Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

One extra week can fairly easily do. Two weeks means moving the Super Bowl. That's not so easy to move. I have reservation for Tampa area week of SB, if it got moved my reservations are worthless and someone paying $100 a night for the following week made out great. There are many more even tougher things likely to reschedule than hotel rooms.

Tonight, we have the battle of the unbeaten;Thursday night, the battle of the winless!

I think the Bills figured with that large of a lead, they can go into a bend but not break defense mode and let the Rams matriculate the ball down the field (as Hank Stram would say). What they didn't figure on was the Rams moving the ball down that quickly and scoring while using hardly any time and then the Bills offense all of a sudden turn around to no first downs and throw in two turnovers, one giving the Rams a very short field. Add in 78 degree weather and the defense seemed to be gassed. On top of that. the Rams offense is pretty good too so wasn't a huge stretch.

Not sure which play you're referring to from Sunday night as I didn't see all the game. If I had to guess though it would be a Michael Thomas type of player. As I said I'd have no problem with Allen throwing a pass like that to Diggs or a Gabe Davis who is a physical mismatch. While Kroft certainly is very tall, I'd question his ability to out jump those around him. Allen can make passes very few others can make, but he also needs to be smarter about it too and not throw into double coverage when there was a guy open underneath that would have given them enough for the 1st down. I think that was part of the Bills problem yesterday once they had the lead. You want to take time off the clock as best you can typically by running the ball. For the Bills the pass is working better, so OK throw it, but take short throws that are similar to runs, more are completed so so keeps the clock running. The defense ended up being on the field most of the 2nd half as the Bills couldn't keep drives going much once they had the lead. Certainly two turnovers didn't help either.

Agree not saying it was Krofts fault at all. My point just that if you're going to throw into double coverage, it's always risky so make the throw to a more athletic guy like a Digg's. If I were to bet on who would make a catch while being double teamed, Kroft would be one of the last guys I'd pick to throw to.

OK so guess it could be. Believe it needs to be done 10 days prior so would need to happen this week. Can't see them flexing away from Cowboys though.

Well the good news is likely LeBatard will have more than enough material to work with discussing Falcon highlights or lack there of, so he won't talk about Allen for awhile!

Well you won't have to wait too long as Feliciano is a FA so likely next year will be someone else. Doubt they do anything this year. If they are going to sign anyone, think defense has more needs right now than the line. I do wonder though next week if Felicinao is not yet ready to come back will Ford go back to left side and Spain plays. Coaches may feel the one game showed them enough to know whether this is a long term solution or not

Think flexing only starts week 10. Plus Cowboys are featured game at 4:25, not often they get moved. Granted the game is against the Giants, but NY and Cowboys still is a much bigger draw,

Understand, but the problem was there needs to be clear evidence of the call on the field being wrong to over turn. What I saw in every replay was Kroft making the catch, then the defender obscured the view of the ball, then Kroft hitting the ground effectively ending the play. Did the defender take the ball away before Kroft hit the ground? Probably not, but since you can't see the ball how do you know for certain, so the assumption then becomes the referee had the best view, maybe he saw the ball pulled out prior to hitting the ground, if so would have been correct. Either way there really wasn't a clear view to show that Kroft still had the ball in his possession when he hit the ground so does become hard to overturn.

I didn't see any rotation today, never saw Spain in the game?? Think he was more benched. According to the BN reporters, Spain was great, but if you asked Joe B, he'd say I told you so. My guess is they wanted to try Ford at LG to if he can play there so when Feleciano comes back, he'll go back to his old position at RG. The other option would be if Ford didn't play well on the left side would be to put Feliciano there and move Ford back to RG where he played most of the past two weeks.

With a 28 to 3 lead may have been the defense plan was to go into a bend but don't break mode. Probably would have been OK with that if it weren't for the offense doing nothing but getting stopped or turning the ball over. Then defense had to go back out for long drives in a some what warm day and was gassed.

Fixed it for you! Do agree with the concern, though today,, think it was more executionon the field than coaching. Seemed every play action pass was a completion.

I'd agree with you last week in the Miami game and often last year too, we tended to let off the gas. This week the Rams just picked apart the defense. Was more about execution IMO or maybe the players just aren't as good as everyone thinks. Seems like every play action pass was a completion?

The refs on the field called it an Int, the people in NY didn't over rule them so is on the refs. On the other hand the pass interference on 4th and long was the kind of call that often doesn't get flagged for either.

