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If Josh Allen succeeds, the Bills will have outsmarted basically all regular humans and the entirety of math itself https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/4/24/17271686/josh-allen-nfl-draft-2018-stats-analysis-comparisons How you liking our math now?

YES. Thank YOU Buffalo Bills players, and OBD staff - well done!

The confusion was mainly due to the video looking like it was put together by my 10 year old using video from the cold war era. But remember that whole game was a foggy, soggy mess on camera.

That video was a bit confusing how it was mashed together... but I get it now. You have to look at the where the ball was spotted the previous play. Someone should have been keeping an eye on the chain gang because they had to be the ones creeping the fixed marker forward a yard. Some stadiums are notorious for their crews being a bit slanted so coaches have to be on their toes. I think it was the Meadowlands where if they opened certain gates to the stadium it created a lot of cross wind on the field and the crews would open them when the opposing teams were kicking field goals. Sometimes it is the little things, and something like that and deflated balls I would not put past the Boston crews.

This. I have been on some of those chain gangs along the sideline and that did not look like the side with the chains. Looked like it was just a marker that was supposed to be lined up with the chains across the field and the guy had placed it at the wrong spot. May have gotten a call from upstairs or spotted it himself and moved it. Also appears that on the video feed they mark that imaginary 1st down line off of that marker. Don't think this is conspiracy worthy - there is enough head-scratchers when it comes to NE and gratuitous calls or non-calls.

That guy. He is like a one-man Department of State for fan football sites.

That's comforting. Can imagine..... "Look Garrett, I'm not going to fire you in the middle of the season. I need time to find your replacement so try not to embarrass yourself with the little time you have left." Think it is going to be a tough game, but should not be a laugher like MNF. White has been the contributing in the takeaway column, but we need others to create a few - they have been so close to a few pick 6's. If Beasley was not just talking sour grapes the Cowboys are a talented group, but not exactly a tight-knit team. Not sure they dig down deep to save Garrett's job, but they have skill at a lot of positions and pride. I think this is a more disciplined and different Bills team, but still hard to remain confident.

Exactly...why even give the guy a click-count for his "informed" opinion. Really breaks down the X's and O's. We're great, they're trash... I could put together a video where I say I think the Bills march into the Cowboy's house, own them, and your coach gets fired by Jerry over the weekend.

Belichick and the Patriots produce phantom defenders and phantom calls on opposing teams - nice.

Easier on the cardio - I like it. Coast into the 4th with a 2 or 3 score lead and then pound the rock the rest of the way while their offense sits helplessly cooling their heels. I would be OK with that kind of finish - not counting on it, but would like it. I think that Denver game was the lowest my BP has been during a Bills game in years beyond reckoning.

For years we have been gifted an uneven amount of penalties on our first 2 downs that put us in 3rd and likely fail situations. We still get too many of those, but unlike our QBs past Josh converts them. It is like 3rd and longs amp him up.

This seems in keeping with NY Jets QB tradition. Namath was not a choir-boy. After taking on the full wrath and scorn of the NYC media for seeing ghosts and getting embarrassed by NE, the dude probably needed to blow off steam. Unless he starts showing up to practice and games stoned or drunk, or both I would not be too worried. I prefer my QB to stay clean and sober as an athlete that the team is depending on, but they are human, they are not perfect, and we should not expect that.

Dunno - If anyone was truly snubbed I would go with Jackson during the draft. If results matter, he has outperformed all the QB's taken ahead of him. No one has "figured" Baltimore out yet. Even teams that have schemed guys free to get to Jackson, have not been able to get him on the turf. It would be a tough match-up and we would have to probably spy him with Edmunds all game as he is likely the only one with the physical tools to mirror him or recover if beat. I do agree that QBs that lean heavily on their run ability in the Read-Option or RPO have a shorter shelf life than those that have to take snaps under center and learn to throw from the pocket, but while at his physical peak Jackson makes that offense a nightmare to defend. If you are Baltimore it makes no sense what-so-ever to try to force him into being a pure pocket-passer and ignore his god-given ability while it is there now to be leveraged. That is just smart coaching. I would love to see the game simply because no one has been able to stop them and I enjoy a good defensive performance and would enjoy seeing how McDermott and Frazier would try to tackle the challenge. I don't think we get smoked like the Rams, we are better built as an overall defense, but there is nothing that indicates we would win that game at this stage of our development. Hard to say it would be a walk in the park - visions of the fleet-footed Fitz waltzing into our end zone from 30 yards out when we played Miami at home lends some credence to the argument that we would be in trouble.

