dave mcbride

The kick into the ez was the right call. The 15 yard penalty is meaningless given the new rules - the only player that moves forward is the kicker, and the rest of the defenders all have to start at the same spot.

I thought the holding call on Tyron Smith on the negated Jets rushing td that would have put them up 27-20 was really, really weak and had no effect on the play. Loved the call, obviously, but it spoke to the overall horribleness of the officiating. Just a stupid flag fest.

Awesome. And true.

The streak has been broken! Finally!

The refereeing was bad for the Bills, but it was bad for the Jets too. Just horrible officiating all around. The final holding call on the Jets was a joke — that was the barest of holds (don’t get me wrong, I loved the call). The refs made the game straight up bad televised entertainment.

The advanced calculus our resident employee of Wyle E. Coyote, Supergenius Laboratories employs indicates that you’re wrong, and he has the sigmas and the deltas to prove it (via the stopwatch on his phone measuring Henry’s runs on a tv screen).

I am convinced you posted this as an automatic joke generator for @Jauronimo. Well done — he’s now on fire in this thread. Can it be banned on TBD? Asking for a friend. It’s the TBD equivalent of this:

Jets - 27 Bills - 16

His worst injury was his elbow injury vs the Texans in 2018.

He did suck on that final possession of the game, though, too. What the hell was he thinking on those first two choices? The play was there on third down but he got hit. To be fair, it's hard to block in the EZ because you simply can't do anything close to holding in that situation (it'd end the game), so I don't really blame Dawkins.

Simms loves Allen.

Einstein played more big-time college and NFL QB than Simms and coached longer with Belichick than the latter, so you have to factor that in.

Good post, but you realize that you're arguing with someone ready to die on the Allen-was-not-to-blame hill, right?

https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nfl/chris-simms-unbuttoned/how-josh-allens-recent-struggles-continued-vs-houston-texans A lot of breakdowns of individual failed passing plays. Key points: he made some bad choices by not taking easy throws; he was not trusting what he was seeing and was off his clock. Inaccurate too. Simms says he rushed the throw to Hollins by throwing it too early; bad throw by Allen.

I wouldn't bet money on that given Allen's turnover issues at Met Life and the fact that the Jets have the corners who can man up on our trash receivers with relative ease.

https://betiq.teamrankings.com/articles/interim-head-coach-results-first-game-betting-ats-moneyline/ "Five of the six previous interim coach debuts in Week 6 or earlier saw the new coach’s team cover (and win outright)."

Love it. Do it.

Worth pointing out that their third down defense is bad too, 24th in the league (44 percent conversion rate). Weak performance on third down points to a relatively untalented roster - guys that can't win individual matchups on gotta have it plays.

Maybe, but he's a helluva player. Uncoverable when healthy.

It's more like the Raiders don't want him to play either. The last they want is for him to get injured.

I'd be more reassured if it said "is not expected to play this week vs the Bills, per sources." He's apparently fine but he's never playing a down again for LV.

Maybe teams are keying on the pass because they don't care about the Bills succeeding on first down runs due to the fact that matriculating the ball down the field in a 12 play drive is a rare outcome given the high potential that some drive-killing mistake will happen? If I'm a DC, I'm thinking, I'm gonna stop Josh Allen's arm first and foremost on 1st down and let James Cook get that occasional 7-8 yard pickup.

Seattle is literally in first place. Why would they trade a stud like Metcalf?

Guessing at this point that the Bills aren't in on this?

The funny thing about the Pats is that I think the best unit of their entire run, including the 16-0 season, was the 2010 team (14-2). In their final 8 games of the season, they scored 39, 31, 45, 45, 36, 31, 34, and 38 points (299 total; 37.5 on average) and allowed 125 points (15.6 on average). Also, teams they faced in that run included a really good Indy team Indy plus both SB teams: Pitt and GB. They lost to the Jets in the second game of the season (at Met Life) and somehow lost to them again in the playoffs at home despite beating them 45-3 five games prior. Just an utterly dominating team that had an inexplicably poor showing vs the Jets in the divisional round. I recall them being unstoppable and I remember that playoff game as if it were yesterday. I couldn't believe they lost because they were so much better than the Jets. It was certainly the highlight, by far, of Rex Ryan's career. Well, the second last season with Brady they won the SB and in the last season they started out 8-0. But yeah, it was a very diminished offense in 2019 because of Gronk's temporary retirement.