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All these minus Milano would be my answer too

I think it needs to be addressed that safeties can only really occur within a very specific part of the field, whereas defensive TDs can happen from anywhere. So it's not simply that safeties occur more infrequently...imo you have to look at the ratio of how many plays run from inside the 3 result in safeties vs the ratio of overall defensive snaps that result in defensive TDs...I expect it will make defensive TDs as infrequent, if not rarer, than safeties.

I think you are going to be pleasantly surprised, especially with how Diggs opens up the field for other pass catchers

No. He is totally mediocre

Yes, it's complete guesswork that Fitzpatrick would have made the playoffs on the Bills last year. He has worse than a career 3:2 td/int ratio, and with the amount of close or one score games we played last season Allen's 20/9 vs Fitz's 20/13 could easily have been the difference.

Hate em. ***** awful and the uniforms suck too

I looked at the Cowboys game like the Vikings game tbh; we were big underdogs who dropped a flashy performance, got the recognition but it not significant...against the Steelers there was no sneaking up on anyone anymore. It was for the playoffs, two teams with phenomenal defenses, iirc the way the guys acted after beating Pitt you could tell that was the game that told them they'd arrived as legit.

That's because you didn't watch the game lmao or you'd know that the INT bounced off both Beasley's hands, who dropped several passes that game

4th in the league in ANY/A

Steelers game was way bigger than Cowboys. They wanted to win in Dallas on Thanksgiving, they NEEDED to win in Pitt.

Yes that's why we were never re-signing Phillips, and I said as much right during midseason when he was racking up sacks...not a scheme guy, just a byproduct

LMAO we played the league MVP this year

Interesting...so the fact that the Cowboys had injuries to both safeties, Jaylon Smith, and LVE who didn't even play as opposed to a healthy and far superior Steelers defense that was playing lights out at that point means nothing to you vis a vis Allen's performances, respectively.

If you weren’t wowed by the whole team against Pitt, Allen included, in that situation...I don’t know what to tell you. That game was massive.

This defense hasn’t been carved up in a long time

Just listen to what I tell you and everything will be ok

It's actually a function of the overall defense and not a problem at all. A 'simple' defensive line scheme allows our LBs to read assignments quickly re:gap vs rush and keeps underneath clean on pass downs. The defense is only DB-centric because we picked up Hyde/Poyer. There's more talent right now in the secondary, which is why McDermott leans on it more than the other units. But he's always going to find pieces that work and plug them in and adjust accordingly. It's not as if his defenses were always predicated on a strong secondary...he got NFL starter-level play out of Tre Boston and Bene Benwickerie for christsake. Historically, McD has needed 3 things to run a top defense- a Pro Bowl level corner, a crazy athletic MLB, and a 1tech DT willing to play gap control. The rest he can adjust scheme to fit pieces.

He also made a huge stop in the backfield, injured himself, came back in and almost won that game (the biggest game of the year up to that point) singlehandedly. White makes big plays. Anyone who wants to pay Milano before him lmfao good luck with that

Not according to preliminary data from New York state https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-asthma-risk.html

Milano lmao

I would guess that McCaffrey and White's impact on the spread is just about equal. And I definitely am not calling CMC 'average'.

My issue with the idea is twofold: replacement value on average of RB vs DB and their relative importance to how the team functions. We know the Bills are currently built defense-first and while it's true that McDermott can get results from average defensive talent, his defenses have traditionally relied on a top performing DB (White now, Norman previously) as counterweight to his defensive line scheme and allows LBs to cheat a little in coverage toward the opposite field. I don't believe our current defense can be run without a top DB. Thus, the gap in replacement value of White v another DB is >>> than McCaffrey v Singletary imo. All things being equal, I stand by my post that you'd rather have your best player be a defensive back than running back.

It's way less of a problem than your best player being an RB.