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Which I did point out. here's the thing, Seattle is a good team too. Do we ignore whatever data comes out of that game? When can we judge what's going on, only when the Bills play sub .500 teams? 41 points is the most the pats have scored on the bills since 2012, and the 4th most given up since 1990. I'll agree that the backfield was the real problem, but that doesn't mean the front 7 were effective, overall I guess im not as much a homer for the bills as I used to be because I see 41 points given up, and I'm not looking for bright spots, but see a systemic failure of the D. I'm sure glad they got 5 sacks though, looks good on the season ending stats sheet.

I'm trying to figure out what changed. Obviously playing the Pats is always going to be a problem for the Bills as long as brady is around, he's far too much man for them. I do a lot of work with statistics and will at some point start feeding data into an old model I built to predict games, once MD has been back for a few games and tweak it until something pops out.

I'm not sure we can say anyone played "well" given the result.

modnote: I did a cursory review of open topics and didn't see this specific thing being discussed. If I missed it, please delete this or merge it. Thanks I had a thought after watching the tape on the pats game. Is this team actually worse from a holistic perspective, with MD back in the lineup? He's obviously a super talented guy, and earned his big paycheck, but it just seems like the front 7 isn't playing nearly as well with him back in there, and for that matter, since he started practicing again after his suspension. I want to state that I'm a fan of his and want nothing more than for him to succeed within the context of Bills success. I went to Alabama, and cheered when the Bills took him, so this isn't some kind of agenda against him. As we observed earlier this season, before the bills reverted back to form the last 2 weeks, Rex can piece together a good to great D with mostly midrange players, with some right out of the parts bin. It seems counter-intuitive that adding MD into the mix would lower overall performance, but that's been directly observed, so either there are confounding variables that are causing the Bills D to be worse, or something about MD's presence is causing the decline in play. Realizing that we don't have much of a body of evidence to work with at this point, it'll be interesting to see over the next few weeks which Bills D shows up.

Yeah, the world has changed and the NFL model hasn't, or only gotten worse. I won't watch commercials any more, if there's any possible way to avoid it. Again, not to get on a soap box about it, but sometime maybe in the 90s, it became the cool and edgy thing to make the adult male be an idiot in every single commercial. Welp, if that's what you think of me, maybe this idiot will just skip your commercial, and the rest of them while I'm at it, because I have the tech to do so, and there's nothing happening in the football game that's so critical that time shifting it by 2 hours will make any difference whatsoever. While that's true, i have to imagine if the league asked the networks to avoid coverage of it, they would. There's no promise of free nationwide tv coverage for your idiotic protest in the constitution. The NFL is way too far up their own azz to realize this, so we'll continue to get wall to wall coverage of players sitting out the national anthem.

It's unwatchable because of the flags and commercials. I was waiting for a wedding to start yesterday and the Jets/Browns game was on. There was at least 3x more commercial minutes than game broadcast minutes, and I don't even mean actual game play, I mean, time on the TV when it wasn't a commercial. I think my dissatisfaction has been percolating for a while now, and the Colin Kaepernick stuff just put it over the top. Now you're putting a shtty product on the field, and packaging it in such a way to make it even less enjoyable, then you're shoving it in my face how admirable you find a spoiled rotten millennial's 'protest' against law enforcement? OK whatever, it turns out there's lots of other things to do. If I didn't get the Sunday Ticket for free, I doubt I'd renew it next year when I can just look on the web for the 2 minutes of actual highlights that come out of each game. Realizing that, and having easy access to those highlights, it becomes a fairly simple calculation, basically the only part of pro football I enjoy are those highlight reels because they've ruined the rest of it. Yup. Get outside of the lib echo chamber and a lot of the middle of the country are pretty pissed about it, and voting with their remotes.

When you have a data driven prediction mechanism, that's devoid of context, the blowouts against terrible teams make the Bills seem better than they are. I used to dabble in this, and ended up writing a routine that would only consider the first 13 points in a victory to try to control for that.

show us on the doll where the hot sauce touched you

she's got the first 6 digits of my phone number dialed and her finger over the last digit, but she knows as well as we all do that MD will find a way not to play Sunday

ha i didn't know that happened, I listened to it on a dumb transistor radio. now I have technology so I can watch them suck at 1920x1080

beating dallas in 84 was my alltime favorite bills memory...greg bell for an 85 yard run if memory serves now. that team had more heart than this one, even if they weren't very good at playing football

and that bills fan was....Albert Einstein

only thing he's hustling for is an all you can eat buffet and maybe some weed for desert

I was mad when I found out my niece's wedding was scheduled for this Sunday, now I'm glad.

Edelman will chip him on his way to the flat and MD will go down for the count

What kills me as an Alabama fan is that MD never never never never would have pulled all this crap under saban. sexy rexy running a good ole' time atmosphere then acts surprised when players do same

came here to post this, you beat me to it. zero chance he plays on sunday... he'll aggravate his hamstring or maybe injure his ovaries, in any case, wont see the field. I'd be surprised if he plays 3 games this year. Yes, and I can see me on a romantic date with Jennifer Lawrence

game will be over by half, bills will score some garbagetime points and the score wont be terrible, like 44-31 or something, but it'll be 37-3 at the half

So, not wanting to wade through this thread, does anyone know if/when MD is coming back at all? I mean, if he's so undermotivated that he can't get over a hamstring pull and at least pretend to care, im not sure the bills want him around?

Im somewhat sympathetic to the notion that complete adherence to the fundamentalist interpretation of Islam is not going to mesh well with western values, but most Muslims in America aren't Wahhabi. It's the same thing people said in this country about Catholics. Hell, in living memory, a lot of people thought JFK couldn't be a good president because he was catholic. At any rate, I doubt Kaep is a muslim. Most of the wanna be poseurs are now atheists.

More of a political wonk site but their sports coverage/predictions are surprisingly not horrible

I made the same point last week. This guy engages in a lot of attention seeking behavior. It probably has something to do with a precious snowflake upbringing, and now, with the way his play has fallen off dramatically, he has to find a way to be back in the spotlight since his QB play isn't going to do it.

So one side will use 'muslim' as shorthand for anti-american, which of course is dumb as hell, perhaps as dumb as what the other side does, which is to treat mere uttering of the word as de facto evidence of racism and bigotry

Im sure that kid will grow up to haunt buffalo somehow

A bunch of people who never pay the slightest attention to football all of a sudden became intensely interested when their SJW spidey senses started to tingle. Lots of people whose main purpose in life seems to be taking offense on behalf of others, when they thought they could find a new cause of the day in Kaep. Remember, it's almost never about what they say it's about, it's all virtue signaling and tribalism. It's why as football fans when we see other fans acting like fans we don't get the vapors but the comment section of the NY Times and Salon are appalled, shocked, at what those grubby unsophisticated proles get up to in their leisure time