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Yeah it was definitely reminiscent of the playoff loss to the Chiefs last year in the way Miami had little trouble moving the ball. They didn't put up 9 yards per play like Chiefs did but they put up 6.5 yards per play. Only the Ravens have averaged more than 6.5 yards per play on the season so it's a notably high number to allow, particularly at home.

Marino's point was to deceive. I think perhaps he is angling for Shill Capaccio's sideline reporter job. Rushing the ball isn't usually a great way to score points? Who'd have thought that running the ball largely serves to set up the pass? If only Ron Jaworski new this 30 years ago he'd have been able to tell ESPN viewers that points come from the passing game. Per PFF........the Dolphins average EPA per play in the game was .32 and the Bills was .06. Marino didn't mention the Bills EPA per rush(which clearly also sucked) but he did say how beautiful he feels their zone rush offense is.

The Sears catalog arrived in late August back in the 70's and they had exclusive Star Wars sets.........it was a big deal........you'd be hoping you got that stuff for like 4 months.

Cargo ships change direction quicker than Efe Obada. I don't think I could stomach him being on the field in Buffalo again. They'd be a lot better off seeing if Ndamukong Suh wants to come out of retirement before they did that. I suspect we will see more veteran players who are chasing rings released at their behest later in the season. Like when Houston released WR Kenny Stills late in the 2020(?) season and the Bills put him on the PS. Might even see guys like Jadeveon Clowney and Calais Campbell cut late(and probably both head back to Baltimore). EDIT: Clowney won't be released. I thought he was on a 1 year deal but he is on a 2 year deal. Campbell I could see being cut though. He is dirt cheap($2M for 1 season). He may have earned a raise next year with his play but for what he will get he will be able to choose his team and wait until after the deadline for the comp pick formula to sign there. So Miami won't have any reason to hold onto him, IMO. He could make a playoff run elsewhere and still return home to Miami for 2025 if that's what he wanted.

And when Jordan Phillips was in the draft there were people who should have known better that were pretty sure he was going to be a stud nose tackle. Because he was like 340#. He never had the want-to to play low enough to be a 1 tech let alone a NT. And at his height it was more challenging. Eagles fans are finding out similar with Jordan Davis who has a similar build and athleticism. He's better getting upfield than he is at holding the point. Deone Walker the giant prospect from Kentucky in this draft has same issues.

4:01 pm mock draft season begins in earnest.

Daboll wasn't a hot commodity in 2022. He got a couple interviews for jobs he wasn't getting. He only got the Giants job because they had already hired a GM from Buffalo's front office. Daboll had a LONG history of producing terrible offense's and subsequent firings as an NFL OC. Including the 2018 sh!t show in Buffalo that was the lowest scoring offense the NFL had seen thru 8 games since the AFL/NFL merger. When he's been bad he's been horrible. Ben Johnson's trajectory has been nothing but upward.

It's their glaring hole right now. The only saving grace if they can't get something done is the fact that run defense's automatically get better in the playoffs when the effort and intensity increases. That's why individual RB's never move the needle much for a team in the playoffs. That's why a Bills run defense that was getting trampled for historic numbers after the Dareus trade was later able to control the Jacksonville run game for most of that 2017 playoff game. When Baltimore loses you can expect a terrible stat-line for Derrick Henry. That's how it usually ends.

Bad value for Dallas but Mingo is under contract cheap for the 2025 and 2026 seasons so that raises his day 3 value notably. Dallas obviously had a high grade on him in that 2023 draft.

And Giants fans definitely hate the Dodgers a lot more than Yankees fans. I'm reminded when driving out of Yankee stadium parking and seeing the Polo Grounds apartments that the two teams stadiums were just separated by a short bridge. About the equivalent walking from the Big Tree Road entrance to lot 1 up to the The Ralph.

Yeah that 60-62 includes the playoffs where the Bills are 4-1 against Miami. Otherwise 56-61 in regular season. The playoff wins are worth far more. The rivalry edge belongs to the Bills right now. 49-77 versus New England is the reason for that.

