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3rd post in the Game Week thread, by YOLO - due to the storm conditions, the Bills cancelled media availability until Thurs this week.

The normal practice week for a Monday game is Thurs-Fri-Sat, walkthru on Sunday Driving ban was lifted in St Louis City at 12:01 am today. All remaining driving bans in Erie County were lifted at the same time MOST of Erie county had lifted driving bans earlier in the week. Status of driving bans as of Dec 27th: Status of driving bans as of Dec 26th: Orchard Park, Hamburg, and West Seneca were lifted as of Dec 26th. Of course, a driving ban lifted does not mean that all residential streets were clear, or that plowing services were able to plow out driveways, or that everyone was able to get to work. this is all in the game week thread btw. Normally I think that's kind of snarky to point out but in this case it's literally the first 3 posts in the thread (that the practice week is shifted from W-S to Th-Su due to Monday game, that the driving bans were lifted in OP/Hamburg/W Seneca etc)

Yet Kansas City ran for 138 yds on them, but passed for only 223 yds. This was Week 13, DJ Reader played 73% of the snaps. (138 yds is well above league average, KC's average, and the Bengals D average with Reader playing)

I normally like Chris Simms, but I don't know what he's eating or smoking this week. First we have the Bills won't be able to run _at all_ against the Bengals with DJ Reader - despite the fact that KC ran for 138 yds with Reader playing 73% of the snaps. Then we have "Bengals will play a lot of man because Diggs is the only Bills receiver who can get open against man" despite the fact that McKenzie has had big games when teams try to man him up.. Now we have "throw at whoever is covered by 27" despite 1) the Bills play a lot of zone 2) QB currently have a 53.6% completion % against White

I read it's door-to-door for residents who lost power for extended times OR who called for help during the storm. Which sounds more focused and sensible.

Yeah, it is tone-deaf Definitely "Rich Man Problems"

Is he having us on about the "two years in culinary school"? As someone else noted, I think the singular "a woman" may be a sticking point for Stefon. I also think that for some of the players with wives or steady girlfriends, cooking may not be their lady's thing Diggs and a number of the other players have personal chefs (Darien Bryan I believe, for Stef and Gabe Davis). So Bryan must not be able to either get the ingredients he needs, or get there to cook for Stefon. Whether they don't like the food at the facility, or it's closed, or maybe it's open but limited in what it can offer due to staffing and supply issues, can't tell you. Where does Diggs live, someone here surely knows? If he lives downtown and he tried to get home, he might not have been able to leave since then. I mean, McKenzie owns a BBQ restaurant and he says he doesn't know how to cook BBQ. He loved the BBQ his friend's then-BF served, and agreed to help fund it as an enterpreneur. So Diggs could maybe like the stuff he put his name to, but not be a chef

I like Chris Simms but when I hear his previews of the games.....sometimes I'm SMDH and let's just say, it doesn't necessarily work out that way. DJ Reader is a great player. Run defense can't be conducted by one player. It's a group effort. The Bengals are currently 29th in "run stop win rate" per ESPN. 27%. The Bills had pretty good success (>150 yds) running against the Packers, Vikings, Browns, Lions, and Dolphins as well as the recent cleat-stomping of the Bears. All those teams have better run stop win rates than the Bengals. Now, some of them are pretty mediocre overall in rush Y/A given up - Bears, Browns, Packers, and Lions are 27-30th in rush Y/A given up. Vikings are 17th. Dolphins are 12th. Jets are 4th in the league and we ran for 134 yds during our first meeting. Patriots #9 and we ran for 132 yds. So...do I think we'll be able to run for 254 yds like we did against the Bears, vs the Bengals? No. No, I don't. On the other hand...if it's not gale force winds, we shouldn't need to. And I think it's optimistic to believe we won't be able to run on them at all. I will say...Simms puzzles me with his "only have one guy who can separate against man coverage". Now, I will say, this is where the refs matter. If they let the DBs maul our guys all day, that could be true, but if they call some DPI and DH when merited, McKenzie can absolutely beat man coverage, it's zone that swallows him. Even Josh has given him props for "he does that very well".

Apparently Norman has been running a coffee shop: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35336662/truly-honor-back-panthers-norman-35-says

Who is B-rabbit? Why is Lawson being called "Crane"?

I can remember a couple years ago, around the time of the Houston playoff loss, it was all about how Josh got too hyped up playing Primetime Games and Sugar Rush Josh came out, he was better in obscurity at 1 pm. 🤷‍♂️

Didn't we have a dude essentially terminate his PS contract - Tavon Austin? Yep https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/former-browns-de-isaac-rochell-heading-to-new-team/ar-AA15KM8Z Sounds as though the Browns may not have wanted to release him, but he wanted to move on, so..... Anyway, there was some talk around the Beasley signing that a team can not claim a player from another team's PS to theirs I pointed out that it happens, and the way it happens is that the player asks the team to release him (or terminates his contract) and then signs a new contract.

