That's No Moon

I agree to an extent but he earned himself a longer look I think. Maybe not in the playoffs mind you, but I'm interested in seeing what else he can do. Moss has been stealing carries from Singletary as the year has worn on (post fumble in SF aside) but neither of them have really claimed the job. While I'd like another homerun hitter in a perfect world, a beefy guy who can punish teams for playing a small lineup against us has value too.

Addendum to my post above. The following play was from 2001. Not a penalty. This would be an immediate no brainer 15 yard penalty and a borderline ejection today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4OTH0pddv4&ab_channel=lteru This is a bunch of clips produced by the league itself and spliced together by someone. Almost none of this was illegal. BTW, look behind B-Dawk at 2:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcifUHmxLY&ab_channel=BucsArchivewithLiamMitchell I don't share these things because I think the league should go back to this because that isn't going to happen. I show this to those of you who are too young to remember so you have proper respect for offensive players who played in this era and before and didn't put up the video game stats players are putting up today. The NFL is a VERY different place now and players and styles that are very successful now would have had a much different experience back then. There is a REASON QBs didn't run around. There is a REASON why there weren't smurfy little slot receivers. There is a REASON why tight tends didn't maraud over the middle of the field all day long. It's not because nobody thought of doing it, it's because you would get killed. You had two safeties. Your free safety was your ballhawk most of the time and your strong safety was an absolute assassin. Their literal job was to kill people coming across the middle of the field and make them not come there anymore. Every team had one and they all did that, some better than others. The Bills' assassin was Leonard Smith and he would knock a fool out ZFG. This is Chuck Cecil. Chuck Cecil was crazy. Chuck Cecil did stuff like this all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxeo7ZUMzo&ab_channel=SavageBrickArchive

Only one way to fix it. 4 more rivers to cross. Even then there will be some that call it a fluke.

Which was my main reason for not being on board currently. The inconsistency. Take 10 off the 70's and add 10 to everything else and I'm better.

Knox is as good as McKellar was. We don't have anyone that blocks like Metzelaars though.

I'm going to sound INCREDIBLY old right now but all of these comparisons need to remember and take into account the myriad of rule changes that have happened since 1990-91. You can't bludgeon people over the middle, you can't hit the QB high, you can't hit the QB low, you can't hit the QB even remotely late, you can hold basically every down on offense, DBs get called for WAY more holding and illegal contact now than before, a defenseless receiver was something to murder not to avoid, there was no sliding like WRs do now to avoid contact. If you slid like that in front of Steve Atwater you'd lose your head. If you read this and think I sound like a boomer go watch a game from 90 or 91 on YouTube and tell me what you think. The games are there. Go watch them and count the number of things that would be obvious and blatant penalties today that not only weren't penalties they were lauded as good plays at the time. The Bills have an excellent offense for the time period they are in. Kelly in today's league wouldn't retire at 36 from getting beaten to a pulp. Andre Reed would be uncoverable over the middle because you couldn't manhandle him. A player like Pete Metzelaars would be extremely difficult to defend because he was 6'8" and you can't hit receivers over the middle any more. You basically have to let them catch the ball and then try to pull it out. Gronkowski in 1990 would be a dead man walking with the routes that Brady had him run and the throws he hung up in the air for him. The player that would probably look close to the same would be Thomas IMO mostly because players like him were ahead of their time. FWIW, Dan Marino would be absolutely ungodly in the modern NFL. You'd never lay a hand on him. He threw for 5k yards when 3k was an excellent season. Williams seems to be a little more point and shoot. Moss has a little more wiggle. Not sure who is faster but Williams seemed like a load to tackle. Not that Moss doesn't run hard but Williams seemed to have that little bit more mass that made DBs not want to stick their nose in there quite so hard. Reminded me a little of another Williams we had not so long ago. Kinda the same style of runner.

6 punts from inside his own 20. 6 out of 41 punts total so 15ish percent. The yards per return are unaffected by the shanked punt. The other team is still averaging 15 yards a return in those situations. Your criticism is fair though so I tried to find out exactly what happened on all 6 of those punts. Punt from 9, 45 yards, 10 yard return. 35 net Score 17-13 Late 3rd quarter Punt from 13, 57 yards, 40 yard return. 17 net. Score 7-7 1st quarter Punt from 10, 71 yards, 0 yards on return, 71 net. Score 10-14 late 2nd quarter Punt from 12, 40 yards, 15 yard return, 25 net. Score 14-6 mid 3rd quarter Punt from 18, 12 yards, out of bounds, 12 net. Score 19-16 mid 3rd quarter Punt from 20, 68 yards, 16 yard return, 52 net. Score 34-17 late 4th quarter The one with the long return seemed to have good hang time but it was right in the middle of the field and the coverage was nowhere to be found. Oddly he had 2 of his worst games in domes. Vegas and Arizona. Worst as in he had multiple touchbacks in Vegas and the horrid shank in Arizona.

