Mikie2times

Espenesa is certainly improved. Flashing, no question it's his best year. Also no question even with Von gone, pass rush is better. I would even say significantly better. Von was the icing and damn, having that closer element was awesome but we have been trying to build that unit up for awhile now. I think we are seeing a combination of maturity along with Von's influence. Groot is legit and Epenesa is flashing more. Then Oliver has been borderline dominant at times. This is just three guys in a pretty big rotation.

I didn't unearth the thread to pile on the guy. I remembered seeing this thread and was like ok, lets really tune in on him. It was awkward listening to him. Weird Madden like sounds, tailing dialogue, long pauses. Very little value added. I'm really curious if CBS is seeing it this way or if they're getting negative feedback. I have no horse in the announcer race. This has just been a pretty drastic decline.

Ya, I think this logic is overplayed. We crushed White on clean hits. As we would do any QB, any game. It just happened to be that we landed about four knockout shots and the dude went Rocky mode.

I was pacing out what his production would equal if he didn't miss any time this year. He also matched his total on QB hits for all of last year already this season while missing a huge portion of it.

So I really paid attention this game. WTF happened? He sounds like a teenager calling a game. Random sounds. Awkward pauses. Was it so simple that when you told the guy he can't call the play out he turned straight CTE? I wonder if CBS is getting complaints.

He's pacing for 12 sacks in his 2nd year. He's clearly different physically. His body is just different. He was puppy raw out of college. He sets the edge like defending the run matters just as much as generating sack totals. I think he's closer to elite than you're giving him credit for.

He's like a fly trap. If you get near him it triggers and you're done. I think he's the best pass rush finisher we have right now. Remember, he has been out for awhile. So as Von departs, Groot rejoins the party. It might even end up being a + situation. He's developing so quickly.

7 sacks in 10 starts this season. His length is disruptive. You cant get into his radius and come out ok. He seems to have a really good head on his shoulders. Has said he keeps learning from Von. I wonder how many sacks Von has added by just training with our line? My guess would be at least 5. Groot looks like he will become a force

I haven't felt bad for an opposing QB in 25+ years of being a Bills fan. This reminded me of of Brett Farve in his last NFC championship game vs the Saints. That was the closest thing I remember to compare the level of violence. It was all clean as well. Not even close to one cheap shot. Just vicious body shots. White followed through on everything, even when a 15 MPH linebacker hit him lack a tackle dummy. He should bet he NYJ QB until somebody dethrones him. He was still making plays while all this was happening. How is Zack Wilson ever supposed to earn the teams respect vs what we just saw?

I don’t think I ever felt bad for an opposing QB. Serious respect for White.

Very similar. Great call out.

This is McD's defense, I don't know why people think we would change how we play all that much if Frazier left. Sure McD doesn't call the plays, but the system? That's who he is. It might also be who Frazier is, but either way, it's not one that typically dictates opponent play with pressure. It is more death by a thousand cuts to beat us. Which seems like a style more teams are flashing, especially vs better QB's. It seems to frustrate better QB's when they don't get the chunk plays (sound familiar?). Maybe our system is the best defensive system to play in today's NFL even if I really don't care for it.

He knows his medical status, he acted like a flirtatious 12 year old on social media. Like it was the damn Lebron James signing tour. Months this went on. How didn't he contribute to this d baggery? False advertising and I'm sure some didn't appreciate it.

I'm sure it's among the 100 pages, but Jerry was saying his medical status was in doubt and he might not even be available for the playoffs. I about puked watching the Giants / Cowboys on Turkey day and just washing them wash OBJ's manhood all game replaying his catch and talking about him incessantly. He probably broke his Tivo rewind button and ran out of lubrication. Dude is in his 30's and he doesn't have 1,000 yards combined in his last two seasons. I JUST DON'T GET IT.

