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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?

Follow up: It’s been more than half an hour, we’re into the 2nd Q, and Collinsworth is still working mighty hard at fluffing Bagent up

I”m gonna go with “won’t last that long”. But I’d be happy to be wrong, too.

I thought that too.

So……..who do we want?

You mean inmate number 1273265? He pled and was sentenced. No bail.

Can’t we just send it to a landfill? I don’t want to endure the PR around the rocket launch

Got to agree there.

Am I the only one who wonders how much of Wilson’s “moon ball” success was actually due to Metcalf?

I used to feel like Russ Wilson had amazing pocket sense. What happened to him?

So far, the Broncos aren’t playing as though they “got the memo” on how much they suck

I didn’t see what was happening to Russ when he threw that?