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Agreed. With the way offenses spread the field, a guy like Tyreke Hill may very well be the "prototypical" receiver circa 2019.

I have zero rational basis to believe in Hauschka, but I still have a certain level of confidence that he'd make a "huge" kick if the situation presented itself. He's on his last legs and this will likely be his last season in Buffalo, but BIGTIME kick; I think he'd get it done.

From a betting perspective, the Bills are what you would call live dogs. All the public(which means Joe Schmoe) money going on Baltimore and the big boys are pounding the line down. Doesn't mean a TON in the grand scheme of things, but I'd rather see the Bills in this spot than the inverse.

Beasley has brought a certain swagger to the team. He's my guy right now.

Please don't do that!

Ok. Since we're airing the grievances against Flutie here, I HATED the narrative that he MADE Eric Moulds. If you don't recall this, you weren't paying attention. The media/fans acted like Moulds was a PS talent who had some kind of "magical" emergence simply because Doug Flutie created his very being. Moulds was already balling with RJ before Flutie ever took the field. Stats don't lie. Moulds was most definitely a media victim of Flutie for a couple of years. Guy was a stud who "figured it out" in his third season. Some of my disdain for Flutie isn't so much Doug himself, but the ridiculous nonsense devoid of fact that surrounded his "mystique."

Daboll? Frazier? I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Excellent piece and I'm not sure Rivera would accept a DC role, but I'd take him in a heartbeat over Frazier.

That's pretty much the worst video ever made.

I know I'm an awful human being, but I chuckled here. Glad he's alive and well. Got that energy! Heart attacks ain't stopping this man. He's the Bills version of the SNL Bears skit.

STILL cautiously optimistic. I really envy the unbridled enthusiasm, but I'll never allow myself to get overly excited when it comes to the Bills. This team feels different and they haven't been in this position in a LOOOOOOONG time. Still...Nothing would shock me in terms of something going sidewards. I'll FULLY believe when the Bills are hoisting a Lombardi. I'm enjoying everything play by play and snap by snap, but taking nothing for granted. That Pittsburgh game has bothered me for a while....we shall see. I'll be rooting just as hard if not harder than the optimists, but we HAVE to win that game. Yeah. I'm THAT guy.

I've been saying this since early in his rookie season; uptempo lends itself to PLAYING and not thinking. JA is at his best when he's PLAYING. Talent has never been a question. The results speak for themselves since the Cleveland game.

During the 99 season prior to the benching, he had accumulated 19 TD's and 16 picks through 15 games. Threw for about 200 YPG, did nothing on the ground, and completed 55 percent of his passes. AMAZING player! Can't believe a team would bench a guy with this type of "magical" season.

Everyone is talking about Edmunds and Milano, but Ed Oliver could be an underrated key for the Bills to contain LJ. He's obviously gotta keep an eye on the interior runs, but he doesn't really hold up all that well at the point of attack. Just a fact. What he does EXCEPTIONALLY well is track ball carriers from behind. I could see EO coming out of nowhere as LJ is dancing around making the LB's miss. Jackson is not a straight line guy, so his runs usually take time to develop. That gives EO the opportunity to sneak on over.

Not really. I thought he had potential, but it was obvious he didn't have the pocket presence to be an NFL QB. If the question is Rob Johnson or Doug Flutie, my answer is neither. That number 1 defense lead by Ted Washington was amazing and the only thing worth remembering from the late 90's era. Flutie and Johnson BOTH sucked.

