Simon

We don't always agree but it's clear that John has spent enough time on a ballfield to know how things work. I posted the same thing after the game yesterday:

I was wondering if they were so confident that they are going to beat Houston that they didn't want to show any of their cards to a team they think they'll be playing again in a few weeks

He tried to trip Oliver earlier after he'd planted him. When Ed's got some veteran presence he'll learn to take the opportunity to step on his hand when offered the opportunity.

That was his worst game as a Bill by an order of magnitude Seeing a typically smart player that lost all night long was just bizarre

Calls get missed. Who cares. What I took out of that play was Josh Allen's unbelievable field awareness to abandoned a dipstick play call and recognize where the sticks where and find a way to get there.

The Bills got their asses kicked at the LOS on both sides of the ball all day.

Clock running time is over

Daboll is fine 80% of the time but when things get tight he loses his freaking mind

Itg is now

That is unbelievable field awareness from Josh Allen

Pissing away two TO's in the last 5 minutes of a game you're trailing is inexcusable

Yeah, they've been getting beat up on both sides of the LOS all day. And they are now out of gas because of it

That an exhausted defense

It's true but he's flirting with a devastating penalty every time he gets up around a guys neck

They've been ahead of schedule all day and it's been the biggest difference in the game

A landline is the only thing I have because I still refuse to own a cell phone.

You can get away with that more on offense than you can on defense, where you have to do a lot more instantaneous mental processing when you're reacting to what you see instead of executing what you've designed. That's one of the reasons you put the dumb guys on offense and the smart guys on defense

I'd be curious what they had to say about this matchup if anybody wants to post a little abstract. I think Ed Oliver has been great this year but I thought he was handled pretty well by David DeCastro last week. And that's not a shot at Oliver as Decastro is undeniably one of the very best Guards in the NFL.

Can't say that I blame him The Bills present a lot of problems (I'd be running TE's from sideline to sideline all day on Saturday)

I agree that certainly used to be the case, but I have to wonder if it still is. I probably won't watch 10 seconds of MNF tonight because it's become about everything but the game being played on the field. Between the constant commercial breaks, the never-ending officiating conferences, the issues mentioned previously in this thread, etc the NFL game has become boring melodrama. I know I'm a weirdo but I can't be the only football fan who has been mentally checking out over the last few years. I just wonder how many of us there really are. And I love the Don and Howard example, but neither one of those guys would ever get anywhere near an NFL booth today, They just weren't dull enough.....

It's another of the reasons that the NFL has become soooo hard to watch (at least for me). When I'm trying to see the field so I know what offensive personnel has come out for a key down, how the defense has deployed, etc. instead I am stuck with a close up of some guys facemask for 30 seconds while somebody else yammers on about what that guy likes on his hot dogs. I don't give a **** whether he likes mustard and onions; I agreed to forego doing something fun and sit on my kiester in this chair for three hours to watch football, not to stare at some guys' nose hairs while a couple goobers discuss the relative merits of condiments. You can't do or say a single thing more interesting than what's happening on the field (you know, the reason I even turned on the TV in the first place?) so quit blocking the view of the field with celebrity close-ups, somebody's Tweet, a promo for your mindless vapid TV show or whatever other People magazine nonsense that I can find on 100 other channels. <end curmudgeonly rant>

That's funny you mention that because last night I was thinking that Beasley's shortcomings were mitigated by the fact that he was inadvertently making Josh a better QB.

Yeah, Brown had one, Beasley had two and Dimarco had another

It's week 15. And I'd give one to Dimarco and add another for Beasley

I don't think his short-area quickness is unique at all; there's a lot of guys that can come clean on jerk routes in the slot. And that ball that Beasley converted into another turnover was about 7' off the deck and a play that every WR in the NFL should make in his sleep.