Big Turk

Remember last year and every other year just about when a team's starting QB went down and they just folded like a cheap tent? This year it seems the offenses are playing just fine with the backups...it's kinda crazy.

Ugh...that Ridley overturned TD likely sealed a loss for me in my fantasy playoff

This is one of the reasons I loved the Torrance pick...the dude is a just a big, nasty player that brings attitude to that OLine and also is good at anchoring in pass pro. Sure he has had some issues a few times in games against some elite players, but by and in large he has been a huge upgrade at RG They ran the ball almost 40 times and had 0 offensive holding penalties. That's hard to do.

When I screamed that Rasul Douglas was going to be a perfect scheme fit for the Bills, some didn't seem to think he would be and others were unsure. Hopefully everyone has come around by now...that lockdown D the Bills have been executing has been in large part to his ability to play as a perfect scheme fit.

Cook now is 2nd in the NFL in rushing and has over 1400 yards from scrimmage on the season, which I believe is only second to McCaffery. Should finish somewhere between 1600-1800 yards from scrimmage this year which is an excellent season, and wouldn't be surprised if he goes on a run of 2,000+ yards from scrimmage seasons starting next year as long as he remains healthy. Just starting to hit his groove and coming into his own, and the Bills finally figuring out how best to use him. When Allen willingly takes the checkdowns, the Bills offense becomes almost unstoppable...DC's are literally praying he stops throwing the checkdowns to Cook and Kincaid. We may be seeing the evolution and the maturing of Josh Allen right before our eyes right now. Ty Johnson just seemingly is one of those players that makes something good happen whenever he touches the ball. Have really loved what he has added since Harris has gone down.

Yeah I tried to go there over the summer as it's not far from me but it was absolutely mobbed and the wait was like 2 hours

Cook now needs 12 yards for a 1000 yards rushing on the season and is averaging 5.2 YPC on the year(actually a decrease from his 5.7 last year) and has another 433 receiving, meaning he has over 1400 total yards from scrimmage...Cook should easily end up with 1,600 yards from scrimmage on the year and if he has a few good games could approach 1,800. Not for sure, but that is likely only 2nd to McCaffery. Cook is now 2nd in the NFL in rushing. Extremely impressive and I wouldn't be surprised if he threatens 2,000 scrimmage yards moving forward in the following years now that he is established as a dual threat and has really found his groove.

If the starting D stayed in Dallas wouldn't have even got that cheap TD at the end.

Denver cannot catch us if we win out. We will be 11-6 and they would be 10-7 at best. Would be irrelevant because if we win out we are wining the AFC East.

Dallas only TD drive was against mainly backups and even then everything was hard for them...as soon as they were catching the ball their receivers were getting absolutely drilled... Dak had nobody open, even the underneath stuff was covered well. McD with another masterclass performance.

This should not be surprising...knee brace is now off, working off the rust and regaining some trust/strength in the ACL and ability to make those type of moves. This is how it works when players come back from ACL's...they take many weeks of playing to look anything close to what they used to.

That was an absolute bludgeoning on both sides of the ball...the O Line just manhandled the Dallas D. The Bills ran the ball at will and the Bills D shut down literally everything...Dak had nobody open and even when he completed passes his receivers were getting drilled as soon as they caught it. They picked him off once and they probably should have had 3 or 4. I told you Rasul Douglas was going to be a perfect fit for this D and he absolutely has been. Dude has been just balling.

Fins could very well lose this game...they were inept against the Titans without Hill on offense...the Jets are a huge step up in terms of D

Bills 27 Cowboys 20 Cowboys are a different team on the road. A far less good one.

At this time of the year there are no "gimme games". Remember the Jags losing to the terrible Colts?

The jig is up, the news is out, they finally found me... The renegade who had it made, retrieved for a bounty... Nevermore to go astray... The judge will have it out today... On the wanted man... Except it's not. Even with a loss to the Cowboys, the Bills would have a roughly 75% chance to get in.

The CBus! Lived there for 6 years...up off of Morse and Schrock Road near Westerville. Agreed...cold rain is far worse than snow.

Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don't have very long...

A loss to only the Cowboys and they likely win the division with the Dolphins having to play the Cowboys and Ravens still and that would also mean a loss to us...Dolphins have faded hard in December every year, and have gotten smashed every time they played a good team this year, so to me it's almost a foregone conclusion they are losing both those games. If they are playing the Bills for the division in Week 18, who in their right mind would take Mami in that game based on their track record over, oh, say the last 2 decades.

The rule is in place to discourage kickoffs as much as possible due to the high injury rate on them.

Nope, he will likely be featured heavily on TV along the sidelines during the upcoming games. So you have not seen the last of him.

It's very simple...they would simply combine 2 rules that are already in place and extend it to include anytime a ball is fumbled into and thru an endzone. I would argue this should ONLY be in play for balls that are fumbled out of bounds sideways, not THRU the back of the endzone because in that case the offensive team likely had a mad scramble to attempt to recover the ball and had at least a full 10 yards to get it back, so that should then be the defenses ball. Completely different for a player reaching towards the goalline and fumbling it barely through the side line of the endzone. 1) Apply the rule that the ball is dead where it was fumbled at if not recovered by the same player within the last 2 minutes of a half. 2) Apply the rule that if a fumble goes out of bounds it reverts to the team who last possessed it legally. These two rules now make it so the ball is dead where the fumble initiated and the team who last legally possessed it maintains control. Simple, easy and generally follows the rules that are already in place, not some of the crazy rules people are coming up with.

That doesn't make any sense. There is no rule for a fumble where that would happen. However, there is a rule where the ball would be marked where the fumble initiated from already in place during certain points of the game, so that would be the most likely solution. It isn't that they get rewarded, it's that it reverts to the team who possessed it last. Same thing would happen on a fumble recovery or INT by the defense after they gain possession and they then fumble and it goes out of bounds. The team who had possession last retains it.

shocking

Even without being ravaged by injuries, the Dolphins regularly and routinely have folded like a cheap tent over the past 20 years+ when December has come along. Last year they snuck into the playoffs by turning an 8-3 stat into a 9-8 finish. The year they came to Buffalo in the final week of the season in a "win and in" scenario with the Bills having already clinched the division and being locked into their seed and left with a 56-26 beatdown, which included Matt Barkley and the backups playing all 2nd half and showing no letup. This year, they haven't beaten a team with a winning record and start December by turning a game they had a 99.6% chance to win into an L. They also have games against the Ravens, Cowboys and Bills, which they should go 0-3 in. If the Bills beat the Cowboys, they likely win the division outright in Week 18.