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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.

To be honest, I'm not sure he's really "try hard" with the F-bombs or forcing them. I think it may be enough how you talk in the locker rooms he's been living in for decades, and it comes out. Whether or not he has what it takes to "lead men through adversity and hold their attention in hard times" is fair I guess. I believe I may agree with your take on Daboll - I dunno about "too confrontational and abraisive" but I had the impression on some topics he had nothing to learn because he knew it all already. But according to the Dunne "expose' " some Buffalo players thought the "best case" would be to fire McDermott and bring Daboll in as HC. Whoever those players were, wonder if they're still on the team and if they still think so. That kind of talk usually precedes the labor by 9 months

If we did a poll wonder what the results would be

I will say this, and it's something Josh Allen himself has touched on. Sometimes people choose one life path, and they kind of know on paper what it involves. Like say, they want to be a surgeon, and they look at a surgeon's training written out on paper in front of them, 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, 5-7 years of surgical residency. But they don't really realize the nitty gritty of what that means, that they'll be 31 and may barely have time for a social life much less kids and a family. So it hits different from the inside, while you're going through it. Josh has touched on, he always wanted to be an NFL QB and play football at the highest level, and now he is, and it's great. But he didn't really realize what that would come to mean to his life outside of football. His first couple years, he could get away with taking a commercial flight wearing shorts and a scruffy hoodie and backpack and not being recognized or going to a restaurant and if someone "aren't you..." saying "who's that? never heard of him", or going on a vacation and not drawing attention. Now he can't, and it's clear that really bothers him, but it's part of the territory so he has had to adjust and "take the bad with the good".

Oh, Geesh. The whole point of the video - stated at the very beginning - is that the Bills are playing well, but their offense could use a "tune up". If you want to "tune up" a car, you don't focus on the 29 parts that are working well, you focus on the parts that need adjustment.

Wow, on that uncalled-DPI play to Knox, Josh initially had Cook in the flat (Warner thinks it's a walk in TD if thrown promptly, I don't see it or he should know) But OK- behind Knox, Kincaid was SCREAMINGLY WIDE open. Sheesh.

The difference between the 2017 and 2018 Bills compared to the 2022 Giants and 2023 Giants, is that the Bills draft class in 2018 brought in that raw young stallion of a QB Josh Allen who needed to grow into the NFL. It was a growth/rebuilding year and everyone on the team knew it, then they upgraded the talent at key positions like WR and OL (people don't remember, but 2018 to 2019 was a big jump in OL competence). They cleared cap space in 2018 and spent it. In contrast, the Giants just tied up a shitton of cap space in Daniel "I busted, now my ACL did too" and failed to sign the best player on their team Saquon Barkley. So I agree with you on "if" they can put together a cast next year, but it's a huge IF. I don't think 6-11 is ever respectable. AFC North where the 3rd place team (Steelers) is 10-7 and made the playoffs, 3rd place finish there is respectable.

Using social media to be counter social media and conforming to social media trends to be 'anti conformist' is 'too much' for me.