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Allen looking rough today... plenty of time - has to hit those.

That is the BS around roughing the passer - normally Tannehill would have been buried in the end zone, rather than wrapped up and dancing.

I thought Tanny's butt cheek hit the ground before he stretched that ball out. In the first half I don't mind this kind of challenge.

You got to throw the challenge there - worth the review.

We will see... I have not really focused Groy during games when he has played, too busy watching the mess to his right. Watching Sirles as I think there has to be an upgrade to Miller on the squad.

I hate that roughing the passer call - so flipping ambiguous. Wrapped him up right above the waist and he tripped over the pile - turns into lifting the QB up and driving him to the turf...BS. Milano was uncharacteristically late picking up the skinny post zone handoff in the red zone for the TD.

Jeez... not another punter.

Not condoning the "stup" thug behavior, but it seems pretty weak when you think about Jameis Winston pulling down an NFL check, or how years ago Ray Lewis and his crew get into a fight and two guys sprout spontaneous knife wounds and die... no one was guilty and the NFL celebrity continued to play the game. NFL penalties for criminal acts are not real consistent...seem more aligned with how much negative press they think they will get.

Fake news - has to be.

This. ...one thing C.Biscuit97 (like the reference to one of my favorite Bills linebackers) said that struck me was "Averaging 14.6 points in a league that wants you to score". I know that the league has made rules that lean towards offensive play success, but why do the refs throw so many freaking flags that kill drives and sap momentum. Especially when my Bills play...seems like they should have banana clips for all the flags they throw. The Bills offense alone has been assessed 355 penalty yards on offense... runs counter to the "wants you to score" theory. By comparison the oft-scoring Rams in their new NFL-highly-coveted LA market have been assessed 163 yards. Just say'n

Yeah I know... I said he thought she was paid. Just dumb to get mixed up with guys like that and go back to their room. Even if you are just "partying". I have a daughter and I think a lot about moving to a town with a population of 100 (mostly elderly retirees) somewhere in the middle of Montana or Wyoming. I figure I will let her start dating after she has been out of an all girls college for 3 years. I'm reasonable like that.

Hired help... um....that would not provide the right service, or that may have been what Kareem thought. According to the article the police report indicated the altercation happened at a hotel when she would not hook up with someone in his entourage....so I may just be reading too much into it.

I hear ya, but when I look through plays on the film review threads Daboll is getting guys open (at least now with the younger infusion of WR talent) IMO they are primarily missing on those offensive shots for 3-4 reasons - 1. The o-line cannot hold up in pass-pro (particularly from center to RT) to allow our QB's to get through their progressions, 2. Josh is still learning where to go with the ball based on the look the defense is giving him, and is probably a bit slow going through his progressions, 3. Josh trusts his legs more than his pocket and will just tuck and run if he sees a soft edge when he may have a better downfield option, 4. The afore mentioned side of the o-line also struggles getting any push and opening holes in the run game. A lot of good things could happen if the fix the line. Josh hits more passes, defenses are less inclined to play man and load the box, we get more push and more success running the ball. Basically, they will put more points on the board. I am trying to understand how changing an OC fixes the above when I think there is more evidence of rookie QB's being ruined because they are forced to adapt to a revolving door of OC's and changing playbooks.

Yep. Tore mine wrestling my son. Two state heavy weight championships under his belt yet the old man still thought he could take him. He went with me to the ortho surgeon and when he told the doctor he was pinning me I interrupted and said, "trying - to pin me". Plenty of rehab, and still hurts some days.. We both knew he schooled me - sucks getting older.

Makes sense if it is a labrum tear - will need some time to heal. He's young, he'll be fine. If that happened to me, I would be in rehab for a few years:)

I saw him shed a block on a Fournette run but the angle he had to take required that he lead with that right shoulder and he shied away from making the tackle. Fournette is a load to take down and I was wondering if his previous shoulder injury was an issue because in another series he slipped the block and was able to square up and there was less hesitation. Kid is tough as nails, but I wish we had the depth to let him heal. Hopefully he can make a full recovery in the offseason - I wonder how he will look without the injury...thinking pretty awesome.

Sad, but I remember some years where I thought our punter was the best player. Live long enough you realize that the glass could always be half emptier

He better take a good angle because in a foot race my money is on Josh.

