HappyDays

What I'm learning watching this game is Houston's D is strong on the edges but you can gash them up the middle.

Bills 30 Dolphins 17 Thursday night games can be weird and I'm sure the Miami players want to show the world they aren't the worst team in the NFL. But their roster deficiencies are just too much to overcome and the locker room dynamics are past the point of no return. Mike McDaniel has totally lost control of his team. If we get up 2 scores in this one I think Miami will pack it in and we can sit out a good chunk of the 4th quarter for the second game in a row.

Funny enough I've been asking myself over the past few years what it would be like to have an elite pass rusher. Von showed us a glimpse before his injury, but other than that we have been lacking this major component of the championship formula that other contenders have had. Well, Bosa's performance in this game showed me what it's like. Beyond his on paper production which itself was eye popping, his constant disruption whether it got home or not was getting in Fields' head and made him completely ineffective. There were flashes of it in week 1 and now we've gotten the full vision. It's been a long time since I could say a Bills player other than Allen took over a game and made it effectively impossible for the opponent to stay in it. Bosa and Oliver look like they could be a major problem this year if they can just stay healthy together. I'm desperately hoping we lock up the #1 seed early so we can let them rest and have them full steam ahead entering the playoffs. Those guys wreaking havoc around the QB could be the missing element we need to finally get over the hump.

Mahomes isn't Brady and Reid isn't Belichick so that's where that comparison ends.

Last time they got blown out in the Super Bowl they had a down year the following year. Mahomes in particular - that year he had a stretch of games where he played like absolute garbage and then single handedly gave away the AFCCG to Cincy. I wondered before the season if something similar might happen this year. Not going to count them out by any means, and they'll be better when Rashee Rice comes back, but they have some pretty fundamental issues on both sides of the ball. They have no run game, weak pass catching group, the IOL has taken a step back. On defense they have one better than JAG secondary player and a middling front four. The one thing saving them from total dysfunction is they still have the best all around coaching staff and Mahomes has made some magic happen. But Mahomes' on schedule play has been below his standard this year. I've seen him miss way too many throws that he usually hits. He's so good escaping the pocket and making something happen off schedule that he's been able to get away with it to some extent, but over the course of an entire game it isn't a sustainable style of play. And this year they don't have the clutch defense that was making up for some of the offensive struggles last year.

You're drawing the wrong conclusion from that comparison IMO.

Here's a black and white example of the difference between Davis and Cook: I mean it's pretty much the exact same offensive and defensive play call on each attempt. Davis gets stuffed on his attempt, Cook scores a 44 yard TD on his. The people that said Davis could replicate Cook's production in this offense were just flat out wrong. So are the people that said Cook's TD production last year was a fluke. Okay maybe a bit early to take a victory lap on that but for right now he is definitely on track to meet or exceed his 16 rushing TDs from last year.

He's only played in 78 games. Allen by comparison had played in 126. Burrow tore his ACL in his rookie season. I think we can just say that he's injury prone and there's nothing more to it. Of course Cincy should be aware of that and build the team accordingly moving forward from here. Burrow needs elite pass protection and a scheme that gets the ball out of his hands fast.

On one hand I understand this take. No question they have not done a good job of finding OL talent. But also this is the NFL... QBs are going to take hits. Allen and Mahomes have had their share of poor OL play over the years and they haven't missed chunks of their career. The tackle that he got hurt on yesterday was as routine as it gets, he was trying to step up in the pocket and got tackled by his ankles. Watching it back you wouldn't think that will end up a 3+ month injury. Burrow unfortunately is just injury prone and short of building the greatest OL of all time it feels inevitable that any random hit he takes over the course of a game will knock him out for a while. This will be the 3rd season out of 6 that he hasn't been able to finish. Half of his career...

I think Brady is trying to make the best of an underwhelming group of pass catchers. The pass protection also has not been as strong as it was last year. If anyone is expecting a bombs away offense that just isn't realistic. Our offense is built to run the ball, control clock, and wear down the opposing defense so we can open it up in the 4th quarter if we need to.

This would be the 3rd season Burrow will have essentially missed with a major injury. 50% of his career... Turns out when you have an injury prone QB you probably shouldn't have Cody Ford as one of your starters.

Game script reasons. The run game was working well all day and they never gave us a reason to abandon it. And then it became apparent by the middle of the 3rd quarter that the Jets offense was a dud so once we put up 30 we stopped trying. There were some struggles early on but whenever the offense needed to sustain a drive we made it look easy. The whole offense looked bored honestly.

As a passer he's had a horrid game. Made one drive happen by just running around, but that isn't sustainable.

I don't know, last week their defense was their main problem. This week Spags is still relying very heavily on blitzes because 4 man rushes aren't getting any push. Eagles offense is very basic, they don't scheme up anything creative.

Mahomes' ball placement has not been good this year.

Also Brady is wrong, that was not a perfect pass. He threw it a tick too early and low.

Suck it Travis

This is wild:

Their next 4 games are Vikings, Broncos, Lions, Packers. That was gong to be a tough stretch even if Burrow was able to play.

Philly's offense is way too talented to go through these long periods of mediocre production. I see no creativity from their scheme at all.

Burrow likely out for several weeks:

Didn't see much of this game, I guess BTJ was mailing it in?

Did anyone else's Sunday Ticket just kick them out of the Chiefs/Eagles game? Suddenly brought up a message that said the game isn't available in the Buffalo area?

Mahomes way overthrows his wide open TE which leads to a 3 and out, the commentator proceeds to spend the next 30 seconds talking about Mahomes' amazing poise and work ethic. Just glosses right over it. Whatever.