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Well, not quite. You note it yourself in your next sentence. One of the reasons why Dallas struggled to cope with that power run stuff, is that 1) their attention was divided between Cook and Josh....you could see it on several plays, they were worried about what Josh could do to them as a runner, OR, 2) if they threw all their chips into stopping the run, they feared the Josh Allen Air Show.

Goodness.

I think they're pretty much as good as their record. They've had two losses that were inexplicable to me at the time, but it turns out the Colts are an up-and-coming team and they're a division team for the Steelers who always play them tough. They split with the Browns. Going to be very interested to see the 49ers game. That will be touted as a possible Superbowl preview.

If we told you that, @Simon would have to kill ya. But I see that you joined on Sept 29, so you haven't quite been here for 3 months, amirite? I'm thinking "new Year, new Threads" for ya (*nudge nudge wink wink*)

"Mostly" for values of 1 page (a dozen posts or so) out of 12+, including this? If you want more Bills/Chargers content, why don't you add some instead of adding to the Dallas/Miami discussion?

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Josh gave them customized golf clubs a couple years ago and customized golf scooters (last year I think). That's how I took it, for what it's worth. I'm currently not drunk.

Good points. The added point, is "speed". They've got 2 top-10 backs in YPG, but that's not the meat-and-potatoes 3-4 ypc. It's "miss me and it's shoe soles for you!" long runs. If these guys are still hindered by injuries, that's not as effective. But, Dallas is missing their NT

So to this point: Miami has a coach who is a disciple of Kyle Shanahan. The Cowboys haven't beaten the 49ers since 2020, and this season the 9'ers kicked Dallas in the teeth and took their lunch money. Coaching advantage: Miami, we agree there. And, Dallas may still be missing its NT on D and 2 OL on offense. Would you really call Miami's run offense "really good"? They had a 5 game stretch earlier in the season where they were just running all over teams - the Patriots, Broncos, Giants, and Panthers. 222 yds, 350 yds - but I think that was against teams that had given up. They gained 142 yds against us and it didn't matter. But they've also had games where they haven't broken double digits -Eagles, 2nd Patriots, Raiders, 2nd Jets. 117 vs KC. A lot of that seems to depend on whether or not they are missing Achane? He played against Denver, Buffalo, and the Giants - the huge games. Got hurt. He's been back for 3 games, but he doesn't look as explosive. He's been on the injury report with different body parts - knee, ribs, now toe. DNP and LP so far this week. Mostert has also been on and off this injury report. This week is "on", with two DNPs. So I'm not sure the Dolphins have a really good run offense right now. They ran for 77 yds against the Jets, and if the Jets had an actual offense, they could have been in trouble. I would say they have an up-and-down run offense that depends on the health of their backs. I could see this game going either way. Dallas could "Cowboy up" and set out to prove that last week was a total fluke. They're a coin-flip road team, but Miami, 77 degrees, and possible light shower is a far cry from Orchard Park, 40 degrees, and raining steadily. Or Mike McDaniel could prove he's Shanahan's disciple and successfully kick (fin-slap?) the Cowboys while they're down. Frankly, I'm not sure he has the healthy horses to do that last, but, we'll see.

*looks at Miami schedule* point taken

He was on the board when we drafted Justin Shorter. And if anyone tells me they were beating the drum for him prior to the draft, Imma here to tell 'em they fibbing

They've been keeping 9 DL active, 5 DE and 4 DT. I was thinking under the circs, they might consider rolling with 4 DE. When he's active, Kingsley Jonathan has been mostly a ST guy, gets single digit defensive snaps (and a lot of ST). So if you give DaQuan Jones those snaps and run with 4 DE you can activate both Jones and Ford. Does depend on stuff I don't know, like how well they like Ford on ST vs Jonathan, and that probably neither of us know - like how likely Leonard Floyd is to get through the entire game. And wouldn't the same argument go for Elam? Why put him on the 53 man this week unless we're going to activate him, and if we activate him, whose spot would he take?

Fair enough. I was thinking they might want to get DaQuan just a few game reps before they try to depend on him. Which means you want Poona on the roster to get 30-40% of the snaps while you ease DaQuan in with 10 or so reps. Cutting ties with Poona means you're depending on DaQuan to be full go all game before you see him take a snap. That's why I thought DaQuan first, bring Elam up later made sense. You've still got a week on Elam.

