Brand J

I found out yesterday the Chiefs OL has never been called for holding in the SB. Not once. The offense has only had one holding call period and that was a WR on a rush attempt. We know their DBs get away with holding regularly. Not sure how many penalties the defensive side has drawn, but it hasn’t been enough. I’d say the lack of penalties is also some sort of secret sauce.

And I hope his benching doesn’t bode well for his confidence! I didn’t know the Chiefs didn’t have a plan after letting Orlando walk, but I’m happy they’ve got an Achilles heel.

They’re definitely a small ball offense right now and that’s because they don’t trust their OTs and besides Rice, Pat doesn’t have any real dynamic receiving threats. Kelce isn’t what he used to be and Worthy is a rookie still trying to figure it out. Screens, 0-5 yard passes, and rushes, it’s how they’re primarily moving the ball.

I don’t have an issue with the Bengals rushing 3, but if you do, you HAVE to spy Mahomes with a faster player who has the green light to rush if a path opens up. It’ll look like a delayed blitz. By design Mahomes needs time, so there will be an opening to rush a 4th (and there was).

Supposedly Cine’s skillset translates better to SS than FS, but I’d love that sort of speed for our last line of defense.

Just a reminder the Dolphins were favored to win this game AND had the line move in their favor. Lots of bettors lost money on the fins tonight.

Throwing gang signs

Don’t understand the amount of injuries to pivotal players. There’s unlucky and then there’s cursed.

They’ve gotta win with physicality and being in the right place at the right time, because none of them are winning in a foot race.

Both Bishop and Elma’s speed are desperately needed in this secondary. Right now they’ve gotta be the slowest in the league with both corners running mid 4.5s, a safety running mid 4.7 and the other running a 4.6. Actually, Douglas might be a 4.6 guy as well without looking it up.

You’re thinking of Van Pran Granger. Van Demark was the swing tackle last year.

2nd game in a row Grable is up and Van Demark is inactive. Safe to say we know who the Bills like better at swing tackle.

In my opinion Bills Mafia should take control of that narrative and have some fun with it. Every time Josh scores a TD, they should erupt with “overrated! *clap* *clap* *clap* *clapclap* overrated!”

It’s arguably the fastest offensive personnel against the slowest secondary in the NFL. Defense has its work cut out this week.

Torrence has been off since last season. He’s struggling right now, sophomore slump.

The highly visible :13 second game has influenced a lot of strategies, I bet.

In some ways Allen was lucky to land on his hand. It was right under his throwing elbow, so if it wasn’t there to cushion the blow it would’ve been his elbow that would’ve taken the brunt of the force.

I was just coming here to ask about Elam. Healthy scratch? Wow, I thought he had a great preseason. This would normally be where I rag on Ingram and Lewis, but both played well. Hamlin was a liability today and Rapp was a step slow a few times. We need more speed on the backend.

The 35 isn’t too much if what you actually want are more returns. It was initially the 35 like the XFL model, but owners decided to move it back to the 30. Something needs to be done about the touchbacks, or they’ll just have to eliminate this aspect of special teams.

He equaled the number of sacks tonight (2) that he’s had in his four year career with the Saints. Former 3rd round pick who hasn’t done anything in the league. Signed with the Iggles on a 1 year deal.

With two promising OTs waiting in the wings and Brown’s injury history, I’m not sure I like it. Will wait to see the numbers, but I was cool with letting him walk and getting a high comp pick in exchange because some team was going to overpay him on the market. He’s an extremely tall guy with back problems, it’s a risk.

Media does love them some Lamar and I laugh when I hear “Josh Allen isn’t criticized as much as Jackson.”

Go back and watch that play from the EZ angle. I absolutely put that one on Allen. He threw it to Gabe’s left but Gabe’s route carried him up the field, looking over his right shoulder. Shoulda hit him where he was going, not force him to whip his head/body around to catch a ball to his left.

Diggs’s extension isn’t hindsight for me either. I said at the time if you want to extend him with a pay raise, fine, but only 2 years maximum. That would put him at 32 where you could reevaluate him when his deal came due again. To go with a 4 year $96M extension when he had a couple years left was insane I thought. I wasn’t sure his contract and cap hit would be warranted at 33 and 34 years of age.

Oh Beane still tries but sometimes teams won’t take his call. If he had got his way and traded up for Cole Bishop like he was trying to do, we likely don’t have Ray Davis. The draft is a crapshoot, no one knows how any of these players will pan out. I’m all for accumulating picks and using them, not trading them away (all-in on a QB being the exception).