Straight Hucklebuck

I wonder if the reporters will at least see him working off to the side tomorrow. 19 days since the knee on 11/10 now.

Wow, that was weird.

And there it is, not one follow up about Kincaid.

"How much of a cheat code is Josh Allen on 4th-short?" "Have you had a chance to catch your breath?" And predictably you got no-information, filler answers.

Well multiple Dr.'s immediately made videos about it, especially after the close up shot of his knee. We're past the bad bruise stage.

Warrow always crafts some longwinded statement about ethereal emotion, always bringing up something from the past.

AMEN TO THIS. What does it say about your team ... Can you tell me what Ed Oliver means to you ... Instead of asking open ended facts based questions.

I’ll be surprised if Kincaid is out there practicing today. Strained PCL is 1-3 weeks for a Grade 1, and he’s at 2-1/2 weeks now which is on the low end of its anything worse than that. And Coleman - what are we thinking? Ligament strain? You’d think if it was a chipped bone there would be a cast.

The Ravens are neck and neck with the Steelers for the North, and have the Eagles this weekend, then Giants, then Steelers again. So they have to push for 3 more weeks at minimum. Speaking of Pittsburgh - Eagles, Ravens, Chiefs in December, sandwiched between the Bengals on both ends (and Browns in there). So they can't let up whatsoever. The Chiefs I expect to keep playing close game after close game. They have (3) divisional games left - Raiders, Chargers, Broncos - and the Chargers and Broncos are fighting to stay in the Playoffs. They also have at Pittsburgh on Christmas. Both the Ravens and Chiefs have the Texans as well, so we'll be able to rate them head to head on the performance. Can any NFL defense figure out how to not allow a 35-year old Travis Kelce free releases off the line so he can wander into the second level unguarded? Who knows. We ask it every year and the answer always seems to be he's too good. Doesn't matter that he has a huge beer belly now.

Kincaid in the red zone, he’s not a rebounder. His TDs have been on the run, Allen generally finding him. I think we’ve seen that the Bills run a slow paced game, routinely taking the play clock to 0 before snapping. Almost every snap you’re clapping at your TV saying hurry up, against the Chiefs they eventually did get a Delay of Game. On occasion they will run a spurt of no huddle, but for the most part most games are 53-65 plays on offense. 45% run / 55% pass split, 30 runs, 35 passes. 65% completion percentage is 22 completed passes in the game. 5-6 to Shakir. That leaves 16. 4-5 to Kincaid. That leaves 11. 3 to Coleman. That leaves 8. 3 to Cooper. That leaves 5. 4 to running backs. That leaves 1. So the last 2-5 catches split between Samuel, Hollins, Knox. We’ve seen the big 4 for 1.5 games - Titans and Seattle, but I think that’s what they’d like to be ideally. Samuel is maybe the Wildcard, can he steal snaps from Coleman? Possible, but I think when Coleman is healthy, the Bills will put him right back in as the starter.

Yeah, when I hear our analysts talk about this team it does become a list of guys the Bills "need to get involved more". Dalton Kincaid is on the top of that list most days. They're always reminding you that the Bills took him in Round 1, Pick 25 and that they should be getting more throws down the field with him than they are. Dawson Knox is on the list, so is Ray Davis. And then you watch the games and see that two players are the steady drumbeat of this team: Shakir and Cook. Cooper has played 2-1/2 games, Coleman doesn't separate and he's the X at 82% of routes, 5.6% total snaps from the slot, Ray Davis is a backup, and Dawson Knox is blocked by Kincaid. In 1-1/2 years the Bills under two coordinators have not been able to get both Knox and Kincaid meaningful catches at the same time. We've seen all year that this offense routinely hits 30+ points, but in doing so somebody is going to be left out - Samuel has been this guy the whole season, Ty Johnson was until the Bills carved out the 3rd Down back niche for him, Hollins took a smaller role when Cooper came in and Ray Davis is a breather back behind Cook. I've argued that the Bills keeping 5 Wide Receivers is the wrong organization philosophy because it leaves the team vulnerable when injuries hit. But when healthy, it's hard to get two tight ends going, 3-4 wide receivers and two backs. Also, the Bills have decided to run a bit more under Brady, so that's probably 1-2 catches a game that could have gone to Tight End or WR.

WGR was stammering around this morning trying to bang the running backs don’t matter gong. Its 2024, playmaking matters. But the bigger lesson is still the same, when bad teams want to give you their best players, let them.

Chargers starting to run out of options.

Derwin James, what a good blitz, didn’t take the wide arc around Hill, crashed inside and Lamar stepped right into it.

Bateman got past him and so he spent a lot of energy closing that gap back up and ran out of time. And Lamar threw a great pass, Bateman didn’t have to stop and rebound that ball. He just was able to run.

Here we go, America you will like the Kelce brothers.

They allowed 1-1 with no help, and they saw what it looked like one play before with the same corner on Bateman.

That’s Keon Coleman separation right there.

You can’t depend on Dobbins.

Poona in on that stop.

So we have the guy who wins 1 Super Bowl, not 5. I don’t care, just let the City of Buffalo just once freaking lift a Championship trophy.

Super Bowls is all the common fan cares about. Lamar huggers in the media cling to his two MVPs, but the argument is mute because nobody but Brady and Mahomes have won Super Bowls in 5 years.

Chiefs fans act like Patriots fans did. Namely, that they had a hand in building the team. As if Brad Veach had another name on the card and the smart Chiefs fans stormed the room and scribbled out the name and wrote in Mahomes. Patriots fans for years would lecture Bills fans and the league on what “good football looks like”.

The media. Its a media award that means nothing to fans compared to winning. Nobody walks around with Brett Favre NFL MVP 1996 shirts.

Mike Schopp cares the most. Because he literally talks betting odds for that award every single opportunity he can.