Buffalo Junction

Yeah. They should have moved on to hard drugs somewhere around mid-October.

It’s almost be tempting to bring him in for some type of big nickel hybrid where Sherman specializes in covering TEs. His lost speed wouldn’t matter as much in a role like that. Just a thought. 🤷‍♂️

I wouldn’t either. The other factor is that Caserio has seen what Frazier’s and McDs defenses have done to Brady on multiple occasions. I’m sure he has a lot of respect for the man, and knows that Frazier is particular and professional. It’s a legitimate shot for him to become a HC again.

Best possible benefit would be for us to get up early and a heavy lake effect to catch them at halftime when they have to throw. Even better in that situation would be if we were wearing the all whites and Jackson couldn’t see the defenders.

They will bring gifts. I’ve been feeding a pair of ravens behind my house for the last two years. Every week or two they drop off something shiny on the cooler by my back door; a coin, piece of mirror, smooth stone, etc.

I have been really apathetic towards college football this year, and it’s going to be interesting going back and watching games. One thing I’m certainly going to dive into is those early Seminole’s games to look at Marvin Wilson. With the leg injury I think there’s a pretty solid chance he drops to the end of the first, and maybe later if he can’t go for the combine.

The adjustment was solid, but unfortunately it didn’t trump the Colts advanced accounting on the officiating crew. If the Bills had come out with that at the start of the game I think we get out of that field position hole in the first quarter. I do think that Reich & staff really prepared better for this game. Unfortunately for them, McD smacked them with game day decisions..... which was nice to see as it signifies self assessment and improvement from McD. There’s really nothing we can do about the TE situation until the off-season. I think we would benefit from Sweeney if he was available though. He’s certainly not a world beater, but he did show a penchant for finding holes in zones, making himself available to Allen, and catching the ball. There’s a reliability factor that goes with being a 6’4” check down option. Still, he’s no world beater and we can definitely improve. As for defending TE’s, the only guys with the size and speed to do so on our D are Milano and Edmunds, and teams have figured out where they’re going to be and scheme to exploit the hand off to a DB. We saw that with the Doyle touchdown where there was a communication breakdown between White and Milano.

Javante Williams probably won’t be there when we pick, but if he is I hope Beane considers taking him. Plus..... He’s a “Williams”.

There’s a bit more to it than that. For starters; 58% vs 74% completion percentages for Rivers and Allen respectively. 36.5 (Colts) vs 47 (Bojorquez); punt average. 40% vs 100%; Colts vs Bills red zone efficiency. There are more aspects of this game where the Bills performed better when you start to look at the details. For example we took away TY Hilton (32 yards on 2 receptions) and limited Taylor to 3.6 y/c. As a result of a few things like that I don’t exactly see all of those drops as incidental. Rather, they managed to make Rivers throw to secondary options and rely on a rookie who’s had a fair amount of drops to make plays on critical downs. I also think that their offense looked a bit better than it should have due to the refs not calling holding at all. There were a few egregious holds that were completely ignored. Veldheer in particular got away with basically horse collaring Hughes and committing a violent act of love on Edmunds in the red zone. Of course, at the end of the day a team always stands a good chance of winning when they’re QB plays better and their head coach out coaches the other on game day.

How could he accept it after what just happened? He’d lose the whole locker room.

I don’t know about that one. I feel like Wright’s nose is too big of a target.

We all knew Daboll was going to get interviews. Let’s just be happy that he wasn’t getting interviews from every team resulting in a bidding war. 🤷‍♂️. It’s Jets and Chargers. He given the opportunity to pick Daboll probably goes to LA, and he may just stay here with a pay raise if he doesn’t like how the Jets interviewed. Remember..... When you interview with an employer you are also interviewing them, especially when you’re an in demand contract employee. As for the distraction aspect.... IIRC, Daboll already set up staff lists, etc weeks ago, and the interview prep has been done for a while. I’d rather have the league put off the interviews until the first super bowl week or during bye weeks for the sake of competitive fairness. That said, good luck to Daboll.

We play nickel instead of big nickel. None of our LBers have really stepped up against TEs this season. All of our DBs are 6’ or under. This defense has been inconsistent with passing off TEs from on defender to another. The pass rush has given TEs time to settle into zones or get down the seam.

I’ve been spamming it to steeler friends every time Juju does something dumb and the other team goes ape.

IMO if there’s an animated gif it should be Rick James.

And his own teammates. That’ll happen when you spit on folks, poke them in the eye, take shots at their knees, and taunt anyone and everyone.

I never even heard of the guy until he showed up in a thread here. I do think it’s funny that he could get hosed with condiments for being a professional heel... However, I think it’s be a lot more entertaining if he went double or nothing on a Bills/Chiefs AFCCG and wound up getting slammed through a table by Bruce for charity donations. 😉

10 - The TOP difference was 10 minutes to favor the Colts. A TOP differential like that will often lead to big plays in the ground game during the 4th quarter. If that strip sack doesn’t happen and we take another 2 minutes off the clock that collapse in run defense may not have occurred. The difference in TOP is in large part due to poor 3rd & 4th down performances by the defense, but when the margins get slim a timely rest for a defense can often dictate how they perform late in the game. 0 - Zero holding calls. The refs didn’t even call the egregious holds in space yesterday. Couple that with possibly the best Oline in football and an experienced QB with a quick release, and we can’t expect them to win many battles. Particularly when we do not have a game changing talent on the Dline.... There’s no Donald, Mack, etc on this Dline to balance out the talent disparity. We need to keep in mind that the Colts have a very talented & balanced top 10 offense - Reich is one of the best schemers in the NFL. This defense managed to keep them to 24 points with poor field position and without our offense eating up an equal amount of clock. There are certainly areas of concern moving forward, but I’m not going to tag on them too much about this game. We need to remember that this team now has an offensive identity. The defense performs best when the offense is rolling and they can make splash plays against one dimensional opponents. Those splash plays didn’t happen yesterday because our opponent played excellent football.

Oliver did a pretty good job at stalemating Nelson and standing his ground against combination blocks. Forced their backs to find a different hole on more than a few occasions.

As far as what Indy did on D.... a lot of Tampa 2 and cover 3. They did an exceptional job of handing off routes, bracketing WRs in the intermediate areas, and got pressure with 4 rushers. They have the right personnel for that scheme and those players executed very well for most of the game. Couple that with slowing the game down, some odd play calling by Daboll, and a few injured WRs gutting it out and our point total dropped. On the plus side, the Bills won despite not bringing their A game and losing the battle in the trenches.

My favorite was Edmunds beating Veldheer at the goal line, and Veldheer trying to manhandle him from behind like a horny dog.

They should have ruled it a fumble on the field so it would be reviewed automatically without McD intervening. I thought that was basically the de facto protocol in these types of situations?

Probably complaining about the refs

If Oliver has a big game it’ll likely be a blow out win. Mainly because he’d have to whoop Q Nelson to make that happen.