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I wonder, has any kicker ever before made three consecutive personal best distances in a single game, or been 3 of 3 in a game when all three were 50+ yards? That was a remarkable performance even if he did get a "doink" off the upright.

Tony Dungy (on the Sunday night pregame show) thought the Bills should have jammed the Arizona receivers at the LOS. Don't know if that would have made a difference. He also thought Buffalo paid too much attention to Arizona players who were not going to be targets. Another possibility, had Buffalo expected a Hail Mary, would have been to put some receivers on the field, Kumerow and Davis come to mind, who have physical attributes to contest a Hail Mary better than White and Hyde, who aren't that big. As always, hindsight is easier than foresight.

It does keep the pressure on for sure. Miami has three games coming up that are very winnable for them: Denver Broncos, Jets and Cincinnati Bengals. Buffalo has a bye and two winnable games: LA Chargers and San Francisco 49ers. San Francisco is well coached and will play Buffalo tough, but they been decimated by injury. In three weeks, it's possible that both teams are 9-3. Then Buffalo finishes out with a tough game versus Pittsburgh, a winnable game at Denver, at New England and home versus Miami. Miami actually has a little tougher home stretch with a home game versus the Chiefs and at Vegas against an improving Raiders team. The Patriots are a common opponent, and then we face each other in the season finale. I think the advantage still belongs to Buffalo, but if Buffalo falters, there is not a lot of room for error. Best case, I could see Buffalo finishing 5-1. I could also see Buffalo losing against any of the remaining teams besides Denver. I could see Miami winning up to 4 of their remaining games to end up at 10-6.

Me neither. However, I did click on the link and it's a him, not a them.

Not expecting anything. Sweeney doesn't add that much to to the tight end group that they would feel the need to activate him this season IMO. Next year is soon enough.

McDermott, having come from a defensive background naturally has some conservative DNA. I agree that he recognized the threat posed by Seattle's offense last week, and felt he had no choice but to take risks on defense, as well as pursue a relatively radical (almost pass only) offense. I suspect that against a certain kind of opponent we would see him gravitate back toward balance both offensively and defensively.

That's true. Is Dotson ready, you think? I didn't think about Lee. I'd like to see what he has

I agree it's not easy, but it looks far less daunting now than it did a couple weeks ago, before Buffalo got the New England monkey off its back and then took down vaunted Seattle. I don't think there is a team left on the schedule that Buffalo absolutely cannot beat no matter what. We haven't been able to say that at this point in the season in decades.

It sure leaves Buffalo thin at linebacker. Fortunately for the Bills this week Arizona runs a ton of plays with 4WRs and Kyler Murray, while he is like having a bonus running back on every player, is not a big guy. A DB is probably a better matchup trying to defend against Murray as a runner than a linebacker would be.

Buffalo has been coming on of late in creating turnovers. I hope it continues.

I've always thought that Lamar Jackson's narrowly defined skill set makes it possible to scheme ways to contain him. Within his skill set, he can do things nobody else can, but there's a lot of stuff he doesn't do especially well. While Buffalo lost their Baltimore game last season, they demonstrated at least one approach for containing Jackson. The Titans followed Buffalo's lead and polished it up a bit and beat the Ravens. Other teams will use that, or maybe a variation and Baltimore will find it more and more challenging to keep their offense as productive as it was.

He is a solid role player on the team. It all boils down to price and available alternatives. For example, I've seen some mock drafts that have Buffalo picking up Rondale Moore in the second round of the 2021 draft. He would be the same type of player as McKenzie, but he has more upside. If the Bills were to draft Moore, then seeya, Isaiah. That's cold but its the way the NFL works.

Murray was a higher draft pick.

They do mention Diggs. . . in their writeup on Travis Kelce as their tight end selection.

Josh Allen came into the league as an amazingly polarizing prospect. A few prognosticators, like Chris Simms saw incredible upside to him. Most saw a strong armed raw prospect with accuracy issues. The problem with most prognosticators is that they are married to their first impressions of prospects, and will continue to look for reasons to hold on to it rather than revise their assessment based on the full body of evidence. That's how you get people praising Tua Tagovailoa as the real deal after on good performance versus the Cardinals and their suspect defense. Josh Allen could have a duplicate to his Seattle game versus that same Cardinal defense, and there will be those who discount it because it is the Cardinals.

Maybe the league should award 3rd round picks to the teams that hire person's of color to be their head coach. I do see how the new rule could lead eventually to the hiring of more assistant black coaches. It gives you some protection when you lose him (or her?).

Clearly the Bills have become more aggressive on defense of late. It would be interesting to ask McDermott/Frazier why that is. Is it because what they had been doing wasn't working, or because they hadn't been showing the discipline they needed to make an aggressive style possible, or something else?

Diggs' play this season has earned him the right to act with discretion on a play like that with defenders all around him. Who knows, maybe he avoided a strip fumble on the play because of it.

You can't blame Pittsburgh for having a soft schedule, but it certainly suggests that Buffalo need not feel intimidated by them. Buffalo still needs to play a heck of a game that week.

Kudos to whoever researched Josh Allen for the Bills while he was still at Wyoming, not stopping at the fact he was so raw and had those alleged accuracy issues, and finding the heart that beats inside the guy's chest.

There are so many great plays, I have no idea how to pick the best one. I don't think there is an objective evaluation that can be made.

If only he could solve his accuracy issues, he might be able to move up in the rankings.

The history of QBs making $20 million per year is pretty short. In 2013 Eli Manning eclipsed the 20 million mark, the same for 2014. In 2015 Eli Manning was gone from the list replaced by Drew Brees and Phillip Rivers, still a pretty small percentage of NFL QBs. The number jumped to 7 QBs in 2016, the same in 2017. The number took a big jump in 2018 - to 14 QBs, creeping up to 15 in 2019. That number is only going to go up in the future, and it is inevitable that a $20 million QB is going to win the Super Bowl. I would not be surprised if it were this year with Ben Roethlisberger, Drew Brees, Ryan Tannehill, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady all in the $20 million club. What you don't want to happen is what happened to the Indianapolis Colts who have two $20 million club members under contract. Yes, Jacoby Brissett is in that club, along with Phil Rivers.

I think the Davis reception was a touchdown, but I doubt it would have been reversed based on the camera angles I saw.

McKenzie had a touchdown reception yesterday.