Shotgun - zone read option, but always run to the left. That way Josh can limit his reads to one half of the field and only the competent left side of the line has to perform. Anyone who is a slow-blinker lines up on the right. And yes, I am just yanking everyone's chain. Having spent a few years with Bama, I think Daboll knows how to dumb-down offensive plays to the talent he has if needed, but the goal should be that the offense can execute what they need to execute as part of their game plan to move the chains and score, take advantage of defensive mismatches, alignment gaps, and soft spots in the zones. That being said I don't think he has overly complicated schemes - the Bills have found some gems with just FA castoffs or undrafted players but sometimes you just need better talent. I think you can find that jet sweep play we scored with in just about every high school playbook. Just bigger, faster, and more talented players executing it.

I love those clips - just did not realize @26CornerBlitz had a regular thread. Save myself some coin and the time looking things up the hard way - gracious.

Thanks and much appreciated - I guess they are not going to tell every team how they attack a good running game, but was getting tired of hearing over and over about adjustments made at the half and not knowing what they were. I really should just give the NFL more money and get the game pass. I get annoyed with the way the NFL and NHL break all these things up into different packages, but I really like analyzing the games afterwards. Perhaps it was just me, but I thought McDermott seemed a bit annoyed (in his initial post-game press conf) that it took till half-time for Leslie to make the adjustments. Maybe reading too much into it, but I remember that he yanked duties from him earlier in the year.

Dunno how I feel about this...Colton was not great, but a known commodity. They signed Matt Darr who's gross stats are marginally better than Colton's, but he did not make the Dolphin squad and has been out of it for a while. You have to assume he has a bit more hang time and is a stop-gap measure till they get Bojorquez back. Not many games left and they may just be looking for a spark for ST.

I know I am killing the love fest, but just trying to keep it real. Milano is not very strong against the run, and that is not to take away from how many other plays and turnovers he does make. He is so effective at blitzing and getting to the QB as well as his coverage skills it is a hard decision to ever take him off the field. Feel free to look up his stats for the game (Milano 3 tackles) 1 after Fournette gained 7 yards, 1 where he pushed Hyde out of bounds, and a stop on Bortles for no gain when he tried to scramble. The fact that Poyer our safety led the team with 9 paints a picture of just how many runs were getting to the 2nd level. I don't think that suddenly Milano became a better run stopper in the second half and it is "OK" for a young player like him who is having plenty of success in other areas to have more to his game for coaches to work on. What I did see from the gamebook (besides all the ridiculous penalties I had tried to forget) was that the Bills had inserted Jordan Phillips a 6' 6" 340 lb DT on the line in the 2nd half who I usually only notice in goal line situations and he is in on a lot of stops. I should just buy game pass to see if the "adjustments" the Bills made were more than just personnel or if there was a package/alignment changes too because they did seem to help - I think. Jacksonville also inexplicably started going three and out calling pass after pass and to me it seemed Hackett hit the panic button a bit early and abandoned their running game after only a few stops...going all in on passing against this Bills "D" is not a good idea.

I think once you show up to a funeral home, demand the head of your father, try to fight with the employees, tell everyone there that you have guns and will use them - and then the cops arrive (small wonder) and find indeed someone thought it was a good idea to sell Richie a crap ton of guns and a silencer to boot... which they confiscate (where is the NRA when you need them to protect a crazy guy's rights?) well you have kind of left the Rubicon of insult-trading reprisal far behind. Just my opinion.

Milano has a nose for the ball, and is one heck of an athlete when asked to drop into coverage. The only struggles I have seen is when teams run right at him - his 6'0 223 lb frame does not exactly shed blockers. He plays a lot more like an extra safety on the field - if he can knife into the backfield and happens to hit the right gap he can trip or wrap up the legs of a RB. If being blocked it isn't even a contest, maybe why the Bills go with their 3 safeties, and 2 linebackers (Lorenzo and Edmunds) and Milano is not part of their goal line package. In most ways Milano is the perfect LB for a team that faces NE and the way they spread the ball around, but I can't say that he isn't a liability against a ground and pound run offense like the Jags were showing early with Fournette. Perhaps like Edmunds he just has to get more experience recognizing run early enough so he can hit the right gap unblocked...they're both young and still have room to grow.