Ethan in Cleveland

Exactly. Didn't they get stopped on two 3rd and 1s?

Buckeyes are soft under Day even though they keep putting high level defenders into the NFL. No way they would come back to win with Day at coach against Miami or beat Alabama with 4th string QB like they did with Tressel and Meyer. Day can prove everyone wrong with an upset of Georgia though. My guess is OSU gets hammered 52-10 in a rout. But OSU has the firepower to put 50 on Georgia if Stroud and Harrison are on. Missing Smith-Njaba hurts them though. Agreed. Honestly Wisconsin is a step below where Fickell should have landed. With his track record at Cinci he should be at Auburn instead of the cheater Hugh Freeze.

So Burrow was like 6 of 7 for over 100 yards and a TD against the Chiefs blitz last weekend. Allen destroys teams when they blitz. You may like looking at blitzes but against even decent QBs you are more likely to get burned. Hate it all you want but dropping 7 or 8 in coverage and rushing 4 or even three is the right recipe to stop potent offenses. I presume you like watching winning more than you do watching blitzes and losses. Against run heavy teams I can see using a 4-3 some of the time. But even teams that run a lot, still run from a 3 WR set frequently. Nobody except maybe Belichick is going to stay in a 4-3 against a 3 WR set. Most teams just like the Bills are in nickel the vast majority of the game. It's just how it is now. You need to just accept it. That said, I agree the D has always been a paper tiger padding their stats on the terrible QBs they have faced the last two years. If they want to beat the Chiefs or the Bengals in the playoffs the Bills are going to need to score 40. Lastly the great equalizer is turnovers. When Josh plays clean, the Bills are nearly unstoppable. Josh has been better lately but he has been really careless with the ball this year. Even last week there was a possible pick 6 the Pats LB dropped right before the half. Bills are tied for 17th in turnover ratio at an even Zero (20 takeaways/20 giveaways). The good news is they are 4th in takeaways. So they can produce the turnovers when needed. Sadly they are 3rd in giveaways with 11 INT (5th highest) and 9 fumbles(3rd highest). If they can play clean this team is good enough to win the SB! PS Eagles are +13 in turnover ratio with a QB that has only thrown 3 INT, but on this board he is no good.

I agree but not all do. Jets went defense, Texans went defense, and so did the Bears. I think the more consistent theme is youth over experience as many of the recent hires have been on the younger side. Seems like teams want that guy that is willing to spend 100 hours a week at the job

Exaclty. Gase was a disaster but McDaniel seems competent. Its the guy not the background.

Von was playing at a high level but the real issue is the drop off from Von to Epenesa is astounding. Hughes was capable but Epenesa is horrible. Hope he proves me wrong with this short stretch to start and play significant meaningful snaps.

Ask Denver how that offensive mind is working out...lol McD called timeout before both plays and is equally complicit in the 13 second debacle

No it means they don't have enough evidence to win at trial.

And another assault is swept under the rug. No wonder why women often do not go to the police or school to report an assault. They immediately become the accused not the other way around. Sad.

There is nothing inevitable abut tearing your ACL related to age, position, or how he plays. That makes no sense. White tore his in a noncontact injury and Miller tore his with contact. It's just bad luck.

White was ready to go probably at the start of the season and certainly at least three or four weeks before he finally started playing. He just didn't want to play for some reason. Miller might be the same, might be sooner, might be longer. If they get him back in Nov of 2023 for a playoff run that will be fine. Let's be honest the only thing that matters now that we have Allen is the SB. Division titles and just making the playoffs no longer matter. The next 5 years the only goal is to win the SB. That can be done with or without home field advantage and with or without a division title. I would rather be fully healthy and a WC like Cinci than a DIv champ and riddle with injuries like Buf and Baltimore.

First of all it doesn't matter. A week or two wont change the timeline. Second this is a knee that has already been operated on which may make the imaging more difficult to interpret especially when it is initially swollen.

Should have kept Hughes. Many of us said it during last offseason. So this is not the retrospetoscope. Poor choice to go with Epenesa and Basham as primary backups. Oh well they have every opportunity to perform now. No excuses now. Make plays or get labeled a bust.

This sucks

Exactly. And most people thought they were crazy to even put Wilson the the trading block

Russell Wilson is a locker room cancer. Hackett is getting the blame and probably deservedly so. But there is something about Wilson that causes friction with teams. Hopefully the full story comes out. Seattle is winning without him and was willing to part with him.

Good post

Unreal. Even after not getting the first on 3rd down I thought they should have gone for it on fourth down. One yard and they win the game.

Good catch. David Shula was a bust with the Bengals. Mike Shula was terrible with Alabama. He had one winning season in 4 years. Tennessee has been a bad football program for years since Fulmer left. 7 of the past 14 seasons since Fulmer left were losing seasons and 2022 will be the first in two decades with less than 4 losses. Colorado does stink right now. However they have a decent history. They have a won a single National Championship just as Tenn does. Oregon zero. They have a single Heisman trophy winner. Same number as Oregon. Tenn has none. You are correct about getting guys in the NFL. Colorado currently only has 11 while Oregon and Tenn have closer to 40 each. That will liekly chage with Sanders as HC.

No it shouldn't be allowed. You could write a rule a couple of ways. You could specifically write the rule for QB's. Once they are touched from behind by someone on his team, the play is stopped at the point the contact began. Just like the yardage is marked when the QB initiates his slide not where it ends. This would eliminate the QB getting pushed on sneaks because the ball would be short of the line to gain. Or you could write the rule that when a player is not engaged with a defender he can not be propelled forward with a push or pull. Once engaged with a defender all bets are off. This would effectively eliminate a QB or RB getting pushed from behind in a short yardage situation right at the beginning of the play but still allows some of the scrums we see every week where forward momentum is not stopped.

Diggs gets hit with a lot of extra shots by DBs. He delivers a lot too. Sometimes when he is about to get hit he will fall down. Other times he seems to let up for a brief moment then put a helmet/shoulder into a guy especially before going out of bounds. They let this call go and they let the Epenesa sack go. Could have been roughing the QB as he lifted and twisted the QB down like a wrestling move which was specifically called out as a penalty several years ago. I'm glad they didn't call either.

Funny how if the Dolphins sign this guy it was a desperate move. If Beane and the Bills had signed him after seeing how terrible Bobby Hart played, the board would love it. Fisher was never more than a capable LT at his best and post Achilles he is probably a turnstile. Let's all hope Dawkins is ready to play soon.

Let's hope McD uses the Cincinnati blueprint to beat KC again

Cold doesn't matter. Its the rain and wind that is the real issue. Pats playoff game was second coldest in franchise history but with little to no wind. It was not bad to play in that cold. Allen and Bills have struggled in high wind and rain home or away.

Ticket prices are nuts for this game.