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The speculation based upon what was seen of the injury was tibial plateau fracture Banged up Bills did a piece based on that assumption, explaining what a tibial plateau fracture is and how it’s repaired. JJ Watt had an tibial plateau fracture and returned to play the following season As always the “devil is in the details” of the injury” but a key point is, the tibial plateau is a weight bearing part of the knee structure, basically one side of the knee joint. So recovery from a tibial fracture (at least used to) involve a significant time without weight bearing on the injured leg, possibly not even bending the knee for a period of time. So then there’s inevitable atrophy, and the need to regain ROM and rebuild muscle. Again, we don’t know for sure what the injury is, but if it is a tibial plateau fracture I think it’s very unlikely Milano would be back this year, and even if he thinks he can return, it might be in his long-term best interest to do a thorough rehab

That’s true, but I believe I can see O’Sullivan’s point that if he dropped back a bit more vertical he might have had a better angle to throw around the unblocked rusher This is the sort of detail I wonder if a QB coach who never played, and 2 inexperienced backups, have the knowledge to bring up with Josh and the cred to be heard.

I wish. I think it more reflects that there wasn’t a player available for trade at those positions that we thought would really help us. The question is, were there players that could help us available, but Beane wasn’t willing to go all-in, either because he didn’t think 1 or 2 players would help, or because he’s just not wired that way?

Gad, I hope not. I hope it was something that developed. But I wonder how many kids she impacted before this.

Don’t doubt it - I know Goodwill gets stuff from Target that doesn’t sell on clearance - but didn’t see any of that at these stores (St Vincent de Paul)

I know what you mean - I like to thrift, but it’s getting harder to find true bargains. And yeah, Goodwill has gone crazy. But these stores weren’t that bad for prices, though there were some things they just didn’t have. I saw some nice pieces that weren’t on my list, but were reasonable. It turns out spending $200 in one St Vincent de Paul thrift shop (with a specific list) was surprisingly hard work - harder than I thought it would be and took longer. And some stuff on my list, they just did not have - table forks!!!!!, rugs Filled up 2 carts, not including furniture, at the first store Just one cart at the 2nd store Took about 5 hrs all told, including loading and unloading SUV 2x. It was fairly full each trip, but not totally stuffed as full as it could hold. In the 1st store, spent $201.66, they let the $1.66 slide. 2nd store only spent $186, but looked at the line behind me and didn’t have the heart to ask if the checker would let me grab another table lamp and a few more cereal bowls (this was due to one color of sticker being 50% off, I thought I had >$200 and would have to leave a few items) Here was the haul: From my list. These are to furnish a rectory that’s being converted to a 14 bed women’s shelter. 4 nightstands - 1 needed knobs, which came out of our basement 4 straight chairs with cushioned seats - one needed seat screwed on, screws from our basement 2 mirrors 8 table lamps, all work and have bulbs and shades 9 “colorful pictures”, one an original oil and one needlepoint 2 “colorful throw pillows” a large bag of bedding for twin-size beds - only 1 fitted sheet though - maybe 6 sets 2 bath towels in great shape 3 blankets ”Filler” I was told they can always use: 3 Mr Coffee style coffee pots 8 knives, 7 spoons, 2 “flippers”, 2 cooking spoons 12 cereal bowls small frying pan large deep fry pan with lid 2 3x women’s jeans and a 3x turtleneck sweater I was kinda tired at the end - needed a cuppa before I got into carving the Halloween pumpkins, and those had simple designs this year What I did was actually about half a days work for our neighbor, who picks up sorts and delivers furniture 4 or 5 days a week, year round, in all weather And she’s a good decade older than I am - in her 70s. Farm girl turned nurse/nuns, left to marry and raise kids. She’s a “Machine”, No Doubt. Anyway, it was interesting, and different.

Third round pick, but we get a 5th back Wonder which 3rd it is, ours or the potential comp we got for Tre Edmunds?

My team? Is that complete and definitive acknowledgement that you are NOT a Bills fan? Take notice all! LOL at you bringing in "Stats Don't Matter". You cherry-picked two stats, to which I say, not "they don't matter" but 1) on challenges, we're talking 2 plays 2) on penalties, there seem to be a lot of very good teams in the "high penalty" box, so maybe it's not as straightforward as "unpenalized = good" Your reponse is 1) vomit reaction 2) tell me I can make up anything I want - true, but irrelevant, since I'm not making anything up 3) a sneer about "your team" What fan are you actually a fan of anyway, the Jetskis? Dude, your arguing abilities are such weak tea that if someone poured a cup, they'd mistake it for water.

