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Tomlin took the Big Balls step of benching his starting QB when the team was 4-2 and had just won. Many prognosticators prognosticated that was a move that would end in disaster. The QB is the most important player on the football team, and Tomlin has 8 wins now with a team QB'd by a first-round pick who washed out in Chicago, and a former all-pro who couldn't get-r-done for 2 years in Denver - on a Denver team that is doing at least as well with a rookie now At receiver, they have George Pickens and who? Second round never-was Van Jefferson? 33 year old Cordarelle Patterson? 30 year old "Can now cover Mike" Williams? Right or wrong, the perception is that Tomlin is leading that team to over-achieve Let's all focus on this last part. Say it louder for the people in the back of the room: "Rarely does COTY win the SB"

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I believe the thinking is that McD has one of the best QB in the league who creates on his own. Also, as another poster said, the Bills are expected to be perennially good now. The people who vote for that stuff don't read the fine print and say "how is he managing to have such a solid D when they've moved on from last year's starting safeties, they lost their all-pro LB before the season and their MLB for an extended period, how is the O managing when they started out thin at WR and injuries made them thinner" etc etc The perception is that McD is a solid coach but he's working with a full cupboard of player talent

10 touches in the 1st half, 5 touches in the 2nd. Certainly wasn't being used as much. Still being run in the 3rd Q though, we just had a 3 and out, and a 6 and out prior to our drive that extended to score in the 4th. My guess would be got dinged some on that TD drive because Ray Davis took all the RB snaps after the 2nd handoff to Cook. Cook came back for a play in the 4Q TD drive and maybe decided he couldn't go after all (And Davis may have got dinged as that drive was Ty Johnson) I think the passing chart shows the Bills were trying to attack the edges as you suggest. I think the Chiefs will have a somewhat different defensive philosophy if we meet them with a healthier group of receivers. I think they looked at the cast on Amari Cooper's arm and said "you got Who? catching downfield passes?" so they really choked out the short stuff. If we have a couple guys with some success getting downfield, they won't feel that luxury.

Luck plays such an unacknowledged part in success, especially at the end of a long season. For example, injury luck. See: AJ Klein and one-winged Dodson, Bills LBs vs Chiefs. But anyone who thinks Reid and Mahomes don't set out to do "whatever it takes" to win when they step on the field, is delusional. See: "Paddy Melt" after Toney's Offside called back.

Contain this Built different, he is

Ohio and WVa are opiods Arkansas is meth like MO but half the people Everyplace is every substance now If you actually read the article you linked, it points out that MO couldn't compete with Cali, which had a well-organized distribution network of biker gangs and organized crime. MO was #1 for home lab seizures though.

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Tim Settle looking good for the Texans Jerry Hughes still playing for them too, I did not realize. Overall: 1) the Cowboys are all around inept - bad coaching, bad execution, sloppy play 2) Texans playing sloppy in many ways, but more than well enough given 1) above Nico Collins makes a difference for the Texans CeeDee Lamb is Truth Apparently referees can overturn a non-catch where the ball hits the ground, Who Knew?

I wouldn't visit Chiefs Planet without BSL-4 precautions and observed decontam for unsuiting. Like MSF treating Ebola.

Josh said he could have checked out of the play and chose not to. I think he and the coaches saw something in how the D reacted (they ran a similar play earlier, right, and were successful with it?) and felt they could exploit Which, they did.

I know it's just a typo or an autocorrect....but Man, what a Freudian Autocorrect. I'm still laughing.

We've had our full share of injuries, seems to me. Milano (IR), Smoot (4 games, IR), Solomon (2 games), Taron Johnson (4 games plus most of a 5th), Terrel Bernard (3 games plus most of a 4th), Spector (IR), Carter (IR) And that's not touching the offensive side of the ball, where Coleman, Cooper and Kincaid have all missed multiple games and Samuel is reportedly playing with a turf toe.

You're right, but also people have been seeing Samuel open at times ( @Alphadawg7's comment about Samuel downfield, although I always take that with a grain of salt since on the TV it can be hard to tell if he's open at the right time in the progression) and Allen not pulling the trigger to go to him.

