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I mean, what team in the league has a shorter injury list this time of year?

Wow, this does surprise me. Agree, they will try to re-sign him if they can. Wanna know what team has both starting OTs on injury report and could claim him this week? 🤞

Ramsey is currently leading the league in passer rating against him (down in the 30s). He's like 6th in completion % against. Wanna know who's leading the league in completion % against him right now? I DID not see this coming, I promise you.... ....Ronald Darby. No kidding. Ronald Darby, Bills 2nd round draft pick in 2015. It seems to be a trait of elite WR. Remember Tik-Tok Boy dancing on the opponents team logos?

We don't, we go after Justin Jefferson. If you're gonna dream, Dream Big.

And yet....the Chiefs defense is #4 in the league for points against, currently .....#3 for NY/A passing, not nearly so good against the rush.

There's actually a long history of oral examinations in liberal colleges, dating back to the very first universities in Medieval Europe. It wasn't until the late 19th-19th century that University examinations began to shift from oral to written, and some oral examinations were retained at Oxford (and I think Cambridge) into the 20th century. They're still part of post-graduate education, including in the US, in the form of oral preliminary and thesis defense exams for PhD (US) and "viva voce" exams (Europe).

Ah, traditional Brit Christmas I see....

Peterdude is just Catnip for Coaches, I swear it. Something about him must just be irresistable He's still in the league, you know - with the Bears Spotrac gives his career earnings as $7.4M That's right, $7.4M for a guy who has started 5 NFL games (1-4 record) and thrown 4 TD to 13 INT He's kind of like the Buddy Holly (or Elvis Costello) of NFL QB - for you youngsters, that'd be the ordinary-looking guy in the thick birth-control glasses who made every guy in HS think "hey, if that dude could be a rock star then why couldn't I?"

Tyrod was the #2 for the Giants before he was injured and went on IR. So if he's full-go, it makes some sense to send DeVito back to the bench I guess. Neither of them are the hoped-for Franchise Man so go with whoever has the best chance to win I guess. I'm not sure what Rivera is trying to accomplish with Sam Howell, unless he's injured but not enough to show in injury report.

I thought about that, but it would leave the Bills with only 4 DT, one of whom is just coming back from injury since Jordan Phillips is on IR. They might do that, if they feel Eli Ankou is almost as good as a 1TDT but I think they used him before as more of a 3T? See, here's the thing: who else they got who can play RT? I'm thinking Jonathan might go on IR. There are little hints he's playing through something.

Baldy gives a bit of insight into how the Ravens handled the 49ers vaunted offense with all its pre-snap motion

Do I get to count the whiskey? I think it's a Bills Christmas present because the way they play, I need it before, during and after the games.

Alright Already! It's a Good Thing!

I "get it" but when a guy is coming back from injury, the team's best estimate is not the same as the player actually making it through the entire practice,

Remember it's a walk-through

Who didn't want the questions being heard, the team or the reporters? I mean, it's called "Q & A" for a reason. The "A" doesn't entirely make sense without the "Q" context.

I agree that the defense improved markedly, but they started the season on "sieve-like" so I'm not sure that's entirely to Payton's credit. On the other hand, he held the team together and brought them back from the Miami debacle, so there's that.

That's a point, but Dimes was coming off a season where he looked much improved, had a league-leading low in INT, and a career-high and #4 in league rushing contribution of more than 700 yds. He's also 25. Wilson is 35 and has taken a terrible beating with sacks the last 2 seasons. He's actually had as many rush attempts for as many yards as he did 4-5 years ago, but to me he now runs like a busted mower in high grass. Still, it's a point that one never knows what a QB-desperate NFL team will do

I know, right? Other team's pressers, you can actually hear the questions the reporters ask. In some, the team calls on the reporters, presumably so that the sound guy can activate the relevant mic, but the WNY press corps is not so big that they shouldn't be able to pass around a portable mic or two. I Read No Lies

