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Say what you will about Rapoport, but at least he's actually passing along what he's heard in plain English, instead of trolling everybody for clicks like the Buffalo media and Cover 1 guys are doing at the moment.

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I would agree with most of OP's suggestions even if we had won yesterday. It's not overreacting to acknowledge that McKenzie isn't getting it done and we're not utilizing our RBs properly.

Yeah, my opinion of some of the Cover 1 guys is going to take a hit if this turns out to be a day-to-day elbow sprain. I don't need that kind of extra drama in my life.

This particular issue has been brewing for a while. This team seems to take a lot of calculated gambles by sitting players who are banged up but still able to practice, especially against inferior opponents. I'm not opposed to this philosophically, but eventually one of those decisions is going to come back to bite you, and that obviously happened yesterday. We almost certainly win a tight, ugly game with Milano in the lineup. When you're already down both your starting safeties and an all-pro corner, it seems a little reckless to sit your best LB too.

Nothing says "I am a journalist" like teasing a story that you're afraid to break. Just saying.

Explanations are not excuses.

Davis Cook Whoever is making decisions about which slightly-injured players sit or start Spencer Brown

Honestly, yes. There was a clear, fairly large drop-off in Allen's play that occurred sometime around halftime of the GB game. He hit his head on the ground a couple of times in that game, and it wouldn't shock me if he was shaken up more than he let on. Pure speculation of course.

Good for him. I hope he goes on to have a strong career for the Giants. The Bills are stacked. We have too many guys at the bottom of our roster to carry all of them, and we're going to have to let some really good players walk in FA. This is what life is like for good teams. We never had to worry about these trade-offs during the drought years.

Did they trade for Mahomes or something?

I wanted Hodgins to pan out too, but the fact is he never really showed anything. Yeah, he was buried on the depth chart, but it's not as if he was leapfrogging over anybody. Or making it difficult for guys to leapfrog over him. I wish him well and I'd welcome him back to the PS, but I'm certainly not going to lose sleep over it if he gets claimed by the Giants or somebody. Also, I don't think we can infer anything about Poyer from the Marlowe trade. We knew we were a little thin at S, and this was basically a free pickup at a position of need.

This move makes a lot of sense for a depth perspective, but I hope Marlowe doesn't need to see the field. This isn't exactly the highest quality of depth.

Yes. I was getting pissed at McKenzie running the ball out of the end zone against the Packers this weekend. Just take the touchback! We don't need the variance.

Cool. I didn't know this. It would be nice if we didn't have to use McKenzie/Shakir in these roles, or if we could at least limit their ST plays.

I'm honestly surprised that Moss had any trade value at all. Shocked actually. Nothing against the guy because he seems like a good person, but it's not like he ever showed much of anything on the field. I don't think the Cowboys are looking to trade and that's not a priority position for us anyway.

I know nothing at all about this player, but I'm certainly not going to complain considering that we got him for a ham sandwich.

Why? No QB worth drafting would drop to them if we redid that draft.

This is bad for us in the short run because it makes Miami a somewhat tougher out this year, either in December or in the playoffs. Long term, this is good since it takes Miami out of the QB market for the time being.

This. The two best teams in the NFL are both in the AFC. Either of those teams will be favored by about 6 points against the Eagles if they meet in the super bowl. The spread will be larger if they face off against any team besides Philadelphia. Nobody seriously thinks that the Vikings are in the same tier as the Bills and Chiefs.

I think your expectations are wildly out whack if you expect all 53 guys on the active roster to scrupulously obey all traffic laws. I mean, come on. That's a "you" problem. I'm sympathetic to the argument that teams should decline to roster players who have been convicted of domestic abuse and other serious violent crimes. But I don't care if they got into a bar fight in college, have a DUI, have speeding tickets, don't return their shopping carts back to the corral, or whatever. We all work around a bunch of coworkers with stuff like that in their background and it's no big deal. Why should pro athletes be treated any differently? (Of course, if a player gets pulled over for a moving violation, we all know the correct play is to remind the officer that you're a member of the Buffalo Bills and you are worth millions. That always goes over well.)

Yes, if the Packers had had more success on offense and the Bills had had less success on defense, it might have been a completely different game.

Welp, so much for that game. Time to do a little relaxing before kickoff.

I think the Giants should consider having somebody else return kicks.

That was a pretty fantastic play by CMC. I never saw him play much because I don't watch Carolina, but I see why folks were so high on him.