dave mcbride

Hard to "track" a ball when it's five yards beyond you and you're running in a straight line as fast as you can. Let's not make excuses here.

But that was double coverage and shouldn't have been thrown. His only accurate deep throw all season should have been a pick.

Historically, he's a fair bit more accurate. I know you can't read too much into preseason, but he looked great in terms of accuracy.

I don't know, honestly. Subtracting talent from a playoff-level team just strikes me as a bad idea.

PS - I don't know why they'd want to trade him either. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. He's only 25.

Wow. I like Jones (he's good!) and have been a defender of Cousins for years because my wife went to MSU and he did well there. But he is fool's gold. He fails all the time in big games and against good teams. I'm off his bandwagon.

Well, in 2017, he had 14 catches for 207 yards in two postseason games, so that should be factored in. But it's immaterial: while he had a great year last year, he was also terrific before that. He's a good player, and is gonna know Shurmur's system pretty well. Bottom line: he's a good player who will slide in easily in NY.

It's more about the Giants than the Bills. He's a better fit there, and he's an even bigger need for them than he is for the Bills. Plus he had a ton of success under Shurmur.

The Bills have tons of cap space, and he's 10 times the player Jones is. It's not even a comparison, really. That said, I don't see him winding up on the Bills at all.

I honestly think that Brett Favre is one of the greatest players to ever play the game. Flawed, sure, but the productivity was incredible. He was on a bunch of mediocre-talent teams that he took very, very far on his right arm.

Ha ha. In all seriousness, he was super-productive under Shurmur in the two years Shurmur was Minnesota's OC - 2016 and 2017. Plus there's that catch in the Saints playoff game. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DiggSt00.htm

Giants is my bet.

I think the Giants are hands down the likeliest candidate. He fits a real need, Shurmur had success with him, and they're not out of it by any means.

Disagree to an extent in that he HAS had plenty of deep-shot chances, and he has taken them, and often enough guys have been open. He's just been abjectly failing to date.

Watt primarily played LDE last season. Clowney played RDE.

Actually, most of his best seasons were when he was young.

Actually, he had two more excellent games - against KC and against Denver. He had ratings of over 100 in each game and the Bills put up 54 and 30 points, with both games on the road. His tailspin occurred when he had to play three good divisional opponents in a row: Miami, the Jets, and NE -- right after the SD game. All had good defenses and all finished over .500 that season. In the next game, he struggled early against Cleveland but put them in position to win 30-29 with a great final drive. Lindell missed the kick. Lots of false narratives going on here.

https://247sports.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/Article/Bills-release-veteran-WR-Bobby-Shaw-104131922/ Note that Shaw had 56 catches (just like Jones did last year) in the previous season.

In years 3-6 of his career (not including his rookie season, in which he didn't play), he threw 145 TDs (36 per season on average) to 56 INTs (14 on averge).

I don't know as if this is the right take. I think some, including me, think Barkley *at this moment in time* is probably better able than Allen to run the offense as it is envisioned on an X and O board with crispness, speed, and the requisite field awareness. However, I also think the presumption is that Allen, who is bright, should be able to do it just as well as he gains more experience , and he therefore needs to be on the field to get better and better at it. Secondly, the X and O board plan often becomes meaningless in the heat of battle, and Allen is better at making a play when things break down (as they inevitably do from time to time). So I guess my point is that for just this upcoming game against TN, it's an open question as to who is more likely to generate a W. Barkley is the better game manager at this point, but has a slew of physical limitations that'll prevent him from making plays when things break down. On the other hand, Allen is struggling right now and is basically a turnover machine (he's leading the league in INTs and has fumbled it 5 times). That said, if both are healthy, Allen should definitely be starting. He needs that in order for him to continue to progress. It's just unclear to me who is more likely to help the Bills win the game taking place in five days.

??? — he has played an incredible number of snaps over nearly 19 seasons! Of course he’s going to have more sacks than most given that he may well up play more snaps at qb than any other qb in history when it’s all said and done. That’s irrelevant, though, to how frequently a qb is sacked (a far more indicative stat), and he gets sacked at a fairly low rate. Except for the first season he started in, he’s always been sacked at a low rate.The roughing rate is far more germane to the point you’re trying to make. As for the Bills, I did indeed find 10 QBs off the top of my head who were sacked at a higher rate. It’s all on www.pro-football-reference.com .

??? — Brady over the course of his career has been sacked at a rate of 4.8 percent per dropback. That ain’t even remotely close to 7th most. I can come up with 10 Bills qbs off the top of my head who have been sacked at a higher rate.

St. Doug is tied for first place right now (and tied for last).

Yep. I am sure Johnny Foxborough's presence loomed large in the film room today.

Fair enough! You win. I'm good with that.