Yeah he was awful chatty with the Bills yesterday. During one of the timeouts he took his helmet off and came over to the Bills offensive huddle and was talking to the OL. It was an odd sight. The rest of the Dolphins D were all like 10 yards away.

Yeah defense's have been giving the Bills these throws all season and yesterday the Bills really took them. And yes Cook very likely scores a TD on that drop.....I don't know what the TV angle looked like yet but the All-22 will show nobody besides the trailing coverage LB on that side of the field. I'm not sure defense's will make any adjustments the Dolphins are just really shorthanded on defense and couldn't limit the damage. But you could argue that the Dolphins approach of making the Bills run a lot plays yielded mistakes from the Bills. The Bills left 11 points on the board in the first half due to 2 drops and 2 penalties and that allowed Miami to keep pounding the Bills at the LOS on offense.

1) The better your WR talent the less BTT's you probably need to attempt/make. That's likely why Allen didn't rank as highly in that stat in the 2020 season as he has since. In 2020 he had perhaps the top WR corps in the NFL and had clearly his best passing season. Not just statistically but mechanically and how the ball was coming out of his hand etc.. 2) It's hard for me to read too much into the bulk stats because of this very odd schedule. The eyeball test is that they've only played 2 good teams and their lack of boundary WR talent got exposed by them and they had 2 really awful offensive games. But the Bills have since addressed the boundary with a veteran WR1 and Coleman looks to be rounding into form. Obviously the Chiefs/Niners/Rams/Lions stretch will be when we get to see how much of a difference those improvements made.

I like that you are laying it out there on what you think the contract would look like. But if he is more than just a Christian Kirk level slot.......then settling for what Kirk got 3 years later is a huge sacrifice. I mean the cap will have increased by $50M in that time and that figure might be up to $70M by the time Shakir's contract is set to expire AFTER the 2025 season. And if he produces more like 1200 yards that number is certainly closer to $30M value in 2025 than $20M. This is why I see a potential Gabe Davis like standoff. Shakir might be settling for 60 cents on the dollar signing early. In the deals they got done with Knox and Spencer Brown I don't think either were asked to sacrifice nearly that much potential.

Yep I posted my opinions of the 2024 Yanks sh!ttiness before the series started and we basically got to see all of those warts in the WS against a "good" but seriously wounded Dogers team. So they somehow still had a chance to steal a WS title in what was a REALLY hard year to watch. They were about as fun to watch for a longtime baseball fan as that dogsh!t 2017 backed-into-wildcard Bills team whose offense I wish I could unsee. Only fun for people who don't know how the game is supposed to be played. But the media and fans who think the Yankees blowing that 5-0 lead in the 5th inning was epic either didn't see Clay Holmes blow 14 saves during the season or are just exaggerating for effect. They blew games in incredible ways all season. That Errin' Buffoonery was not at all out of character.😂 Not a great year for baseball. Simply put, not nearly enough hitting. League batting average dropped 5 points from 2023. There were times when it looked like that batting average was going to end up the worst in 100 years. The game being dominated by no-name relief pitchers who are gassed after 20 pitches is not what the owners should want. Make the strike zone a circle that fits entirely inside the current square....eliminate those unsquarable corner pitches and these rock chuckers will have to ratchet down the velocity and break. Watch the league batting average jump right back up 20 points where it should be. It's no fun seeing lineups filled with sub-.250 hitters. And subsequently more balls put in play will lead to sharper defense and more exciting baseball. But even the randomness created by early short series format in the playoffs couldn't prevent this matchup this season........just too many bad teams......the only thing that really went right for baseball is that the Yanks and Dodgers finally met again. 43 years was far too long.

Yes and it's been since I was around 6 or 7 years old. Just having a holiday where you didn't have to go to church and eat greasy goose at some old relatives house made up for the lack of "gifts". Now I enjoy making it a fun time for the kids. I buy 20 of those big bags of candy from Costco and have the animatronics and 12' skeletons and such. We get about 300 kids each at 2 different houses and hopefully they have good memories and pass the fun forward when they get older. But as a kid myself I mostly enjoyed the danger of it. It was a real accomplishment to get thru the night uninjured and/or with all of your candy. You don't get that feeling from getting a bunch of toys. I am pretty sure the people who wrote those "Purge" movies must have grown up with 70's and 80's Halloween's.

