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It's possible. If you look at this season in a vacuum he would definitely be the front runner. However, I don't think I'm alone in viewing his MVP last year as fraudulent. His stats were not remotely close to good enough for MVP, but the league gave it to him anyway because the Ravens had 13 wins and dominated the 49ers in a primetime matchup late in the season. Lamar then ***** the bed in the playoffs (strictly speaking that has nothing to do with regular season MVP, but it effects peoples view of him). Unless Lamar completely dominates the field this year I don't see him winning the MVP.

I will lose my mind if Mahomes wins MVP this season. Based solely on how QBs are playing this season, Mahomes is not a top 10 QB and maybe not even top 15. If KC had an average defense they'd be lucky to be 3-3.

As you said, T Bass's struggles have been well documented. Sam Martin has been flying under the radar as a pretty bad punter. His 47.5 yard average punt is 18th in the league, but his 40.3 average net punt is 27th. His kicks tend to not go very far and are in the middle of the field with poor hang time. That's a bad combination. Coverage has been spotty as well, we were the first team to allow a kickoff return for a TD in this new format back in week 1. Coaching is also suspect. Remember when we had a kickoff from the 50 yard line towards the end of the Jets game? Had we kicked the ball out of bounds the Jets would've started their drive at the 25. Instead we kicked for a touchback and Jets started at the 30. Either Bass meant to kick it out and butchered it (entirely possible), or our coaches don't know the rulebook. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41908327/houston-texans-kickoff-loophole-green-bay-packers-kaimi-fairbairn-week-7

Given our limited cap space and that we just acquired Cooper I'd say our trade deadline wish-list look like this 1) Safety 2) Run stuffing DT 3) Depth players we can acquire cheaply I don't have any particular players in mind and honestly my money would be on Beane not making another trade during this season. We need a new kicker as well, but we're going to sign some UFA not trade for one.

Tom Brady would never advise QBs to break a cell phone to hide evidence. He'd tell them to hire a fall guy to take care of stuff like that for them

We need to draft a player like Chris Jones. Not trade multiple firsts or sign him as a 34 year old FA

Bass's 4.4mm active cap hit turns into 4.3mm dead cap if we release him saving 100k against the cap for the current season. We'd also eat a 3.1mm dead cap for 2025 With just over 3mm in available cap space, can we find a better kicker that'll sign in the 2-3mm range? The answer is probably yes. It doesn't need to be a guy that kicked in the NFL before. The Cowboys signed a professional soccer player that spent 20 games in the USFL and he's one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history (with a small sample size to be sure). Bass has been a disaster since the Giants game last year. He cost us multiple games last year and will cost us games this season, it's only a matter of time.

The refs ruled that Rodgers started his pass, then was hit by a defender that caused the pass to go awry, therefore it doesn't matter where the ball lands it cannot be intentional grounding and/or backwards lateral.

Item 1. Forward Movement of Hand When a player is in control of the ball and is attempting to pass it forward, any intentional forward movement of his hand starts a forward pass. (a)If contact by an opponent materially affects a passer after the passer begins his throwing motion, it is a forward pass if he passes the ball, regardless of where the ball strikes the ground, a player, an official, or anything else. When this occurs, intentional grounding rules do not apply. (b)When a passer intends to throw a forward pass and is contacted by an opponent before beginning his throwing motion, the direction of the pass is the responsibility of the passer if he passes the ball, and intentional grounding rules apply. (c)If, after an intentional forward movement of his hand, the passer loses possession of the ball during an attempt to bring it back toward his body, it is a fumble. Looked to me like Rodgers arm was past vertical and he was trying to bring the ball back into his body.

There was even a hail mary that one ref ruled incomplete and the other called a TD! Instantly reminded of the fail mary

This isn't getting talked about enough. Not only did the replay assistant blow the call, it then locks the Bills out from challenging the play. That's the man behind the curtain trying to fix a game levels bad.

Jets 20 Bills 10 Jets come out angry and motivated after Saleh's firing. Josh has always struggled against the Jets and I think it's gonna get ugly with no Shakir/Cook (not ruled out yet, but best case seems like they will be limited).

