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The tomatocan Pats defense that year was 4th in yards allowed and 2nd in point allowed.

Burrow has never put up more than 27 points in any playoff game he's played to date. Josh's 8 postseason game average nearly matches Burrow's career high averaging 26.75 ppg. Burrow has thrown 9 tds & 4 ints on 251 postseason attempts, averaging 7.27 yards per attempt. He's led Cincy to 12 td drives & a whopping 19 fg drives in 7 career postseason games. Talk about not being able to get it in the endzone. Josh has thrown 17 tds & only 4 ints on 309 postseason attempts, averaging 7.55 yards per attempt. He's led Buffalo to 24 td drives & 14 fgs in 8 postseason games. Look at the passing tds & td/fg ratio of them both. One is far better than the other. Josh has nearly twice as many passing tds as Burrow dies in only 1 extra game and still has the same number of ints as Burrow. Josh's postseason QB Rating is also 5.8 points higher than Burrows(99.6 vs 93.8). Now let's widen the gap even more. Burrows career postseason rushing stats 26/101/3.88/1. Allen's career postseason rushing stats 63/417/6.62/2. Allen also has the only postseason reception between the 2 going for 16 yards and yet another td. Burrow has also been sacked 8 more times than Allen on about 50 less dropbacks. The postseason numbers all the way around show Allen hasn’t just been better than Burrow, he's been quite a bit better. Even though he has a DC as HC and a much, much worse supporting cast on offense while Burrow has an OC as HC and a far better OL and weapons. At this point you're just being a Burrow homer and penalizing Josh for having a worse supporting cast. The only thing better about Burrow in the postseason has been he's had the best postseason defense over the last 2 postseasons and his kicker has been perfect in 7 career postseason games averaging nearly 3 fgs a game.

I agree 100%. I would also add that the Bengals postseason success the last 2 years has been having the best postseasonn defense & their kicker is something like 21 for 21 on fgs.

It can't be that bad. He's owned KC lately during the regular season. Last time we lost to them in the regular season Josh had just separated his left shoulder and had to wear a harness. Last year they were 3-2 against playoff teams in the regular season. A 2 point loss to Miaml in the Sauna Bowl with half the starting lineup out by the end of the game. And a 3 point loss in overtime to the Vikings which was Josh's 1st game after suffering the UCL injury. It wasn't just the about being injured during the game the injury also prevented Josh from practice during the week. Either way neither of those losses can be put on McDermott. Against Minnesota Josh was injured and had a bad game. With the entire secondary out against Miami and then Benford going down in the 2nd quarter and holding Miami to 21 points(1 td was an 8 yard drive after an Allen fumble) one could argue the only reason we were in that game was because of McDermott & Frazier.

Regarding your 3rd possibility. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/08/elon-musk-humans-could-eventually-download-their-brains-into-robots.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.marca.com/en/lifestyle/celebrities/2022/07/29/62e4032a268e3e9c338b45bb.html They already have neuralinks in chimps. There's a video somewhere of a 9 year old chimp playing pong using only it's brain to move the paddle. Well at least gamers won't have to buy controllers in the future lol.

So based on the average of your expectations of this season your over/under would would be 8-9 wins? Josh Allen will win you 8-9 games by himself. I'd put a whole lot of money on the over if I could place a bet on that over/under. They could sleepwalk through the season and get 8-9 wins. Your expected ceiling for the team is my expected floor(10 wins) my ceiling is 13 wins. One thing Buffalo has done well since 2019 is getting alot of wins in the first 6-7 games and the last 5-6 games of the year. I don't see that changing.

Oh, that does change the meaning of your post. I got caught not paying attention, damn adhd.😂 I would like to change my post to simply I agree. I would even say they may invest more than 50% as far as premium picks/money are concerned

I get what your saying, the d premium picks have been more frequent, but they threw the Vikings a 1st for Diggs, if 2nd rounders count then they spent several for Allen(Still a steal for the player he's become), Kincaid in the first this year, along with Torrence in the 2nd. Also spent a 2nd on Ford, even though most of us wished they hadn't.😂 Beane has only been here for 6 drafts, so it's closer than it appears. As far as money, Diggs, Dawkins, Allen and soon Knox take up a good chunk of the salary cap by themselves. Again closer than it may appear.

Absolutely. Sportcenter was almost always on unless they were showing a game. The latest it would start was 11 PM and it would run until at least noon the next day. Summer of 91 was my senior year. Me and my neighbors would meet up in the morning, brew a pot of coffee, get baked and watch a couple hours of Sportscenter. No better way to start the day, well maybe 1 way. Those were the days.😂

Yup, give me the ESPN from the 90s. It was so good back in the day. Back then if my TV was on there was about an 85% chance I was watching something on there.

