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It's still defined as a penalty in the rule book

He was on the roster when Crowder broke his leg. Hodgins was signed immediately to the 53 man roster and played in 2 games for us, stayed on the roster for a month vs. Pittsburgh, he had 4 receptions on 6 targets for 45 yds. It was after we had to open a roster spot and chose to cut him (a month later) that the Giants poached him off waivers.

I have no opinion on whether or what he was vaping I think McDaniel is a sneaky good coach, and the players are generally going hard for him. I know no evil of him; regarding Tua, he may well have been trusting his doctors and his INC I can't shake my unsubstantiated impression that he's an untrustworthy weasel of a guy Plus this. Take a guy who improves the QB's confidence and gets him functioning better (first step towards a better W record), and who says follow me I'll make you winners - players will for sure take that as they find it.

Kk, we saw things differently. All good

Oh - we released a defender and a WR, and signed 2 WR? For a while, I thought maybe we signed a REAL "big body" WR Broughton was on the Bills practice squad earlier https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bills-add-defensive-tackle-broughton-wide-receiver-patmon-to-practice-squad/article_90476666-9699-11ed-958a-0370b067623a.html Cortez Broughton draft profile. 2019 7th round pick of the Chargers. Spent a couple years with the Chargers, waived in 2021. Signed to the Chiefs practice squad in 2021. Waived by them after he failed a physical at the start of training camp, signed to their PS in Sept, cut in Oct. We brought him in to our PS Dec 6th then cut him Jan 14th. Slow down, Beane, I can't Keep Up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortez_Broughton Sounds like he's seen as having potential, but is fighting some kind of injury or lifestyle problem. Dezmon Patton draft profile. 4.48 40-time, 6'4" with a 36" vertical and 10 1/4" hands. 2020 6th round pick of the Colts, spent 2020 on IR, bounced between PS and roster. Interesting to me that we're moving on from Tanner Gentry at this point. I guess if we need to bring up a 2nd PS WR, Beane and Dorsey have decided it won't be Gentry. I've often wondered if he had a role as a trusted confidant/steadying influence on Josh, and maybe at this point Beasley is filling that role.

I don't know that I agree with that. He showed a talent (IMO) for using his body to box out defenders and make contested catches. On the other hand, I'm not sure how much scope for that we have in our offense, and I don't think he was particularly good at gaining a clean release off the line.

Their feet did not make contact. Andrews was pushed from behind You can see the Bengals player and Andrews feet are not entangled, he reaches out and gives him a shove. Then he raises his arms like "what, lil ol me, I didn't shove him in the back" OK, you want to read the actual rule book. Here ya go; which part of the rule book do you believe makes this not a foul? https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/2022-nfl-rulebook/#article-3.-illegal-block-by-offensive-player

That was a penalty. The refs were keeping their laundry in their pockets a lot.

Well, he coulda been a big body guy for us. He's 6'4" But basically, I think Josh Allen's eyes scan the field and mentally remove anyone who is short of the sticks from pass reception consideration so not sure it matters. Now the 10,000 question we released Tanner Gentry from practice squad today Do the Giants sign him?

It was reported in error then, because he was on the active roster and claimed when he was cut and went through waivers. The difference is, when you're waived and claimed thru waivers, you have no choice - the team with the highest priorty that puts in a claim is your new team. When you're on the practice squad and a team offers to sign you, you can say "Yes" or you can say "No" https://www.buffalobills.com/team/transactions/2022 look at Nov 1 https://www.giants.com/team/transactions/2022 look at Nov 2 https://www.giants.com/news/isaiah-hodgins-claimed-waivers-buffalo-bills-oregon-state-beavers-brian-daboll

I hate to say it, but this must makes me SMH all the more at the PFF grading. Not that the defense wasn't very effective, it was But sorry, you throw 2 picks and fumble twice, that is NOT great offense.

excuse me if this has already been brought up I think Brady was coached to play dirty while in NE and Mac Jones is receiving the same coaching https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/tom-brady-called-blatantly-dirty-142318575.html

OK, first of all, if anyone wants to look at the Beasley INT, it's one of the highlights on NFL.com https://www.nfl.com/games/dolphins-at-bills-2022-post-1 If that doesn't take you there, click on "highlights" and scroll to "Jevon Holland secures Dolphins' second INT of first half via Kohou's deflection" A few comments: 1) Beasley was 100% hindered from coming back to the ball before it got there. Kohou had his arm wrapped around Beasley's waist from the R if you pause before the ball gets there. But Beasley needs to try harder to come back, in order to "sell it". On the other hand, we've had critique of other receivers for failing to make a catch while their arms are being held like that. Beasley was supposed to be the "magic guy" who could haul those in infalliably. 2) As all too often, Something is Wrong with the route tree. Look how close Brown is to Beasley in that play. Either the play design sucks, or someone isn't running the correct route option 3) Brown seems to be operating with his head in an upright locked position as far as reacting to the play? Seems to me with the ball in the air going to Bease, he should be getting in a defender's way or something, I think that's allowed? -------->4) Regarding that Bolded point, Diggs says "Hello!". Knox (I think) just ran past him carrying Diggs defender with him. It's 2nd and 10, Diggs gets 4-6 yds for sure if Josh fires it in there RIGHT THEN, and quite possibly more since he'll fight for it if he can't evade. (Later in the play the defender catches up).. Yes, Diggs actually is as wide-open as he looks, and there is only one defender near him instead of 3. This is, IMO, Yet Another Example of Josh trying by every means to throw for the first down, instead of taking the sure reception and trusting his guys to get some YAC.

