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With no data to back it up it looks to me that the Bills have been a bit more stubborn about trying to force the run on obvious running downs.

So how would you characterize the running game this year compared to last year? Do you think they've regressed or stayed the same?

Yeah those unis mesh pretty well.

Yep! Even when Russ "Eddie" Brandon was wearing a V-neck cardigan, he was still oozing with slime!

Are there comments below the article? That would be another way of calling him out. It's not only the media. Politicians lie to our faces and try to scrub their content. In human history, truth has never meant less than it does now. I wish I believed that this behavior didn't have a trickle-down effect to the general public.

Another topic where there's too much discussion from the poles and not enough consensus... (the truth in the middle). The following positions (made by all of you) have validity: The Bills returned only one receiver who had caught passes from Josh. The Bills had many new WRs that had never caught passes from Josh. Because of the above, there was legitimate and justifiable concern from media/fans about the WR corps before the season began. It's possible/likely that the team shared these concerns but wanted to see how things played out. It's true that an offense has more weapons (RBs, TEs) than simply the WR corps and that this was part of the team's math. It's possible/likely that early on, the team identified Amari Cooper as a target in case a transfusion was needed. It's true that Joe Hines-Brady would employ schemes and philosophies differentiating the offense from the one he inherited last year. It's true that the above process would take some time. It appears the Bills have changed their offensive philosophy to feature bigger, more physical (bad weather) wide receivers. It's true that since the beginning of his term, McDermott has wanted to balance the offense and improve our run game and O-line play. It's true that this offense was going to improve over the course of the season, with or without Amari Cooper. It's difficult (if not impossible) to quantify how much the offense has improved due to Amari Cooper. It's inarguable that they are a better offense because of the addition of Amari Cooper. So all of you stupid ***** are right.

Currently not playing football. Very interesting read... he comes from an accomplished family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Rosen

Maybe stop at Barnaby's or Mean Guys for a quick pop before heading home...

If we were playing word association... unsavory... also coniver.

I think New Era offered him an executive position and then rescinded the offer when it created bad publicity due to the conditions surrounding his departure from the Pegulas. Brandon is the CEO of the UFL.

The point was (and you know this) that Herbert has underachieved relative to his talent.

It's kind of a cool rhetorical question... what would it cost for a team to successfully trade for Josh Allen? Some of us here are old enough to remember when Mike Ditka ran the Saints and traded his entire draft for Ricky Williams. What would Josh be worth? 5 entire drafts? Six? From Wiki: "The Ricky Williams trade was a trade between the New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins of the National Football League(NFL), which occurred prior to the 1999 NFL draft. Mike Ditka of the Saints wanted to move up in the draft order from the twelfth overall pick to ensure that he would be able to select Ricky Williams from the University of Texas at Austin. To do so, the Saints traded their first round, third round, fourth round, fifth round, sixth round, and seventh round picks in the 1999 NFL Draft and their first-round and third-round picks from the 2000 NFL draft to the Washington Redskins for the fifth overall pick with which it selected Williams. The Saints struggled in the 1999 season, and Ditka was fired. Williams played for the Saints for three seasons before he was traded to the Miami Dolphins."

The reason people dump on Herbert is because he plays like this once every ten games. Physically he's fairly close to Josh but he disappears for long stretches. And did you see him crumple along the sidelines after being hit at the end of that nice scramble? It was like he'd stepped off the curb and been blindsided by a metro bus... and not a 190 pound defensive back. I guess we're all just spoiled.

Meanwhile in Cleveland, Jim Schwartz just kicked his dog...

Anyone think Houston has a chance to beat KC in Arrowhead this weekend?

That FG at the end of the 1st Half was a turning point. The Broncos scored on a FG drive to open the 2nd half and I thought they stopped the bleeding but then there was a weird sequence of events including lots of defensive fouls which seemed to make Herbert wake up. Then he throws a TD pass and 2 point conversion that defenders get their hands on but can't defense. Weird momentum swing.

And now the most improbably thing has happened... the SoFi home crowd is making noise... what's next... a silent snap count?

Besides the improved play by Herbert... tons of defensive penalties and now the balls bouncing the other way.

Herbert's best game since setting the NFL record for TD passes by a rookie. This is the way people have been expecting him to play since then.

And now Herbert's injured... Two minutes from now he'll taken to the locker room on a gurney.

For one thing, Josh would play it off as if he'd been bitten by a mosquito and the officials would have concluded, no harm no foul. Then as a encore, Herbert comes up short on the two point conversion... a play on which Josh would score 100 out of 100 times because really the biggest difference between the two is toughness.

Interesting point. I'm not an analytics guy so I don't know... but I would say that when Xavier Worthy broke the 40 time at the combine this past April, he broke a record which had stood since 2017. Analogously, Usain Bolt set the 100 meter record in 2009. I think we're close to the ceiling on a lot of these performance drills so I think the effect on "re-calibrating" RASs will be minutely incremental.

Good drive by Denver to regain control of the game.