dave mcbride

Also, Hughes is in eighth season with the Bills, and has never missed a game. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HughJe99.htm

He is not a problem and has made big plays. I would keep him.

I disagree with him. My read on each of the INT-possible throws. 1. He threw from an unstable base and overthrew the receiver (which was not Singletary) by a lot irrespective of Peterson. 2. Just a bad throw that Peterson dropped. Don't know what he was looking at there. I don't think this one is complicated. 3. Inaccurate throw behind Davis that the trail cover guy could make a play on. Ball needs to be on the other side of the receiver. 4. My read at the time, and I'm standing by it, is that he wanted to get Knox back in the game after that killer penalty and threw a reckless, inaccurate heave into coverage that failed. He regularly tries to pick up his teammates after they make an error, and it's an admirable trait. But it didn't work in this case because there were two defenders in the area and Knox was covered. Just my opinion, of course.

Four balls that *should* have been picked (and two were). A crazy decision to heave a ball into the middle of the scrum to avoid a sack. Missing on both deep throws by 5+ yards. The throws weren't even close. He made a lot of good plays too. But 5 legit bad ones plus the return of deep-ball inaccuracy on the two such throws he made adds up to a lot of negative plays. Anyway, anytime you throw four clearly interceptable balls, you're making an inordinate number of bad plays.

I'm a huge fan of Josh Allen. I'd still say he made an inordinate number of bad plays in that game. As I was saying. This was the last play of the game: .

He has led the league three times in game winning drives, and in 2016 had 8. The Lions only won 9 games that season! The Lions have 4 wins now and he has 3 game winning drives. He should have 4 given that season opener too. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/StafMa00.htm

Awesome play! To be fair, Gene has a point. Josh A is 14th in INT percentage right now. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2020/passing.htm#passing::pass_yds, and over the past few games the rate has climbed. He does need to clean up his game in that area.

Not by me. The league existed long before the SB era and there were many, many great teams and players. The best teams of their eras are still the best teams of their eras; it's a fool's errand to try and compare them with teams now because it's not like to like. The Lions of the mid-1950s are one of the great teams in league history based upon their performance in that era.

They have won 5 NFL titles and have been around for 90 years ...

As I said earlier, White is giving up about 7.5 inches to Hopkins when factoring in height, measured vertical, wingspan, and hand size. That's a lot.

Really? I said before that play that the Cardinals were clearly set up to throw two hail marys in a row or a dipsy-doodle lateral play involving Drake. Seemed obvious to me given that there were only 11 seconds left.

I think Stafford delivers a LOT, but then the Lions D will give up some crazy play to Aaron Rodgers on the last play of the game (it's happened more than once!). Did you see the end of the first Lions game this season? Stafford delivered a perfect strike for a TD in the last seconds against Chicago ... but the RB dropped it despite it hitting him right in the freaking hands! And don't forget that Calvin Johnson play that was ruled an incompletion! It would have been a last second victory for Detroit. Stafford is a snakebitten QB but a good one, and he plays clutch when the game is on the line. He is simply cursed because he plays for the Lions.

Yes, good piece. Re: the Singletary play, it looked to me like he actually could have caught the ball; he was on a clear path to beating Peterson to the ball but seemed to flat-out alligator-arm it. Not a good game for him given the PF and the dropped screen pass. Of course, his one really good play was called back because of that boneheaded block in the back by Knox.

Agreed, it doesn't get anymore crazy clutch than this. What a throw and catch! Losman did have a cannon ... That said, I'll raise you one because this was a fourth down play: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201109180buf.htm. As for the Allen play, yes, it was a great throw, but it was first down and the Bills only needed a FG to tie the game. It wasn't do or die yet. In fact, that throw wasn't even the most clutch throw of the season. There were a couple of plays in that Rams game that surpassed it.

I thought you were saying that Morse was benched because Feliciano brings more nastiness to the run game. I think I misinterpreted. The team is better with both out there.

Every QB plays well against the Chargers in the fourth quarter!

I wouldn't say inconsistent; I'd say terrible. 66.5 rating; 55 percent completion rate; and 7 Tds to 10 INTs. 5 fumbles too. The only positive is his sack rate (4.4 percent), which is decent. PS - the Broncos passer rating differential is an abysmal -24.6. That is awful. It explains why they've suffered three blowout losses. Just look at the line reading "league rank offense" - https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/den/2020.htm. That is really, really bad.

Exactly, and it ain't even close. The Lions have been bad for a while, but they are a historic franchise (90 years old), with 5 championships including 3 straight in the 50s. The problem with the Chargers is that they left the city that made them kinda famous and our now in a city that is populated entirely by non-fans of the Chargers. No one cares about them anymore. They are more of an incorporated but deterritorialized football team-like entity than a team rooted in a place with a history and lots of memories associated with them.

I have been chalking up the Broncos game as a win, but Denver was in fact 5-3 last season at home but really 6-2 if not for a terrible, terrible roughing the passer call vs. Chicago that cost them a game that they had won. That said, they are 1-3 at home this year and were totally lucky to beat SD 31-30 in the game that they did win (i.e., a really shaky PI call on fourth down in the end zone that gave them one more play).

Really? The run game was terrible the last two games.

Could it simply be that the Bills had to field 8 o-linemen to get to 48 (as opposed to 47), and that Morse is the eighth and last guy they have? It's not a good look for McDermott to come out and say "he is recovering from a concussion but we would have played him if we had to." That said, he could be an emergency substitution if need be even though the coaches wanted to hold him back. Think about how many went down vs. Seattle. The last thing you want is Dawson Knox playing left tackle or guard in the fourth quarter.

His deep throws have had less and less air under them as the season has gone on, and it means his receivers can't adjust/catch up because it's getting there too fast. Basically, he's reverting to bad habits. Gotta get that fixed over the bye week. If he doesn't, teams won't fear the Bills deep game, just like last season.

change in latitude, change in attitude!

I didn't think that one was questionable! Definitely a penalty by the book and totally unnecessary. You think that would have been drilled into the team after the Cody Ford penalty last season that potentially cost them the playoff victory.

I think they have a line set up to pass block. It's almost like it's a college line out there in from the Big 12. They are pretty good at pass blocking (important!), but just compare them to SF's, Baltimore's, or NE's line when they're healthy. Feliciano is a good run blocker, to be sure. But the rest ...