Fair points. Agree completely on the impact of sacks - some coaches rate them as similar to a turnover. But, I hadn't watched enough Broncos games to have a sense of whether Wilson was at fault or whether they were expecting him to operate behind scraps and turnstiles on OL. I had the impression, the latter, but there may well be designed hot reads Wilson isn't taking, as well - he certainly had a pattern as a Seattle QB of ignoring the hot read to try to extend plays and create. (As Allen has done at times) He does have 10 fumbles, only 5 fumbles lost FWIW. The thing is, if they're going to bite the bullet, eat the massive dead cap next year, and move on from Wilson, What's the Plan at QB? They've been a bit too successful to draft a QB high. They still owe the Saints their 2nd round pick this year as part of the trade for Sean Payton so their maneuvering room in the draft will be limited.

Yeah, I was looking at that myself. I see Poona Ford, Kingsley Jonathan, and Germain Ifedi as the three most likely candidates. -Jonathan was active for 10 games Week 3 to Week 12 playing mostly ST. He then did not show up on the injury report, but his ST snaps dropped about 20% Week 12 so he may have gotten injured. He was inactive the week after the bye - which would mean 2 weeks off, with the bye - possible injury that didn't hamper him in practice. Since then his ST snaps have fallen to 30-40%. He may be trying to play through an injury, so the Bills might be able to IR him and he might prefer the sure $$ to trying to catch on with another team if he's playing hurt. -Cutting Ford seems like a bit of an iffy proposition as it would mean going with 4 DT until the 2nd round of playoffs, and not having any room to let Jones work his way back on a pitch count. Ford got 39% of the D snaps against the Chargers and has had a previous 3-game stretch of significant D snaps. -Germain Ifedi has been active for 0 games this season, so he would seem like the entrant for "least likely to contribute". But, unless stuff has changed, I think he's the only OT on the roster with experience at RT? Van Demark has been active every game and has taken a few snaps (and played a little Teams) but, at least in pre-season am I remembering correctly he was strictly LT? I'm thinking the prudent course of action is to hang on to an "emergency backup plan" for Spencer Brown. My guess would be they either IR or cut Kingsley Jonathan, providing that AJE is "good to go", and that they'll keep DaQuan out against NE and make a move prior to the Miami game. Here's the roster if anyone else wants to try "Play the GM"

Heh. Fair point. We not only were mathematically alive, we actually made the playoffs that year.

The Broncos have a mediocre scoring offense and a bottom-dweller defense, despite being mid-pack on offensive turnovers too (meaning the offense isn't putting the defense in bad positions an excessive amount). They have a "meh" rushing offense, but are near the bottom of the league for rushing TDs, which says they're hanging on Wilson's arm to score. He actually put up decent numbers. 26 TD, 8 INT, 204.5 ypg, 98 passer rating are all QB numbers a team should be able to win with. Decent "bounceback" year. On the other hand, they're not paying Wilson to be "a QB you can win with", they're paying him to be a Star of Stars. It's clear that Russ has not been the game changer that the Broncos envisioned when they traded for him so I can't disagree with the Broncos on the financial decision, but to me, this recks of scapegoating Russ for the pretty putrid defensive performances Payton started off the season with. As we know, Payton has such a great track record*** for how he handled the QB position and cap/personnel decisions in general in N'Orleans at the end of his tenure there, so he must know what he's doing 🙄 ***sarcasm font enabled

Did. Not. See. that. coming. Is there precedent for a team benching their starter when they are still mathematically alive for the playoffs? I grant that after the last two losses, their odds are apparently very low https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/nfl-playoff-picture-broncos-arent-technically-eliminated-yet/ar-AA1m2PHq

Brown has improved, but his strength seems to be run blocking. Agree with the first part, but the roster is 53 since today was the end of Elam's 21-day-window to return. So to activate Daquan, the Bills will have to waive someone or put someone on IR. My totally personal based-on-nothing guess is that the wiser heads really want to IR Hyde (and likely wanted to before the Dallas game) but Hyde is fighting it tooth and nail.