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So the 3-2 Bills who have wins over the Cardinals, Jaguars, and Dolphins and the 2-4 Bengals who have wins over the Panthers and Giants are tied with the Chiefs who have won 11 straight games which include wins against the Bills and Bengals plus the Super Bowl? That is one heck of a hot take.

Reception rates are largely functions of target depth. Davis gets in the endzone, and there's value in that.

The Giants have zero offensive talent with Nabers out, but they play their asses off.

It’s fine to have a lower tier WR2 when he’s earning less than $1 million a year and only cost a 4th round draft pick. That’s excellent value that allows you to allocate resources elsewhere. The problem was that the FO didn’t make good use of said resources nor did they seem to have a coherent succession plan for him.

So they investigated themselves and agreed that they did nothing wrong?

LOL

There’s a big difference between commentary about their play and actively pulling for them to fail. You’re fully aware of which this is.

I’ll never understand the antipathy so many Bills fans have for him. I don’t recall him ever being a bad guy or teammate. All he did was wildly outperform his draft slot and have the greatest postseason game by a WR in NFL history against the team’s biggest nemesis.

LOL

Williams has a lot of haters, but he’s going to be really good. Glad some good young QBs are finally being drafted by NFC teams.

Excluding Josh, who do you think would have the highest trade value on the team given their age, salary, etc.?

Keon Coleman tried to run out on his tab as well, but they easily caught him from behind.

He and Mack Hollins could make a calendar.

What have the Chiefs ever done to suggest they would even consider making a trade like this? They traded Tyreek two years ago and have won two Super Bowls since. They traded L’Jarius Sneed this offseason and are 5-0 since. Juju and Kareem Hunt were free. I get the appeal, but the juice is rarely worth the squeeze. Draft your studs and be strategic about filling in the gaps around them.

He's a really good player, but he's always been more sizzle than steak, IMO. Whatever it is that the greats have inside them just seems to be missing in him.

Brown is a good example. The Cardinals didn’t give up much of anything for DHop. They sent the corpse of David Johnson and a second round pick for Hopkins and a fourth rounder. Even then they didn’t have much success with him. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad move, but it’s they type of move that the teams shipping out the player have benefitted from more often than not.

When has trading major assets for an expensive WR ever worked out? Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill, Hollywood Brown… I’m sure I’m missing some, but Stefon Diggs is probably the most successful example of it, and even that ended poorly.

Vegas has the Chiefs winning 13.5 games, the Vikings at 12.5, and the Ravens at 11.5. The Bills are tied for fourth at 10.5 (give or take a little on the payout for the over). January is a LONG way away, and Buffalo is almost guaranteed to be hosting at least one playoff game. It’s way premature to be talking about the current run in the past tense.

You want to punt on third down?

Easily treatable with smelling salts.

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this. Washington has the best 3rd down conversion rate in the league at 52%. On top of that, they’re 8/8 on fourth down. They’ve managed first downs 65% of the times they’ve faced third down. The Browns are worst in the league at 18%. They’re 9/15 on fourth down. The most amazing stat I found is that the Dolphins have gone 2/14 on fourth down. They’ve literally turned the ball over on downs 12 times already this season. That’s two and a half times a game. They’ve only converted 20 third downs out of 66 tries, 22 if you include fourth down attempts.

This has been substantially mitigated by going 7/7 on fourth down. That's insane. They've effectively managed to gain a first down on 25 of the 56 times they've faced third down which is 46%.

Franklin went 26 spots ahead of Davis in the draft, 7 spots after DeWayne Carter (who has shown some flashes the last 2 games). In looking at the draft, Beane took some older players in the mid to late rounds. Davis will be 25 next month, Carter turns 24 in December, Ulofoshio will be 25 in January, Hardy is 23, and Grable just turned 25 last week.

With 1100 yards and 11 TDs.

AD Mitchell: 20 targets, 6 catches, 70 yards, 0 TDs, 2 rushes, 14 yards, 0 TDs Ja’Lynn Polk: 19 targets, 9 catches, 74 yards, 1 TD, 1 rush, 0 yards, 0 TDs