Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Maybe we run it more than 18% this week. While I didn't state this in my post, I don't think the drop off between knox and Kroft is much if anything. While Knox hasn't done much of anything this season, he's still a big legit target that defenses can't just ignore. Sending out Lee Smith 15 times on pass plays and the defense may just ignore him, don't think you can do that with Knox. Agree we may be more limited in two TE set but Gilliam does have is it two TD's?

Agree and if the season ended tomorrow, likely the the games with the biggest impact would be Bills/Miami or Cardinals/Rams. Possiblt also San Fran/Seattle game if San Fran has a big second half of season. And could argue Bills game is the bigger of the two as could determine division title where as Cardinals/Rams barring a huge 2nd half run by Vikings, Bears, likely will be a fight for wild card seedings between the two.

None of the 5 games that can possibly being flexed to Saturday involve two playoff teams, but all 5 of them have one team for certain in the hunt. So will be interesting to see which two of the five they choose. The Denver game too is a 4:25 game, however most of the country will get the KC/Saints game so if it's not flexed to Saturday, will likely only be shown in western NY and Denver regions. For week 17 there are 8 games on CBS, one of them will/could be moved to the 4:25 time slot. The Bills/Fish is the only one of the 8 likely to involve two teams in the playoff, plus could end up that game determining who wins division. So good chance that one could be moved, in fact if playing for division, pretty certain it will be flexed. There's also the Sunday night game too. Kind of funny in week 17 there are only about three games where likely both teams will be fighting for playoff spots. So really that day there a 2 4:25 games shown to majority of country plus Sunday night game, plus the 1:00 games on both networks, likely if one of the games has playoff implications, that game will go to most of the country that doesn't have a home market. All in all good chance that game will be on local TV in most of the country. Since I don't live in the Bills home market I've been watching the schedule much more closely to see which games I'll need to figure out a plan as to how to watch. I get tomorrows game so the only one that likely won't be shown in my region is the Chargers game, but even that one I give it a 50/50 shot between Bills/Chargers or Indy/Tenn. Chargers game too is the only 1:00 start for certain, the only other one is Miami and good chance that gets moved to 4:25

Last week we scored 44 points and the TE's were targeted 2 times was it? They like going with 4 WR so the TE isn't such a big deal. Teams have a harder time matching up against our 4 WR's than they would going with 3 and TE. Personally of the 4 I'm most worried about Marlowe

In past 3 seasons, he played 44 out of 48 games. So how exactly is that not staying healthy?

That question was just posted in a column in todays Athletic. Fairburn predicts: $8 to $10 mil for Williams which would place him in top 10 for a RT For Feliciano he predicts $6 to $8 mil But then goes on to state that without re-doing or cutting others not likely they could afford both with Allan and Edmunds among others due new contracts soon too.

That was what the Bills came out and tried to do against KC another team with an explosive offense. On top of that the Bills for the first time all year ran the ball well the week prior against NE. Taking those two things together, would think the Bills would have come out running much more than they did.

That was one of the things the article talked about their early success was due to drafting well in the first decade, lately not as well. And BTW, this wasn't me asking the question! LOL https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/bill-belichick-bristles-at-reporters-question-about-pats-lack-of-draft-success/ar-BB1aZjIt?li=BBnb7Kz

Do you subscribe to the Athletic, About 2 weeks ago there was an article there talking about their demise and how a number of things effected them but had lists, charts, showing how they have drafted worse than most teams in the league for the past 7 to 8 years, including the Bills. Was the 9 year stretch you mention the past 9 years? Doesn't look like it since some of those names were from back around 2009. It also talked about how they'd sign these mid level cheap FA's every year, but this year with no Brady and a few other things happening, that path dried up for the them too. Basically players would sign for less to have a chance at winning the SB in next couple of years, but once Brady was gone, they weren't signing there. But also article talked about how they haven't drafted well in the past 7 to 8 years. Guys like Edelman Gronk, McCordy, Solder and others arrived when they were still drafting well but not since around 2012 give or take a year. James White has1000 rushing and 3004 receiving yards in 7 seasons. You're calling that an example of drafting well?

That's about one a year, not sure I'd put Jimmy G on that list either. And how many are still there? His drafting particularly in last few years has not been veey good. The Bills have more pro bowl players lately than NE does.

