Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Thought game one and two had basically the same line other than for a couple of plays, what differed those two games, don't recall?? In general though think playing Ford at LG was more an audition to see if he can be the long term answer at LG and also due to fear of Donaldson going against Spain. This week unless Feliciano is back may see Ford go back to right side as the overall thinking may be that Spain and Ford is better than Winters and Ford. Ford did reasonably well for the first game at LG against maybe the best DT in the game so feel once Feliciano is back, barring a melt down by Ford, the line up will be Dawkins, Ford, Morse, Feliciano, and Williams and will stay that way.

3. When you complete 70% of your passes, the TOP isn't hurt too much, but not certain how sustainable that will be. Having said that short 5 yard passes have a good chance of completion and more often that not will net more yards than a running play would. 6. I think playing Ford at LG was more an audition to see if he can be the long term answer at LG and also due to fear of Donaldson going against Spain. This week unless Feliciano is back may see Ford go back to right side as the overall thinking may be that Spain and Ford is better than Winters and Ford. Ford did reasonably well for the first game at LG against maybe the best DT in the game so feel once Feliciano is back, barring a melt down by Ford, the line up will be Ford LG and Feliciano RG and will stay that way.

Watching the game last night, I can't say this thought didn't also go through my head too. But I also think one game is way to early to say this is the end. He did win the MVP last year and looked good ***** it. Have defenses figured him out, maybe. His style may work against weak teams, but when facing a team as good, he's in trouble. Will be interesting to see how the Balt. NE game goes whenever they play. In many ways he's like Allen except without the arm.

I recall one game think it was against Arizona where the wind was like 30 to 40 MPH, final score was real low, seem to recall Kenny Davis scoring the winning TD or something.

I think points should expire after some time period Should be different levels of offenses, minor one point, to more majors 3 points. You go over a certain amount first time in time out is a short period, 2nd offense within short period of time gets a longer time out. Who how do you decide what's point worthy? I'd assume a mod seeing something out of line. Do mods see/read every post though, doubtful not on some of these threads that have a new page every 15 minutes, things easily slip through unnoticed. Maybe to my point above if missed, you get bonus (minus) points for ratting someone out!!

You're right there, it's not fantasy football, so you don't throw away promising draft picks after two seasons to sit him. You need to give them time to develop. Granted if he's a complete failure that's different, but Knox is far from that. They're already spreading the ball around, 8,8 ,7 that's how many receivers caught passes for the Bills in the past three games Since you mention KC they had 6,7,8 receivers catch balls so they are already spreading it around even more. What do you want to do, go two tight ends, who you sitting then instead, Brown, Beasley? If you want more play makers, go with 4 WRs out there with Davis and sit the TE some. They've drafted 4 D lineman in past three seasons and signed one in FA who is only 26 as opposed to 3 O-line and they traded away one. As I said above, think they have more than enough play makers on offense.

But yet Knox stats were better last year than TJ's With the WR core the Bills have, how many targets is the TE even going to see? Knox or Kroft are both still strong enough that they can't just be ignored by the defense. If I'm the GM next year I'd be drafting CB's, O line, and LB way before another TE.

For what purpose? Even last year, whenever it was a passing down he'd come off for an extra DB. Klein played one snap Sunday as they went with five DB's all game. You could argue that they did that because of Klein's weakness or because the Rams passing game dictated, IMO it was the Rams play that caused the Bills to go with five DB's. I don't recall last year when Milano was hurt, Alexander filling in for him. Unless you suggest he play nose tackle I don't see that we'd gain much.

Are you basing it on 3 games of stats or who are the best QB's? If best QB's would have to put Rodgers ahead of Allen and also Prescott who I assume you forgot. I also would put Watson up ahead of Murrey, Brees, and Jackson. My 3,4,5,6 would be Rodgers, Prescott, Allen, Watson and could easily move Watson ahead of Allen too. Hard to believe, but Watson just doesn't have the weapons that Allen has. Am starting to think Brees should have retired one year earlier. Think I'd also put Brady ahead of Mayfield too.

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.