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Buy : Josh Allen. I think we're in for a vintage 400 yard 4 TD type game vs the Fish
Sell: King (of garbage time) James Cook
Hold: Stefon Diggs. He's on pace for 140 catches and 1,600 yards. He's so consistently good nobody even notices.
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7 minutes ago, FrenchConnection said:
They didn’t want the play reviewed because they blew the whistle with the ball still loose in the field.
Yup, they wanted to avoid having egg on their face from a quick whistle taking a Bills TD off the board.
I think the play probably would've been ruled an incomplete pass after review, but calling it forward progress was egregiously wrong.
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47 minutes ago, MJS said:
The defensive holding was legit. Phillips (I think) held the olineman so Bernard could get in unscathed. They should have shown a better replay on the broadcast.
The fumble they called forward progress. It makes sense.
The Kincaid one was certainly not a penalty, though.
Calling forward progress on that play makes no sense at all.
It's easily one of the worst 'forward progress' decisions I've ever seen. The entire tackle was completed in under 1 second.
In fact the tackle was so quick the only question on the play was if it was a catch and fumble, or just an incompletion as the WR didn't complete the process of a catch.
The refs didn't want the play to be reviewed and threw out 'forward progress' as a bull ***** excuse.
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34 minutes ago, arcane said:
This is not a "refs suck and hate us" post. But we would also benefit from some element of the Dolphins beating themselves. When the starters were in yesterday, the Bills had apparently committed six times as many infractions as their opponent despite completely dominating them. It was a bit perplexing. I didn't see anything wrong with the calls on the bills I paid attention to, but it is rare for a team to be so thoroughly outclassed yet technically sound. Similarly, the Raiders apparently committed 2 infractions despite facing an offensive machine for 80 plays. I'm a bit skeptical.
In fact, over the course of well over 300 plays combined, the Bills' opponents have been outrageously disciplined, only committing 6 infractions to Buffalo's 15 (though I might be forgetting some after the bills starters were pulled)
In an important game I project to be closely fought, I will just ask for consistency so the coaches and players can dictate the outcome themselves. The Bills ended a lot of their own drives prematurely, and extended one or two Washington drives. They need to clean that up themselves, one drive can make the difference next week
The refs we've had through 3 weeks have generally let the teams play. The Bills are averaging 5 penalties per game which is actually very solid, good for the 5th fewest penalties per game.
2 penalties per game by our opponents is ridiculously low. IIRC we declined 4 or even 5 penalties in the Jets game which impacts it a bit.
Part of our opponents not being called for penalties is due to game situation. Who's going to call offensive holding on a team that's down by 30 and QB is getting sacked every play ?
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23 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
And the QB is helped when his OL washes the entire DL out of the picture, leaving huge rushing lanes in the middle of the field. Allen is a magician but don't take away the OL's performance the first 3 weeks. They're going against studs and mostly winning their reps.
How much of that is the DL over-commiting, our O-line steering, or just a great play by Josh ? I think it's a bit of all 3. I thought the Raiders were much better than Washington about staying disciplined and not letting Josh scramble.
I'm being critical of our O-line but I'll gladly admit they are much improved over last season. Looks like we've gone from bottom 10 (borderline bottom 5) to somewhere around average. We may even be above average pushing top 10. O-Lines are so bad league wide you have to be happy when they're just not a liability.
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1 minute ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:
We gave up zero sacks and ran for 140+
That wasn’t an “ok” performance, they shut down one of the most talented DLs in the game.
46 of those rushing yards were Josh scrambling.
64 of those rushing yards came on our TD drive with 8 minutes left up 30-0. It's important to close out games, but that was 100% garbage time.
If we had Howell back there I think he gets sacked 5+ times pretty easy. Josh is a magician
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2 minutes ago, 17islongenough said:
How the heck was he still available until June?
Everyone thought his production was due to playing with Donald. Turns out Floyd is really good in his own right
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I thought they were ok today.
Run blocking was a pretty big problem. We racked up some stats in garbage time, but really couldn't move the ball on the ground with any consistency until after the game was out of reach.
Pass pro was good against a strong pass rush. Helps a lot when your QB can evade pressure and either scramble for a gain or make a pass downfield.
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Can I B word about the officiating in this thread?
I'm still heated about the tripping call on Kincaid and the forward progress ruling on the MacLaurin fumble.
They ruled forward progress had stopped when the question on the play is whether the WR had it long off to be a catch and fumble or was it an incompletion that he never had possession of.
Washington also got away with a half dozen blatant holds. I guess if you're down 30+ at home just hold on every single play LOL.
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8 minutes ago, ToGoGo said:
Yeah let’s wait until game 101 of McDermott’s tenure before making any judgements.
Defense did good against the Jets. Miracle catch by Wilson in the end zone skewed everyone’s memory.McD has had 3 games this season as defensive playcaller. That's a ridiculously small sample size. The knock against Frazier was that the DEF would disappear in the playoffs and/or against elite offenses. McD has yet to playcall against a top offense or a playoff game so yes, let's wait and see.
We allowed the Jets a season high in both points and yards.
Allowing 16 points and 289 yards of offense would normally be a fantastic outing. But we were playing the Zach Wilson led Jets. The worst offense in the league. I wouldn't say the defense cost us the game, but they did not play well either.
