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Ran DeSean Jackson out of town, didn't want to pay Jeremy Maclin, and ousted LeSean McCoy. To replace McCoy they had to give a big contract to DeMarco Murray. To replace Jackson and Maclin they had to spend a 1st round pick on Nelson Agholor and a high 2nd round pick on Jordan Matthews. They also got rid of Evan Mathis and their offensive line has looked a lot worse and that's got to be a contributing factor. So to get rid of Jackson, Maclin, McCoy, and Mathis all to save money or because they didn't fit Chip's system they have had to us valuable draft resources in a 1st and 2nd round pick in back to back years, hand a huge contract to DeMarco Murray (On par to what the Bills gave Shady), and sacrifice the quality of the offensive line. Throw in that dumb Bradford trade which cost them an additional second round pick and money along with Foles and Chip's track record as a GM is horrendous. Chip really !@#$ed up this off-season, he showed signs in the past of carelessly getting rid of talent but it looked to be more shrewd the first couple of years. Getting rid of Jackson and replacing him with Jordan Matthews was an good move, Matthews is a good talent and much cheaper than Jackson and with Maclin waiting in the wings coming off an injury there was talent coming in to supplant the talent coming out. But not resigning Maclin, trading Shady just to sign Murry for the same deal, letting Evan Mathis go, and trading both Foles and a 2nd round pick for the much more expensive and injury prone Bradford (Who may or may not even be as good) were all horrendous and arrogant moves.

Shady looked like his old self and Rex/Roman used him a lot better opening up 3 WR 1 TE sets to get him into space. I think he will turn in a solid season for the Bills. The Pats* lined up to stop the run early and make Tyrod beat him. But once Tyrod got going and the defense had to open up Shady got going and it was part of what sparked the offenses late comeback effort.

Standard 3 point home deficit. Basically the betters think the Bills and Dolphins are a push but they give the Fins a three point edge for being at home.

Taylor sucked for most of the game. The first couple of drives were solid but up until those last few scoring drives Tyrod was terrible today. Inexperienced QB going to be some ups and downs. I will say this, it was encouraging that Tyrod put together those last few scoring drives. The first couple of scores were pesudo garbage time. But when the Bills recovered that Brady fumble that scoring drive wasn't garbage time. Plenty of time left on the clock and a score would have left the Pats* with a single score lead with too much time on the clock. That last scoring drive gave the Bills a chance to tie that game with over 1:30 on the clock down 8. Not the best chance but a real tangible shot and with a lot of offensive momentum. It was just good to Tyrod show fight to put a scare into the Pats*. Even if their defense is terrible.

Hopefully it's nothing long term, he seems to be very passionate about this team and this game. I suspect they will sit him for a week.

I think the Bills need to mirror what the Giants did against the Pats* in those two Super Bowls. Line a big run stuffer up in the inside like Dareus but put a quick defensive end type next to him. Maybe line Mario up inside in the A or B gap while having Dareus patroling the other sides A or B gap. Then have Hughes going off the blind side and line another speed rusher on the other side. Just have one big run stuffer up the middle and then all speed to try and get to Brady as quickly as possible. The Giants had Tuck and JPP lined up on the inside with two other rushers along the edge and a big DT up the middle. I think you have to try and get to Brady as quickly as possible, even if you don't sack or hit him getting hands in his face and making it hard to step up in the pocket are also going to be disruptive for Brady.

Maybe It's a double agent type plan. Cut Brown with the intention of resigning him back but cut him knowing the Pats* will prod him for information. So you have Brown fill the Pats* with a bunch of misinformation. Then two weeks later Bryce is back on the team. (All said in a Jesse Ventura conspiracy theory voice).

To play Devils advocate, In Brady's two losses to the Giants in the Super Bowl the Giants needed a miracle Eli Manning to David Tyree play and a Wide open Wes Welker dropping a pass. So it's not like nothing close has ever not gone Brady's way. I think Brady's career has been so successful because of a sociopath head coach willing to bend every grey area and outright cheat in some cases, being handed a great Defense for the first and most successful part of his career, and then building a reputation off of those aspects where he and his team do get close calls and bend pick play rules. So it's a case of the Pats* cheating and having a great defense during the first half of Brady's career leading to him being successful and then that success building to a reputation where even more cheating and calls go his way.

I remember an older interview with the old Knicks coach from the 1970's Red Holzman. "If you ask me about the past and it is about something good. Then I was for it and always was for it, and it might have been my idea. If something was bad, then I was always against it." This seems like Polian is just trying to have an I knew it all along moment.

I am not smart enough in how I watch football to know. I have seen it posted around here that Gronk has been fairly limited when he has played against the Jets. In eight games against Ryan’s defenses, Gronk has 39 career catches for 461 yards and five touchdowns. That's about 4.5 catches, 57 yards, and a .6 TD's a game. And considering how the Jets secondary was oblitrated last season for 2 of those games I would say Ryan has done a decent job against Gronk. He hasn't shut him down but he has seemed to handle him well for such a dangerous player.

