dave mcbride

I actually think the Steelers, who have a healthy LeVeon Bell this time around, will win. I just don't see the Pats' D stopping the Steelers offense.

They are pedestrian THIS YEAR because of the absence of Edelman. They've played two games without him now (against TB too) and have looked extremely ordinary. With Gronk in there, Hogan is going to open and/or single-covered on many of these deep throws. Gronkowski's actions cost the team a game.

It's football alright - just not the same old same old. Variety is the spice of life, and more to the point, that was a hell of a show yesterday. Total entertainment from start to finish, and a nail biter to boot.

I watched it a bunch of times and it seemed to me that he initiated contact at around the 1.5-2 yard line. It was definitely in front of the goal line.

I watched it five times and it happened within a yard of the LOS (between the 1.5 and 2 yard lines). Probably shouldn't have been called ...

I cannot believe that there are fans here who didn't love watching that yesterday. It was amazing entertainment and a ton of fun to watch from start to end. The last thing I want is for all venues to be the same. If you don't like snow football, take a look inside yourself because it means a small part of your soul has withered and died.

You didn't actually respond to the point I made. I suggest at least thinking about it.

I'm personally opposed to a monoculture in which every goddamn thing is the same and their is no room for quirks and oddness, like snowy venues in relatively unique cities. I'm not sure if you're from Buffalo, but I'd venture to guess that most here are and that they root for the CITY, with the team and sport being incidental. If the Bills left Buffalo, I'd never watchan NFL game again.

Most of Teddy Cutler's interest seems to revolve around English football. https://mobile.twitter.com/TeddyCutler He appears to be COMPLETELY unqualified to opine on the NFL. Also, re his tag: "Not a father or a 'lover of life'"? You're neither funny nor clever, dude.

... and then the Cowboys traded Walsh to NO for a #1 and #3 in 1991 plus a #2 in 1992. It's kind of hard to figure out who they took with those picks without a detailed draft history, but in 1991, they drafted Russell Maryland, Alvin Harper, and Kelvin Pritchett in the first round, and then took Erik Williams (the most dominating RT I've ever watch) and James Richard in the third round. Pritchett never played for Dallas: they traded him that same day for Detroit's picks in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round! In the second round in 1992, they took Jimmy Smith and Darren Woodson, both HOF-caliber players.

It's certainly interesting in that many might be multi-year contributors because THEY PLAY FOR THE BROWNS! The Browns actually have to field players every week, and their only options are the ones on the team. Just because a player plays for a while is no indicator of whether he was a good pick or not, especially on teams like the Browns.

The Bills will go after a qb this year and will spend the necessary fortune to get him if need be. They can't not do this. This is a GREAT qb draft. No one is perfect, of course, but it's the best QB draft in a while.

I watched a bit of the Rams-AZ game on Sunday. Watkins wasn't targeted all that much and the Rams won easily, but the thing I saw from him is a guy who literally explodes out of breaks with the sharpest of cuts. It creates so much separation, even when the DB is an equally explosive player like Patrick Peterson (who was covering him). No one on the Bills can do that. It's really evident when you watch Watkins. He's a really, really strong and explosive player.

Sadly, at that point of the game Jones was their best receiver by far out there. And he does have height. Did you see that pathetic drop by Matthews on an easy throw-and-catch at around the Bills' 25 yard line?

I think Dennison is terrible, but I think you might be misinterpreting this. The game was without question OVER (i.e., down by 3 TDs with less than 9 minutes to go against the best team in league history), for one. Secondly, they know McCoy is capable of scoring. But they don't know if a) the QB can make that throw in a live-game situation with accuracy (a throw that decent QBs have to occasionally make) and b) if their highly drafted receiver can make contested EZ catches on a bread-and-butter fade route against a good DB (a catch that decent WRs have to occasionally make). I'm fine with that series at the goal line. Again, though, I viewed it as a preseason-like series, and I don't like Dennison at all.

I'm done with Tyrod, although I like him and think he can succeed in certain situations (but not here). That said, I think it's fair to say that he's not the only problem with the Bills passing game. The receivers this year have been TERRIBLE. Even Jones, who has improved, NEVER gets separation on deeper throws. CBs are attached like glue to him on pretty much all such plays. And he's the best they have had this season. It's a truly terrible group of receivers.

No, it wouldn't, as long as other teams are desperate as the Bills for a franchise QB. Unfortunately, there are such teams: Cleveland and the Giants.

Brissett was playing with torn ligament in his finger too. He was placed on IR immediately after the game. That was kind of a joke of a victory.

We shall see, but Glenn has always been good when he played. Regardless, I'd rather have too good OTs than one. This is a team that can't be wasting early draft picks on o-linemen next year. It has to be QB all the way, and they're going to need to trade up.

I get that, but IF he is healthy come training camp, he's a good player that should be retained. He's the best lineman on the team when healthy.

Hard to say. Jason Peters had foot injuries and came back better than before. So did Kyle Williams, who had bone spurs in both feet that really undercut his play in 2011 or so. I'm less worried about feet/ankle injuries than back injuries when it comes to big men. Re: rolling the dice with his money, they're rolling either way - his 2018 dead money charge is huge. If he's healthy next season and they draft a stud qb, wouldn't you want a top-10 LT protecting him? I would. I'm not saying that the problem isn't chronic, btw - we simply don't know. It's just that I'm so tired of Bills fans (not you) saying Bills players are injury prone and therefore expendable. Paul Posluzny comes to mind. He's a good player and looks like he's going to have a 12-15 year career. When he was on the Bills, everyone said he was injury prone. His injuries weren't of the chronic kind, however; they were the sorts of random injuries that can happen to any player on any play and aren't a huge problem long term.

Everyone in the NFL is injury prone. It's the cost of doing business. When he's healthy, Glenn is very good. If this isn't chronic and he's healthy next season, they should keep him. He's better than most.

Why should he go back assuming he's the #1 pick? That doesn't make sense to me. He'll learn more about football in the NFL, where he'll focus on it year round, than in the Pac-12. That's true, but I put some stock in this: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000877512/article/ask-5-whos-better-nfl-prospect-sam-darnold-or-josh-rosen. Bear in mind that I'm a UCLA alum and think Rosen is excellent. I just think that Darnold is the better prospect for a host of reasons. They're both good, however.

No he's not. Parcells did phenomenally wherever he went, and in every instance he took over horrible teams (a 2-14 Pats team, Dallas teams that had gone 5-11 three years in a row, a 1-15 Miami team, and a moribund Giants franchise early on). Moreover, building a staff is the most important job of a coach. He is the guy who hired Belichick (3 times!) and Coughlin, and he's also the guy who revivified the career of a down-and-out Sean Payton in Dallas. Payton ulitmately became asst head coach and then went immediately to NO with Parcells' strong advocacy.

He has been a little inconsistent, but let's not make too much of this. He has had an objectively good season (26 TDs to 12 INTs and 8.7 ypa; his completion pct was higher than Rosen's too) against big-time competition (relatively speaking), and he played extremely well against a good Stanford team in the championship game. Indeed, he has a penchant for playing well in big games (UCLA, Stanford, Penn State). SC lost at Wazzoo 30-27, but that is a really tough place to play. SC stunk vs ND, but every great player has a bad game now and then.