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Better? He tied for the league lead in run stops by a DL last season with 32. As a rotational player. So yeah.........he's literally better than just about any edge player in the NFL at setting the edge and stopping ball carriers when they run his way. Again........he's played only 55% of the snaps that Phillips has this season and has produced the same amount of sacks.......more TFL......and of course knocks down more passes. And he makes tackles and QB hits at a higher rate per snap. I appreciate your analysis but I think you should acknowledge that your comparison between the two was a bit skewed without weighing playing time at all. As I said from the outset.........Rousseau is never going to look flashy doing it...........but he makes more plays than anyone from that class...........he just doesn't get enough opportunities because of the rotation. A rotation which should largely go away over the next two seasons as they focus more on the offensive side of the ball. Groot could potentially be the highest paid DE in the NFL(at least briefly) when he signs his next contract...........they can't pay the going rate for a 23-24 year old prime stud DE for him to only play 55%-60% of snaps.

Phillips has overcome a laundry list of red flags..........injury(specifically concussion) prone........disinterested in football(retired to focus on music).........gutless in run defense(college tape was pitiful)...........he's now a really good player and Walter Payton MOTY candidate. Which is extraordinary. And he looks the part doing it. Rousseau doesn't look the part.............and yet...........somehow he has the same amount of sacks as Phillips this season.........while playing just 377 total snaps.........307 LESS snaps than Phillips. If it wasn't already..........during that Dolphins game where they proved they couldn't set the edge without him on the field..........it officially became time that the Bills rotate Rousseau a lot less..........he is too good to swap out with any of the 3 pedestrians they have in the mix there right now.

Yeah if you are new to a stadium situation take note that one can manhandle a much larger human being with leverage of being up one step higher and the other guy having people behind him to stumble over. Seen it many times. Once you get them going downhill just a little they are finished.

The Immaculate Abortion

While this years team is better in many ways than last year.......I don't think the Bills have the offensive skill OR the defensive playmaking ability to beat TWO highly skilled offenses on the road to reach the SB this season. Last year they had enough juice, on offense at least, to do that. They badly need the #1 seed.......or at least the #2..........and they could lose both simply by not winning in Cinci. The last 3 are must wins, IMO. This is the playoffs already, IMO.

In 2020 it was either/or.......they had a top 3 WR corps.........they had a choice then..........either you run all those quick hitters/comebacks and let Diggs and Beasley get beaten up or Allen has to run around and take a beating. They chose to protect Allen because they could do that and still be dynamic. With this middling 2022 receiving corps........it's not either/or, IMO. They don't have the personnel to NOT have to use Allen like a running back in 2022. I expect them to work the quick game even more going down the stretch because it makes them more efficient offensively...........but Allen is still going to be running the ball 6-10 times every game either way. I don't think there is any changing that.

I went Jets and Chargers because of the choices...........I can't say no to a chance to beat the Patriots again and go 2-0 all-time vs them in the playoffs. When Saleh said his Jets were going to face the Bills again this season I officially wanted to see him miss the tournament. It also would be a bit of a letdown to play the punchless Jets again and at the same time they are built to give the Bills difficulty.............so I also don't like the juice/squeeze ratio. The Dolphins.........I'd love to beat them again in Buffalo and end Tyreek Hills season. The way the playoff picture is right now..........if the Bills can win the last 3 to get the #1 seed.........I would be great with playing the warm weather the Dolphins in the divisional round and So-Cal dome Chargers in AFCCG in chilly Buffalo. Also......only Bills related dream I have ever had was many years ago and in it the Bills beat the Chargers in the AFCCG on their way to winning the SB. So if that happened that would be a plus for me. That's the only thing I remember about that dream.......no other games/opponents.

That was a good example of poorly executed officiating that benefitted the Dolphins. Not because the call wasn't overturned by replay............but that the call on the field was an incomplete pass. The refs are taught to let plays like that happen if they aren't certain that they saw it..........and there is no way that official saw that as a certain drop or as out of bounds. He just guessed. That is not how it's supposed to be done. And had it been ruled a catch on the field it would have never been overturned.

None of the plays by Tre White were PI as it is being called now........mainly because a play was being made on the ball.........arriving a split second early doesn't get the flag in the NFL in 2022. Maybe Miami fans aren't used to tight coverage on their fast receivers but Bills fans should be. The McKenzie PI was a penalty in any season for the past 40+ years because the defender wasn't playing the ball and plowed blindly into a receiver preventing him from coming back for a catchable ball.

1. I have no doubt the lack of creativity is a response by the Bills to Daboll trying to fool the opposition with practically every call. That is fun when it's working and then stretches like the road to 7-6 last year happen and a defensive minded HC starts questioning why everything has to be so complicated when you have Superman at QB. 2. Agree. They gotta' use Knox heavily in the passing game down the stretch. He's not the most graceful or coordinated TE and takes some terrible hits/falls so I've considered that maybe they've limited some of his usage to keep him fresh down the stretch........just as I think they've limited some of the quick game to Diggs and Davis because of the beating they saw the WR corps take in the 2020 season and how diminished they were come playoff time. 3. But also agree on the quick game. They have been reduced to a station to station offense. It's not where they SHOULD be at this point of JA's career........but it's where they are and every game is critical now. I think that bye and #1 seed loom large. Allen being the best player in the NFL is still capable of putting up 30 point performances...........it just takes 4 quarters of highly physical football from JA to get there now.

