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Could be worse still… I’m in a 14 person league with some friends, and half as a joke, one picked every single bills player and has been starting the bills each week. He’s been 5-1 so far, but that’s changing to 5-2 as he can’t field a team.

Daquan Jones currently is the most frequently double teamed DT in the league, and still is top 5 among DTs in pass rush win rate. I’d rather work on the offensive line, especially considering Ed Oliver and Greg Rousseau can be disruptors as well.

Marino, yes but Kelly, maybe? Most places you look have Kelly ranked ~21/22 best QB in NFL history. If that still counts as one of the greats, sure but i feel like that’s a pretty big group.

The Bills have the advantage of being more used to the cold/snow because they are in NY. The Dolphins have the advantage of being more used to the heat because they are in Florida. The amount of snow/the cold is not different for either team, and so the bills only advantage is the experience dealing with it. The Dolphins have a sideline that is significantly cooler than their opponents from the shade. They have the advantage of less heat, as well as more experience dealing with heat.

My bad for saying you, you were defending him so I mistook you for being the OP. But also, the OP said 317.67 yards per game, quite a bit off from the 372.8 figure you give.

No, passing yards. They have him at 257 rushing yards, which if you take away from the 1980 passing yards they list would give an average on 287, so your number would still be off if that was the case. Edit: I see what happened, You took the ESPN stats for passing yards which hasn’t updated the 6th game and divided the previous total by 6 @Doc

NFL.com has Josh at 1980 Passing yards, which would be an average of 330 per game. Not sure what im missing here, but your numbers look off.

I think McDermott is conservative scheme wise, but as for game management he is more aggressive. Of course A lot of that is probably due to faith in Allen.

If they were ready to move on from McKenzie they would have just not signed him this offseason. IIRC Crowder is on a one year deal, so also doesn’t change a thing. And I think adding Crowder+Shakir was more about replacing Beasley, who McKenzie was backing up.

Taron Johnson called game.

For sure

Not saying I agree with Augie completely here, but Adams made a very similar excuse to both points 1 and 2. 1) “I want to apologize to the guy, there was some guy running off the field, and he ran, like jumped in front of me coming off the field” 2) “that was just frustration mixed with him literally just running in from of me.” Obviously in an apology, he’s not gonna say you shouldn’t startle an angry athlete, but it wasn’t terribly far from I was (an) angry (athlete) and he startled me.

The Giants are actually the current 6 seed of the NFC. Eagles currently hold the division, and the cowboys have the tiebreaker for the first wildcard spot.

That probably was due to the IR rule changes in length and amount of players allowed to come back from IR.

Maybe they don’t count running plays for the 60 snaps?

Spencer Brown went out for heat illness.

I think the Steelers won the battle but lost the war with all the injuries they had.

Deebo Samuel had over 1400 yards last year and Ayuik had over 800 with significantly worse QB play than the bills. chargers had 2 guys with 1100+ yards last year. Broncos are a bit of a stretch as last years stats don’t really back it up, but they had Teddy Bridgewater and Drew Lock at QB so it’s a little hard to evaluate. like I mentioned with the Saints, it does rely on Michael Thomas being healthy, but they added Jarvis Landry and that is a very solid 1-2 punch if Thomas is healthy.

Teams WR groups Id definitely put ahead of the bills: Bengals, Bucs, Dolphins, Rams Teams WR groups that are likely better than the Bills but an argument could be made: Eagles, raiders, 49ers, chargers, Vikings, Cardinals Teams WR groups that are in the same tier and could go either way: Seahawks, Broncos, Saints (somewhat relying on Thomas to return to form) Earlier I said they were probably in the 9-15 range, but I think I'll adjust it to 8-13 range.

I think I agree with @ScottLaw on this one. I think Allen makes it so our WRs will have the production of a top 10 group, and Im pretty confident about that. However, I dont think that is due to our recievers group being the best in the league, I think they are likely somewhere in the 9-15 range. Look at Diggs stats going from Minnesota to Buffalo. His career year was 1,130 yards and had gotten to 1000 yards 2 of his 5 seasons. He comes to the bills and starts playing with Josh Allen and those stats take a big jump. I think with any top 20 WR, Allen would be throwing for 1200+ yards to them. Diggs and Davis may both hit the 1,000 mark, but if you had an average QB throwing to them instead (think Mac Jones) maybe Diggs hits 1,000, but doubt Gabe would.

Not really a hill I need to die on. But I was curious, so I looked up a bunch of lists grading QBs for their 2021 performance specifically, and Matt Stafford got 5,5, 6, 7, 7, 8, and 12 from the lists I looked at. That would put his average ranking at 7, though I didn’t pay much attention to the other QBs which could have had a worse average. The most important point (the hill to die on) though is that McVay is THE youngest head coach in the NFL. Despite being the youngest, he has a super bowl victory and another appearance. If you dont think there’s a chance (even if it’s <1%) he becomes one of the best coaches of all time, that’s kind of silly.

I don’t think Goff was ever that good. I think McVay disguised a flawed QB pretty well. I still don’t really think Stafford was a top 5 QB last year, though he did have yards and TDS to support that.

Stanford also led the league in interceptions last year. Something ignored in the above is how well Stafford played before/Goff played after the trade, as well how Goff improved under McVay. Goff’s YPA went from 5.3 before mcvay to a high 8.0 with him. It went up to 8.4, before settling to 7.2. For the lions, Goff had 6.6, his lowest since his rookie season. Sure, some of that can be attributed to the lions being worse, but some could be attributed to McVay’s offense. Under Mcvay, Stafford equaled his career high completion percentage of 67.2% (which he hasn’t hit since 2015), and touchdowns at 41 (which he hadn’t hit since 2011). Again, some of that is because the rams are better, but also some is likely due to the coaching. As for the Tomlin comment, you’re ignoring what’s happened since his early career success. No one is saying anything about Tomlin having a shot at best coach ever because he hasn’t followed up with dominance. This is kinda like me saying Josh Allen has the potential to be one of the best QBs of all time, and being countered with “But russel Wilson had more early career success, and no one is calling him a top 3 of all time QB” Could Allen/McVay become some of the best we’ve ever seen? Sure. Could they also not? Absolutely.

Got a pretty good laugh out of this list. They listed Mac Jones at 20/32, then proceeded to say “there is no question that the Patriots have found their long-term starter”. If the 20th best QB in the league is your long term starter, you’re going to be in for a world of hurt.

He is the youngest super bowl winning head coach ever, and has made the super bowl a separate time, both with QBs that we’re not top 5 in the league, likely not even top 10. Of the active head coaches, he likely has the best chance at being the best other than Belicheat.