BADOLBILZ

I didn't see "this season" context in your post. I'm a Drake Maye fan. I know he's a good dude. He's an excellent passer and a good athlete who can run like hell in a straight line. But we are a little spoiled in this division. We haven't had to face a Justin Herbert or Trevor Lawrence twice per year ever, really. The closest to that type we've had to face regularly was converted WR Ryan Tannehill when he was with the Dolphins early on. And he burned us with his legs a bunch early on and threw a beautiful deep ball. Point is that there are other big, athletic QB's who can probably run a faster 40 and have a prettier throwing motion than Josh Allen and might throw some passes better. But Allen is the closest to being able to do ANYTHING he wants on a field as there ever has been at QB. He's unique in that regard.

Yeah Patriots fans are still thinking their return to perennial Belichickian glory is a foregone conclusion. There is no humility there to warrant giving their fans any good-guy persona. But I do appreciate what the author is trying to do. You have to suspend MASSIVE disbelief to make Pats fanbase seem a likable lot.

As much contact as they allow nowadays if they try to take away the under thrown ball you might as well just put a saddle on the WR's backs.

I'll add that when you have to live the way the Bills do.......needing to run to set up the pass......it doesn't leave a lot of room for error. That's where the nitpicking by fans originates. They need to fully lean in to being more committed to running the ball early in games. At some point I hope that realization sets in. When things go bad, trying to get WR's involved early is often an issue. When your WR room is trash it's hard to string together the combination of pass-pro, route running, accuracy/placement AND catching the ball against a fresh defense. They run the ball so well(including having the greatest run game force multiplier ever in Allen) that they don't need to play the game like most teams do.

Plays like that damaging false start and the half-assed block on the Ty Johnson screen are why he hasn't been a net positive though. Looked like they benched him for a while after that ridiculous false start. He should be a nice WR3 to have but not having a WR1 or WR2 really limits what you can do with him. It's a matchup league.

1) The degree of mortgaging was exaggerated. They gave away some early picks but wisely cut bait on a lot of players they might have wrongly extended and didn't. 2) Their HC is one of the few great one's in the league and he's built an excellent staff. 3) They wisely chose to draft a high volume of players(about 10 per year) for said staff to work with and not worry about whether they could roster them all. Injuries sort that out. 4) Their QB who seemed to be falling apart at the seams the last couple years has remarkably stayed healthy. This could easily be #1 to explain THIS season but I think McVay would find a Purdy-esque QB to be competitive with either way.

Davante Adams seemed to suffer a pretty significant hamstring injury as well.

Yeah I found it funny that Pats fans/media were complaining about refs calls after the game. The PI's were legit fouls. And there were numerous suspect officiating decisions that went NE's way in the first half. The long pass 3rd down pass to Boutte on the first drive that WASN'T actually a catch. They put the burden on the Bills to challenge it but the in-house TV official said it shouldn't have been a catch. Break for NE. There were two blatant hands to the face fouls by NE OL that were missed on conversion downs. And of course, the un-timed down in the closing seconds that allowed NE to kick a FG after a bonehead play that might have otherwise killed the clock. That came AFTER they missed Maye being tackled in bounds. The right play by the official is to roll the clock and let the eye in the sky stop play and change it and re-set the clock if necessary. Later in the game there was an obvious 3rd down conversion by Cook that they inexplicably re-spotted short. This was after they'd already made the same mistake on the Cook dive in TD. By no means was the officiating one-sided in Buffalo's favor. If we are keeping score the Bills survived a day where the officiating and clock management were home cooked.

I hope he gets asked about this barf incident. I suspect he probably just downed a bunch of gatorade/water thinking he had 5 minutes to re-hydrate and then the D gives up a 1 play TD drive and the smelling salts and stomach full of liquid caused some regurg.

Good to see you've renounced your Celtics and Red Sox fandom.

Not an option now but still a month in the season. We will see what he is thinking after the holidays are over and the reality that he's now a stay at home dad sinks in.

I think it's misleading to say that Buscaglia is saying the WR room is improved. Just that they've evolved. Shavers is playing the Hollins role as a blocker but he's not "the Hollins from 2024". He has had little impact at all in the passing game compared to the big plays and TD's Hollins made. Gabe has been anemic in the passing game. How they use him has definitely evolved and I am not sure that's a good thing because I don't want to see that ham-handed SOB running slants to turnover town. Palmer hasn't even been available. Coleman isn't better. I don't think improving was what he was getting at. The WR's in total had a pathetic 69 yards receiving in a 39 point performance Sunday. Essentially the Bills are attempting to win without needing WR's to do much of anything in the passing game. They are just out there blocking or occupying defenders for the most part. A lot has been made with regard to opposing defense's playing man coverage on the Bills punchless WR corps but one way to "evolve" is to counter tactics. They can intentionally run defenders deep and leave huge swaths of field for Josh to tuck and run. So they are still pretty worthless as playmakers but they can still contribute tactically to a potent offense. If Kincaid stays healthy they might be able to get away with it in a league where there are no great teams. We can hope.

No idea where you came up with this notion but it is very false.

This should fix their starting pitching problem.

When he gets back to jumpin rope you'll know he's close