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Dane on a ....candy cane? 🤔🤐 Po in the Snow and QB on a Tree my favorites. Ed on a Sled, Matt on a hat, and Tre on a Sleigh pretty good

Did McD say that they weren't gonna practice today or something? Because T-W-Th instead of W-Th-Fr would be the normal practice week for a Sat game

It's more kind of the way he said it. Turning his head immediately to look for another question, kind of with a "why would I do that?" affect. It kind of came across as dismissive, like "why would I?" If he said "I'm focused on studying our offense and being the best I can be within it" or "I catch their games occasionally - we have a very different style of play" it would have been fine.

I don't think they're missing a day of practice. They're planning to leave this evening, right, or has that moved up? So they'll get in their normal practice today as far as I know, which is equivalent to "Fast Friday" They'll do their normal "Saturday morning walk-through" on Friday, in a ballroom at the hotel if they need to (McD presser) The disruptions are more psychological and to treatment - guys missing out on the Thursday equivalent of "Friday date night" or "Friday Family night", maybe worrying if their families will come through the storm OK with power; guys who normally get a cryo or a hypobaric chamber treatment before the team travels, maybe missing out on that.

I think you may be working a little bit too hard to "prove" Warner is "wrong". When an RB is motioned out of pass pro into a route, he becomes a route running option - a receiver, a choice the QB can throw to - part of the design of the play. The route Motor ran contained what I believe is termed a "rub" (though my understanding of how the terms "rubs" and "picks" gets used is fuzzy) with Morris and his defender essentially screening off the defender assigned to Morris from Singletary - giving him a head start to get open. If Motor had an option and ran for the sideline, he would pull coverage off of Morris more directly if that were the intent. It's possible that if Josh held the spy with his eyes and by setting his feet, the "spy" would pick up Motor, though I think the Dolphins respect Josh's feet too much for that to be his assignment. I believe the point is, there are a lot of people yelling that Dorsey doesn't scheme guys open in the red zone and we're relying on WR to "beat their man" and Josh to buy time with his feet and create. But what if that's wrong? What if Dorsey has in fact designed quick pass options which scheme guys open against different coverages, and Josh isn't taking them, when he could? I give up now, because I think this is one of these instances where nothing I could possibly say would possible cause you to reconsider your POV

Why does it have to be the "hidden reasons" conspiracy theory thing? We were playing NE. Frazier wanted to play disguised coverage in zone and stifle the run, in a hostile environment with challenging communication. Rhodes is a good run defender, and Elam is still "progressing" in his zone coverage. And, there probably is some truth to the idea they wanted to see what Rhodes had left in case they need him, in a game where they thought they could get away with a look. They got their answer I assume (Not much).

Isn’t it Josh’s job as the QB to read the defense and decide which route is the best option given how the defense reacts after the snap You seem to be making an assumption that we don’t have play designs where Diggs is open, and that lack of play designs to get Diggs the ball is the reason he’s only getting 9-10 targets per game. If you like to wander over to another thread, you can find play breakdowns where (for example) Diggs was arguably open and the best option. Josh chose to hold the ball and manipulate the DB to close up on Diggs, and threw over his head to McKenzie deep.

Looking at the forecast, I'm actually a bit concerned they'd be better off leaving Thurs afternoon, not evening...could be kinda Gnarly in Chicago airspace already by Thursday night. Not as gnarly as it's supposed to be in Buffalo on Friday though, so there's that.

Might find this interesting Bills were playing a lot of press man against the Dolphins That's Elam's gig

McDermott was asked in presser and said Allen had “general soreness” in his elbow

That's a "trifecta" of "things I really really don't like about this week's injury report": Josh suffering from "general elbow soreness", Poyer with a knee injury missing 2 practices, and Mitch Morse still in concussion protocol (I think the likelihood is high he will miss this game). 🤐 One is impressed, but a little concerned, at your apparent ability to collect actual Moose Piss for a taste comparison

