Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

To get the offense playing better. After the Cleveland game McD had his "play fearless" quote and the team did play better the next couple of weeks offensively. Then they faced Dallas, Balt, Pitt, and NE and it's regressed. So getting some confidence back trumps the injury risk IMO Could he get hurt, but could happen anytime.

In a good or bad way? I think he's done better than most expected. There were way more people labeling him a bust before the season started. He's improved just about everywhere, is he still missing throws, yes, but he still has limited WR's and his completion percentage will likely never be great as he doesn't throw the 5 yard dump offs.

I don't care much if he's done with Fotball, but am wondering about his football career.

His point being that without Ben, this season kind of showed neither Rudolf or Hodges is the answer, no 1st round pick, maybe the answer is to trade any remaining assets and tank. Admittedly Steelers have never done that prior, but times are different. Will be interesting to see what they do, maybe sign one of the available vets, but if they aren't able to, then could see them trading assets.

Or you could ask why are the fanatics so stubborn on this insisting Williams should be playing?

We don't have the equivalent of Horning and Starr Yes NE was just going to let us score.

Are you serious? Because Brady has been doing this for 20 years and isn't going to be confused by anything. In fact that's probably his biggest strength all of his career. When you only have two good WR it's pretty easy for the opposition to know what's coming.

When the defense shows something to confuse him, he's rattled. Give him another year and that likely will improve. And also get him more help so the D can't just worry about three players.

And did you see it live or on the replay. Yes was very clear when watching in slow motion.

Great, we'll go with a center, three guards, and a tackle. That should fool the other teams.

LOL They will in the off season. You're not bringing in some guy week 17 and expect him to contribute. Of all the positions on the field WR is one of the longest learning curves as now matter how good or bad the WR is, he also needs to be on the same page as the QB, so 2 people involved.

Too much tackling with the body instead of wrapping him up.

So are you saying if he was targeted 70 times he'd catch 60? That's why it's not statistically valid, typically the minimum sample size to have any validly is 4, so at 6 it's just over the minimum, not a high degree of confidence its repeatable. By your standards the best receiver on the team may be Lee Smith as from what I recall he was targeted once and caught it and it even went for a TD. I think there's been a pretty clear reason given why he's not given chances, in the coaches view, the ones who see him every day realize he's not as good as the other WR on the team. That seems pretty easy to figure out, but you seem to need a better explanation.

Does that mean when they played the game? Like two weeks ago they lost to KC, but that was only KC's ninth win of season at that point in time. The way the schedule is last few seasons, typically last two weeks yields at least one if not two division opponents. So that would mean Miami, Buffalo and NJ. Not often did any of them have 10 wins in lat 15 years.

Think there's a good chance Texans could clinch their division this weekend with a win by them and a lose by Tenn. If were to beat NE I think that really messes up NE's plans in many ways. First off it means NE has to play hard week 17 to assure they win the game and the division. Second if KC wins Sunday night then NE could lose their bye so not only does NE have to play hard week 17, but they may be playing the following week again So no ability to rest Brady, Edelmann, and company. Where if they beat the Bills, they clinch the division and with a lose by KS Sunday, would clicnh the bye so could rest everyone week 17 and basically have a 3 week break which would help them tremendously. Even with a win by NE over Miami Week 17, us beating NE tomorrow messes up their plans big time.

Recall the story think it was back in the early 70's the Raiders and Steeler's were playing for the AFC championship. Two days before the game on Friday the Raiders finish practice and head to the locker room, last full practice prior to the game. Madden calls them all back out to practice (NFLPA today would fine them heavily for this) and has the team start practicing completely different modifications to the game plan. The theory was Al had his spies at the Steelers practice and they just reported back to him so now that Al knew what their plan was, started practicing to counter act that. And oh bye the way, the Raiders won the game that year.

But you didn't state and option you stated " I don't understand the logic of keeping Duke inactive when he could be improving this receiving corps right now." That sounds like you are stating a fact to me. And yes you are correct too that you don't know what the coaches think, but expecting them to make some type of statement to the fan base is insane. When someone has only caught a total of 6 passes, to state he has caught 90% is not very statistically valid if you actually understand statistics.

Don't let facts get in the way of a good argumment

And you know this how?? Based on what? All the other receivers have more catches than Duke for the season, so your comments are really based on nothing more than an opinion based on little facts compared to the knowledge the Bills coaches have of the situation All you, me, and everyone else here are nothing more than fans short for fanatics. They owe us nothing and would serve no purpose other than to show they listen to the fanatics, LOL Did you actually watch Sundays game? The number of snaps both of them had if I recall were in the 20's and don't recall hearing Smiths name WRT any penalties Granted lately their snap count has been down for both, but was much higher last so find it rather comical that you'd lost this now. The team is 10-4, think the coaches know a little better about the situation than the fanatics here..

I disagree. We are a good story and more and more media is picking it up and rooting for us. Josh Allen is a story with 9 rushing TD's, the tailgating is a story and the weather, along with the hard nosed defense. Teams in NY and LA will get more games than their record deserves, but I do think there's more following for the Bills than maybe around half the teams in the league. We'll find out in about 5 months

Untrue! I never said 4 o'clock or 1 o'clock, I was specifically talking about 4:25 starts. There are west coast games that are televised nationally to the majority of the county that start at 4:25 as part of that networks double header coverage and there are west coast games that start at 4:05 that get televised only to the markets of the teams playing and it's the single game coverage only. Like this weekend Detroit at Denver will only be seen in those two markets and there's no televised early game on that same network either. The Bills play 4 late games next season, likely the one in San Fran and maybe Vegas will be 4:25 starts where as Arizona and Denver may be 4:05 starts. It was stated that teams can only be on national television 6 times I believe so not likely that all four of those will be 4:25 starts as likely a game against NE may either be prime time or also a 4:25 double header as may be the Steelers game and even one of the games against either KC or Seattle. Don't think all of them will be, but enough better games to pick from that the likelihood IMO that all 4 west coast games start at 4:25 is low.

Could be at NE for round II though not as likely.

Two comments I'd make are: Baltimore: Really should state the identical for Jackson as Allen. IMO one season, no matter how great they looked doesn't make someone a star most important with staying power. Cleveland: Not sure how much the issue is Bake or coaching. Next year will likely figure it out, though if Kitchens lasts, still may not know the answer.

Of course they are 4:00 starts, but there's a big difference between a 4:05 that is just viewed in Buffalo and the home team market and is a single game coverage for that network (i.e. this weeks Detroit at Denver game) and a 4:25 start that most of the country sees as the 2nd half of the doubleheader game like the Dallas Philly game. The game at San Fran and Vegas are two that I could seeing being 4:25 starts. I do wonder how the schedule will be done too. Often when teams have multiple west coast or east coast trips, they try to schedule back to back games so the team stays out on the coast for like 10 days straight. Though 10 days in Vegas could ruin any team!!

With all the west coast trips they'll be making next year, can easily see one or two of them being the 4:25 start. Typically there's at least 2 games scheduled in that time slot, so if the Bills were to falter next season, that would become the game only a small viewership sees. The San Fran game would be one strong possibility, maybe Vegas.