dave mcbride

One mistake by me — that injury occurred in the latter half of 1992, not 1993. When he came back that season, he was not as good. Never the same thrower after that. He played a lot smarter in 1995, to be sure.

He was never the same thrower after rupturing his bursar sac in the 1993 season. He went from an effortless thrower to one who labored to make the more difficult throws. His deep game really declined and he shifted to more of a pop fly thrower in that regard from around the second half of 1993 onward. By 1996, he had clearly broken down - a so-so arm paired with increasing immobility plus poor decision making. The 1990 Kelly on that 1996 team would have been a SB participant.

You simply have effing kick the fg there.

And winning.

Yeah, but it is entirely working and McDermott/Babich seem clueless about what Reid was always going to be up to. If you can’t stop it, don’t complain about the opponent being petty; complain about our side not seeing this obvious thing coming.

He practically won the AZ game for the Bills this season. That was a big win, in retrospect.

This is an amazing breakdown by Belichick of why the Chiefs were able to win last Sunday on the final play:

Allen is often accurate; it's when he's not that the catches aren't there. He's not a "general vicinity" deep thrower like Russell Wilson, who specializes in the deep pop fly that his receivers can chase down and shag relatively easily. Allen is basically Giancarlo Stanton. It's why I don't think it's quite fair to criticize his receivers for failing to track the ball.

The chances of the Bills making the SB with the bye are far, far, far better than if they don't have the bye. Disagree with this logic.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/bills-are-favored-sunday-but-chiefs-with-patrick-mahomes-are-11-3-as-underdogs

The problem with this comp is that Allen doesn’t throw rainbows like Aaron Rodgers, Hurts, and Russell Wilson that allow receivers to track. His arm is frankly too strong for that and his deeper throws are therefore lower trajectory. It’s an apples and oranges thing. It’s also crazy to blame Kincaid for that play. Allen gave him no chance on that one.

I think that’s because he took over for a well-acknowledged legend, John McKay. There was always a sense that he inherited a total powerhouse and all the recruiting that came with that.

… which means he is dependent on other players for his success, which also means he’s a … semi-JAG. Difference makers make differences no matter who surrounds them (ie, Josh Allen). Oliver is an OK to decent player. Not much more than that. The pretty solid cast of DEs on the Bills suggests that he should be taking advantage of the surrounding environs, but he’s not. Lotta DTs still put up numbers after their partners go down.

Excellent headline: https://nypost.com/2024/11/11/sports/aaron-rodgers-has-been-swallowed-and-eaten-alive-by-the-same-old-jets/

Kincaid is an excellent receiver who excels at getting open and then becoming elusive once he has the ball. He has very good hands too. His stats aren't a good measure of his talent, and it's still early days anyway. The counting stats are a function of the Bills system, not him.

I didn't watch much of Williams in college, but when I did (vs UCLA last season, for instance), he looked to me like a player who might have trouble transitioning to the pro game. I am sure I missed some amazing games of his, but he was sloppy with the football and seemed to have trouble reading the field. He held the ball way too long and took a lot of sacks. Notre Dame made him look pretty bad too.

I now want the Rams to lose a little faith. I am ok with them losing. Not saying it’ll help the Bills, but I’m looking for any edge!

Either that or they are in a "heads have to roll if we're going to revitalize our season" mode. At 4-5 they are not out of it, but things are slipping away and if they want to save their season maybe they think they need to take drastic action. The weird thing is that he led the team in tackles vs the Rams (their most recent game). Tackles are an overrated stat, but still.

The other INT (vs TN is garbage time) was a vulture INT - he wasn't the cause of it.

11-1 in 1988. Kincaid did come back in the third but went out again later. The fact that he came back after having his knee examined has me optimistic that the injury is minor and won’t keep him out of the KC game.

Shakir is quite probably better at what he does than both of those two at this point, but granted, he plays a very specific position in the WR system.

I literally just said the same thing to my wife and sister in law a couple of minutes ago. This is shades of NE at Buffalo in January 2022. Also, that Bills victory vs AZ was a quality win. They are good.

Again, pretty sure it was tipped. He is very good. And the Cardinals are a good team with a lot of studs. That comeback win in week one was a very good win for the Bills. A quality win.

Pretty sure it was tipped. Regardless, you HAVE to kick the FG there to make it a 2-score game. 4th and 4 completely takes away the run option.

They did take slightly over 2 minutes off the clock.