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So maybe they should bring Rodgers down to the sideline or put him in the booth

Not really. We played them while they were hyped up with “win one for the Gimp” and Josh Allen threw 3 picks and fumbled. The win percentage in the NFL when a team has 4 turnovers is quite low. So losing when hyou do that is quite logical.

They were a great defense last season and brought back many of the same personnel. I think they’re demoralized by the stunningly complete lack of offense.

I can't help but read stuff like this and SMH. Who exactly that would be a sure improvement do you feel is actually available? Do you think the Jets are going to trade us Sauce Gardner or something? The Bills may sign someone, but they had an oversupply problem at CB going into the season Because of being able to keep Von Miller on PUP and stash a LB on IR, they kept 7 CB (11 DB) where they would normally keep 9 or 10. They may decide to just stay at 6 CB (10 DB) and bring back Miller. The first part is fine. Ingram is not going to be routinely elevated unless someone is dinged. And I think it's possible they put Elam over Jackson to pair with Benford. We'll see.

Knox had 1 reception on 1 target. It was a good one - 12 yds and a 1D. But if there were a few, you must be thinking of "the other DK" - except while he had 4 nice receptions on 5 targets, only 1 went for a 1D. So I don't know who was channeling his inner Beast Mode.

That Allen guy, do you think he might become pretty good?

Agreed, question was about IOL though

No, that would make no sense. An injury settlement occurs when the team puts a player on season ending IR, but the player believes he can come back and play for another team this season. So the player, his physicians, the NFL team, and their physicians agree on the number of weeks the rehab should actually require, pay the player for that many weeks, and release him. Good for the player - gets a chance to play elsewhere - good for the team, doesn't have to pay the player for the entire season if it's actually a shorter injury. This is likely a season-ending injury, so Tre is going to be paid for the full season regardless. And releasing Tre would cost the Bills extra cap, not save it, because all his amortized signing, option, and restucture bonuses would accelerate into this season.

He knew. He knew right away. It's a "Bittersweet Symphony", this win.

Incognito and Wood. 2015/2016

Well, fortunately for the Chiefs, your coaches don't.

I share your impression of Rapp. At safety? Not sure about that. It's unclear to me if Hamlin will be active - it would make sense - but yes, I think they've pretty much said Rapp gets the start.

If the contest is "most wretched hive of scum and villainy", ChiefsPlanet in a landslide. Even respectable Chiefs fans with actual functioning neuronal synapses agree.

It's all about what's between Josh Allen's ears. We lost to the Jets because Josh Allen threw 3 freakin' interceptions and fumbled twice (1 lost). If Allen keeps his head right and takes care of the Duke our chances are good. If he suffers another Grey Matter Meltdown, they aren't.

Oh, Come On, Billl, even if you don't respect the Bills coaches very much vs your own KC guys, you can't possibly believe that professional football talent evaluators and coaches worry about "saving face" when it comes to who's active on Sunday. That would be the best way to 'lose face' - by getting your team's butts whupped. They are worried about 1) who are the best players to have on the field and who are the best subs for various package options, offense and defense? 2) a few core ST players 3) for the last few slots, which players offer the most versatile skill sets as backups in case of injury? Damar Hamlin hasn't been riding the pine because the Bills think he "completely sucks" relative to Cam Lewis. They don't. He started last season when Hyde went down, not Lewis. The Bills have had Hamlin on the bench because Lewis can play CB, nickel, and Safety (and ST as well) so he offers them more versatility. Now this is legit funny.

Yes. Elam not under 4.3 like Hill, but legit fast, faster than anyone else on our secondary unless Tre White has gotten back to his league-entry speed. It's interesting, I'm sure they want Damar Hamlin active as a backup safety with Poyer out. But I would think if they weren't just 'maumau'ing us about how close the competition between Benford, Jackson, and Elam was pre-season, this is a game where they would want Elam on the menu. From the fan seat perspective, Choices to be made. I think this may have some truth to it. Another way to put it is "not a good scheme fit" LOL if we wanted to keep Levi Wallace, we could have and would have. Pittsburgh offered him a very moderate contract. Tre White coming off ACL surgery and didn't know how/when he'd come back, was certainly a reason. I think Tre was struggling more than the Bills let on. Elam has been 'nicked up'? Word from where?