It's a good question as to why.TBN article Couple of key quotes: So, good question as to what's been going on. Has Brady not been designing plays to go to him? Does Allen prefer to trust Kincaid or Coleman? Or has Samuel been "working his way healthy", which Shakir kind of implies: Training room...out on the field after....don't think that's the routine unless a player has some kind of injury bothering him. I actually had that thought when I was listening to Paddy M. talk about how you need your best football to beat a great team. Buffalo was far from playing their best football on offense. Had some gaps and glitches on defense too.

Fair. Saying something like "we'll do this again" as they greet post-game is surely a big step up over bitching about the refs. I was thinking respect would go for the traditional "good game, bro, that run was killer" in the bro-hug or "that's a very good football team and they made plays, credit to them". "We didn't play our best" and "that's a good football team" just struck me as faint praise.

He was still looking pretty sharp this year while he had Nico Collins, Diggs, and Dell.

I think any resemblance between the Mahomes led, Reid coached Chiefs and last year's Hurts led, Sirianni coached Eagles is kind of coincidental. Part of it is the "DNA" (or the culture) of the team. Mahomes is "the Man", with a track record of coming up big in the biggest moments (sometimes with a little help from his zebra friends but). The Chiefs are rolling towards a 12 year stretch of winning records and a 10 year stretch of playoffs under Reid and 5 out of 6 years top-10 defenses under Spagnuolo. It's a little harder to derail that than it is to derail the Eagles, who change DCs like an influencer changes skirts.

That man is a cutaneous larva migrans infection waiting to happen. Not to mention strongyloides. Needs to keep that horse dewormer on hand for use as God intended. Worm the man once a year, whether he needs it or not. I mean...so was Diggs

Hate to see those injuries. Hope he comes back OK. Did the Bills want to keep him?

Gotta give "waste of a pick" TBD assessment mention to Dorian Williams, who is quietly leading the Bills in both solo (59) and combined (97) tackles, with 5 TFL and 2 QB hits packaged in there. That's 10th in the league, in case anyone was wondering. Is he perfect, no, but for a young guy thrown into the starter role in his 2nd year, he's getting better all the time. While I'm here one more point out. Currently the Bills LB (Williams, Bernard + Spector) are leading the league in tackles. That's what's expected, you say. To which I say, true, but it means something - it means the much-maligned Bills DL, especially the DTs, are actually doing a decent job of keeping the LB clean. Which, was not always the case in 2020 and 2021, when Poyer and Johnson were way up there for tackles.

https://x.com/BaldyNFL/status/1858510855295389896 OK what's the new secret-du-jour to getting links to embed?

Then he needs to improve his awareness of the ball's location, which is a couple feet lower than where he's punching

For people who like it, Josh is at his highest ANY/A (7.42) since 2020 (7.82) NY/A same trend Passer rating again, highest of his career (98.2) since 2020 (107.2). TD % up, INT % down, Y/A about the same, sack % a bit lower. Yards per game are down about 30 ypg from the previous 3 years, so there's that. I perceive the run game by "backs not named Josh Allen" as compensating for the lower passing ypg but this is a place where when I looked at the numbers, they didn't say what I thought they'd say: Bills Rush Game Year A/G Rank Team YPG Rank Allen YPG 20 26 18 107.7 20 26.3 21 27 13 129.9 6 44.9 22 27 20 139.5 7 47.7 23 30 5 130.1 7 30.8 24 28 7 119.2 15 25.4 You can all make of those numbers what you want. League average rush Y/G is typically in the 11x - 115, 113, 119 (unless Henry is going nuts, then he single handedly shifts the average up to 120s) My take is that the Bills improved from a below-average run game to an above-average run game by riding Josh Allen's legs. This year, Brady is persisting in trying to build a solid rush game without Josh. We're below average in Y/A at 4.3, but Brady will keep plugging away at the run and not shift it too much to Josh Allen (and to be fair, 4.3 Y/A moves the chains)

"That's a good football team" - yeah, that's the clip I saw. The very end was better "that's a very good football team, you have to play your best football to beat a great team and we didn't play our best football today". If I'd heard that first I wouldn't have felt quite the same. I wouldn't say he was "very complimentary" though.