Sammy Watkins' Rib

Is this a "we are going to fire you before you quit on us" situation? I mean if anyone should be pulling the plug it should be Fitz pulling it on Miami. He doesn't need the crap they are offering. Miami is an absolute mess right now. I would love to see the first group of players ever just boycott an entire game. Send a message to their owner about tanking.

And even more importantly of note in today's NFL, a perfectly clean hit. Hyde showing how you do it.

I prefer to sprinkle in some parlays for chances at bigger payouts.

I think we will see Jones at some point this year as I expect the Giants to be about 3-8 or 2-7 at some point this season. But they could always choose to take the Kansas City approach and have him sit most the year and throw him in for a game 17 start. Eli is a HOFer. Just one with a not so great regular season resume. To me that means there is no way he should be a first ballot HOFer. But he will get in sooner rather than later once he is eligible. I'd probably put him on the same level as Phillip Rivers.

For all of us who cut the cord and don't have ESPN anymore and haven't gone with Sling TV or Hulu Live. Love that NFL Primetime is back. Will I pay for it? Not sure.

Yes, but I wouldn't say tempted is the word. It's a no-brainer to start him this week. He probably has a chance to be the highest scoring receiver in fantasy while Hill is out.

Great call on the coach's wanting to showcase his improved passing. We opened with what 17 straight pass plays?

I won with Josh Allen being credited with four turnovers last week. 147 points scored. Highest in the league. I consider that a nice achievement. And Sammy Watkins was on bench.

Despite the 4 turnovers he still chipped in 17 points and I was able to walk away with a W. I plan on riding JA to victory all season. Disclaimer, the rest of my team outside of Allen had a very nice week scoring 130 points. Standard yahoo scoring 12 team league. I also went against the conventional wisdom around here and drafted Brown over Beasley. Our league is non-PPR so I didn't really see much value in Beasley catching 8 passes for 75 yards every week. Brown road my bench last week. Considering putting him in my flex this week. I currently have D.Williams in that spot who I used my second round pick on. Problem is McCoy showed up (who I also drafted) and now it looks like both McCoy and D. Williams are destined for about 9-11 points every week. Need one of the two to pull a hammy so I can get the 20 points from just one back instead of two. Oh and I drafted Allen with my sixth round pick. Super early I know but when you have another fellow Bills fan in your league you got to pull the trigger earlier than you would prefer.

Hard to tell just how low the ball is there but I wouldn't say it was an easy catch and run pass. I am fine with ensuring the reception. The other big thing i noticed is Foster was open on his route for the first down as well. It is nice to have two receivers both beating their coverage for first down yardage. That's good play design by Daboll and good ability by the receivers to win. Stonewalling two guys back to back. Very nice. I was skeptical of this o-line going into this season since they had a historically low bar to improve upon from last year but they look significantly better than last year so far.

I mean if you can post on this message board then just watch via a Reddit stream.

I agree. Titans have a feeling of 8-8 at worst and ceiling of 10-6. They will be competitive in most games and can pull off an upset over the best teams. I see the Titans and Chargers as being our main competitors for the wild card. I still think the Jets can turn it around and get in the wild card mix too. Not sure about the Browns if they start 0-2. Of course hopefully we can just beat New England week four and start talking division.

And confirmed by Jets fans. They are all commenting on how often Oliver was pushing the pocket into Darnolds lap. And most of them wanted Oliver over Q.Williams in the draft.

The fact that we opened up the game throwing 15 consecutive times or whatever the number was and moved the ball well should tell everyone what they need to know about Allen's development so far. He'll still make boneheaded plays here and there but the kid is ready now. Oddly enough, at least three of his four turnovers were of the flukey variety and it was two that were not recorded as turnovers (both deeper balls thrown down the field) that were more of the boneheaded play variety. I mean how many times did we get a hand on one of Darnold's passes only to not come away with the pick?