He's already the GM maybe without the official title and he's pretty bad it it. Read an article recently and talked about the problems in NE and poor drafting was one of the big things they mentioned. They showed a chart going back to was it 2011 or 2013 , somewhere around that time frame and listed the number of pro bowl players every team has had. NE was down close to around #20, the Bills had more players than they did.

Noticed in this weeks snap count Davis was higher than both Brown and Beasley

Well after listening to the video, I'd say I've heard much worse and they've had worse halftime shows than this of late.

LOL You're assuming they do music?? I just thought they chopped peoples heads off or something. That probably would be more entertaining than some of the people they've had lately. Recall one line I read a couple years back that pretty much summed it up well IMO: "Nothing says American Football like ColdPlay!!"

You're talking about practice man? Practice?? Not a game! Not a game! You're talking about practice! We're not talking about the game?? We're talking about practice??

Based on how almost every other team that wins the Super Bowl, I'd imagine we'd have the SB hangover and regressed. The Bills also had a reputation in that they liked to party. Likely still would have made the playoffs, maybe even win the division, though Miami was nipping at our heals every year so wouldn't have taken much for them to beat us out for the division. But think at best would have lost in a playoff game prior to SB at least the 2nd year. Admittedly it may have made us hungrier and knew what it takes to win it all in years 3 and 4 and maybe would have won another one. I always felt Marv was the perfect coach to get the team back to the SB every year and avoid burnout in particular since we lost the prior year. But didn't think he was the best choice to actually win the game. I commented one time, switch coaches in the SB and we win the game. Similarly I think Marv would have done worse with the team if they had won the first one.

I tend to disagree with that as he brings a very unique perspective and play set that usually can't quickly be taught to a rookie particularity a low drafted marginally talented one. While you could easily draft a more talented overall player, you won't likely find a rookie that can run all the plays he runs. The one exception may be Isaiah Hodgins, could be he's been told already to shadow McKenzie and learn his role and responsibilities. He actually may have more raw talent than McKenzie so he could be the one cheap asset that potentially step in as a gain.

I live in the alternative reality that speaks English. Apparently you have trouble understanding it. What I was saying is unless you're a big name which McD and Beane were NOT, they would not get big contracts or have bidding wars, so likely RW could have afforded to sign them. I then stated: "if they do well and RW then doesn't want to pay me the going rate for a 2nd contract, can easily leave then and get into a a bidding war." A bidding war with whatever of the other 31 teams wants to then sign them.

Meanwhile on the Athletic we're rated #10

While I don't disagree with what you said about RW, both Beane and McD were brand new coaches so unless you have some existing cred on your bio like a Chip Kelly or maybe the guy out in Arizona or even a well established coordinator like Kyle Shannahan or Brian Shottenheimer, without that new coaches don't get huge first contracts here or anywhere else for that matter. There are rumors of Dabo leaving Clemson for the NFL(doubt he will IMO) , he'd get top $$ if he did. So likely RW could have afforded to sign them and since there's only 32 head coaching jobs in the NFL, they'd probably still have jumped at the chance figuring if I do well and RW then doesn't want to pay me the going rate for a 2nd contract, can easily leave then and get into a a bidding war.

Nance is busy broadcasting the Masters! Hurray I get the Bills game!!

This could be trouble! Can see a rift forming as to who is Batman!

Was listening to Jordon Palmer this morning on NFL Radio. He commented and asked who is the least athletic QB in the league; answer Tom Brady. So what makes him so good. His take it's not the experience, or the system or other obvious things, but it's that he does the same identical thing every pass play. He commented how if he needs to move to the right, his footwork, etc. is exactly the same every time and that in his opinion what makes him so good for so long. He then talked about how this is something every QB in the league can work on if they want and specifically mentioned Kyler Murrey and Josh Allen. Don't think he was implying those two were terrible in that regard, more that it's just low hanging fruit they can work on to improve even more.

So Davis should have been looking at his feet rather than the phylon? That sounds like a smart idea! Without him looking directly down at his feet, how could he tell and even then would be hard to know for certain what part of the bottom of his foot was actually touching the field and what wasn't. There was no recognition by him as to whether he scored or not. Maybe another Bills player trailing the play directly along the sideline could have seen it, but no way Davis could tell. They didn't show the replay until after they came back from commercial after the Bills ran 4 more plays including the field goal. Without a replay, how would anyone know he was in or out. I'll agree McD's replay record isn't very good, but criticizing him for this play is crazy.

I get it too, but it just seems like the majority of these guys don't ever get to the tier I level or even close once they get paid.