Yes, there are always injuries, but what happened with the Bills D is really catastrophic - their best player at each level of the defense, DB LB and DT, and on DT, losing DaQuan Jones is huge (literally and figuratively). McD's defense critically depends on having a sound, strong 1TDT who is willing to stay gap-sound but go hard every play with little glory. Jones was IMO exceptional at the role, and the pressure he produced enabled the ends to get home and the LB to stay clean and make plays. Edmunds had a career year last season because Jones did so much better of a job at that over Star Ukelele. Settle came with great excitement as a young player buried on Washington's exceptionally strong depth chart, but it turns out he deserved to be buried from what I've seen. Poona Ford also came in with excitement since Carroll admitted to using him out of position last season and he'd been good before, but maybe he's just washed. There's a lot that goes into winning an NFL season, and avoiding injuries at key positions is part of that.

Neighbor does a lot of work for St Vincent de Paul. Helping families who are burnt out, people transitioning to housing out of shelters, DV victims etc. Long involved story I don't entirely understand, but St V d P is ending a voucher system as of the end of October, and she and her friends have been trying to use up the vouchers in the thrift stores to acquire stuff they need. But she and her helpers are also busy, well, helping people. So yesterday evening she shows up on our doorstep with 2, $200 vouchers and a plea: "can you go to St V d Paul thrift shops today and use these tomorrow? Here's what I need." It's not what I'd planned to do today, but I agreed. So we're fairly frugal. Can we actually spend $400 in about 4 hrs, at a Thrift Shop? We Shall See..... ....Anyone else ever done anything like this?

I wish it were easier to put in screenshots. I have to re-size them and it still seems to limit me to 2

Um.....paging @HoofHearted though he's prolly bored with banging this drum (every running play from shotgun is not a draw. multiple run plays can be executed from shotgun. you sure them are draws you're seeing? 'cuz the Bills actually don't run very many actual draw plays)

Didn't Josh "Call It"a couple years back? He talked about the media/fan rollercoaster. Something like, You win, you're great, are we gonna lose our coordinator to a head coaching job, championship!. You lose, you suck and we should fire all the coaches. Pretty much spot on IMHO!

Dunno if the sort will hold, but the missed tackle stat is here, and yeah, the Bills are dead last https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2023/opp.htm#all_advanced_defense But I'm not sure what that means, since our DL is "leading the charge" for missed tackles https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/2023_advanced.htm Since it's our DL that's putting is in that "oops" territory, I somehow don't think a DB's tackling instructions would be too relevant And it has me asking "just what is being defined as a missed tackle?"

TBH, I think the Bills team doesn't do very well when reminded of Damar's near-death experience. I think Damien Harris being taken off the field by ambulance vs. the Giants was a PTSD flashback for a lot of the team and took some starch out of them. Just my opinion, based on not too much except a Dion Dawkins interview where he talked about what it would be like, learning you're expecting a son then in a moment worrying if you'll ever hold him I hope the Bills chaplains and sports psychiatrists work with them to strategize how to deal with the inevitable media circus for minimal disruption s Coach is supposed to pump up the players to a frenzy of peak mental and physical performance with his inspirational speech and the extra energy for the fist bumps and bro hugs. /s

Who did SF lose on Defense, if anyone? I can't figure that out?

Does not a Dolphins loss directly benefit the Bills, by putting them in the lead of the division?

Not as I can find. Not that are showing up on injury report. Their wins were against the Steelers, Rams, Giants, Cardinals, and Cowboys. Now they did thump the Cowboys pretty convincingly, but part of that was playing keep-away with the football - 37 minute TOP on offense to 22 min. I don't think Brock Purdy had a full load of marbles upstairs, and I think Deebo Samuel may be critical to play ball-control offense. The Vikes scored 22 points including 3 consecutive FG, not sure that counts as shredding? Anyway, bottom line I don't know, but it seems to happen every year that a team or two who starts out hot and looking invincible, gets brought down to earth.

“With Great Power, comes Great Responsibility” Be careful what you predict about our Bills, oh web-slinger. While I’ve got your attention, does your source have any insight on Josh’s shoulder?

Aged well

OK we have common ground. Collinsworth does know ball and he can break a play down well, when he tries. One of the things I like about Amazon’s coverage is that they diagram plays pretty frequently during the game which I personally like. It’s just that Collinsworth good breakdowns and good background to blather ratio is too skewed on the side of blather

First part of that not looking too likely

He’s just trying soooooOoooooo hard to prop up this Chicago kid. I dunno, I could be wrong, but I think he has a pre-written script that he tries to stick to or work in any time he can. LOL Herbert dirts the ball in front of Edmunds and he doesn’t even pretend to be trying for it.

How did that receiver fail to collect that TD pass?

If I recall, he had a very good game against the Colts in the 2020 playoffs. 9 tackles and 2 pass breakups or something like that. Eberflus was coaching the Colts, maybe that impressed him?