Billy Claude

In this rain I am sure everyone on the Ravens wants to get it over with as soon as possible.

That is recency bias because he has fallen off the cliff so quickly and is a kind of a weird dude. I feel Russell Wilson will definitely make the HOF. He was never the best QB in the league but for each season from 2013 to 2019 he was unquestionably a top five QB maybe as high as second best in 2019, he won one Super Bowl and went to another. The NFL HOF is not the baseball HOF, it should be more than enough to get in.

There's been plenty of players who threw a hissy fit when taken out even when they clearly had lost it.

I took a quick look at the states KC has a net negative for DPI but they are by far the largest beneficiary of defensive holding. I assume most of those are on passing plays. Not sure how holding on special teams counts.

Agree, all teams are on fumes right now -- the Bills are actually in a better situation than most. Also agree on the two bye weeks. I never understood why they just didn't keep it at 16 games and go to two bye weeks. The TV/streaming services just care that they have the content to fill up the time slots. The NFL would still have had the extra TV income (though not quite as much) without the cost of paying the players more. This is one issue that the NFLPA should have stood firm on. Going to 17 games is proof positive that the NFL has no real concern for player safety and that either the NFLPA is spineless or the NFLPA leadership is in the pocket of the NFL.

The problem with that argument the NFL is so big that it makes very little difference financially who wins or are you saying a Jacksonville Carolina Super Bowl would collapse the NFL. The risk-reward ratio is almost infinite. Also most of the owners with a few exceptions made their money in other industries. They have spent most of their lives being told how great they are. They buy the team for ego as much as anything else. Now you are saying a guy like David Tepper or Woody Johnson being perfectly fine with being regarded as idiots. Finally, the owners don't behave like the games are fixed. If it was everybody would just be cash to the cap like Ralph was and definitely they wouldn't be signing coaches to long guaranteed contracts.

However, in a sign of things to come, he was sacked once out of every 5.7 drop backs that year (6 sacks in 34 drop backs) for the Jaguars. He was also injured during his big game against the Ravens and was inactive for the next three games. In those days, before analytics, I feel that sacks were always blamed on the o-line (at least by the public) so nobody thought to consider how often he was sacked.

Based on the data, the DPI only happens very rarely, KC is the beneficiary of DPI 6 times this year and only 3 times last year (last in league). Just to extend the data further back, in 2020 KC was called for DPI 17 times (#3) and beneficiary 4 times (T30) for a net of -13, while in 2021 KC was called for DPI 13 times (#3) and beneficiary 6 times (T27) for a net of -7.

Your impression was not wrong. The Bills are the worst team in the NFL at drawing pass interference this season. They have drawn three pass interference calls this season which is tied for 31st with New Orleans They are 24th in yards gain from DPI calls. San Francisco (4), Philadelphia (5), and Miami (5), have also drawn very few pass interference calls. The top teams drawing DPI were Jacksonville (18) and Dallas (15). The average was 8.19 DPI per team. The Bills have been called for pass interference 8 times, which is about league average. Houston and Philadelphia has been called the most at 14 times, while Jacksonville has only been called for DPI once. So Jacksonville has the best differential, an amazing +17, while Philadelphia has the worst at -7. In 2022, the Bills received 8 pass interference calls (average was only 7.28 per team last year) and was called for 8 times also. Last year Kansas City was called for pass interference the most times (15) while benefitting the least amount of times (3 times, tied with Tennessee and Chicago ) for a net of -12. https://www.nflpenalties.com/penalty/defensive-pass-interference?view=team&year=2023

