GunnerBill

Good punt. On the one hand I'd say don't let it go in the snow it won't bounce. But at the same time slippy ball, maybe the safe approach is don't field too many.

Groooooot

On a serious note it is a game that shows the depth of our running back room. Different styles and speeds tough for a D to key onto in this weather with dodgy footing.

@HappyDays Definitely not a James Cook night

The foul must have been on Douglas, right? Surely?

Gonna be a hard night on kickers. This game is kind of a lottery. Hopefully we can get the slips and slides our way.

A ref who remembers delay of game is a penalty! Miracle!

Someone has gotta get off a freaking block.

No

Now someone get Josh's hand warm.

Yep. His advantage is the sharp cut. It isn't that day.

Touchdown!!

Excellent play by Cybo, combo block then came off and sealed the gap

Hamlin was our best player on that first defensive series. Gotta get off blocks better.

Gonna be a bit of a lottery in these conditions.

Inauspicious start.

Let's gooooo Bufffffaaaaaalloooooo!

Who knew his "40 time" referred to 40 days.

I should be grateful for the fact that at least here in the UK the Bills never play during my working hours. Even if I do end up taking time off to sleep in the next day ha.

Yea odd that he was active all year and then suddenly the last two games is down. But basically it looks like when they are fully healthy on defense (they are close to that at this stage) their preferred balance is 9 DL, 5 LB, 8 DBs (plus the return guy who is technically a 9th DB). And as @gonzo1105 said above he does the least of the DBs they have up. Bishop and Lewis play special teams, Ingram can play outside or inside. Elam is strictly a boundary corner so when trying to balance up a gameday roster he is the odd man out. I still think if one of our boundary guys got hurt and missed a game he'd be the starter as he was when Benford missed the Miami game. But as a backup he doesn't "do" enough things for you to have the flex you need on gameday.

We don't know. Banged Up Bills on twitter thinks a bone bruise which would make sense. Was clearly a contact injury.

Odd that we didn't elevate a receiver. Is Virgil now on the 53?

I agree, I don't have proof of that. But I don't think the stats show that either. They just show at this split rate between slot and wide he is capable of producing at broadly equivalent rates. Everything after that is speculation. And it is speculation that we will likely never get an answer too. Because he is going to be a 70% plus slot guy his entire career.

It is fair to say there isn't a big difference in terms of production per snap inside and out. Slight favour for the slot, but not a ton. I just don't know that you can extrapolate though. It's different using a guy out there a bit when you can scheme cleverly than doing it anything like consistently when teams will start making him win more convetnionally.

A lock? No. Still think he likely will at some point. He has been great. But it looks like a sad end.