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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?

Initially, Josh said eventually it would get to a point where he wouldn't have to worry about it any more. More recently, he said it was something they would have to manage for the forseeable future My concern is that it has to do with a hard helmet he took to his elbow during a run. He's been wearing a brace to protect his elbow. This week and I think last week he was not wearing the brace.

I don't know of such a site, but it's not hard to pull them out of the box scores on Pro-football-reference. Do it on a computer or other program where you can search, and search for "fumbles" and "aborted"

The big difference between this year and last, are fumbles on the QB-C exchange. There have been 4 of these, either while Morse has been out, or when he's returned with an elbow injury. One resulted in a TD for the opponent Breakdown: QB-C exchange (aka aborted snap) 4 Strip sack 6 Run 2 One of the fumbles on a run resulted in a TD for us - Josh picked it up and went on to score. One of the aborted snaps, as we all know, resulted in a TD for Minn. A couple of the strip sacks were a result of a whiffed block, not necessarily by an OLman. But at least half are Josh trying to extend plays.

He took a pretty hard helmet hit right on his elbow during one of his runs Might have been a bad move to take the brace off just yet

I don't think that at all. It's one thing to be able to run and even do a ladder agility drill. It's another thing to have the muscle built back up to where he can cut and stop without possible re-injury It's possible in theory but, at the time he was first injured there were some articles about similar injuries where the WR came back quickly and was not able to be as effective Pretty sure I read all about how Hamlin totally sucks and is a liability, elsewhere on this site

LOL did you read the article? The study is comparing games played at or below 50 degrees F vs games played at 70 F

An infinite # of times when said people are functionally trolls who are here to stir *****....... It has nothing to do with living in Amherst. I used to live right down the street from SUNY Amherst and I understood lake effect snow.

Since the NFL doesn't GAF about player safety from heat stroke (as witness the sideline in Miami) what makes you think they will GAF about dangerous wind-chill?