I think a lot of QBs these days have a personal QB coach. The main thing is working it out with the team what the R&R will be and ensuring that the personal QB coach isn't speaking against what the team QB coach is coaching, especially during the season. For that reason, I don't think most QB have a personal QB coach in the facility. A lot of players have a nutritionist/personal chef/personal trainers/massage therapist. They usually are off-season or, outside the facility, and don't typically cause confliction. Josh has mentioned on the Kyle Allen show having a massage on Tues at his house before the show. Diggs and Davis use Darian Bryan. Not sure what Allen does. Of course, the team will work out a training and nutrition plan for every player, so again, issues would arise if the personal trainer/nutritionist and the team goals promoted by the team nutritionist/trainers differ. I don't know why they need to be in the facility - again, unless they just aren't on the same page with the goals the team works out for the player. I think a lot of players also have a social media/personal brand or marketing/pr rep. Sometimes this is a service provided by the player's agent, sometimes it's a separate agency. Feliciano used Frances Reimers (Firestarter). It makes sense to 1) hand over social media to a pro and not get into back-and-forth with fans on it 2) have someone out there looking for marketing and PR opportunities (or fielding/triaging them). Again, it really shouldn't need to come into the facility during the season. A competent rep should be able to manage opportunities according to parameters worked out with the player, and maybe come to them an hour a week during the season, on the player's day off, with a "yes/maybe/no" pile for review. The decision a young player like Josh needs to make, as success comes to him, is, "what are his priorities?" Does he want to let endorsement deals and appearances and advertising spots encroach on his prep and training time during the season, or his down-time and rehab/training during the off-season? Or does he want to set strict limits and make prep and training his first priority, then personal life/down time his second priority, and ring-fence a smaller amount of time for marketing? I think the paradox faced by Russ Wilson was that he was still a young guy on his first contract as a 3rd round pick, when he won his Superbowl and then went back (and lost) the following season. So he was earning very little from the Seahawks with little guaranteed - I think I remember $700k salary. His agents and marketing people would likely advise him "get your bag while you can" because anything can happen - injury, rest of the team falls off - and there's no guarantee he'll be able to get that lucrative 2nd contract OR be as marketable then as he was at the time. Now Josh has already been Paid, big time. So he can look at marketing deals with a more discerning eye, and more easily set limits on how much of his time they eat up in season and out (and I hope he does). When you're earning $20M or $40M or $50M a year, it's easier to say "I'd rather be playing golf" or "I'd rather be tuning up my throwing mechanics" when offered a bunch of endorsement deals, than it is when you're earning $700k. Anyway, I don't think the entourage is that unusual. What's unusual is: 1) having the personal QB coach in the facility 2) having the social media assistants and anyone else (chef/trainer) in the facility 3) having his own office in the facility - Cousins does, not sure who else.

Turner did a bunch of run breakdowns this week Bunch of defensive breakdowns too If anyone is interested

FWIW Erik Turner did a bunch of run stuff from the Bears game

You're not gonna get an update. They're on IR, that's your update

Well, yes, Boettger is a vet. But you get a feel for how teams expect a guy to perform and how much slack they'll give him, according to what he's being paid. Saffold close to $6M (split over 2 years but it's really a 1 year contract) Boettger vet minimum, $1.2M In the case of OLmen, every OL coach seems to bring "his guy" to help be his player coach and teach his technique and schemes. Bobby Johnson brought Jon Feliciano. Juan Castillo brought *gulp* Vlad Ducasse. Saffold is Kromer's "guy" It's not that "his guy" won't get benched - essentially Ike Boettger kept Jon Feliciano on the bench last season and eventually Wyatt Teller benched Vlad Ducasse - but it takes Some Doing.

“look at me” announcement?

Why announce it now? Why not just play out the season then announce?

Good taste in friends! Keep her!

Here's another one. I'm not crying, you're crying! https://buffalonews.com/news/local/in-the-middle-of-a-blizzard-with-help-from-one-dad-to-be-two-doulas/article_0377b3b8-8527-11ed-95ca-772f97130007.html#tracking-source=article-related-bottom

So the driving ban is now a "travel advisory" in most of Erie County https://buffalonews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/cheektowaga-travel-ban-lifted-nonessential-driving-still-banned-in-buffalo-lackawanna/article_da6253e6-82b7-11ed-82d3-1bc0156c8602.html Non-essential driving is still banned in Buffalo and Lackawanna, so there might be some impacts to players who live in downtown Buffalo, but, hopefully they stayed with teammates and didn't drive IN to Buffalo in the first place The Thruway, I-290, and I-990 are open now.

She saved this man's life. This is what I mean when I said in another thread, people were breaking the driving ban to help their neighbors all along through the storm. It has to be that way, in a natural disaster when EMS is overwhelmed. I hope the man is OK. It sounds as though he was near death when she found him Here's another example of neighbors helping neighbors https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/getzville-neighbors-helping-during-medical-emergency-wny-buffalo-winter-storm/71-0dfdd2de-c62c-47fd-84fc-656d05e2075a

There are sprains and sprains. I'm not going to judge the degree of pain someone else is in. I do judge him for driving drunk (innocent people get killed that way) and I do judge him for what look like deliberate attempts to hurt or injure his opponents. Total punk.