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That's nonsense. Throwing a downfield pass on third or fourth down and short is a classic play call. I'm sure that both Bill Belichick and Andy Reid have had it in their playbooks for decades even if Mike McDaniel doesn't.

Maybe you should watch more NFL games rather than concentrating on high school contests. In the Steelers win over the Raiders, Garappollo hit Davante Adams for a long TD on a 3 or 4th and less than a yard. He's played all of 4 NFL games, Nostradamus.

He's in good company. Only Brian Urlacher and James Harrison have achieved what Bernard did today. Pretty impressive. Did it ever occur to you that the reason the offense was "herky jerky" was because the Commanders defense aren't pushovers? They have a good defense lead by their very stout DL with Chase Young and friends. Yes, Madden is certainly is the standard measure of reality. Maybe when you finish with middle school you'll realize that.

Maybe the Fins should worry about the Bills who have a potent offense and a good defense. They barely beat the defensively inept Chargers by 2 points and the offensively challenged Patriots by 3. The Broncos just quit even before the end of the first quarter.

The Broncos weren't a poor team. They were horrendous. They quit before half time.

I suppose it never occurred to all the armchair offensive coordinators on TSW that perhaps Dorsey -- with McDermott's approval -- decided to forego easy opportunities to run up the score? What better time for the offense to try some new plays in high pressure situations under real game conditions than when the team has the game in hand because of the defense's dominance? IMO, that could very well been Dorsey's aim with some of the play calls that seemed unnecessarily risky on 3rd and 4th downs in the second half when it became clear that the Commanders were done. As a fan, I would have loved for the Bills to have kept those drives going and scored TDs but long-term, having game time film for the Bills coaches to dissect is worth more than piling up the score against an already beaten team. Moreover, if one or more of those plays had been successful, they would have given future opponents more to worry about when facing the Bills in those situations. I don't know if the above scenario actually explains why Dorsey called some of those failed plays, but it's certainly at least as plausible as the meme that Ken Dorsey is incompetent.

During the Jauron years, a lot of the injuries were because Jauron favored fast, small players. When a smaller body collides at speed with a bigger body, it's the usually the smaller body that suffers. I remember watching big RBs drag Bills LBs for 7 or 8 yards after they were tackled. The Bills LBs were about the size of SSs.

It's like the Niners can't keep their QBs healthy, but it's spread around with the Ravens. I think that the Ravens still beat Indy despite their casualty list. I watched the rerun of their game with the Bengals last night, and they were impressive on both sides of the ball. Lamar looked really, really good as a passer from the beginning, which made his runs later very effective. Their new OC and their new receivers are "functioning as intended". Their D got after Burrow and pretty much shut down the Cincy offense. Cincy's first TD was a long kick return.

That is exactly what many people, myself included, said about Phillip Rivers during his years with the Chargers. When Rivers finally escaped the Chargers late in his career, he found success again despite his diminished skills. With stats similar to what he'd put up through his years with the Chargers, he led the Colts to the playoffs with a 11-5 record. I think if Herbert was on a better team, he'd still have flashy stats, but those stats would translate into wins rather than losses.

That was the season that they ran through multiple kickers because whoever was kicking for them always seemed to miss a PAT or FG in a close game IIRC. Agree. Conversely, my guess is that if Mahomes, Allen or Burrow were on the Chargers, their win-lost records would only be marginally better than Herbert's. The Chargers' problems over at least the last 2 decades haven't been the fault of their QBs -- their FOs have always been able to find good QBs even if they figure out much else.

Oh, it's not just putrid coaching. That would be too simple to account for the continual ineptitude of the Chargers over the last two decades. Back in the early 2000s, the Chargers were loaded with talent, thanks especially to the Eli Manning trade. They didn't have just a great QB in Philip Rivers, they had two, and the one they let walk away, Drew Brees, was even better. They could steamroll teams during the regular season but couldn't win playoff games despite having plenty of talent. For most of Rivers' career, the Chargers managed to lose key games with the same kind of blunders that they've made this season. They've been doing it for 20 years. The Chargers have changed players, coaches, GMs, cities, owners, stadiums -- and they still manage to "seize defeat from the jaws of victory". The Chargers just "Charger".

