BADOLBILZ

Well don't forget to do a mea culpa on your Spencer Brown hit post from earlier in the season. That was no better of a take. Brown has gone from "biggest problem on the Bills offense" in your estimation to being maybe the 5th-6th most positively impactful player on the offense behind Allen, Diggs and Dawkins and right up there with Cook and Kincaid.

This is all you need to know about why Gabe will NEVER be a high catch % player..........regardless of how you target him. The man simply has bad hands. I give him a lot of credit for getting to where he's at considering that he might have the hardest hands of any WR in the league. Clapping at the ball is his adjustment to not being able to give the ball a soft landing spot with quiet hands like most receivers can..........but that technique will always lead to a relatively high % of passes going uncaught. It's especially hard to execute in contested catch situations.........which is why he's so hopeless if DB's are physical with him close to the catch point or even if they just disrupt his route a few steps before the ball arrives. As a result his game is go's, posts and comebacks..........can't have passes bouncing off his hands and into traffic on short routes.

I know your take is emotionally fueled by being a single mama's boy but the reality is that nothing good can come of a family member being critical of their grown relative's employer. Only bad. Which, makes it a dumb thing to do. Always. If she got an internet fight out of it.......well she played a stupid game and won stupid prizes.

A sprain is a tear. The Bills said he had a sprained an ankle and that was affecting his play when they put him on IR. Nothing to see here.

I definitely think his recent slip is related to a back injury. It explains the lack of flexibility needed to snap off some of his routes. IMO it was inevitable with all the volume he has been getting in recent years.......and the fact that he's not as adept and not taking big hits like a guy like Hopkins.......that he would reach a point in a season or his career where he was compromised by injury, IMO.

Extremely underrated athlete though. He is going to extend a lot of drives with his legs if he does miss a throw here and there.

Expecting it? Yes done expecting it. I have some degree of optimism that he might get back to being a productive player but that is tempered by the uncertainty of his playing status wrt his DV charge.

I think it was moreso that he wasn't interested in playing on the biggest, most pressure packed stage. The $100M they still owe Stanton wasn't going to stop them with all of the money they stood to make if they signed him. In LA he gets a big market and a winning franchise with a bunch of stars in place to support him........but more importantly not anywhere near the scrutiny of playing in a big east coast market like New York, Boston or Philadelphia. The worst game of his entire career was his first outing in Yankee stadium: 2/3 IP, 2 H, 7 ER, 4 BB, 1 HBP, 1 K. He figuratively shat himself under that pressure(even though the crowd was practically there recruiting him LOL). He's never played in any big games in the USA so the question is whether he's going to produce in big situations.

Sasaki might have an out but it still would be in his best interest if his team just agreed to post him instead...........then he becomes a regular unrestricted free agent instead of entering MLB needing to build up service before UFA.........and the team at least gets the posting fee instead of nothing. I'm sure the Japanese don't want 21 year olds jumping to MLB after only 2-3 seasons of pro ball in Japan anymore than MLB would want their own young players getting free agency at that age.......so this is a conundrum for the league if he does have an out in there. Sasaki would probably get Yamamoto money in a posting situation.

The Bills need only to trail the Dolphins by 1 game going into the finale to win the division because they would hold the tie-breaker if they beat them the second time..........so Miami doesn't need to lose 2 games prior to the finale.

Didn't the Bills almost take the gas pipe in this "up 14 with 3 minutes left" situation against both NYG and Tampa this year? Surprised it's not been done since 2016.

So teams are now 1-767 in that situation. Hilarious Toney yesterday and then Bradley Chubb gifting the Titans a TD early.......nice weekend.

