Beck Water

1. is an interesting comment. Some truth there though this year is different for Josh as a QB. 2. would require a caveat. 2020 October, Josh had a sprained L shoulder but he also didn't play a good game. 2021 playoff, Josh lost to the Chiefs. Played like hell, but he couldn't decode their defense and wouldn't take the underneath stuff they were leaving him all game. To his credit, he learned something. You could make a case for Ryan's point from then on.

Gap integrity

All these guys have egos. McDermott talks his "humble and hungry" game, but make no mistake, he's got an ego, he just keeps it on a leash. Daboll took the leash off his ego after his first year with the Giants. I think Daboll meeting the Turk is a "needs to happen". He started thinking he knew more than McDermott in Buffalo. McDermott would tell him you got to be able to run the ball sometimes (his perspective as a DC that if a team can't run, it's so much easier to attack them defensively) and Daboll started hearing "Blah blah, Ginger. Blah blah blah blah Ginger." He got the Giants gig and got to the playoffs his first year, and that told him he was Right Right Right. Will be interesting to see what happens next. Here's the thing though. They had that FA and draft, and two more since, to become a team with the talent to regularly win playoff games.

I did feel that the defense KC saw yesterday looked a little different to the Chiefs. They were not quite expecting the continued aggressiveness. That was one of the few worthwhile comments I heard from Romo, about how this is the most pressure the Bills have ever gotten on Mahomes. Interesting. Both things are true though - Romo may have been sharing insights based on inside info, but he also was sharing insights based on 14 years in the NFL He's stopped doing both. Yesterday he came across to me as a giant FanBoy commercial for KC. Everything was from KC's POV, offense and defense.

"Let him score" would make absolutely no sense there. The Chiefs are a well coached team. So I doubt they were unsure. What they were unsure about, once he got the first down, is whether he would slide and stick them with an UR, since he had been sliding earlier in the game. Hopefully that connection isn't lost on Josh. But let's give Josh his propers. What Von Miller said when he was still with Denver "you better have a plan to tackle him". The Chiefs didn't have a plan to tackle him, and they underestimated his open-field speed. Because Josh is big, he doesn't appear as fast as he is. If that were Lamar doing that run we'd have heard a bunch about how he's so incredibly special and no other QB can run like that. But because Josh is able to run people over, his ability to make people miss goes under-appreciated.

Saved me a bunch of typing. I was waiting for someone to call this out. Yep, that 4th and 2 play was a real "That Fu**in' Guy!" play. Spagnuolo had the perfect defense called to counter that particular offensive play. Then Joshua *****in' Allen took over and he had nothing. How many NFL players - NFL players on the 4th rated D for points, 2nd for yards - had a chance and missed Josh on that play? I believe there were 6. That. *****in'. Guy. It could just be me, but I thought Kermit was a bit........condescending....about the Bills in his press conference.

Yep, it's both irritating that the facemask was missed and the non-catch not reviewed, and encouraging that neither of them mattered.

I was watching Allen throw some beautiful arching passes tonight (yes, tonight - was traveling, watched DVR'd game tonight)

My nose bleeds blue buttermilk for that guy. Hope the Bills can help him out with a nice "L"

Kincaid is 6'4", 240. If a 6'4" 220 lb receiver like Nico Collins can box out or we hope a 6'3" 215 lb receiver like Coleman can learn to box out in the pros as he did in college, Kincaid should certainly be able to do it. Kincaid is an effective blocker down field, at the second level on run plays. He started out with "just get in the way" and is now actually blocking. Kincaid is not effective as an in-line blocker, where Knox has learned to be, that much is true.

Reception % does not tell you the whole story here. Kincaid is asked to run routes downfield. He's respected enough as a receiver that defenses shift coverage towards him. Kincaid is smooth and fluid in his routes and with his hands. Yes, Knox is a better blocker, though Kincaid has improved.

"Kittle running like the Uruk-Hai at Helm's Deep"

"If you listen to the fans, you'll find yourself sitting with them" - Buddy Nix

$23M injury guarantee. If they don't want to stay with him next year, it makes sense to sit his butt and play for the top pick. The only question I have is whether Schoen and Daboll stay. will maintain that since the start of 2023, the Giants simply do not look like a well-coached team, and that Daboll allowed winning COTY to go to his head. I'm not so sure of that, but it's another story.

No

This game and Houston/Detroit last night, it's like "are both teams trying to lose?" Good lord.

? That's sarcasm, Right?

Sure. On three…..

Siren Neal sighting

He was replaced as their starting MLB 2 games ago by Ernest Jones, who the Titans traded to the Seahawks for Jerome Baker and a 4th round pick. He played Will the last 2 games and either they evaluated during bye week and decided he wasn't good enough at Will, OR, he wasn't happy about being moved from the MLB spot.

I just hope this doesn't follow the pattern of Tre' White and Von Miller, where the window was opened too early and resulted in a player having to be rostered but not able to play for several weeks.

Given that Goff threw a "Peterman" of picks, there is, true.

Houston IS winning it, by 2 scores

So is Goff

It just seems pretty improbable. The success rate of a 2 point conversion is between 40 and 55%. Assuming the success of 2 2 point conversions are independent, that would be what, between 20% and 36%?