I trust Rex, he has defended Gronk pretty well through most of his career.

Yeah, it wouldn't make sense all these players are going for unpaid workouts giving te Pats* everything they want about their former teams without getting signed first. Why not give them some incentive to sign you. I do think Brown will catch on as the season progresses, RB's will get hurt and he is one of the better younger ones on the waiver wire.

You can't blame the teams really, on the field if you can get an advantage by pushing the grey area of a rule you would hard pressed to find a team not doing it. But the league has to step in and enforce it consistently. If the rule is too ambigious and it's too much of a judgement call for the refs then you have to put some sort of emphasis or adjustment on the rule. Much like Seattle pushed the contact rules the NFL snapped back the emphasis to make sure illegal contact and pass interference was called consistenly. This pick play stuff has got to go it's not consistently or fairly enforced.

Football is a violent game. It's not surprising to hear that older players are having issues with CTE. Hopefully more players get access to various levels of treatment and they get out of the game without playing those last couple of years where extensive damage can occur. I remember listening to an interview with Kyle Turley talking about medical Marijuana helping out a lot of former players dealing with the pain of playing and with CTE symptoms. They also said other methods of treatment are becoming more available which is good, however the funding for former players treatments aren't at the levels where they should be.

They really need to find a way to crack down on it. I Think it's ruining the game. It's a cheap play that makes everything a dink and dunk check down type play, then once teams stack the short game via pick plays they take shots deep with ease. The deep passing game shouldn't be set up with a bunch of "Within the letter of the law but against the spirit of the law" type plays. It should be balanced with the running game, screen game, and the receivers ability against one on one matchups. It takes a lot of the strategy out of the game. If anyone has ever played a video game online they will get this, it's become a cheap exploit that everyone has to use which undermines the way the game is intentionally supposed to be played. Thus it just turns into a game of who can do that singular tacit better. As opposed to the natural checks and balances that are supposed to exist. The pick play has introduced a way for teams to get the short passing game going without having to set up any other element of the offense first. It used to be you have to run the ball in order to get teams to stack the box to open up shorter passing routes Or you have to throw deep to open up the underneath routes. Screens introduced a way to throw off over aggressive blitzing and stunting. There was a certain balance where offenses had to attack one element the running game or deep passes to open up short passing. But with picks you now give offense another avenue to open up offense that isn't reliant on being successful in another aspect of offensive attack. To sum up short passing should open up in reaction to success in another aspect of offense, not because some teams have skirted the rules to open it up via pick plays.

Bill Burr Hilarious as always.

To beat the Pats* you need to do two things. One is you have to pressure Brady with your front 4, two you need an offense that can consistently move the ball. Getting to Brady without blitzing is key and keeping him off the field without going 3 and out often. It takes a lot of effort and energy to stop the Pats* by limiting the posessions through consistently moving the ball you help your cause immnesely. Of course putting on points is a dumb generality but when playing the Pats* you have to get 2-3 first downs on every drive at a minimum.

The Bills need to play smart and physical. Make it hurt by dishing out punishing hits on all those dink and dunk type passes (Also the first guy there needs to make the tackle). Each time they touch the ball they need to be more sore than the last time. Do that and don't beat yourselves and that's a recipe for success against the Pats*. The Ravens always seem to have success against the Pats* by having good strong open field tackling to go along with a front seven capable of pressuring the QB.

He looked good but Tampa's defense isn't very good. Rookie QB's real test always comes when team get 5-6 games of film on them and make adjustments. It will be interesting to see how good he looks come the end of the season. Either way he is playing much better out the gate than most thought.

Even if Darby or Butler plays great alongside Gilmore as the number 1 and Robey out the nickle or dime then having McKelvin step in as the 4th corner is great. Depth is key, even in the best case scenario Darby and Butler play well and McKelvin sits the bench and the team has tremendous depth in case of injury. In the NFL it's the teams with Depth that win. Also the team could entertain an offer via trade if Darby and Butler are that good.

Lower top 10 seems fair. They were an upper middle of the pack team going into the Indy game and with an impressive win against a highly rated Indy team that vaults them into the top 10 of any ranking.

True but Indy's D-line has two rookies starting neither of whom were drafted very high or came out of camp and pre-season looking too hot. Kendall Langford is the vet starter and he isn't a particularly good player either. The depth behind them isn't too impressive. On top of that they didn't look that great against the Bills week 1. So it is possible to have a bad unit on defense and still be a playoff team esp with a great QB.

Hopefully he comes back as a luxury because Darby is playing so well. Still good news, Leodis had his best year under a Pettine system, Rex has a system you have to think is similar. So hopefully he can give the team a boost in the stretch run.

Indy's D-line is not very good. Luckily with Wilfork now gone the Pats* line isn't the best either. So it's good to see our line turn in a strong performance (InCog and Glenn mainly) the context should be taken into account. Although if you aren't going to dominate a weak D-Line then who are you going to play well against? So it's still a good sign that the line looked like a capable O-line in week 1.

Just picked him up for my fantasy team. He is on my bench. But I might need him in case Mike Evans misses another week.