I get that they love Shakir. They absolutely loved Knox. They absolutely loved team captain Gabe. Knox had very efficient TE receiving numbers prior to his extension but everyone knew he had some limitations. Shakir is the same way without the ability to be the regular X or Z. They surely regret extending Knox. So could the Bills draft a WR early with more inside/out versatility instead of paying Shakir the going rate and then not have to substitute as often to get where they want to be offensively? Whether they love them or not is a factor but they let Gabe go and he was playing nearly every snap. Gabe wanted market and that was considerably more than his value to them.

Well, I mean they didn't even really TRY to replace Beasley. Throwing one of their 4ths at the problem in the upcoming draft would be a lot more than they did then. And then there is the question of whether Kincaid needs more of those reps to reach HIS potential. The Bills can retain Kincaid thru the 2027 season(with a healthy 5th year bump) and TE's don't get money commensurate to comparably ranked WR. So that's a factor in the Shakir decision as well. Being able to run their offense thru Kelce has been a big cap saver for the Chiefs. Also important to note that Shakir plays less than 60% of the snaps because having to use him in the slot isn't ideal for a lot of the other things they want to do. That's where being able to start outside instead would make a big difference. As for him accepting Gabe-like money..........that could be a huge amount to leave on the table. I know the Bills wanted to extend Gabe but he wasn't taking 60 cents on the dollar. With the punishment Shakir takes in the slot maybe he'd be more inclined to take a team friendly deal early but that punishment is also why you shoot for the bigger deal with more guarantees. That might be the last deal he gets.

I agree that they will try to extend Shakir but I think he'll have to leave a lot of money on the table. I doubt they offer him market rate like they would if he were a true X or Z. If he's patient and stays healthy he could get a Christian Kirk deal after the 2025 season from a team that is trying to prop up a rookie contract QB. I'm sure Jerry Jones spit out his coffee when he found out what Buffalo paid Beasley in 2019. Teams can plan around guards and slot receivers being available in FA so they do.

I think the GENERAL consensus from draftniks was that Shakir was a day 2 pick but the people who thought Shakir could play outside are like the people who thought Cook was a WR playing RB. Wrong. At least thru 3 NFL seasons. Fortunately they are really good at what they CAN do. Just so happens those things aren't valued as highly as the things they can't do. Which is why there is a good chance that neither gets extended.

The @SDS story about him getting outraged at Hog boy is probably my favorite TSW story ever. RIP John.

The 2020 offense was only at it's best early in the season when John Brown was healthy. That group got OPEN and open deep. It didn't really matter who they had at TE or RB with that group of WR's. THAT version of the 2020 WR corps was stacked and top 3 in the league, if not the very best that year. The version they took to the playoffs is the one @FireChans is comparing them to and that one wasn't nearly as good with Brown compromised and then got much worse by the AFCCG due to injuries to Beasley and Davis. League-wide, the bar has been raised at the WR position since 2020 and that shows in how teams are playing defense now. So, in addition to not being as explosive as that first half of 2020 offense..........this current unit's rank in terms of skill players isn't as high as it was then relative to the rest of the NFL. As you say, hopefully Samuel comes back looking like the player he's been most of his career and then if Cooper gets back to 2023 form then it's possible that this could be the best group but I will take the one that was speed-boating teams early in 2020.

To say that they weren't even going to "sniff the playoffs" is just hindsight. They had the talent to be a wild card team, they were just poorly coached on the defensive side of the ball that first season. They were a hell of a lot better than that Broncos team they stomped late in the year which went on to win a playoff game.

I think Coleman can improve as a separator. He's probably not as experienced as a lot of WR coming into the league who have been focused on playing football or 7 on 7 football all year round because he's only been a full time football player since 2022. Some of the comps I've seen(Mike Williams and Tee Higgins) of guys who really have to make a living on contested catches are players I think Coleman is more athletic than. I also think Coleman might have a tendency to play to contact from years of playing in close quarters on the basketball court, which is something he should try to get away from.