dave mcbride

Ha! I’d expand it a little: “It’s not fun when I suck and I’ve lost my mojo.” The problem NE presents is a very good secondary and a creative pass rush. The Bills can’t run the ball well, and they are a pass-first team. I don’t expect a ton of points. Don’t look now, but the Bills haven’t scored 20 points in 3 straight weeks.

Trade involving what?

Um, wow: ‘Newton, who continued to take the blame for the loss, elaborated: “The energy has definitely been off for me, and at times it’s not rewarding when you’re just going out there with this aura about yourself that’s not you.”’ He added: “I have fun playing this football game, but the performances here hasn’t been somewhat delightful for me to have fun in doing so. So I just got to be better.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/sports/football/patriots-49ers.html

He was extremely accurate in college and then to play for some truly wretched offenses in SF. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/alex-smith-3.html

Garrapalo wasn’t healthy that game. Huge factor.

Yeah, I have that as a loss in my book. The AZ game is the one we need to win of those two.

My takeaway: The Jets are a terrible, terrible team. That second-half offensive performance against a bad Bills D was about the worst I’ve seen in a long time. Just pathetic and inept.

Interesting fact: the Bills not only didn’t punt, they had 10 total possessions that ALL ended with them in scoring position. The ideal maximum outcome? 63 points (I assume they sit on the ball for that last post-Hughes INT possession). 18 is a long way from 63. Anyway, that was a very strange game.

Definitely a penalty but also not a dirty play. There was no way he could avoid hitting him at full spped.

Bass 75 percent on the day. He was 67 percent going in.

I just felt he held it too long before making the decision. Basically ran into the sack.

That’s on Allen

The same thing happened to the raiders earlier this year, and we didn’t complain.

Exactly.

I thought the DE timed it well.

I think the thing the stats miss is Kuechly’s excellence in coverage. Throws not made because he had his guy covered are great plays but don’t show on the stat sheet. His coverage ability—which depended at least in part on his fantastic play recognition ability—is what separated him from the merely very good MLBs.

Yes, that segment was frigging awesome. What the heck happened to this defense?? Simms basically says they’re one of the worst units in the league, and he ain’t wrong. And man, does he rip Leslie Frazier.

The Bills are going to need to rack up points on offense tomorrow. I expect a big stat day for Allen, who I think will (rightly) push the envelope.

Lame.

The players on the Jets don't want to lose, and the coaches CERTAINLY don't want to lose.

Darnold is about 50 times better than Flacco at this point, who looks like a man playing like he doesn't care. The Bills should win, but their CB situation is pretty bad at the moment. And they don't have LBs who can cover.

I think the question was the worst loss, not the most painful loss.

And were down 14-10 and goal to go at the 3 yard line.

I read an article (I think SI) in which personnel around the league said that he'd go for more than what ROsen went for (late second) and that they could easily see a team like Pitt spending a late first on him. https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/10/12/trevor-lawrence-looms-jets-trades-travis-fulgham-andy-dalton There’s no better example of Trevor Lawrence’s looming presence over the bottom of the NFL standings than in ESPN’s Sunday morning news story this weekend gauging the trade value of Jets QB Sam Darnold. And I hope I’ve been as clear as possible about this with people over the last couple months. There’s very little chance that whoever has the first pick will trade it, regardless of who else is on the roster. The team that gets him is going to have to be the worst team in the league, because that’s the type of prospect Lawrence is. It was like this in 2012 for Andrew Luck (and I’d imagine 1983 for John Elway and 1998 for Peyton Manning), and it's going to be the same in 2021. And to continue the exercise, I did reach out to a few people to gauge what the price tag might be for Darnold—and what they’d be willing to pay. One NFC exec said, “A little more than the [Josh] Rosen trade, so maybe a second and a fourth.” An AFC scouting director was willing to go a little further than that, saying, “If you had a 1 in the 20s like, say, a Pittsburgh, I’d do it. The kid’s talented as hell and is under a brutal [situation].” A second NFC exec said he’d consider “a late 1 this year for him, maybe two 2s,” and added “He’s still an asset. This isn’t Hackenberg.” That makes a lot of sense to me. And if I was the Steelers, I’d see a lot of reclamation project value there. The Niners took a shot like that back in the ’80s, and did it despite having Joe Montana on the roster, and I don’t think they regretted it.

How can the answer be anything other than 52-17, a game in which the Bills turned it over nine-count-em'-nine times?? And it should have been 59-17 if not for Leon Lett's showboating.