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27435008/buffalo-bills-2019-nfl-season-preview-josh-allen-next-step This was a bold prediction included in the article linked above by ESPN Bills bloger Louis-Jacques. If Beasley catches 100 balls, our two and half decade search for a QB is over. Beasley on paper was the perfect QB for us to bring in to help the development of Josh Allen as well as evaluate his abilities. After one season we know two things for sure about Allen. 1. He's more athletic and mobile than anyone knew. 2. He's not afraid to let it rip. The biggest questions reaming are 1. Can he recognize when to make the underneath pass? 2. Can he throw the underneath pass accurately enough? Beasley catching 100 balls would be a definitive yes to both those questions.

Josh is the only one who has walked the walk when it comes to putting up dominating rushing yards. Other QB's might be just as athletic or mobile on paper but they haven't actually been as mobile or prolific at running as Josh was in the final six games last year. There could be many reasons why or why not. You even suggest that JA's big arm (and I would also throw in gunslinger mentality) helps open up the running lanes for him. That is a trait that Josh has that most other mobile QB's do not and should be considered a positive. Even all that aside, my argument was simply Josh vs Darnold. I think we can all agree that both Darnold and Allen were sub par last year as passers. The raw statistics certainly suggest such. But how were both as runners? If we want to measure on a simple 1-10 scale you could say Josh was a 9.5 -10 in the final six games. What was Darnold? Maybe a 5? Darnold was statistically a better passer than Allen but it wasn't by the wide margin that we see when we compare the two QB's raw rushing numbers. If we were to apply the same simple 1-10 scale for passing efficiency where would we rank them? Maybe Allen is a 4 and Darnold is a 5.5? I just don't see any reason to believe Darnold is a better QB at everything in totality.

Sure but the reality is it's only a must win if you are close to elimination. The Patriots lose far more games out the gate then they do down the stretch. That is what the Bills need to be doing. Just win 80% of your games as a whole. Season isn't over after one or two losses in September.

I can't agree with this. Allen wasn't just some mobile QB last year. Allen, for a six game stretch, was the best mobile QB the league has ever seen. Right there with a stretch that Mike Vick put together. Darnold's talents as a runner are nowhere near Allen's level. Will Allen pick up where he left off last year in his final six games? Maybe not. But we know he at least has the talent and skills and can use them at any point of a game. Also, if we figure he rushes less this year then we should figure he passes more and with better efficiency this year in his second season with a better receiving core. Lower rushing numbers, but not necessarily efficiency should hopefully correlate with greater passing numbers and passing efficiency in his second year. It's a wash for me. I do like Darnold's intangibles but Allen has skills that no other QB in the league has shown yet.

Greg Williams worries me a little bit. Personnel wise I don't the Jets are really stacked on defense. But JA better be ready to play going against Greg Williams.

The dreaded must win game right out of the gate. What is it the 20th straight year we have drawn that game to start the season?

Last years game was a tale of two halves. Bills dominating the first half and Jets dominating the second. Just play Darnold tough the whole game. The D was great against him the first half last year and then the second half they allowed too many completions. They also don't have Andre Roberts anymore so that should help. Need more consistency in this game from both sides.

LOL. This all comes down to Tunsil. If Tunsil is the next Jason Peters than this is a fantastic trade for the Texans. They got a great player to protect their young franchise QB and open up some lanes in the run game. If Tunsil is just an average LT then it's a bad trade.

They leave no stone un-turned.

Truthfully the Patriots dynasty is probably the most balanced dynasty of all time. Able to win in pretty much every imaginable way. With a game manager style QB in Brady's early days to league MVP QB in his later days. Over the course of that 20 year dynasty their have certainly been stretches where RB's have carried a heavy load. And with White and Michel, the recent trend has been RB's dominating over say WR's/TE's.

Financially speaking you are correct. But draft asset wise they have. I know Michel was taken at 31 overall but for the Patriots, that is a high draft pick. The same as when the Bills use a #11 or #8 pick on a Lynch or Spiller. We never really paid a lot of money to either of those backs either as they were on rookie deals but we did use the best draft capital we had on them. Same thing the Patriots did when drafting Michel. I doubt Michel will ever see a second contract from the Patriots. Just like Lynch and Spiller did not receive one from the Bills.