dave mcbride

My issue with your take and with Joe B's is that it doesn't factor in the quality of the CB. Marcus Peters is really, really good. As I've said elsewhere, there's a reason why good organizations covet him despite the fact that he's one of the biggest a-holes in the league. I think you're confusing Knox with Dawkins.

He's way too slow.

I know points are supposed to be the be and end all, but when you watch the game on a play by play basis and judge it accordingly, the fact that that the Bills couldn’t move the ball really sticks out. You can stick to you your metric, which is perfectly fine, but I watched the game and saw an offense that was almost completely overwhelmed and which looked like garbage save for a few plays.

Well, unfortunately he was mobile against the Bills ...

That's my take on him and why he's due to be replaced as soon as they can. For ST, you want consistency. He is the opposite of that despite making some monster kicks.

He's not having a great season, but he is having a good season. He played well against Miami too. They had no business losing that game, which was all on the defense.

209 yards and 3.1 ypp is genuinely pathetic. Yes, they scored 17, but they turned the ball over deep in their own territory, and that led to 7. I think "C" is if anything slightly generous. They were playing at home too. I'd say that they got to 17 because their kicker outperformed his seasonal pace. EDIT: That is the only game this year in which the Ravens D held an opposing offense to under 4 ypp. It was their best performance of the season on that front, and the Bills were nearly a full yard under 4 ypp (the week before, the 49ers averaged 6.4). Again, that is pathetic.

He threw a beautiful third-down deep ball late in the the game into the EZ that should have been caught, and on the final drive hit two relatively deep throws (to Arcega-Whiteside and Goedert). He also hit Ertz deep a couple of times on their FG drive in the second quarter.

Good to hear your voice! I always remember "D-line equity" from back in the day.

I think the issue is that Baltimore's STs are good. It's one thing to return vs. Dallas, which has terrible STs, and another to try your luck against an old ST coach like Harbaugh. The funny thing is that it was a terrible idea to return it for a TD. He should have taken a knee and ended the game. The Bills D had to then go out and play something like another half-dozen plays before it ended. That's how unnecessary injuries happen.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/TannRy00.htm He is the highest rated QB in the NFL right now.

Tennessee is a good team. I also think Dallas is good despite their record. Having said that, the Bills haven't won in Pittsburgh in the regular season since 1975.

I agree that the lack of weapons is an issue, but no qb I've seen this year has had fewer weapons to work with than Carson Wentz last night - in the second half, he was down to two roster-churn-level WRs plus 3 TEs. Then he went down to one WR when one of them got hurt. Yet he was still slinging and pushing the ball down the field with accuracy. The one caveat is that the Giants' defense is terrible.

That's not really true. Since 2011 - a huge sample size - Gore has fumbled only 20 times on 2,356 touches. That's a 0.8 percent rate, which is pretty low. And over the last four seasons, he has fumbled 6 times on 919 touches - a 0.65 percent rate. Over the last two seasons, he has fumbled once on 328 touches, for a staggeringly low rate of 0.3 percent. Basically, his fumbling rate has really gone down over the course of his career, and we shouldn't be factoring his seasons from 15 years ago into his rate now. Yeldon's rate is good too - 6 fumbles on 656 touches, which is 0.9 percent rate. By way of comparison, I randomly looked up a few other backs. McCoy has fumbled at 0.85 rate over the course of his career, Mark Ingram has fumbled at 0.97 rate, Derrick Henry at a 0.86 rate, and Christian McCaffery at a 0.81 percent rate. Zeke Elliott has fumbled at a high 1.16 percent rate. The real standout? Le'Veon Bell, who has fumbled at a very low 0.5 percent rate. 0.9 percent seems about average (which is where Yeldon is at).

Philly absolutely dominated that game statistically, and the Giants couldn’t move the ball at all in the second half. The better team won.

He doesn’t seem to put enough air under it. Strange to say, but Barkley is a better deep thrower right now because he gives the receivers a chance. Allen throws it too hard and on a relative line, and unless it’s perfectly placed, the receivers have no chance to catch up.

Uncle Sam’s if I recall.

You are whistling past the graveyard on this. NFL qbs simply must be able to throw more accurately than Allen has this season on deep balls. It is a huge problem in his game and on of the reasons the Bills are 20th in points scored. Deep accuracy (relative) is one of the most important attributes of a franchise qb. He simply has to get better. It is not a minor attribute. We want the next Roethlisberger, not the next Bortles.

LOL. Somewhere, a 49er announcer is adding evidence to his plea ...

I thought his final TD pass - the where he rolled right and threw it back inside - was the best offensive play by anyone on the field yesterday. That was good quarterbacking. Judging from the Bills' defenders reactions, they couldn't believe it.

He's had worse games. At least he avoided the crushing INTs, and while he fumbled once on a crushing blindside hit (anyone would have fumbled on that play; thanks, Knox!), he held onto it on many other crushing blows. The ball security was good yesterday, which is partly why they were able to hang around. He was far worse - absolutely awful - vs. NE both this year and last season and against GB last season.

Absolutely true. That said, that was a laughably bad spot. I mean, it wasn't even close. That challenge rule actually bugs me. Apparently, if they screw up the spot but still get the first, you lose the challenge even if the refs wrongly granted an extra 1+ yards. Seems to me that teams shouldn't lose challenges over that.

I told my son to root for the Jets at age 5. bought him a Jets jersey and everything (I wanted an in-house rivalry). He's now nearly 20 and has always been a hardcore Bills fan.

Agreed. He's not going to be great every game. Every qb has a bad game now and then. It's been a while since he had a bad game (Philly, really; he was half-decent vs. Cleveland).