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How? I wrote it a second after I saw it live. I am not rules expert, just saw a hit to the head while QB was sliding. I don't have clear opinion after I saw the replay. But I know for sure that 80%+ of the people on this board saying that the hit was clear would be furious if same hit was on Allen.

Wow that looked dirty by Hamlin.

Exactly. We just need to make a peace with it and hope for the best. He is what he is.

Hot take: I like Pickett. I think he will be longterm starter for the Steelers.

Looked like holding but they don't call such all the time. Great catch by my favorite young Bill Shakir. Hoping for many many more.

Agreed. It's probably either Spector or Smith, and they kept Smith to see what they have in Spector to decide later. When you say $700k savings is cut does it mean that he will leave us with roughly $200k dead cap if cut? I googled briefly about suspensions but didn't find it.

Yep it is getting thinner. Do you have any idea how does it work with Andre Smith suspension? He is sort of a wild card for me since he is blocking $906k from the cap space. Do you know what happens if his suspension ends and we release him? How much dead cap will it leave? I guess if we sign him to roster he just moves his current cap hit to actual roster (so we save a lot by cutting somebody else). But either way, he should free us some cap space soon.

Well then good thing is that our QB and DL don't!

Tampa, or whoever wins NFC South. And at home. https://fbschedules.com/2023-buffalo-bills-schedule/

It doesn't work like that for all divisions, but yeah it does for AFC East. And there is no way how to avoid it. See below. It is not flawed; this is actually the only way how to do it (within existing system). First of all, you need to exclude playoffs from your calculations, that is just something entirely different. Secondly, you can't look at just KC, since 2 out of 3 years we only play them if we end up on the same spot in respective divisions the year before. So, you need to look at it as an AFC West opponent. For a second let's imagine that both we and Chiefs always win our respective divisions. Then we would play them like this: 2020 home (we played complete West division, home game vs North winner, road game vs South winner) 2021 away (South whole division, North home, West away) 2022 away (North whole division, South home, West away) 2023 away (West whole division, South home, North away) 2024 home (South whole division, West home, North away) 2025 home (North whole division, West home, South away) 2026 home (West whole division, North home, South away) 2027 away (South whole division, North home, West away) As you can see, it is completely fair, it just doesn't work as you would intuitively expect - rotating those games when we don't play whole division. And here is the trick - it is not possible, at least not for all divisions. It is hard to explain, but trust me on this, you just can't create a formula where you alternate home and road games for all divisions. And for some reason AFC East is a division which plays every other division the way GBF describes above - we play each division twice in a row at home and then it rotates. But since every third year we play all teams from such division, it ends up like it is - we play AFC West counterpart three times at row at home and then three times at row away. It looks weird but it makes scheduling sense. And to be clear, not all divisions work like this. For example, AFC South only plays like this with our AFC East. But vs other divisions they rotate games more. So we are just unlucky to hit away streak vs them and it is multiplied by the fact that we always end up playing at Arrowhead in January. That needs to change One last note - as a result of above formula, this is the third year in a row when we play Steelers at home.

This is really interesting. Before doing so? What kind of move you have to do before you move someone to IR? Sound very confusing to me. Unless he really means to have some pre-agreed trade.

Had to find Sherman after all comments in this thread. Lol he really loves Russ

It could actually. Before Chiefs game.

Ok, maybe you're right. I am not an expert, I just would be surprised if there wasn't difference in healing whne you play vs rest. No need to be so offensive I probably just used a little strong words, I just wanted to say that it seems weird to me that he seems to be playing hurt. Do they know better than me? Hell yes. Are they capable of making bad decisions sometimes? I guess so. Again, they know better, it just feels strange to me. I am not arguing that he on one leg is still better than Hodgins or so. For me it is just a question of what is better for Davis longterm. You are already second poster who mentions that rest could possibly not being that helpful. That is really something new to me (no sarcasm). If that is true in Davis case, I rest my case

Agreed. This is not exactly Tua situation but I don't like how they are treating Davis. This will be third week in a row when he is clearly not healthy yet he is still practicing and playing. Doesn't make sense to me and they are hurting both Davis and team.

I think it is skewed a bit by the 2 sacks in other games in absence of Oliver and Phillips

I am a prophet, thank you. Last year I started a thread about upcoming Taron Johnson extension shortly before he was actually extended. I am predicting Bills SB this year btw.

Didn't you just contradict yourself in you comments re Giants and AFC West?

I'd be shocked if Beane spent $6,6M cap space on OBJ for 6 games. Truly shocked. If OBJ comes here it will be for much less imo.

Were the snapcounts from Ravens game posted somewhere? Didn't see them this week.

Haha. Half of this board believes that injuries to Bills players starting from Titans game were caused by a poster here who had made a thread about low number of injuries he had up to that point

Very well put. This is exactly how I see it. Decision was good. Lamar made a huge mistake with that INT. Throw it away if it fails and Bills start at 2.

My wild uneducated guess is that we will be happy if he plays against GB.

I really don't get these comments. Josh is amazing, but have you ever watch Mahomes play? Guy is just as amazing. We can argue which one is better but saying that Allen is so much better than Mahomes that it is "not even close" is pure nonsense.

That makes sense. But at the end of the day when White is fully ready to go the decision needs to be made. Like you said it should be plenty of time to evaluate them both by then. I just hope that Elam beats Jackson since he surely has higher ceiling and we need to keep on hitting our top end guys.