dave mcbride

It didn’t deserve a penalty. The defender laid off.

Chris Hogan played the second half of the 2015 season with a torn wrist ligament. He had a lot of drops and wore off his shine in Buffalo as a consequence. Next season, he's catching four key passes in a Super Bowl victory for the Patriots. The injury definitely impacted his play, but he did play through it.

I think Miami would definitely have gone for two if there had been, say, 20 seconds on the clock when they scored. With 1:38 left, they had to kick the XP because even if they make the 2P conversion, you're giving the Bills four chances to get ten yards instead of three (assuming the Bills would have punted on a fourth down and not in FG range). With Allen, that one extra down is one too many chances. McDaniel said as much. They also could have failed the 2P conversion, and bear in mind that going into yesterday the success rate on 2P conversions this season across the NFL is 31 percent.

I just don't know. Maybe playing with it doesn't aggravate it but simply hampers you? I don't know the diagnosis.

My take: turf toe is a really crappy injury to have to deal with. I'm guessing that it's really limiting him.

Updating this: The collective passing game numbers for the RBs (Cook, Davis, Johnson): 41 targets, 34 receptions: 83 percent completion rate 384 yards on 34 completions: 11.3 yards per reception 384 yards on 41 targets: 9.4 yards per target turnovers (fumbles, INTs on targets): 0 touchdowns: 4, for a 9.8% TD rate on passes thrown their way (a sky-high rate) Allen's passer rating when targeting RBs in the passing game: 138.21 (Also, if Cook makes that easy catch yesterday and takes it in, the rating would be 147.31, but I digress.)

Mack had a sack and 2 TFLs today in a dominating defensive performance for LA: https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401671629/chargers-browns

The Colts offense has scored precisely zero points tonight. All ten of their points came off turnovers. They didn’t get a first down after the INT that led to a FG. It’s really hard to score zero points on offense in the NFL. It was a perfectly fine and easily catchable throw.

They’re a 10-7 team and the only team that was competitive vs Detroit lately. I expect them to win this game because the Colts offense is terrible tonight. We shall see.

Tua was amazing today, and McDaniel put on the ultimate coaching clinic vs McDermott’s D. They had answers on virtually every play, and the only game I can think of that compares in the Allen era was the January 2021 AFC championship, where KC jumped out to a 38-9 lead. Miami’s D was also terrible, which is why the Bills squeaked it out. If Coleman holds onto the ball and Torrance doesn’t get the ridiculous holding penalty, the Bills score 38 (because they wouldn’t have needed the 61 yarder).

It wasn’t.

how do you find that? I am in Brooklyn …

And he had 11 sacks over the next 13 games. Let’s say that the 6 is an outlier and that he only deserved 2 (a stupid argument but you get my point). That’s still 13, which is more than any Bill has had since 2014. Comment from Mack: ‘"I felt like I would look on Twitter and people would be like, '17 sacks, but he had six in one game'. It's like, damn, is that a bad thing? Maybe I shouldn't have gotten six in one game. Maybe I should've did three," Mack said with a laugh.’ Mack isn’t going to be traded so I don’t care about that, but you gotta stop with this take on Mack. It’s just factually wrong, and obviously so. From Harbaugh in mid-September (and bear in mind that the Chargers’ defense is currently number one in points allowed): https://x.com/alexinsdorf99/status/1833956507542847988

This is a ridiculous and uninformed take. Come on! He has had a *fantastic* career. He is a four time all pro, he won Defensive player of the Year once, and finished second in DPOY voting another time. The time he finished second, for the 2018 Bears, that defense finished first overall in the league. He has 105 lifetime sacks and a lifetime AV (via PFR’s WAR-like metric) of 116, which is creeping toward hall of fame level. As for last season, the Chargers had a TON of problems in their secondary and he STILL had 17 sacks. He was hardly the problem last season. He is also durable, having missed only 12 games in an 11-year career.

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2024/11/1/24285263/world-series-new-york-yankees-relentless-losers-aaron-judge-aaron-boone

The drink menu is excellent.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/28/sports/why-rex-ryan-believes-he-should-be-considered-to-coach-jets-again/

The collective passing game numbers for the RBs (Cook, Davis, Johnson): 33 targets, 27 receptions: 82 percent completion rate 289 yards on 27 completions: 10.7 yards per reception 289 yards on 33 targets: 8.8 yards per target turnovers (fumbles, INTs on targets): 0 touchdowns: 3, for a 9.1% TD rate on passes thrown their way (a sky-high rate) Allen's passer rating when targeting RBs in the passing game: 133.46 These numbers are shockingly great - almost unbelievable, really.

He averaged 8 sacks a year in that “dry” spell and was second team all pro in one of them. 8-9 sacks per year is quite good. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MackKh00.htm

Which is BS. It was one of the best games he has played in a while to anyone with eyes.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MackKh00.htm

It should have been. Textbook obvious penalty.

The refereeing all night has been biased and flat out terrible.

Harbaugh went out of his way this offseason to say that you pay for production and that Mack was a top earner in that regard last year. He is a Mack fan, and I think the Chargers will probably squeak in. He is not going anywhere. 3.5 through 7 games, actually, and he is on pace for 8.5. Plus sacks are spiky and he could have a 3-sack game at any point. He is still good!

He was awesome last season. One-man wrecking crew.