Doc Brown

Dane Jackson. For better or worse.

Yeah he would with just his football IQ alone in this defense. He’s one of the best in the league at disguising coverages and preventing the deep ball. That might be important considering the QB’s we pry have to play in the playoffs to get to the SB. He’s not coming back from a knee injury like T. White is so I’ll take an 85% Hyde over a 100% Hamlin.

So much of it is luck as we were a squib kick away from hosting an AFC Championship game last year. The Chiefs almost choked in the Divisional round in 2020 beating the Browns by five. Browns win that and they travel to Buffalo for the AFC Championship game. You can debate all you want which of the last three seasons we had the best roster but our current roster as constructed has as good of chance as any in the league. Having Hyde back (while not an absolute must) would slightly increase our chances.

The Power of Love

Compared to last year our offense is averaging more passing yards per game, rushing yards per game, yards per play, and have a higher drive scoring % as well as 3rd down %. It just looks different than last year as we're targeting our RB's and Diggs more. I get that whenever the offense seems stagnant it's natural to see what we don't have this year compared to last year. However, we're better by almost every metric without Beasley.

I don't think you sign Beasley if you think Crowder's coming back to play a significant role. I highly doubt it this late in the season.

His last extension made him the highest paid left tackle and he's still third in average annual value. Of course he'll ask for this.

Dan Quinn and Schottenheimer as his OC could also be an interesting possibility.

True but I doubt the Bengals lose to the Ravens at home. Even if they did I think the Chargers or Dolphins (assuming Tua is playing) beat the Ravens in the Wild Card round.

According to you the running backs are the only weapons they have. That's called moving the goal posts.

No because one team is better than another. It does take the 20% chance or so you have of losing away though if you have that bye week. Plus, it gives your team time for banged up players to rest and prevents possible injuries from the first round game. Also, there's a shot of a Wild Card team of upsetting the Chiefs and/or Bengals in the first round. The biggest benefit of the one seed is you're guaranteed not to have to play the Bengals or Chiefs in the Divisional round. If we're the three seed we'd likely have to go through Cincinnati and Kansas City in their house to reach the Super Bowl. This game is huge.

Their best weapon is Garrett Wilson.

Surprised Brian Schottenheimer's name isn't on there given Russ had his best years under him as offensive coordinator.

Unless Burrow or Herbert have the two best years of their career the next two years this record might stand for some time. What Marino did his first five seasons is incredible though given the era he played in. I love Jim Kelly but draft Marino instead of him in '83 we'd be looking at multiple Super Bowl titles.

Would you say the same thing for Mitch Morse?

Sounds good. I said my piece.

Aikman's overreacting a tad there.

If you want to. They aren't essential workers and they violated the driving ban that everyone else had to follow. It's as simple as that.

Terrible optics for all the people respecting the travel band who won't get to see their close relatives on Christmas. Especially for one's without power. I'm sorry. I'm not going to twist myself into a pretzel defending the Bills for a bad decision.

Still sends a message of different rules for the privileged. The Bills aren't essential personnel. It also undermines all the local politicians who are yelling and ticketing people for not following the travel ban. I love the social media feed of them leaving Rochester at the airport to a yelling Bills mafia though.

That's fair. I understood the Fins hiring him but he never should've gotten a second head coaching job. I remember the Jets justification for hiring him was that his offenses got worse each year he coached in Miami because he wasn't technically the offensive coordinator and that he was a "QB whisperer" who would fix Sam Darnold. Basically ignoring his last three years of work in a rapidly evolving NFL.

His resume was pry good enough to get him the Dolphins job but his offense in Chicago and Miami vastly under performed with the talent they had. It was a horrible hire by the Jets. Peyton Manning pretty much made any offensive coordinator he had look good.

My guess is they want the coordinators to still be able to focus on their units with only two games left. An oversight temporary head coach is pry the best way to go given they play the Chiefs and Chargers. Don't want to stain Evero's future candidacy by getting blown out twice as head coach.

Jay Cutler

Reminded me of the first Fins game last year as far as miserable road blowouts go. Remember people. We're only happy with a victory if our passing game was humming and Josh played lights out.