TheWeatherMan

Re read my OP, “our run blocking has been abysmal at times”. First down run plays, short yardage run plays, have not been good.

hyperbole much? Pull up our metrics on 1st down runs.

Did you watch the Rams game before throwing nonsensical replies out there? How many of those yards and TDs are from Josh Allen which weren’t designed runs and has at times had nothing to do with run blocking? We probably have 6 than a yard a QB keeper TDs and your including this?

Totally disagree with your original assessment.

What are you talking about? 55% of Staffords completions were to Puka and 74% were to Kupp and Puka. It was literally a two man show of WRs exploiting a porous zone. Stafford had all day in the pocket and wasn’t touched the entire game. Nothing fascinating about quick slants and 5 yard curls and outs against single coverage. The inability to adjust your zone or switch to man coverage when your base defense has been figured out is what lost this game for the Bills.

Are the skill players talented without Josh Allen? Our O-line has been abysmal at run blocking and commits way to many penalties. There’s some talent on the oline for sure, but I’m not putting any of them on the all pro team.

This Bills offense is not impressive, #17 is the most talented QB to ever play the game…that’s what’s impressive.

Zero half time adjustments made with the Bills defense. Staying in zone with single coverage on Puka worked so well in the first half they decided to double up in the second 🤦🏻‍♂️.

McClappy “We need to do better on offense, I’m not concerned with the defense”. 😂

Totally forgot about that…wild.

To better prove your point(s), I suggest researching the difference between sentences and paragraph usage. I would think that FA additions don’t count toward the success of your draft class. If so, Mario Williams would be our best draft pick ever because we got the #1 pick in the draft without using any draft capital.

Confused as to why so many want Hyde back on the roster. He looked completely cooked last year plus we have a promising rookie on the active roster and 2nd year safety on the PS.

He’s a top 5 regular season HC of all time. Post season…not so much.

Robert

Nah, was in pretty good shape for a big guy. He was a D2 OL, turned power lifter, turned cage fighter.

Oh Simon, it’s okay, you can come out and stop pretending. We all know you're the biggest (closet) weather nerd on TBD 😝

Careful now, we’re not all thick glasses and pocket protector wearing nerds. I worked with a 330lb meteorologist that infrequently would cage fight.

Lake Michigan featured the highest number of concurrent events, and Lake Erie featured the fewest. It is evident that short-wave troughs are a ubiquitous feature near the Great Lakes during the cold season and have the potential to impart substantial impacts on lake-effect snowbands. Figured I’d post the entirety of the paragraph not the cherry picked section you posted. This article is referencing upper-tropospheric short waves which would deepen or fill the long wave pattern (jet stream). The jet dictates the path Highs and Lows take which would impact fetch at the surface. This is much different than short waves in the lower portions of the atmosphere which decrease stability over the region, even more so as they move across warm waters and create large snow events (I.e. lake enhanced snow). What’s is your forecasting experience?

Yep, take a look at Tuesday. Good potential for another big snow event. High presses up into the Ohio River Valley creating that SW gradient flow across Erie. Tis the season.

Who said that? The bands definitely meander in all cases (less that 5 degrees) but large accumulations generally occur with little movement. The longer the band sits in one spot the more snow they get. Large shifts in the gradient flow associated with short wave troughs (lol) like @Big Turk would severely inhibit snow development. Lake effect is associated with cold air on the front side of a high moving across the Great Lakes. Lake enhanced is when a trough or front moves through the area and destabilizes as it moves over warmer waters and dumps snow over the region. Buffalo is south of a large low pressure system which is causing west-south west winds, the same orientation as Lake Erie to orchard park and Lake Ontario to water town. Before talking smack about something you know nothing about, in an attempt to get a few chuckles at some else’s expense, maybe educate yourself first.

Lows and highs follow the long wave pattern, short wave troughs are not going to significantly impact a LE snow event. It might impact a lake enhanced snow event but not lake effect. Using two case studies to determine a climatological norm sounds like something a politician would do not a scientist. There are only 3 things that really contribute to a LE snow event, the delta between air and water temp, the length / size of the fetch, and the positioning, relative speed / longevity of the high transiting the area. Did you ever use BUFKIT while you were studying meteorology?

No..no it’s not. If wind directions tend to not vary significantly with a LE event. If they did, this would throw off one of the main catalysts as to what causes the higher snowfall accumulations. It’s not just cold winds over warm water, it’s the duration. The longer the fetch the more significant the event. Granted there’s rules of thumb and forecasting techniques for all events, I think you’re over simplifying LE events. It’s mostly seasonal, and depends greatly on the path and cold air advection associated with the high. This time of year, LE is more prominent because the super shallow Lake Erie isn’t yet frozen over, so Buffalo can get hits with a westerly flow (like we’re seeing now) or a NW flow off of Ontario. With this event models are projecting a lengthy westerly flow off the lakes (don’t see much variability) which is why both western NY and the Watertown area are both being hit.