Simon

I don't think so; it's been an issue (or issues) with him for two years and hasn't gotten any better to my eyes. The point about not pushing Thompson this early in the season is a good one. The limited work he's getting on some first and third downs right now might be the staff's effort to work him in slowly to make sure he's both ready and healthy for Dec/Jan.

Every bit of this is 100% true and I cannot even remember I saw these guys so unprepared and out of synch. McD has got to be seeing the same thing and I have ot wonder how long he can tolerate it before he makes a move. I've definitely noticed a tendency for them to break down too early. That leads to guys lunging and when you do that you have no base and no power to work with. I'm guessing the union would have a fit if McD circled them up, put a bunch of Gazoo helmets on them and spent an hour every day having them run the tackling version of Oklahomas.

Brown has been a headcase since he was a teenager.

It had that look about it.

His leg/foot was turned sideways about 90 degrees That looked like the kind of thing that affects careers as much as seasons.

That looked potentially gruesome

They've looked out of sorts since they stepped on the field to start Week 1. I'm beginning to suspect that Babich was hired more for his personality than his ability. His lack of attention to detail makes me want to take a turn as a fire everybody sort of guy.

I'd guess that the only chance of those things happening would be for them to be preceded by the venting of most of their front office into the vacuum of space.

Van Demark is the only one I would take issue with. He was mauling people to the whistle in the run game but he was so bad in pass pro I can't believe he'd be graded that high. Epenesa seems a little bit high, but that was certainly his best game of the year so far.

He's got no chance this year and possibly next as well in that gawdawful organization with that awful roster. My guess that he'll be a good coach eventually is based entirely on the kind of guy he is. I said it would be over the next couple years and that it would only possibly be in NY and I stand by that.

If they're slow-rolling the switch to keep Thompson fresh and healthy for the stretch run, I guess I probably wouldn't complain about that strategy. Well, I would but probably shouldn't.

From my couch the problems would appear to be, in order: LB (particularly the stunningly lost DWilliams), inconsistent rookie DT's and then safety (especially Rapp, who has been gawdawful while Bishops is getting somewhat better).

Shaq Thompson has been working in on some 1st and 3rd downs but imo should be taking all of Williams' snaps, including when they run 4-3 sets after Milano's return.

Wasn't that a different play where they actually did get called for a 12th man?

C'mon, he's not that old

That's not what Mrs McBean says.....

How many SB party snack tables will now have Hasenpfeffer?

Apparently Marlon Humphries is also now gone for a couple weeks with the calf issue. They should probably just go ahead and write off the season, trade us Kyle Hamilton and start reloading.

He's doing exactly what he's being coached to do and doing it very, very well. If you can't see what he's doing that's not a Rousseau problem, that's a you problem. The Bills have never had high sack numbers from their DE's under McDermott, and they likely never will. It isn't because they don't have good players at DE. It isn't because Beane doesn't know what he's doing when to comes to acquiring DL. It's because McDermott wants his guys up front playing responsibly and not losing edges and overrunning QB's and abandoning gap responsibilities. That's just who he is. If you need to break out the bltching stick, you're wasting your time using it on Rousseau or Beane.

They're still working on him in the training room.

There was somebody hustling off but he made it in plenty of time. I got the sense Coach called it out of frustration and to make a point to the stripes as much as anything.

This is the solution I've always favored as well; just turn off the game clock and go. But man, it could be fraught with peril. What if you have two really bad offenses with a couple vicious defenses, particularly in a relatively meaningless game. That could go on long enough to create the kind of conditions that get people hurt, and for no good reason. I don't think that's something that anybody wants. Maybe set the clock to 20:00 and see if that's shows a tendency toward having more games decided, and if it doesn't then try increasing increments 'til it does?

If I'm GB I'm less worried about Parsons and more worried about the fact that nobody on the field or sidelines could take advantage of all the doubles the guy was drawing all night. Dallas sold out to make sure the guy didn't have himself a day against them on national TV and yet still nobody else in that front7 was more effective than him.