Thurman#1

I really have never bet, but the wife, when I told her the Bills line was 17 points last week against the Texans, immediately said, "they'll beat them by more than that. Bet $100 for me." I spent two or three hours looking for a good site and it was annoying. Couldn't place a bet for her and she's playfully reminding me every day that I owe her $100. This week she wants me to put $25 on the over. Many U.S. sites don't allow international bettors. I live in Japan. The thing that pissed me off about a bunch of them is that they'll happily take your credit card, but then they can't give money back to the credit card, but they want to use that excuse to rip you off for service fees. I won't be a big bettor and the three or four I looked at all had fees of $55 or more for the arduous difficulty of writing a check to me. Some more than that. One site would do it for free as long as I signed up for a purse and took it in Bitcoin. I have zero interest in that. Anybody know a site that doesn't charge much for cashouts? Hopefully it should be a good site generally and take international bettors. Have any good ideas?

It's not an issue in International Game Pass. Same as last year. There's an icon at the bottom left that when clicked allows me to see the list of plays and play whichever one I want. And I get both views of every play automatically. Good luck to you folks.

You don't need to ask when, because it's happened all along. Consistently. That's why he's been twice a Pro Bowler, why he's consistently on lists of best LBs, why he's far more highly valued around the league than you and your small group are willing to understand. Could he be better? Sure, that's fair enough. But he's already been damn good for a long time. He makes a lot of plays, but they aren't the kind that you seem willing to accept as within your definition of big plays or impact plays, but that's on your definition, not on Edmunds' performance. If he was making no big plays they wouldn't have agreed to guarantee him above $13M next year. He's had sacks, he's had forced fumbles, QB hits, a safety, tackles for loss, a bunch of third down stops and a lot of passes defensed. Interceptions. Hurries. Pressures. He had that terrific goal line stuff last year. And those are just the countable obvious ones. In four playoff games he's managed 4 QB hits, a sack, a tackle for loss, a fumble recovery and three passes defensed. He's been making big plays all along. And that's not mention all the ones he made like the one Cover One pointed out last week where he covers well and forces QBs to pull it down and look elsewhere. Those aren't countable and they often aren't even clearly observable but they're one of the main things the Bills love about Tremaine. QBs take a look across the middle and see those big long arms and they pull it down more than they do for most LBs. You aren't seeing it. Thing is, the Bills are.

Most of Williams' snaps have been at tackle. Perhaps he's a better guard right now than tackle. Which is exactly what Joe suggested in the article. Williams is a hard guy to understand. He was really good at tackle last year, but this year not so much. You wonder if there's an injury he's dealing with or something. 29 seems early for his performance to start falling off.

That Basham's 24 now will have a major effect when he hits around 30 and starts to age. For the next few years experience will be a ton more important than chronological age for Boogie. It's his first game. That's his big limitation right now. He's probably closer to physical maturity than most rooks, but still limited in terms of experience, and we know McDermott takes his time with rookie DLs.

It was the Jets. Darnold looked terrible there too. Not that I expect Geno to be very good, but it could happen.

What's comical is what a terrible take this is. Zero games missed due to injury as a rookie. Three in his second year, from a broken fibula. One in his third year. Five last year. And if he misses the Chiefs he'll have played 80% of the games so far at an extremely high level. With a contract that clearly includes a serious home team discount. There certainly is a chance he might eventually start missing huge chunks of seasons, but even if he does his contract isn't punitive for the Bills. If he gets cut after the 2022 season, his dead cap will be $3.5M. The guy is the 28th highest paid LB in the league by average salary. If he misses two or three games a year he's still a bargain.

An amazing thing, but the guy who wrote the caption is a fricking idiot. That heart attack ended his career right then, and he died of heart problems at age 44. "Maybe play through your next injury, buttercup," is about as buttheaded a take as imaginable on an injury that when played through ended both his career and eventually his life. Not the lesson to be learned from this incident. Not talking about you here, Chandler, but about Super70sSports.

For a platoon guy, he's got a fair amount of experience in three uninjured years. 30% of the defensive snaps in 2018 in L.A. Injured in 2019. 44% of the D snaps last year with the Jets, and 67% this year. Wow, strip-sack of Brady in the 2018 Super Bowl. 13 QB hits in 15 games last year. Doesn't seem like a bad move, unfortunately.