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I'm not seeing a big difference with the Defense. Under Frazier we would tend to feast on bad offenses/young QBs (other than the Zach Wilson Jets). That's the same pattern so far this year.
Let's see how we do against the Dolphins next week and ultimately the playoffs before crowning the McD defense.
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I thought he started the game quite slow with back to back poor/mediocre runs on our opening 3 and out. It looked like he was benched after that as Murray got the next few series and ran with some VIOLENCE.
Then Cook came back in and played great rest of the game. Maybe he needs that fire under his ass
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4 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:
Used to be if you laid a hand on an official you were tossed. Appeared to be enough here for that. He pushed him aside.
I think it would've been pretty borderline to eject Watson for it. The ref got in his face and Watson grabbed/pulled his arm a bit to move him. Definitely not egregious contact.
I know in the past they've had a 0 tolerance policy for touching an official. Not sure if that's still the case. Even if it is, it's one thing to eject some random guy, it's another thing to eject a $230,000,000 QB.
I'd expect Watson to be fined for touching an official but would be shocked if he gets suspended.
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I didn't think the facemask penalties were much of anything. He went for a stiff arm and his fingers got caught in the grill. Don't think those would be worth a fine let alone suspension.
https://x.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1703965949466915246?s=20
I know the league takes contact with an official pretty seriously, but going so far as to suspend a "star" QB ? I don't think there was enough here for that
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51 minutes ago, Rich Stadium Original said:
Wasn't Kincaid hit by a Raider DB that launched himself at Kincaid on incomplete pass sometime in the 1st half?...Dont believe a flag was even thrown on the play.
I thought the hit on Kincaid was close to being a penalty, but ultimately a good no-call.
Kincaid was a defenseless receiver, but the hitter did not 1) Launch himself 2) Lead with the crown or 3) Make forcible contact to neck/head area
Rapp's hit was clearly forcible contact to the head of a defeneseless receiver. Good call and I would expect at least a fine for him. Putting him into protocol should be up to the Raiders and their independent neuro consultant.
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6 minutes ago, DapperCam said:
You think there is a slim chance that a football player has played through multiple undiagnosed concussions in their career? Lol! There is an entire movie with Will Smith about this.And concussion protocols have gotten a lot better since then. Obviously they aren't perfect (see: Tua) but I think it's a lot more difficult for guys to play through concussions in the current NFL.
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It's possible, but unlikely.
The problem is that Allen has played exactly like this in multiple games over multiple years.
His only diagnosed concussion was 2019 when he got knocked out of the game vs Patriots and was available the next week.
If his erratic play was from an un-diagnosed concussion it seems likely that he's had multiple un-diagnosed concussions. While I think that's a possibility I think it's a pretty slim chance.
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This was my first time listening to a Joe Marino podcast and I don't think I will again.
It's almost all opinion with very little analysis. There's better all-22 analysis done on this board.
I don't see the value in someone telling me that Josh is immature, eyes all over the place, bad reads, etc. I want someone to get into the nitty gritty details of specific plays and SHOW me that's what happened.
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2021 vs Steelers wasn't a last second loss, but it did have a lot of similarities to last nights game. Including allowing a special teams TD
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6 minutes ago, dorquemada said:
Did I imagine the Bills signing Poona Ford this offseason?
I didnt see him on the field and he's not in the box score
I was wondering this myself. I didn't think it was possible for a 300+ pound DT to be invisible, but Ford managed it (if he played that is)
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3 minutes ago, Bob Jones said:
Who is Jim Trotter?
My exact reaction. Had to google him, apparently he's a sports journalist with a penchant for calling out racial discrimination.
I'd like to read his full lawsuit and not just one screengrab on twitter. Does Trotter claim Terry said this to him directly ? Or is it just hearsay ?
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2 minutes ago, FireChans said:
And yet this wasn’t one of them.
Huh....
Giving up an 83 yard run that resulted in a FG didn't cost us a game that went to OT ?
Obviously there were many other costly mistakes but everything else being equal without that 83 yard run we win the game.
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1 minute ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
Cook was allover the field catching and running it. Would’ve had a receiving TD too if Allen knew how to lead his receiver correctly. You must be looking at the stat line bc I saw a guy was churning out tough yards and keeping us out of 3rd and longs.
Cook has a shot at a TD on that play if Allen places a perfect throw, but he was far from open.
When did Cook make a defender miss a tackle? At any point during the night ? I'm not blaming him for the negative plays (idk why so many on here give our O-line a pass) but Cook never made a guy miss either.
Looked like a JAG out there
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2 minutes ago, Beast said:
I thought the run defense was fine. Take away that one long Hall run and we have no ***** at all.
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs Lincoln ?
Our run DEF has the very bad habit of giving up huge runs that cost us close games.
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Elam a healthy scratch part deux (now part TRES) (now part QUATRO)
in The Stadium Wall
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NFL trade values can be weird sometimes, but I think we might be able to get a 4th for him? Comes down to how much teams value Elams status as a recent 1st round pick.
As long as he's not a locker-room cancer (and I haven't seen a single report saying he has a bad attitude) I think he's much more valuable to keep as a depth guy than trying to trade him.