I went to the Anchor in Frederick, MD. I found it to be very meh. I needed a fix so it was tolerable but I've had better wings at BWW so long as you are very specific about how they cook them.

Brees and Brady never had blazing arms but they also never checked down like Tua does. Hell, Fitz has an average arm. It what you do with your average arm and it seems like Tua has a don't turn the ball over mindset. It makes sense. The only way they lost at Alabama was if he turned the ball over. He has a coach in Miami that wants to win the game 3-0 so I'm sure he gets hammered with not turning the ball over there too. If he doesn't get over that quickly it's going to be a problem for him and the Dolphins.

You saw Tua at Alabama with a loaded team. The NFL is significantly different. He's not going to have Jerry Jeudy and Henry Ruggs running 10 yards open all the time. He's going to have to put balls into tough spots and he is gunshy. Gunshy like Tyrod used to be gunshy. Maybe he will get over it, but maybe he is Tyrod and won't throw it until he sees it open. It doesn't help that his arm is meh at best. When Josh makes a late decision he gets away with it more than he should because of his arm. Tua is never going to have that luxury. To me he's Chad Pennington. Pennington won plenty of games in the NFL and started for a long time but his ceiling was game manager. Seals have better hands than Taiwan.

I want to see him do some things first. Things like pass block. The immediate question though is does he have more on field value than Taiwan Jones right now who is basically a ST gunner and nothing else but he is ostensibly RB3 on gamedays. I'm not sure. Does he have more value than TJ Yeldon? Again I'm not sure but Yeldon seems to have cemented himself into a doghouse of some sort

His net average was 11 yards higher in December than in November. Gross was up 5.

I think the relief pitcher is a problem TBH. The kid needs to sink or swim on his own merits. If he constantly has someone looking over his shoulder and a coach who is going to give him the hook when things go wrong that's not going to help and eventually it will divide the locker room. If he's ready to start he's ready to finish, if he's not ready to finish then he shouldn't start. I was thoroughly underwhelmed by Tua all season. I'd at least listen if someone was interested because I don't think Chad Pennington is gonna get it done in a division with Allen and a conference with minimally Mahomes and Herbert As soon as he had to start pushing the ball up the field the turnovers started and it wasn't even windy today nor were we putting on a crazy pass rush. He looked like a man that knew he was putting his professional life on film for everyone to see.

They care and they pay the bills. A primetime game in NYC or Washington is worth more to them. It always will be.

I'm still not a fan. Still too many touchbacks and too much inconsistency. He's been good the last month or so after the Arizona shank. Interesting stat on him, his net average when kicking from between his own 1 and 20 is only 36.2 yards and he's averaging over 15 yards per return. His gross is only an average of 49 in those situations so it's not that he's outkicking the coverage, it's that it's coming out low. The times you need him to get it out long and high is when it's not happening. He's also had to punt three times from the +side of the 50 and put two of them into the end zone. Pooch or short directional OOB inside the 20 and it doesn't happen. When in his comfortable range between our own 20 and midfield, where he can kick it without stress, and without distance control his punting has been good, net average 47, gross 52.1 and opponents are only averaging 5.5 ypr so it's coming out nice and high in those situations. Maybe it will develop in time, he's a young guy.

As should we all. Bills and Steelers win and 2/3 of the Titans, Ravens, and Chiefs will be gone before we have a chance to play them. Much better scenario than having to potentially face them all. Thank you Sam Slomin.

This is correct. Win games and they don't have a choice.

Market size boss. Market size.

Gimmie Spero Dedes and Solomon Wilcots. They were ours when we were crap, they can be ours now.

Good, we should be finished stomping a mud hole into Indy around the time I need to leave the house to take my son to his hockey game in NoVa. Perfect.

They pick at 3. Do you trade Tua and try again?

He's handsy, that is a double edged sword. You can do worse as a third or fourth corner and I think it depends on the matchup. Tyreek Hill? No thank you. Chase Claypool or JuJu? Some physical play will be helpful.

I like that we have two guys that want to finish runs. Williams seems to have a little more lead in his britches than Moss.

It also shows they learned something from early in the season when they ran up big leads and tried to sit on the ball and let people back into the game. F that. Keep scoring.

Miami wanted to call timeouts with 8 minutes left. They still wanted to play. Well. Ok then. Let's play.