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Lol apparently my English sucks. I think that from my posts in this thread it should be more than clear that I understand how it works So my 3rd attempt to write the same thing: I think Virgil understands this, and his question is WHY do we play our AFC West equivalent at home in 2018 and 2019, and the on the road in 2021 and 2022, if much better solution was to rotate these games, so we play our AFC West equivalent at home in 2018 and on the road in 2019 and so on? Can you provide simple answer? My answer is that it is simply not possible to schedule it that way, but it is not very intuitive why and it is not easy to explain.

Formula is clear and simple to the extent that we play AFC West opponent on road in 2021 and 2022 and then home in 2024 and 2025, and so on. But real question which imo Virgil is asking (knowing what I just said above) is why it isn't 2021 home, 2022 away, 2024 home, 2025 away and so on. I guess we all agree that it seems much more logical this way. My answer is that it is not in fact possible to schedule it this way but it is certainly not easy to understand why. Same as above. This doesn't answer Virgils question imo

No offense man but saying that there is a formula doesn't answer Virgil's question at all. He doesn't say we were screwed, he is asking very logical question WHY there is such a formula which doesn't include these games rotating H/A. No link provided here contains actual answer (as far as I know). And the answer is also not trivial imo.

It's really interesting that we are 29 responses in and almost no one tries to answer your question @Rochesterfan tried but I don't think you answered what Virgil's question actually was... Also, formulas linked in this thread do not answer why these games are not rotated home/away. Like you said Virgil 2021 and 2022 are both years when we play KC not because we face entire ACF West, but based on them and us ending on the same spot within our divisions a year before. I agree that common sense is that these games should rotate, but they don't. No matter who the respective opponent from AFC West is, we always play them home 2 years in a row (which in fact means 3 years in a row counting the year when we play the whole division), and then on the road 2 years in a row (3 total). Thing is that IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to come out with schedule rotation which would make all games rotate in home/away fashion. I was smart enough to make a simulation proving this to myself, but am not smart enough to explain it here (I might try if you are really interested though). But trust me on this, you can't do it for all divisions. So as a results, some divisions vs some divisions rotate H/A, but AFC East always has H/H or A/A vs all other divisions.

Hmm I just checked Sportrac and there are couple of things I didn't see posted here: CB Ja'Marcus Ingram no longer on the Bills roster (only 52 players there). S Jared Mayden signed on PS. PS is not that relevant but if Ingram was indeed cut I wonder what that means.

Yeah my favorite thread ever together with this beauty: 85-90% of posters wanted Rosen when we were picking. Fun times

Agreed. I do understand why people don't like him as a runner, but it is not the only role a RB has on this team. Bills 4th drive yesterday is a good example. Moss trips over himself on the first snap gaining 7 yards instead of maybe 15 and that sucks. But two plays later, on 3&4, his blocking allows Josh to throw 26y sideline completion to Hodgins. That's why they still value him. And to be clear, I am not saying that he should be on the field, I am just saying that not only running matters.

Not sure if this was discussed more so I just go ahead and ask. Lawson got a lot of heat for that hit on my local forum. People claimed that it was dirty. I am not an expert and I don't want to defend player just because he is from Bills, so I'd like to ask: 1. Was it a legal hit? 2. If it was legal, was it fully ok? I mean in the sense that if Allen was hit like this would it be completely fine for you? Refs and Romo surely seemed to think that it was legal.

I said I wrote it a second after I saw it live. I saw wrong

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.