fergie's ire

Deshaunless Bowl here we go.

Yeah, and not coincidentally, they have looked like a much better team those last three weeks. They looked like one of the worst teams in the league the three weeks before that (crushed by the Colts, beaten by Patriots and Cardinals). They're a really weird team in a weird NFL year.

If it does snow, I think that will be a situation where it'll be much better to have Brady instead of Dorsey as OC. Over the last year or so, and specifically in the "I don't watch that much film" quote, I've heard Allen said that they don't want to focus on what the other team does. The Bills offense should just impose its will regardless of what the D is doing. Based on what I've seen on the field, I'm guessing that came from Dorsey and Allen was repeating it. Dorsey seems much more willing to adjust based on the situation (eg, running the ball a million times because Dallas can't stop it). I remember after the wildcard game last year, a Bengals player was mocking the Bills offense because they were running routes that are hard to run in the snow. Keep it simple in the snow. It's hard to run a double move, but it's hard to defend just a simple in cut because the offense player knows where he is going and doesn't have to try and cut as abruptly. As someone pointed out, the Kelly Bills used to score a ton in snowy games. Offense can be really effective. The Bengal's point was that everyone knows the kind of routes you need to run on snow and the Bills just refused to run them. That seems very Dorsey-esque to me.

Ah, but you left out the important part of the definition that came after "ails:" but before "Trouble or afflict" and that would be "verb." You can rectify a mistake...but you can't rectify a mistook.

Rectify our ales? Too warm? Head too foamy?

Recap? Quotes? For those of us who may have just cancelled Max.

To me, the BEST outcome is KC wins so that Mahomes finally has to play on the road and comes to Buffalo and gets spanked. The WORST outcome is KC wins, Mahomes goes on the road and ends that narrative by beating the Bills. So, I'm torn.

Yeah, I'm hoping someone does a careful breakdown of him on the all 22. I noticed him make some plays and never noticed him completely lost or pushed around so it seemed like he did well, but I did not isolate him. I'm hoping someone else will...and maybe Van Demark and Dane Jackson as well.

I saw Josh on the sideline right after the interception waving his hand across his face. At first I thought he was saying he didn't see very well because a hand was in his face but then I remembered I've seen him make that motion before when saying he wants the receiver to cut across the face of the defender. Right as he was getting ready to throw the ball, Davis was standing next to Apple. I think Josh anticipated that Davis would step in front of him and kind of box him out. Instead, Davis ran away from him and thus away from where Josh threw the ball.

Very similar to a couple of things I heard them talk about on the Buffalo Plus postgame show. Apparently when Dawkins was bleeding all over himself the training staff told him he had to go into the locker room. He told them to wait and he looked at Van Demark and asked, "Are you okay?" Van Demark nodded and said, "I'm okay. I got this" and only then did Dawkins agree to the locker room. Also, after the Bills called the timeout on that last 4th and 1 before they went for it, apparently the leaders of the secondary (Hyde, Poyer, Taron) were out patting on the offense telling them they had it (and don't worry if you don't). The Buffalo Plus crew said they've been on a lot of NFL fields and you just don't see that. Seems like these players love each other and are having fun again...and man I love this team when they are like that. It's as if this year has been a reversal of last year when the vibe started out great and went downhill.

He looks angry to me.

Yeah. I had zero (or near zero) faith in Tennessee. It seems like for the last 6 weeks a Titans win would help us...and every week I check in with Red Zone Channel and I think "Great. Tennessee is winning" and then they would rapidly implode somewhere along the way. It even happened against the Dolphins but they managed to un-implode.

Seriously. Not only this game but the game against the Dolphins as well. I think One Bills Drive should send a truckload of wings to Tennessee the way they did for Cincinnati when the drought was ended.

Oh, I get it. And I think it is closer but might still be a bit optimistic. Dolphins are banged up, I get it...and Ravens SHOULD be a much better team...and Jags have been struggling. Still, I am optimistic...but very cautiously so. In another post I responded to where I got my numbers which are not hard quantifiable numbers like your own. I would put it this way. 95% means a virtual certainty. Your 80% would translate as very likely to me. I think 60 or even 66% translates as likely, but not VERY likely which is how I feel their chances are.

No hard calculations...just a feel. But probably would put it at 57% to beat dolphins and about 3% for Steelers or Jags to lose. Just don't have any faith that the latter will happen.

I find that to be optimistic....probably 60% is about right. I do think they'll make it and I think they'll beat Miami, but beating a playoff team on the road can't be super high odds and I think there's little chance Steelers or Jaguars lose. The NYT calculator probably considers likelihood of Ravens beating Steelers based on their past performances but probably doesn't take into account that Ravens have clinched and won't play many of their starters.

The last two weeks he has had ratings of 84 and 101. Not awful, but not revenge-y. Very Tannehillesque.

And yet he leads the NFL in air yards. Those 10% must be REALLY long throws. https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/highest-qb-air-yards-per-throw

Wasn't there a guy who used to play DE for the Bills years ago named Bruce something who was pretty good? Nope. Must be my imagination because I just checked and no such player ever existed. Weird.

Agree about this Steelers game against the Ravens seemingly eerily similar to the Bledsoe led Bills game against the Steelers. I'd been thinking about that in terms of the Kelcey throwback getting overturned the day after Wycheck died. Maybe some grand karma reversal is underway for the Bills. If that's the case, we're probably about to win the first of four straight Superbowls.

The strange thing is that he was listed as having an injured shoulder UNTIL last week. I heard one of the announcers say that Josh had been frustrated that he had been missing much more than he used to this year. Seems the shoulder WAS bothering him but the implication was that it is feeling better now. After the game, Josh apparently said that the ball didn't feel right in his hand and was coming out strangely. Not sure what that is about. Maybe they were underinflated? 😃

They should be thinking that way because it's likely going to be the case. I don't like the chances of Jaguars losing to Titans (even without Lawrence) or the Steelers losing to the Ravens backups.

I heard that in his press conference Josh even said that the ball didn't feel right in his hand for the Patriots game. He didn't even seem to know why but he knew the ball wasn't coming out right and that he was off. Even completed passes were often a bit off target like the pass that was behind Shakir.

Dolphins may have just lost Chubb who was still playing down 30.

Yeah, I think it should be Texans and Colts both lose AND either Steelers or Bengals lose.