Depends upon your definition of modern I guess....tomatoes and squash came to Europe in the 16th century, but didn't really become common in culinary use until 18th century. When squash/pumpkins got to India is apparently a matter of debate, but along with tomatoes 16th century for sure, after which they were enthusiastically incorporated into the food. It's kind of weird really, potatoes were introduced in the same time frame and spread all over Europe because of their yield per acre. But early European colonists in America depended heavily on pumpkins and squash for similar reasons - very productive and easy to grow. Anyway, Europeans and Australians seem to do much more interesting savory things with pumpkin, whereas in America it's been relegated to Thanksgiving pie. Not that there's anything wrong with Thanksgiving pie. My best guess is that the cultural origin of this particular combination is somewhere in India, and that the use of canned pumpkin is possibly a German innovation? But that's a total WAG

Question: the second call from "someone with security information, information which we had changed before" trying to activate credit card again -do you mean the second caller had your recently changed security information? Sounds as though HSBC itself has been hacked, if so.

Well you have to admit his two seasons as OC positioning the Lions as the one seed in the NFC and taking them to the NFC Championship game then the Superbowl were 🔥 Oh. Wait.

You still can't have it both ways. If the Bills were "soft" and weak on both sides of the line and Allen is an inconsistent QB who makes bone headed plays for whom the play at the end of the 2021 season was a total fluke not to be repeated in 3 years before and since, then it's not an indictment of McDermott to not succeed with that, and calling for his head at that point just makes him a scapegoat. If the lines and the QB were consistently good enough to win, then you can point the finger at McDermott as the problem. Either or, Not Both. Don't come in here now like you've thought McDermott was the Bills only problem for the last 3 years and firing him would be curative for an otherwise Championship roster.

So what did Josh get the guys? No word yet.

https://www.buffalobills.com/team/injury-report/ Bosa has apparently had his practice window open to return from IR, but has a game status "out". Keenan Allen out as expected. Surprised by DaQuan Jones listed as "questionable" despite limited participation in today's practice. My guess would be today went well for Jones after practicing yesterday, and they think he's very close if not there - so they went ahead and put Phillips on IR to make room for him. 4 games on IR for Phillips. So he isn't eligible to play in the WC round. Per Sal C.

Why would they activate Elam from IR to take Phillips spot? Wouldn't it make more sense to activate DaQuan Jones, since they went so far as to list him as "questionable"? Slightly related question: Does anyone know the deadlines for practice squad elevation and for declaring inactives, for a Saturday nite game? Thanks. I'm thinking they'll elevate Eli Ankou and possibly Fournette.

I can empathize with PTSD. I have a good case of BBFS (battered Bills fan syndrome) myself.

I'm hedging on my viewpoint of McDermott, which is nothing new. I've said it before, I have my receipts. I acknowledge that sometimes the Bills line play has been soft. That's nothing new - McDermott has commented on lack of physicality in the line play at times. I'm not hedging on you: you are consistently so negative that some do think you're a fan of other teams. Furthermore, you're dunking on McDermott as incapable of winning, while simultaneously trailing a track record of dissing on the Bills players of major position groups and on Josh Allen. Which is it? Either Or, Not Both. If the 2021 Bills were weak on both sides of the lines and have an inconsistent bone-headed playmaker at QB, then it's not McDermott's fault that the Bills got stopped in the division round. Soft teams with inconsistent or boneheaded QB play usually DO get stopped. Ditto if Miami has a much better roster than Buffalo AND McDaniels is a much better coach. How'd they lose to us earlier this season then? You "stand by everything you said" is inconsistent with "I admit I was wrong when I'm wrong". You were wrong about one playoff win then we lose in 2020. We went to the AFCCG that year. You were wrong in predicting a "changing of the guard" with a Miami victory due to their "much better roster" earlier this season. etc.

I don't think it's the critical or 'overly critical to a flaw' part, though I applaud the self-awareness to acknowledge that last. Kudos for that, I do respect it. I think it's more the quick trigger on predicting success for the Pats and the Fins and sometimes other teams that has some saying I'm just pointing out how some see it. Clearly I'm not the only one.

No one is saying that Josh had no rational reason behind why he might have missed the throw. But this sub-thread started when someone tagged McKenzie as at fault for missing that catch. The point was, whatever valid reasons Josh might have for missing that throw, the miss was on Josh.