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That game is Thanksgiving night in Green Bay. As long as it is anything but and ACL, I'd expect Love back. Furthermore, if they can find a competent vet to fill in (if Love is out long term) I still like the Packers chances at home in late November against Miami.

Mahomes deserved his. We all know Jackson did not last year. So yeah, that one guy was at least right last year. Jackson only won it because the Ravens defense beat the hell out of Brock Purdy and the 49ers offense in a late season game. If the 49ers win that game, it's probably CMC or Purdy winning the MVP. As the season actually went I think Allen definitely should have been MVP.

Of course. But their are degrees of mistakes. An INT is almost always unforgiveable unless it's on a Hail Mary, 4th down or doinks right off the receiver. Fumbles not as bad because right off the get go you have a 50/50 chance of recovering vs. 100% chance of losing the ball on an INT.

That actually might be a great comp.

A couple of things. Are we certain Khalil is going to be the primary receiving target? Obviously, Kincaid has a very good chance to be that guy. But even outside of Kincaid, I could see Coleman being that guy as well. But I think a more likely scenario is that we see Kincaid, Khalil and Coleman all between 90 - 120 targets on the season. A fairly tight grouping for 1 -3 top target getters. If this is the case I think it takes more pressure off of Khalil as the primary target receiver even if he does end up leading the team in targets. Second, Beasley rightfully earned a 2nd team all-pro selection for his 967 yard season in 2020 and hitting that magic number of 65 ypg. He was a crucial cog in the Bills success offensively that season with a 68% success rater per PFR's success metric. Good for 7th highest success rate in the league that year and higher than Diggs 65%. Khalil had a 73% success rate last year, qualifying as the number one success rate out of all pass catchers. My hope is that the Bills have three players average in the ball park of 65 ypg receiving this year. Coleman, Shakir and Kincaid. With Cook and Davis combining for another 45 ypg. That puts Allen at 240 ypg passing. 4,080 yards on the season. Samuel is the wild card for me. If he stays healthy and the Bills feature him we could be looking at 4 players in the 65 ypg range with Coleman probably being the lowest average of the four.

LOL. Right? That's how I will start referring to Mahomes. Top 5 QB.

Much more than any of the games featuring Power 5 conference schools facing non power 5 schools. Were there not more of those match ups this past weekend than the ones you sighted? And just a quick glance of the scoreboards, those games ended with an average score of about 60 -3.

More teams in the league than there were in 1993 and with 18 games vs. just 16 back then will we really have watered down games? Biggest reason of all to add two bye weeks is to enable Thursday Night football to continue with every team having at least a minnie by going into a Thursday Night game. That is long over due IMO.

We don't even know what he is being accused of? "Rice has since been charged with one count of aggravated assault, one count of collision involving serious bodily injury, and six counts of collision involving injury." We are extremely lucky nobody was killed or badly hurt. He's a miracle from being Henry Ruggs. The league office needs to be better than this. Or just get rid of any non football related suspensions all together.

Okay 90%. I feel it is a very strong likely outcome. It has been tossed out there quite a bit as an option. I'm also not 100% convinced the league wants the Super Bowl on President's Day weekend. So if that is the case, we are looking at starting the season after Labor Day weekend and then having two bye weeks so as to have the Super Bowl after President's Day weekend. Why would two bye weeks not go well? I can't imagine an uprising against two bye weeks today.

Player safety angle. league is trying to project the image of making the game safer. I think adding a second bye week helps project that image. It's also a small cash cow as it means one more week of primetime games for the league to sell. Makes sense from all angles.

Tremendous? Way too many 49 - 7 games in College football. They need to totally revamp the scheduling. Power 5 schools or whatever they are called these days should only ever be playing other power 5 schools.

I think we might. The long game for the commissioner and the owners is an 18 game regular season schedule with two bye weeks. Season starts on Labor Day weekend and Super Bowl on President's Day weekend. They 100% have to add an extra bye week IMO if they go 18 games. That means if they want a Presidents weekend Super Bowl the season has to start Labor Day weekend.

He's more than that though I think. Beasley found open spots. Shakir has serious YAC ability based on what we saw out of him last year.

@NewEra is correct. I was looking for comps in term of playing style. Not production or target volume.

There does seem to be something special with Shakir. The dude just knows how to YAC. I'm having a hard time figuring who his past or present comp would be in the league.

Rodgers and the Jets alone could dip our defensive rankings out of the top 5 or top 10 if they are rolling on offense. That is without even taking into consideration the new pieces we have. Those two games with the Jets will make up over 10% of the defensive stats.

SNF looks better. MNF has Flacons vs. Raiders and Saints vs. Packers late in the year. Both those sound lame.

very well stated on all parts. 100% agree.

To this point, if Mahomes didn't exist everyone would be looking at Allen as the up and coming GOAT. That is how good Allen's numbers are and how close he is to Mahomes in ability and raw numbers. Really, it's too bad the Allen and Mahomes are in the same conference otherwise at least two of the last four Super Bowls probably would have featured those two going head to head against each other.

I'm just glad Beane finally learned to grab guys like Ray Davis on Day 3 when his M.O. was to take RB's in rounds 2 and 3. Drafting a RB should always give you an immediate impact player from day 1. But they are a dime a dozen still so please, no more day 1 and 2 RB's. That said, I really love Davis' skill set to potentially be the best back we have had in Buffalo since Freddy. Thank you for this effort! Wow, 2023 is slim pickens.

100% agree. They were only a juggernaut on offense against the teams below .500 last year and I also think this year those bad teams catch up to the game film and play much better defense against them.

nobody knows the answer. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. You seem convinced that it’s because Sean McDermott is running up the score while he could be letting off the gas pedal. I’ve already pointed out the stats that show that when you have a top five offense and a top five defense, gee whiz, you’re gonna win more games in a route. That should not be hard to figure. The Chiefs have never had that benefit in the Mahomes era largely because their defense has never been top five until this last year. So no surprise that even with the current chief dynasty, they’ve never had a point differential greater than 150 while the Bills have exceeded 160 twice. and I was being sarcastic about the Chiefs, letting up on the gas pedal of course. Just like I’m sure they didn’t let up on the gas pedal when they lost the AFC championship to the Bengals because they could only score like 3 points in the second half. Mahomes just crapped the bed. It happens. what I was really asking for is some sort of concrete evidence to support your theory. I just don’t think that actual data is out there. It would be impossible to have really.

Is he related to Mahomes?

i’m not sure. even if it turns out Love is not an elite quarterback the Packers give me 49er vibes where that team is just gonna be really good all around. Maybe Love is a system quarterback but as long as he plays well nobody will care. He had a very up-and-down year last year, but it was mostly up and it was up when it counted.