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Not just for Patriot games. For Tom Brady Patriot games.

Um...if it were correct that he was released October 9th, October 9th to January 10th is like 14 weeks. More like 3 1/2 months Did you mean December 9th or something?

What are the rules on when the Bills must allow this to happen?

I have to say, ***** Von, and ***** the microphone he rode in on. I'm sick of seeing him in interviews and sick of hearing about how he's "back to himself" and finally ready to contribute. If he hasn't been able to contribute "as himself", why has he been clogging up a roster spot since week 5? Show us first, then talk. I mean, yes, it would be totally awesome if he were a force to reckon with in this week's game and he racked up a couple pressures, but zero to hero is a long climb.

I think the turban could be optional in the 56-0 circs. Which: Avert.

Did he have Mike Hammer, the meteorologist, on? Sal tweeted he was scheduled for 10:45 am.

Irvin, pardon my saying so, is either an idiot, doesn't pay attention to the Bills enough to look at the depth and injury chart, or is posturing for clicks. The Bills have been playing without 2 all-pro defenders (Matt Milano and Tre White who yes, had come back to form when he went down) as well as NT DaQuan Jones ("the straw that stirs the DL's drink"). OK, they filled in for Matt Milano by splitting his role between Tyrel Dodson and Jordon Poyer, and filled in for Tre White by trading for Rasul Douglas. They got reinforcements in the form of Linval Joseph, and now they have Jones back. And Terrell Bernard at MLB has been a revelation. Now Douglas is gonna be playing hurt (assuming he plays); our other starting corner Benford is injured and not practicing (and if you want to know how key he is, listen to Micah Hyde talking to him pre-game on "mic'd up"); our rising star MLB Bernard is injured and not practicing; Rapp, the S that backfilled for Poyer and allowed the Bills bring Poyer up as a sort of "pseudo Milano" is injured and not practicing; Dodson is gonna be playing hurt (assuming that he plays). Dodson's primary backup is also injured and not practicing. As of right now, it's looking like our starting MLB is gonna be a 32 1/2 yr old vet who was sitting on the sofa 10 days ago and our starting OLB is gonna be a rookie with all the promise in the world and the propensity to be in the wrong place doing the wrong thing right now, platooning with Jordan Poyer, which will leave Cam Lewis or Damar Hamlin paired with Hyde at S. CB will be an injured Douglas paired I don't want to be a "woe is me" type, but if we can't beat this version of Kansas City, it is very likely to be because when you're starting 2nd and 3rd string defenders against Pat Mahomes, who can crunch up talented 2nd and 3rd string LBs and DBs and pick his teeth with them. There is going to have to be some rebuilding this off season just due to contracts ending, but "Tear it all down and try something else" may be foolish in that situation.

Good question. https://www.chiefs.com/team/injury-report/ The two most significant injuries on that report are Derrick Nnadi with a tricep injury (he's their starting NT) and L'Jarius Sneed, one of their starting corners, with a calf. We had someone in here saying Nnadi was a "mediocre player" who "might help against the run" which I think is someone who doesn't understand the difference between a NT/1TDT and a penetrating/3TDT. Like the Bills, the Chiefs rotate DLmen, but Nnadi has their 2nd highest snap count for a DT on their roster with 45% of the snaps (2nd to Chris Jones with 68%) so they'll miss him if he can't go. He's been DNP in 2 practices. Sneed has played 91% of the CB snaps this season and IMHO is one of the key factors that have made the KC defense formidable. He's been "LP" with a calf which can mean anything. If he plays but his hampered, that would help our WR. A sneaky factor might be Wanya Morris. He's their backup LT and was playing for Donovan Smith. Smith was on IR for 5 weeks but returned to play 100% of the snaps against the Dolphins. He's still listed on injury report with a "Neck" but FP. Morris had a concussion during the Chargers game and was ruled "out" against Miami. Morris went from "FP" Wed to "LP" Thurs, not a good sign especially when a guy is in concussion protocol. So if he can't go, and Smith were to be injured again, the Chiefs could be thin at LT. Unfortunately, they look pretty freakin' healthy. They have some notable starters on their injury report - LB Nick Bolton, DE Charles Omenihu, WR Rashee Rice - but they're all full participants and likely to play.

Can we just freakin' continue to play for as long as possible this season? Worry about next season when next season comes - hopefully, not until February.

Yes, but keep in mind when Rivera talked about McDermott as a DC, he said he needed to rein his aggressiveness in.

That was really cute. Billl with 3 Ls....I have a feeling that you're not in Kansas any more

We had a discussion about that over dinner tonight. I think The Pit Sacrifice must be a Bills fan. Trying to appease it with fans of other teams could have an adverse effect. "No" to Taylor.

Yep, This. IMO, when I've watched the Ravens I think their offense is a different beast now. It's not just the LJax show, contain him and cover the TE and Done. They've stocked up on WR talent in the draft and FA, and Lamar seems very comfortable and decisive in the passing attack they're running. Like I said #5 for NY/A this season. What will be interesting is whether essentially 2 weeks off for Lamar and some of their starters has the Ravens rusty.

Don't forget Nick Broeker (Bills 7th round rookie, waived and snapped up) That would be the same non-logic that says "Josh Allen always lose in the Division round, Josh Allen always lose to Pat Mahomes in the playoff. This is no exception" I guess we ought to all skip the games, then.

