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Josh Allen wasn't great at Wyoming in the slightest either. Players are picked on potential. I didn't think Wilson was an elite prospect but you gotta' take chances at QB. The Jets otherwise talented roster is proof that you can literally waste two top 3 overall picks on QB's in a 4 year span and still stockpile talent. The most overrated personnel chip in football is a #1 pick NOT used on a QB.

He's slippery and made some nice plays. The Bills really need to find a useful DL that they didn't have to buy in UFA or use a 1st or 2nd round pick on.

That is totally false. The Bears had one good run to the right.............on the first drive of the game..........and it was the first play that Kingsley Jonathan was inserted for Rousseau. Jonathan got totally engulfed and Montgomery went like 30 yards to the goal line.

The thing is.........they shocked and exasperated Bills fans and media by keeping him that entire offseason. Chan and Buddy said they wanted to use their first season to evaluate the roster that was left behind rather than make changes to the terrible roster they inherited. I think they lost their first 8-9 games as a result. What a clownshow. They were probably the least pro-active new regime in the history of the NFL.

Bengals are on a longer win streak.......they have won 7 straight. Also 8 of 9. Chiefs have been similarly hot since the loss to Buffalo they've only lost to Cinci. Bills have had a more recent poor stretch of games/multiple losses than the other contenders for the #1 seed. I don't believe "odds" matter much in this situation.........running off 11 straight wins in meaningful games at some point is not *that* unusual for a SB contender..............and Vegas still has Buffalo and Philly as the teams with the best chances to win the SB at 19%...........but even if odds mattered Buffalo is by no means "due" to lose to one of those teams that have been on longer hot streaks.

He looked like "Soggy"the 8th dwarf out there with that goofy 10 gallon winter hat in the pouring rain. Still sure you are going to play the Bills again this season, Robert?

Rodon was a great pickup.........but WTF are they doing about their lack of left handed bats and LF situation? Hal got the yips when he saw that market was $15M aav..........whether it was a rental type or a 5 year deal type. Then they let Carpenter walk as well...........which makes no sense for $6M per year for 2 years. Meanwhile........the Mets payroll(with luxury tax penalties) is $495M. ($384M = $111M tax) I'm glad Cohen is pushing Hal but the bar wasn't $300M.........the bar is whatever it takes to field a balanced lineup that could beat the Astros.

Jerry signed a two year contract. If he'd give back the $1.25M in unamortized bonus money that the Texans are on the hook for then *maybe* they'd cut him loose. Doesn't seem like A LOT of money for someone who has earned with Hughes has.........but I HIGHLY doubt he'd give any money back. That doesn't happen. Without that the Texans have zero to gain from cutting him and cap space to lose............so right now the Texans have a productive pass rusher under contract on the cheap for the 2023 season.

Yeah artists are always trying to draw Josh Allen with more chiseled features.........it's OK that he has kind soccer mom eyes. It's part of what makes him broadly endearing even though he's abusing opponents on the field. Who are they drawing him for? @Sherlock Holmes?

They only get to wear the smurf suits........blue shirt/white pants........at home.

17 looks like Chris Evans........nothing like JA. Tre White looks nothing like Tre either. Rest are reasonable facsimiles.

Meh? Yeah I guess this was a sneaky Groot-shade thread. I gave you the benefit of the doubt with my original response and then with your follow up it became clear that you had created a stat driven argument only for confirmation bias purposes.........Phillips was your guy and you are standing by it.

I thought we had a graph on here recently that illustrated that Rousseau had one of the very highest pressure rates in the league in addition to his impressive counting stats? I don't assume that playing more snaps won't decrease down-by-down production........but if Groot has the prorated 13 sacks on the 684 snaps that Phillips has.......while Phillips himself has 7.......do you still think Phillips goes first? I don't think it's that cut and dried. There is no denying that Phillips LOOKS like an elite pass rusher and GR does not. But we aren't unfamiliar with that concept here. Jerry Hughes looked like an elite pass rusher and had the pressure rates to back it up.........but he simply didn't make a high volume of plays. Phillips is better at making plays than Jerry was but he doesn't produce the volume of plays that end in essentially fruitless downs that GR does when he is on the field........sacks, forced turnovers, TFL, PD, run stuffs. It's not even that close.

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.