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You're responding to someone who took a single quote in an interview entirely out of context. Oh, and he's also a well-known TBD Troll.

How do these guys come up with these stats? Week 12-18 means 6 games for the Bills (Week 13 bye) Week 12-18 means 7 games for the Steelers (Week 6 bye) I mean, it's not a big difference, 231 vs 220, but it's not an even basis set. Why not say the last 6 games or something? OK, I'll put away my "junk NFL stats soapbox" now.

Sounds like there's a bug. Morse missed a practice due to illness Friday of last week and was initially designated "questionable" for the game, though later upgraded. Now it's Knox and Dawkins missing, hopefully they have time to recover. Big issue is, does anyone else get sick?

Davis is a damned good blocker. Our best blocking WR. Not liking Knox and Dawkins missing practice either.

Regardless of who he was throwing to. Kurt Warner became a starter with the Rams with Mike Martz as his offensive coordinator. Kurt Warner has phrased it diplomatically as "Mike Martz was very hard on quarterbacks". I have a little tiny sliver of inside insight and another way of putting it was Mike Martz was a perfectionistic demanding ####### of a control freak. He knew how to scheme up an offense, and he demanded that it run like a swiss watch. Kurt Warner doesn't start for the Rams unless he is able to read the field and make the correct throw to the correct spot with a perfect spiral at the perfect time. Warner understands ball very deeply. He made a living playing the position in structure and parlayed his relatively meh physical talents to their max in his career by having that deep understanding.. The fact that Warner was throwing to high level talent doesn't change Warner's understanding or his processing speed or his precision passing (in his good years). By the way, Faulk and Bruce and Holt and Hakim with the Rams also made their livings playing their positions in structure. Not that they weren't great athletes, but it was called the "Greatest Show on Turf" for a while because it was a very very tough scheme to defend. It didn't depend on them to "beat their man, get to the spot", it depended on creating confliction for defenders with precise route execution.

That is NOT at all Kurt's point. Sheesh, people. Kurt's point is that sometimes it would benefit Josh, and the team, for Josh to operate a bit more within the designed structure of the play. Remember when the Bills were dreadful in the red zone last year? That's at times, because Josh was overlooking the plays available within the designed structure, in favor of free-lancing. And since that tendency is on tape now, sometimes that led him into trouble. I think the reasons are pretty clear. 1) Josh is a fierce competitor. If he thinks he can "go for the gusto", why take the 6 yard gain off the 2 yard route to the flat? 2) For most of his formative football years (HS, Juco, College) Josh pretty much was the team. He only had 1 or 2 other players at most he could count on. So he would go to them, or take it himself. 3) The throwing style Josh came out of college with legit made it hard for him to hit those dump-offs to the flat or little slants. It wasn't until he changed his mechanics in the 2019 off season that he legit could hit them consistently, and he still reverts to his previous mechanics when he's injured. The problem with 1) is that at this point, his tendencies are clear, so the "gusto" routes are getting jumped and picked at a higher rate.

Wiki says "no" but may be out of date:

Because Josh has all the turnovers? Our running backs (other than Josh) do have 6

Josh had Kincaid on the left sideline for the first down. I will say for that, it’s 4th and 2 and throwing an end zone INT is no worse than a punt whereas trying for Kincaid and missing would give the opponent very favorable field position. The first interception was bad though. At this point in the season, the QB and the #2 WR need to be on the same page.

Interestingly, while Rudolph has racked up a respectable 719 passing yards in 3 games, 40% of those yards are before the catch, and 60% of them are YAC. Given that he is throwing downfield 12% of the time, that suggests a goodly number of his passing yards may be short passes to the flat or screens which are sometimes considered an “extension of the run game”

I was wondering if it could have been a personal milestone for him as a snapper, so I looked it up and doesn’t seem like it.

I had no idea we’d cut AJ Klein from the practice squad. Don’t like losing Anjou though

I don’t think you see Micah Hyde get called for that because he doesn’t launch in helmet-first. It’s why he’s still playing into his 30s. With respect, I think you’re looking at that play with the eyes of someone who played in an earlier time. The NFL has (publicly) said, no helmet to helmet hits and we don’t care whether or not it was intentional, figure it out. By rule, it was a penalty and it should have been called, along with the Piggy Back Ride DPI mugging of Knox. It didn’t and so it goes. But the NFL can’t really say it cares about player safety, no helmet to helmet hits, and then let that one slide.

