Straight Hucklebuck

Whatever Boyd, you won’t have to cash the checks your mouth is making so all good from your standpoint.

They’ve already played the best WR in the league. And it ain’t Chase.

Yeah, it’s on ESPN. Paraphrasing … They don’t have anything to prove, they’ve beaten everyone, they all know what they can do, all they have to do is go do it. This Bengals homage has gone on long enough. Hammer Burrow over and over and over and over again.

Thad Brown is freaking weird man.

Phillips really cranked his shoulder in New England.

Yeah I don’t really know what this proves. It buys a week of less media pressure, you did something. But if Carr isn’t the answer, no way Stidham is. Wasting time.

This far Beane has tried to build the offensive line around bargain shopping free agency and mid-round draft picks. I think we have in-house options that are equal to Saffold, but RT is a problem. If you draft a Center in Rounds 1-2, I would think that means you want them starting. I would like Gesicki on a 1-year deal as the TE2 on this team. Singletary you can let go, and Gabe you’re playing out his rookie deal, and he’s ideally be replaced by a rookie 1st Round pick.

He was injured November 6th. It’s now December 28th. He’s played 7-games since that game. So the elbow is probably not 100%. But is he really out there at 30% elbow strength, when he says he doesn’t feel it on game day? That stuff about his arm feeling tight was back at Thanksgiving time.

The Bills didn’t do anything out of the ordinary to stop Jefferson, and he became the reason they came back in the 4th-Quarter. We’ve seen the Bills play standard against Kelce and just get torched all-game, especially when he was allowed to get free release. So is is the smart play to employ our standard Nickel, trusting the scheme, or step out of the shell to try and take Chase away with something new? It goes without saying that Rousseau going against the backup RT goes into the Top 3 most important matchups to win, to hit Burrow repeatedly.

I just don’t reasonably think you can expect to win a Super Bowl with Leslie Frazier as your Head Coach. Realistically, how is he going to recruit the offensive coaches necessary to scheme an offense to outscore Patrick Mahomes in-division, let alone all the other offensive talent in the AFC? It just feels like a hire for the NFL back in 2002, not 2022.

I think this comes down to WR and then Offensive Line. Speed is a priority. Spencer Brown you’d have to project if he can reasonably get better, because it feels like he allows free rushers 1 of every 3 snaps.

Definitely he is not seeing the number of touches he was. First 9-games he went over double digit targets 6 times. In the 6-games since, he’s been targeted 10+ times just once. Just listening to Dorsey’s press conferences, he just calls what he calls and doesn’t deviate off what he is seeing. The Bills seem to trust whoever is on the field equally and when the ball goes your way it’s your turn to make the play. You can see this in Cook’s touches. By all measures he seems to be breaking out, but is he constantly going to see 10+ carries a game now? He hasn’t so far.

I wonder if the Vikings were asking this after Jefferson’s 3 catch, 14-yard performance against the Lions. This is like the “analysis” I’ve heard all day about how Allen isn’t quite Mahomes, or the Bills don’t have three WRs as good as the Bengals do, or how the Bills only scored 6-points in the first half against the Bears so what’s wrong.

I say forget the analysts. They don’t say anything you don’t already know. You get basic ex-player analysis which usually ends up with them telling a story from 1997 and laughing. Put the Bills 12th, put them 16th for all I care. Say things like Herbert has eclipsed Allen now, go ahead. Bills beat the Bengals in 6-days, NOBODY in the league has two better wins than that on the season. So go ahead media and keep talking the MVP when nobody cares. Maybe fire up a Top 10 ranking list for the 5th time in one week. Get Mike Greenberg on the screen to give his expert analysis, maybe cut to Stephen A screaming into the camera like he always does.

#1 seed gives the Bills the most time possible to try and get Hyde or Crowder back, although it is looking more and more like they are done. Haven’t heard anything on either other than they are running off to the side of practice. But it would get you to mid-January to get anyone back that you could.

Josh is going to surpass his best rushing season ever in Year 5. He's essentially pulled even, with 2-games left. Whereas Herbert is not coordinated feeling and escaping pressure like Allen. He slides before first downs, despite running faster than Allen at the Combine, you never see him hit full speed. And this Lombardi offense, without Guyton, is CHECK DOWN CITY.

If you’re the Colts do you just start handing off every play? Queue the Benny Hill music.

This is a good post. Even Mahomes is becoming reliant on Jerick McKinnon as the season has gone on. But Herbert? Yeah, this is checkdown city now. And he didn’t play long enough.

Worst one I’ve ever seen in Ryan Clark on Wes Welker. But I agree that was extremely fast.

Derwin James is out of control, holding all night on numerous WRs, the personal foul on ripping the helmet off and that ridiculous hit. Get him out of here.

Blitz and play soft coverage, great plan Harry! The Chargers stink. This OC has turned Herbert into a dump off artist.

I’d say Colin used to be more interesting. But around the time of Russell Westbrook leaving OKC, he’s become obsessed with banging on Westbrook, John Wall, Stephon Marbury, Steve Francis. His show is now rip Westbrook every day (like anyone cares), rip Aaron Rodgers, round out with Cowboys or LeBron talk. Allen said he didn’t get the nose of the football down and the wind took it.

Never understood how he became a Head Coach. He came to Buffalo from Syracuse under Marrone and ran a dreadfully boring offense. Followed Marrone to Jacksonville and did the same thing. Hung around Aaron Rodgers and rehabbed his image. And we have since learned that the Bills got hood-winked by Marrone’s agent and their 5-day “no stone unturned” search in Arizona led by Russ Brandon.

I’ve listened to Colin Cowherd since he debuted on ESPN in 2004. But around the Vikings game this year I stopped listening to Fox radio completely. The day Colin was saying the Cardinals should trade for Russell Wilson in exchange for Kyler Murray, I was just like the media has gone off the deep end with the made-up storylines and narratives. When Nick Wright was talking about how he owns a Bentley now, I just stopped listening. Colin clips still show up on my YouTube feed now and then, and it’s always some made up storyline, Nick Wright the Bills “peaked too early” and the Chiefs are “dynastically dominant”. Nope, I’m done with Fox and listen completely local WGR from now on. I don’t love any of the WGR hosts, but the National Media is atrocious. And Nick, NOBODY CARES about MVP. That’s a media award where Peter King can pat himself on the back because he put a ballot in.

Bills win this game and nobody in the league has two better wins, at Kansas City and at Cincinnati.