So I've only caught a couple of Ravens and a couple of Texans games. I expect the pundits are all-in on the Ravens because Lamar, #1 seed - and they absolutely destroyed the NFC #1 seed 49ers. Looking under the hood, though, the way a fan with a little bit of football understanding but not deep knowledge about both teams sees it - The Ravens have the #1 defense in the league, and where it really shines is against the pass. #1 in NY/A. It's a bit more mediocre against the run, 26th in the league giving up 4.5 Y/A The Texans have the #13 offense overall, but it's based on a pretty strong #8 (tie) NY/A passing and a pretty "meh" #28 3.7 Y/A rushing. So that kind of looks like the Texans offensive strength matches up poorly against the Ravens defensive strength. On the other side of the ball, the Texans overall have the #11 defense, but it's actually #2 in rush Y/A, very sound - but #27 for NY/A passing. That would seem bad for the Ravens, who finished the season with the #4 offense on points, #3 for rush Y/A but this year the passing attack is more balanced, #5 for NY/A passing. So that kind of sounds like the Ravens have a balanced offense which can either go blow-for-blow against the Texans rush defense, or maybe find an advantage in the passing game that could open up the run for them. I think the Texans have a chance but in the end the Ravens will be too much for them, but I do think it will be more of a contest than many believe. I think the Ravens are a team that you have to have some experience with to "solve" offensively and defensively, and I don't know if the Texans have that.

I don't know whether they had crews working on it after the game and through this week, but there was more snow yesterday and today, so that needs to be cleared starting tomorrow. You can't preemptively clear snow that hasn't fallen yet.

It's my understanding they do install slides on the aisle stairs that channel the snow down to the field level where it's carted off. There were some videos of guys goofing around on the slides last week.

That's what they've done - the Bills have a contract with a company called Jani-King https://www.janiking.com/ Jani-King doesn't have a pool of snow shovelers sitting around being paid $20/hr, so they need to hire a bunch of people fast. One way to get the word out is to ask the Bills to announce it. The thing is, in this day and age $20 is a bit low for cold, physically demanding work. Aldi is hiring cashiers (warm, comfortable work) for $18.50/hr. Home Depot and such paying $17.50 again mostly work inside. So to bring people in fast, who are willing to work hard and spend more time shoveling than warming up, they need to up the $$ and have some kind of system where you don't see some areas getting shoveled by hard working people and other areas with people goofing off. Probably $22 would bring in enough people that you could bump the ones who are working hard up to $23 or $24 and send the slackers on their way.

Agreed. Starting with - if they didn't hit their target # of shovelers at $20/hr, they need to raise their rate of pay. And if they hit their target # of shovelers but only got the aisles cleared before the last game, they need a higher target #. 🥰🥰 "living in arm climates" As I understand it, the Bills do have professional companies clearing the sidelines, tunnel, and field. But the steep steps and seat areas have to be done by hand. What "snow removal company" is going to pay a staff to sit around in case they are needed? They're going to do just what Jani-King is doing: hire hourly workers.

Just saw this. There is open registration on this site. You don't need to be referred, you don't need to be approved. Anyone with an email address can register. That's both a blessing, and a curse. So for the Mods, it can be a bit of a whack-a-mole game to ban an account. Some folks will just go out and create a new account (or 3, or 7), which will draw responses. In particular, the dirty beastly one showed this pattern on the old Buffalo Bills message boards. Lop off one head, and half-a-dozen grew. It helps that starting new threads is restricted for new accounts, but there's something to be said that when a poster is well-known as a negative nancy or troll under a specific screen name, but is otherwise not being malicious or disruptive (not attacking people or posting inappropriate crap), Leave them Be. Most members know what they are and just shrug and refuse to engage (or already have him blocked) vs. a bunch of new screen names popping up that would take time to be recognized as more of the Same Ol Same Ol. Just thoughts.

Exactly. Compare and contrast, for example, the posture of a safety downfield needing to tackle Derrick Henry. Same posture. Same reason - has to hesitate a minute while staying in a ready position, because he needs to diagnose which way Henry is gonna go (in this case, straight over Hyde but he got stopped)

Gut is telling me: Feed the Pit!

I was thinking about that, and what would be a better leadership strategy. What I got to, is lean on the team's players. Have Tyreek Hill talk about playing in KC, what it's like, what his experience is playing there when cold. Find other players who have experience with cold weather games to share their lived experience. I think that would come across as much more real.

He was in the wrong place a few times and tricked, but it was also his first meaningful defensive snaps in 6 weeks and the conditions were challenging (with 70,000 maniacs screaming their heads off). It's possible he may improve. It's also the reason he's behind Spector on the depth chart right now, of course. Can't tell if Dodson is wearing a brace on his shoulder/arm Looks as though Douglas is wearing a knee brace under those sweats, and I can't say I think he's moving normally

It didn't change much, but against Pitt, I think we were more focused on stopping the run and short passing game, and telling the Reindeer to beat us deep if he could. It's a little tough to decode because 3 different players played OLB and at least 2 different players took on Rapp's role, but as best I can decode the Bills played 2 LB about 75% of the time using Spector then Klein then Williams, and played 3 safeties (Lewis, and then Hamlin) about 25%. Last week against Miami, Dodson/Spector played 75% of the snaps and Rapp played 25% Against the Pats where they were very much run/screen focused, Dodson played 87% and Rapp 13% So they do mix it up, but I think that 75%/25% split is standard, and they just expect Cam Lewis and/or Damar Hamlin to backfill for Rapp.