They were exposed by Matt Patricia playing Detroit. Figured out Goff could not read coverages and McVay was calling everything at the line through the headset - working Goff like a puppet. The league rules cut communication to the headsets at the 15 sec mark of the play clock and Patricia was changing his defensive packages right before the snap, and the Rams could not move the ball. Belichick perfected it in the Superbowl and has a better overall defense to begin with.

He has, but I get why Daboll likes those speedsters on his roster as they can get around the edge. Foster has some serious wheels. To leverage Duke you kind of have to rethink your approach with what he brings to the game. Just a different skillset.

Is there an 11? If I were Steve in Bloom County I would open my anxiety closet and 30 years of Bills paraphernalia would topple over and bury me.

They will be desparate because Jerry shot one across Garrett's bow in a presser yesterday after they lost to NE. Make no mistake, if they fall to us Garrett is toast. As one article put it, Jerry is all for his coaches till he ain't.

That, and also he and Darnold's stats are highly skewed after both suffered multi-interception games against NE. Those 4 ints happened not going to make excuses other than we all know what an emphasis Belichick places on disguising coverages and luring inexperienced QBs into trap throws - seeing ghosts? But if you did subtract those 4 ints, Allen would be sitting at .3/game. I think there is probably too much emphasis on this as a part of the narrative that folks like to create about Allen. He is very cautious with the ball, many times I believe he is too cautious which leads to holding it too long. The Bills philosophy has been to ride their defense so Allen's cautious approach (prob heavily emphasized by his coaches) is understandable, but I think they have seen that they need to ease up on the reigns a bit. Allowing Allen the flexibility to audible out of a bad play, or into a better one combined with the uptempo offense they have been running seems to have helped him find more balance between getting the ball out more quickly without being reckless with it.

Agree, but Shaq had a pedigree of success coming out of college and although it took him a while to buy into the system, it is starting to pay off. He can play inside and outside so the versatility is good. I don't think teams go out of their way to game plan for him, but he has been better than Trent Murphy. I hope they can keep him for the right price.

Most, if not all the players on this team would not know what Billsy is, but we who have witnessed countless inept Bills performances and amazing collapses over the decades that managed to somehow ***** defeat from the jaws of victory remember. How fitting is it that on Thanksgiving we can be thankful for all those optimistic, bright-eyed players that make up the Bills squad today. They are not burdened by the memory or legacy of this franchises past failures. All they need to do is execute, play solid football, and create their own winning legacy - one opponent at a time.

Holy retro, but they were great. Too bad about their band member, I mean death by hay bale....who sees something like that coming? How do you think you are going to go, "Let me see...crushed in my vehicle by a run away bale of hay."

Milano snuffed out every would-be screen and stretch play they tried. He was a sideline-to-sideline tacking machine, one of the most sound games I have seen from him diagnosing plays, and wrapping up.

Agree. Our DE position needs impact players and depth and why search for maybe players when you have Shaq who can step in... Johnson is raw still and is a liability in run defense, but i think he will come on given more experience. Allows this staff to start looking for Lorax V.2 as he can't keep going forever.

I think you are right, as he was brought in as a one-gap DT not a two-gap DT or NT. His build, style of play, his burst, low pad level, and pursuit reminded scouts of Aaron Donald sans all the success and proven ability:) I think he is 10-15 lbs heavier than Donald, and I don't think the Bills want him much heavier. His game is speed and power leveraged to be a penetrating disruptive DT not a wide-bodied run-stuffer.

Don't know if it is one or the other, you need both. If you can shut down the run and force a team into being one-dimensional your pass defense reaps the benefits. It helps too if the offense can get up on them early to force a team into thinking pass only to catch-up. When the Bills were sporting a great pass defense, but started to get gashed against the run it impacted our defense as a whole. Unable to get off the field, having to commit our safeties to the box, leaving our secondary exposed, poor field position for our offense if the D did get a stop with less offensive chances due to poor TOP. If you can run on a team that has a high-powered offense you keep that offense cooling its heels on the sideline. We can agree to disagree, but IMO I don't think a good run defense is a fad that has gone out of style.