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People with glasses like Pegs have faces that beg to be snowballed

High ankle sprains are 4-6 week injuries typically and considering that he had other injuries to heal and that his game is built on speed and change of direction it was a pretty easy prediction to figure he'd be out the full 6 weeks(which is what the New England game will make it).

The Bills had success on that last drive because they didn't limit themselves to running the ball. It wasn't just ground and pound........Allen dropped back to pass on 7 of the 12 plays prior to the two kneel downs. He ended up scrambling for yards a couple times and one of the drop backs resulted in a Morse holding call. It was an excellent display of offensive football but long drives are not new under McDermott they were critical in Jauron-balling their way thru the 2017 season. Among the many long drives was an 18 play drive against Atlanta and another 18 play drive against Jax in the wildcard game.

That too but I was responding to your point about the tackles.

IMO Feliciano has been excellent at center since he first filled in for Morse when he got concussed in training camp in 2019. Morse is an excellent athlete who could probably hold his own at tackle but he just isn't as physical as Feliciano inside.

The fans of those other cities teams aren't famous for doing crazy Bills Mafia culture things(like smashing thru flaming tables) either though. A common theme in racism is a fear/rejection of culture. Some black people see what mostly-white Bills fans are filmed doing and their extreme allegiance to the team and town and think "why?". And they think they would be arrested if they did something like that etc.. It's just another form of intolerance. Every race is capable of having biases..........Foxworth admits that as if it should be accepted and OK............but in today's culture it is not OK to be honest about that.

We caught a big break when Bud Dupree got hurt. Dawkins has not been nearly as good as Williams at his position this year.

I remember being disappointed in the uni's for the SB XXV. I was definitely hoping for the blue tops. Pro sports teams started going with more aggressive, darker and black backgrounds in uniforms in response to the sneaker/hiphop culture in the very late 80's so the all-whites were definitely uncool........they looked like tighty whities and gave the teams that wore them the look of the nail instead of the hammer. That culture has passed and now there is an element of cool to wearing even terrible looking pajama style uni's like the color rush reds. Those things just need a trap door on the back of the pants to complete the look. Less aggressive colors are making a comeback in uni's in general.........like the powder blue coming back to baseball uni's. So white on white isn't a white flag look anymore. The Bills sold a good deal of black, red and blue jerseys and hats in that 89'-92 era...........I've got an awesome Thurman Thomas jersey and a "Griswold" hat of the like. The Bills never went all in with the black color scheme but the Sabres eventually did though.

Yes I was one of those not pleased about losing Pettine. Daboll might just be improving.......that's good NOW.......but I'm not sure that thinking he is just a slow learner makes for a very promising HC outlook. One of the important parallels I see between Weis and Daboll as EP OC's is that Weis was heavily (over)credited for making Tom Brady.......and that "QB guru" thing really is the main sales pitch with Daboll.........he isn't actually blowing the doors off the league with his 2020 offense there is just the perception that Josh Allen was a very difficult project to tackle. I suspect the likelihood that Allen also proves to have been the much bigger variable in that OC/QB equation is much more likely than Daboll going from a thrice-fired NFL OC to a stud HC. He would be the first of that kind.

I think 3 years is enough of a sample size.

2019 Edmunds........AFC's 3rd option at ILB. 2015 Tyrod...............AFC's 3rd option at QB. I was wrong about Edmunds being a "first alternate" but your confusion/mistake was lumping the two leagues together for Tyrod Taylor and not Edmunds. That game must have been a hybrid game with league's mixed.......because each league goes with 3 QB's..........Tyrod isn't even an alternate he's just on the original roster if it's AFC/NFC. If we lump Edmunds into the pool of NFC LB's last season........in addition to the AFC.........he would haven't been invited in any form. The NFC is stacked at ILB.

I think the MAIN thing that holds Edmunds back is play making. He lacks consistency sure, but he just doesn't make big plays. For instance.......last year Devin Bush had 2 interceptions and 4 fumble recoveries for Pittsburgh. That's 6 times he flipped the field for his team. Turnover differential being arguably the most important stat in the game.........the fact that Edmunds has no nose for the ball playing off-ball greatly detracts from his game. I'd really like to see your list. You may have Hightower and Bush off this year because they are opted out/injured but the actual overall season that Edmunds himself has put together has been largely disappointing. I think it would be a surprise to people to see where Edmunds stacks up in the NFL. The perception is that he is a top 5 or 6 and he's not even close. You didn't even mention Roquan Smith and he's leading the NFL in solo tackles and has 4 sacks. Edmunds is closer to the middle of the top 32 ILB's than the top.

So I guess you are saying that the perception that he is such a good OC could just be because he has top offensive talent?(because he was a bad OC with bad talent) You might have a point. The Bills have a top 5 QB and receiving corps and a good, expensive offensive line. But they are only 10th in yardage and 9th in scoring and tied for 11th most giveaways. In Roman's one full year in Buffalo(2015) they finished 12th in yardage and 10th in scoring and 20th most giveaways. We are all pleased with the improvement but they aren't setting the league ablaze offensively just yet.........and there is reason to wonder if Daboll's loss would be that important. Maybe Daboll is just another Charlie Weiss and his replacement would be an upgrade.

Yeah Tomlin is simply trying to light a fire under his players by saying they got manhandled. That was hardly a slobber-knocker performance by the Bills. The biggest weakness of the Bills defense is tackling and Sunday night was hardly a revelation in that regard.

It will be a buyers market but "most" teams are not going to be in cap trouble. Only 13 of the 32 teams project to have less than $10M in cap space at this point including the Bills who are at about $4M.

