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Since Hyde has been out, our defense has given up 16 points per game. More impressively, they gave up only 20 to the high powered Chiefs. 🥵 I think you can make the argument that the Bills would have beaten the Dolphins with Hyde playing - that 3rd and 22(?) pass to Hill likely doesn’t happen. But then again, it may not have happened with Poyer playing. They were both out that game. 👉 I am certainly not saying we are better without Hyde… but I am asking, how much worse are we really? And does extending (or going into a contract year at $11M cap hit) worth not having a slight drop in quality? Could we trade him for a draft asset? 💰 We have a potential “out” with his contact this off-season. It would save us about $4 million in cap space ($11M cap savings minus $7M in dead cap). Hamlin & Johnson combined account for 1/5th of Hyde’s cap hit next year. Poyer is 115 days younger than Hyde. If we had to pick one safety to keep, I think I may lean toward Poyer over Hyde. Go Bills.

I don’t think either of those things happened with Belichick.

I never thought Jones was impressive. Ever. How does a coach lose his skills? Dementia?

We are just talking football. There is no Bills game this week. Need something to talk about. I guess we could all go back to thread about Sal attending a baseball game.

No. It’s just pointing out that even Brady wasn’t Brady in Brady’s 3rd ever start.

He 3x’d when he should have 2x’d.

Brady’s 3rd start 203 yards, 2 TD, 4 INT Zappe’s 3rd start 185 yards, 1 TD, 2 INT

Ok that second INT was a bad throw. Forced it on 4th down.

A tipped pass is why? In that case the Bills should be running non-stop. We have more tipped passes than any team i’ve ever seen.

Huh?

Zappe has a 137 QB rating with 8 minutes left in the game.

Not that many, no. Drew Lock has had great throws too. The 75 yard Jags throw was his first “wow” throw that I can remember and they was toward the end of the season.

Haven’t seen anything his fault yet. Line isn’t blocking.

This was 2018. He didn’t have that many great throws.

These teams have now run on 3rd and 13, 3rd and 10, and 3rd and 8. Its 2022.

Yep. And a lot of it isn’t justified. Remember when Allen looked like this? I do.

He looks a bit like Allen in his rookie year.

Fields has a little Allen in him.

Because there is only 11 seconds left…

Fields lacking in game awareness. You can’t spend 8 seconds on a play when there are only 11 seconds left.

If they call a timeout just to run the ball on 3rd and 16, then the Bears deserve to lose.

Judon is everywhere

Yep. He’s an improvement on Mac and that’s annoying.

Mike White had 5 TD, 4 INT going into the game against us. Zappe has 5 TD, 1 INT. Big difference so far. He at the very least looks much better than Mac.

I remember people making this same argument when some guy named Tom Brady took over in NE in 2001.