Forgot to add....I see nfl draft buzz had him at 205 lbs and that was the first site I saw when I googled him. Fox sports had a USFL page for him and lists him at 218 lbs.

I saw 222 lbs in multiple places, but that was his senior year at Oklahoma. Hard to believe he would've dropped that much weight though.

I don't see Jax doing it. They have Etienne on a rookie deal with the 5th year option, that gives them 3 more years on his rookie deal. Obviously not as good as Taylor, but he had 1,125 yards last year while averaging 5.1 a carry. Added over 300 yards more in receiving yards.

Baltimore right down the field for a Zay Flowers td on their 1st possession.

Nope. It's preseason and means absolutely nothing. Otherwise we would've already made it to or won a few Super Bowls under McDermott by now. He's starting their last preseason game.

Yeah gotta be, that and all the money they gave Chubb. Their total against the cap in 2024 is only 7 million less than us. Even though, next year, Josh's cap hit is twice as big as Tua's.

Tua's cap hit goes up $13.5 million next year, Hill's goes up $18+ million & Chubb's goes up $19+ million. That's about $51 million in increases for just 3 guys.

At 222 pounds he would be the 5th LBer on the team between 219-225 pounds. They sure love their LBers on the smaller size.

So your expectation for the 2018 season was higher? That was the worst Bills roster in a long time, especially on offense. No OL, no WRs, no TEs, No RBs besides a quickly declining McCoy and lastly Peterman and a rookie Allen as QBs.

Throw another vote in for bad poll options, I didn't pick any of them. I've been a fan for 45 of the 50 years I've been alive, the Bills are ingrained in me. What keeps my fandom? The love for this team, the city and loyalty. I can't make players care more, but that doesn't mean I'm going to care any less. This board has turned into a mess over the last 9-10 months. Guess that's what happens when your team strings 3-4 good seasons together without winning a title, but the crying that occurred Saturday night over a meaningless preseason game was alarming. All the preseason wins from 2019 onwards has won us exactly nothing in the postseason. Maybe the starters getting asses handed to them will be a good thing in the long run this year.

Yeah, he couldn't do it with one of the best QBs in the game, but he's now going to do it with a QB who had 31 other QBs finish with a higher ypg average last year lol. Beasley hasn't been Beasley since the 10/31/21 game against the Dolphins. He's been a shell of himself since. If Larry's career needed a resurgence, Beasley's career needs to be resurrected. Larry's last 3 years before his resurgence: 71/798/4, 82/954/10 & 63/784/2. Beasley's last 3 years: 82/967/4, 82/693/1 & 6/35/0.

Daniel Jones momentum? He threw for 200.3 ypg and averaged less than a td a game passing. He threw for 334 yards against the Vikings and 341 against the Lions. He only topped 200 yards 4 more times last year, while finishing with less than 200 yards 10 times. He had 2 good games last year, 3 if you count the Vikings playoff game and all 3 came against the 29th & 30th ranked pass defenses. He did well running the ball, that was actually the biggest jump in his game over 2021. But even including those stats he averaged less than 250 total yards and 1.4 total tds per game. Barkley and Jones running the ball was the offense last year. They ended up 4th in rushing, 26th in passing. By his standards that was a long catch. I checked it out and that 29 yarder tied for his 10th longest catch of his career.

I agree if we're going to beat the best of the best in the playoffs, we have to get better at the short game. Both in goal-line and 3rd and short. Weird thing is even not being very good at either, they scored the 2nd most ppg and were 1st in 3rd down percentage. When you score a ton of longer tds, it helps out in both areas. Points on the board and 100% of 3rd downs converted on the drive. Last year they actually had a slightly higher ypg average and 3rd down percentage than the 2020(Imo the best Allen led offense to date) yet averaged 2.9 ppg less than 2020. Short game & turnovers in the redzone.

The first few weeks Josh didn't throw during the week. I would say in at least the first 3 games the lack of arm strength was noticeable on many of his passes. There was little to no zip. There were also passes where it was apparent that he was trying to use more body and less arm. One that comes to mind is the 5 yard td to Diggs against Cleveland 2 weeks after the injury. With no one near him he nearly fell over to his left because he was using some much of his body on that throw. Out of the first 3 games after Josh's injury I thought his arm looked the best against the Vikings, only a week after the injury. Then the following week against Cleveland and looked the worst in the Loins game on only 4 days rest. He had a couple big throws in that game, that he ripped it, but there were a number of passes that had no zip on them at all. All in all, if there was something wrong with his elbow, I would think management would be smart enough to sit him for awhile seeing how real games are still 3 weeks away.

But.....3rd in tds per game, everyone in front of them played 17 games. Also they finished 2nd in points per game. The O was not awful, they justed scored more tds on the longer side & fewer tds on the shorter side than recent years. Exact same ppg as 2021, but more ypg in 2022 vs 2021.