dave mcbride

Bill Belichick just said on Manningcast that Khalil Mack is probably the best two-gap and best power rusher in the NFL. @PromoTheRobot care to opine vs BB?

With regard to George, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. That first season where he had 29 TDs and 9 INTs, he was actually awful. He was a sack magnet and consistently crumbled in the stretch run of games. The Raiders went 4-12 that season and were done with him before the midway point of the second season of his contract. Gruden had come in and quickly discovered that George couldn’t — and didn’t want to — run his offense, so they shifted to Gannon and George was out. I will say that played pretty well for MN in 1999. But that was not on the Raiders contract and the Vikings were done with him after just that one season.

This is possibly the stupidest Bills homer thread of all time. That is all.

I guess I'd go with possibly Raiders giving Jeff George 5 years/26 million in the mid-1990s. That was real money back then.

Dawson Knox is far more talented and productive than Lee Smith ever was. He's a pretty good player although certainly not elite. Maybe moderately overpaid, but he's he's not killing the Bills salary-wise and he's probably still worth $4-5 million per year. He would easily have gotten that (at least) on the open market a couple of years ago.

There have been a lot of bad QB contracts over the years, and while Jones was overpaid, his contract isn't close to being the worst. Ryan Leaf went 4-17, had a 48.8 lifetime rating (very hard to do!), and a career TD/INT ratio of 14 to 36. (Jamarcus Russell was bad too, but not THAT bad: 7-18 with a 65.2 rating.) Leaf's rookie contract was 6 years/31.25 million. Different era, but it ate a ton of cap up, which is all that really matters when you're talking about NFL player salaries. Daniel Jones, who I think will be a career backup, actually had a LEGIT good season in 2022 - 708 rushing yards, 5.9 ypc, 22 total TDs (15 passing TDs, 7 rushing), the lowest interception rate in the league, and a very respectable 62.9 QBR. He had an AV of 15 (via PFR), which is very good. As a complete QB (not just measuring one counting stat but looking at his production in its totality), he had a good season. The offense overall was 15th in points/18th in yards (middle of the pack) and second in fewest turnovers surrendered.

The Killers are pretty huge and have been around for over 20 years. Strangely, a Vegas band that's actually bigger in the UK than in the US (although still big in the US). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killers

I'm not saying he's great, but he is good. Who do you replace him with? He at least created a real, distinctive, and positive identity for a team that had none for decades.

I think McDaniel is a good coach and I also think it'd be crazy to fire him. But it could happen. As for the playoffs this year, they are currently a good team but unfortunately (for them) 4-6 with games in Green Bay, in Houston, and at home vs SF. The rest are manageable; their away game vs the Jets is the final game of the season and that could be a classic run for the bus game for the Jets. The Bengals are the most interesting to me. If they beat the Steelers at home coming off their bye, the rest of their schedule is pretty easy until the final game. I can easily see them at 9-7 before their season-ending game in Pittsburgh. The only other tough opponent is Denver the prior week, but that's at home.

I was just about to post this!! Ya just hate to see it. 🙂

Honestly, he doesn’t seem like a d**k at all. He’s in fact likable here and extremely respectful of the Bills: 19:25 mark here:

A couple of things. First, on the late-game missed deep throw into triple coverage to Knox, Samuel was wide open on a crosser. Second, while had 5 catches for 58 yards on the stat sheet, he really had 6 for 75 when you factor in the PI he caused on that leaping attempt to catch the ball in the fourth. Good game for him. He also had two great RACs on throws that didn't put him in the best position for RAC too.

Because Johnson is an idiot who inherited all of his wealth. To quote Belichick regarding Johnson, it's basically "ready, fire, aim" with him. Jerry at least started at DT (alongside Jimmy Johnson) for an Arkansas team that won the national championship in the mid-1960s. He also built his own fortune and has three SB rings (along with a ton of playoff appearances). They are not comparable when it comes to football knowledge.

17+ million for MNF on average; 31.2 million for Allen v Mahomes on average: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/texans-cowboys-delivers-17-million-viewers

The 4:25 games do really well at this point of the season (dark out early; getting colder) when the matchups are good. That 6:45-7:30 window has long been gold, especially when the good games are close. It’s why 60 Minutes was always scheduled at 7 (and it dominated ratings for decades). A lotta people crash early on Sunday nights. I am guessing the showcase 4:25 games do better than MNF.

https://www.buffalobills.com/news/buffalo-bills-draw-record-breaking-tv-ratings-in-dramatic-week-11-win-kansas-city-chiefs-josh-allen-patrick-mahomes

Agreed. He absolutely was trying to punch it out. He did exactly as he was supposed to do. He's not looking at the goal line either - for all he knows, he's on the half yard line with an opportunity to get the ball for the Chiefs at the 20 yard line down 23-21. Complaining.

10 for 30 - factor out the game ending kneeldown.

One mistake by me — that injury occurred in the latter half of 1992, not 1993. When he came back that season, he was not as good. Never the same thrower after that. He played a lot smarter in 1995, to be sure.

He was never the same thrower after rupturing his bursar sac in the 1993 season. He went from an effortless thrower to one who labored to make the more difficult throws. His deep game really declined and he shifted to more of a pop fly thrower in that regard from around the second half of 1993 onward. By 1996, he had clearly broken down - a so-so arm paired with increasing immobility plus poor decision making. The 1990 Kelly on that 1996 team would have been a SB participant.

You simply have effing kick the fg there.

And winning.

Yeah, but it is entirely working and McDermott/Babich seem clueless about what Reid was always going to be up to. If you can’t stop it, don’t complain about the opponent being petty; complain about our side not seeing this obvious thing coming.

He practically won the AZ game for the Bills this season. That was a big win, in retrospect.

This is an amazing breakdown by Belichick of why the Chiefs were able to win last Sunday on the final play: