HardyBoy

That's right, the Falcons were off their bye...pats will be too next week...there are a lot of random variables that absolutely could impact how the team is being so inconsistent week to week, which as long as you're not the 7 seed playing the 1 in the divisional assuming you win, are not there in the playoffs.

Haha damn you, I tosses Atlanta in there because I knew it was an off Sunday game and made an assumption...I was at a networking happy hour event tonight and had a drink or two...haha I was soooo close to making my point Atlanta was a bad loss, but at the same time the bills are a very reliant on a good game script team that also ironically is not always great in the first half...it's very confusing, but I was definitely not right about including Atlanta in there

Crazy humid game and super short rest on the road is what happened against the Texans and Dolphins and Falcons...

Having high level qb play on a rookie contract...

Beane might be anticipating a non zero chance that the wheels fall off this season (with the dline injuries they might have already) and 2026 might be the highest they're drafting in a while and for the foreseeable future...not saying they won't trade that pick, but Miami was probably valuing it at the very end of the draft and they would get much much more value when it's a known pick if it's in the mid or even upper 20s.

Ah Hancock and yes I knew that somewhere in my brain do you think his issue was more run defense and getting confidence there allowed him to start just playing on passing downs and not think as much on those downs? I guess, how does Poyer playing help Bishop on clear passing downs when Poyer is not in the game typically?

He's playing well when Lewis subs in for Poyer too though... I'm not saying Poyer definitely isn't the reason, but shouldn't his play drop significantly on passing downs when Lewis comes in then? Could it be just that something clicked for him and coincided when Poyer started playing, or maybe more that Rapp was the issue and brining in any replacement level player would have facilitated Bishop's ability to only have to think about his role and not covering for Rapp?

He might have adhd

Yeah, can you imagine the reads Bishop and Hairston would get from Coleman's film study!

They don't celebrate anything... the military pays for all of it. It's not a genuine salute to anything other than making money and recruitment efforts...tax money something something

I feel like beane has chased the draft picks he traded away and it impacted the draft a lot...also, it adds a ton of uncertainty to the draft prep process...they know they are likely going to trade down to get a third back, but I have to imagine that makes all the prep prior to the draft, all the mock drafts and scenarios completely hypothetical. Yeah there's a ton of uncertainty in the draft as it is, but essentially going in not knowing where you're picking at all because your plan is to get more picks early...I think there is a plus side to this in terms of certainty if you do nothing and trade wise, and they don't have to do anything trade wise to chase picks

Some might need a decoder ring, not us...we just need Draconator and a six pack!

He ended up going to the Rams and iirc made the team...his path to making the team was likely better somewhere else. The only way you could possibly know that the bills weren't interested is if he wasn't signed as an undrafted free agent on any team at all, which wasn't the case.

How do you know they didn't?

I think he got a concussion against the Pats