Kelly the Dog

He was actually our second best receiver out there.

You're right, there may have been a ton of criticism. Unwarranted, but a lot.

Or they came to the brilliant realization that they are paying Shady McCoy, their best player, $40m to not give him the ball.

If he is hurt they don't run him up the middle on a called QB draw on 3rd and 22 way out of FG range. That's stupid when he is healthy. I was a little disappointed in his footwork yesterday. There were 3-4 times when he had time and knew where he was going to throw and still didn't use good technique. Even a couple of them weren't bad passes. He has to get those right.

McDermott hates timeouts. Gets rid of them as quick as he can.

I will be shocked if that is not what they do. Although they may wait for an extra week.

Derek Carr plays more like David Carr than he does Derek Carr.

He doesn't run great routes. He doesn't get separation. He can't go deep. He doesn't track the ball in the air well. He often bobbles it even when he catches it. He doesn't have great awareness or do well by the first down marker, although yesterday he did make one play to get a first down that showed some awareness. He has not shown that many other times near the sidelines or first down marker. Other than that, he's average.

He scored the only TD of the day on a very good play. Would you say the same thing, that he did nothing to help the win if he threw a very good 15 yard TD pass? That play was huge. Also, the defense, which was phenomenal for the most part, somehow let a WR get wide wide open and he just dropped it late in the game. That could easily have cost us the game. Very very lucky the Titan flubbed it.

I actually believe that a 45 yard kick for Hauschka is the same as a 35 yarder. Just as easy and would miss just as many, which is very few. The kickers these days are so good 45 is routine. 50+ is trickier but he is deadly. Kickers miss as many or more extra points at 33 than they do 43 yarders. At one point last year I saw that the top ten kickers had missed way more extra points, like ten total, than FGs of under 45 yards. Something like that.

I would argue we have no idea either way whether he is a good veteran mentor or a bad one. I don't think talent really has anything to do with it. AVP for instance was a very good sideline adviser.

He's not signed to play, and even if he does it's better than Nate Peterout.

They tried a screen to Shady that got blown up and Josh threw it in the dirt. They threw a WR screen in the last drive that was a critical play and first down, that pretty much won the game.

This kind of win will set the franchise back at least a decade. So in other words when you like something it's not okay. But when you don't like something, it is. Got it.

In your earlier incarnation, when you hated most everything, you seemed to have often criticized wins and especially players like Tyrod when they played lousy in wins.

Unless you are a great team there is no such thing, and even then anyone would be hard pressed to actually believe that. That doesnt mean it is out of bounds to be critical after a win. There really is no correct answer. It's like a terrible pass that should never have been thrown and easily should have been intercepted but it bounced right and was a touchdown. It's still a TD. Sure you can rightfully criticize it but it counts. So there are two legitimate schools of thought. When you are the stage the Bills are in, however, there is no such thing as an unsatisfying win. Except for your very best bittchers.

The vast majority.

Pretty impressive. Love the way Ivory runs. Always have. I thought it was a great signing right off the bat.

Except for five years straight Jerry Hughes has played to the whistle more than any other player on either side of the ball. It's not even close. He's the hardest worker we have, even more than Kyle.

NFL uniform.

The first play was a deep shot. But otherwise I agree with your whole post. WTF was Daboll thinking calling a QB draw on 3rd and 22 or so though?! trying to get Josh injured for no reason? I understand if it's an important down or chance for first but that was mental.

Right. Because before, when Josh threw an INT, he came to the sideline and Nate would slap him on the butt and yell, "You nailed it!"

Yet

And it was the right move and it worked.

I have been screaming for WR screens the entire season. In the first four games I can only recall one, which was to Andre Holmes, who is is just about the least shifty, tackle eluding WR you can even imagine. There may have been more but I can't remember any. There were 1-2 quick throws to the outside like the opening play of the Vikings game but I would not call that a WR screen. Then today, on the last drive, he called it, to the right person, Ray Ray Ray, the shiftiest of our crappy WR. And Ray Ray Ray made a few guys miss and got a crucial first down. So I don't know if he should be applauded for that or slapped upside the head for not doing it all along like every other team does.