These three posts are dead on. The best investment for winning a Super Bowl is in the lines, and especially when a team has a great QB, in the offensive line. Every QB needs protection and targets. Without those two elements, even the greatest QBs fail. A great QB with protection and good receivers puts up the points to win games, and with some good defensive play and luck, maybe even a Super Bowl. A good/great RB is a luxury for a team with a great QB because running the ball isn't central to their success in the 2020s like it was in the 1980s or 1990s primarily because of rules changes. A Super Bowl contending team needs a solid running game for protecting leads late in games and for playing in bad weather. You do realize that John Elway retired after the 1998 season which was a quarter of a century ago, right? That was then, this is now.

Me, too. I can't remember a game in which all the Bills RBs so consistently having space to run, probably since Wade Phillips was HC! Individual RBs were successful largely because of their superior talent like Willis McGahee and Marshawn Lynch, both of whom went on to be Pro Bowlers and help their new teams to the playoffs. McGahee was on both the Broncos and the Ravens playoff teams. Lynch was an All Pro and won a Lombardi with the Seahawks.

They probably did but we just didn't hear about it because most news back then was primarily local. "National news" was limited to news about politics, international affairs, and the rich and famous. Back then, this story would have only made the newspapers and radio/tv news in the Boston area.

I think we do, too. There's been lots of complaints about the OTs this off/preseason, but the improvement of the interior OL helps the OTs be more effective. If you look around the league, you realize that the best OLs aren't filled with 5 Pro Bowl caliber players but rather maybe 1 really good/great player with solid guys around him. IOW, good OLs are better than the sum of their parts. Hopefully, that's what the Bills have in their OL.

That's true but not every poster is as consistently negative as the poster that Sierra Foothills called out.

Agree. I think that the improved guard play complements of Torrence and McGovern enabled Murray and Harris to be effective on inside runs, which the Bills weren't last season. I think that Harris will be the RB to keep defenses honest since he's fast enough to run off tackle consistently too, so that Ds can't assume that only Cook will run outside. I liked that the Bills had a real running game today -- and that Allen was simply a complementary piece rather than the major piece.

You might want to rethink this. If Ridgeway's mom is 76, it's likely his sisters are old enough to be Zach's mom.

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Where's the Sprinkle Cone? I'm a fan of Fifties soft ice cream myself. There are two locations: the original in the city on Washington Street near the Tops and the newer one out on 394 in Lakewood across from the Save A Lot plaza. Of course, the late, great Tastee Corners on Foote Ave was not only an institution but the best. Alas, the building was too dilapidated to save, so it's only a memory now.

Hondo just cut and pasted the link directly into the post rather than using the link function. This one should work: Coy Wire

Yes, I meant milo.

That's why I don't feed seed mixes. There's too much waste because birds will only eat what they like and toss the rest -- as you've discovered. Many seed mixes, especially cheaper mixes, have filler seeds like red millet which most birds don't like (doves and juncos love white millet, however). I feed primarily black oil sunflower seed in two tube feeders (one for clinging birds like woodpeckers and finches) and a perch feeder, but I also feed cracked corn on the ground for pigeons and mourning doves and peanuts for the bluejays and cardinals. I also provide suet cakes. This winter I will put out white millet in a low covered platform feeder for the dark-eyed juncos that visit my yard.

I second this. They start coming out about 5 pm when campers start firing up their grills or building campfires. What's even worse is that some idiots, despite signs warning about rabies in the raccoons, actively encourage them coming around campsites/cabins by feeding them -- and letting their children feed them!

Chautauqua Institute is 20+ miles west of Jamestown via either NY 394 or I-86 and will take you at least a half hour each way, so it might not be feasible. Lisciandro's Restaurant at 207 North Main is open for lunch on Saturday until 1 pm. It's a downtown institution. La Cucina della Nonna at 718 West Third Street is just across the Third Street Bridge from downtown. Excellent pizza and Italian cuisine. The Labyrinth Press at 12 East Fourth Street is a vegetarian/vegan restaurant with a good reputation. El Jarocho at 323 Washington Street is a Mexican restaurant. If you're looking for chains, there's a Bob Evans located on North Main (Route 60) and I-86. Most of the other chains are located along NY 394 (Fairmount Ave) in Lakewood, including Applebee's, Olive Garden, Buddy Brewster's Ale House, and Red Lobster. Sakura Buffet and Five Guys are located in the Chautauqua Mall. Local restaurants in the same area of 394 include economical choices Davidson's, Honest John's (pizza and wings), Johnny's Lunch (hotdogs), and La Cocina which is a Mexican restaurant.