dave mcbride

The Pats have played 14 games and 10 have been one-score games. 6 of the last 7 have been one-score games, with the 10-point loss to the Chiefs being the exception. The Bills are also 0-3 vs the spread in games where they've been favored by 10+ points. I hate to say it, but I am envisioning a one-score game with an 11-point win the extreme boundary for the point difference. The Pats are an extremely well coached team on defense and will probably make life difficult for the Bills. I have a hunch the Bills will pull out a victory at home, but I also think it'll be a little ugly.

No argument from me! If I wanted to win the next two games, I'd have started him. But maybe they think the season is effectively over given all of the 8-7 teams, the Bills, and Browns. The one intriguing QB option would be signing Kirk Cousins, who is a FA and is the definition of an efficient system qb.

Wilson’s numbers are very deceiving. He has a sky-high 9.1 percent sack rate (it was even worse last year: 10.2) which is why they are 21st in net yards per pass attempt, 25th in yards overall, and 28th in plays per drive. Sacks are very often the fault of the QB, and in Wilson’s case it seems pretty obvious from the games that a lot of it is him. Sacks are total drive killers, and you simply can’t be a sack machine — especially when you can’t compensate for it by being a great running qb, which he no longer really is. He’s only slightly above average on that front now. He also has 10 fumbles. I advise that you check out the sack numbers. They are sky high. PS: In comparison, look at the sack rates for Brees over the years: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BreeDr00.htm

HGH is the best medicine available for quickly healing muscle tears, and most nfl players regularly suffer muscle tears of some degree due to the brutal nature of the game. Ban HGH and half the league can’t play on any given week either due to suspension or abstention from taking the medicine (out of fear of suspension). There is a reason the NFL doesn’t test for it and penalize players for usage. It would regularly destroy game-day rosters.

Unpopular opinion: Yoko Ono is one of the most interesting people of the 20th century. Have you ever read about her harrowing experiences near the end of WW II in Japan and in the years immediately thereafter? Or her outsized role in the mid-60s Fluxus art movement? If you went to UB like I did (for undergrad), you may have come across professors Paul Sharits (creator of the flicker film and a fluxus luminary) and Tony Conrad, who gave the Velvet Underground their name. Both were involved in that movement, which all preceded her meeting John Lennon. Anyway, go Yoko, who is 1,000 times more interesting than Taylor Swift.

Unsure of your specific point here.

Gotta say, Mahomes is awesome, and it was inevitable that KC would eventually have a down-ish season. The dancing on his grave that’s going on here is laughable. His career will be long, and the Chiefs will eventually retool. Yes to all of this, but they have the capability to fix it — and I strongly suspect they will. As long as Mahomes is the QB, they will be competitive (at the very least). In reality, Mahomes is having a pretty good (not great) season. Mac Jones has been straight-up awful, so the joke doesn’t work.

Oh jeez. Not what I said at all.

Magellan Miller!

He has 4 fumbles on 248 touches this season. That’s 1.6 percent, which is NOT good. In comparison, Latavius Murray has 4 fumbles in his last 1,164 touches for a 0.34 percent fumble rate.

Good post, but I qualify it by saying the Bills effectively had four turnovers. The series with the tripping, holding, and false start penalties plus the deep sack (resulting in 4th and forever) ended up giving the Chargers a much shorter field than expected and they cashed in with a FG.

Just saying that to my wife!

Probably because he quickly figured (or had it figured out for him) that the coaching grind wasn’t his thing. 500-750-word Wikipedia entries as a rule don’t include every life detail, particularly short-lived, failed/quickly abandoned attempts at a new gig. I 100 percent trust the person who told me this.

Huh?? What’s your deal, man? Also, in his rookie season, Peters was the farthest thing from a starter. He was a UDFA on the roster bubble.

Not calling you out! Just alerting you to the info because I thought you might be interested.

Based on the source I got it from, I'm quite certain that it's the truth (that Brown was the former player, that is). LOL all you want.

The Bengals have lost 7 of their last 8 games vs the Browns, and many of the losses have been absolute blowouts. They lost 24-3 earlier this year.

It has come to my attention that Lomas Brown was a Bills coaching intern (unlisted) that year under Mouse McNally. Brown played for McNally for two years with the Giants in the late 1990s near the end of his career, and was under his supervision as intern. He played o-line for 18 years, so that solves the riddle! https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrowLo00.htm (also, @Just Jack).

I get that, but it was a key play. I remember it VIVIDLY.

We lost because Josh Reed got called for a very shaky OPI right when the Bills were on the verge of going up 24-16. Ryan Lindell then missed a 28 yard FG. 3:03 mark of the third quarter: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200501020buf.htm. A TD there and they win the game.

I look forward to how this debate is going to go. Good luck.

https://theathletic.com/5132569/2023/12/18/jason-peters-nfl-career-seahawks-eagles-bills/ He still remembers what an assistant coach told him his rookie year in Buffalo, and how much it pissed him off. It’s been so long, Peters can’t even remember the coach’s name. He was sitting in a meeting, getting ripped after a lousy day of practice, just trying to keep his job for another week. “You’ll never play as long as I played!” the coach screamed. Peters stored those words away, never letting them leave his mind. The coach had played forever — something like 17 or 18 years in the league, Peters remembers — and he knew the odds were against anyone in that room lasting half that long. “The average NFL career is three seasons,” Peters says. “That’s it. Three seasons and you’re done.” ( @BADOLBILZ )

Maybe this is what your wife did? https://www.dvdfab.cn/resource/video/amazon-peacock

I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. In the end, it'll be my choice. It's not as if I'm not paying for Prime already and a host of other subscriptions. People who get cable are already paying a lot via subscriptions. I guess I don't view any of these services as qualitatively different. From the Internet: "Does Peacock come free with Amazon Prime? Peacock is not free with Amazon Prime. Not only that, but you cannot stream Peacock through Prime like you can with Max, AMC+ and many other streaming services." https://www.themanual.com/culture/peacock-tv-free-trial/#:~:text=Get Peacock-,Is Peacock free with Amazon Prime%3F,and many other streaming services.

I registered for one month and will dump it after the game. It's $5.99, which is a price I'm willing to pay to watch a Bills game. It's a small pittance and hardly worth getting up in arms about.