Also Yanks meeting with Yamamoto today. 25 year old potential ace likely to get $250M-$300M from either Dodgers, Mets or Yankees. There is also some rumor floating around that Roki Sasaki might have an out in his contract and that he could become available(without posting fee) to MLB teams in the next week or so. He's maybe the most hyped pitching prospect ever from Japan. He's going to be 22 and his fastball has topped out at 102 mph(see highlights below). That would be a situation like when Ohtani came over.........he is not eligible for veteran free agency........he can sign anywhere he pleases but will just get whatever international bonus pool money a team has to offer. He would eat up all of their bonus money like Dominguez/Arias/Mayea did so the continuation of that rumor has it that the Yanks have been telling the prospects that they had lined up in their latin american class to seek contracts elsewhere.

I wouldn't say it's luck........they got dominated in the 2020 AFCCG and I just think since then it's just always been a game the Bills are really up for and the Chiefs don't feel the same urgency. They've outplayed them in KC each time since that AFCCG, IMO. The divisional playoff loss was probably the most "luck" affected game because the Chiefs ended up getting 2 more possessions than the Bills in that game because they won both coin tosses and finished both halves with the ball.......2 more possessions is a pretty unusual situation to occur in a game.

4 straight at Allenhead in regular season tho.

Yankees and Dodgers have a trade brewing to help LA open up a couple 40 man roster spots for Shohei and Joe Kelly. Supposedly a 40 man roster pitcher and a 40 man roster prospect from the Dodgers for a non-40 man roster prospect from the Yankees. Specifics should be available in the morning. Update: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/yankees-dodgers-trade-teams-make-swap-to-shuffle-rosters-after-shohei-ohtani-juan-soto-deals-per-report/

Yeah the Chiefs are not playing good football. I expected the Bills to win this one and the spread was indicative that Vegas thought the Bills were playing better recently as well. Both the Bills and Chiefs should have addressed their WR positions better. Both units were bad today but the Chiefs made the big mistakes(which they have been doing all season).

Yeah it's gotten way out of hand........but they aren't calling that on anyone this season. As I've said to the Spencer Brown complainers on here........there are less good right tackles in the NFL then there are good players at any other offensive position........and the situation at LT isn't a lot better. They have basically decided to just let those guys line up in the backfield to keep QB's upright.

Correct. That pic is after the snap. Pre-snap Miller does not appear to be offside. But Jawaan Taylor and Miller move at EXACTLY at the same time PRIOR to the snap so it's at worst a wash.......if not a false start. If you are referring to Taylor being lined up illegally, yes he is too far off the line........but the officials aren't calling that at all this year.

That's what's so crazy about the gripe. It's clearly an indisputable and totally unnecessary mental error by a player on their team but Patrick thinks this falls under the whole "officiating sucks" narrative when it absolutely does not. It's egregious piling on of the officiating by a team that just isn't as good as it was in recent years and is having a hard time coming to grips with the smaller margins for error that come with not being so dominant.

Yeah but more like "they should have picked up the flag after the fact because that 12th guy on the field didn't impact the missed kick at all so the refs denied football fans a dramatic miss of a make-able kick to end a game".

Tough call from the angle and because Taylor was already moving at RT at the EXACT same moment.......so when the ball is snapped wrt Offside should be irrelevant. Taylor has gotten so bad at it that they could call it almost every down. He's just been a horror show of a UFA signing but I digress......... There are A LOT of these plays every game and they are all "moving" infractions against either the OL or DL and they clearly choose to avoid calling anything unless it's glaringly obvious. What happened with Toney was a stationary pre-snap foul........you can't just not call that.

It's a slippery slope, Patrick. You b!tch up a storm about the officiating the week before..........when every team is struggling with the same inconsistent officiating. Then the next week the officials who were always tipping you off about pre-snap penalties maybe decide to treat you like everyone else. The whole "we've never had an offensive Offside called against us" thing is just a crazy thing to hear. I can't tell if huge fines are coming to KC or the NFL tries to pretend they didn't hear it. The audacity is just that difficult to comprehend.

Are you asking if people can imagine sloppy Andy Reid coaching being blamed for blowing big games? Seriously? I mean that was what he was most known for almost 20 years.

KC fans about ready for the Chiefs to cut Hilarius Toney yet or is that on the refs too? No excuse ever to line up that close to the ball there.