BobbyC81

Heck, why not go back to 2014 and bring back Mario Williams and his 14.5 sacks?

Unfortunately, KC and Baltimore are still in the AFC. McD always seemed to have an effective game plan to contain Lamar Jackson. Now that they have Henry, I don’t know if the Bills have the horses on defense to contain both of them. Then in the NFC you have Detroit as probably the best team in the NFL right now and the Niners will likely go on their usual post bye run with McCaffrey returning. These teams are all obstacles to winning a Super Bowl but anything can happen. Using a Bermanism, “That’s why they play the games”

Yes, and this week’s game will be interesting to watch. Remember 3 years ago when Jonathan Taylor ran for 185 yards and scored 5 TDs? If he runs wild again, we’re in trouble. Derrick Henry and Achane this week already gouged this defense.

Yeah, In 9 games, Samuel has had 3 Carries for 6 yards, with a long run of 7 yards. Shakir has 2 runs for 4 yards and that’s it for carries by WRs. When they had McKenzie, it was very effective as they had it timed that McKenzie was in motion and just as he got to Josh, they would snap it so the O-linemen would stand up and the defense couldn’t see if McKenzie got the handoff. He’d be running around the end before the defense knew he had the ball. We keep changing OCs and they continue to show little imagination in deception of what they’re going to do. Instead, it seems like every 3rd and 3+ yards is empty backfield with 4 wide so the only threat of a run is Josh. Other teams run WR screens and there’s 2 or 3 blockers in front of them. Bills run it and sometimes there’s only one. If it’s Samuel, fogettaboutit!

Or the Bills paid too much OR KC got a better deal.

They did run those plays for Samuel earlier in the season and usually gained nothing. They run the same screens with Shakir and he gets 10 yards.

You kidding? Think of the history of this team. They play pass defense for the sidelines and the Jets complete a Hail Mary. They play deep and Kelce gets 20 yards. Odds are that if the FG was missed, a pass to Achane would get 10 to 15 yards. The clock would show 0 but the ref would say to put one second on the clock. Or they would call a penalty on the Bills defense. Miami would then kick a game winning FG

And I observed the 2 sides of it today. Poyer hits Coleman helmet to helmet and gets an unnecessary roughness call. In the Detroit/Green Bay game, there was the exact same play of a Detroit player’s hit on a Green Bay receiver. The Detroit player got the unnecessary roughness penalty but ‘replay assist’ intervened and ejected the Detroit player.

I was just watching the Detroit/Green Bay game and there was a hit by a Detroit DB on a Green Bay that looked exactly like Poyer’s hit on Coleman and New York intervened and disqualified the Detroit player from the game. Where they not paying attention then to the play in the Bills’ game? Didn’t Poyer also have an unsportsmanlike hit in the first game? He holding a grudge for being cut?

Yep, it’s a franchise record. He got all of that one. It looked like it may have been good from 70.

Jalen Tolbert? The rest of the WRs that played today I’ve never heard of. Too much X-Box!

He made some good plays today. Just don’t throw to him deep.

RIP

Daboll & Schonn paying attention?

Last I checked, there are 17 games. 8-2 guarantees nothing. Need to take it a step at a time.

It may have influenced Seattle to sign Dotson.

I know Seattle is a passing team, but holding the Seattle RBs to 16 yards on 12 carries was pretty impressive. I also liked that, as opposed to when Frazier was our DC, when the front 4 wasn’t getting enough pressure, Babich sent more. I love aggressive defense.

That was one of those “they’ll never expect this “ calls that worked.

I wonder how much of it is Babich. They seem more aggressive so far this season.

Shakir was awesome. When they have run similar plays with Curtis Samuel, It usually ends up that the lineman misses a block, Samuel goes the wrong way on the block right into a defender, Samuel runs into the blocker or Samuel just falls down.

Hollins for the fumble recovery.

The broadcast did do a good job of showing with replays that some of the penalties were legit, especially the offensive line holding. NFL football is arguably the most popular sport in the U.S. yet they keep trying to muddy it up.

Regarding concussions in the NFL, I wondered if wearing helmets and shoulder pads made players feel more invincible and gave them more confidence to utilize this armor to make tackles. I thought about the beginning of pro football with leather helmets and shoulder pads and whether players were less likely to get their heads in there on tackles. A good comparison of course is rugby, which our American football was derived from. I did some research on their injuries. It turns out that they have a high incidence of concussions also. Here’s where it differs. The professional rugby union, which the sport is actually called, has the Pitchside Suspected Concussion Assessment (PSCA) which was a 5 minute assessment. A retired former rugby player was involved in having this assessment increased to 10 minutes because it was believed some concussion symptoms didn’t appear for 10 minutes. Of course, there are other studies which note concussion symptoms first appearing hours and even days after an impact. So, again, there was our superstar QB, going thru a brief assessment, that we have no information about, and running back on the field after a couple minutes. Maybe the assessment used by the NFL has been blessed by the AMA but at this point we’re not provided with enough information. If the rugby union decided a 10 minute assessment was necessary, it makes you wonder.

Jury is still out on some 1st rounders that Beane drafted, with Josh and probably Edmunds as hits, but the 2nd round track record is terrible.

Yeah, I got ESPN+ again and started watching Primetime when I remember. After i’ve been away from it for awhile, I find most of Chris Berman’s nicknames and puns annoying instead of funny.