There might be individual refs/players who might throw a game. As many has pointed out, that probably has happened though I think it is much rarer than many implied. However, to believe that there is the NFL office decides winners beforehand is frankly ridiculous. It makes zero sense for the owners to accept it -- unless you think only Goodell and a small cabal of owners are in on it. Ask yourself these questions. Why would David Tepper throw a drink on a fan if everything is fixed? Why would he fire his coach and GM so he has to pay multiple coaches/GM if everything is pre-ordained. Why was Pegula paying three coaches at once? Why is Haslam guaranteeing Watson $230M if it doesn't matter. Everybody knows Jerry Jones is one of the most powerful owners in the NFL and the Cowboys are one of the most popular teams. Why don't the Cowboys do better in the playoffs? When do they tell new owners or potential owners that the games are fixed? Why don't any of these owners sue when they find out? Why do the NYC/Chi teams stink so much? Why are many of the top teams in the league from tiny markets like KC, Buffalo, Cincinnati, and Baltimore. It makes zero sense for these multi-billionaires to accept the level of ridicule they get from their fans when their teams stink (see Johnson, Woody). If I was Tepper and found out I run a scorched earth policy and sue the NFL (and any owners in the know) for every penny they have.

Like a lot of these so called fixes, someone will say it's is clear evidence of rigging no matter what they do.

Trubisky will probably be available for cheap after this season.

That Vegas is letting you cash out is a complete shock to me.

Allen was never supposed to be in the competition, McCarron was supposed to be #1, Peterman #2, and Allen was supposed to be #3. However, Peterman played great against the third stringers (the Kelvin Benjamin revenge game), McCarron looked awful and sulked, so they traded him away and ended up with Allen number 2 behind Peterman.

C.J. Stroud? Lamar Jackson? Baker Mayfield? Cam Newton? They all had decent year ones.

Ok. I guess I didn't remember the Peterman one. Tanney was on the Bills preseason squad in 2015.

I believe that was Alex Tanney. -- See thread below -- it turns out Nathan Peterman also had a trick shot video.

Probably the most non-sensical pickup of any of the Jets signings this season. I understand that they weren't sure about Breece Hall coming off his ACL, but they already had Ty Johnson and Michael Carter and surely they could have come up with an insurance policy cheaper than Dalvin Cook. Complete idiocy by Joe Douglas.

Same as it has been for the last season and a half; a very good football coach who is not very good in end game situations. Great coach for building a winner, not clear he is the guy to get you over the hump.

Allen is fine in cold weather. He is not particularly good in sloppy weather (wind, rain, and/or snow). Obvious sloppy field games where he was outplayed by the opposing QB is, of course, by Burrows in last year's playoff game and by Matt Ryan in Allen's three interception game against the Falcons a few years back (although Allen did win the game with his legs once he stopped throwing it so much.) There was also the Eagles game against Carson Wentz in 2019 but maybe you don't want to count that since Allen hadn't hit his stride yet. I am sure there are others but those are the ones that are just off the top of my head. You can also argue he was outplayed by Bill Belichick's strategy in the famous Mac Jones two pass game, To me, the issue is that Allen doesn't like to adjust for his passing game for weather except to throw the ball harder which just leads to more drops and less accuracy.

I would guess 80% to 90% of the response on this board was positive when the Bills traded for him.

Not saying to convert Allen into Tom Brady. You don't need to abandon your game to get a little bit better at things that you are not great at.

I get your point, the New England game I was referring to (13 of 28, 0 TD, 3 Ints and pulled for Matt Barkley) was year two not his rookie year. Yes, it is discouraging to me that Allen does not seem to be getting better at the things that he is not good at. He could be an all time great simply by reducing his turnovers by 20% and a little better processing but people here seem to think that this is impossible without killing his game.

It wasn't Allen's worse game -- that has to be the game in his rookie season against Green Bay or New England in year two. However, it certainly wasn't in any sense good. Bad performance and bad body language for both him and Diggs yesterday. Definitely don't understand this automatic game ball stuff.

The Ravens are 1 win and 4 losses against the Steelers in the last 5 games, including a loss this season The Ravens hate the Steelers. They may rest their starters, they may lose the game, but it won't be because the Ravens want to keep the Bills out.