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If Redhawk was a woman.

I love this and I will add that a huge issue the Bills had is timing. Beane is very calculating and is drafting not for this year, but typically the following FA class. Where things fell apart in his plan was when Josh got good and needed his extension. It was COVID years and Beane had to pay Josh, but the overall Cap went down rather than going up as was planned. They lost a ton of available Cap space that he had planned to use. The 2 Covid years coincided with the timing that they would of had some extra money before the big part of Josh’s extension kicked in and instead of having the money like NE will with Maye - the Bills had to kick some money down the road with the drop in salary cap. They have been fighting that ever since just to retain their talent and bring in help. The Bills could have done the Eagles approach and get rid of a ton of talent - fall apart and miss the playoffs a couple of times and then hope the higher draft picks in the top 10 then increase your talent, but everyone would flip out missing the playoffs. Teams like SF, LA, Cincinnati, Houston, NE all had to be really bad to get better - the Bills are maintaining their excellent level, but it comes with a talent drain that they have to overcome. You see the same thing in KC right now. It happens to consistently good teams over time.

I think the issue is some games are protected by the TV networks

Their defense is quite good vs the run.

Correct me if I’m wrong, the Chiefs went 30 yards in 9 seconds on 2 plays and used 1 timeout. Bengals went 66 yards in 50 seconds with no timeouts. As far as the result I agree with you, 13 seconds is about as bad as it gets, only thing worse is a music city forward lateral scenario. Yesterday, all the Bills had to do was no let them score with more than 2 minutes remaining (1 minute of clock time) and the game was over…and they couldn’t do it.

Maybe the Patriots plan is to run it. Have him get the ball out quick. They are missing OL. I think the Patriots are also due for a loss. They last loss in...September? Eventually luck runs out. There should be a fair number of Bills fans at the stadium too.

This was the one play call that really bothered me in real time. Now you would certainly know better than me. Watching it back on the all-22 based on Tre's drop I would think it's cover 3 (or cover 6?) where he's dropping into his deep 3rd leaving no one underneath to take the air out of Iosivas' route. Easy pitch and catch from there. But are you saying Tre is playing man on Iosivas there? Because if so that's a horrible job by him, so bad that it makes the play call look silly.

I hope Allen goes 10 -12 and the Bills run for 350 yards

This is the biggest game for the Pats and their "fans" in a long time with two weeks to get ready. You know Kraft would love nothing more than to win the division at home against the Bills and rub our noses in it. It will be a tough environment for the Bills, but one that Josh and the rest of the team usually thrive in.

Walker has consistently been disruptive. He was flying around in backfield a bunch yesterday. Steelers game too. I dont think theres been one game that hasnt happened since he started getting some extended playing time.

Correct. Ya just more the zone in general. I just don't think you can do that against Joe burrow consistently, as it's just too easy for someone as smart as him Of course you got to play it sometimes, as even the most man dominant defences in the nfl are probably around the 40-45% man mark or whatever it is

A “girl next door” cutie …. I wouldn’t say no to visiting her “art center”

Week 16 must not have very desirable matchups? Edit: there are actually a couple that seem to be better.

The coaches have nothing to do with it.

Bengals vs Dolphins now at 1 pm.

The reality is, is that the NFL baseline testing is likely a joke. It's a cognitive test that players have to do with individual results. To really play devils advocate, you could even ask, are players taking these cognitive tests and acting like the biggest idiot in the world so if they ever get a concussion, they can easily clear it? From what I was listening to on the radio earlier, these "independent evaluators" are actually employed by the teams. That's what happened with Tua when he had his "back spasms". Either way, players are going to want to play even if they had their "bell rung" because they have that competitive nature in them so if the doctor tells them they are good they are likely going to say "well the doctor said so, so I guess I'm good".

I have cognitive issues, but don’t see why we need to bring that into the discussion. We were talking about the need for a domed stadium - let’s get back to the topic at hand, shall we?

I think if he typed like you did in this post, they’d have pulled him. I jest, I jest. I’ve phone botched, too!

So is zone the issue or that we aren't getting hands on receivers that you take issue with? EDIT: I assume when you say press you're referring to a true jam at the line.

We haven't had him since week 18 last year

I go back and forth between optimism and pessimism. Right now it looks like the Bengals, Chiefs, and Ravens are going to miss the playoffs. So the teams we went into the season maybe fearing most are no threat. The Colts and Jonathan Taylor are fading. And with Jones hurt it looks over for that team. Denver, New England, Houston, and even Jacksonville look good. But the playoffs bring extra expectations and pressure. They're all pretty new to the dance. Experience is something the Bills have over them all. Still they have to play their best to win. Maybe get some players back healthy? And make a run. For this to work the defense needs to show up big. The Bills beating the Patriots next week would be huge. Planting the seeds of doubt for a potential playoff rematch.

I feel like I was right not to be overly concerned about the safety position when everyone else was panicking. Well I'll admit Rapp was much worse than I expected. I don't know if it was the injury or what but he went from being a decent player to an outright liability. My whole thing all along was I didn't need a superstar at the position, just no liabilities. Once Rapp was removed and we inserted a replacement level player in Poyer the whole machine clicked into place. Obviously big credit to Bishop as well who has elevated his game well beyond what I expected based on his early season play.

Besides the obvious signs of grabbing at his head after it bounced off frozen ground, you could tell he wasn’t right from how he was playing. He had a few drops where he was wide open and something wasn’t working right with his motor skills. The announcers even made some excuses for what they saw, like he must have heard the footsteps of White behind him after giving a 15 yard cushion. Then somehow he made that one handed circus catch touchdown.

past generations of players have already done that.

The Bills going through an October slump has pretty much become the standard. Penalties. Turnovers. Poor Run D. Even Josh reverting to bad habits. Sometimes it stretches into November. And it doesn't seem to matter who the opponent is. Then suddenly it hits Thanksgiving and the team wakes up.