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True, but Beasley and Brown are still a lot better than what he has this year.

He doesn't have that gunslinger mentality, at least not now. But I do think he's shown some (brief) flashes as a passer. I think he can be similar to Lamar, if the team surrounds him with players.

Nothing to add other than I’m so glad we don’t have to go through this process every 2-3 years anymore.

I think Fields is going to be a keeper. He's got a long way to go, much the same as Josh did, but he seems like he has good tools to work with. I think his ceiling is lower than Josh's, but with some real weapons around him I think he'll be fine.

All that matters is who's #1 at the end.

At the rate he's going, that could take another 4-5 years...

Yep, it looked to me like he re-injured his shoulder. He probably thought it was healed enough to give it a go, but when he extended it on that one play, you could tell it was really painful. Unfortunately, he’ll probably miss the Cincy game based on how that looked. Hope I’m wrong.

If you had started with "Just hear me out..." I would've totally read the whole thing. Edit: Just kidding, I read the whole thing. Not sure I agree with drafting the next LT, but nice write up.

Wow. The Tannehill injury obviously has a big part in that, but what a turnaround. They've had some big wins this year.

Oh wow, no kidding? I didn't realize that. I thought they'd sneak into the wild card that way. Holy moly.

Could be...but if the Jags win out and we (perish the thought) drop to the #2 spot, we could get them in the 2-7 game.

Pretty realistic chance we play the Jags in the first round…

I’m getting to be one of the older fogeys on here, and I’ve been pretty slow to adopt streaming services. But lately, I’ve realized that I now mostly watch streaming, and when I do turn on DTV for anything other than the Bills, I rarely find anything interesting to watch unless it’s an old movie I’ve seen a dozen or more times. The best stuff we watch is on Amazon or Netflix, easily. Looks to me like YTTV has everything I’d need and then some, plus ST. I’ve had DTV for many years, but can’t see any reason to keep it after this season.

It’s really strange how different Al is this season. Just absolutely zero energy.

Couldn’t agree more about Hamlin. Seemed like he started out strong but has really regressed the past few weeks. Really becoming a big concern, and teams are figuring out how to take advantage of him. Hyde better come back or we’re going to have to look at a S in the early rounds.

I mean, it also comes down to this: at that point in the game, the only way Miami controls their destiny (not by "hoping" Buffalo screws up) is by getting the ball back. In that situation, the only way they get the ball back is either Singletary scoring, or the Bills messing up the FG. Why would you ever strategically give the opposing team what they want?

Yep, one of the few I managed to get back home for. What a waste. Missed out on Josh Allen so I could see Peterman throw a crap-ton of INTs, again.

I liked his interaction with Gesicki after the game ended.

Interesting...

As someone else said earlier, pretty damn impressive the guy stood up from that and walked away.

Nothing to add, just want to say I appreciate those of you who go back and look at these things. I was wondering how he did.

How’s this?

Well, considering it was a 25-yard FG attempt and an extra point is from 33-yards away, sounds to me like you also have to assume the FG attempt would be automatic. Thus, the odds of running out the clock and kicking the FG should be better.

Interesting that there is a lot of debate on this. My friend, who is an unbiased observer (not a Bills fan), thought it was a horrendously stupid move by Singletary. I preferred running the clock out and kicking it, despite the risk, mostly because they were tied at the time (a miss would result in OT rather than a loss) and because it was a chip shot. He strenuously disagreed with me. I think it comes down to how much risk you thought there was with the FG. My friend thought it was extremely risky given the weather conditions; I thought he was overestimating that risk. At the same time, I’m probably overestimating the risk of Miami taking the ball all the way down for a TD with no timeouts. But who could really blame a Bills fan for overestimating the risk of total collapse in the final seconds? But that’s really the main issue: how much risk you thought there was in the FG with the conditions.

Why? The Dolphins had one timeout left and the Bills had another play to run, so everyone knew they would be able to run the clock out before trying the FG. It didn’t matter at all.