BobbyC81

I’m pretty sure I saw Matakevich at MLB for that goal line stand. Maybe he was the 12th.

I don’t believe this with all the TV money they get.

Just read that he became extremely vocal about his lack of touches after Conner returned. Perhaps we’ll see this in the latest Hard Knocks.

Ditto

I just rewatched the game starting with long Dalvin Cook long TD. There were plenty of mistakes by Bills’ players but to me the Goat is Cam Lewis. It was a case of hero-ball where he went for the INT when he could’ve easily just swatted the ball away and game over. He was around for Hail Murray so he should’ve known better.

It’s been a while but the Cleveland Browns have 4 NFL Championships in their history. The Bills have only 2 AFL Titles.

The refs weren’t paying attention that he is now with Houston. Opponents can’t get away with holding him now.

Yes, with the bad weather forecasted, you would want to run the ball, but the Bills don’t. Chubb will plow thru the snow for about 150 yards (or more) and Bills offense will be shut down.

Players on injured reserve can’t practice so maybe it was thought he was ready but once he started practicing he found he wasn’t.

Your sarcasm detector is broken.

I agree. How do you go from filling in for Conner to waived by a losing team? Maybe he didn’t get along with Murray.

Hey, whatever it takes. “If you aren’t cheating, you’re not trying.”

I’m surprised there wasn’t already a thread telling Beane to put in a claim.

In my opinion, during a game, coaches have so much on their plate that an offensive player not getting enough touches is understandable. They go with the flow of the game and, with the play clock, have to make split second decisions. The QB also has to make quick decisions so not spreading the passes out to all the receivers can easily happen. Others have noted that Knox has been used for pass protection a lot when the O-line is struggling with the pass rush. Still, they did remember to use Knox on the FG drive at the end of regulation as Diggs was likely tightly covered. Knox seemed to be left alone on those plays. I read Peter King’s FMIA this morning and he had some interesting comments from a post-game interview with Jeff Saturday. Saturdaty told him he couldn’t believe how quickly the quarters seemed to go bye as opposed to when he was a player. He said the game seemed very long as a player, while yesterday he’d look up at the clock and be surprised that a Qtr was just about over.

They can’t win with some fans. If they kick the FG and go up by 13 but the Vikings score 2TDs and win by one, people would say McD is too conservative. He should’ve gone for it and tried to end the game.

Yeah, but doesn’t he violate that with throwing out the tidbit of internal issues?

I disagree with all the takes that it was such a bad call. At the goal line, the safest play is the QB sneak. Most teams use it at that field position. If executed properly, all you have is the exchange from Center to QB, who just has to fall forward to get a yard. If we had a Derrick Henry, which we don’t, you could give it to him. With all the players crowded into that small area, taking a snap, turning and handing off to a RB is more risky. The QB could be tripped, like happened to Cousins twice, the handoff to the RB could be messed up or a defender would have time to shoot thru and nail the RB in the end zone. The QB sneak is the better option to gain a yard and move out from the end zone. Regardless of the play call, the problem was the QB/center exchange. It was cold and wet out there. Who’s to say a shotgun snap wouldn’t have gone awry?

Well, it would be 7 years ago if they had just given the ball to Lynch instead of throwing it.

McD has been conservative since he’s been here until recently. Has he fallen in love with analytics now? In his first few years, he would never have gone for it on that 4th down and would’ve kicked the FG. If he did go for it, it would’ve been a run. Now they throw a pass, which is intercepted and taken out 45 yards. It was about the worst of all possible outcomes (INT for TD being worst) for that situation of 4th down at the 2.

A few weeks ago, there were comments here that “Dorsey may be better than Daboll!”

And why I hate zone defense. Here, let me pass him to you. Double team the man. He might still make a play with the smurfs we have as DBs, but at least make it harder. They do the same thing vs Kelce when they play KC. In one way it’s simple math. At a minimum, the opponent will have 5 O-linemen and their QB not out in pass patterns. That leaves 5 possible receivers. The Bills rush 4 most of the time which leaves 7 guys defending the pass. 7 vs 5 and guys are running wide open and beating single coverage?!

There were many people with Holiday Inn Express medical knowledge here in the off-season saying Tre should be available at the start of the season. I don’t remember names but if you want to go thru the archives, have at it.

Did I miss something? Did Virgil retire his Thoughts posting?

The OL is mostly horrible. Josh is mainly in the shotgun and on many plays he has like a second to look downfield before a defender is closing in. If he wasn’t mobile and more Bledsoe-like, he could be leading the league in times sacked.

What? They replaced Harrison Phillips and Lotuleilei with DaQuan Jones (320#) , Tim Settle (313 #) and Jordan Phillips (330#)