dave mcbride

... but we then won't have a credible back up. Fromm and Webb can't play.

2 pt conversions succeed at over a 50 percent rate. If you try it twice, odds are you'll make one. If you make it the first time, you can end the game with an XP and avoid OT, which is a 50/50 proposition.

He seems to drop every other pass thrown his way when I watch him.

If the Bills trade Beasley (which won't happen), the Bills will need slot help.

Why would the Bills dowgrade the one elite offensive group on the entire team (outside of qb, of course), especially when the team is built almost entirely around passing the ball? Beasley is a really good player.

Beasley is literally leading the team in receptions. He is not getting traded.

The other thing I’ll say about the Bills D at least up to this point is that they are HEALTHY. That alone makes them better. I think Milaon is the only starter who has had any down time, and he wasn’t out for long. Who knows if they’ll be able to maintain that.

Disagree. If they play the Rams, they are playing a postseason road game. That's the opposite of an ideal setting, and the Rams are extremely talented.

The thing is, we notice all of the problems, but we don't place them in context. At the end of the day the Bills offense is first in the league in points per game, 6th in yards, and 2nd in fewest turnovers given up (and 1st in yardage, points, and turnovers forced on defense). The team is playing extremely well overall.

Exactly.

My one beef about the game is that the Bills should have held the Dolphins touchdown-less. That fourth down completion to Giesecki only happened because Giesecki committed blatant OPI to get Hyde off of him. That's gotta be called. It was really obvious.

Another way to look at it is that they prefer to spend their highest draft picks on proven NFL players rather than prospects. It seems to be a strategy that works for them. It can't be argued that Ramsey and Stafford weren't good trades.

You're missing the 2020 season because it's not listed in PFR. He missed it in its entirety. That said, you're basically right - from 2014-19 he was incredibly durable.

Between 2014 and 2019 he missed zero games. He got hurt last year (ACL) and is dealing with a relatively minor ankle injury now, but I expect him to provide that Rams D with the last bit of juice they need.

I'm not sure he has lost a step. He had 4.5 sacks through 6.5 games before getting hurt.

I think he's played well both last season and this season. The current injury should heal fairly quickly. In any event, he's one of the league's best defensive players this century.

Allen barking at the refs instead of focusing on the play was the lowlight of the half for me. Almost got himself completely creamed as a consequence.

I think most of the good NFL QBs are not flame throwers, and nor do they need to be. It's generally OK to simply be good enough as long as you have the other key skills and attributes (e.g., Payton Manning and Drew Brees). There are some places where it does help (Buffalo, which has the windiest stadium in the league, and where weak armed QBs have struggled), but most NFL games aren't played in Buffalo. But I don't think anyone is saying that velocity alone is impressive when judged within the broader context of productivity; only that Josh Allen has a freakin' cannon. Which he does.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/10/27/nfl-braces-for-billion-dollar-exposure-in-st-louis-litigation/

Badol, he literally threw 66.14 at the senior bowl. Do your research. The difference between 60 and 66 is the difference between 100 and 92 in baseball — i.e., massive. Also, actually read what i wrote about his baseball velocity. He grew a ton after that measurement. C’mon! Be a better reader. Your baseball comment given the context is beneath you.

The one thing I'll say about Allen regarding "physically gifted" is that he appears to have the strongest arm in NFL history and it ain't even close. He has the combine record for velocity (62 mph) and was clocked at an unheard-of 66.14 mph at the senior bowl (60 is extremely high). There is even a story out there of him hitting 74 mph in a game. He was throwing 91 as a HS pitcher and grew 3+ inches and put on 50 pounds (a lot of muscle) AFTER his senior year in HS. We're talking Chapman-level with regard to arm strength. But he's also an elite athlete for a QB. He's not Lamar Jackson, but he's probably the best combo of mobile and strong in the league irrespective of the ridiculous arm talent. That's why folks say he's the most physically gifted QB ever. As for touch, yeah, there's a physical element to it, but it's also mental. We're not talking about mental here. Rather, we're talking stark, raw animal power. I've never seen anyone like him in that respect.

I remember an old "notes from camp" story from Pro Football Weekly shortly after the Bills opened camp in 2009. The scuttlebutt was that Aaron Maybin looked horrible and like a guy who was incapable of succeeding in the NFL. People here ripped the piece because it was so early in his career, but in retrospect it was spot on: it was evident from the get-go that he couldn't compete against NFL players.

In a two-year window, Boston had 2,754 receiving yards, 16.3 ypc, 15 TDs, and 169 receptions.

Speaking of tight ends, I just found out that Tommy Sweeney went to Don Bosco High School in NJ: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/sports/12preps.html.