even trying to hide it. This adds nothing to this discussion.

I hope those two things aren't mutually inclusive!