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My mantra. "It's only week 3. It's only week 3. It's only week 3." This is where I am. People tend to focus on Elam as a 1st round bust. But what if (work with me here) Elam can actually play at a decent level....and Benford is keeping him on the bench because he started out better and is on his way to genuinely elite? "Man, I never thought I'd see the day that the Bills and their fans got excited about Brady." I think that Hollins is just happy to be starting on offense, and not relegated to ST. Shakir had 6 targets for 72 yards Monday night. Here's one I didn't notice before. Shakir is...perfect? I haven't been able to verify the targets on official NFL stats, but pro-football-reference has him at 14 targets, for 14 receptions and 168 yds. (For what it's worth, that's 4 more yards than Stefon Diggs has to date, but his came on 24 targets.) MVS might like to be fed more, but he's had 5 targets and has only caught 2 of them. The answer to him is simple if he beefs: want more yards? catch more balls. I think Josh will keep finding Kincaid more and more often, because Man! does Kincaid look smooth when he catches the ball.

My top 4 things where I woulda said ......."you're kidding me" If anyone had told me the Steelers and Vikings would have the #1 and #2 Defense (points)..... (that 2nd round pick isn't looking like such a gem right now) If anyone had told me the Bills lost Milano, Taron Johnson, and Bernard, and were 3-0 with the #7 defense..... If anyone had told me Von Miller and Greg Rousseau both have 3 sacks..... If anyone had told me the Bills have a middle-of-the-pack passing offense (#14) but our offense is leading the league in points.... What are your top 4 "I didn't see this coming" "You're kidding me" NFL happenings so far this season?

That was a Peak Coaching Moment. Loved McDermott's reaction after the game, one of the times he's been most genuine in a post game interview. He smiled until he laughed. The Bills definitely stole their song. There's a reason Brown's twitter handle is @TooTallo_o

There was apparently some social media about "Mr Brightside" being played at Dawson Knox wedding. Apparently all the Bills players who were in attendence rushed the dance floor and danced and lifted Dawson and his bride up to carry them around as they danced to it. Dawson was asked about it in a pre-season interview, talked about it as a really cool moment. So apparently the song has some traction with the Bills players Thanks, yes, This. Though it focuses on Josh. There's another clip showing Dawson and his bride being carried around, Dawson by a couple of OLmen

Don't they still have the team stay at a hotel and bus to the stadium or for night games are they on their own?

That throw to Kincaid was brilliant, but methinks there might have been just a smidgeon of holding by Spencer Brown to allow it.

Speaking from personal and family experience, some broken bones in the hand can be much more straightforward to heal than torn tendons. So it doesn't have to be broken to be a problem.

Have the Bills actually come out and admitted Josh has broken fingers?

Is that what all that finger wiggling and waggling is about? Agreed.

From what I've seen so far, the Baltimore O looks more dangerous than it's been since 2019 with the addition of Henry The Baltimore D is not up to their usual standard so far. So the real test is on our defense - can we hold without getting someone hurt?

Ooops.

Diggs ought to be happy. He is now rocking 24 targets and 164 yds in 3 games, which projects out to 136 targets and 926 yards for a season. That was after a 12 target, 94 yd game vs. Minn - in which his team got thumped, 34-7. But hey, Diggs Got His Bag so who cares the team lost?

I passed on a neighbor's invitation to watch the game. I was soaking wet and exhausted but still, thank me for my sacrifice.

The Falcons totally got plucked on that one

i think charts like these need to be taken with a box of salt. They rely on accurate data about who the blown block or pressure was on. Which, might or might not be correct. Eric Wood did a segment on this after he retired could no longer be cleared for football, giving examples of places where he tried to bail out his guard for a blown assignment and was charged by PFF with a blown block - but it was the guard's blown block. I'd like to see data more on the whole OL Yeah, I think the Dolphins front sucks. I thought the Cardinals were OK. I've seen Josh stooping to pick up low snaps more and I don't like that. Not too many penalties is good.

So is Aaron Rodgers good again, or do the Pats just suck?

Sorry, it really is. 1) No team thinks they're "out of it" week 2. Do you think the Rams are throwing in the towel? The Bengals? The Ravens? 2) Even if they know they're rebuilding and they don't have much shot this season, good kickers stay with teams multiple seasons, so the kicker is typically part of a plan for the future if he's good 3) If you pay cursory attention to the Giants because Daboll, they're 0-2 right now and he got thoroughly roasted in the press this week for not taking better care of his kicker situation, even though Daboll didn't tell his kicker to mess up his hammies in a desperate attempt to save a TD. No FO wants to give the press and fans (and owner) low-hanging fruit to attack their decision making by putting themselves in that situation. No. It really isn't.

I'm having trouble parsing this. Are you saying the Bills could IR Bernard on next Tuesday or Weds, and have it be retroactive to cover the Jags game?

Well, that tells you how to calibrate when McDermott says "we remain confident in player X"

I dunno about yards to receivers, but the Jags are 30th in passing yards given up. The Dolphins passed all over them: 37 attempts, 338 yds. It's really too early to put a lot of weight on stats IMO but I'd start Shakir because he's the Bills leading receiver

Beane has mentioned proposals to push the trade deadline back from week 8 so that more teams might feel they are "out of it" and be interested in moving players. And the NFL did move the trade deadline back to after week 9. But after week 2? Who are all these teams who feel they have "no chance at making the playoffs" after week 2? Hope springs eternal I thought Beane could just stroll up to the Kicker tree and thump a few of them to see if they're ripe, then pick one.

Did we have this up-thread? Josh made the comment that the Jags have the best defense in football right now (statistically) Anyone know by what parameter this might be? 'Cuz it isn't by points - they're 8th, tied with the Bills It isn't by yards - they're 11th. Is this some Frankenstat where they're best?

So this was actually a point of contention in the Dallas game where Josh recovered a botched snap on 4th down and "out-aggressived" the entire Dallas front 7 to gain the 1st down. Dallas was all fluffed up that it was a fumble, but technically the snap is considered a backward pass, so Buffalo converted the 1st down.

Yes, Benford absolutely did. But there are two ways to look at that: 1) Dang, Elam must be horrible! A 6th round pick beat him out! 2) Elam has shown flashes in his limited chances to play, it's not like he's horrid or can't play in the league. But Benford is very very good.