Inigo Montoya

You're right, those will all end up being expensive fixes. Even more money for the grifters at the trough getting fat on government pork.

This stadium is going to be the single biggest infrastructure development in WNY since the Niagara Falls power plant was built. It will easily be the single biggest expenditure for the next fifty years. Everyone is going to want to get a piece of the action. Every power player in WNY is on the phone with the governor's office right now extolling the virtue of a downtown stadium and arranging "donations" to various campaigns and political action committees. Back channels between labor unions and the politicians they own are wide open right now. Downtown real estate owners and developers are on the phone with the politicians they own too. Not one of them is going to be arguing for a stand alone OP stadium that gets used a handful of times a year. I'd be shocked if this stadium doesn't end up built down town significantly overbudget and a year late. Everyone is going to want to get a bite out of this once in a lifetime apple and that apple is much bigger in downtown Buffalo that it could ever be in OP. Dunkirk is right, follow the money, and that trail leads to downtown Buffalo.

You may be right Shady. I think Klein's role is different from Milano's when he plays though. I think they like to drop Milano into coverage against the RBs and TEs releasing into their receiving routes. I think they have Klein stay near the line to rush the passer and stuff the run. I think last year when Milano was out and Klein first started playing he looked terrible because they asked him to do what Milano was doing in coverage. Once they figured out he just wasn't athletic enough to do it, they changed his playing responsibilities and he really started to play well up at the line of scrimmage. If there is someone out there who drills down on the All 22 film maybe you can chime in and say if I'm off base on that. 🍻

I think Milano is the only one with the athleticism and coverage chops to slow Kelce down. Instead of 9 for 120 and 1 td, hopefully 6 for 75 and no tds. Just my crazy WAG...

It's hard to overstate how much of an impact having Milano out will have on defending that KC offense. If Milano is out I give the advantage to KC. If Milano is healthy and plays I think the Bills will win.

https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/football/nfl/teams/cle/cleveland-browns Apparently it is affecting his throwing motion and impacting his accuracy... "NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports Browns QB Baker Mayfield suffered a partially torn labrum in his left shoulder in Week 2 against the Texans. The good news is it's in his non-throwing shoulder. The bad news is that it explains why Mayfield has played so poorly the past two weeks, completing 53.1% of his passes for 6.2 yards per attempt while missing wide open receivers streaking across the field. Mayfield reportedly doesn't need surgery and will continue playing through the ailment, which could be spun as detrimental to the team rather than heroic. Case Keenum will undoubtedly come off the bench if Mayfield continues to struggle."

I think one thing that might help is that the Bills have had the last three games in hand by half time. I hope Daboll has intentionally kept some looks and wrinkles close to the vest for the Chiefs' game. The Bills' offense has been pretty vanilla. Not a lot of pre-snap motion or misdirection. Very few JA17 runs. Hopefully the offense can put some plays on the field that will catch their defense off guard.

Stuff you talk about on a no-news Tuesday during the regular season. Carry on. 😉

I'm definitely going to give myself a stern talking to about that. I might even put myself on double secret probation...

I'd love to go. I also wanted to see the Bills play in Vegas but COVID blew that one up. I've been lucky that the Bills have played in Nashville the last few years which is only a two hour drive for us. We'll be there in two weeks for that game. We haven't been out West in quite a few years. A Bills game would be a nice excuse. 🙂

That will be another 2 years and $2 billion... 😁

Didn't take it that way at all. 👍

Funny they left the fans in the stands then. It is a beautiful stadium. I'd love to see a Bills game there someday.

I missed that part SCB. Thanks for throwing that out there. I can see that distinction. I generally like Schefter and find him to be pretty locked into the NFL scene and dependable. He usually is just a breaking news reporter and you don't hear his opinion on teams and players very often. 🍻

https://thespun.com/nfl/afc-west/los-angeles-chargers/nfl-world-reacts-to-adam-schefters-bold-justin-herbert-comment Schefter made this pronouncement in the pregame commentary when the start of the game was delayed 30 minutes for a thunder storm. (A $5 BILLION dome stadium and they can't play in it during a thunder storm? What the h*ll?) He also said during the same soliloquy that Mahomes and Herbert were the two best young QBs in the NFL and would be the choices of any NFL GM looking to start a franchise. I'm not here to put down Mahomes or Herbert, I agree with Schefty that they are amazing young QBs. I don't need to put them down to believe that Josh is fantastic too. Was Schefty just throwing a hot take out there on the fly and just overlooked Allen, or does he really put Mahomes and Herbert in a different tier than Allen? I think Allen legitimately deserves to be in the conversation for best young NFL QB. I would put Mahomes, Allen, Herbert, and Watson all in that group. Watson obviously has some issues that could derail his career, and I could see some people leaving him out of that conversation right now because of it. I'm not going to get mad about someone believing that Allen isn't the best of the three, but for Josh to not even earn an honorable mention is a bit strange. For my money, I wouldn't trade Allen for either of them. That's not a knock on Mahomes or Herbert, I just have a huge amount of faith in Josh and believe he has the traits to be an all-time great QB. I also believe Josh's DNA fits Buffalo far better than either of the other two guys would.

