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C'mon Brenda. There's no reason for that.

Web Slinger time!

Interesting to see them show up and pass out of run looks. It's definitely good to see Brown and Knox back here. It seems as though Buffalo is fixing the red zone woes by going and letting their best skill position player make contested catches. Eventually they will misdirection from there.

I'm 100 percent sure there's a hot read there if Josh sees the blitz. Its wherever the safety vacated to blitz there.

I liked the fade call there. I'm not sure what people want in the red zone with the run game struggles but throw a good ball to Diggs and he was one on one.

This game just goes to show everyone here that a lot of these teams are having clunkers this year.

The whole point is to let the defense chase then lob it.

Screen was a good call there because you know Baltimore will be aggressive.

Miami gets their down back because he caught the ball.

That's a strange overturn without a different angle.

That's a catch. Looks like it didn't hit the ground.

I imagine they sell it separately like they do for UFC PPVs.

I'm not going to overblow what I saw yesterday. Yesterday was squarely a product of offensive line injuries. It's the same thing that happened to Kansas City in the Super Bowl. Wants two or three of these guys get injured and you have to shuffle a bunch of people around, it gets to a point where It can't function and there aren't really answers. No one is really going to get three to five offensive lineman shuffled around and playing like a unit in one week, especially when one of them is Ford. It is an interesting discussion because I think it leads to some of the inconsistency that we see League wide, especially in the AFC. Teams are becoming a little more inconsistent because everyone's being cautious with the longer season. Everyone is going to be overly cautious with injuries and no one is going to play attrition games because a lot of these games probably won't matter and teams are going to be more willing to take that risk. Fans don't really like the concept of low stakes games, but they exist we see them everywhere in the AFC this year. We saw them in the NFC in Dallas and Los Angeles yesterday.

Agree he should be criticized. I think there are some recognition issues the past couple weeks and they should move away from some of the audibles because Josh isn't recognizing blitzes and pass rushes pre-snap. Unblocked players get in either because there's more of them than defensive players or someone didn't recognize a blitz and on our team that's Josh's responsibility. They also need a better repitoire of fast developing plays. He also has to step up into the pocket more consistently. Good things happened when he stepped up into pockets that were there and took check-downs today, but he loves to escape to the right and everyone knows he is doing that.

Whelp lol. Offense needs a TD here though. Keep with the shorter developing plays and be patient.

Allen has to step up in the pocket there. The protection was good and be bailed on a clean pocket.

Jacksonville is moving everyone back and making Allen take checkdowns, which he is doing a good job of here. However, the roughness penalty hurts the drive because you take take chexkdowns at 2nd and 25.

The NFL doesn't do this because the structure and goal of the regular season is entirely different than in other sports. Essentially, the NFL doesn't want to incentivize teams to sell. The league is designed to keep every team in the playoff race for as long as possible because the season is only 17 games. The league has basically reached the midpoint and 22 of the 32 teams are still either in a playoff spot or within one game of a playoff spot, so the trade deadline happens while the waters are still muddy to prevent consolidation of talent.

It's a defense that played Patrick Mahomes and Ben roethlisberger to roughly their season averages. A home's got 20 points and roethlisberger got 17, and those are good outcomes for a team that averages 16 points allowed. For all the talk of what happens when we play a competent quarterback, it seems to me like most of the time the defense still plays to its standard. Like every other NFL defense, they don't play as well when they overplay the run. Prime Time game against Tennessee turned into a shootout, but that was the first game where Tennessee really had the full complement of its offensive players and nobody really figured that out, other than the unfortunate injury to Derrick Henry. But again, in the six other games that were not against Tennessee they've pretty reliably given up somewhere between 0 and 20 points, and in today's NFL you should win every game where you give up that number. They don't get the most sacks but sacks are useless as a metric for overall defensive performance. Experience the Mario Williams contract recently enough to understand that big money Superstar pass rushers are never worth their value and are fool's Gold. The difference making players for the bills are two safeties, white and Johnson at the cornerback positions, and Milano. I also really really like a lot of what I see from Edmunds this year but other people don't. It's the best defense in the league but it's a defense that's built on very very modern concepts. They use the defensive line rotation because the role of the defensive line is to stop the run, not necessarily get sacks. The linebacking core is built to be very good in coverage, which it is, and they're built to take away big plays and give up short ones. It's less of a Ben but don't break and more of a defense that is built to stop drives instead of being built to make bigger plays like sacks and turnovers. The reason why it works so well and is sustainable is because there are other things for the defense to go off of when they don't get turnovers, which we know isn't really a sustainable metric.

The QB rollout is exactly what I would have called because I feel you get the first down and run out the clock, but getting a touchdown on that is what it is and it doesn't bother me from either point of view. You can justify the two-point conversion with any type of math you want, but going for that is a giant middle finger. It's fun to watch because it's our team, but you should only attempt that two pointer knowing full well that there's going to be extracurriculars after that play and be ready to scrap, because I would damn well expect the bills to scrap if they're on the losing end of that as well.

It's a shame for Dallas for they don't have Prescott here.

QB has to see that one on the DB blitz.

The performance was way better than it looked and if things happen in a different order no one's bitching. Buffalo threw the ball 65% of the time, which is the percentage for teams that don't run the ball at all but we ran too much according to some people here. It's roughly a top 5 pass play selection rate over the course of a season. Buffalo scored on 50% of their possessions. Ok, it's a couple percentage points down from their season average but it's good for the 3rd best rate in football. Buffalo outscored Miami 23-8 in the second half, which is closer to a blowout than a competitive game. If the first half is 23-8 and the second half is 3-3, nobody cares. Buffalo held Miami to 4.1 yards per play, which is worse than the worst offense in the league this year.

That was blatant OPI. He pushed off to get speration (and prevent Hyde from closing in on that) and extended his right arm.

Yeah no one's selling at the NFL Deadline. Too early in the year unless you're a bad team that has no good players.