Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Personally I think BB was he bigger part of their success but the one way losing Brady did hurt more than they realized was in attracting mid level FA's that BB loved to sign. Players would sign maybe even for less $$ as they knew with Brady, they'd have a shot at winning SB and for that would deal with BB's prison like atmosphere too. No Brady, go sign elsewhere. Couple that too with BB's track record in the draft the last ten years was not nearly as good as his first 10 years.

I was speaking from the context of the medias perspective. He was viewed as the next great thing until he got hurt. Certainly does raise an eye brow that Foles came in and they still won the SB. It also raised questions if the guy behind it all in Philly was Reich which then raises the question here, what if Daboll leaves. My overall point though was Allen needs to come in and repeat things next year to get rid of any doubters. To my question above if Dsaboll leaves all the more reason Allen needs to show it was actually all him. Not saying he can't, but that's what he needs to prove, then all the negative comments will be gone.

The one thing Allen needs to show is he's not another one year wonder like Wentz. He comes out next year again playing like he is now, think all the questions goes away. Same with Jackson except opposite, he went from MVP to playing well, but is he nothing more than a running QB with so-so arm. Last season he got away with it.

After reading the Forbes article, I will say this, having the 1st overall pick become a bust is much worse than the #7 pick becoming a bust. Was more risk for Cleveland as Allen was likeliest the riskiest selection, he certainly had the most potential upside, but also the most risk. At #7, not so tough a choice to make.

So since this post is about changing players positions, why is EJ Epenesa listed as a DE and appears that is the position he's been playing but is wearing #57 a LB number? I get it, there's some gray area there, but why didn't he just take a high number? Could even understand it more the other way, he started as a DE, but now they are having him play more a LB role, but he's still wearing a DE number. This however is the opposite!

That would work great if there was some type of valve you could turn on/off so to eliminate any potential spread of Covid! The day Fromm joins the active roster assume next Tuesday after the NE game, you don't know if he was exposed the day before, but he''s not going to test positive until maybe Saturday the day before the Miami game and he's now also exposed himself to half the active roster and also Barkley. Or maybe Barkley turns up positive next Thursday, but since he was still with Allen up until Monday, Allen is now ruled out due to exposure, but starting Tuesday he was also with Fromm so now he's also out. So no there are no QB's for the Miami game and maybe all three turn up positive so they are all ruled out for the first round of playoffs too. While obviously far from ideal at least if Fromm is kept away from everyone else, he could still play, but now you've just created a complete co-mingling and everyone can potentially be out. Think of the Denver situation. The Bills have spent 16 weeks doing their best to make sure this can't happen, but you want to rip it all up. It's like three ships passing in the night in different directions, but you want to allow people to jump off one ship onto either of the others and who knows what you'll end up with. But that's OK!

Been written about this a fair amount. Probably not because first off Fromm hasn't been able to even practice much with regular players as he's been isolated form the rest for the most part so little knowledge of eachother. That would also defeat the entire idea of isolation. Currently if Allen or Barkley turned up positive a good change the other would be ruled out by close contact. But Fromm would be OK to go. Now you've just thrown Fromm into the mix so he too could very likely be ruled ineligible based on close contact or if he were positive, he's now infected the rest of the team. So no!

If those are escorts, he could do better! To me the most amazing part is in this day and age, how did he possibly think there wouldn't be photo's online of all this?

I don't know a couple times I've hear Steven A and Keyshawn talking good about Buffalo and Allen. Wright, he's a different story!

That ship sailed last week. Actually if all three tied at 11-3, conference records would also be all tied at 10-2. Not enough common games between all three so comes down to Strength of Victory which about 98% certain KC now has the edge. IF KC had instead lost this week to Saints and final week to Chargers to still end up 13-3, and 10-2 conference then we'd have come out on top based on Strength of Victory , but once they beat Saints, they now have the #1 overall regardless what anyone else does. Basically losing to Saints would have hurt them more than losing to Atlanta.

OK so every week was reading that Proyer was leading voting for safety. Now he's not even on squad??

Surprised Henry didn't win it last week, so could argue he's due for two very strong weeks and may get votes for that reason.

You have to take into account one thing that's changed, back then 2014 and go back 10 years prior, there was a league wide shortage at the QB position so back then if you had a journeyman, you were in the same group as about 1/2 the other teams and felt OK about things and about another 1/4 were in even worse shape. The likelihood of finding the next guy at QB was lower. Now for whatever reason not the league wide shortage. Maybe it's more the result of rule changes that allow mobile QB's to not get the stuffing beat out of them and can succeed or something else. Today I only count 8 teams that don't have anyone on their roster that they didn't draft within the last few years or an established star that could/is become a franchise QB.

For Common games tie breaker to come into play all teams tied must have 4 common games played which is not likely when teams are in different divisions unless the two divisions that played eachother. But in your example of Rams, Cardinals, and Bears all tied and again with Miami, Tenn and Pitt, common games will probably be thrown out and will go to next tie breaker Strength of Victory OK just went through Pitt, Tenn and Miami tie scenario, looking quickly it appears they actually did play 5 common games, so would kick in for them. I know I had gone through tie breakers between Pitt, Bills, and KC and they didn't have 4 common games.

OK so it's actually called "Strength of Victory" So in the playoff machine I assumed they lost next two games to Falcons and Chargers which is the only option left at this point to end up at 13-3. If they had lost instead today and beat Falcons strength of Victory would have been less and then we could have still got the #1??

so what happened anyway, last week was reading if a 3 way tie, Bills cvould get #1 seed, now heard them say today Chiefs clinched the #1 and this playoff machine website also shows that with a 3 way tie. chiefs still get the #1. Can't figure out what changed.

Saw an listing of the someones take on greatest backup QB's of all time. Not trying to debate the worthiness of any names on the list or not on the list but what was kind of surprising was out of the 25 names listed five had a connection to some extent with Buffalo. They were: James Harris, Doug Flutie (technically he was the backup) Todd Collins, Frank Reich, and Kelly Holcomb Their stardom as backup didn't necessarily occur when they were with the Bills but other teams. One ex Bill not on the list was Daryle Lamonica though he really didn't do very much as a backup. Another name missing from the list was George Blanda though seemed like whomever came up with this list didn't go back more than about 30 years. Also missing were the combo of Craig Morton and Roger Staubach, though hard there to decide who really was the starter vs backup. Another name on the list was Jeff Kemp, while he never played here, his father certainly did. Scroll down to bottom of page for listing https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/jimmy-garoppolo-unlikely-to-play-again-this-season-as-qb-faces-uncertain-future/ar-BB1c5w7z?li=BB15ms5q

One rule I'd imagine the players would vote for is not having to dress up for travel to road games

They must have been clear see thru.

Today is Sunday? Oh thanks for the reminder! With all these non Sunday 1:00 games lately it is hard to remember what day it is anymore. My wife commented earlier about something thinking it was Monday.

Not sure I'm ready to give Daboll credit for the Statue of Liberty play. We'll likely never know the truth for certain, but I suspect that was something Allen did in practice one day just fooling around. At that point maybe he suggested it to Daboll to somehow work it into a play. At that point, will give Daboll credit for agreeing to make it into a play and to use it.

I selected they pick up the option only because of possible money restrictions this upcoming year with at likely best a flat salary cap. But waiting will likely increase the yearly $$ too by some amount.

What would Van have said?

On Allens 1st TD run, did I see Knox take out two guys with blocks?

I was also 40 at the time.