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Agreed; getting a serviceable starting CB in the 7th round is highway robbery.

I did forget about Bridgewater. In that last season with Fangio, the Broncos played better with him and played hard right to the end and did some good things, but it wasn’t enough. Re the in-game mismanagement, I think that is par for the course for most NFL coaches, IMO.

Welp, McDaniels will be joining Patricia and Judge soon enough back home. I can’t believe how these former pats assistants all have failed spectacularly. I don’t think Bellichick has a single successful assistant from his coaching tree (I don’t count Vrabel, who never coached under him).

They literally just had the exact same type of coach in Fangio— who did an excellent job. They had no QB, and that did him in. But i would argue that had they kept Fangio and given him even a serviceable QB (like a Mayfield or Trubisky), that was a playoff team. Instead, he got Drew Lock for three years!

I hope so. But I think they will need some good live reps (not zoom reps) this week. Just hope the weather cooperates here.

Are these guys even practicing this week? Sounds like no one can move in Buffalo still.

Was just thinking back to the Bengals/Bills games in the past 20 years— those were absolute dog games. Times sure have changed!

The one thing we really need to clean up is our special teams. Two straight abysmal games in a row. I would like to see us just kick some touchbacks (and Not try to cover), and eliminate the penalties on the returns.

There is that great quote from Benjamin Disraeli— which applies here: “there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

If weather cooperates, this will be an absolute shoot out. Expect both QBs to be totally dialed in.

I enjoy his fiery spirit, and wish him well for many years as the QB of the Patriots, under the guidance of Matt Patricia and Joe Judge.

I should Copy and paste the text thread I had with my Broncos fan buddy when they hired Hackett. It started basically with me saying: “hackett, is by far, one of the worst offensive coaches in bills history.”

Missed the second half. What happened?

I have seen that same Hill catch a bunch of times this year. That’s why the Bills can’t won’t play single high against them. Tua just needs to put it out within a 10-yard area and Hill is wide open.

This is some real astute investigative journalism by Glazer. #Pulitzer?

This is a really great take. Makes Allen and his play make more sense to me. Couldn’t even get mad about it. Going into the game, I knew Cheffers would be pulling stunts like this. He doesn’t know what holds look like and he uses bad shortcut cheats to call penalties, rather than seeing them with his own eyes.

And that would be a perfectly acceptable Christmas present.

Agreed. I hurt for Knox on that play. Just think about jumping two feet in the air and landing on your back on concrete. That had to just kill.

In terms of the criticisms of guys like Gabe not running hard and McKenzie not getting separation, I watched singletary’s press conference. He said the field felt like you were running on concrete, with very little traction. That sort of explains the more tentative running out there by the WRs.

totally agree. I am fine with a pick on a bad throw or good play by the defender. The bad decision picks though are painful to live with.

post-script from the pre-game thread: I ended up watching the game up until mid-3rd quarter and then wife drove us to Christmas eve festivities a few hours away, as I watched thru Sunday Ticket on my phone in the car. So everything worked out!

I think this is accurate. When we are playing weak opponents, he is always looking to hit home runs. It’s almost too boring for josh and the bills to take the easy stuff against these bad defenses.

what a great win! First off, game ball to Leslie Frazier. How do you not let Fields get any yards on the ground? Like none? Great scheme. And great adjustments overall for the run D after that first drive. Sloppy mistakes and execution errors on offense— all unforced. But the D bailed them out and the running game through. my main complaint is ST. Totally underwhelming in every way for the second game in a row. We pay a lot of ST aces. They can’t be getting outplayed like this.

Huh?