dave mcbride

No, because Rivers has absolutely shredded McDermott’s D both times he faced it, and the talent there is as good as ever.

Mostly agree except for the xp argument. A td is one score, a fg is half a score, and a safety is a third of a score. The td is basically 2 fgs, and it SHOULD be at least modestly difficult to expand it in 2 fgs+1 (ie, a small bonus for punching it in). I’d honestly make it a 33 yarder—slightly harder given that they are still being converted at an excessively high rate (over 90 percent). No point in the NFL should ever be free.

"The United States is among only a few governments who tax international income earned by their citizens, as well as permanent residents, residing overseas." https://www.taxesforexpats.com/uk/us-tax-preparation-in-uk.html It does, but it only covers the first $104K, or so it seems. Here is the treaty: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/treaties/Documents/uktreaty.pdf

Newton is an excellent comparison. They have pretty similar games.

He gained 16 yards on a rushing play on the final play of the game when they were down 31-13. The stat line is not indicative of anything. They were also getting stoned early on in the run game, so factor that in. It was immediately clear that they couldn't block Fletcher Cox, who was eating the Bills' interior o-line alive.

From the article: "Remember, the rate of a team’s rushing attempts goes up in direct proportion to the score margin. In other words, you win to run, not run to win."

No, one of the links is to FO (the one citing TruMedia), and the last part of the article is all TruMedia info, not PFF. Anyway, most of it is just basic math.

I'd always be careful about reading too much into scratches. A lot of injuries never get reported.

Gore didn't have a bad day; the Bills' o-line did against superior talent across from them. Gore never had a ghost of a chance on any of those plays. He was stoned either behind the LOS or at the LOS every time.

I think that's a good observation.

Yeah, that's fair, but I'm also connecting it with the fact that he's constitutionally pretty conservative. I think that sort of playcalling reflects his preferences.

Worth your time, GG. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/11/05/bill-callahan-redskins-are-running-treadmill-nowhere/ Also - @GunnerBill

I may be reading too much into this but ... https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/football/nfl/bills/2019/11/03/buffalo-bills-beat-redskins-sean-mcdermott-says-team-work-in-progress-devin-singletary-josh-allen/4125094002/ How hard is it to gain one yard? Really hard if you’re the Bills. They have been confronted with a third-and-1 situation 12 times this season and have made the first down just five times, gaining only three yards net. Add in fourth-and-1 and they’ve had that situation four times and made the first down twice, gaining just two yards. Not good. As McDermott said, “and ones” were a problem in this game, specifically. It was most glaring in the second quarter when the Bills failed to gain an inch on first-, second-, and third-and-goal at the 1 — all Frank Gore runs — before Allen finally punched it across. Later, they failed on a fourth-and-1 attempt by Gore at the Redskins' 24. Allen made a third-and-1 with a sneak in the first quarter, and he was stopped in the same situation on a sneak in the third on the play before Gore was stuffed on fourth down. And then in the fourth, on third-and-1, Gore lost three yards. In every case, the Bills were bunched together at the line with multiple tight ends and could not win, rather than spread out the formation and attack into wider spaces. “At the end of the day, it’s your job to drive the guy off the ball, right?” McDermott said. “So we’ve got to look at that.” What McDermott and offensive coordinator Brian Daboll really need to be looking at is changing their approach and using more spread formations on short yardage plays. Just ask their own defensive players, which I did. When safety Jordan Poyer sees the “big people” come on the field on third-and-short, he loves it. “Of course you do because you can kind of narrow down the types of plays they’re going to run,” he said. “Especially if they’ve been running them all game and they’ve been successful. To me it’s always easier to play third-and-1 when they bring bigger guys on the field than it is to play when they spread you out and force you to probably play man.” Linebacker Lorenzo Alexander said, “It can be (tougher against spread out formations), depending on who the quarterback is and what type of weapons they have on the outside. I think at the end of the day, the core of it is, (the offense) saying, ‘We’re tougher than you and we’re going to knock you off the ball and get this first down.’ It’s mindset football, it’s an old-school way of thinking.”

No, I don't think it was legit, I just think it was a closer call than some of the absolute muggings that aren't being overturned on review. He got there a second early, but some of the plays not being overturned involve facemasks and pull-downs long before the ball gets there. Literally NOTHING is being overturned, and hasn't been since game 2 of the season.

Have you watched their edge play or any of their games for that matter?

Lemme go out on a limb and say that they have no f**king idea what they're talking about. London is one the most notorious tax-exile locales in the developed world. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/wealth-management/121515/top-10-european-tax-havens.asp

I'm basing it on the fact that Payne, Allen, Kerrigan, and Montez Sweat are all truly elite athletes and universally regarded as blue-chip level talent (Sweat set a combine record for a d-line player with a 4.41 40). On every one of those Gore runs, Payne absolutely destroyed Morse, beating him to the low spot because he's a lot quicker and then blowing up the play. Minnesota couldn't handle their front seven the weak before either, but took advantage of their edge play and weak secondary. He would have 100 percent lost that PI challenge. No coach is winning those challenges, and that one, while certainly PI, was a lot closer to legit than many of the ones that aren't being overturned on challenges.

Based on McDermott's postgame comments, I have a hunch that it was him and not Daboll who was behind the slam-Gore-repeatedly-up-the-middle-against-a-very-talented-front-seven approach.

This is true. They rarely sign anyone of note. Their signing of Reggie White was a long time ago.

I fly to the UK for work from NY with some frequency and it's quite easy to get an 8 am flight out of JFK. I suffer no jet lag as a result.

My understanding is that there are no professional sports teams and no highly paid professional team-sport athletes in London. Right, there are no professional athlete superstars playing team sports who are from outside the UK and who actively choose to play for London-based teams.

He is extremely short for a DE. The only short guy who succeeded as a de that i can think of was elvis dumervill, and he had elite quick twitch ability — far beyond oliver’s natural ability in that area.

22 pass attempts (there were a couple of sacks). There were 38 pass plays the previous week. Allen was sacked 4 times by the eagles.

It’s almost as if the game is set up so that opposing offenses occasionally make nice plays and score points!

He had a knee issue. May have simply been that.