Malazan

Yep, everyone in that org thought they weren't just making the playoffs, but were going to challenge for the division. Philly be like, "yea, yeah, you guys are awesome. It's the Suerbowl for you. Give us that 1st, thanks. "

From everything I've read, there's a lot of conjecture and reading into statements from Flores that seem to show that he doesn't trust Tua. The beat reporters seem to be on the same page that Flores may have taken Herbert, but that both he and Grier were totally fine with Tua as well.

I think they both go if one goes. Flores has had huge influence on personnel with Grier's blessing. I think they're pretty tied at the hip.

Not instantly It would be at least a few games.

Would either of these teams beat Bishop Sycamore?

Will Urban Meyer score with more British teens on this trip than the Jags will score points?

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

I mean, they'd hold it every time regardless of it being a trick play or not.

I asked about this back a little and a poster pointed me to Parcells explaining that it takes too much time to practice that the Backup QB does have with his own practice/meeting to prepare as the back and often running the scout team. So it seems that coaches have determined that's more important than the potential of a trick play since holding requires so much practice time.

ehh... I don't know. I think that there's some person on that flight who just became a Bills fan!

I'd rather have Knox right now. He really is showing the results of his hard work now that the real season is here.

I think you could use a new razor, my friend. Hanlon makes a nice one.

Ok, you wanted to share that he's compensated really well for not having much in the way of actual results? So he's like a lot of CEOs?

Smith isn't owner friendly. He's just really, really bad at his job. I guess you could say it's basically the same thing though.

How lucky for him that he found an 'out'

I guess technically he is a former player.. but also, ya know, a current player. Of course, only a pure psychopath would phrase it that way, but only pure psychopaths would use bing as their search engine..

Could we finally have the Unicorn? A Good offense AND defense at the same time?!

Teams would generally try to use ball control to slow the Chiefs down by running, eating up clock and keeping the Chiefs offense off the field. The Bills did almost the opposite tonight. Make the Chiefs offense stay on the field for longer periods of time (they ran almost 80 plays!) and slow themselves down. Then the Bills went and scored quickly. Felt like Mahomes got real frustrated.

I live 1500 miles away. I strongly considered trying to drive up there and make it in time.

One other thing, McDermott and Frazier are brilliant. The Bills didn't blitz Mahomes once this game. They took the '2 deep' strategy that everyone has been talking about against Mahomes and improved it. They always seem to manage to find a defensive gameplan that works. KC rans almost 80 plays. I know it's crazy, but I think they almost tried a 'reverse' ball control strategy. Make KC's offense stay on the field as long as possible before they score instead of trying to have their offense stay on the field.

He's really grown as a coach too. He is no longer conservative, relies on analytics, has changed his own attitude (he said he had to loosen up). I think the big thing I'm seeing this year is a killer instinct. I feel like he's put an edge on this team now. That defense isn't just good, but they have some real nastiness to them. Then the game ends and their like, "On to next week".

Super impressive defense. They were on tonight.

I didn't hear it.

Is it just me or does our defense hit really hard? I feel like other teams are getting beat up. I don't recall McDermott's defense ever feeling that way before..

Predictability kills. Also, why is Zach Moss running out to the side? That seems like an ineffective use of his talents.