Beck Water

Wow Giants let them convert. Shame they couldn’t Barkley that out of his arm

Collinsworth explaining that DPI is “strictly enforced in the NFL 🤮

Um, the pick was a pass to Barkley, not? Or it might score as a completed pass and a fumble I guess

Actually it kind of looks as though they tried to steal the Bills 2018 OL

Jones looks like hes running for his life on every snap. Every QB looks terrible when that’s true.

Well, if you want to root for what looks like the Underdog OTOH it should really be 21-0 by now so there’s that Saquan Barkley sitting on the field in the rain with that “some days you da windshield, Some days you da bug” expression on his face

Oh Dear

Is it supposed to rain like this tomorrow night?

Or is Dallas DL just that good

Do the Giants actually have an OL or did they try to buy one at Woolworths?

They did indeed Cowboys are blowing a great opportunity to put the Giants in a 13 or 14 point hole But, a 9 point hole may be enough if the G-men don’t figure out a Plan for Parsons PDQ

It’s a good question. I personally think Daboll felt Allen was a lot his creation and he could create Jones into a similar masterpiece.

That was my thought, but folks can vote with their fingers 🤷‍♂️

Agree completely. My first thought was “Whoa, do the Giants have an OL?” My second thought was “that Parsons guy is a problem” I see “around the NFL week 1” and several Bills threads pinned 🤷‍♂️

Over/under on how long I last listening to Collinsworth? I haven’t watched the Giants for a while. Surprised at how readily Jones runs Cowboys: “Honey, I shrunk the Giants opening drive” (and reversed it)

The thing is, last year the Chargers really looked like they’d “solved” Miami. I guess they assumed Miami would stay “solved”

Chargers Gonna Charger Dammit

Bills are hyping up Greg Rousseau. He's stronger, he's faster, he's ready to crawl all over opposing QBs. Time Will Tell

That's true, but Old News. I thought it was Thomas Brown, the Panthers new OC, and it was said he didn't want his QB to wear one. Can try https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw_JPmcgSOp/

Who was the coach who didn't want his QB to wear a wrist band? Carolina? How is that working out?

There's three aspects of the Bills run game to consider: 1) how many times they run 2) of those runs, how many times is there a handoff vs. Josh Allen being the runner 3) how effectively do they run? I believe Dorsey has commented something to the effect that "we don't need to run the ball more, we need to run the ball more effectively". There needs to be enough of a run game, and effective enough of a run game, to keep the defenses "honest", in other words with some understanding that they need to play gap-sound defense and not just pin their ears back and go after Josh. That doesn't mean there has to be more run plays, but they have to be effective enough to achieve that.

This should maybe have its own thread Is this good, or bad?

$4.5M for the taking - I'd go with "you're right" on that. But a guy who is suing, takes what he can get Hines was due $2.56M from the Bills this season, $1M of which was guaranteed (likely for 'injury, skill, and cap'). Initially there was some back and forth that the Bills had offered Hines $370k, which is the max a player on the practice squad can receive. His agent of course, wanted his full salary (which the team can choose to pay). Let's say they settled on covering the guaranteed portion of his salary. In this hypothetical scenario, Hines has got $1.56M of lost salary to make up. So if he can get that out of some combination of the renter dude and the rental company and who knows, maybe the jetski manufacturer, still worth suing.

So, that requires a bit of sorting. First sort: Is it classed as a "football injury" or a "non-football injury"? Football injury = working out at team facility in the off-season, OTAs, preseason; training camp, games Non-football injury = anything else (including injuries from working out to prepare for the season For a non-football injury, the team is not required to pay the player his salary and per game roster bonuses. They can choose to. He keeps his signing and/or restructure bonuses. Second sort: If it's a football injury, does the player have a "split" in his contract that specifies that he will be paid a lower amount if he is placed on IR? Of our 4 players on IR, Doyle apparently does NOT have a split and is getting paid full salary; Shorter, Spector, and Davidson have splits. But to answer your last question: no, they can't just "not pay them". Neither can they release an injured player, UNLESS they reach a settlement to pay the player for the # of weeks the injury rehab is supposed to take.