GunnerBill

I think it can still be top 10 to 15 so long as we don't lose anyone else. In a lot of spots now we are one more injury away from being bad. Can't afford to lose Oliver. Can't afford to lose Bernard. Can't afford to lose Benford. 2020 the Chiefs beat the Bills. 2019 they beat the Titans.

Who just lost to Stanford.

His play calling arguably cost SF a Superbowl too when he suddenly went away from the run 4th Quarter. I feel like this is San Francisco's "gotta have it" year. Not that they won't be good again next year but to me they are comfortably the most complete team in football right now. There are some cap decisions coming after the season (not that they are in a cap crisis or anything but the path is narrower especially if they want to keep Aiyuk and Hufanga) and Trent Williams is 35 eve he can't go on forever. I feel like this is the season it should happen.

They have been "right there" they just haven't got over the hump.

We all WANT that. It just isn't realistic. This is not the AFC that Brady and Manning dominated for a decade and a half. You still just have to try and enjoy each week and the games. It's the climb. But I agree the next 3 weeks isn't going to tell us much, one way or the other.

It would not be smart..... but you know.... Falcons....

This is all basically correct. Although as Rob says above the grass pitch actually rolls off. Wembley have had major issues with their pitch being used by NFL too close to soccer games. At Spurs they use that field much more and so are even more sensitive.

Carr in Houston makes sense.

Was 72 a 16 game season? If so 90 over 17 is a jump but not as massive a jump. About .75 of a sack per game. Daniel Jones likely won't play this week though in any event and I think if they get Thomas back at LT the pace will slow. He is legitimately good.

Without Andrew Thomas, yes.

Oh you meant Daniel Jones. Got ya. I'm surprised Mac hasn't been sacked more though. That Pats line is the worst I can remember it.

McVay is arguably a better Head Coach. Honestly, as a play designer.... he a distance behind Shanny.

And the reality is the team that ends with the most sacks ALWAYS has a monster game against a bad team somewhere. The Eagles finished as league leaders with 70 sacks last year and also had a 9 sack game vs the poor old Commanders and two 7 sack games vs the Giants and the Saints.... so that is 23 of their 70 sacks.... that is a third of their sacks in 3 games. It is never the case that the top sack teams just consistently get 3-5 sacks every Sunday like metronomes. They always load up against the bad teams.

Behind that New England line..... if Mac plays an entire year..... 90 odd sacks is not impossible IMO.

To the bolded - I think he did too. Remember all the talk was that Kyle loved Mac and there were still people right up to the day insisting it would be Mac Jones. I never thought that because I couldn't see them going all the way up to #3 for a guy like Mac, but does make you wonder. Lance to the 49ers never a lot of sense to me. I also agree Kyle is the best play designed of his generation. There are lot of his disciples out there in the NFL as HC and OC on other teams and Mike McDaniel is good, Sean McVay is good, but neither of them are Kyle Shanahan and their offenses are just not as productive as a result.

I mean we lose to the Jags 9/10 is the reality. They are a proper bogey team for the Bills for some reason. They laid an egg against Houston, but they should have beaten KC. They are not an elite team but they are a team who on their day can beat any team and when given the advantage that they were last Sunday against the jetlagged Bills.... I mean I always said I was worried about that game.

I expect the Bills to win the next 3 and get to 6-2. They should be at worst 8-3 as well (I can actually see 9-2 unless something drastic changes with Burrow's health and the Bengals in the meantime). I don't think any of that will tell us much. How they fare over the final 6 weeks will tell us something. The options being: 1) this is still a team capable of competing for a Superbowl; 2) this is still a good team but it is missing too many pieces to go all the way; 3) actually this is a team that across the board is regressing and needs a re-set. All three of those options are in play unless we lose more key players between now and then in which case I actually think nothing that happens the rest of this season would tell us anything other than the Bills have had some really bad injury luck.

He was actually pretty decent last year for the Vikes as a run stopper. But that is ALL he is. Jones has some penetrative ability as well as playing the run very well. Harrison isn't that. He is a 1 dimensional player you don't want on the field on 3rd down. Since letting Star go the Bills seem to have moved away from that type of guy. Haven't watched much of them this year so can't comment on how he has been. I honestly hadn't seen this before I posted, but not a surprise at all. Interestingly on this chart on Ed it kinda proves the point I have been making to the "he has only started playing well now" guys. Because Ed has actually been slightly higher on this chart in the past than he is currently.... (I make him 12th best by my counting there and he has been top 5 previously) but the sacks haven't come. This year they have. He was playing better than people realised before just without the flashy numbers in terms of sack production.

Almost never is an exaggeration. It is about 20% now for the Premier League. The toilets are normally based on that ratio. 1:4 This is interesting to me because I think Wembley is horrendous in terms of travel and infrastructure. I hate it. Terrible stadium, one way in, one way out. The slow trudge up Wembley way. Not near anything. I am surprised people found the transport poor. The Victoria line is normally super reliable and while I am sure it was busy I use it coming away with 60,000 from the Emirates frequently without an issue (although at least there the Picc line can take some of the slack I spose). I didn't suffer any travel issues from Tottenham because I walked there and back. It is about 2 miles from home. I actually loved the stadium and I say that as someone who hates having to admit anything good about Tottenham, ever. The two minor negatives are (as Virgil said) your leg room definitely feels cramped which when sitting for the length of an NFL game is an issue. I am used to the relatively luxurious leg room at the Emirates and it is not matched at Spurs. And secondly the stadium is just so incongrous in the middle of the High Road. Looks like someone landed a space ship in the High Road and left it there.

I haven't said he wouldn't choose him. You keep putting words in my mouth. But Josh would infuriate him. Because Kyle Shanahan wants his plays run his way. He does not want or like his Quarterbacks ad libbing. And personally even if plays were there I don't think you'd ever take that out of Josh totally. It is just who he is. I think there would have to be some compromise on both sides and I can imagine it being a prickly relationship. Just based on who Kyle Shanahan is.

Drafting him, maybe not. But he likes his QB to paint by numbers and run his plays. He does not appreciate freelancing. I think he and Josh would have had friction. He is not an easy personality Shanahan. And been told that by people who have worked in that building with him. I just guess Rex was reasonable in the interview. Rex has an ability to be affable and plausible.

I am not sure Shanahan would love Josh for reasons I have stated elsewhere. But I'd have hired literally anyone over Rex Ryan. A dead crow would have done.

The liability thing is a bigger perceived risk than real risk. But I had one of my staff last year had a relationship with one of his subordinates. They were both consenting adults I saw no way in which it could affect their work and I therefore concluded it was none of my business.

I do manage staff. I don't get involved in their personal lives. It isn't my business to. What did she sue for? Cos I used to advise on employment law (albeit in the UK not the USA). I know pretty well what a court is likely to hold creates a liability.

Does Diggs count as a co-worker? If so I can't promise this.