The Steelers are a mystery wrapped in an enigma to me. They’re 28th in the league in scoring offense, 22nd in NY/A, 19th in Y/A. They don’t turn the ball over much. Very disciplined team on turnovers. They don’t really have a QB. Yes, they have a good defense and they’re near the top of the league in take-aways, but sooner or later you gotta score. So I watch their games, and shake my head and wonder how they’re gonna manage that winning record for Tomlin this season. And yet, at the end of the season, when it’s playoff time, there they are, and I know that if the Bills don’t keep their act together i was looking again at their schedule. Teams that they’ve beaten: include Ravens (2x, exactly the same score when they were or weren’t trying); Rams, Browns (split), Packers - all playoff teams. Also beat Bengals (2x) and Seahawks, playoff-wannabes who were in it close to the end of the season. Then they lost to 49ers, Browns (split), Texans - all playoff teams. OK. But they were beaten by the lowly Patriots and Cardinals, two teams well out of it. They actually remind me a bit of the Bills this season, a team that can defeat anyone, but that can also lose to anyone. They win or lose in different ways though.

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The Baltimore game was pretty brutal but it was also a tie game into the 4th Q. The Ravens started Huntley and by halftime were pulling other guys out of the pool. Frankly by the 4Q the PoeBirds left playing looked like they wanted to be somewhere, Anywhere, else. If McDermott can get our guys ready and the weather isn’t an overwhelming factor, we can beat Pittsburgh.

I think the idea was “the Bills need a seat at the table (the playoffs) in order to get to Vegas”?

I think the NFL typically announces fines on the following Saturday. The issue that McDermott and others have is that if Allen threw it away there would be time for a field goal and at least go into the half 14-10

Leslie Frazier sighting

Practice, sorry Said take it day by day

As expected, McDermott provided little new injury information other than that Taylor Rapp is out with a calf injury. Banged Up Bills as usual watched film carefully and was willing to take some educated guesses https://bangedupbills.com/2024/01/09/buffalo-bills-vs-miami-dolphins-week-18-injury-review/ Per Trimble: Gabe Davis, reported PCL tear, 1-4 weeks assuming it's grade 1 or 2, likely out at least 1 game Tyrel Dodson, likely AC Joint sprain, possible labral tear. May practice with a red jersey and a brace, we'll see how it goes Rasul Douglas, Bangedup thinks possibly knee contusion, painful and limited mobility due to swelling but if they can rehab him and get it down, might play? Ty Johnson, concussion. A good sign that he was already limited in practice, because they're not allowed to practice if they still have symptoms. I hope to hell Jerome Baker gets fined by the league, and I hope the refs get called on the carpet for not calling that. He didn't have Taylor Rapp on his list for a calf injury or say anything about it.

I did not realize Dodson was so fast. As far as undersized, that's as may be and the weights on the team roster page or NFL stats are often draft weights and inaccurate by the time the guy's been in the league a bit. But just based on those, Dodson is about our chunkiest (heaviest) linebacker.

I agree with your disagreement. You could even throw in Favre as another example. A wild man, a gun slinger, when he had a coach who persuaded him to rein it in and stop doing stupid *****, straight to the conference championship, Superbowl Baby! It's even a bit more frustrating than that since Josh HAS had games where he has grown up and quit doing the stupid stuff. Examples would include 2020 Rams and Seattle games, 2021 KC regular season game and NWE and KC playoff games. In 2020, Allen had 37 passing TDs and 10 interceptions. He not only can do it, he has done it at times.

That was so classic, and classy. *absorbs question and information it contains* *starts to say something, stops* *starts to say something else, stops* 4 seconds pass finds perfect rejoinder: "Go Bills!"

You know who's not forcing those F-bombs a bit? Tyreek Hill limping off the field after Rapp leveled him and the ball squirted out. "B word! *****! *****! *****!" Sounded 100% genuine.