GunnerBill

Actually Miami has the highest varience just in the other direction (much worse 2nd half). Bills are second.

I don't know what you were watching but he made the key mistake on the long Henderson run second half, lost his concentration thought the play was over and drifted inside losing contain. And he gave up 4 completions on 4 targets in coverage for 51 yards, the most on the team. That isn't to clown him he is a young kid still learning and he has had better days but he had a pretty rough go yesterday by all accounts. They started the year rotating him inside and outside but the past 6 weeks he has played overwhelmingly from the slot and comes out in a lot of their 12 and 21 personnel looks. I think Stef can still play. But he really struggles to separate vertically now as we saw his final year here. Where his route running still shows up is on those little technical routes inside where he can set DBs and linebackers up and then stop his feet and get horizontal separation.

Does he seriously sit with those whiney babies alongside him every week and agree New England is the bestest and everyone else smells? Can't imagine Belichick did that.

He can do more. Knox has blocked his ass off all year. Kincaid doesn't give you that.

Then wasted one on a running back inferior to the guy the Bills picked a round later.

But he has had chances to bring him in multiple times before and never has. I am not sure they are actually all that close.

I don't say this often in response to your posts.... but I agree with every word of this.

Meh. That's the way the cookie crumbles. I wouldn't change it personally.

It may "seem" like that but I don't really think its true. Both the Houston game and the Cincy game the coaching was not the major problem in the first half. Both those games were primarily execution fails by the players on the field - particularly our tackling. There were players in position to make plays - that's all a coach can do - the players failed to make them. This was a coaching mismatch first half though. McDaniels had McDermott on his heels and was finding ways to stress our defense with clever playcalling and good scheming. The only other game this season where I put a terrible defensive first half so squarely on coaching is the Atlanta game and Babich had playcalling removed from him at halftime in that game. The only coaching fail on offense first half was the 3rd and 15 pass in the flat to Shakir which is only a sensible option if you are already decided you are going or trying a long FG on 4th down. If there is a chance there that you are punting that can't be the playcall. Otherwise players miscues were the problem. Players have the make the plays that are there to be made and avoid the mistakes. That is their responsibility.

I actually think running first and second down is almost the bigger error. I like the idea you mix a pass in on first or second down when the D is very likely to play run.

Hahahaha. I thought Vrabel was a tough guy? This is whiney beyond belief.

Sure but 7 points on the first drive of the game doesn't influence games as much as 7 points late. It was a miss, he should have thrown the flag. It does not signal incompetence.

It doesn't matter if he is touched. If the ref considers the offensive player is giving himself up it is the end of the play. The refs would, rightly, have considered that in the case in question and allowed NE a time out.

Yea in that situation your loss is a first half time out (minimal) your win is a stop on the first drive (potentially significant). Once you see they are sprinting to the line you play the "they are not sure" percentages and throw it. Second half that happens in a close ball game I don't want you guessing. The time out matters more. But when it was? Yea you gotta throw the flag.

I don't disagree that he should have just thrown the flag even if he didn't have confirmation - not much to lose. But I also don't think it was that big of a deal.

Just look at the names on those Raiders and Titans depth charts though.... sheeesh. I think you can argue Palmer would be the #1 on those teams. But the Bills receivers are terrible. A has been (Cooks), a complimentary slot receiver (Shakir), a career #4 (Palmer), a draft bust (Coleman) and a player cut by Jacksonville (Gabe).

Agree. If the Pats beat Baltimore but lose to Miami and we win out we win the division. If they lose to Baltimore and beat Miami we don't. If we win out and the Pats do drop a divisional game (let's say week 18 to Miami) then we almost certainly slot in as the #2 seed. I'd much rather they beat Baltimore personally so that our choices week 18 are: - win the division and be the #2 seed hosting the Chargers and then probably the Texans in the divisional round with the AFCCG @ Denver; or - #5 seed going to the Steelers; then probably to Denver then possibly to the Texans. I'm not sure I have a preference between those two options. Neither is easy. But we have a Quarterback advantage in every one of those matchups.

I have seen more clock screw ups this year than any year I can recall in NFL officiating. How they came up with "errr..... put two seconds on" was indescribable. Total guess work. I don't think the play did take a full 6 seconds, I think Henderson probably had given himself up in time, but the officials had no clue. They just guessed.

Yea it was the DB getting there early and actually this wasn't a case of Shakir "playing for the flag" as some do trying to come back through the DB.... Shakir barely moved and the DB was clearly there early and made contact with Shakir a second and a half before the ball arrived. That was why the flag was called. If the contact only happens as the ball arrives that is not PI because the defender does have his head round and is trying (and successful) in playing the football. But you still can't get there a second and a half too soon. The best angle was from the far sideline looking back across. On that replay you clearly saw the DB contact with Shakir and the ball is only just coming into shot.

I don't think it was a poor offensive gameplan that got us in the hole last night. Defensively we were outcoached pretty comprehensively in that first half (then turned the tables after half time) but offensively it was execution - Cooks drops a bomb on the first play of the game. Then at 3rd and 4 Palmer stupidly false starts and puts us in 3rd and long where they heat up Josh and he is sacked. The third drive I think you can question the call on 3rd and 15.... if you are going to throw a short pass to Shakir there to get half of it back, which is what they did, then you better be willing to go for it on 4th down. Otherwise let Josh throw deep on 3rd down... you might at least get a DPI. But largely I think the hole on offense was on players not gameplans.

I can't wait to hear your professional diagnosis of what is wrong with Keon Coleman.

Have we heard anything yet on Cooks? What was up with him and what was he having an X ray on? Because even though he isn't actually bringing in any deep balls as yet, he is at least getting sufficiently open that Josh is willing to chuck it in his direction...... and that helps.

Yea he was supposed to be the "finisher" in the post season. Obviously much younger prime age player, and much bigger price paid but it reminds me of Von here in 2022.

Chris Jones is right and reporters are wrong. I just found it in a new amendment to the NFL bylaws - section 117(8)(d) which reads: A team eliminated from playoff contention will not be permitted to progress to the wildcard round unless all of the following circumstances apply: (i) they wear red; (ii) they have appeared at least 100,000 times in prime time during the previous five seasons; (iii) their star player is dating a pop star; and (iv) their Head Coach has a moustache.

I think since trading Myers the Raiders are probably the worst. And Tennessee once Ridley went down are right there with them. Cleveland is hard to categorise. I think they suck aside from Jeudy and his production is down this year, but they have started three or four different Quarterbacks (none of them good). So maybe that is currently the bottom three. I think the rest of those teams have either a better version of the solid but unspectacular group we have (Pats) or one young player who very clearly would be the number 1 on all those teams (Harrison, Nabers, McMillan). So maybe right now I'd put the Bills WR group 29th. Maybe. I asked co-pilot to rank NFL teams based by WR production in 2025 and (I haven't verified) but it has us 28th with 1,593 yards.