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If the Bills had Vrabel and McDaniels we'd be Super Bowl favorites... That's my point. Of course Maye wouldn't be doing here what he's doing in New England. But I 100% believe if we had their coaching staff and no other changes, we'd be the ones with the 11-2 record right now. They are just a really well coached fundamentally sound team. That plus a QB who is playing great and just about any team in the NFL is talented enough to be where they are right now.

It does not have the look of a championship roster. Then again none of the AFC teams do, so who knows. Usually a championship roster has a difference maker on the DL and a difference maker in the WR room. I don't think New England has either of those. It's a good WR room. It's a good OL (when healthy). Excellent CBs but that's their only position group I would put in the upper echelon of the NFL. The rest of their roster I would put in an average or lower tier. Maye's play and elite level coaching is why they've ripped off 10 wins in a row. With that win streak Vrabel did in year one what McDermott hasn't done in his entire tenure. It is not a 10 win in a row type of roster, I'm confident saying we've had multiple better rosters than that since 2020. The coaching is the biggest difference from last year to this year.

Stroud's rookie year is the only one of those that is remotely comparable to Maye this year, and there were a lot of analytics that showed Stroud was getting away with a good amount of turnover luck and that sort of thing. I don't know what to tell people that are still trying to dismiss what Maye has done this year. He and Vrabel/McDaniels are going to be a problem for the next decade. The scary thing is they have a ton of cap space next year so what we're seeing this season is the floor. Don't be surprised if they add AJ Brown or a similar talent. They are probably overachieving this year relative to their talent, but that's what great coaching gets you and the talent is only going to get better.

He's been great. His downfield throws in particular have excellent. I expect his GM to slowly remove all of his WRs, surround with him physically limited cast offs, and ask him to be a game manager in a boring run heavy offense. Maybe if Josh McDaniels gets a head coaching job they can just hire whatever offensive coach who happens to already be in the building to be his replacement.

We tried him on two slants against Pittsburgh. One clean drop, one poor route that led to a drop on a tougher than needed to be catch. Allen has thrown 2 INTs in his direction downfield this year. Shakir has had a few opportunities to make routine sideline catches and couldn't finish. I don't know why so many Bills fans still think that we under utilize him. He isn't a traditional slot WR that you can feed normal targets to. Every time we've tried to give him a bigger role it's turned out poorly.

Giants are permanently living in 2nd and 9 because they refuse to give up on these hopeless 1st down runs

I think Bosa might have to spend the rest of his career on 1 year deals like Clowney. Teams aren't going to trust him to stay healthy enough to warrant anything more than that. Within that context yeah I'd bring him back on a 1 year deal since he costs $7.2M against the cap even if we don't bring him back. But if we bring him back we have to give him less snaps and save him for critical pass rush situations.

The official NFL Twitter account still hasn't posted a replay of that fumble, which tells you everything you need to know. I'm shocked they didn't call a penalty there. Even if it wasn't intentional they are always calling that.

His 2nd foot was down first

Wow that is not an easy catch. Nice play from the rookie

Theo Johnson isn't an NFL player, they can stop trying to make him one any day now.

I don't know if anybody mentioned this yet but Vrabel didn't make that trade, Jon Robinson did. Just wanted to make sure someone mentioned it.

Whereas I'm trying to drum up Titans hate 😁

Jon Robinson traded AJ Brown. Vrabel did not approve. Don't be surprised if the two are reunited next year.

Alright then. Can they get a stop? Or at least make it look difficult?

Dart is actually pretty good when they let him throw the ball.

Giants are wasting downs with all these 1st and 2nd down runs

Nice series from Theo Johnson. Back your team up 15 yards then fail to make a catch that hit your hands.

By far the biggest discrepancy in this game is coaching. Pats already in their heads and forcing dumb mistakes

They have a legit QB and an outstanding coaching staff. That alone makes up for a lot of their talent deficiencies. I still think they're missing a couple ingredients of a championship team but who knows, it's a soft AFC and nothing would surprise me.

Just a really well coached fundamentally sound team in all three phases

The wide discrepancy between his snaps and Tre's appears to have been mostly luck: Tre got one extra drive to start each half, otherwise it was a true rotation.

Ahh we'll call it 4.5 yards from the LoS 🤏

Bishop's out of nowhere improvement is the storyline of the season for me. It's not like he went from below average to functional, he skyrocketed into one of the best young safeties in the entire league starting the week of the KC game and hasn't looked back. The Bosa strip sack happened in part because Bishop took the air out of Metcalf's route and covered him up long enough for Bosa to get home. Bishop was hung out to dry with Benford on a CB blitz and answered the bell. Not the best angle but you can kind of see it on the broadcast footage:

This doesn't even account for his run defense which has also been stellar. Benford got a lot of criticism for his play early in the season, and he deserved it. But he deserves a shout out for getting back to his high standard of play and his contract once again looks like a steal. The future looks very bright with Benford and Hairston, whose respective skill sets complement each other very well.