Makes sense. I hate that people call this $30M guaranteed. They do, lately, but it's just another way to give agents a chance to puff up what the contract sounds like without actually having the contract live up to the puffery. If something isn't guaranteed unless you are on the roster a year from now, it isn't guaranteed now, and shouldn't be referred to that way. Not grumbling about you, Bill, just about how this is generally used in a misleading way.

Ah, interesting. Not desperate at all, then. I think the Jets are beginning to look up a bit, unfortunately. I like Salah.

Yup. I've been saying for the last two years that he was a great deal more likely to be here in 2022 than a lot of people here thought. I disagree. Out of all the players on our suddenly very effective DL, it's Oliver who's getting doubled constantly. Teams know how good he is. IMO we'll start to see teams trying to double Star more on pass plays and that will allow Oliver more chances.

His absence wasn't the reason we lost to Pittsburgh, but he's been really good. He's always been an excellent space eater / block absorber and hole clogger. Always. And that continues. He was also always weirdly good at running laterally when he got off blocks and chased guys outwards. He continues to do these both very well. But he's gotten a lot better at rushing the passer. It's great to see. He was greatly missed in 2020. The 2019 and 2021 defenses were absolutely excellent, and his presence is a real part of that. His presence makes the players around him significantly better. No, it really wasn't. The last half of the year they were very solid. Not as good as they are this year with Star, though.

Ah, not a lot of starts but almost a thousand snaps. I only remembered the name and nothing else, but he's played a bit. Agreed, hope he doesn't do well.

Yes, Staley is right. No, that was absolutely not our problem against KC last year. We absolutely got them to fight blocks and tackle. They were in fact very good at it in both games. They were damn good at stopping our run game by fighting blocks and tackling. You don't have to run in every game. We had a great game against Seattle last year practically without running till the last few drives to burn clock. We didn't run but we still passed extremely well. Our troubles in passing at KC weren't caused by run problems. We just weren't very good at either, in either game. Your team will absolutely have a hard time though, if teams all know you can't run and so you won't. That makes it a lot easier on defenses. But if game planning says it's better to run very little against some teams, that can be a very reasonable decision.

Yup. It actualy started before that, but that was the capper.

You do need to turn your head around if you hit the guy. The defender has the same right to the ball as the receiver, if he's trying to make a play on the ball. You can't do that without turning your head. It won't always get called perfectly, but that's the rule and it's generally called that way, especially if you hit the guy egregiously. That's downfield anyway, when the ball's coming in. It's all a judgment call, but that plays into their judgment. "WHILE THE BALL IS IN THE AIR "Acts that are pass interference include, but are not limited to: "Contact by a player who is not playing the ball that restricts the opponent’s opportunity to make the catch; ..."

No he didn't. He went from an extremely good defender here who the fanbase got angry at because he left for money reasons ... to an even better defender in New England. He was really good here. We just weren't willing to pay him what he wanted. The man/zone thing also played in. And fans hate guys who won't give a hometown discount. We were having serious cap problems at that time even though the roster wasn't good enough to be having serious cap problems.

LSD in the drinking water at NFL headquarters. Gotta be. Can't be that the 10 or 20 people on here who seem to dedicate their lives to downgrading Edmunds and the same two or three others they've habitually scapegoated were ... you know, wrong!! They see the world more clearly than everyone else, as they've said.

With Knox playing this well?

Many people. That's the answer to that. Zero handles himself well consistently.

If you can do that, great. I can't. To me, a moral issue is a big part of this. Can't cheer for the guy. It depresses me that that's so, but it is.

Yeah, 18 snaps and 38%. It's not a lot. No problem, really. I think people thought he'd be in the running for DROY, and that's pretty tough when you're platooning.

Are they booing? You don't get a sense of that on TV at all. He was one of my two favorite Bills last year. This year I can't bring myself to cheer for the guy. I don't think I would boo, but I'm not happy when he catches the ball the way I am with the others. I hope so. I also hope he's off the team next year. And I don't like myself for saying that.

... or not. You really don't know. You're pretending the facts show that what you want will happen. They don't. They only show what happened. After that, as usual, we'll see. Certainly did look like either a wake-up call or a replacement, whether temporary or permanent. Again, we'll see.