dave mcbride

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.

He has 4 picks on the year, which is a lot for a LB. Maybe he’s not having a terrible season after all?🤔

I REALLY wanted the Bills to get Addison. I know they wanted him. Sigh.

Not so sad. He's had a terrific 11-year career and will be 33 in a couple of weeks. He's been an all-pro twice (both times for the Bills) along the way. He did very, very well in the NFL, and it's probably time to move onto the next stage of his life.

Or the Bills could sign him and have Josh Allen throw hail marys all game long.

One person got injured midway through the season and would have had to shut it all down for the rest of the year if he had surgery. Another person got hurt much earlier in the year. They are not the same.

In the surgery rooms immediately after the season. Hogan took a ton of heat from fans in 2015 for an atypically high number of drops but his injury was hidden until after the season. I'm not actually sure what you're point is; this is pretty well known.

Hogan was never on an injury report. Jerry Hughes was never on an injury report when he was playing with a significant wrist injury. Teams do this ALL THE TIME.

It would seem to me that teams advise players to not speak about injuries to protect them from targeting. Lest we forget, immediately after the 2015 season Robert Woods had surgery for a torn groin which he had been playing for a while (and which had never been reported as such; it was a "leg-probable" situation for the second half of the season) and Chris Hogan had surgery for torn ligaments in his wrist that was never reported at all. Think about this year: we had no idea about the extent of Dawson Knox's injury (and we blamed him for bad hands) when in fact he was playing with torn ligaments in his wrist. Both teams and players don't let this stuff out, and it's not for "toughness" reasons; it's to hide useful information from opponents. It's usually actually the opposite, and you're wrong. We tend to find out later that players played through injuries that were a lot worse than the injury reports indicated.

https://buffalonews.com/sports/buffalo-bills-dallas-cowboys-wideout-speed-stefon-diggs-gabe-davis/article_2be15e86-99fc-11ee-94f0-db85ca288055.html Mark Gaughan today (note the parenthetical final comment): “Davis has 39 catches, which is tied for 50th among wideouts. He has 595 yards, which is 39th. He’s a middle-of-the-pack No. 2 wideout. He was a good draft pick. He’s not someone who should get a second contract and a big pay raise from general manager Brandon Beane when his contract runs out after this season. (It’s not happening.)”

Agreed, it's probably the worst penalty in the league. It rewards poorly thrown balls. Hate that call.

It's more of a low hangtime issue with him.

He got slammed HARD to the ground (right on his back) in both the Jets and Chiefs games. Can't feel too good, I imagine, especially for a guy who does everything possible to avoid the big hits (he instinctively and smartly goes to the ground quickly rather than fight for the extra half yard and risk injury/fumble).

Enh ... I don't know about that. Diggs' game has always been a vast route tree plus short area quickness that gets him into a position where no DB has the ability to get to him slightly early. That's happening now, and we're complaining about it. He needs to more clearly separate. That's his game, not contested catches with sticky, handsy DBs. Complaining about the refs strikes me as whistling past the graveyard here. At the moment, he's not creating the separation necessary to obviate that sort of tactic by DBs. To be fair, in the last three games he's been covered by Sauce, Bradberry, and Sneed, who are all very good players. That should be factored in too.

Nah, that was good coverage. Sneed is very good. But Diggs has struggled to separate of late.

He looked phenomenal on the Chiefs’ final two possessions. As Bill Walsh said, what often separates winning from losing is the ability to get late 4th quarter pressure from the d-line. Miller, Oliver, and Floyd all made good pressure plays late.

They probably won't: at Eagles, at Saints, Rams at home, Eagles at home. Eagles won't be resting in the final week. Should have beaten the Bills too if not for the non-PI call!

It's still mind boggling that they lost that Jets game. That was almost impossible to lose, and they didn't lose through the fault of the coaching at all. Just players making mistakes: Barkley surrendering (in the name of ball protection) instead of fighting for the first down on the final possession, the kicker missing a very makeable FG, and Thibodeaux inexplicably jumping Offside.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/31/john-maras-brian-daboll-warning-dont-go-from-bono-to-bozo/ March 31, 2023 'Brian Daboll is the football coaching equivalent of a rock star these days. It could all change in a New York minute, though. That was the warning from his boss, Giants owner John Mara. “We kid him. I mean, right now he’s Bono walking around New York City,” Mara said on Sirius XM NFL Radio this week. “But I’ve told him, I’ve said, ‘In this business, it doesn’t take long to go from Bono to Bozo. So don’t get your head too big right now.’ But he has been great.”'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/world/europe/turkey-soccer-referee-attack.html Despite it all, NFL refs have it pretty good, relatively speaking. ”Turkey is not alone in dealing with abuse and violence toward officials. Neighboring Greece’s top league postponed all of its matches last weekend after the country’s referees refused to work in a protest against what they called dangerous working conditions. In Cyprus, bomb attacks targeting referees have been a problem for years. In June, a pipe bomb exploded outside the building housing the Cyprus Referees Association in the capital, Nicosia, only weeks after a firebomb was thrown at the home of a match official. Referees in Turkey have long been under intense pressure from fans and team officials who traffic in a variety of conspiracy theories about decisions they contend might have favored a powerful club, or gone against the one they support.”

Florio and Simms discussed this, and they said that the reason the number of such calls has increased is because of the tush push. Allowing guys to line up past the LOS on near-unstoppable play makes it an unstoppable play. Makes sense if you think about it.

yup. see the point above from someone who actually watched the pre-game warmups. No way was Bass making a 62 yarder. No effing way.

"BTW, Bass made all of his warmup kicks until getting to about 45+ yards out—he for sure missed the 55 yarder he attempted, by kicking at least 5-10 yards short of the goal posts—I wonder if McD had this in mind when he decided a Hail Mary was preferable to trotting Bass out right before the half?" Chris Hogan in his final season in Buffalo. He tore wrist ligaments and played through it. Never reported.

Well, the game is at home, and the Bills are a good home team: 24-6 since 2020. The only game they lost this year was one they should have won (Denver). As for the SB winner, assuming SF stays healthy, I expect them to steamroll all opponents in the postseason, including Baltimore.

Just looking at the offensive and defensive numbers across the board, the Cowboys are effing good. This is a tougher game than KC in certain respects. At least it's at home: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/dal/2023.htm.