McDermott's comment about that INT in his presser, FWIW, was "maybe we need to extend our hands more and come back to the ball". No question to me that Beas tried to body-catch that. Romo had them show a broadcast that IMO showed a bit of a hold that kind of threw him off and may have prevented him coming back.

Agree, I thought at the time that was ticky-tack and I said "Well, OK, but if that's how you're gonna call it, just call it that way on both sides"

I'm pretty sure Hodgins would have seen playing time week 11 and week 12 when we were calling up Tanner Gentry and giving him snaps because Kumerow went on IR. Pretty sure Beane would rather have had Hodgins then. But the people lambasting the FO for cutting Hodgins when the Bills did, don't look at the entire roster picture the way Beane has to, and failed to place an order for an infalliable Crystal Ball to be installed in Beane's office. I have not been watching the Giants too much. But Hodgins was on the field more than half the snaps since they signed him, and was only getting 3-4 targets per game for 36 ypg until the first Giants-Minnesota game, when he went nuts for 8 receptions/90 yds, 2nd game 8 receptions/105 yds. Overall, he's been getting 8.5 YBC which suggests to me that he's being targeted on intermediate routes that aren't in the Bills passing vocabulary this season, but if they were, they'd be run by Knox, Davis, and Diggs. So which of those 3 do people want to sit for him?

No, this isn't right. He was signed to the Bills 53-man roster on October 8, after we lost McKenzie to concussion and Crowder to a broken leg during the Ravens game. We were already without Kumerow to a high-ankle sprain during the Dolphins game, so we called up Tanner Gentry. At the same time, we signed Ja'Marcus Ingram (DB) and elevated Joe Giles-Harris due to injuries at DB and LB. It was a really tough stretch for injuries and a roster "numbers game. Hodgins stayed on the 53-man roster until 11/1, when we had to make roster moves to make room for Dean Marlowe (trade) and Tre White (end of his 21-day window to return from PUP. The problem was, at that point Spencer Brown had been out the previous week, was questionable and in fact did not play against the Jets; Mitch Morse was on injury report with an elbow; Matt Milano had an oblique injury, was questionable, and did not play; Jordan Poyer was "out" with an elbow injury; and Tre White was not going to play. So we weren't able to cut someone on OL, LB, or DB and still assure having enough players to field at those positions. I'm sure Beane didn't want to cut Hodgins, but at the time Kumerow was back, had played the previous week, and played that week and the following week before landing on IR, so in terms of numbers at different positions on the roster, it made sense. I know people here don't value Kumerow as a WR and don't value ST, but Beane does both. If he'd had a "crystal ball" to know Kumerow would only make it two more games before landing on IR, I'm sure he'd have kept Hodgins. BTW we cut Brandin Bryant the same day as Hodgins and he was picked up by the Texans. Pretty sure Beane didn't like that either, but they released him a month later and Beane took him back.

So the reason the Bills have the #5 D in Y/A given up (6.5) while the Ravens have the #7 D in Y/A given up (7.2) would be ???? We're not that much more of a pressure team, 22.4% vs 19.2% The "tendencies down" bit does matter. But it matters to the Dolphins vs Bills game too. That take is So Last Year

I don't think that was our game plan. It looked to me as though we played to contain Thompson in the pocket, stop the run, and control Hill and Waddle. Pretty much worked too.

What does this mean? Yes the Ravens have an excellent defense. The #3 defense in the league, as it happens. The Bills have the #2 defense in the league. Is there some argument beyond "we don't have the Ravens Defense" about how the matchup is bad for the Bills D or something? because statistically, the Bills have a better defense against the pass than the Ravens do, where we're a bit worse is against the run.

Well....the Bengals had their own self-inflicted wounds in the Ravens game, but the Ravens generously declined to take advantage and responded with their on harikiri. For example, if the Ravens tried some sort of offense from the Cinci 3 yrd line except THREE SUCCESSiVE PASSES, are you kidding me? They could have gone into halftime up 14-9 instead of 10-9 Then of course there's the inexplicable 3rd and 1 decision by the Ravens to chant "I believe I can fly" and have Huntley keep and jump over the pile with the ball extended a half yard short of the goal line and his teammates pushing him from behind (which works better if you're not in the air), like they were running different plays. Why they didn't give to Dobbins or Gus Bus there, is a mystery for the ages. Result, 14 point swing and the final score, 24-17 My point is that the Bengals did not exactly show themselves to be an unstoppable juggernaut vs. the Ravens either. They gave the Ravens the temporary lead on a turnover, then took the final lead on a Ravens miscue. Yes, it was vs. a division rival who knows them well. So was the Dolphins game where the Bills didn't show themselves to be an unstoppable juggernaut. Bengals also looked thoroughly beatable vs. NWE, giving up 2 INTs and a fumble. Two missed PAT and a missed 2 point from a tied game. Now, whether our coaches choose a game plan that can beat them, remains to be seen.

Well he is a Bengals fan, what do you expect?

Well.....apparently Burrow was seen practicing punts before the cancelled Bills game

The real concern (IMO) are the strip sacks and the beating Josh took while trying to run. Strip sacks are particularly dangerous because they're a lucky bounce away from becoming 6 points for the other team.