Bleeding Bills Blue

We use our backs in pass pro quite a bit is part of it, he's also 3rd on the depth chart behind cook and singletary. If your 1a and 1b are healthy, the 3rd guy really won't play much more than a few plays.

I think the bills will beat them either way. Having said that - i think Tua will be forced to sit. The league and NFLPA are probably pressuring Miami to force their hand. I think they'll make formal changes to concussion policy in the off-season but for now, mcdaniel's press conferences seem to me like him/tua don't really have a say in this no matter what. Screwed up finger on throwing hand. He has small hands, and its a cold weather game... my guess is he's inactive.

Wilson and the broncos need to get the HC situation right, because hackett let distractions reign free and basically destroyed the team from inside the locker room. You're married to Wilson for at least 2 more years. While i think it was an overpay (namely due to the fact that you paid him to be top 3-5 despite him almost universally in that 5-10 range his entire career), he is still capable of good football. Murray got his bag, and i think you will see that contract age pretty poorly. Watson is the browns problem now, and i just don't see him having a career renaissance after a year away, and a disaster of a quarter season he played. Rodgers was coming off back to back MVP years - i don't know that you can let him walk.

Chicago looked good in that first 10-15 plays though didn't they... then they didn't do anything. Also the game will be in Buffalo - Cincy is 6-3 on the road and 6-1 at home. They have 4 road wins during their win streak - Pittsburgh (who isn't a strong team), Tennessee (who cincy matches up well with), Tampa (who can't run the ball well, and turned it over several times giving the game to the bengals), and the patriots, who the bengals didn't score on after going up 24-0. So they looked unstoppable for the first 5 drives then went Punt, INT, Punt, Missed FG, Fumble, Punt, end of game.

The bears had 90 yards and a TD, and turnover on downs on their first 2 possessions. What was going to change? Football stuff - penalties, drops, bad throws, things that happen over the course of a game. Good plays, good tackles, pass break ups, tipped passes...

Cincy ran like 8 plays though... you're projecting an entire game based on 8 plays? They didn't even get through their walk through script.

Buffalo has a better offense than the bengals (who can't run the ball particularly well... could be a problem in i dunno buffalo?), and the bengals pass defense is nothing to write home about. Both their best pass rushers are banged up, and they play 6 games against cleveland/baltimore/pittsburgh, so their defense stats are probably even inflated by that point. Not to mention this list: Bridgewater, Cooper rush, Dalton, Mariota, and Walker/Mayfield. As for KC, their offense is a beast but they also can't run the ball well so dare them to do so. Defensively they are young in the secondary, and they have a really solid front 4. This being a neutral site game is huge though - i went to the KC game in arrowhead, and while it does give you the "big fight feel" of a college rivalry game or something like that, its a HUGE advantage to KC. They get all the crowd noise, the drums, the chants - and buffalo sprinkles some blue in. They lost one home game this year and it was to Buffalo. 4/5 of their highest points allowed games were on the road- while 4/5 of their fewest points allowed games were at home. I meant specifically on the lack of prep showing in some of the vanilla looks they presented.

I think they looked like a team who had a tumultuous week, practiced maybe once and had a walkthrough.

It's probably a combination of both. But we were tied in this one going into the half - tre white makes a play to kill a drive. Offense gives it right back in the red zone - and defense got a stop. So offense took 3 off the board, then gave them great field position - and we were only down 3. A lot of these offenses today are very much based on timing - its hard to "feel" that timing right away. Late in the game they did a good job taking that away. The scripted plays early are practiced a bunch so they tend to have great timing. Later in the game its tougher - you see jones sailing some out routes others going lower. You also see the defense knowing where he wants to go with the ball - stevenson is going to catch a swing route but milano is there, etc.

that means he was 9/23 with 3 interceptions on the rest of the drives though. You can't bring pressure all the time, teams tend to figure out the tells on pressure vs. simulated pressure - you also leave throwing lanes open for easy stuff over the middle, and ask a lot of your secondary to not get beat.

Yep - man defenses tend to have lower comp% numbers and sometimes yardage too. But then you have 1x1 deep balls to worry about, and you tend to get fewer takeaways.

yes - winning puts it on a neutral site. Losing puts it at arrowhead.... i think?

Ryan Grant tore his achilles, and i put in a waiver claim for brandon jackson - and the commissioner somehow got him ahead of me. It was an auction free agency league, so i protested and he put him back in for auction - he used his entire 75 dollar budget on Jackson and i used 69 cuz reasons. After that i picked up Hillis for a dollar and won the league.

Is TJ expected to miss time beyond a week? Buffalo is 8th in NY/A surrendered this year. 18 pass TDs allowed, which is 6th in the NFL. 14 interceptions which is tied for 8th. And they have missed hyde for most of the year. White missed a ton of time. Poyer, Edmunds, Milano, Benford, Elam have all missed time. We also don't have the benefit of some cupcake schedule either. Of the top 5 passing offenses by NY/A they played 3 of them across 4 games. The team has been banged up ALL year - and i would not bet against them.

And yet - we haven't had a 300 yard passer since the cleveland game. And that was almost half in garbage time (they were down 3 scores). Hard to play outside technique and break up a pass inside. Mediocre throw, maybe you can get there, but on a good throw even if you make a play its probably a TD. They tend to give up a lot of short stuff early in games too as they tend to play off early.

What did they run 8 plays?

That 2nd piece is kind of interesting. You either get winner of 4/5 or you get home field against the other team.

I mean - the purpose is to execute plays you anticipate the other team might run. So he's probably good in film study. Sure did - Joe Webb to Deonte Thompson was the big play in that one. 34 yards on 3rd down with less than 2 minutes in OT.

He's gotta be a great scout team QB.

He just always seems to fall funny? Like he was getting tackled from behind... and smacked hte back of his head. The hip injury in college was another awkward fall Watching them last week he looked terrible.

Yeah, when you're slower you have to be faster in your reaction. He's both slower, and still probably pretty rusty with no camp.

No one has to agree to anything - commish gets to decide. Or just do it anyway.... they don't have to be willing to do anything.

I thought the PI was... i dunno - thats like the first play of the game and while there was some hand fighting it didn't seem to be that bad. The TD was quarters so... he has outside leverage and hamlin drove on the post underneath so it created a space. I'm not sure Tre can do much more than what he did

Throw an 8th team in the mix, 7 WC playoff games (would people complain about an extra MNF game?) and no AFC bye. They still get home field, but they don't get the coveted bye week.

Tie helps Cincy - guarantees them a division win. They lose a shot at a bye week, but they basically get one against baltimore since division is no longer in doubt. Tie hurts buffalo - they now lose tie breaker to KC and are basically a lock for the 2 seed. Both teams are likely to rest starters in that situation. The one benefit to all this is KC playing Saturday. If they lose, buffalo scenario changes completely and they can still earn a wildcard bye week. Coin flip hurts cincy - if they lose there's a chance they can lose the division, and therefore any additional home games. Winning the flip gives them a chance at a 1st round bye week. Coin flip helps buffalo - They already won their division and a flip gives them a chance to earn home field with a win over NE. Or rest starters should KC lose. A coin flip loss means very little since they would be pretty well locked into 3 seed at that point, and also would use week 18 to try and get healthy. Add 8th playoff team - probably have to do it for both conferences. No bye weeks, home field is still important as a 1 seed, but everyone's playing WC weekend.