dave mcbride

The Browns appear to have serious problems and Mayfield is going to be less than 100 percent all season. They're also probably going to lose twice to the Ravens.

Hughes was the only good pass rusher last night. And was it just me who saw the blatant hold on the first TN series of the game near the goal line that allowed Tannehill to get the ball off? I fear the Ravens will end up with a better record given their respective schedules. The NFC is more top-heavy with excellent teams than the AFC. The only teams in the AFC vying for elite status are Baltimore, Buffalo, KC, and to a lesser extent TN. The rest have too many flaws.

Yeah, I don't see them as a SB winner this season. I think the only chance they have of getting there is getting home field advantage throughout, which is possible but I don't think probable. Presently, I have them going 13-4, which is good but I don't think good enough. I think they lose to TB and lose either to NO or the Pats once. Too many of the Pats games are 50/50 propositions, and their luck is bound to turn at some point in those games. They're 1-3 in such games now. For the Bills sake, you want those two losses to be to TB and NO (despite it ruining Thanksgiving). The problem is that the Ravens schedule isn't that hard. They're clearly the best team in a weaker-than-expected AFC North (I'm not a believer in the Bengals vs. good teams), and they get GB and the Rams at home. 14-3 is a very legit possibility for them: https://www.baltimoreravens.com/schedule/. Tennessee is a problem, but they have the Pats and the Rams on the road and the Chiefs at home: https://www.tennesseetitans.com/schedule/. The rest of their schedule is pretty easy, although the Colts always play them tough. Jax, Miami, Houston twice, and SF at home are basically five guaranteed wins. I know it's problematic to pull for the Chiefs, but given the tiebreaker situation, we definitely want them to beat TN this week. That's a big game for the Bills. I'm guessing 12-5/11-6 at the end of the day for TN. The Chiefs have a tough schedule, but the toughest opponents outside of LAC are at home. I think the Chiefs win that division at the end of the day. Chargers gonna Charger. And the Raiders will implode at some point.

Not so sure about this. The bizarre thing about this season is that everyone thought that the AFC was better than the NFC going into the season, but I'd argue that four of the best five teams in the league are in the NFC: AZ, LAR, GB, and TB. The other top team is somewhere between Buffalo, KC, and Baltimore. I love the Bills, obviously, but I can't get around the fact that they're 3-0 against terrible teams starting backup QBs and 1-2 vs. pretty good-to-good teams with their regular starting QBs. Murray is good. The jury results are arriving.

The key determinant for me was the all-important points-off-turnovers category. The Bills lost that one 7-3, which was the difference in the game.

People seem to have a hard time accepting that it was the correct spot.

Agree 100 percent. The bills were shredding them on short to intermediate passes and to take that sack looking for the deepshot that wasn’t there was a bad play by josh. Then a subsequent bomb and a long no-chance iass to sweeney meant that we couldn’t nail them deep.

At least you didn’t say he is mediocre. But you are wrong. Since coming to TN, they are 22-10 and his rating is around 107.

The spot was correct.

Bills fans are never again allowed to say that Tannehill is mediocre. He made a couple of bad plays early, but was phenomenal the rest of the way. I don’t care what his stat line says.

… or dial up a touchdown play. One or the other. The sneak, which usually is the right call, was situationally not the right call.

Agree 100 percent. They needed to score a td anyway. But i would have kicked it if the plan was a sneak.

No he didn’t, and the spot was actually slightly generous.

I would have kicked it.

Been a long time since a punt happened.

I expect TN BRINGS IT HERE GIVEN THE WEAK SECONDARY.

This looks like a bad injury. Yeesh.

They started that drive at the 10. Otherwise they’ve made 2 plays.

Extremely dirty player. Of course, i don’t want to see him get hurt.

The Bills play in the windiest stadium in the NFL, and it's the windiest by a decent amount: https://247sports.com/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/Article/Kickers-Nightmare-The-Windiest-NFL-Stadiums-105213973/. NFL TEAMS WITH OPEN-AIR STADIUMS RANKED BY AVERAGE WIND SPEEDS (windiest to least windy) Buffalo/Orchard Park, New York 16.1 New England/Foxborough, Massachusetts 14.5 New York Giants/East Rutherford, New Jersey 10.1 New York Jets/East Rutherford, New Jersey 10.1 Kansas City, Missouri 10.6 San Francisco/Santa Clara, California 10.6 Cleveland, Ohio 10.5 Minneapolis, Minnesota 10.5 Chicago, Illinois 10.3 Green Bay, Wisconsin 10.0 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 9.5 Washington/Landover, Maryland 9.4 Miami Gardens, Florida 9.2 Cincinnati, Ohio 9.0 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 9.0 Oakland, California 8.8 Seattle, Washington 8.8 Baltimore, Maryland 8.7 Denver, Colorado 8.7 Tampa, Florida 8.3 Nashville, Tennessee 8.0 Jacksonville, Florida 7.8 Charlotte, North Carolina 7.4 San Diego, California 7.0

I'm a bad predictor, but i won't be surprised if next week's Ravens game bears a passing resemblance to the one yesterday.

Calf injury. That’s the typical precursor injury to an achilles tear if you try and play through it, so I expect he’ll be on the shelf for some time. Think Mike Trout this season.

Darnold has been regressing, but the late-game play vs the Cowboys and Minnesota is still pretty impressive. The jury remains out on him.

The Ravens’ running game performance this season is strong evidence that RBs are a dime a dozen and that you should never draft one in the first round. Their RBs (not including Lamar) have 511 rushing yards and 7 TDs on 120 carries, which is 4.3 ypc and a higher-than-average rushing TD rate (a rushing td for every 17 carries). The key thing is that all of their RBs were dragged off of the street at the last minute. A Bills-Lions preseason game in 2002 is peak bad, meaningless football. You must have been with some passionate fans!

Allen Flutie … … … Taylor … … … … … … … … Bledsoe and Orton … the rest Fitz is a better player now, and the signs were there when he was in Buffalo. But he was bad overall in Buffalo. His play in the final 10 games in 2011 after the 5-1 start was third-stringer level.