dave mcbride

? - Purdy had a complete tear of his UCL. Allen didn't. Both of his UCL injuries were sprains. If Allen had a complete UCL tear, he would have missed a season. Also, playing with a torn ligament in a toe would make Allen a pretty immobile QB. That's not his game, and I would anticipate the Bills hoping for the best with Trubisky and getting Allen back fully healthy for the final 3-4 games and playoffs.

Turf toe requiring surgery would result in probably the same amount of lost time for Allen.

Huh? David Carr wasn't good. Burrow is elite.

The in-division loss to the Chargers absolutely matters.

Talent-wise and technique-wise, they're both truly elite players. Miller has had the better career, of course, but a lot of that is because Bosa has struggled to stay on the field. Since 2019, he hasn't played a full season, although he did play 16 games in 2021 (so basically full; the Chargers had a dominant D that year too). Until the 2022 season, From 2011 to 2019, Miller--who started in 2011--never missed any games except for the final 7 after he tore his ACL in 2013. And even then, when he came back in 2014, he had a dominating all-pro season. To be fair, he missed the entire 2020 season (ankle). Since coming off of PUP in 2022, he hasn't missed a game except for the suspension. He has played in 32 straight games since coming off of PUP. He generally doesn't get dinged up in season. He's either all in or all out, and in his 15th year, he's been all in for 12 of them (so far).

Through 1.5 games this year, Burrow has been sacked at a 12.2 percent rate. Yeah, it's a small sample size, and Cleveland can get after the QB. But that's a ridiculously high rate.

Rob Johnson was never actually good, though. He was a bad player with physical talent. Burrow has had three MVP-level seasons in six years.

Don’t forget Nathan Peterman throwing a pick to Jalen Ramsey.

Remember that Bills-Chargers game from 2019-2020? Bosa was unblockable in that game.

For those who care: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6623193/2025/09/12/bills-ed-oliver-injury-tj-sanders/

Oh jeez. Jackson had a great game. People need to abandon this stupid narrative. Allen is 77-34 as a a starter. That’s really good. Jackson is 70-25 as a starter. That’s better.

From practice this week. It’s in the original post.

The Bills were so lucky there. But it was a lucky game overall, especially with the Keon catch. Given all the bad luck, they were due.

The Martin House is one of the greatest things to see in Buffalo. Also great. But not close!

The chiefs had 3 TOs in the 13-second game.

I think harbaugh played it right because by letting the clock run, the bills had to be as simple as possible on the kick snap count and the linemen could not move at all - a false start would have ended the game (10 second runoff). That allowed kyle hamilton to slice through with ease and he missed the block by about an inch. It was so close to being blocked. Harbaugh is an old special teams coach and gets this. It is an open question if Jackson could have played on the 4th down play because of the oliver hit, and I seriously doubt they would have run him. The Bills would have realized this. He was limping after that hit and in pain.

Also, the Bills could thrown a deliberate incomplete end zone fase pass on third down and gotten the clock down to 10 or so seconds. The fg takes around 5 seconds, and then you kick it out of the end zone (no chance for a td return). They have 5-6 seconds and no timeouts and therefore have to complete a 65 yard hail mary.

You really think Williams is a goner by year 3 as a starter?

Before you condemn Jackson, you might want to look at this play. Jackson limped off the field after this happened. Cramps was a euphemism for getting absolutely drilled. Um … I don’t think Jackson’s problem was cramps, whatever the stated rationale was.

PS: In that Athletic piece, Alex Smith talks about his first OC in SF forcing him to play under center every play and avoiding runningdespite his strengths in the shotgun and his running ability. He doesn’t name names, but that OC was Mike McCarthy, who Dunne accused Rodgers of undermining. I was very underwhelmed with McCarthy in Dallas with a great roster, so that factors into my evaluation of what Dunne does. He seems to rely to a significant extent (not entirely) on malcontents to drive his narrative about whichever subject is the focus of his deep dive.

He really does. There are short answers on every play for him, and he’s taking them. The false start killed the last drive but that wasn’t his fault.

Welp, Dunne is looking about as accurate about Williams as he was about McDermott and Aaron Rodgers.

Wow. Missed that. Now I see why they punted.

Slightly off: Henry actually has 2548 touches inclusive of receptions) and 21 fumbles overall - 0.82%. If you include his 211 postseason touches and one fumble, he is 0.797%. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HenrDe00.htm Wow, that was really close.

It was a TERRIBLE decision to go for two in that moment.