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“That clinch walk wouldn’t have made it.”

Dane has locked down the CB2 (he'll be CB1 until Tre is fully back) spot imo. Kair gets the starts with Tre on a pitch count.

he was running for his life even with Lawson getting obviously held on that play. All things considered though I’ll take the int over the holding penalty.

Brandon Beane: we’ve added performance incentives to your contract Jordan Poyer: challenge accepted.

How in the Kentucky fried ***** are the Pats up on GB at GB playing their 3rd string QB?

I really liked what I saw from him today. Excellent in space.

Whatever game plan they had in place Milano executed perfectly. Keeping Lamar contained was Milano’s assignment and he passed with flying colors.

hes said it himself, he likes that first run, lowering his shoulder and trucking someone. Shakes the jitters out.

Knox pass was tipped by Campbell. He was in the right spot, the ball was not.

He played with his hair on fire today. Absolute tackling unit.

Oh look we won a one score game. We can stop talking about this now.

Its a narrative because it is one, and it’s going to haunt this team until it doesn’t.

Say what you will about him he’s out there turning lemons into lemonade with that team. Guy can ball.

I mean it makes perfect sense. You can teach people ball if they’re willing and hungry. You can’t teach size, height, speed and intangibles. Just find the biggest, fastest, hungriest guys out there and trust that your program and the culture will maximize their talents.

The NFL just killed (another) man.

Don’t think it sends a good message to the locker room though. He’s one, if not, their best player. Sterling Sheppard just went down and is out for the season. Dismantling the team when they’re 2-1 and playing competitively in a weak conference just tells the team that winning is not the point this year. That’s how you lose a locker room and that’s how coaches get fired.

When our entire line is healthy we do. We ran decently enough against the Rams week one that they had to respect it. I don’t care about having an elite rushing offense. I just want it to be good enough that it needs to be planned for.

They brought tons of pressure in the first half and it was boom/bust. Got a sack fumble that led to 7 but let Bills march down the field for 2TDs. Second half they brought the same pressure looks but then faded into zone coverages to take away the middle and deep parts of the field. Allen was able to largely deal with by throwing dump offs but it was very effective in forcing the Bills to play long, exhausting drives that would stall in the red zone. Result? An exhausted Bills offense that could only muster 3 points.

I think Brown’s back is still messed up. He was messing with it during the Titans game and Quessenberry replaced him during that game as well at some point. He might be on a pitch count still and/or working his way back. His pass pro is still definitely undeveloped and needs work. Having Bates next to him (who also has pass pro issues) instead of an established vet like Willliams is probably also causing issues and breakdowns in communication. So much of OL is about working as a unit and weak links in the line make the entire line look bad. I think that Bates’s shortcomings last year were hidden because Morse and Dawkins are good, and made sure that Bates was doing the right thing. That may be impacted now that Bates is in a different spot and next to a pretty green right tackle who doesn’t see the rush as well.

Big O was saying though that the center was totally tipping the snap count. DL was teeing off. They knew it was a pass play and literally timed the jump. Dawkins and Singletary got smoked, because their assignments were in the backfield before the ball even made it into Allen’s hands.

I have just never seen a team be a running back away from winning a super bowl. Premier pass rusher? That’s a completely different can of worms.

I don’t like it. Injury prone RB in a contract year playing with a limited sample size. We’d be mortgaging future draft picks for a 1 season rental and then surely letting him walk in FA because we don’t have the cap space to pay him the kind of money he could fetch in the open market. It reeks of desperation and of making a move for the sake of making a move.

The longer you hold the ball and the more plays you’re forced to run, the greater the likelihood for errors. It’s the same defensive philosophy the Bills have employed under Frazier and McDermott, “make them earn every yard” The Phins gave up two TDs in the first playing aggressive, but got a TD out of it from the fumble. Second half they adjusted, forced the Bills to dink and dunk and the Bills offense only managed 3 points. I would call that a solidly well executed defensive strategy against a superior (albeit handicapped) opponent. Sure, the Bills made many uncharacteristic mistakes in that game. That being said I give credit to the Dolphins game plan for creating situations for the Bills to make those mistakes. It brings up Napoleon’s quote, “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

I mean that by and large the Phins forced the Bills to play the game on their terms. Dink and dunk, get tired, let them creep towards the red zone, then clamp down. They kept the same blitz looks from the first half into the second, but dropped into zone coverages and took away the deep and middle of the field. Line play suffered as players went down and got tired, pressure came too fast, forcing Josh to take the dump offs and short passes they were giving up. They knew we were tired and our offense was on the field too long. Have to get rid of the ball fast because the pressure is coming, can't wait for plays to develop, not enough bodies at WR to rotate in fresh guys so people are tired and can't sprint, get separation. I highly doubt our offense came in there with a gameplan to play 12-16 play drives in sweltering heat as a means to shield our defense. There's playing ball control offense, and then there's the defense letting you wear yourself out so you can't close it out in the redzone because the drive just killed your offense because its so damn hot and you don't have bodies to rotate in.

You can play that game all day long though. When it came time to make a play, the Phins did. Can’t say the same for the Bills. On that Sunday, they were the better team on the field. They made less mistakes, made plays when they needed to and kept the Bills off balance. I don’t think they’re better than the Bills, but that’s why they play the games.