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Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

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  1. I assume there's not a method to make this work if wanting to watch directly on a TV using CBS All Access app though as not able to spoof location directly on TV? Can easily plug laptop into TV via HTMI, but would be nice if could do it directly.
  2. 1) Did we have 3 on the field very often? I didn't notice it. 2) We already have when Starr is back 3) Maybe it's Norman, but can easily find a potential high end starting as a rookie CB even if drafting #32 4) Agree we need to be better at putting pressure on the QB. This one could be the hardest to fix as not sure you can get a future super star pass risher drafting low nor do teams let really good ones go as a FA and not sure we could afford to sign one if there was one available.
  3. Really how do you come to that conclusion? I could see if you argued 33 points for the Bills and should have had another field goal on the one drive if JA doesn't take the dumb sack. But anything else points either for us or against them is just nothing but a pure guess. In the last 7 minutes they had the one drive of 3 straight running plays trying to take time off the clock which it did. Could they have thrown one short pass in there that has a high percentage of completion, yeah probably, but other than maybe changing one play wouldn't say there was anything they did that was playing not to lose.
  4. Really think you should change the title to "Any Four" as maybe there is some teams that you could argue are very close, but adding Davis as the 4th puts the end to any discussion. Even McKenzie and Roberts not bad there either.
  5. Hope your boss doesn't see this post. You may be looking for a new job!
  6. Think there's a big difference between the two situations. Every day Tenn keeps having more positives to the point they would barely have enough players available. They'd be in a situation where they'd have to move players to IR Covid which then I believe means they are out 3 weeks but may turn out to be symptom free. Anyone with actual symptoms will likely also miss Bills game if played next week based on the 10 day criteria. The big issue I'm sure with NE was they didn't want the entire team getting onto a plane not knowing if others may be positive and now by the time you exit the plane, 5 more are positive. If the game had been in NE, not so sure the league would have canceled the game already on Saturday, they may have waited to see if others became positive too.
  7. Not sure if you're joking but I think very high that they stayed in their rooms! Between what has happened in the NFL and elsewhere is a big reminder. Is strange how things in the league were so good the first 3 weeks, and now got much worse. They need the players to agree to the bubble idea and could see where they'd say no for that long a period of time and frankly can't blame them. The players in the NBA reported to the bubble roughly 3 weeks prior to the start of NFL training camp. By the time the first week of the NFL season started, the NBA only had 4 teams left, so in two months time the number of players still left in the bubble was less than one NFL roster in close to the same time period it took only for training camp. To expect players to go in this bubble that long away from family including through the holidays is to long. Too many would be going over the wall, in particular a team say with a 2 -10 record say two days before Thanksgiving. I read the NBA has already stated no bubble for the 2021 season for the same reasons it's too long. Could see why the idea of only one division game would make sense if shortening the season as some teams have played both out of conference and out of division games while some haven't. But doubt anyone has played a division opponent twice yet, so is the easy thing to do. Maybe you then eliminate divisions and just have two 16 team conferences where the top 7 teams get in. Don't like the idea of adding games to the end of the season at all. Suppose the Buffalo - Tenn game is canceled, likely could both be in the playoffs. So they play "week 18" while the remaining playoff teams have a bye. Personally if I were in the playoffs already and just playing this makeup for seeding purposes, if the scenario I described played out, I'd elect to forfeit the game so we can rest too. I'm sure the league would say no to that, so I'd play 8 guys on the field to reduce the risk of injury. No way is it even close to fair to make me play while everyone else is resting! Have to have the makeup week say two weeks prior to the end of the season so everyone plays the last two weeks. Do kind of like the idea of having a break maybe after week 5, 10, and 15 for potential make ups. If they don't need it, then move the schedule back up and eliminate the teams scheduled byes, though that may be tricky to do at this point. Does make me wonder how many alternative schedule concepts the league already has in their back pocket.
  8. Thank you NE, now I get to watch the game on regular TV! Yeah I often look at these maps and try to figure out the reasoning behind it. Often involves some college or local player.
  9. We've drafter 4 D-Lineman in the past 3 years and Ford is far from terrible.
  10. Really why? You have two undefeated teams playing two 2-1 teams. The only argument you can make for the Bills game is it's a conference game that more comes into tie breakers. But that is offset and then some by the market size of Chicago. I hope the Bills game is on, but the fact that they chose to move that game of all of them they could have chosen makes me figure it's no so certain.
