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Hasn't happened Will be interesting to see what the Bills do on a couple of counts. If Von Miller is truly "limited" and "questionable", do they elevate Ja'Marcus Ingram to the 53-man to take Tre White's place? Or do they use one of 3 free PS elevations for one game, which wouldn't expose him to waivers? Or, are they actually confident enough in Benford that they roll into the game with Jackson, Benford, Elam, and Lewis as their CBs?

The only starter of those ruled out is Devin Lloyd, who started their first 3 games at LB. But, Jamal Agnew is listed as their PR/KR and Parker Washington is his backup, who returned 1 punt vs. ATL. So if Agnew can't go or is hampered, there's that. Of the "questionables", Fatukasi is their starting NT so that would be a loss. Zay Jones is their #3 or #4 WR (depending on how you count Evan Engram), though he starts and was on the field ~80% of the snaps first 2 games. Guessing the Jags play a lot of 11, like maybe 75-80% of the snaps? Antonio Johnson is a 5th round rookie who has yet to take a snap. So it's a lot of names, but not much of substance.

I mean, that was Josh Allen in 2019, right? 111 fewer yards, 5 more TD, 4 more INTs. And like Allen. Jones added 7 rush TD (2019 Allen had 9) and 700 rush yards. The idea is Jones had 24 TD and similar passing yardage under Shurmur his rookie year, so last year wasn’t a one-off, Garrett /Kitchens was an aberration, and Kafka/Daboll will get better production his 2nd year in the system. Obviously that’s not what seems to be happening, I’m just pointing out 1) rush production should be taken into account, as with Allen, Hurts, Jackson etc 2) what the reasoning likely was

If we haven't had this brought up yet, go check out this Cover1 film room. If you're impatient of the chatter and the guys trying to make a deal out of a 0.26 second increase in Tua's time to throw, go about 17:50 in where they look at some MILANOOOOOOOOOO

Daniel Jones 'regression' IMO comes on the heels of his OL's 'regression'. But I agree he's a QB who needs a solid run game and at least an adequate OL to flourish. I think if you give him that, he can do OK against most secondaries with just competent skill guys - did he not do so last season?

I think for NFL week purposes, putting a player on IR takes effect at the deadline for elevating PS players (day before the game). There's no need to IR White before that, and the team may legit be waiting to see what other moves they're going to make (elevating Ingram of the PS if there's concern about Benford; activating Von if they think he can go and Rousseau can't, etc). No reason to tip their hand early. I think it's pretty much announced the next day "out for the season", but as far as the actual designation of putting the player on IR, I think that usually officially happens the day before the next game.

I found this https://www.sportsinsights.com/blog/is-there-still-a-disadvantage-for-nfl-west-coast-teams-traveling-east/ It seems to say that recently (since 2013) the West Coast teams actually do a bit better playing on the East coast than they do overall? (the article has some nifty tables that didn't paste in well, so check it out to see data)

I dunno. I "get" that being able to spread out across an entire row is better than being locked in an upright position (or having someone else's seatback in your face) for an international flight, but "comfortable" in this context is still relative. Maybe I'm just projecting my own experience: sleeping on international flights (in fact, napping at all) is an Achilles heel for me. But, if they do have 44 first class seats, I would imagine most of the game day roster and some of the coaches were accommodated.... hoping the players were able to look at the seating and maybe some of the guys "nope'd" out of those convert-a-seats and chose to spread out across a row as actually giving them more space, rather than becoming a class or status marker. I find those seats a bit claustrophobic myself, so I can only imagine what they'd be like for an OL or DL. I don't think the EEOC would be "down" with sexual inexperience as a relevant employment criterion for grape feeding 😈 Also pretty sure the Sports Science department does not want him eating sugar bombs. Want food with protein (tryptophan) and fats, I believe. Perhaps they dropped gourmet Portuguese tinned sardines into his mouth one at a time.......sort of like feeding a captive Sea Lion.

