Sammy Watkins' Rib

Yep. It is one of the most underrated parts of his game. I think it is 50/50.

I agree that we find out who this team is on Sunday. You hate to call it a must win game in October, but it will be 'same old bills' if we lose. Our dominance over the NFC North so far means that all three of our loses are in conference loses. And we sit at 1-1 in the division. Lose tomorrow and we have a losing record in the division and 4 loses in conference. Definitely not a recipe for winning the division or making a wild card. Something tells me the Bears upset the Pats tomorrow, so it would be great to also win and keep the pressure on the Patriots.

A look at Lee's career numbers tells us that his rookie year was arguably his second best season total he had. Really kind of sad when you consider the 48 catches and 850 yards. He had two seasons over 1000 yards, but in one of them, it was just barely over (1,017) and he only managed 3 TDs. His career also ended up only lasting for 8 seasons. That is incredibly short for a receiver.

He had an intriguing pre-season with 69% completion percentage and 9.7 ypa He did throw a pick in the very limited work he saw earlier in the regular season.

What the heck numbers are you looking at?? Through 7 games Lee Evans had 11 receptions about 260 yards and 1 Td. He had zero 100 yard games, zero multi TD games and the most receptions he had in one game was 4. He also had a game with zero receptions on four targets. The only positive Lee Evans had through seven games was tremendous ypc average. Sammy Watkins numbers through 7 games: 35 receptions, 422 yards and 4 Tds. Three games with 7 or more receptions, two 100 yard games and one multi TD game. Honestly, those numbers are not eve close. It is one would suggest they are similar. Now, Lee Evans finished his rookie year strong. But still, Sammy would have to hit a brick wall for him to not best Lee's rookie numbers. The only one I could see Sammy and Lee being close in at the end of the season is TDs.

I agree with most of the OP outside of the premise that this team did/does not have a likely chance of finishing in the bottom 10 this season. I think going into the season one would have to realistically view the chances of finishing the season as one of the 10 worst teams at about a 50% likely hood. Heck, we are 4-3 but I am still not ready to guarantee more than 6 or 7 wins (lets see how these next two games go, Jets and Chiefs looked like much easier games a couple weeks ago). Six wins probably puts us right around 8-10 and 7 wins probably has us in the 11-13 range. And had we not made the QB change, which was probably not conceivable back at the time of the draft, we would probably be sitting at 3-4 or even 2-5. With that said, I can't see how anyone can argue against the Watkins trade. He is a very talented player. In only seven games you can already tell that he is the most talented players we have had on our team since, well, heck, probably the Super Bowl days. That is a long freaking time.

I fully expect us to view Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck in the future the same way we currently have viewed Manning and Brady over the last 10 years.

That entire drive was to insane. With all the negative things that were happening, sacks, false starts, intentional grounding, I would love to see the win probability graph for that final drive. It has to be all over the place.

I liked that the ball was out quickly. There was 1 second left on the clock when they called the play dead obviously since we kicked off. Had by chance Sammy had bobbled the ball or his toe was out, we would have had one more crack at it.

I was hoping the video would have the hit on Patterson on the ensuing kick off. Was it Duke Williams that leveled him?

Dixon has looked really good in his limited role so far this year. He seems to usually get 2-3 yards at minimum . And I think I trust his ball security. Brown will get playing time but we will have to see how much. Doesn't he have ball security issues? Not sure that is a good thing when we have 7 turnovers in the last two games. Good to know. He also had 35% less carries and his rushing average was half a yard less per carry that year compared to the year prior. Hope he can keep protecting the ball, I can deal with the decreased yards per carry.

I think you could actually argue that that can hurt you. You don't want your QB to dink and dunk down the field in most circumstances. This last three minutes really was amazing. Pretty much a summary of the game too. How many times did we shoot ourselves in the foot on that final drive? Yet we still somehow pulled it off. 1. Sack 2. False start 3. Sack 4. Chandler drops a first down pass 5. Intentional grounding And we scored a TD on that drive!? That says a ton about the QB. All three games Orton has played in he has put together some pretty impressive drives late in the game. Can't deny that. Just need him to hold onto the ball in the pocket. I can deal with him averaging 1 int a game because he moves the ball so well and is completing 68% of his passes.