Right? Mahomes didn't see Von coming in that game because he was on him before he could react. Unlike last year where he seemed to frolic in circles for 2 minutes eventually alluding our pass rush. Groot was having a dominant season before injury. I hope that was on the back of learning from Von and further maturity. Oliver is having a dominant season. Several others are much improved. I hope it's enough.

Von was never meant for the regular season. He can and will turn it on as he see's fit. He's smart like that because he still has enough in the tank to dominate any play, but he can't do it for a whole game. One thing I can say for sure is if it's 4th down and we are in the Super Bowl and we need one stop to win it, he's the most important player on the team in that moment.

I think the system makes it harder to love your players/team, similar to NFL and free agency, but then again, the team loyalty itself is the driver for most. The players are just evolving jersey fillers. I guess I don't mind it too much. One thing I will say, no more Alabama dominance. With NIL money, no 4 star is going to stay more than a year growing in the system. We will still see elite schools on a consistent basis, but the outright domination as we saw with Bama is done. Lastly, I would absolutely want nothing to do with CFB right now if I was a coach. You recruit your rear end off, lose half your gains, try and stop portal transfers, try and compete with NIL money. It's too much. I could easily see a GM style position taken on by some colleges as the roster management and moving pieces is just getting to be too much for one guy who is supposed to be focused on X's and O's.

Draft CB, trade down, draft more CB's, once the draft ends, look at the UDFA's and see what CB's are available.

I think most the sports leagues do a great job at rendering the regular season meaningless by not giving it's best teams more of an advantage in the playoffs. These are professional athletes, usually the competition is tight and the best teams over an entire season should be given an advantage over the rest. That said, I have had a huge issue with the current one team bye system. One team can have a horrible division, injury luck, all sorts of outlying factors. Rarely do we ever have one clear #1 with a distant #2. Usually it is extremely close. This year we will have beaten every division leader and will win our division 🤑 but we still have risk of not getting the bye. 74% of the bye teams win in the divisional round so in our current system, you have what amounts to a 75% chance of playing the AFC championship game at home if you get that bye. It matters and it should be given to two teams as they used to in order to balance out how much of an advantage it is (spare me examples of wild card wonders or how the bye team never seems to win the big game). Run a sample size large enough and it's a big advantage, one an injury riddled team like Buffalo could really stand to gain.

I don't think it was Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused. I think it was Cole Beasley.

I'm 40 and have had two fairly major surgeries and will always be impacted to some degree by them. I just don't understand how these people have the strength and courage they do. It's easy for me to say I have been unlucky with these surgeries as that is the case. Then anybody who has been in the hospital for more than a week knows how much that sucks. What I'm trying to say is it's really easy to let your mind spin in the wrong direction with your fortune. Then I consider people like this girl. How she is approaching it. The mental strength she must have and that gives others strength through her. I hope she understands this. That even as an 18 year old who has barely experienced life at all, she has the ability to impact more people than most of us ever will and she is doing so right now. I will tell her as much in a card. Thanks for sharing her story.

I think it has a place because as the OP pointed out, footballs origins are from rugby. It allows for an advantage to be had to a team that is better prepared and plays with higher awareness. Which again, I don't see an issue with.

On defense we match up exceptionally well against the Bengals and the Chiefs match up very poorly. All the Bengals want to do is get you in man. This trend dates back to last year where they just torched man coverage but struggled with zone. In an ideal world the Bengals will dispatch KC for us and we will dispatch the Bengals. We will see for sure at the end of the year but i just think we match up better against Cincinnati. Perhaps as well as anybody. https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/news/joe-burrow-bengals-issues-when-facing-cover-2-defenses https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/lists/joe-burrow-zac-taylor-concinnati-bengals-offensive-line/

Little concerned about blowing a knee out. Sometimes we see the air Allen, but defenders go at his legs with force and every time they land one it’s scares this crap out of me. I think the biggest difference from Josh and just about any comp or even unfair comp, is when Josh can no longer be mobile he will be just fine. His mobility gives him another dimension, but he can also beat you from the pocket just fine.

I know a guy that can get you a CFB jersey with the name and a torso in it.