Well, who knows, but when players like Poyer talk about watching film, they talk about it as something they’re doing in position meetings and on their own all week and, during a short week, even on the bus to the game. I wasn’t speaking of the film breakdown the QC guys do, but what the coaches and players do

How does that disadvantage actually play out in terms of W-L record? I think it’s a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. The West Coast teams usually fly out Saturday AFAIK, so they have no time to adjust. And 3 hrs is kind of a “gotcha” as it doesn’t seem significant enough to make special efforts. If the Bills are doing what I think McDermott said, sleeping on the plane then staying up all day Friday, they should be OK by Sunday as far as body clocks. What I think is the bigger struggle is the preparation - hopefully they got in two good practices W and Th, but will they be mentally sharp enough to be alert to watch film Fri and Sat and to process all the details of the plays in the game plan?

Was it Fitz or Whitworth who said “Defense is a state of mind”? To me that’s the story of this game. The Bears had that state of mind. The Commanders didn’t.

Methinks they looked at the Bears 0-4 record and became 2-2 complacent. I’m sure a tough game with a close finish and a short week didn’t help But they really do look bad. Defeated, and it’s not even halftime

Welp, that plan got intercepted

I can’t say Washington doing any better stopping the pass game (with a little help from the Zebra’s no-call)

No receiver in the vicinity. Even Amazon’s in-house expert says that should have been a penalty.

If I didn’t know and you asked me which of these two teams was 0-4, I would pick the Commanders. Commanders are playing like they’d rather be anywhere else, doing anything else Well, Fields just did a stupid fling. WTF constitutes “intentional grounding” now anyway?

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Neal says "sorry": Daboll says they're moving on: Translation: Neal got told to "go cut a switch"

I edited post above, but my point was that that particular make and model of aircraft could (theoretically) be sold kitted out as "all first class" essentially. But yes, of course, if it's a fleet workhorse plane that left Airbus with the seats installed in one of the standard certificated configurations, they wouldn't and couldn't reconfigure it on any sort of short-turn timeline, in fact I don't think OOS for a day would do it - probably a month to complete all the necessary paperwork.

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If that's the case, then you're right, it's not been customized like that. No they wouldn't reconfigure the plane between flights. That isn't done. The plane would have to go out the Airbus door configured that way, or else be re-fitted in a process that takes much more time and a lot of FAA paperwork (or whatever the EU equivalent is)

https://www.acj.airbus.com/en/creative-design One of the Airbus ACJ options is an Airbus 350-1000 series Edit: other people's comments that this is a fleet workhorse leads me to believe you're talking about how it wouldn't be reconfigured between flights, which was actually not what I was intending to suggest. It can get purchased (or retrofitted, a lengthy process) in just about whatever configuration the customer desires within broad limits, that was my point.

"“I just feel like it’s not any different from any away game,” said Hill, whose 412 receiving yards lead all AFC players this season. “They got a great team. I feel like the fan base is just like any other fan base. So it’s gonna be just like a normal environment, you know, to us.” -Tyreek Hill, before the game

Not sure what you mean by "not very big plane". Airbus A350-1041 can hold 350-400 passengers and has ~700,000 lb takeoff weight. But, since the Bills intend to have a practice tomorrow, I would expect that they sent much of their equipment ahead on a cargo flight, so it could get unloaded, clear any customs, get it trucked to the practice facility or field, and get it unpacked and set up. Yeah, but this is likely a charter plane. They can have it configured as 100% bed chair seating, and extra-long extra large ones at that. I'm sure the Bills aren't the only sports team or other group flying across the ocean and wanting to arrive there reasonably rested. EDIT: just to be clear, I was suggesting that Virgin Atlantic purchased a plane set up in this configuration or had one retrofitted (an extended process) to book for charters, not that they can take a fleet workhorse and re-fit it on a short turn around. If it's a normal workhorse flying scheduled routes, it has whatever seats it has.

Whoever it is, they're on to a Pesticide theory now As a Bills fan, I wouldn't want them to publicize what hotel they're staying at for away games so fans and crazies can show up and bother them.