The thing is, the Jets tend to play the Pats better then the Bills over the last 5 years are so. I think it is all about match-ups and scheme employed by Rex. But it doesn't necessarily translate to the Jets being able to dominate the Bills. Similarly, we match-up extremely well against the Dolphins. Yet, the Dolphins have always played the Pats better then the Bills.

Absolutely. I'm actually kind of glad the Jets played the Pats tuff last week. I think our defense matches up well with the Jets. Basically, as long as the team we are facing does not have an elite QB, this D can be good enough to keep us in any game. The offense is a concern with all the turnovers. But I mean come on, 7 turnovers in the last two games?? You got to figure we are due for a turnover free game or at worst one turnover. Orton just needs to focus on holding onto the ball when under pressure. I am totally fine with the fact that he is throwing one pick every game. They tend to come early. And he is fantastic about moving the ball when we absolutely have to. But the fumbles are costly.

I think Fred Jackson is a player that a LOT of the legit contenders would want. Teams like San Diego, New England, Green Bay, Denver come to mind. I've always thought Fred In New England would be amazing. As much as I despise the Pats, I feel like Fred deserves that kind of success. Still holding out hope that the Bills can get him to the playoffs this year.

I am curious to see how they will protect Bridgewater in this game. It makes me wish the Lions ha not sacked him 8 times last week. It will probably be hard for the defense to get to him more than 4 times in this game because Minnesota will probably go max protection and super short routes.

Honestly, I am one of those guys who very rarely likes to pick the Bills for anything including weekly pick-em leagues. I will only pick them if I feel it is 80% or greater chance they will win. With that said, I am feeling a 99.9% chance we win this week. And 90% chance we win going away. It feels like a 30-3 type of game. But if you refuse to take the Bills still, then I would go with the Colts over the Bengals.

I know it is a dumb question but it proves the point that this league is all about the QB. To heck with who the coach is. Coaches can provide a scheme, but it does not mean they are the best at running the scheme. They are no better than the 10 other guys running the same scheme. The only way you beat a top QB consistently is if you have an extremely good defense.

And behold, the reason why... Tony Romo. A QB far better then any we have had in the last decade, but not elite. Makes sense that they would be more competitive than us over the last three years but still not quite a playoff team. NFL coaches are easily the most over rated aspect of a successful team. I mean nobody here believe that if we switched head coaches with the Patriots for the last three years that we would suddenly have more than one lone win against them right?

Defenses do two things. Stop the run or stop the pass. We do one better than any other team in the league. We have not been this good in one defensive category since probably the days of Sam Cowart. But now it is not good enough because of ONE game against a HOF QB.

Yes. Because how many teams have a QB on the level of a Tom Brady? This defense is good enough to beat teams led by chumps like Cutler and Stafford. They were good enough to beat the Texans but our QB at the time had an all time bad game. This defense will surely be good enough against the up coming Bridgewater and Geno Smith.

Cool. That is just a really odd stat that you do not see every day.

I guess Hoyer had a good game today?? But the dude only completed 8 passes! Had only 17 attempts (completed less than half). Not exactly sure how the Browns blew out the Steelers. The turnovers were even. And the Browns ran for 158 as team but only a "okay" 4.2 ypc average.

I think we will all be better off to take a page out of the Hoodie's handbook and move on to Minnesota. I was just checking out the box score from the Lions vs. Vikings game. Good lord. Lions got 8 sacks on Bridgewater and forced 3 picks. He had a 2.5 QBR. I am thinking we get our mojo back next Sunday. Each member of our starting D-line adds a sack to their season total.

They watched last weeks game and decided they needed to shut down the run on not let Wright run wild.