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I mean, was the o-line really the problem? Josh had plenty of time to throw, for the most part...

Hope you’re right. Or Kareem Hunt last year. Inexcusable, really.

Motor is a change of pace back. He’s got a role in this league but there’s no way he’s a featured back. Moss just looks too slow and appears to have been overdrafted.

We don’t have single running back that you would want to give the ball to on 3rd and 1. Other teams have two or three and they did use a bunch of high draft picks to find them.

In a league where really good running backs can be found on the street corner, it is inexcusable for a team that has used premium picks on the position in the last two drafts to have such a thoroughly mediocre (probably too kind a word) running attack.

Let’s face it: Even though the Bills have improved under McBeane, they have drafted poorly and it’s starting to show. Other than JA and Tre White, they have whiffed on all of their premium picks over the past three seasons. Oliver, Edwards, Epenesa, Ford...None of these guys are playing anywhere near their draft level, and these past few drafts have been loaded with big time players in the first two rounds. Josh’s progress and some good free agent pickups have hidden the problem, but this is suddenly a team without much talent on defense, despite using a ton of draft capital on that side of the ball. I mean, they didn’t even come close to sacking Tannehill tonight. This is not going to be an easy fix.

Maybe we still have Tallywacker’s number...

Different Bills team. These guys aren’t going to fall apart when something goes wrong. And more third and long conversions in that one drive than we had all last season.

Is the ball wet?

Diggs hurt??? FFS

Talk to your elected officials

This is fine.

I can just feel it. Lynn is going to kick a FG for the tie.

Huge. Second only to QBs

All-world catch

Saints crazy if they don’t go for 2

Agreed, but he's definitely ahead of where Josh was as a rookie, which is to be expected. He started for four years at a major program. Josh started for two years at Wyoming.

And Lynn would still be trotting Tyrod out there if it had not been forced on him😃

Herbert might not survive this game. Every pass play is a jailbreak...

Only two QBs in the league who can make that play. That was ridiculous.

That seems low, but I think It depends where on the field you are attempting it. I don't know exactly what the conversion rate is, but I'm sure it's significantly higher on 4th and 1 from the 20 than fourth and goal from the 1. Also, it goes up if you only need 1 foot instead of a full yard.

No, the 98% did not refer just to the chance of stopping Seattle from scoring a TD. It referred to Minnesota’s chance of either picking up the first down (in which case game over) or failing to pick it up then preventing a Seattle TD.

That not what the analytics said. Perfect example of a “straw man” argument.

Great post. In retrospect, it might have been a better idea to extend the season to, say, 20 games and sprinkle extra byes in for each team, so that there are plenty of games every week, but built-in flexibility if games have to be made up. With only one bye per team, it’s probably too tight of a window...

A poster up thread said that either decision by Zimmer would have been proper, and that seems to be the right way to look at it. Looked at another way, their odds of losing would have increased by 10 percent if they had kicked the FG.