dave mcbride

Absolutely. He's a really talented player.

I thought Allen played well in the second half. Don't get me wrong. But on that play, there isn't a Dolphins defender within 5 yards of McKenzie between the 15 and 5 yard lines, and it only becomes tight after he passes the 2 yard line. It was a bad play by Allen. It happens. Hopefully next time when presented with the same situation, he'll get rid of it on time.

6 catches on 7 targets for 80 yards and a TD with Tannehill throwing to him this past Sunday. I doubt he gets moved; TN has a solid shot at winning that division (as does every other team in the AFC central).

The Bills have played the Eagles once since 2012 (in 2015)! The Eagles won that game.

Disagree - he should have thrown that way sooner. Mckenzie is looking for the ball at the 18 yard line and Allen simply doesn't pull the trigger. That's an easy TD throw he didn't make. Also, you're not an excuse maker! What gives? He starts looking for the ball at around the 18 yard line. What you say isn't true.

Julio just signed a big contract, and they traded Sanu. The Falcons still have a lot of talent, and they could easily bounce back to 10-11 wins next season. I don't think they're trading him.

The Jags are definitely still in it. I don't think anyone in that division is winning more than 10 games, and I also think that a terrible AFC means that it's very possible a 9-win team gets a WC slot.

Yeah, I know that, but does anyone have any info on what's really going right now? I assume he's hurt and simply not able to perform at 100 percent, and if his speed game isn't there, he's not much use. But I don't really know.

Does anyone have a good idea about what's really going on with Foster? He was so good (relative to what anyone could have expected) last season, and given Allen's deep throwing this season, I can only conclude that he was sporting some sort of homing beacon for Allen's deep balls last year.

Gesicki is part of their future, not their past. He's one of the guys they've gotta build around.

It would be awesome. Unfortunately, the Bills do have some tough games coming up, so I’m not all that hopeful this will happen. But who knows?

That would be me. I am not a homer.

It wasn’t a fg in the sense of a kick with any degree of difficulty; it was a glorified extra point attempt. And I bet you that just about all of the tiny handful of missed xps in the last few years of the old system came on shanks and botched snaps, not blocks.

With "maybe," I thought you were implicitly questioning my claim that he wasn't saying they were bad or mediocre. He clearly likes the Bills defense (just as his system hated it under Rex). I wasn't commenting on your skepticism about DVOA.

Come on. His system had the Bills D as the second best in the league last year, and currently has them rated as #3. That system factors in level of competition. the problem with this logic is that the Pats' schedule is even easier.

FO had the Bills as the second best defense in the NFL last season. They're believers.

He didn't say they were bad. He is simply saying that they have an incredibly easy schedule. Which they do.

In that sort of situation -- i.e., a genuinely automatic FG in an extremely short down/distance situation -- the only thing you should be playing is the fake. Don't waste effort trying block a chip shot. It's shorter than the old extra point, and they had something like a 99.5 percent success rate the year before they moved the ball back. It shouldn't have surprised them because the only thing they should have been defending against was the fake. Don't try to block an old-school extra point. It never works.

I worry for Darnold. His new moniker could end up being "The Ghost of Butt Fumbles Future."

He caught 71.4 percent of the passes thrown his way during his time in Atlanta (and 79 percent this year). He's also big, durable, and coachable.

They still have 12 picks! Draft picks are overrated anyway, as the Pats have shown year after year after year.

It sure is.

He also loves guys who catch the balls thrown their way. Sanu's catch percentage the last four seasons with Atlanta is 71.4 percent, and he's at 78.6 percent this year. This is a very good addition to the Pats receiving corps.