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As I said, I think it's by design. Nothing happens by accident with McDermott.

Let me play devil's advocate. Where is there actual suggestion of malfeasance and/or negligence? Contrary to what 90% of people on this board are professing to know with certainty, hitting one's head and pointing to it does not constitute a concussion. Assuming the team physicians and independent neurological consultants followed protocol, and assuming there was no OBJECTIVE evidence of a concussion despite multiple assessments, including a reported assessment in the locker room at half time, what justification do they have for then holding a player out of the game? The league protocol doesn't suggest they hold players out on the suspicion despite a negative assessment. Higgins himself, after the game, said he underwent multiple assessments that he passed, and was then asked if he was comfortable with returning to play. This is not a compound fracture that is diagnosed with certainty the minute it happens. There is no fool proof test that identifies all concussions. Unfortunately, many of these instances become clearer with hindsight. For reference, here is the NFLPA response to the Tua incident with the "back injury" that outlines changes made to the protocol pretty clearly. Assuming Higgins had no concussion symptoms, and there were no "no-go" findings on his assessment, there was no medical obligation to hold him out of the game based on the current league protocol - https://nflpa.com/posts/concussion-protocols-where-we-stand-now.

Having a 5’ 11” slot cab line up against a 6’ 6” TE probably isn’t the wisest decision. It’s not all on Taron, the assignments are doing him no favors. Lewis on the other hand is just god awful and has no business being on an active NFL roster.

We made the playoffs with TT with a weaker roster lol

Baltimore tends to play well at home during night games (although not this Thanksgiving) so let's hope that continues. If we don't beat the Pats, we might be rooting for them to keep the Ravens out.

If the Bengals beat the Ravens this week it could be an elimination game for Baltimore.

One random fun wrinkle that popped up on the all-22. On Benford's CB blitz into a sack we had Ja'Marr Chase being double covered by Shaq Thompson and... Greg Rousseau 😂 Here's the play: Good aggressive play call in a moment where we really needed a negative play. Another note - Hancock is athletic but he doesn't really know what he's supposed to be doing on a lot of his plays. The TD to Higgins with Tre in coverage, Hancock inexplicably comes way downhill seemingly to cover Gesicki who is already bottled up, meanwhile Tre looks like he's expecting help deep and inside and it isn't there. Bishop on the other hand didn't give up anything as far as I could tell and had a couple nice run fills from depth.

💯 my thoughts exactly. i figured we’d be getting the 2024 version of Rapp. McD alluded to him being injured all season, not sure if he’s just covering for the guy or what, but he was abysmal this season and sinking the ship. Poyer was just what this defense needed. Theres still plenty of time for him to get exposed, but he’s been solid.

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?