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When the Colts drafted Eason and there were not going to be any preseason games, Chad's time in Indy was done. He is among the more talented QBs not in the league but that's not saying much. I think the XFL restart will be his last chance to make some sort of pro career. I do not seek to crap all over people who are trying to overcome their issues and do believe people can grow. Either you believe in redemption or not. We certainly are not in position to judge where he is at but his time with the Colts probably did him some good. I never read anything that suggested he was lazy or lacked passion for the game. Quite the opposite. I wish him well.

Before the season started, one of our resident TBD Nostradimi (you know who you are) suggested that it would be just like the Bills to have an all-time great season when it appeared likely that none (not many) of us could/would witness it in our preferred, communal, in-person manner due to the pandemic. Feeling good about the Bills prospects for this year at that time, I made a mental note of the spirit of that thought connecting it to the person who made it. I do not normally pay much attention to the Super Bowl #'s, other than XXV thru XXVIII, but I think most all fans will remember the team that wins it this year. This Super Bowl champion will be remembered by most all NFL fans as the team that won it THAT year. But without thinking much of it prior, I just realized that this one is LV, 55. It struck me as a sign so I felt the need to create a new profile picture.

No soup for you!

ALL 3 GAMES ON COMMERCIAL BREAK. I hate that.

Safety would be nice here. Maybe Tua cracks.

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Why is it friend of a friend is usually first in with the story as in the Ed Oliver blood test? Feel bad for Fitz. He is running short of a shot at postseason opportunity.

It was short so I watched it. Just as I thought, he made no mention of the blocked punt last year. Any astute analysis of this play that does not mention last year's play is not so astute, imo. It was a huge play last year and the Bills were suitably embarrassed by it. I wonder how many times they ran this play in practice since then. is Being supremely prepared to handle a situation is not arrogance.

We are on the verge of being in a world where we will no longer need to hear about how they could have drafted Mahomes but traded down instead. I never liked the point anyways because choosing the next high draft choice QB was always a job better left to the next GM and staff. I will be ok with it in terms of telling the story about how this current team was built but we should not be exposed ever again to this story told as some sort of a franchise altering error. Only really lame thinkers would cling to that opinion and I do know there will always be some of those people around.

The NFL passer rating is a poor measure for QBs with actual running ability that their teams rely upon. Scoring a TD or two via run does nothing to elevate the rating but sure means something to their teams chances to win. Scrambling to avoid a sack and then throwing the ball away hurts the passer rating. I hate the mystery meat of tQBR but that at least tries to incorporate everything a QB does in every game situation. I suspect those tQBR numbers would look more stable than NFL passer rating.

Yes. Yes we do. Our Bills are real and they are spectacular!

I got here late but I knew I would find this somewhere in the thread. This will be a GIF that will enter classic status very quickly.

To all those saying Barkley its trash, I say we have seen him exactly one time with the first unit and a full week of practice. He was very good that game.

Stabler underhanded it forward while under tackle and Pete Banaszak had the ball in both hands and flipped it forward where Casper kicked and batted into the endzone for the recovery TD which covered 24 yards. The officiating crew did not rule any of these as intentional which would have ended the play. Thus, I thought the rule change made as a result applied to forward fumbles only and not backwards ones too.

I am old and I remember the play. That involved 2 phony forward flips of the ball to advance it toward the endzone for the TD with 10 seconds to go. I thought the rule made a distinction about the direction of the fumble. It does not.

That ball was intentionally fumbled forward.

I suspect officials scewed the Browns on the call. Fumbled backwards and did not hit the ground. That should be eligible for advancement, imo.

Browns have a strong TE group. I think they could build a successful gameplan around them.

Fitz ready to storm the Gates of Hell.

It used to be a delay-of-game penalty to spike a ball with the clock running. I wonder when that changed.

I think the Browns will lean on multiple TE formations and it will be effective for them. Their #4 TE, Steve Carlson, is from WNY and he plays mostly on special teams but he can play well from scrimmage if asked. Hooper, Bryant and Njoku are pretty solid TE trio in front of Carlson.

I like the Colts as the 1st round opponent. The dome team with the ancient, immobile QB who offers little threat for making plays off script seems like a great matchup for our defense

I expect him to be advertising pistachios. Soon he'll be the most famous pistachio farmer in the world.

Against the Ravens in OT. One of Fitz' first starts so it was maybe 2010 ish. They were big underdogs and really deserved the win.