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Even stole him a jersey!

Alright.....moneyline bet has been placed on the Bengals! I've done my part to make sure the Bills win! Going to be an interesting game today. This is one of those games that it's so hard to get a read on as to how it is going to play out. I could see just about every scenario. Close win, close loss, blowout loss....... The only one I can't picture is a blowout win. Our offense just isn't built for that this year. I don't know what to think.... A lot of people out there are saying it's Burrow vs Allen. I get it, it's the easy thing to do when there are 2 star QBs are playing in the same game. My problem is that it's a little unfair when you look at the weapons each guys has. I mean, Burrow has Chase, Higgins, and Brown. Allen has......Cook. It's not a fair fight. I think it has to go a lot deeper than the QBs. Both defenses have shown to be not very good this year, but with a lack of weapons, the Bills offense has much less of a chance of being explosive. If this turns into a high scoring game, the Bills will struggle to keep up. That is an awful thing to have to say when your QB is Josh Allen, but that's where we are this year with the lack of explosive weapons on offense in the passing game. If we are to win this game, it will have to be because of an outstanding effort by our defense and possibly getting some timely turnovers. Normally I am on the side that INTs really don't matter too much when you have a great QB, but in a game like this, if you get them at the right time..... critical 3rd down, in the red zone, something like that, they could be game changing plays. I also think this is a game where you have to unleash Josh Allen. I am not saying he has to throw the ball 40 times, but I want to at least see some attempts down the field whether they are completed or not. You have to back off the safeties and get them out of the box. But rather, I think this is a game you have to tell Allen not to hesitate to take off. Call some QB runs at times too. The field may be a bit slick, so getting Allen out of the pocket and on the run could create big plays with his feet if a defender slips. On defense, I said it in a different thread, but I expect to see more man coverage today than usual. Burrow has eaten up McDermott's soft zone every game he has played against us. And with no real pass rushers active today, you will have to get creative up front and hope that the back end holds up. While I expect the Bills to use Benford to shadow Chase, that wouldn't be my plan. I want to see Hairston out there against Chase (until he proves he can't do it) and then use Benford's size to match up on Higgins. Then, use your safeties over the top. So yeah.....a lot of 2 high man. Again, I'm not expecting the Bills to do that, it's just what I would do. I fully expect Benford to be on Chase most of the day and White to be up against Higgins (and although Tre had a nice game last week, I hate this matchup for him no matter who he is trying to cover). Then, up front, we're going to have to do the best we can do. We won't get home with 4, and probably won't with 5 either, but it is what it is. We have to hope that we can stop the run and at least force Burrow off his spot. Whie he's back playing, Burrow is not healthy. He can't move all that well. So, even if we can't sack him, if we can get him having o throw o the move, hopefully that will reduce some of his normal accuracy. But yeah.....the QB matchup is sexy, but this game will most likely fall on the Bills defense and how much they can slow down the Bengals offense. The goal should be to hold them to 20 or less. If we can do that, I think we can win this game. If they do what they normally do to McDermott's defense? It's going to be a really long and frustrating afternoon.

Snowing slightly harder now but still light. Like when its lightly raining, not the big fluffy fakes.

Cleats? I thought they had on old school black high top converse. I know! what a group huh.

Easy to say when you had Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce, and Torry Holt.

So, we're blaming Allen for Keon's lack of production now? Is Allen perfect all the time? No. Can Allen make some adjustments? Sure. But too many times it seems he and Coleman are not on the same page. Allen tries to throw a back shoulder pass to shield from the defender making a play, and give Keon an opportunity, but Keon isn't on the same mental plane as his QB. He seems unprepared for it, or runs elsewhere. 8 times out of 10, he can't shake the defender, no matter the route. You can only chuck a ball to a guy who doesn't produce so many times. He's also screwing up behind the scenes as well, not doing the things he should as a professional. That's why he found himself inactive. He will never be Eric Moulds. Our best hope is he can be a Gabe Davis type of producer, but even Gabe was more athletic before the injuries.

Is it? Knox has been abysmal. I get the Kincaid question marks but he and Knox are not interchangeable, as we’ve seen multiple times this year. The complete lack of receiving talent at the position behind Kincaid is an unfortunate but giant reason why you need to keep Kincaid.

The bungles cleats are from the clearance aisle at Dick’s sporting goods

If you aren’t watching the Josh Allen segment on ESPN right now, you are really missing something. I didn’t think it was possible to love Allen any more. I was wrong.

Kincaid looks an awful lot like Dawson Knox.