  11. No, they moved the Colts Bears game to 4:25 now. They always have to have two games available. Will they just drop Bears game to all markets who were getting NE game, who knows??
  12. 506 is still showing TBD for most of the county. Neither Indy or Chi has the following of NE KC so will be interesting to see how they decide to broadcast this one and who gets which game.
  13. OK yes forgot about the Covid IR designation. So when the players come back can their replacements go back to PS without exposure to waiver claims by other teams? Certainly going to hurt Tenn if they lose these players for 3 weeks. Just hearing everything going on today in the news, they could be healthy enough to come back in 10 days if mild cases, but will be required to sit 3 weeks.
  14. So what are the rules WRT roster moves due to Covid? Normally to activate someone from the PS there needs to be a roster opening so you'd have to waive/release an active player, so he could be then signed by another team. Is there some type of exemption for any players who test positive? Can they can be removed from active roster with no ability to be poached, then once healthy moved back to active roster again with PS players now being denoted and again can't be lost to another team? Tenn have close to ten players right now positive, no way they can just make them inactive for game, they need replacements. Without something like that, don't see how using PS players helps at all.
  15. How do you handle a week 18? Lets assume the Bills Tenn game gets canceled next. Both those teams likely could be int he playoffs or at a minimum in the mix for a spot at the end of the season. So do the Bills and Tenn play week 18 while the remaining playoff teams basically get a weeks rest. If that happened to me and I was the GM/owner of the team, and I was already in the playoff, this game would just affect seeding I'd just announce OK, we're forfeiting the game. I prefer a lower seed than playing against a team that just got a weeks rest when I had to play a game. The only somewhat fair way to do it would have makeups maybe between weeks 15 and 16. So in my example above Tenn would play the Bills that week while everyone else is off. But then everyone plays the next two weeks. If any games need to be canceled the last two weeks, sorry but then it is a forfeit. If it's involving non playoff teams, they could still play week 18 just for revenue purposes.
  16. Assuming the plan is to juggle teams bye weeks to get Tenn and Pitt to line up, both will now be playing 13 straight weeks assuming no other interruptions. How's that different than every other team when they have a bye week? The Bills will have 14 days to prepare for the Chargers game. Tenn has already lost days this week, plus no players in the facility to believe I read Saturday. Yes it sucks for the Bills themselves to be the team Tenn gets extra time to prepare for, but in no way do I see this giving Tenn and advantage season wise. Every week there are teams that get an extra week of prep time coming of their bye, this is one of the few years up until now the Bills didn't have to face one of those teams. Bills are just unlucky in this case. The other option (and if this happens once a team already had their bye) would be to play the game at the end of the season. Both Tenn and Pitt have a good chance of making the playoffs. That would really suck for them if basically they move the start of the playoffs back one week so now week 18 Tenn is playing Pitt while all the remaining playoff teams get a week rest. Not everyone gains something but would be a huge advantage for whomever plays those two in the playoffs. So do think the idea of moving makeup games to the end of the season would be very unfair. Maybe they play make ups week 15 and 16 as needed so all teams still play the last two weeks.
  17. Except no one is allowed in the building and they have no idea which players will be available. 4 days maybe for the coaches, but that's likely it.
  18. Absolutely not, as was stated if more turn up positive the week 5 game may be out too. Then it will become a fun thing for the league to figure out how to re-schedule that. None of the other teams bye weeks line up with the Titans either unless they do some kind of juggling to make them align.
  19. Yes it's very hard. One week is easy, but two weeks requires moving the Super Bowl. Or they would have needed to start the season earlier. Considering how litle training camp they had, don't think that would have been a good idea either. Moving the SB is not an easy thing when you consider things like hotel rooms, travel, venues, etc.
  20. Was he a FA the end of this season? That was one of the things giving the Bills a little more leverage in that Tre still had effectively two season to go so he didn't have quite as much power.
  21. Apparently the Colts don't agree with you. He released when they cut down to 53, apparently no other teams felt he was worth the backup slot then either. I didn't even realize the Colts had resigned him to the PS.
  22. Believe this same article also stated that wouldn't be shocked to see Ford back at RG this week as may decide they'd rather go with Spain than Winters. Long term think it will be Ford at LG and Feliciano at RG
  23. OK, I was assuming by now the KC game was out, they were talking for later season games. Will see.
  24. Not so sure about the "This week" part per the article that I've read: The governor said he will be meeting with the team but did not specifically say when.
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