Pretty lazy analysis by Simms IMO. No one is going to listen to a podcast where someone talks about how bad Mack Hollins is though. The O-line/receivers share at least partial responsibility on 3 of the 4 plays he highlighted 1) If Allen throws this immediately to Cook he's probably tackled short of the line to gain. By the time Cook is open the pocket has collapsed and Josh is rolling to his right 2) Deep throw to Hollins - we had an entire thread on this. It's not a good throw by Josh, but the average NFL WR still makes that catch 3) 3rd and 13 - Simms says Coleman should've been the target. Josh ultimately rolled out to his right and passed to Kincaid for an easy 1st down, but failed to make a routine catch 4) Deep throw to Kincaid - Simms says it's a bad throw and decision by Josh. I'll agree it's not a good throw, but if Josh put another 6 inches on the throw it's probably a TD so how is that a bad decision? He's supposed to throw it to the guy that has the safety crashing down on him instead?

There's good and bad. Jumping offside as a WR is a head scratcher. So is getting hit in the back of the head with a throw. Showing up late and getting benched for a quarter aint great either. That 4th down catch and run was great though. Some really nice back shoulder catches too

I went with about the same, but that's just averaging out for the entire season. He's been bailing a LOT the last 2 weeks (sometimes justifiably so). Throughout his career Josh tends to be skittish in games where the O-line gets beat early, and that's happened the last 2 games.

Josh did say that it was a chest injury. Just like Tua said that he had back spasms after he got up from that Milano hit and was visibly wobbly. 3 diagnosed concussions later and Tua is currently on IR with many advocating for his retirement. These guys are warriors and know what to say to avoid concussion protocol, but (sometimes) at the detriment of their long term health.

I have to strongly disagree. This was a well placed ball and should have been a routine catch https://imgur.com/a/efdlNiY

I have to strongly disagree on that play. There's almost no chance a pass to Samuel would have moved the chains on 3rd and 13. #23 on the Texans was close enough to make a tackle for a ~5 yard gain. MAYBE a perfectly placed ball AND Samuel showing some burst/elusiveness that we have yet to see from him in a Bills jersey gets it converted. Kincaid had both feet in bounds and bobbled the ball a little bit when he hit the ground OOB. I don't think it would've been overturned either, but it was close. I'd say that a pass to Samuel probably has a 90% completion chance, but 5% chance at a first down. The pass to Kincaid is more like a 75% completion chance, but 100% a first down.

I'm not sure how this play would be an error by the QB? He makes a great throw on 3nd and 13 and Kincaid dropped it (or maybe he caught it and McD messed up by not challenging it). Unless you're talking about a different play

Donte Stallworth was really underappreciated in his time here.

The football gods gifted us with the Broncos missing a 41 yard FG as time expired to win the game. Unfortunately we had 12 men on the field...

I was more upset with McD last year when he had Josh kneel out the final 20 seconds of regulation in the Eagles game to limp into OT. A game that we ultimately lost in OT by the way... I won't blame him for trying to win this game in regulation.

Yea it would be really tight to run a play with 11 seconds left. Falcons had 12 seconds left and got a 14 yard pass and spiked with 1 second left on TNF. Why would the Texans have needed 10 yards to make things even? You're just assuming that we get 5 yards on 3 rushes? What if we tried running on 1st down and lost yards for a safety?

First: Second: Even if we had run the ball 3x in a row and HOU used all 3 timeouts, we're punting with 20+ seconds left on the clock instead of 16. Everything else being the same the Texans would've had 11 seconds to run a play in the middle of the field and spike it (risky), or a pass to the sideline. Third: Let's say we followed your script and ran the ball 3x and then successfully defended the sideline on the Texans one play..... there's still a good chance Fairbairn makes the 64 yard FG

What? Beane was hired to be the Bills GM on 5/9/2017. Josh was drafted on 4/26/2018 (by Beane). I agree with the rest of your post, but its wildly inaccurate to say Beane did not draft Allen.