dave mcbride

Here's the reverse angle. Looks like Jones did something:

Worth looking at this again. He's playing like the description here and like he played in the Sugar Bowl: https://www.syracuse.com/buffalo-bills/2022/04/bills-terrel-bernard-a-tackling-machine-had-sugar-bowl-performance-for-the-ages-4-things-to-know.html

An overview with clips of five dirty Mac Jones plays over the past couple of seasons: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/mac-jones-dirty-plays-timeline-patriots/mdhtlbuadezsf017gzqdogte.

It's the king of all NFL stats.

I don't actually disagree with you.

They had none vs the Raiders but don't let that fool you -- the d-line had good pressure all game vs Vegas and played well.

Yeah, that's my point. Martindale had a unique plan for the Niners' offense and I give him props for trying something different. It worked OK until it didn't; the Niners are just good.

What collective passer rating does that individual qb ratings don't is factor in negative sack yardage into the rating (which is the way it should be). The Bills have 12 sacks for 68 negative yards. The Commanders' team passer rating was 35.1. The Jets team passer rating factor in a Rogers incompletion and 24 sack yards was 73.3.

The graph is a little weird given that the Giants blitzed Purdy on 86 percent of his dropbacks on Thursday.

I think they beat the Bears next week with relative ease. I don't think there's a worse team than the Bears. I didn't watch the Fish game yesterday, but from what I've read Wilson actually played pretty well and was let down by his receivers (drops, fumbles). Fields seems terrible to me. By every metric, Wilson is playing better this season: 99.5 rating, 59.9 QBR, 7.6 ypa, 65.4 percent completion percentage, 6/2 TD INT ratio. His PFR rating-plus is 113, which means he's 13 percent above average in that category (he was at 91 last year).

Bizarre Bills defensive stat juxtaposition: 2nd in points allowed, 2nd in yards allowed, 1st in turnovers forced, 3rd in passing yards allowed, 6th in net yards per passing attempt, and ... 32nd in yards per rush given up (5.9 ypc). The most telling stat, however: Bills team passer rating: 90.3 Opponents' collective team passer rating: 54.0 That differential of 35.7 is massive, and passer rating differential is the best predictive stat of all with regard to aligning with winning and losing games. Of course, they've faced some pretty bad quarterbacking so far ...

https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore/_/gameId/401547431 For those who believe in QBR, Allen’s was a sky high 92.4 yesterday (100 is the max). That matches the eyeball test. I thought he played great yesterday.

Speaking of different times, check this out: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/1980.htm and https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/1981.htm. Joe Cribbs had SIXTEEN (!!!) fumbles in the 1980 season and TWELVE the next season. Those numbers are ridiculous! He'd have been on the street pronto in this era. Latavius Murray has fumbled once in his last 738 carries!

I think you are looking at this incorrectly. In 2021, the Chargers finished 5th in points and 4th in yards. The defense finished 29th and 23rd in those categories. Last year, they finished 13th in points and 9th in yards (and gave up the 4th fewest turnovers), and the defense finished 21st and 20th in those categories. The divide was similar in his rookie season too. This year, through 2 games, their offense is 6th in points and 5th in yards, while their defense is 30th and 32nd in those categories. That’s the issue. He is playing consistently well, but he can’t overcome a bad defense.

Um, no. #53 is supposed to cover Jones regardless. He failed. We also have no idea how the Bears' coaches were directing Edmunds to play in that formation. WRs are usually a greater threat than RBs, so maybe he was directed to shade toward that? I don't know, and neither do you. What we do know is that a) contra the original claim, it wasn't a 75-yard TD completion, and b) the person eating dust at the end and cursing himself for his poor coverage of Jones was not Tremaine Edmunds. Everything else is guesswork because we have no idea how the defense was being directed to deal with that formation. We also know that Aaron Jones averaged 6.7 yards per reception last season, so it could be the case that going into the game he was viewed as a standard-issue dump-off option that was less of a threat in the grand scheme of things than the receivers. I am not sure I am right about this possible scenario, but I am sure that you don't know for sure either. That's why all of this feels to me like yet another installment in what is a pretty dumb crusade against a player who had a good season for the Bills last year.

Wallace played well last night. He’s not great but he’s a decent starting-caliber corner.

Dude. My god. A) it was 35 yards and b) #53 was covering him, not Edmunds. Hate Edmunds all you want, but please, please don’t make stuff up out of whole cloth to advance a pretty friggin’ dumb crusade built out of misguided spite. It’s unbecoming, as all crusades are. Material evidence: .

Albert Breer in SI today: ‘There’s no sugarcoating it—Justin Fields hasn’t looked good for two weeks. So I figured the time was right to try and figure out what the tape is telling teams that are studying him. And the answers I got were pretty interesting. “It’s a combination of a lot of things,” says one AFC exec. “Protection isn’t great, and when he does start getting hit, he starts to drop eyes. The biggest issue is he’s not seeing the field—he has guys open at times and doesn’t pull the trigger. On top of that, he’s had some misses. They’re actually probably doing too much, in terms of pass options. . . . It’s a good scheme. [Offensive coordinator] Luke [Getsy] was probably hoping he took the next steps in the pass game. There’s no rhythm in the offense right now because the quarterback can’t see it.” Along those lines, another exec says he saw similarities over the past two weeks to where Fields was in his development during his rookie year under the previous staff. “It’s trying to make him a pocket passer and not doing enough to get him out on the edges where he has easier throws, because he can hurt you with his running ability,” says the NFC exec. “Everyone’s gonna play him the same—keep him in the pocket and make him feel like the rush is closing. And then his eyes will come down and he can’t find open guys. And the offensive line is not good, so he will keep feeling pressure.” So what’s the answer for Getsy and coach Matt Eberflus? First and foremost, it seems as if the big thing is what it’s always been for Fields—the Bears have to get him playing faster. And going back to college, he always played faster when the running game was working, and he knows where he’s going with the ball. Of course, creating those circumstances for a quarterback is easier said than done.‘ https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/09/19/week-2-nfl-notes-patrick-mahomes-contract-justin-fields-development-brian-burns-trade-options

It might well be the worst call ever. Maybe the tuck rule is comparable, but that's at least a rule and hence not really a terrible call (just a bad rule).

good game for Brown!

This is pretty good. Hard to pin down specific blame, though; it might be players simply running bad routes. But of course that's coaching too. The Davis route was really poor.

It makes no sense because it’s effing stupid. A lot of people have been militating against this rule for years but with no success. The announcers are too in the tank with the league to make this obvious point.

It’s the stupidest rule of all. Just freaking dumb in every respect.

Worst rule in all of team sports globally and it ain’t even close.