dave mcbride

I thought the same at first. But who knows what happened last night? No reason why the bills wouldn't know before media there would. He and Dawkins are the only ones I really care about with regard to being cornerstones of the offense.

Perhaps. But that's not a guarantee. He is the only truly excellent player on that offense.

If this is big, only a small handful of players count - dawkis, benjamin, and of course mccoy (who, btw, hasn't tweetd in 13 hours, fwiw). No one else is good enough to matter save perhaps incognito, but he's old and the team's future doesn't hinge on him.

I'd say 9 because if it was the pro bowlers, we would have heard about it.

Absolutely. Also, I'm not so sure Washington should have complete regret about RG3. He did, after all, have arguably the greatest season ever for a rookie qb in the nfl. If he hadn't gotten hurt and if Shanahan had remained empowered to use him as he should be used, we're possibly looking at a guy today who puts up Tyrod-like ratio numbers but multiplied by 1.5 (e.g. 25-30 passing tds and 700 rushing yards). A lot of things went wrong with him (much of it on the management front, from the terrible owner to the parents to the coaching situation), but it can't be argued that his rookie season wasn't freaking incredible. If there ever was a season for the Bills to deliberately tank, it was that one. They started out 0-8! Sadly they went 4-4 the rest of the way.

People! Simply register on the site. I registered months ago and can read everything, but not once has the News asked me for one thin dime.

Good post. I agree about the team around him. He didn't play for a good program. PS - Excellent breakdown from the main Jets fan forum site: https://www.ganggreennation.com/2018/1/16/16882448/scouting-the-2018-nfl-draft-josh-allen-qb-quarterback-wyoming-new-york-jets

Prediction: it'll be a close game and it'll come down to whichever team is better at situational football at the end.

Yeah, I don't think anything happens, but I can certainly see Richie I. leaning into his ear and making some sort of comment about him being an African immigrant or something like that. No one is gonna hear that but the recipient. Bear in mind that the Bills were allegedly coached to instigate the Jags to commit PFs, so it would have to be on the downlow, so to speak. Regardless, it's a he-said/she-said sort of situation with no witnesses, so it'll likely blow over.

We don't know anything. Dawkins may be covering for him or simply never heard him because, well, why would he? If you think the audio of the game captures everything, said I don't know what to say. Don't act like a defense lawyer; just admit that you don't know. I don't either. My general sense is that nothing will come of it because there is no evidence. But that doesn't mean that he didn't say something.

Lots of opining here, but not one of us actually knows anything one way or the other.

You guys who continue to believe this is holding by current NFL standards root for a team (Buffalo) that has one of the most hold-happy o-lines in the league. Watch Wood and Incognito on a play by play basis. They appear to operate under the Pete Carroll philosophy of "if you hold all of the time, the refs are still only going to call it pretty rarely." Regardless, what you see above is not even close to holding by the standards of today's NFL. If the hand gets inside of the shoulders, it ain't a hold. Watch pretty much any random set of plays in a random NFL game and you will quickly see what I mean. The Pats Derangement Syndrome on this board continues to be strong.

If the hands are on the inside, it is never called. If it was, holding would be called on an offensive lineman on quite literally every play from scrimmage in every nfl game over the past quarter century. Come on.

He won 9 games for one reason only: the Pats rested most of their starters in the final game for most of the game. If that game had mattered to NE, the Bills would have been bugsplat.

When did that one start? I remember it well going back to at least '96, if memory serves ...

Marlon McCree. That's all that needs to be said regarding this. http://www.footballinsiders.com/four-plays-that-changed-nfl-history/

Disagree. I think what happened is that the Pats caught onto the Jags' run/play-action pattern and basically stopped guessing and started predicting based upon tells and established patterns. The Jags' scheme design looked really high-school level in the second half because they didn't anticipate adjustments and just kept doing what worked in the first half. Bortles had all day on play-action in the first half, and was under siege on the same plays in the second half.

I have no beef with Jeremiah, but experience tells us that there will be a lot of trades in rd 1 - there always are. I know it's hard to predict them, but it's worth a try.

It was actually tipped by the receiver who was reaching over right before it passed through his arms. He didn't drop it. Actually, that's not what happened. He had excellent coverage on the play and Bortles underthrew it pretty badly. It's hard to defend passes like that, as I'm sure you know. The receiver made a heads-up play.

I'd transition him if I were Washington. Bear in mind that Washington has a pretty good coach who desperately needs to win next season, and that ain't happening without a competent and/or rookie QB. If they transition him (rather than franchise him) at $28 million plus, they save about $6 million. The cap is going up, and that's a reasonable price for a good-if-not-great QB who can get you to 10-11 games if the other pieces are in place. I keep him and get him an upgrade at the WR2 spot, the TE spot (i.e., someone who isn't always hurt), and RB. Draft defense early. They have the 13th, 45th, and 77th picks. I'd trade back from 13 if a deal is there, and collect players. A good RB can be had in round 3 and a better WR can be signed in FA, and there are going to be some good ones. http://walterfootball.com/freeagents2018WR.php

When Charlie Weis and Romeo Crennel were about to go off to their next jobs, he celebrated the same way.

That was a very good throw, especially given the circumstances (escaped from the pocket and on the move). Gilmore made a terrific play on an extremely catchable ball. He has played extremely well of late and had a terrific game yesterday. The one completion he gave up was on a clearly underthrown ball that the WR went back for.

So ... a deeply embedded sleeper cell.

But I'm talking about the Eagles D measured against the Bills D, not the offense.

I think fans evaluate college qbs on their occasional bad games and not on their overall body of work. That's what I think is going on with Darnold now, who was mostly really good. I'm not saying he's going to be Manning, of course.