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Lol at anyone questioning that penalty. That's a penalty every single time. Probably a fine too.

Tyler Bass is Happy Gilmore playing hockey

They don't have one either. The defense just makes it look that way. He's a 4.6 guy just like our RBs.

Two near INTs for Allen so far. Not a good start for the team overall.

I went to the Bills training camp in Rochester pretty regularly as a kid, but I grew up a Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan (short story there is a work friend of my dad's gave me a binder of football cards that basically covered every Bucs player ever and I just got attached to them from that). I'd root for the Bills whenever they weren't playing Tampa, but Tampa came first. It wasn't until I actually left Rochester that the Bills became my favorite team. When I moved down to the DC area, following the Bills became an easy way to stay connected to my family and I just gradually started caring more about Buffalo than Tampa.

He's undoubtedly slow. That was the case in college too. Speed shouldn't matter too much at the RB position, particularly with his running style. He's just not bouncing off/making tacklers whiff the way he showed in college. He showed tremendous contact balance at Utah, much like Singletary did at FAU and that is probably the most important trait in a RB IMO. It hasn't really carried over to the NFL for Moss so far the way it has for Singletary. Hopefully he regains that as he gets healthier.

I like the Desmond King mention. I think a corner would probably be ideal if we're only getting one player. I'd settle for a depth LB or DT as well. I liked the Tomlinson idea as a realistic DT option. I would absolutely love to get Quinnen Williams but I'm guessing the Jets would just keep him before they trade him to us.

I don't think this schedule looks all that daunting but maybe I'm wrong. I'm not saying the Bills are great, but all of those games are winnable to me.

Been pretty disappointed in Moss to this point though I admittedly had high expectations of him. Singletary has been pretty good though IMO. The run blocking has been atrocious. I would tend to agree the OP's reasoning of "Why would you carry a vet RB for two years just to make him inactive the whole time", but I would point to that as the logic for simply moving on rather than activating him to give him more time. Yeldon is not good. Singletary is good IMO. Moss might be in time.

He's arguably the best LB in the NFL. Very few teams if any have a player like him.

Not sure if anyone responded to this, but Football Outsiders’ metrics for example had Tampa as a top 10 defense last year. They were just on the field a ton because of the absurd number of turnovers.

We just went away on a big vacation with 3 other groups where we all took turns making dinner and the chicken in here is what we ended up making when it was my turn. Big hit. Unfortunately the potato recipe isn't included there. I can't remember if we follow this potato recipe exactly or if we just loosely follow it, but I think this is the one that we based our lemon potatoes off of:

https://www.recipetineats.com/greek-chicken-gyros-with-tzatziki/ Here you go!

I don't think it's technically new but it's new to me: I found a recipe for some absolutely delicious Greek chicken on the internet that's become one of our go-tos. Great both cooking it in a pan as well as throwing it on the grill. It's technically a recipe for gyros but we just use the chicken part of it and make some lemony roasted potatoes to pair with it.

Nobody is really offering more money than one another in this case due to the offset language in the contract. If the Bills offer $3 mil for example, that just means the Jets pay him $3 mil less. Unless someone is giving Bell more than his overpaid contract that the Jets had signed him too, the money won't matter here.

Yeah, you never really know. I think KC would probably be best for him personally. Reid and Bieniemy do a great job of utilizing their RBs, especially in the passing game. Granted CEH is already very good in that aspect, but I think Bell's best chance of proving himself to be effective again would be in KC. Miami is his best bet if he simply wants playing time. Gaskins has been pretty good for them but they still don't seem all that committed to him. Kind of a crowded backfield though with Gaskins, Howard, and Breida, but there's a chance Bell proves himself to be the #1 guy there whereas I don't think that's all that likely with Buffalo and it's impossible with KC. Added bonus that Bell loves Miami as a city and I don't think the Dolphins are a laughing stock like the Jets for example. Buffalo offers somewhat of a balance between Miami and KC. Probably in the middle in terms of potential playing time for Bell, he could help fill the 3rd down role in the very least with potential for more carries than what KC would likely provide. One concern in my mind is that Bell's patient running style generally relies on getting very good run blocking; our OLine hasn't really provided that this year. I do think Geoff Schwartz (who certainly knows a lot more about OLines than I do) believes Buffalo's blocking schemes fit Bell better than the other two.

Miami = where he lives and probably most potential playing time

FWIW, Geoff Schwartz thinks Buffalo is the best fit from a scheme perspective. I would personally choose the Chiefs if I were him. Considering these things, I expect him to sign with Miami.

The main issue in terms of pass rush is that teams are throwing the ball very quickly against us. The average pass against Buffalo is being thrown in 2.59 seconds. If you compare that to the 34 QBs that have thrown a significant number of passes this year, that's the 7th quickest in the league. The Bills also rank 3rd in the league in terms of pass rush win rate, which is the percentage of plays you have a guy beat their block in under 2.5 seconds. There's obviously a lot more context to it than that, but there isn't much the DLine can do if the pass is being thrown before they really have a chance to get pressure. It's pretty much been a failure at all 3 levels of the defense.

Oliver was my #1 realistic target in the first round last year. DK was my #2. Needless to say I was upset we didn’t end up with both when it was doable. Having said that, I liked Ford as a prospect as well so I didn’t think he was a bad pick; just wasn’t the right pick.

It already happened though. It's pretty much a 100% chance Gilmore had the virus when he played this past week. He just hadn't tested positive yet because that's how the virus works. The NFL doesn't care about sick players playing as long as they don't have evidence that they knew they were sick. Edit: Playing the game with a player that has it has happened. I assume you mean that it hasn't spread to others from that game yet, which we won't know for another week or so.

Not really. It's certainly possible that's the case, but the virus takes up to around 14 days to incubate and that practice was 8 or 9 days ago so it's entirely possible people are still testing positive from exposure that occurred prior to that practice. Which also points to the fact that it's irresponsible that the Pats-Chiefs game for example was played this past week and will be irresponsible if the Titans play this week. There's a pretty high likelihood that if it's played, it will be played with players that have the virus spreading it to other players, much like was the case with Gilmore against the Chiefs.

It's a good list for the most part, but I would simply point out it's unlikely that Allen wins OPOY if he doesn't win MVP. It's pretty rare for that to happen with QBs. In the past 10 years, QBs won OPOY 6 times. 5 of those 6 won MVP (with the one exception being Drew Brees in 2011 when Rodgers won MVP). I would guess the current candidates for OPOY would be: Russell Wilson - current front runner for MVP and therefore a good chance to win OPOY as well Dalvin Cook - currently on pace for roughly 1700 rushing yards and 24 rushing TDs (not to mention 12 two point conversions I believe) Dak Prescott - currently on pace for over 6,700 passing yards and 48 TDs (passing + rushing). Obviously behind Wilson and Allen TD wise but if he somehow eclipses 6,000 passing yards in a season I think he has a strong chance. Allen/Rodgers/Mahomes - basically the other main MVP candidates right now Obviously still extremely early to be looking at awards anyways but that's the way I would currently look at it.

Kinda wild that the Patriots will basically be landing at the airport and immediately heading to the stadium for warmups tonight

Looks correct to me but supposedly McVay was chewing the WR out after the play so maybe it was supposed to be an in route.