Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Did they? I mean the Bills hardly tried all that much.

When do these teams learn?? Picking your next HC because as an OC he was great, but had one of the top two or three QB's in the league as his QB does not mean he will become a good HC. See Daboll, Gase, number of OC's from Pats, and others before him. In that respect I do think Ben Johnson is a much better choice as the Lions QB is very good, but not in the same league as Allen, Mahomes, Jackson, or Burrow. But yet Johnson has made the Lions offense one of the tops in the league without the superstar QB. On the other hand is it a smart move for the Joe Brady's of the world to take these jobs as better chance of failure than success. But as they say, only 32 of these jobs exist, so kind of get it. Likely even if he gets fired after 2 years, he'd make more in those two years than he'd make in in 10 years as an OC.

In the case of 13 seconds it sounds like McD had told the ST coach to kick it in the field of play so wasn't on him. This past week I do question if there was also some type of miscommunications on the field as if they were running "the Orchard Park Snowplow", why wasn't there a RB behind him to help push him forward like there normally is? I tend to question if that was the called play?? One of Mc'D strong points is he'll rarely blame anyone else and just keep it internally so we'll never know for certain.

Another 1st for Allen Leading NFL MVP candidate Josh Allen had the best fantasy performance by a quarterback ever in Week 14, logging an incredible six touchdowns (three through the air, three on the ground) en route to 51.88 fantasy points. The second-best historical QB performance was over six decades ago, in 1961, when Houston Oiler George Blanda would have produced a 49.72-point game. In the league I played in, would have been worth 55 points

Another 1st for Allen Leading NFL MVP candidate Josh Allen had the best fantasy performance by a quarterback ever in Week 14, logging an incredible six touchdowns (three through the air, three on the ground) en route to 51.88 fantasy points. The second-best historical QB performance was over six decades ago, in 1961, when Houston Oiler George Blanda would have produced a 49.72-point game. In the league I played in, would have been worth 55 points

College basketball has almost become unwatchable. Between all the one and done's, you don't know who anyone is and the fact that these kids can't shoot worth a lick anymore. If UNC says no, I do think some of these big $$ schools would offer him the same. Can you spell SEC??

No can't be be. We won the division so no worse than 4th seed and first game at home likely against Balt in that case. Or Balt could still win division over Pitt as they could lose a few down the stretch as they have a tough remaining schedule.

The problem is when you look at McD's record, statistically the Bills have a much better shot and hiring a coach who'll do worse than better. It's usually a 2 to 3 year window each time you change coaches so you could easily be here for the next 10 years with different coaches and not doing better.

I didn't wear the Bills shirt I normally wore on Sundays

Sure they might have, but hard to believe they wouldn't kick it at 4th and 5, but would have at 4th and 7? Plus for the reasons you state, if they kicked a FG a TD by Buffalo wins game makes me think it's doubtful Ram's would have kicked. Bills couldn't stop Rams all game and Rams could barely stop the Bills particularly late in game.

I don't think they'd have been afraid to pass either as we couldn't stop the short ones. And yes one 1st down game over.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the way the defense played yesterday even with only a 3% chance of successful onside kick, I tend to agree with you!

They gave them one more down not two. It would have been 4th and 7, Instead it became 3rd and 16, then with the pass completed went to 4th and 5. Likely whether it was 4th and 7 or 4th and 5, Rams still would have went for it. Admittedly they did lose time, believe the rule in last 5 minutes, even if you decline penalty, clock does not restart? On the attempted run play at goal line, what surprised me was no one was in the backfield too push Allen forward. I assumed they were faking the sneak and Allen was maybe going to roll out and if he had a clear path run it in, else, pass it to someone sneaking out behind them in the end zone.

Do they often give player of the week awards to player on losing team? If so I'd think Allen will win it 2 weeks in a row.

If NFL GM's and scouts can't make decent projections on 1st round QB,s how can any projection made on a late round pick be worth anything? You can throw him on the PS, but I'd be much more confident having the backup #2 QB be a guy who's played in the NFL, even if he fizzled out. When your staring QB is questionable, say Carolina, it's worth taking a gamble then as good chance the starter won't last all season without benching him.

So you want to take a guy drafted in the 5th 6th, or 7th round and only NFL experience is playing in a couple of pre season games against other guys drafted in the 5th 6th, or 7th round and think he is going to better than Mitch T? LOL Trubisky may have been over drafted, but he's still better than a guy drafted that low with zero experience. 1st round picks have a 50/50 shot at success, unless they draft the next Tom Brady, you'll never even know and with Allen on the bench as soon as he's healthy he's back in the line up. I've heard suggestions of drafting the backup QB in 3rd round which is even a dumber idea as basically one of the complaints about Beane is how many 2nd and 3rd round picks he drafts have failed. Now using a higher pick on player that hopefully will never play is even worse. If they did draft a QB, likely the plan would be to stash him on the PS so they better draft him no earlier than the 6th otherwise when the cut him at the end of camp, another team will grab him so better draft him real low and then will just sit on PS for possibly as long as 4 years and then once a FA will sign with another team where he actually has a chance to play. And the other likely thing that may happen wit ha QB on PS if injuries hit some other position and the team needs to make a roster move the QB on the PS would be one of the 1st to go. Every couple of months I read a one of these threads suggesting the same, my suggestion is change the title to "I want to throw away a draft pick". The Bills don't need to develop a QB for the next 4 or 5 years. When Allen hits around age 33/34, then can start to think about developing a new QB

But in Landry's case, no free agency or salary cap so much easier to build a dynasty

So just curious about the rules. So Hyde is on PS , normally if another team wants to sign a player to their 53 man roster, they can "steal" anyone off another teams PS. Does the player have the option to say, "thanks but no thanks!" and not accept? Or is it more like a waiver claim where player doesn't have a choice. Probably 99% of the time the player would jump at the chance, I'd assume in this case Hyde would say no, but just wondering about the actual rule on this.

Likely going to take it slow with Milano s want to keep the extra LB active

So I turned on a TV and the last channel viewed popped up which was NBC. They were re-showing the National Dog Show fro about the 10th time. Right at that instant the contestant showing their dog was Dick LeBeau. His dog was probably all of about 5 pounds soaking wet, it's name Hall of Fame! Guess we know what he's doing in retirement!

So I'm not one to think that everything is a conspiracy, but when EPSN just skips the one game the Chiefs lost to the Bills, have to start to wonder. No this is not photo shopped this is off the ESPN mobile site!

Yeah guess I lost my thought and skipped a few words there. I edited my post, hope it makes more sense now They were implying like when the show was in Buffalo 2 weeks go, they showed the crowd and was about 98% Bills colors. They are making the assumption it will be all Lions fans there at the game and when they show the crowd all we will see are Lions fans. But my point it Bills fans travel pretty well.

So when they show live shots behind the set, will they be showing more Lions jerseys or Bills jerseys in the crowd? The announcers just kind of called out the Bills fans that it will be all Lions fans there, assuming no Bills fans will make the trip or get tickets.

Just curious, does anyone know, if Steelers had won on Thursday, would they have been a head of Bills in standing as the #2 seed? Believe they only have 1 conference loss, but not sure if that's the fist tie breaker anymore?

think you forgot Tomlin. As much as I think the Steelers should have fired him a couple years back, no one expected him to be doing what he is doing and in probably the toughest division in the AFC