He likes to see the traits he values about himself exemplified in others!😂

The FBI has thus far identified a dozen lawmakers and almost 400 private citizens targeted by the Biden DOJ in "Arctic Frost." FBI Boss Reveals Criminal Investigation Into Feds Who Ran Arctic Frost Probe by John Solomon FBI Director Kash Patel says there is an ongoing investigation into federal personnel involved in the controversial Biden-era "Arctic Frost" probe that targeted scores of President Donald Trumps allies and gathered the phone records of many members of Congress. "I'm not going to let people get off the hook or get a hall pass," Patel told Just the News. . . . Patel said another key culture change was providing Congress with evidence it wanted about FBI misconduct after years of stonewalling. "We've issued 40,000 pages to Congress this year alone. Comey did 3,000 in three years. Wray did 17,000 in seven years." https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/satdisease-temple-fbi-boss-reveals-criminal-investigation-feds-who

Parsons is a better run defender than most give him credit for, but there are issues that need to be accounted for. First, he lacks size compared to DE’s. That means talented long athletic O tackles like Spencer Brown can wash him out. Couple that with a good back that has solid vision and you might not see Parsons for most of a game unless it’s a blow out. He’s more of an edge than a DE, so that lack of size needs to be maximized with scheme. Dallas playing him at DE too much in a 4 man front wasn’t good for his run defense. Secondly, Parsons likes to big play hunt. He’ll crash instead maintain contain if he believes it’ll result in a sack or TFL. He also presses when other players aren’t getting the job done. That’s been accounted for in GB with scheme and the talent around him. They’d be good complimentary players. Particularly if Parsons got used in that role we say Hoecht in on 3rd and long.

Ha! I didn't realize that. I never watch the nfl network guys. Makes sense how he was talking about him then this morning.

I would let him play out his 4th year in what most likely will be a new offensive system and see if the durability issues improve along with production. I still believe he has fairly high upside as a weapon in the passing game but I'd need to see it before committing...giggity

If you're not an old school style QB like he was forget it. He'll lick Joe Burrow dry when he has a chance.

I can't stand the guy so I never listen to him or watch his breakdowns. Just happen to catch him on nfl network this morning.

Since I'm on the exercise bike and tormenting myself at a slow pace I have some time... In the experiences I had calling defensive sets the training I got was pretty interesting. This was HS but I've seen similar in the upper tiers. It was boiled down, parboiled down, then roasted. Basically, everything was grouped. We started the play call in the set we wanted, base, nickel, dime, heavy, etc... that was the given part If the lineup is 21 and the TE is in line with a WR offline wide it is 1/3 of the call, it all came down to how they came out of their huddle since we already knew the personnel. 11 personnel it would be a different call. Honestly I don't remember the terms as much as if it was a pass lineup like 11 we would move the monster back (varying version of nickel in the 3-4 we played) outside of my hip. If they shifted to bring the condensed package I'd move him inside. There wasn't a lot of changes for most of the field... So in the huddle we would call our base of the scheme with the personnel on the field. It'd be the call for the DL, the call for the safeties and if anything special for the CB's (we played man primarily), and then the variable part is once the offense took the formation. Something like "Push heavy, cover 2, nickel low." The DL push their assignment to the strong side, safeties split the field, nickel comes inside the box at the snap to cover the middle. The IL linebackers would read and react, and the OLBs played more of a DE roll. In this case the DE's had to know they didn't have outside help on the strong side from the nickel and can't lose contain since leverage is inside. At the line as an OLB that was basically a DE I had to call the inside guys where to lineup and who their read was - Mile keyed the up back, whoever our Jack was I told who he keyed. Those calls were based on who they put where as I said. They come out in 22 with a split on the line I'm keying the Mike (his name was Ray) on the upback in the backfield. He is to eat that lead blocker, shed him if he can, and either make the tackle or chase the QB. The Jack is to watch the weak side TE if he releases as the first read, check the screen, then crash the pocket to get the runner or attack the QB. I would call one of maybe 6 calls by the word - usually concepts that week based on the team we play. If we are playing the vikings it'd be stuff like "purple," "gold," "horn," etc. of course we had our basic own stuff and we had those after our own team the wildcats. So "cat," "black, " gold," etc were our norms. In all of this the first part was simple, that was coached in by the sideline in most cases. In hurry up we had to make the calls ourselves. The second part is where you better study the film, know the scouting report, and have your wits about you. You had more time than you'd realize to make that call. One of my most favorite annecdotes of this was my junior year. We blew out a team on Friday so starters didn't play a full 3 quarters. That meant that non seniors were eligible to play the JV game the next morning. Usually that was fun to do and just beat up on the freshman and sophomores. I begged to go play when I learned a few others were going to play, too. On Fridays I barely called the defense but I knew the reports well enough. The guy I would be playing for on Saturday morning was the guy who made the calls for the defense. I studied like hell and got to the game. I knew their entire playbook (JV games are super limited) and would call their plays out at the line. Our mike linebacker and nickel/monster were playing, too. They tried to run plays and we would shut them down. They'd like up and I'd call their play - "run left a-gap," "flanker post, check down to the TE." It was just fun as hell as we destroyed them simply knowing their plays as good as they did.