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Rodgers exudes a resigned defeatism. Zero leadership. All season he's complained about not being on the same page as his receivers but he couldn't be bothered to do any offseason work with them. It appears he hasn't been making time during the season to get on the same page with them either. He plays with the fire and intensity of a corpse laying in a wet ditch.

Yup I understand they were deep in their own territory but to go run-run-pass when your QB is the league's reigning MVP is very lame.

Everyone would love if the Bills had a power run component to their offense. On the other hand if forced to choose between the Bills offense as it is versus the Titans offense as it is, it would be an easy decision and I wouldn't think twice.

Except that time.

It'll be interesting to see if the Packers' offensive revival as indicated vs Dallas last week will continue. Have they turned a corner and was last week a blip? That direct snap to Henry was so obvious. Not that it makes stopping him any easier but I wasn't fooled and I'd be surprised if any defenders were.

New to the sport? You're often facetious so I'm not taking this seriously but anyone who understands football and watched Spector this preseason could only have been impressed. It's weird that you would compare two players who couldn't be more stylistically different than each other.

Yes. Howie Roseman has been with the Eagles since 2000 when he started there as an intern. People like Connor Barwin and others in their front office have learned under him. The Eagles won a Super Bowl as recently as 2017. Now 2 years after firing their Super Bowl winning coach, they're considered by many to be the best team in the league and no one doubts they are at least legit Super Bowl contenders. The Eagles have enough front office talent that would be attractive to other teams. As the OP stated, Shane Steichen is a legit HC candidate and Jonathan Gannon will also get consideration in the next hiring cycle.

Discom BOB ulated. One of the most excellent words ever. As for your second sentence, I think it's a psychological ramp up to returning to active duty. It'll make much of what happens next week seem like less of an adjustment. He was on KB radio and said that recovery from such an injury has a "mental component" to it. So yes, you're correct. And all athletes have the exact same injury and physiology, biomechanics, and tissue profile? Truly amazing that you guys are second guessing a professional medical and training staff that has an excellent track record. The Bills have been one of the least-injured teams in the league since the beginning of the McBeane era. But you guys know better than them?

Toney was never one of their better receivers. He was one of their most talented receivers. Good comparison. Hodgins is actually not that different from their present highest-paid receiver, Kenny Golladay. Both have plus size and good hands but lack a bit in the ability to separate. The next step for Daniel Jones is that he needs to be able to spot the 1 on 1 matchups and throw 50/50 balls to his big-bodied receivers. The elite QBs are not afraid to throw to receivers that are "covered."

Yes, yes I can. I can also tell which cheerleaders he's attracted to by his body language in the huddle.

Cook would be much more effective if he didn't so obviously hate playing for this team in this city. Can you imagine how explosive he'd be if he had a good attitude?

Carolina should have beaten Atlanta. DJ Moore caught a 62 yard TD pass at the end to tie it. Unfortunately while celebrating he was assessed a 15 unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and the extra point became the equivalent of a 48 yard field goal, which the kicker missed, forcing overtime. In overtime the same kicker missed a 32 yard field goal. Atlanta got very lucky to evade the upset.

Duke. Johnson. 😆

I've heard of him!

I might be the only one who picked this... Rams over the Niners.

4) The Bills are coming off a bye week. McDermott is 5-0 coming off byes and the Bills will be hungry for the taste of blood after one week off. 5) The game is nationally televised. I just can't imagine these players not wanting to show out to a national audience in the midst of all the hype that they're the best team in the league. Excellent! Prepare the celebration... invite the prettiest girls from the village...