You were nailing it until you tried to play 17 instead of 70 with "Full stop".

It's not the cold........it's the anxiety.

Brown has been lousy his first two seasons but hopefully the light comes on for him in year 3. We have high expectations of him because of his rare athletic traits but he was a very inexperienced small school prospect. I'm concerned that his back issues might be chronic but if not I do think he has a chance to develop into a very valuable RT.

The Bills pay PFF over $100K annually. So that's an example of who. The PFF ranking is the sum of the individual parts of the offense............some of that is opponent related, which DVOA considers...........but the point is that Allen carries the Bills offense to success more than any other player in the league. Their individual offensive personnel does not match up to opposing defenses like that of Philly, KC or Cinci.

That's probably just the difference between elation(fans) and relief(coaches) when winning a close game that was full of mistakes by the players on your side of the ball. Can Dorsey get better? Certainly, he is a rookie play caller and no rookie OC has won a SB since Mike Holmgren with the 49ers in the 1980's(and that team was the defending SB champ already). But early in the game Allen was missing wide open receivers with inaccurate throws and then the receiving corps had their usual up and down game catching the ball..........which is "the usual" because his targets aren't premium talents.........guys like Knox and Davis were mid round picks in part because they weren't good catchers of the football. Singletary and McKenzie were also hard handed. The reality is that the offense under Dorsey is more consistently productive against a MUCH harder schedule than what they got from Brian Daboll last season.

I never said that whatsoever emo...........the results were almost entirely harmless.........same as the snowballs that reached the field. Someone might have been hurt but I didn't hear of one person needing medical attention because of the snow tossing. My point though is that the people who don't actually attend the games don't have a good perspective. AT ALL. As soon as a few jerks throw snowballs it doesn't matter to the TV fan police what happens to all of the OTHER fans in the stands............"it's fine" if we get hit........we all get what we deserve because we are dumb enough sacrifice comfort, time and money to cheer on the team in person so that the righteous couch potatoes can sit at home, save their money and watch the game in their jammies.........and instead it's only about how the people on the field are affected.

There were people getting hauled out by police. The stuff getting thrown in the air wasn't chalk dust. Not sure which game you were at.

That is a very ignorant take. The snow that gets thrown into the air is the same content as the snowballs..........this is low 30 degree snow which anyone from WNY should know is not powder. A guy two rows in front of us threw snow up in the air and hit the ladies in the row right behind them in the face. They were not pleased and it was not "fine". There was much more danger for the fans in the stands than the players on the field but that doesn't matter to the TV fan police.

There are always going to be a few jerks who act out at games if given the opportunity.............it only represents the fanbase as a whole to the idiots who don't realize this. We are talking about a few hundred people out of 60,000+ that threw snowballs. I didn't see a single person in our section throw a snowball. And what you forget is that the week after the Chuck Foreman incident in Buffalo there was an uglier incident of throwing objects on the field by Minnesota Vikings fans.

Nothing personal, boater.........but if you aren't there braving the elements and supporting the team financially and screaming your lungs out for the defense then you should probably keep your opinions about the crowd to yourself. The NFL got exactly what they wanted when they scheduled that game in December and moved it to Saturday night. Anyone who is embarrassed about the engagement and passion of that crowd last night is a true fan hater.

If you were sitting in the lower bowl and didn't get hit with a snowball you were lucky..........I saw one guy in front of me get hit twice. I don't condone it but it's no big deal..........its snow. But thanks to all the douchebags who don't come to games telling us how badly they feel they were represented. It's an 8pm game.........the maximum amount of drunk, late arriving to their seats crowd. The NFL loved it........that's theatre.........the game had all of the things that bond people to the NFL including things like suspect officiating and harmlessly rowdy fan behavior.

Nonsense!.........as you so often say. Actions speak louder than words..........they took a dead cap hit of $7.7M to save a paltry $1.5M in cap space. Paid him $40M for 3 seasons. But you claim it's not even "reasonable" to say he was a bust. The thing about all your incredibly bad takes of the past is now you have to play TSW Baghdad Bob on here defending them.

"If you pan over there you can see some people who didn't have enough gas......."

I'm just bringing some pillows I'd bought for just such an occasion in case we gotta' sleep there and drive home in the am.........wouldn't be the first time. None of us in our bus have to work Sunday so not a big deal.

Agree with all of that but #3. The drops and failures to win contested catch situations have been going on all season and they range from the softest of tosses to ropes. It's primarily the product of having receivers who don't naturally catch the ball well/easily. Hard hands. Knox entered the league with stone hands. Davis wasn't a great catcher at UCF. Singletary.........McKenzie..........I mean, c'mon let's not overthink it. The kind of receivers who have the athletic ability of a Knox or Davis..........but also soft hands........usually cost you first and second round picks. The Bills are basically getting what they have paid for at the position.