GunnerBill

No

Now someone get Josh's hand warm.

Yep. His advantage is the sharp cut. It isn't that day.

Touchdown!!

Excellent play by Cybo, combo block then came off and sealed the gap

Hamlin was our best player on that first defensive series. Gotta get off blocks better.

Gonna be a bit of a lottery in these conditions.

Inauspicious start.

Let's gooooo Bufffffaaaaaalloooooo!

Who knew his "40 time" referred to 40 days.

I should be grateful for the fact that at least here in the UK the Bills never play during my working hours. Even if I do end up taking time off to sleep in the next day ha.

Yea odd that he was active all year and then suddenly the last two games is down. But basically it looks like when they are fully healthy on defense (they are close to that at this stage) their preferred balance is 9 DL, 5 LB, 8 DBs (plus the return guy who is technically a 9th DB). And as @gonzo1105 said above he does the least of the DBs they have up. Bishop and Lewis play special teams, Ingram can play outside or inside. Elam is strictly a boundary corner so when trying to balance up a gameday roster he is the odd man out. I still think if one of our boundary guys got hurt and missed a game he'd be the starter as he was when Benford missed the Miami game. But as a backup he doesn't "do" enough things for you to have the flex you need on gameday.

We don't know. Banged Up Bills on twitter thinks a bone bruise which would make sense. Was clearly a contact injury.

Odd that we didn't elevate a receiver. Is Virgil now on the 53?

I agree, I don't have proof of that. But I don't think the stats show that either. They just show at this split rate between slot and wide he is capable of producing at broadly equivalent rates. Everything after that is speculation. And it is speculation that we will likely never get an answer too. Because he is going to be a 70% plus slot guy his entire career.

It is fair to say there isn't a big difference in terms of production per snap inside and out. Slight favour for the slot, but not a ton. I just don't know that you can extrapolate though. It's different using a guy out there a bit when you can scheme cleverly than doing it anything like consistently when teams will start making him win more convetnionally.

A lock? No. Still think he likely will at some point. He has been great. But it looks like a sad end.

Yep. His behaviour on the sideline after that final play was, yet again, embarrassing. He got away with being a douche when he was the best QB in football. Now even his supposed buddy Devante Adams looks thoroughly sick of him.

Howie Roseman getting Mitchell and DeJean in the same draft.... I still can't understand how the rest of the NFL let it happen. I do think Tucker HAS lost some leg power. But it is more than that too. It is such a repetetive process as soon as you lose it it can go quickly.

Yea their average depth of target is 10.4 for McConkey and 4.0 for Shakir. But I have never made the argument that they are exactly the same player or used exactly the same way in their offenses (Bills and Chargers offenses are very different). Just that they are both slot receivers who do almost all their best work from the slot.

Tucker is done sadly. Hard to watch 'cos he has been a great one. Yep. They need to adjust to the reality of theor kicking situation and right now they haven't.

76% slot and almost 90% production from there. It's PFF Premium Stats. Not the play grades. The premium stuff you have to pay for.

Let's deal in facts for a moment. 72% of his snaps in the slot. Over 80% of his production from the slot. (Both those numbers going into this week).

So is the latest that they have cleared the field and they expect no more snow?

Agree. But you can find Tank Dells in the 3rd and Khalil Shakirs in the 5th. It's why for me I wouldn't use a 1st round pick on a guy I thought was a slot only. I know in the end we didn't use a 1st round pick on anyone. But it is about the opportunity cost of not using 1st round picks on Quarterbacks or the guys who have to win 1v1s outside in the NFL- franchise LT, #1WR, #1CB, DE. I had McConkey above Coleman fwiw, he was my WR8, Keon was WR9. But I wouldn't have spent a first round pick on either for different reasons.