There was that Laremy Tunsil trade by master strategist Bill O'Brien: O'Brien gave up a 2020 first-round pick (which ended up being 26th overall), a 2021 first-round pick, a 2021 second-round pick, safety Johnson Bademosi and offensive tackle Julie'n Daveport in exchange for Tunsil, wide receiver Kenny Stills, a 2020 fourth-round pick and a 2021 sixth-round pick. More problematic than the exorbitant trade compensation was O'Brien neglecting to sign Tunsil to a new deal when acquiring him. The Texans might as well as have given Tunsil a blank contract and let him fill out it in when trying to extend him, given the leverage handed to the tackle through the lack of a new contract and the trade compensation, which was essentially two first-round picks and a second-round pick. Tunsil made O'Brien pay dearly for his mistake by exploiting his tremendous contract leverage although he was acting as his own agent. He significantly raised the salary bar for offensive linemen, becoming the highest-paid offensive lineman in NFL history at $22 million per year on a three-year extension. His deal averages 22.2 percent more than the four-year extension Lane Johnson signed with the Eagles during the middle of last season for $18 million per year. Tunsil has an offensive lineman record of $40 million fully guaranteed at signing. His $50 million in overall guarantees are tied for second among offensive linemen with Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan. Agree about the Chargers AND their QB. Didn't Justin Herbert get more votes for the Pro Bowl last year than Josh Allen?

Agreed. Ditto with Bradley Chubb. If I'm a GM these young, talented pass rushers are the kind of players I'm trying to acquire, not trade away. All 3 of these players are young enough to be foundational pieces in a rebuild situation. It's hard enough finding pass rushers without trading them away.

Great topic and I can't recall laughing so much reading through the replies. How do feel about that Taylor Heinicke-Sam Ehlinger battle? 😆😆😆 Confidence only goes so far when your QB is Zach Wilson. Neither? As far as the teams, the Jets are one of the few franchises the Bills have a winning heads-up record against. Also our all-time winning percentage is higher than theirs. Because of those two things I've more felt sorry for them than hated them. I probably hated them the most during the New York Sack Exchange days. On the other hand I HATE New/England/Belichick/Brady and want to see them/him lose every time it's possible and even when it's not. Miami, the Jets, and New England are going to spend the rest of the season in a Three Stooges-type pie fight for the basement. The result of this New Jersey-Cheatriots*** game won't matter.

To the first bolded, you'd put Diggs at slot if he was uncoverable. To the second bolded you think of Ed McCaffrey as a slot receiver? I remember that he was big and galloped like Gabriel Davis and got open deep down the sidelines a lot. Can't remember where he was always lining up. On the subject of "classic" slot receivers, the player who would have been great is Steve Tasker. I wish Marv had given him more opportunities on offense. Tasker only got that chance towards the end of his career and he excelled at it, both catching and running the ball.

Thank you!

Disagree. Matt Ryan would still be starting if he were playing well and the Colts were winning. It was Ryan's poor play that made the injury risk intolerable.

Interesting that Von Miller and Marcel Dareus came up in this topic. Those players went 2 and 3 in the 2011 NFL Draft. Other D-linemen taken in that same draft were Aldon Smith (7), JJ Watt (11), Nick Fairley (13), Robert Quinn (14), Ryan Kerrigan (16), Corey Liuget (18), Adrian Clayborn (20), Phil Taylor (21), Cam Jordan (24), Muhammad Wilkerson (30), and Cam Heyward (31). Other highly-regarded D-lineman taken in that draft were Jabaal Sheard (37), Da'Quan Bowers (51) and Jurrell Casey (77) making this is one of the greatest D-line drafts in NFL history. The Bills have an excellent roster. They have to execute but they also have to avoid injury. Of course trading for depth would make them a bit more immune to injury.

Good point. Randall Cunningham too and maybe guys like Steve Grogan (12 rushing TDs in 1976), David Woodley and Bobby Douglass who played at 6'4" 225 pounds and ran for 968 yards in 14 games as the Chicago Bears starting quarterback in 1972. Very true. For these guys it is important to have an effective running game in order to setup the play action throws. And this is the thought process which caused the Niners to invest heavily to move up and draft Trey Lance... they were essentially trying to replicate what the Bills did to get Josh Allen.

I agree that it seems that injury lists are longer this year than normal. I wonder if (counter-intuitively) the reduction in team drills has had an unintended effect on the occurrence of injuries.