BullBuchanan

4 games ago would have been a nice time for cook to start playing well. 4 games from now will also be a nice time for him to start playing well. Really though, I'm not banking on my 3rd string running back to be the make or break piece of my offense. It would have been great if he had stolen the starting job out of camp as a dynamic weapon, but barring that he'll likely be a 2-3 touch per game player until next year when ideally he takes over half (or more) of singletary's job

lol, no.

Already done. I think it might be more useful to look at game "clinched" vs "squandered" though, because as mentioned before you have some games that end on things like defensive touchdowns or broken play runs where they were really 1 score games until the last minute, and then back door covers where they were really multi-score games with no chance of being won.

Positives __________ The Detroit Lions leading the league in yards and points with the #1 Offense Jalen Hurts The Jaguars Tua The Giants and the resurgence of Saquon Cooper Rush led Cowboys The NFC East looking a lot stronger than expected Negatives: ____________ The Detroit Lions leading the league in yards and points surrendered with the dead-last #32 defense The Broncos pitiful offense Christian McCaffery looking human The AFC West looking a lot weaker than expected

He's a fine back with good elusiveness, vision and balance that can catch. He doesn't have top end speed and he's not a bruiser. He should get Moss' carries, but that's about it. Singletary is the kind of back you don't want as a true #1, but can be a serviceable part of a committee. He'll make far too much money for that role though, so I won't mind seeing him go while we try to upgrade. Wouldn't be shocked to see the Patriots go after him.

That's true if they overperform their entry level contract, you need cheaper depth than vet minimum, or if they're a quarterback. Otherwise it's no better than free agency. Edmunds has not come close to overperforming his contract. Even though he's having his best year as a pro, he's still not outperforming the money he's making this year as the 4th highest cap hit, #1 base salary and 6th highest overall paid ILB in the league.

In a league where the average career for a non-QB is 3.3 years, I don't think it's acceptable to wait until a player's 5th season for them to not be a liability. That's not a lack of patience, it's a lack of production. Given that entry contracts are 4 years, you'd be better off just getting a guy who has proven he has what it takes in free agency than wasting a 1st round pick on him and then having to spend the same money to re-sign him anyway.

That ankle tackle of Jackson was maybe my favorite defensive play of the year so far. I'm absolutely smitten with the way the kid plays football. He's already one of my favorite Bills of all-time.

We can only hope.

Well it is/was absolutely a trend. That can't really be debated because the wins and losses are what they are and there was a pattern. It was every much a trend as the winning streak the year prior was. Is it meaningful or indicative of success? maybe, maybe not. There's been some analysis done on single score wins, but it doesn't seem to indicate much over short periods of time because there are many other factors that need to be taken into account. McD is sitting on a 19-21 record right now, which i think is fairly average, but I'm not certain.

You should check into concussion protocol.

Dude. Please read this very, very slowly. The Bills lost 7 regular season one-score games in a row going back to November 15th, 2020. which is 23 months or roughly 2 years. Including playoff games the Bills lost 7 one-score games in a row starting the first game of the following season on September 15th 2021 Do with it what you wish.

2 earth years started 3 football seasons ago.

This was already answered above.

Why would they do that?

who said they didn't matter?

in the regular season they were 4-5 in 2019, 6-1 in 2020 , 0-6, in 2021 and 1-1 in 2022. In 2019, they lost a one scroe playoff game tot he Texans, 2020, they picked up a one score playoff win against the colts and in 2021 a one score loss against the chiefs. Data including all games looks like this 17: 0,1,0,1,1,1,1,0 18: 1,0,1,0,0,1 19: 1,1,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0 20: 1,1,1,1,1,1,0,1 21: 0,0,0,0,0,0, 22: 0,1, it's a 19-21 record from 2017 to date including playoffs. It's not my "analysis" it's just the common results everyone is referencing. I didn't discover it or create it. Also, there are 7 in a row if you count the playoffs or you don't, it just pushing the data tot he left or right.

It's 3 football seasons dude. I'm just asking you to count to three not to do calculus. I won't take responsibility for you miscomprehending information. Well that's your problem. count to three and go back one more year.

I said none of those things.

There's no doubt about that. It goes back to Hail Murray on November 15th 2020. Why do you keep doubling down on being wrong about publicly available information that takes seconds to source?

It wasn't a specific period of time though. It was every game from the Hail Murray-present. It's not like it's some arbitrary slice of past data that has no relevancy. If someone wants to look up records by year, go ahead.

I think McD's 0-13 record in games down by 10 at halftime before yesterday was FAR more useful and alarming, because it backed up observation that his teams rarely deviated from the script during games, including very rarely making any obvious half time adjustments that resulted in positive change. I'm not sure what changes if any were made on D yesterday, but they clearly played better pitching a second half shutout. Jackson also played quite a bit worse trying to force the ball, and that helped out a lot too.

Then that's not an argument that this particular trend didn't exist - it's more of an argument that multi-season win/loss trends don't exist at all. Isn't it?

"I'm" not choosing anything. As previously stated, I don't really care about the stat and I don't have strong opinions about what it means/doesn't mean. All I'm pointing out is that being good at something in the past, then recently being really bad at it will make people say and believe you're really bad at it, because that's where the trend is. Sports isn't like the market, it's much more short term because. What the true measure of McD as a coach over a career in close games? Who knows. Going for it was pretty clearly the right call. Had they kicked the FG, the bills would've had 4 downs and a 1:30 to move the ball 2 more yards to win. I'd take the Bills for all the money in that spot.

For a redshirt rookie 6th round pick, he's doing a nice job. The fact that him and JJ have even made the team is impressive, and Hamlin has made some flash plays. Maybe he isn't a long term answer at the position, and that's ok. If he is, it's a massive get.