It's not the processing power that's the analogy IMHO. In 2019, when the Ravens were rolling teams right and left, scoring 57, 37, 49, 41, 45, 42 points, Lamar wasn't asked to have that much processing power. Roman's offense used a lot of eye candy to distract and confuse defensive coverage, and then put defenders in conflict Keep, Run, throw to the TE over the middle. Once the defender hesitated in conflict, make them miss with blazing speed. Now keep-and-run isn't one of Tua's best threats, and he's running a more complex passing game, but it seems to me there are similar elements otherwise - the eye candy distraction pre and post snap, the scheme to put defenders in conflict "who do I take?" and to get the defenders to interfere with each other. And of course, the "miss me, it's Shoesoles and #######s for you!" blazing speed. I was looking for some of the quotes I read somewhere from Milano and Bernard etc. and can't find it, but it was all about how Miami schemes try to get defenders to interfere with each other "they want to bunch you up and get you to run into each other" kind of stuff. Baltimore did similar things I believe.

Bienemy had a plan. It rested on two pillars: 1) Howell reading the D and knowing what his answer was. McDermott successfully confused him and made him hesitate that extra second. 2) Manipulating our D into a situation where Milano was taken out of the play and he could pick on Bernard. Instead, Bernard picked Howell.

Seriously? Oh well I thought several of our knowledgeable folks confirmed 3. 🤷‍♂️

Interesting analogy. One factor in the 2019 loss to the Ravens (and our 2022 loss to the Dolphins) was that our defense did a good job containing their offense *most* of the day, but that we couldn't muster enough offense ourselves to counter. So, mistakes played an outsized role. The Ravens scored a TD after a strip sack of Josh Allen on 3rd and 8 gave them the ball at our 24 yd line. Scored 5 plays later. So avoiding turnovers by our offense (and maybe generating 1-2 on defense) is going to be key. I'll just add that it hasn't been uncommon for our D in past years to take a game to decode an offense. However, I'm not sure how different the Dolphins offense really is from last year. They had Morris, Waddle and Hill last season when we played them. I thought when a team played at home, being favored by 2.5-3 points was a "Pick'em".

I'm sure they soft pedal things a bit as far as the verbiage they use, but if you account for that and listen carefully, they're surprisingly blunt. Greg Cosell is like the Godfather of Film Analysis, especially film analysis of NFL QB - always worth listening to. They're not going to say "yer boy shat the bed last week" they will say "if you turn the ball over 4 times, it's very rare to be able to come away with a win" etc etc.

It's a premise of animal training that if you want to change a behavior, you need to replace it with a positive behavior. All of us ***** sapiens are fundamentally animals, and if it works to train a cougar or an elephant, it works for us. [Edit: Oh my goodness, H o m o sapiens is disallowed! No "Man the wise" here! LOL] So, next time they pop up, try this instead: -search for One Bills Live Greg Cosell Search for One Bills Live Baldy's Breakdowns Search for team names and Dan Orlovsky Now I know that One Bills Live is the Bills in-house Media, but Greg Cosell, Brian Baldinger, and Dan Orlovsky are three of the most respected, football knowledgeable media members around and they don't sugar-coat it. Watching these will give you a much better, wiser, more reason-based perspective Next, try Cover1. Now there's a lot of variable coverage being put out by Cover1 these days, as they've expanded from former players/coaches to current fans/journalism majors in their podcasters. Try something like Cover 1 team names. I like Anthony Prohaska who films "Disguised Coverage" so I'll search for him: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cover+1+bills+dolphins+anthony OK, when you're done with all that, you'll know a lot more about Bills football and various keys to the game, good and bad. And I think you'll find if you attempt to watch some of these Blatherskites, they'll stick in your craw and you'll click elsewhere.

I can be surprised at what the Bills do. I think they will make Hamlin active. I would like to see them make Elam active as well, but whaddo I know. Benford was mentioned as a possibility to move to safety long ago, before we signed Rapp, before Damar Hamlin came back, before Cam Lewis was given a chance to develop as a "one man gang" at CB, nickel, and safety.

LOL why are you watching these guys?