Agree it shouldn't have been an Int, but he also shouldn't have thrown into double coverage either, particularly with a guy like Kroft on the receiving end. If it were Diggs back, then not as concerning taking the chance. Very similar to last years deep pass to DeMarco. Yes because defenses are figuring out that is the one thing he still can't seem to be able to handle. Either the Bills need to get better on their O-line to prevent this or Allen needs to learn to stop running backwards so much with the ball in one hand.

Every extra point Bass kicks, straight down the middle; every field goal, within inches of the goal post!!

Wouldn't shock me to if Diggs or Brown score a TD off a pass particularly in the 2nd half if Bills are winning to be yelling loudly towards each other in earshot of Ramsey comments about lots of trash around here, someone call the trash collector, etc. I think better chance the WR's will do the talking for Josh.

Another similar career to Warner was Vinny Testaverde He came out of college with about as much hype as LOL Trevor Lawrence has this year. Never really lived up to it, had a 20 year career with his best years the last part with the Jets and eve nthen could probably define it further as best years with Bill Parsells . Never won a SB like Warner, but Warner's career was much shorter. Looking at Warner's stats, he had 2 great years in St Louis, then tailed off till his last 3 years in Arizona, those may have even been his most consistent. And a definite NO to Fitz for the hall

True, and I suppose conversely a few amazing passes/plays early in the season can elevate your score too.

So did you watch every pass likely in an All 22 format of both Bills game and the Jets game to come to your conclusion? And did you have a 2nd person using the identical criteria that you use also review your conclusions? I read the article, I didn't see where it stated that. What it said was the pass into the flat that could have been intercepted for a pick six hurt him. The article also talked about how they have a small number of people who do the evaluations and are all well trained in the system. Every evaluation is reviewed by a 2nd person before publishing and QB performance is reviewed by a third person. They also are using the same identical criteria for every game. They don't have bias as opposed to all the fans here which again is short for fanatic. One thing I'm certain of every person who posts on this site is about 100 times more bias than a company that is doing this for a living. It's amazing how anytime a thread praises the Bills, that guy is a genius, he gets it, but talk bad about the Bills and that article is worthless and they are all idiots. But that's what happens when you read every post wearing Bills colored glasses.

The other two things I thought were rather insightful was the comment that: The thing that is separating Josh Allen’s grade from Russell Wilson or Aaron Rodgers, who have similar numbers through two games, are the turnover-worthy plays. Also that the Bills are 5th highest in the league in yards after catch. So that is something that the receivers get credit for, but not the QB. Who knows how many yards that actually was, but may have taken Allen down from 417 yards to 325 or so, not a bad day, but not in the stratosphere either.

Just read an article on the Athletic about the PFF system, sounds like Fairburn contracted them to understand why. Not endorsing or complaining, just summarizing some of the points given of how their grades are determined: The explanation given is they aren't grading purely off stats. For example QB's will get negative grades for passes that could have been intercepted, but given a positive grade for dropped passes. Also the QB doesn't get as much credit for completing a pass to a wide open receiver, in that case the receiver gets the better grade for getting himself open where as throwing a completion into a tight window does give the QB better grades. It also stated, (didn't exactly understand the logic here), but negative grades will make the grades worse early in the season when less data to analyze where as the season progresses, you don't notice the negative stuff in the overall score as much. It also stated that it's easier for a QB to generate negative grades than positive ones. It gave a couple of examples of scores given prior where fans and even coaches screamed about them Aaron Rodgers had a grade of -.08, which was average and he threw for 333 yards, 5 TD's, zero interceptions. But he also had a fumble, a dropped int and 3 TD's credited more to great plays by Randall Cobb. McCarthy screamed about the grades, but last summer, he met with them and went over that game and came away with a good understanding of why the score was bad and agreed that their assessment was accurate. Another game Nick Foles threw 400 yards, 7 TD's and zero ints and had a score around what Allen got. Kelly the coach at the time went nuts too, but again after sitting down with them and understanding what goes into their grading system, came away as a believer. So to some of the points above, is their grading system secret? no but alot more than the obvious goes into it? Like to see how they'd grade Farve, well Rodgers didn't make out too well!

Agree he's needed. His blocking has improved quite a bit from last year and he is a big strong gtarget. So many here want to replace him already, but in this offense, the TE isn't going to see that many targets anyway especially if Davis continues to shine with a 4 WR set, so at the least he serves as a good decoy that defenses have to account for.

I think it will be more a year of hitting the weights hard and bulking up. So many rookies come back so much stronger in year 2