The Bills don't need more women in their coverage of the team...........they just need more talent regardless of gender. They have guys like Tasker and Bulldog slurping and stuttering relentlessly........and providing little insight.......on the mic during the day time shows at their flagship station and Maddy is flat out inaudible. Maddy's mom is a play-by-play person with a huge voice so she got a leg up in the biz but not sure how far she can go with the faint pipes.

If you mean that Daboll usually gets fired immediately after one season as an NFL OC.......yes different than Roman. If he were the Bills original OC choice in 2017.......with that garbage talent at WR and Tyrod throwing to them..........he'd have been 0-4 at NFL OC jobs. He landed in a better spot than previous jobs because of the built in excuse of a rookie QB and having a HC who would have looked incompetent if he fired two straight OC's after one season. He got the offense within shouting distance of average in 2019 after a dismal 2018 and now he has a QB and WR corps who can make most any of his calls look good. I think what you see with Daboll is a solid coordinator............but he's not going to get the job done with modest talent.........he's not at that level. But what kind of offensive mind/play caller he is isn't going to determine if he is a good HC anyway. Different skillset. From my understanding where Roman is lacking is the leadership and social skills to do well in HC interviews.

Well statistically he was clearly not at a pro blow level in the AFC last year.....and the bar was much lower in the AFC than NFC. He was actually in a muddled performance group with a lot of solid players whose names the average NFL fan wouldn't even recognize. What he WAS was healthy and available in mid-January. When you pick an ILB that early you expect All Pro type play........it's like selecting a RB that early.

You don't know just how far down the list he was. I know this........there is no way that Edmunds had a better year than Joe Schobert in 2019. And you've probably never heard of Joe Schobert. You don't know if Edmunds was the 3rd alternate or the 8th anymore than you knew that about Tyrod. Just because you don't know the names of the guys who play inside in the NFL doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of more effective players than Edmunds..........it just means that it's a position overshadowed and considered less impactful than coverage and pass rush players. @GunnerBillI'd be interested to see your inside linebacker rankings for the NFL for 2019 or 2020 seasons.

Part of every pro sports fan should be wanting to win a SB. Too many Bills fans act like the Bills are their small college school trying to compete with the big boys. Most of that is the organizations fault for being such a dumpster fire for 17 years. But the playing field, by design, is quite level in the NFL. That being the case you should expect a pro sports organization to put a SB contender on the field often..........that's supposed to be the trade-off that the owners provide in return for fans suspending disbelief that a privately owned club is actually representing them or the community.

I agree he has not been developed as a passer. He showed a lot of potential as a passer at Louisville. If you recall, when Roman was here Trent Dilfer called his passing game design "high school level". The Bills took a big gamble putting a raw, athletic QB like Josh Allen in a complicated New England style offense. It lead to two very statistically rough years at the bottom of the league in completion % that probably would have gotten Allen benched on teams like Pittsburgh or Baltimore. But now it's yielding results. Mayfield and Jackson started out much quicker but now Allen is the most advanced of the bunch.

He's been playing better since the bye week....... but Edmunds was not voted to the pro bowl last year he was a late addition as a replacement for injured/surgery/still playing players........like Tyrod Taylor was in 2015. Steelers rookie Devin Bush was voted as the pro bowl starter at ILB for the AFC. Dont'a Hightower was the original #2.

Davis had a positive with the TD but otherwise had an uncharacteristically rough game...........2 contested but very catchable drops...........had a big missed assignment on a block that blew up a play. His issues stalled several drives. But the worst play though was leaving his feet on that beautiful deep ball where he leapt out of bounds. Very surprising for someone who is a pretty polished receiver. Usually it's the less athletic/coordinated receivers that have to pick up their feet to concentrate on catching the ball. TJ Graham would be an extreme example.......he couldn't catch anything without jumping. You simply can't jump yourself out of bounds there. Slow down......stake your feet........take a PI........but don't do that. For a receiver that's like a QB taking a sack on third down to knock you out of field goal range. From what we've seen I think he is capable of taking that pass on the run but it's on tape now so he can expect DB's to anticipate him leaving his feet on boundary throws and then simply escorting him out of bounds for easy stops.

It's not a matter of misperception. Just because you are in the area of a catch does not make you the targeted defender so perception implies that it's not at all a statistical factor. That is where his 123 passer rating allowed certainly reflects his lack of impact in coverage. And who are the *average* MLB's and why is a MLB drafted in the middle of round one expected to have "average" players as comps? There are a lot of name MLB's in the NFL. Fred Warner, for instance, has a 63 passer rating allowed. A lot of the MLB's that most would consider better tacklers and much more physical in run defense than Edmunds are in the 70-100 range in passer rating allowed. The question isn't whether Edmunds is an average MLB.........he plays in a defense designed to showcase the MLB so he's going to get some stats............the question is whether his talent/potential are muted by playing a position he isn't particularly instinctive at. And yes, I know that some will argue that he must be a top MLB because the defense has been good with him.........but they had a near top ranked defense with Preston Brown at MLB under Schwartz. You don't need a stud MLB to be successful on defense. Modern NFL defenses are only as strong as their ability to defend the pass..............so MLB is well down on the priority list of spending money and personnel chips on. Good defense is mostly about coverage and pass rush. Having a MLB who can do everything well is like having a catcher who can hit in baseball...........not critical but it's a big plus. Edmunds hasn't really been that + player at MLB so far. You can't pay him $15M per year to do what he's been doing..........which is ultimately why I think they(and he and his agent) need to see if he can become a player at a more important and expensive to fill edge position. Make him a guy who can pressure the passer and set the edge and ALSO drop back in coverage or take a great TE out of the gameplan and he then has the potential to become a player of far greater impact.