GunnerBill

Terrific drive.

Milk the clock and score. Take the double dip out of play.

These officials love an appeal. Ask and ye shall receive.

Big play by Ed. Phillips should catch it.

Been saying it all season. James Cook is really really good.

Defensive line showed up there.

Josh has mastered the flop and I am here for it.

Good drive. Liked Brady sticking with the run even after a bust play on 1st down made it 2nd and 10.

I am streaming tonight so will be a bit behind and hence on here less. Let's gooo Bufffaaaalllooooo!

It is much more straigthforward on paper than this year.

I'd go a step further - there is only an extremely narrow path for the Bills to make the playoffs without beating Miami. They can lose to Dallas and still make it in as a 10-7 team but the chances they lose to Miami and make it in as a 10-7 team with 6 AFC losses are very slim.

I agree it is unlikely to change more widely. But I still think that is the best balance of fairness. The rule at the moment over favours the offense everywhere but through the endzone where it over favours the defense .

No I've said above I'd change it at the sideline too and have long been of this view. If the offense fumbles and does not recover that fumble there should be consequences for that. I'd go back to the line of scrimmage and treat it like an incomplete pass. If a defense forces a fumble they should get some benefit of that even if the ball goes out at the sideline. An unrecovered fumble out of bounds should essentially be a neutral play IMO. My only exception would be if a defense forced a fumble that went out of the back of the endzone untouched by another player in which case I would give them a safety not just a touchback.

So my answer on why not is becauae the offense has fumbled the ball and not recovered it. They should suffer some ill effect from that IMO. Hence I prefer the original line of scrimmage option. If the defense forces a sack fumble and the ball goes out of the endzone without another defensive player touching it (i.e. so a defender can't just knock it out on purpose) I'd award a safety.

It isn't an expanded number on this year, just a switch of one Germany game to Brazil. I am slightly surprised by that. Thought they'd want to tick the overall number up because I think the plan is that eventually everyone's 17th game will be a neutral game.

The next time someone says something completely hyperbolic about how bad McDermott is this game should be replayed to them. McDermott is a good football coach. His team hasn't lost a regular season game by more than a single score in over two years. He isn't perfect, and questions about whether he is the guy to win a Lombardi are fair and legitimate. But he is a good coach who does not deserve lumping in with clowns like Staley.

And especially a personality like McDermott's. I totally understand how he can rub people up the wrong way and some of the sources Dunne quotes and the examples they give are totally believable in that sense. But it doesn't equate to "and that is how everyone feels." Yea it was definitely a conclusion first then find the evidence piece rather than a true investigation into the Bills culture under McDermott. It is why I say it wasn't really a piece of journalism. If you pitched that to an editor in a proper journalistic organisation they'd veto it. You have much more freedom to do that in a blog type medium like the one Dunne uses.

Becauae I do think fumbling out of the endzone should come with some jeopardy for the offense. I actually think the Latavius Murray type fumble last week (leave aside for a moment was it actually a fumble because he might never have caught it) where the offense fumbles out of bounds at the sideline and gets the yards before the fumble anyway is too offense friendly and doesn't have enough jeopardy. I'd favour this approach for any fumble out of bounds by the offense.... it is treated like an incomplete pass. The ball retruns to the previous line of scrimmage for the subsequent down. Fumbling out of bounds should bring jeopardy on offense IMO. I just think the current out of the endzone rule is too much jeopardy.

This is the best solution IMO.

I'm not sure I totally agree with that. I think it was critical of his character. Most of the anonymous sources weren't, they were about him the coach. But some of Dunne's language was definitely personal.

Other than in 2017 those tasks have not been his job. But I'd submit that Brandon Beane made a pretty good trade for Stefon Diggs. Your numbers are off (low). There were 4 in 2023 - Witherspoon, Gonzalez, Forbes and Banks and there were at least two in 2021 from memory - Surtain who is an elite corner and Greg Newsome. There may have been one more too but struggling to recall.

They haven't been decreasing. They have been overtaken by offensive tackle in terms of average (among starters). But it is still a premium payment position. 1. Quarterback 2. Wide Receiver 3. Edge Rusher 4. Offensive Tackle 5. Corner They are the 5 premium payment positions.

The Tottenham Hotspur stadium, I hate to admit, is a suitable Superbowl venue....... until of course you get to the field. Which requires improvement.

This Bills regime has always taken a less is more approach to the injury report. And they are far from the only team in the league to do so. @Beck Water and I were talking about the Jerry Hughes wrist ligament example the other day when it was discussed in relation to whether there might be something lingering with TBass. The definition of "reportable injury" be league rules is one that causes a player to miss a game, fail to complete a game or prevents them from practicing fully. That last element is definitely interpreted differently by different teams.

In fairness that stiffness in the transition has been an issue pre-injury too. It was my biggest knock on him coming out and Brandon mentioned it in the presser right after picking him too that they would want to smooth his transitions. Of course the injury won't have been helping that, but that slightly mechanical transition style has been an issue for Elam throughout his career.