Thurman#1

Yeah, I still think he's got a real chance. Not a great chance, but still a chance.

An RB is a poor use of the money that would cost us. Jacobs is a damn good back, but they might have a bit of a hard time signing Singletary, much less Jacobs. Yeah, and this year there are going to be a lot of backs available roughly in Singletary's tier. I love Singletary for this team and my guess is he'll be available at a pretty reasonable rate and happy to return if their offer is fairly competitive.

That rule makes total sense to me. IMO they're not saying gambling is bad. Just that they're not going to allow guys who are inside a team - who could turn games - to run the risk of going under water to guys who in the end wouldn't waste a minute selling a big debt to corrupt influencers who also wouldn't waste a minute deciding whether to fix a game using that sad degenerate debtor as their lever. I don't think they have a choice. They've got to do this.

"We know how they did against the #1 offense," you say? Yeah, they did very very well against that #1 offense. Held 'em to 20 points, which only one other team was able to do. Yeah, we've seen issues. You always will. Perfection doesn't exist. Teams go up and down, all of them. But for the last five games you're worrying about, they've allowed less than 20 PPG average. Against a damn good group of offenses, as you yourself pointed out. Particularly with our clusters of defensive injuries, and against a vicious schedule, they've performed very very well. And having a great overall defensive DVOA, defensive scoring record, the 11-3 record, etc., are all far more important than a somewhat cherry-picked stat. This doesn't rise to the level of a worry for me. As for not having had a thorough beatdown in a while, I just smile at how the target changes. For two years people have been complaining that we don't do well in one-score games and how most of our wins are only just beatdowns. Now we're turning that around and the new complaint is that we don't put up enough beatdowns. The target is always moving for people looking for a reason to worry. 11-3. That's the bottom line.

Despite all the injuries our D is #5 at defensive DVOA. Nope. Not worried. Concerned, but I'll always be concerned.

Yeah, agreed. He still might become good. At this point the odds are very low on that, but who thought Geno Smith at this point in his career would become good?

I wanted them to pick AJ Dillon, though I thought he'd be available much later. But the Bills RBs are fine.

Best of luck to him.

Again, no it hasn't. The results of those studies are often mis-stated. They don't prove what the headlines generally claim that they prove.

I never worry much about run yards total. It's more of a function of number of runs than anything else. YPA shows better how good your run game is. And the Bills, when you take Allen out of YPA go from 5.0 yards per carry to ... hang on a minute, checking your chart ... to 4.5 yards per carry. Hunh!! Still good.

It does happen, and you're right that McDermott may well have been part of his failure. But Zay was having serious issues at the time, and nobody says that was known from his college days. I mean, remember the time when his brother saved him from jumping out a window? That's not really something the coaches could likely have done much about. I wish the best for him.

Nah. Zay's playing well. Gabe is at least as good and probably better. Comparable yardage, Zay has 12 yards more, Gabe has one TD more, and Gabe has had only 77 targets while Zay has 106. Gabe is much more likely to be involved in impact plays.

The fans weren't aiming the sun at us. And if the sun hits you in the eye you don't risk serious injury. Uncool. Nobody was trying to hit anyone in the eye, but it could've happened. It's both, for me.

No. But neither is KC. Or anyone else. Everyone - absolutely every single team or unit in history - has ups and downs and leaves meat on the bone. That's the way complicated team endeavors work. Particularly endeavors manned by human beings, who are imperfect. But more, your question here is dumb. Assuming that if the offense is operating poorly it must be the OC's fault is just bad thinking. Does he need to get better? Sure. But we heard for the last four years from plenty on here how awful Daboll was when the offense was having problems. Now the same folks wish they had him back. And if he were back, you'd be attacking him again. The OC is the traditional scapegoat.

He really is. He's very good himself. But more, he makes the players around him much better. Any decision he makes I will have the greatest respect for. Stay healthy, Mitch!!

