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My biggest worry this week is can we contain the quartet of Burrow, Chase, Higgins, and Gesicki all of whom have tormented the Bills defense in past contests. Their defense is suspect against both the run and the pass, but our offense has managed to underperform against the likes of the middle of the pack Falcons and Dolphins defenses.

And Tracy Pollan from Family Ties [and Michael J. Fox's wife].

I suspect Hawes is not only a great blocker, but considering he went to both Yale and Ga Tech, He's probably among the smartest guys on the entire roster. Wouldn't be surprised if he turns into a head coach somewhere along the line. I remember a mean tight end named Ditka was a pretty good coach at one time.

You meant in the week 8 road win over the 7-6 Panthers who have wins over the #1 ranked Rams, & Packers. Think the score was 40-9 tho. Hope we don't have any more stinkers like the Atlanta and Miami games.

Noticed from the snap counts vs. Steelers, we used our "big" WR's Shavers (45 snaps) & Davis (43 snaps) more than we used Shakir (36 snaps), Coleman (33 snaps) or Cooks (17 snaps). Knox had 53 snaps and Hawes had 52.

Speaking of that the Allen TD Sunday, where the O-Line and Hawes basically formed a scrum & carried him into the end-zone was pretty epic.

Old enough to remember when the Bills had a tight end named Paul Costa. Notre Dame guy. Played 4 years as a tight end then moved to Offensive Tackle during OJ's first couple of years before retiring due to injury.

At least Y.A. Tittle was able to kneel after getting destroyed

PFF lost a good deal of credibility this week. Cook goes for 177 yards from scrimmage and they grade him in the low 50's. Wonder what game they were watching?

At Halftime, took my wife out to our local place for dinner [couldn't handle a 4th straight turkey dinner]. Got there to see Josh's TD to Keon to put us up 16-7.

Bengals cut loose Lou Anarumo, who is now with the Colts. he always seemed to have our number when we played the Bengals. Cinci is 31st in Run Defense, 32nd in pass defense, so this could be a shootout, probably why over/under is 53.5. Weather Channel is saying SUN AM snow 40% chance, high 28 degrees, but cold air mass dropping to 9 degrees at night. West winds off the lake 10-16 mph.

There is a stats professor Massey who rates all the teams and their win probabilities. He has the Bills at 77% vs. Cinci; 57%@NE; 80%@ Cleve; 62% Eagles; 85% Jests, cross multiply and you get 18% probability of running the table. He also has the Pats losing to Bills and Ravens, so we get into tie breakers.

Interesting - based on snap counts, Shavers was WR1 or 2 in this game.

Pretty sure it was, for example if there's a defensive penalty on the TD, the scoring team can elect to try for two from the one I believe. Think it's the coaches decision to take the penalty on the PAT or on the kickoff.

Just remember Heyward's momma got with his daddy who was nothing to look at either.

TV said most rushing yards by an opponent ever in their current stadium.

have to believe we couldn't move the ball against Ohio State's D, and couldn't stop their O.

He did - refs missed it.

what's with all the commercials

Queen got a payback for the late hit on Josh

You hire a stud NFL Defender as a head coach, guess what, he emphasizes defense, even tho he has some nice tools [Collins] on offense as well.

McDermott and Tomlin were college teammates at W&M. They will both be seeing this as a must win.

wide receiver non-factor has to play special teams, do we trust him on teams?

Is Jefferson going to get frustrated with the backslide in Minny?

I think it's a school or section choice, for example CBA-Syracuse plays in the public playoffs [NYSPHSAA] and play Buffalo Bennett today at 6 PM at Cicero North Syracuse [so basically a home game for CBA-Syracuse). I know McQuaid from Rochester has played and won NYSPHSAA titles in the past. CBA Syracuse is actually ranked higher than St. Francis, but is not participating in the CHSAA playoffs.