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No risk taking on Offense or Defense. Not a single deep ball today for EJ. None. Never saw anyone come off the corner on a blitz. Not one. So you get 34-21.

TT is the clear starter. McCoy is the real ... MCcoy. EJ is a quality backup. We STIILL haven't had the whole O - TT, Watkins, Shady, Clay, Woods, Felton on the field at the same time. We should be 4-2 instead of 3-3 but i'll take it given the above. Eff the Giants and those refs for that game. Cincy O is for real - game changing plays were basically circus catches/runs. D was there and could not have been better on A LOT of plays - how do defend that bomb on 3rd and 10 any better ? Glimore had it in his hands. I think Cincy could beat the Patriots. Relax. We go into the bye 4-3 and come out with our whole O. TT will get us in the playoffs. EJ homers just need to breathe. He's a good back-up. It's OK.

huh ? W last week counts as much as any other. Bills - 28 Bengals - 21

Didn't have time to read 19 pages so apologize if my comments are redundant. Here's the situation IMO: - Sammy has a "calf" injury. Wasn't there in preseason nor for most of 3 of 5 games. So just that is STFU. - He's a dep threat. Roman only does like 3 or 4 deep shots a game. - Unless Tyrod is an idiot, not likely, they don't allow him to check to deep balls even with 8 or 9 in the box. - Roman doesn't throw screens to slow down the rush when obvious - Roman doesn't throw slants to slow down the rush when obvious - Roman doesn't roll TT out to slow down the rush when obvious The last three are shvt that even High School OC's know. I'm hoping that Roman is still building and adjusting his O to be a Super Bowl O because up till now the playcalling - especially in the first half - has been stubbornly predicatable. TT has made a couple bad throws and - if one assumes he has latitude - a few bad reads. I still put it mostly on Roman for being conservative and saving the playbook for the second half and beyond. The second one says they haven't seen TT's ability to make every throw, lead, run, compete to win, is the second people are thinking short term - not long. All said, resting TT to get EJ some quality reps and confidence is smart. The Bills QB situation is still a strength not a weakness. But TT won the job for a reason and when we win the Super Bowl, he will be the man.

No.

And a dirty, desperate play.

No.

Glad for you that your prognostication came true. Not sure was more nauseating, the dirty play that cost TT or that you felt the need to celebrate it.

This was huge and noted it to my buds when it happened. Kneeling that B word out with 1: to go was awesome. Bills won a pillow fight today. But it counts the same as any W.

I think the Bills ran on first down every single first down. Someone less tired and not drunk check me but I think I'm right. That's UFB on predictability - and insanely bad when the run game was mediocre at best.

Hogan throw was a thing of beauty. Made TT 50% on deep balls, 1 of 2. 2 is not enough for a balanced attack/team with killer instinct. Roman is wasting TT's deep ball ability and letting opposing D's off the hook to at least have to think about defending it.

Two deep balls today. One was poorly thrown, one was a seed to Hogan and led to the GW TD. The problem isn't the 50% rate on the deep ball. The problem is that there was only two. The silly bad offensive performance was squarely on Roman's shoulders. I'm not sure how this is hard to see. Throw. It. Deep. Once. A. Quarter. Minimum.

Good, fair summary of the first quarter. Thanks for the post. Ready for this team to break out and stay that way.

One popular way to bet on NFL games and make a good return is with multiple game parlays. The bettor selects several games (let's say 4) and must win all 4 to get the payout. If the bettor loses the bet, the booking service keeps the money. Winning a 4 game parlay with a 50/50 chance of each team winning is easy math = 0.5^4 = 6.25%. The odds are set up to close to that. If only one game can be influenced by a coach, player or ref, the booking service can really skew the odds in their favor and Billions are bet each Sunday - and the resulting profit divided up. If there is a game that the majority of the fans and talking heads on TV feel is a near sure thing, that's the target game that one would want to influence as it would be chosen in a majority of parlays. The Bills/Giants game was picked at a pretty high percentage of prognosticators - even Cowherd - as a Bills W. When one sees inexplicable playcalling, my point was that this type of scenario quickly pops in my head. It appeared to a moderately educated fan who has watched a lot of football over 40+ years that the Bills playcalling in the first half - especially the 2-minute offense - wasn't actually trying to win. It made no sense for most of the second quarter including the kneel-out before half.

There's so much money associated with the activity that is the NFL that there's no way there isn't corruption at many levels. Our game against the Giants had many moments that elicit feelings of conspiracy and said so in other threads. #1 on the hit parade is our kneeling out the first half. Rex's public reasoning was to keep time away from the Giants. Complete BS. The playcalling and time management looked like a kneel - out to any NFL fan. Why ? We were in it and had plenty of new pays and schemes we could try - especially ince we hadn't run many plays in the first QTR anyway. The answer to that is related to the subject of this post plus the Billions of $ bet on the games themselves aside from fantasy. I still submit that it looked for a very long time in the Giants (an inferior roster by all experts' analysis) game that the Bills were not trying to win. I'll STFU when i can get a cogent, football explanation of the last 2 minutes of the half playcalling in the Giant game.

Explain the end of the half, please.

Bills did not even try to win. Obvious with the kneel down before half - left all 3 TO's on the board. Something bigger than us all at play.

OK. Couldn't make it to the end of the thread. The Giants brought pressure all day - that's not up for debate. So, even a HS OC knows what you do there is: - Roll the QB out - Screen - quick slants Roman called NONE of those. NONE. And TT could be the king of the rollout. We had the ball with 2 minutes to go, down 13 and KNEELED IT OUT before the half. We left all 3 TO's on the board. The second you call any of this insanity TT's fault is the second you are a completely ignorant NFL fan. There was something bigger than us all making the O play calls in the first half - none of them were real football decisions. It was so incongruent that the conspiracy theories take hold. Look up "rules of parlays" Repeat - we KNEELED OT OUT. Why ?

And to think I started it all by suggesting we bring Tyrod in from the Ravens in January.

It's not a form-judging contest. "I'll give him an 8.5 there". Pocket presence, reads, who effin cares. Dude scored 100 points in 3 games at the helm - I say it's all about that.

Not real big on "I told ya so's" but I think I posted TT is the best selling NFL Jersey by Week 6 - on this board in the spring.. He might be ahead of that pace but it will be for sure by week 8.

Nice analysis. Not sure at all why one would do that math. Dude is $ Period

Only skill player aside from Karlos to STILL not be injured in TC, PS or Reg Season. And he handles the ball on every play,

Just wow. He's ahead of 25 QB's payed 10 times what he is. Some people's children.

Not surprised by any of it except the consistency - homer for him at VT and he was this good. But not always. We would have ruined this kid had we drafted him. We now have the coaching in place to take advantage of his abilities and it was all on the great O coaching of the now 0-3 Ravens. Tough to be a Ravens fan today ... ouch. Wish I could have that same argument with that Ravens fan a year ago in that bar .... $!!