We need to cue up the clip of Spencer Brown giving Shefty grief for being short...

I think Daboll has been playing his cards close to the vest these last three weeks. I expect the Chiefs to get some new looks and wrinkles next week.

1. The Bills have 3 wins this season. The Jets, Pats, and Phins have combined for 3 wins. I see more playoff football in Orchard Park next January. 2. Dawson Knox has 4 tds on the season so far and is now tied with Gronk for most TE tds in the NFL. (*Gronk will miss Week 4 with an injury) Are we all watching Knox's Year Three Leap right now? 3. The offense is averaging 33.5 points a game, and 39 points a game in the last three games. Now think about the fact that the Bills defense is playing better than the offense...

I've heard people say that Spencer Brown is too tall at 6'8" to play guard. I don't know if that's true or not. Robert Gallery is 6'8" and he's a hell of a guard. The issue is that most really big guys just aren't very nimble or athletic, their massive size is their calling card. If I recall correctly, Brown had a SPARQ score that was off the charts. He has rare athleticism for a man who is 6'8" and 311 lbs. Because Brown is so agile, it might be tough for d-linemen to get underneath him and get him going backwards, which has always been the knock against tall guards. Brown may end up being the rare big man who can play guard well because of his athleticism. Brown is blowing people up on running plays when brought in as an extra linemen. I think if he can show some pass blocking chops in practice as the season goes on, I wouldn't be surprised to see him in the starting five at guard before Thanksgiving.

You're exactly right BTB. If it wasn't for Josh's ability to slide around the pocket and roll out of the pocket and still deliver strikes, the Bills offense would be dead in the water. Daboll needs to stay in 11 personel and continue to swing Knox or Gilliam into the backfield to provide and extra blocker for Josh along with the RB. The O-line just isn't playing very well right now. I'm not sure what the answer is, but if Ford and Feliciano continue to play like this, I suspect we're going to end up starting a 6'8" rookie guard at some point this season.

Sanders can take the top off the defense and work the slot. That's something we didn't have with John Brown. Sanders can run the entire route tree just like Diggs. He's another versatile weapon Daboll can put on the field to make defenses sweat. He is going to feast all year against team's #2 CB. Another great signing from Beane.

Isaiah McKenzie listens to all the trash talk about him this week over the muffed kickoff and takes one to the House for 6 versus the Texans. On the field in the second half when the Bills are resting starters he scores another TD on a pass from Trubisky. A two touchdown day for McBrisket.

These all 22 tapes point out something that is a key part of Allen's game but something that is not commented on very often, namely, Allen's uncanny ability to move around the pocket. He has the ability to sense pocket pressure, shift around the pocket while still looking down field, and find the open receiver. Those two or three shuffle steps he takes negates the opposing pass rush and bails out the O-linemen who get beat at the line of scrimmage. Allen seems to have a sixth sense and manages to just barely get out of the way to avoid the sack. It's like the Coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner. In the last game they showed Chase Young on the sidelines going off after almost sacking Allen..... again. It's crazy the number of times Allen almost gets sacked in a game.

I think any QB contract signed in the next 18 months is going to provide a huge benefit for that franchise. The longer the contract, the better the bargain. With the salary cap about to adjust upwards dramatically any contract in the 40 a year range will be a steal. QBs will be pushing 75 a year when Josh's contract nears its end. The fact that Josh is locked in the low 40s for 8 years, with a total average yearly compensation in the 30s over the length of the contract, is going to provide a huge competitive advantage for the Bills.

Jets' Nation is aflame right now after their 0-3 start. It's not just the losing, but the way they are losing. I don't think anyone expected Wilson to come out and light it up like Mahomes did, but Wilson really has looked bad. The lack of an O-Line isn't doing him any favors either. It looks like this year's O-Line for the Jets may be worse than last year's, and that is saying something. It's way too early to say that Wilson is a bust, but even when Josh was a rookie and the Bills were struggling to win games, Josh was making plays, leading the offense, and Josh was at the heart of anything good that the offense did. Josh wasn't taking the league by storm his rookie season, but you could see that the guy was a baller and that he had a ceiling that he wasn't anywhere close to reaching yet. Josh flashed almost every game and teased what he was capable of that rookie season. Watching Wilson play, you just don't get that sense. Wilson just isn't playing well and he's not flashing. He's getting hammered behind an inept O-Line, he has happy feet, and he is throwing picks Through three games Wilson has thrown for 2 TDs, 7 INTs, and has been sacked 15 times. Even if Wilson just needs some time to develop, it looks like the Jets are doing their best Sam Darnold re-run and providing Wilson with zero support. For a franchise that has had so much draft capital and tons of cap space, the team they have put around Wilson this year is pitiful. This has to be Joe Douglas' last season. Josh didn't win much his first season but he played well enough to give people hope that he could turn into a real NFL QB. So far with Wilson that's not the case. It looks like the new Jets GM will have a big decision on what to do with that first overall pick next year...