Jim Kubiak talks about some of the same plays that Warner breaks down. https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/jim-kubiak-how-tight-end-and-running-back-high-low-concept-helped-bills-qb-josh/article_df25bcb2-7ffe-11ed-bc7e-0354648364b9.html On some, he sees the same things. On others, he either doesn't, or doesn't comment on them. Kubiak on the strip sack: They both comment that there was an easy completion to Cole, and that the strip sack resulted from Josh buying time and looking for a deep throw when an easy completion was there. And I think that's a theme that critics of our OL need to consider. They are sometimes giving Josh more than enough time to make a completion - they just aren't always able to give Josh enough time to make the deeper completion he's trying to hit. And that's compounded by defenses studying Allen's tendencies, because they know they can plaster the deeper options and give less attention to the shallow throws as Allen won't take them. Where Warner and Kubiak differ in what they see/say, I think a HOF QB who got there due to his abilities to read the field and manipulate defenders might see options Navy's best QB misses, and his interpretation is at least worth hearing and considering - but YMMV. And BTW, Warner did not always have the benefit of a great OL. Some years yes, some years no.

I think there are elements of truth to this, but there is also a valid point (also one made by Warner) that at times, guys are in fact open and Allen isn't taking the "Easy" button he is offered.

I guess it must be in the "ear of the beholder". He never said "I would much prefer to play in a dome" He said things like "we have a pretty strong passing offense" and "of course, it's easier to pass consistently in a dome".

Link where Warner or Cosell called us the “deepest roster by far”? Or Simms for that matter Not at all sure it’s the same pundits I think Warner watches the Bills a lot

Can we please Stop with suggesting RBs play slot receiver? Cook has been a mixed bag when asked to run routes

none, sorry. Various interviews around the time the stadium deal was being negotiated. Pat Mcafee, Kyle Brandt, etc

Wrestlers are like Honey Badger when faced with outsized opponents. They don't care. #52 tomahawk chopped at Josh's right arm and wrenched at his elbow, AFTER he was out of bounds. Sometimes it can be hard for one player to avoid running into another, but he didn't have to do that; that action isn't hard to avoid.

I think all the Bills players have been told that the new stadium will not be a dome and they need to support the "company line" that Football is meant to be played in weather. The part of Cali Josh is from ain't Orange County with its 50 degree to 80 degree normal; it gets up towards 110 in the summer and down to freezing (low 30s) in the winter. But you're correct that in the past, before the stadium plans were announced, Josh implied a strong preference for a dome.

I will say this for McDermott: he is absolutely unafraid to insert his body between 6'6" 300 lb humans having an "exchange of personal views"

The thing that impresses me is how horribly Knox is being held in the EZ on the series resulting in the TD to Cook. WTF man? Refs were letting Miami just maul him. Knox actually went to the ground, threw the DB off then got up and turned around to get open.

Doesn't have conversion % that I can find, but does have a lot of information on run vs pass in different situations and yardages https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/2022_splits.htm I'd like to see a 3rd and short conversion % myself

We execute designed QB run plays for Allen. I can't give you a breakdown of how much of his yards are designed runs vs scrambles, but designed QB runs are a not inconsiderable part of the run yardage Allen gains. It's not correct to characterize "most of those rushing yards are Allen scrambling". For another thing, while Allen is the team's leading rusher, don't confuse that with "Allen generates most of the team's rushing yards". As you can see from the table in the link above, about 63% (almost 2/3) of the Bills rush yards come from rushers not named Josh Allen. It's a fair point that Allen is a large part of our run game, but you don't just get to define Allen's runs out of the picture and say "we have no run game and can barely run". That would be like saying "except for this and that long play, the Bills D didn't give up any yards". All the yards our D gives up count; All the rush yards we gain, whether from other backs or from Allen, count. That means we're 8th in the league at running the ball. I'm afraid you need to show some data to back this statement up. First of all, as tabulated elsewhere and linked above, the majority of the Bills rush yards still come from the RBs. Therefore this statement is false, and you should stop making it. Second, for the ~36-37% of the Bills rush yards that Allen generates, you'd need to show that the majority of them are scrambles, and not designed QB runs or "keeps" on read-options or RPOs in order to make your case.

Why are you feeding this guy the attention he plainly craves so deeply and stirs the ***** so hard to achieve?