Thurman#1

With no evidence, I doubt it. I suppose it's possible, but no way to know.

#1s do get open. And I'll bet he was open quite a bit and we'll see it in the All-22. But less open than Davis with Diggs focusing the coverage on him. Our guys getting open was not the problem in this game. The passing game was white-hot.

I just checked pff.com. There's no gambling. A bit of advice for gamblers but mostly various sports info. Am I missing some secondary site or something? I'm envious. I'll get there in a month or so, but right now just depressed.

Nah. The vax stuff isn't in the rear view. Way too early to say that and no reason to think he won't keep right on spouting off and being selfish. And he's on the way downhill. Not what he used to be. Still very good at zone but has taken a major drop at man-to-man. I could imagine them keeping him, esp if he takes a bit of a cut. Hope they don't. Oh, and comparing him to Kupp or Edelman is ridiculous. Was even before his productivity started to drop.

I thought it increased significantly at WR. He's never had a game like that New England game. Our fanbase saw it, I'm sure other teams will too. On the other hand, people are really overreading the significance of that tweet, I think.

We don't need a nasty D. We need an effective D. Good, effective, efficient ... that's what we need. We already are that, but need to get more so, though might well be that if Tre White had played we'd have won. No way to know. How you get to good, efficient and effective doesn't really matter. Fast, tough, smart ... generally a mix of all of them. And KC's offense didn't out-tough our D. They outran us. And they got the ball last. If we had got the ball last, we'd have won. Did our offense succeed because KC's defense sucked? Or does having one of the top two QBs in the league with good players around them in a good scheme make it hard to impossible to stop your offense when you're playing well? Goddamn, though.

Southern Honshu, Japan. The game starts at 8:30 a.m. I'm a teacher and my first class starts at 8:40. Luckily I have Game Pass. I'll be watching it bit by bit. Will probably finish watching sometime around 6:00 - 8:00 p.m, at 4:00 - 6:00 a.m Buffalo time.

Yup. Hard to say when it'll happen, but it's wildly likely.

See, this is how pitifully far someone has to stretch to argue against the obvious here. A stupid argument on the face of it, in every word. Lewis has 55 snap on defense. Tremaine has 873, 94%. Pretending an occasional role player's compares to the effect Edmunds has ... it's sad. On the other hand, those are the kind of arguments you have to take on that side of the question. So it's not all that surprising that silly examples show up here. Nor is Edmunds going to get $20M when he re-signs with the Bills. He'll make a lot, but not $20M. Severely sad argument.

We are indeed playing really well. So are they.

As long as we have Allen playing anywhere close to this level.

Nah. You want your player to think that, to say that. Doesn't make it true, but you want your guy thinking they're close.

Of course there are. For absolutely anybody, until they invent the perfect human. Josh's biggest is that he has throws occasionally where he misses by a lot, and that he takes big risks which he can often make work with his terrific arm, but when the risks and the bad throws overlap, there are often going to be consequences. Still a terrific player, though.

Where was he? Probably at the press conference same as always. And you're misquoting Jerry. He didn't say they should be embarrassed. He asked if they were embarrassed. It probably should have ended with a simple, "No." Beyond that, Jerry has zero problem writing good things when the Bills play well. Never has. Nor did he yesterday. Proof here: https://www.niagara-gazette.com/sports/buffalo_bills/sullivan-bills-celebrate-real-home-playoff-game-with-near-perfect-performance/article_a5d46d3c-059f-5e40-9b5f-27fd63be4119.html Headline: "Sullivan: Bills celebrate real home playoff game with near-perfect performance"

Too early to know. The passing game is what usually takes time to develop. My guess is you're right about Hurts, but that Tua might have a chance. But it's just too early to know.

No. They shook hands. Just went back and you can see it on the game video for an instant. But he did indeed keep his feet moving and say maybe one word to McDermott.

Alert the Louvre. Incoming.

Nice!

I know. A lot to digest.

The problem isn't playing golf. It's when you do it. It's whether or not you've earned it, and it probably also relates to how hard you work during the week. I doubt any coach would have a problem with golfing in the offseason, as an example. The reason the Bills crushed them has a lot to do with poor QB play and a much better roster. Flores appears to be a damn good coach, and he over-achieved there.

No. He's very very good at his job. But it won't be a disaster. With a good choice for replacement it shouldn't hurt too badly.

The fans want a dome if they don't have to pay for it. I'm sure the Pegulas would say the same. And by the way, I want a date with Halle Berry and Emma Watson.

Sanders isn't under contract for next year, or at least not a real contract. He'll be $2M in dead money if I remember quickly, and we can't save that by cutting him. So if he's not here we save nothing from the way our situation is already set up on Spotrac for next year. Same for McKenzie. We don't save $7.5M if we cut Beasley. He would still be on the books for $1.5M in dead cap. Let all three of them go and the available cap total for 2022 goes from 9.28M to $15.351M. Total. Right now, Spotrac has us with $9.28M in cap available next year. That's with 41 guys under contract, and that's if you include the shadow year for Sanders Of course there are some cuts we would be able to make, but also some FAs we would want to re-sign and a bunch of positions where we'd need depth / upgrade, particularly DL and OL, but not limited to those two areas. So if we left out Bease, Sanders and McK, we'd save about $6M. If he's healthy, I don't think Godwin comes for that. Yes, they could back-weight the contract, but Beane does that in small, limited doses, he's not a congenital can-kicker and he's looking forward to 2023 where the Covid cap cuts finally let us have some decent cap room again. Basically, if you're right about what Godwin will cost, I don't see a chance in hell he ends up here next year. I'm wrong plenty when I predict the future, but I'm very confident about this particular prediction.

Guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I feel like I've seen very few reps when he did that four yard in where he goes horizontal and does a 180 on the downfield foot and goes backward and was successfully covered. And he could get open doing that route with a ton of separation in just about two seconds. Several other things he does that he's been able to break man coverage with extremely sudden cuts and great route-running. Not this year, though.

Both of these had huge amounts of info and thoughtful speculation. Great stuff, but you have to commit some time, especially for the Cover1 vid. Chris Simms talks to Paul Burmeister about all the games this weekend, with some video and a lot of consideration to scheme and what the Pats might do to better shut down Josh after last time. The Bills-Pats stuff starts at 26:05. Cover1 Breakdown - Erik and Anthony do a lot of video and analysis, for two and a half hours and a ton of detail. They set it up so one did Bills offense vs. Pats defense and the other the opposite. The format was as if a scout/analyst/film guy was presenting about what the opponent would do, what our own tendencies are, and what might be available to us as a result. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.