Richard Noggin

There's some fat to trim from the Bills salary cap/roster after this year. Which means Beane needs to do even better in the draft, moving forward, in order to get better return-on-investment (ROI) from the second- and third-tier players. The first-tier group will command increasingly-large shares of the salary cap, if all goes well with Allen, Edmunds, Milano (shrug) and...anyone else soon? Looks like we don't get "our" money's worth in disruption from the D-line, innit?

Is this satire after last week's game? Like the kid, but he got targeted and abused in the run game.

Is this when we share gameday drug regimens? Or should that technically be its own topic?

It would be wise to take immediate action leaguewide. Configure a smarter, more cautious plan in an effort to ensure a complete and valid season. The other sports did it. I know the NFL is a more complex and expensive beast, but the money is there to make it happen. The TV money faucet isn't gonna run dry.

Presents a real conundrum for the league. How can the NFL place public health and safety above all else and STILL play the season with some modicum of competitive balance and consistency? (With respect to: thresholds and policies for when games will be postponed vs. when teams will play the games minus certain players.) The competitive integrity of the season will be a challenge to maintain whilst being abundantly cautious (IF the league chooses caution). We don't know what happens moving forward. So it's important for the NFL's Covid contingencies to be mapped out and adhered to. Publish the plans. Make it transparent. ALL stakeholders (including the viewing public--it's TV money that drives everything, after all) should have access to all the information (minus medical confidentiality considerations).

I'd agree that our guard play is underwhelming so far. I'd encourage you to revise your thoughts on Ford as a promising guard prospect. And I'd vehemently disagree with the coaches' decision to play Winters over Spain, despite Spain's apparent mediocrity this season. We've all watched Winters get effing blown-up from training camp through week three. When that man loses a rep HE REALLY LOSES A REP.

How many years now have I been able to chuckle at this? It spans from the official team board to this one, right?

Carr's body of work suggests he's more likely to peck a defense to death with checkdowns than to carve them up. I mean, Brady and Montana and old Marino and other west coast QBs have won a lot of games throwing swing passes to RBs (and FBs). Gruden comes from that school, of course. Suits Carr's "risk-avoidant" nature.

This is a difficult debate to quantify. I feel like Mahomes and Allen have essentially the same degree of raw arm talent, but that Mahomes has spent years refining that 3/4, abbreviated motion that we're suddenly seeing out of Allen. The same kind of motion we see out of Rodgers when he's throwing darts. Something about it allows for a virtuosic combination of touch/arc, velocity, and quick release that conventional (over-the-top, sporting-L) throwers cannot match.

Gimme Zo at MLB in the A-gap all day, every play (think JAX wildcard game...dude was a beast in the middle). Even if he ends up being used more like a D-lineman who occasionally drops into shallow coverage...I'm here for Lorenzo.

Don't bail out now.

Wasn't that 4th of July mishap within the last 5 years? And/or is my frame of reference mortally outdated?

For the sake of argument, and a valid point: how does the wind compare down inside the bowl in Orchard Park versus in Green Bay?

"Less than one hand" could mean something like what JPP's working with, ya know. Any number less than 4 is viable in this VERY limited analogy. So...apologize?

A stat nerd or someone even minimally motivated, possessing only a perfunctory fluency in Google, could quickly settle this old myth. What say you, oh motivated ones? Does the weather in Orchard Park REALLY limit passing stats for Buffalo QBs in the second half of seasons?

Okay, I'll bite. Do YOU see Hyde's individual performance falling off as dramatically as those selected stats (don't really) suggest? Can you share some all-22 footage of Hyde getting beat? Or some expert analysis that echoes this cherry-picked stat-based argument? I'm genuinely willing to take a closer look if prompted with compelling evidence (which goes for any of my preconceived notions in this life. We should ALL be eager to be proven wrong.) If I had to generate a knee-jerk defense for Hyde's drop in those two statistical categories, I'd suggest that Poyer has asserted himself as the more effective "box" safety, and Hyde has possibly improved as a true centerfielder. Where once they were virtually interchangeable, now they are perhaps more distinct in their strengths. Is it reasonable to point out a minor, yet glaring contradiction in your (bolded) argument?

One could argue that the sudden uptick in separation and production in the receiving game is largely due to opposing defenses committing to covering #14. Obviously, Allen is the trigger man and is delivering, but it's crazy not to recognize the distinct and dramatic difference in the way the Bills offense is being defended. We're seeing so much room for the #s 2-5 weapons to operate. I mean, that play in week one, when a double-covered Diggs emphatically pointed at the TE open in the endzone behind him...that was crazy.

Also the most difficult sport to referee in real time, and it's not even close. Such a difficult job for so many reasons. The obviously bad calls after official REPLAY, however...zero excuses.

Typed in jest? The Ravens did give one up in the offseason numbers game. But not before he snapped one off against us in 2019...

Bit too close to SoCal weather for my taste. Rams will feel right at home (with the stands being empty and all).

I'm on Indy this week as well. Used Buffalo in week 1 and San Fran in week 2. All three weeks I've picked against the Jets, basically. So far, so good.

In retrospect, talented depth (or better yet, someone to push Wallace for playing time) behind our boundary corners sounds very appealing right about meow. So this begs the question: was there a solid CB prospect available at the Bills' 2nd round pick? (I honestly have no idea.)

The EFF he is. 6'6" 280 lbs. Google immediately showed me some questionable site called operations.nfl.com that list the average NFL DE at 6'4" 283 lbs back in 2013. Which, to be fair... ...sounds more like an average of 3-4 DEs (5-technique) AND 4-3 DEs (techniques typically outside of the 5-gap, and therefore less likely to reward size over speed). And even so Epenesa is in no way undersized. So for a 4-3 DE (who we imagine, ideally, some day, would also slide inside on passing downs) he's actually big. Do better.

NOTHING to do with tenacious defense by #39?! I agree that Williams should have caught the pass, but it's likely Wallace's play made that more difficult to do.