billsfan89

There was also the time when the NFL had 31 teams between the Texans expansion so there was 1 team that had to have a bye each week. So a team had a bye each week so a team had a bye week week 1 and week 17. I think that the NFL should have baked in 2 league wide bye weeks (push the start of the playoffs back 2 weeks) and any of these games that had to be rescheduled due to Covid could have been played during a league wide bye.

I think the Covid outbreak disrupting their practice is more of a disadvantage than the bye week leading into the game is an advantage.

Sadly you could always play NFL2K5 with the roster update that fans make every year. That's probably the only alternative and it is a pain in the ass.

The silent killer

I think people are really hard on Edumonds overly so. He was a solid MLB the first half of last season and then the back half of the season turned it on to a near All-Pro level. He was lights out against the Jets and then got hurt. He played up and down against the Rams (I thought he had a good first half bad second half.) I am not ready to say this team need to draft a MLB next year just yet like some have been hyperbolically stating. I don't know how so many people forget that Phillips was a pass rusher and not a run stuffer. When this team suffered a big lapse in run defense from weeks 7-11 last year teams were picking on Phillips freelancing ways. Now McD did adjust the scheme to work around Phillips (who was a good pass rusher) but it wasn't like Phillips was a big part of the run defense. I think people see the flashy plays and his size and think he was a bigger part of the team's success last year in the ground game than he was.

He was looking like he was about to have a breakout in 2019 then he got hurt. He hasn't come back to that form in 2020.

Feeling good about the Raiders game, Titans are tough but I think this team should win hopefully the Bills can fatten up to 5-0 before hitting their hardest stretch of games.

I think the matchups are favorable to the Bills. Cards weak oline will favor the defense and the offense can wear down the mid-level defense. The Chargers aren't impressing me, they remind me of the 2018 Bills, good defense hung out to dry by a bad offense.

I prefer to stick with the same 5 guys for continuity and chemistry. But in a season that is not ordinary (no pre-season no conventional off-season training program) I feel as though there might be something to this strategy to take advantage of the deepest O-line in the league (I don't know of any other team that has 3-4 starting caliber players on the bench) and try to shuffle things around to keep the injury risk minimal.

Bills need to pile up a win here and get to 4-0. Vegas isn't a bad team, they should be in playoff contention on the fringes but the Bills need to in my opinion pile up this win to go 4-0 into a tough stretch of games. After the Raiders they play a hard out in the Titans, a Super Bowl favorite in the Chiefs, a gimmie against the Jets and then the Pats and Seahawks two very good teams. Ideally I would like to see the Bills get to 5-0 and then go 2-2 at a minimum (beat the Jets and then one of those other three preferably the Pats) in that next really tough 4 games to get to 7-2. Then the schedule does ease up where they have two winnable games against the Cardinals and Chargers where they could beef back up to 9-2 going into the final 5 games where they have 2 "gimmie" games against the Broncos and Fins and a tough but doable stretch of games against the Steelers, Pats and 49ers. Ideally if they can go 3-2 in that final 5 games they could get to 12 wins which should set them up to win the division. Overall it is such a huge game to get fat on this early schedule and beat a respectable but not so great team in the Raiders.

You should be allowed to sue the ***** out of your job for that. That puts you in danger and any clients/customers. You don't necessarily have to shut a place down but you should inform and test your employees.

Random people on the internet know better than the FBI whose expertise and billions of dollars in resources are dedicated to studying this.

In Miami the defense despite having two key LB's out only have up 21 points (7 points in garbage time) it was Josh and the offense stalling at 17 points that led to the deficit. The Rams were held in check in the first half and first half of the third quarter. And the Rams (who have a top 7 offense) big 29 point rally was aided by 2 turnovers from the offense (one bogus but still.) So while I am concerned about the defense I am not writing them off just yet.

Agreed but I still think Knox needs to get 50% of the snaps allow him to be more dynamic but come along more slowly.

From weeks 7 to 11 last season Star wasn't effective at "doing the dirty work" he was just getting pushed around. I don't know what flipped but he really turned it on to end the season when the run defense massively improved. Overall I would say that he is important but it isn't like he hasn't had stretches of bad play or mediocre play either

We shall see, I hope that Josh numbers deflate somewhat due to the team running the ball more and sitting on leads with a strong defense. But I think in the short term Josh will have the gaudy stats.

He has to tighten a few things up, mainly ball security and giving up on some plays esp when the team is up. Josh has this amazing gun slinger mentality of never giving up on a play. BUT when the team is up big he has to be more willing to toss the ball away and not risk a fumble or turnover. So overall Josh has played like a top 5 QB this season thus far. Plenty to see how he keeps going and how he adjusts to the league adjusting to him. But so far he isn't too good to be true. He is the real deal. Josh's 2019 was pretty solid, so I hope that 2020 is a sign of progression building off of that as opposed to a mirage that of Fitz or Bledsoe.

The O-line broke down when Donald just started to go into Super Sayan mode half way through the third quarter and in the 4th quarter. But in the first half and half of the third quarter the O-line was playing well against a pretty good D-line. Both pass protection and run blocking. But Donald is just a special beast that took over the game and nearly turned it around for the Rams defensively.

The run defense with Star in the middle was trash for a long stretch in the middle of last season. From weeks 7 to 11 the Bills run defense was putrid, even giving up massive games to trash teams like the Fins and Washington. Star did improve ton end the year but he was a big part of the big lapse in run defense mid-season.

One game good or bad does not make a career. Jackson is the fastest person to play the QB position and he is a decent to good thrower, with a good organization behind him call me crazy but I think he will have a good career.

He is also not that dynamic when healthy. Don't get me wrong he played well against the Rams but I don't think at his best he is more than a solid tight end

There are only 32 jobs out there as a HC of an NFL team so you can only be so picky.

I would wait to see how that worked out for the Cowboys, seems like it might have caused an outbreak but overall I do agree start with 15% and then try and get to 25%

Hopefully McD can adjust the scheme. Last year mid season the rush defense was horrid they turned it around against Zeke and the boys and never looked back. They did it with no major additions and no major returns from injury (Milano had been back for weeks) it was all scheme adjustments and the players on the roster playing better. Hopefully that can be the case again.

Russell Wilson is the front runner but Josh is right there