People always forget that he had his shot in the playoffs. He stumbled and fumbled the ball away in the closing seconds as Armstrong easily stripped him near the goal line. "Mr Clutch" that Flutie. That Miami team went on to lose the following week by 35 points. Tennessee was a MUCH tougher game and the Bills should have won. It's easy to say Flutie could have scored 20 points, but that's the same argument people would make for Tyrod prior to the Jax game had we known the final score. Let's say someone like Fitz played and had a bad Fitz performance where he handed the ball to the Jags several times and the Bills lost 17-10. People would say Tyrod ball would lead to at least 17. Flutie just wasn't that good, so it didn't matter all that much which QB played against Tennessee. Not only is Flutie the most overrated QB in Bills history, the "DECISION" is also the most overrated coaching(OWNER) move the franchise has ever made. Neither Flutie nor Johnson were any good. That number 1 defense Wade Phillips put together was the sole reason the team was in the playoffs.

Yeah. He'll pull a Costanza. "So I am breaking up with YOU."

Please god no. The cereal was awful and that era was full of disappointment. I HATED Flutiemania because he wasn't really a Buffalo Bill. Not sure how to describe it, but he never seemed like "our" guy. And he was INCREDIBLY overrated to boot. Let that era GO.

That rushing disparity is actually rather large and the reason Jackson is not a good comparison. Allen wowed as a rookie and is still a VERY good rusher, but he's not in the same ballpark as LJ(In THAT category). Again, Allen has been excellent 3 games in a row without getting to or even particularly close to 300. So in the context of one game, passing yards don't mean much. But the Bills, on a whole, are still averaging just over 21 PPG. So that begs the question; how are they going to increase that long term. They're going to need to gain more yards. Where are those yards going to come from? Well, the running game needs to get better for starters. But so does the passing yardage. Yards don't equal points, but there is a correlation. I'm super impressed with Allen and I'm close to being sold; but I don't think it's some crazy notion to believe the passing yardage will increase if A) Allen continues to improve and B) the PPG is going to rise, which it needs to overall. 300 yard games WILL come if and when Allen take another leap. He's certainly taken a few already. I think Mahomes is permanent elite-not so sure about LJ.

For sure and that's not the kind of performance I want to see nor do I really care about the arbitrary number of 300. I just feel like he's going to start hitting 300 a few times a season if he takes that next step. I certainly don't sit there and look at box scores worried about 300 yards. He's played 3 outstanding games in a row without hitting 300. But those games just come naturally when a QB truly enters the upper echelon. Allen most certainly has a chance to get there and I'm higher on him than I've ever been. Just pointing out that passing yards may be meaningless in the context of each game, but the top QB's are going to hit that mark 3-5 times a year.

I don't associate 300 yard passing games with winning. Plenty of garbage time stats are piled up by QB's in 300 yard games. I do believe that in order for the point totals to rise significantly, the 300 yard passing games are just inevitable. Jackson is the ultimate anomaly at the position right now, so I don't think his stats mean a whole lot in relation to Allen. I'm not obsessed with these 300 yard games and if Allen wins SB's, but never throws for 300 yards, I'm MORE THAN FINE with it. Just don't think it's realistic.

A) Every thread? B) His running style is completely different from Jackson just as Allen's running style is different than either Kap or LJ. LJ is a very tough guy to stimulate or simulate. There's never really been a QB THAT "elusive." Vick was faster, but even he wasn't quite as elusive. I'd prefer to NOT see McKenzie, Foster, or anyone on the active roster taking the time to do this because I don't think it would be all that productive. Much rather see their practice time dedicated to the offensive game plan. If Andre Roberts were super elusive or we had a super athletic guy stashed on the PS, it would be worth a shot. We'll see what happens, but just watch the tape and formulate a game plan. Anything else seems like a waste of time.

I would say it doesn't matter if Allen throws for 300 yards as long as the Bills win, but that's something that will/needs to happen 4 or 5 times a year if he's going to reach the upper echelon. In essence, I don't care that he HASN'T thrown for 300 yards, but it probably needs to start happening next year.

No thanks.

If there's one thing you can bank on in the NFL, it's that the transitive property doesn't apply. Every week is a new chapter and it often doesn't jive with the rest of the book.

I think it kind of did and it appeared as though this was the 49er's approach. Tough to tell how much the rain impacted the game, but it was LJ's worst game in quite some time.