BearNorth

As someone who has been doing sports stats at the HS and College level since the 1960's While I'm glad that tools like PFF exist, they may not have enough sensitivity to accurately reflect how some players impact the game. I find it difficult to believe for example; that Josh, who they have graded in the 90's in each of the past 4 years, has suddenly dropped down to the #6 QB in their rankings behind Lamar, Burrow, Daniels, Herbert, and Carr, none of whom play for a team with a better record than the Bills. He has 1 game this season [KC] that is at the level he has averaged for each of the past 4 seasons. Is Josh playing worse, not that I can see, but his grades are not reflective of how well he is playing or his leadership. Last night his PFF grade was 80.7 even tho he posted a nearly perfect passer rating, and scored a TD on the ground and threw for two more, including one to himself on the hook and lateral with Coleman. I think their scale on grading plays may not be sensitive enough to properly credit extraordinary plays such as the run vs. KC or the Allen to Coleman to Allen play last night. I also don't think they weight game changing plays heavily enough, for example the Rapp forced fumble which IMHO turned the entire game into a rout.

Cyborg with the pin

They haven't been able to stop Cook running outside to Brown's side all night. Why run him up the gut?

49ers gotta be getting down on their dauber.

Not if you watched the Bills Oilers game in the playoffs 1/3/93.

Milano got used on that run

and the fastest man in football at the time.

186 passing, 59 rushing, 1 receiving.

Purdy's arm looked ok on that.

Hollins the team leader in TD Catches!

Knox like the kid on the playground in a snow game

Cook to the house!

A stretch but are the Ravens trying to get to the 7 seed so they can face the Bills run defense in the playoffs?

Got my class outlines done for Monday, updated my November financial report for the wife, about to go grocery shopping, helped the wife move the Xmas decor up to the living room. Unfortunately I have to teach accounting at 9 AM tomorrow, so I may not make it through the entire game.

Inactives will be posted right around 6:50 PM.

With Boswell's miss; as if they need the help; the top kicker in the league seems to be Jake Bates from the Lions. 19x20 FGM, 44x45 XP, Average length of FGM = 40 yards. Of course having half your games in a dome to start helps.

Cyborg at least on Josh's TD Scramble, did a pretty good job of neutralizing Chris Jones, hoping that's a hopeful sign for our guy going forward.

So apparently the 49ers flew into Buffalo for the game yesterday night, landing at 11:39 PM. So both teams are in town.

No, but I have two other vivid Bills memories. Cookie running for 5 TD's and pro football record 243 yards on a muddy field at the Rockpile; and was actually working in Nashville and one of my vendors gave my son [who was on Winter Break from College] and I skybox seats to the "Music City Miracle". Talk about the thrill of victory, agony of defeat that day. Can't believe Wade benched Flutie that game.

Mahomes has been incredibly lucky to still be relatively healthy given the number of sacks he has taken this year. Having an elite Center and guards is all well and good, but I thought Crosby was going to break him in half a couple of times. Karlafitis was lunching on their left tackle most of the second half. I imagine the Chief's newly acquired just off IR tackle will be starting next week.

12/28/63. I was 15 years old. Bills were hosting Pats for the right to go to the AFL title game. Snowed that week heavily. Tickets were my "big" Christmas present. Our seats were in the bleachers towards the East end of the stadium [left center field in baseball]. Instead of shoveling the bleachers, they had gone around with a garbage can and made seats on top on the snow covered wooden board seats. I was 15 and immune to cold [haha] my dad, who already had some arthritis from a WW2 injury, went with me and probably was in agony but never said a word. Bills lost that day, 26-8 but regrouped and won the next two AFL titles. Buffalo's only score was a 93-yard pass from Daryle Lamonica to Elbert Dubenion in the third quarter, with a successful two-point conversion to cut the lead in half. That's my Bills snow game memory.

Wondering with the 49ers wide receiver injuries, their most common lineup is 2 WR's [Samuel & Jennings] TE [Kittle] HB [McCaffrey] FB [Juszczyk]. Esp with how dinged up their OL is, imagine we'll see a lot of Juszczyk [Good Buffalo name if I ever heard one].

Seems to me when Milano is back at full go [which could be a few weeks] the decision would be do you keep Milano and Bernard on the field or sub Cam Lewis/Cole Bishop/Jamarcus Ingram [pick one] for either of those two.

FWIW since 2008, the 49ers are the NFL's best performing team in cold weather games [below 34 degrees] they are 22-6 in cold weather games over that period. I still think our guys will prevail, we are a bit healthier and have an eyes on the prize mentality. Bills 27 49ers 20

I think they said earlier that because of complaints from red green color-blind people, the Jets game would not use all reds. So it would have to be the Pats