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  1. The grief that Davis was receiving earlier in the year was entirely unwarranted, imo.

    On the very rare occasions when he's had any kind of space whatsoever to operate he's shown more quickness and agility than anybody has been giving him credit for. His biggest problem has been the predictably of Brady's offensive sets and the fact that 90% of the time he touches the ball he's instantly got two guys in his face because half the stadium knows the call. I don't care if your Saqoun Barkley, John Taylor or James Cook; no back can operate like that.

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  2. 1 hour ago, QB Bills said:

    All the stars are aligning for the Patriots to win the division and they probably will. They're also losing their first playoff game when they do get in.

     

    They could.

    But if they steal the #1 seed and Vrabel and his staff have two weeks to prepare, they're probably going to thump somebody.

  3. 1 minute ago, billsfan714 said:
    • What did that ref see on that play, its just an amazingly bad call, especially in the situation, difference between getting ball back and game over.   

     

    He probably saw the WR off-balance and took it as an "indicator" that he'd been yanked.

    Hopefully it was a cheap lesson to knock that nonsense off and call what you actually see instead of what you couldn't. <laughs at own naivety>

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  4. 3 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

    But when we want to talk " track record", don't we have to ask questions about what a great track record looks like, and how Beane compares to that?

     

    Comparisons to bad ones could be equally instructive.

    Tough to quantify though with so many odd little variables, not with just the players but also with destinations and situations, and the inevitable bias that creeps into something we're emotionally attached to.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

     
    Is Milano just rusty or maybe just doesn’t have confidence because of his injuries?

    He looks very slow.  Very noticeable.

     

    He started coming on last year after a few games.

     

    It looks to me like they've had him spending more time chasing TEs and he's not getting as many chances to attack the LOS.

    If they're protecting him they need to stop, because he's already protecting himself.

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  6. 3 minutes ago, BillsFan130 said:

    Two things can be true.

     

    1. Bosa has been pretty good this year

     

    2. He had a a bad game.

     

    He lost contain on a ton of runs and didn't have much pass rush at all today

     

    They're usually good at End with troubles on the inside, but today all 4 positions really struggled.

    They should have plenty of gas in the tank for Thursday <_<

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  7. 6 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

    The guy who I think might be worth a go is more Rousseau standing up in the A gap in pure pass sets with Bosa and Epenesa outside. 

     

    This would absolutely be the best option, but it's also November and you can't beat him to a pulp 2 months before the playoffs even start.

     

    8 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

    There is a case for Shaq, Dorian and Cam to become the starting second level.

     

    There almost is, but I think the case for Shaq, Bernard and Cam negates it.

    I've always been a Taron fanboy but Lewis is a more dynamic defender now so I'm sort of OK with that switch.

    But even right now, 85% of Bernard is a better option than Williams. And if he continues to get better (which he has been) the case becomes even stronger.

     

    12 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

    PED man 2 (Ogunjobi) is freaking hopeless. Leverage. Pad level. Anchor. One out of 3 would be nice. He is playing with zero.

     

     

    He's about the third/fourth level of the trickle down problem caused by Oliver's injury.

    It murders us at every level of our rotation.

  8. 1 minute ago, BuffaloRebound said:

    Then you can’t have milano, bernard, and taron out there on running downs.  They’re way too small to take on O Linemen who get to the 2nd level.  Gonna have to sacrifice some pass defense if the run defense remains this bad.  

     

    And who exactly are you going to replace them with that can take on an unfettered Guard in their face?

    The problem is up front and no other amount of tweaking can fix that, imo.

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  9. Just now, Miyagi-Do Karate said:


    i saw him once. I didn’t see Hancock at all. Would love to know the snap counts. 

     

    They're still bringing Hancock in for Poyer on anything longer than about 3rd/6.

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