Yeah, I get that you feel that way. Thing is, what you say ain't reasonable. The Bills have made it clear - very very clear - that he was doing the unglamorous things they needed done, eating bloc When the choice is between the opinion of the coaches and players on the Bills and the opinion of a depressive on the internet focused on any Bills problem he can find, the smart person knows the Bills are right. DaQuan is better, he's collapsing the pocket really well. But Star was doing a really good job generally - the first two years - eating that space, enveloping those blocks, moving sideways but not back, and making life a lot easier for the players around him. The year before Star got here, the Bills had the ninth-worst defensive YPC in the league. The Panthers, with Star, had the ninth-best. The next year, Star goes from Carolina to Buffalo and the Bills are now the ninth-best at defensive YPC and the Panthers drop to 21st. Star wasn't all of that difference, but he was a major major part of it. I certainly agree about his last two years here, opting out but then not getting vaxed and then getting Covid early in the 2021 season and immediately experiencing a massive dropoff from which he never really recovered. Awful. And it could very possibly have been avoided. But his first two years here he was an absolute success. Here's what Beane had to say, from Getzenberg: "Lotulelei missed time during the 2021 season after testing positive for COVID-19 and for personal reasons. General manager Brandon Beane noted a decline in Lotulelei's performance after dealing with the effects of COVID-19 despite being one of the Bills' 'disruptive lineman' in the early portion of the season. 'But when he got COVID, when he came back, it really affected him,' Beane said. 'Without getting too deep into the woods, I don't think he returned to form. And I think he'd be the first to tell you that at what he was playing at earlier in the year. He got better and I thought it improved the two playoff games, but I still don't think it was as consistent as he was the first part of the season.'" https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33537065/buffalo-bills-release-star-lotulelei-following-dt-additions-free-agency

Yes, and very well the first two years. Didn't rush the QB the way DaQuan did but he did very well at space eating. Bills defensive YPC this year: 4.2 Bills defensive YPC in 2019: 4.3 Bills defensive YPC in 2018: 4.2 That's not all DaQuan and Star, but those first two years before Covid, Star was a fine player, though never really a pass rusher.

White hasn't this year ... yet. IMO he's trending in that direction and we'll see him get there soon. I could be wrong about that, certainly, but it looks that way to me. And I might even throw DaQuan in there this year, with a bit more time to think. That guy has been playing great the whole year.

Yeah, top twenty DE? I totally agree. Maybe even top fifteen as the season has progressed. Politely disagree about him being our 2nd best behind Milano, though. Poyer, White and Edmunds are right up there, IMO. Hyde certainly too before the injury. Most of those guys are pretty close to maxed out, though, and Groot is improving. A lot.

A force? Absolutely. Elite? Certainly not yet. Elite generally in football means top three or four at your position. Groot isn't getting there yet. Still early, though. You may well be right about the sacks Von has added to the other guys here, IMO.

Oh, that's only his wallet? The chicks will be so disappointed.

That's why people are waiting for you to step up and throw in the extra half billion, House.

Jerry's smart, and generally a really good writer. This thing about women goes too far. He simply shouldn't have said that, it's rude and ignorant. Yeah, the GMFB folks handled it just right. Being critical is fine, what he said was fine, but should've been phrased as a question so Josh could have answered it. And Josh absolutely nailed that reply. Couldn't have been better. But that thing about women he said, it was just irnorant.

The differences when those two teams play are the Bengals defense. The Rams won the Super Bowl last year with 41 passes and 23 runs. What year was last year again? Not 2022, but still pretty recent.

You're right, I am indeed welcome to disagree. I'm also welcome to point out immensely stupid things. Here's one to repeat ... OF COURSE YOU SEE MORE FROM OTHER TEAMS. THERE ARE 31 OTHER TEAMS AND ONLY ONE BILLS. This is how statistics work, for God's sake, not to mention it's how confirmation bias works. What you want from your team is efficiency, chunk plays and production. That's what the Bills give you. In spades!!!! I would indeed care to elaborate. In fact, I did. Three other posts. Just above here. There's a limit to how many times someone needs to point out that something's dumb.