dave mcbride

Yeah, Nix is an impressive player.

Agreed. This won’t be popular, but the defender did lead with his shoulder. It wasn’t really dirty.

They did it AGAIN. Sheesh.

Maybe catch a fieldable punt at around the 10 yard line there?

Running on first down when the Bills are at the 10 or 11 yard line in opposing territory almost never works and puts the Bills in must pass situations on 2nd and 3rd down. So it seems to me.

He is having a bad game, but that INT was not on him. It was a good throw and decision.

PFF had the Niners, colts, Steelers and Falcons as better teams than the Bills. And with niners, steelers, and falcons being WAY better.

Unless he convinces Jim Leonhard to come out of his retirement to be his starting safety, his defense will suck. Leonhard was a true unicorn - the only person smart enough to fully understand his Rube Goldberg-like scheme and be able direct other players on the field to their correct assignments on the fly. His defenses with and without Leonhard tell the tale.

That analogy doesn't work because Evans was drafted before the Bills’ original pick. The whole premise of this thread is based on an incorrect memory of the original draft order.

Correct — Evans went before the Bills’ original pick, which was #9.

Josh Allen-led offenses vs Vic Fangio defenses: 2019: 20-3 win vs Denver; the Bills offense racked up 424 yards (244 rushing yards), and the last 11 minutes were garbage time. 2020: 48-19 win vs Denver; the Bills racked up 534 yards of offense 2023: 48-20 win vs Miami; the Bills racked up 414 yards and it was garbage time very early 2023: 21-14 win vs Miami; the Bills racked 473 yards of offense That's an average of 34.25 points and 461.25 yards per game. Not too scared of a Fangio defense with Allen as my QB.

I.e., we have no actual idea. For all we know, his mom died three days ago. Wait until you actually know something before casting aspersions.

Have you read either of the pieces, start to finish? If not, slagging him with a whole bunch of juvenile swear words seems off.

Hyde is a perfectly fine returner.

That is not an actual answer.

Bruce Smith was the best player in the league in 1996 inclusive of all positions. He had 47 QB pressures in addition to his 14.5 sacks.

Kelly wasn't starting to decline -- he was DONE. He could barely move and had lost his arm strength.

Kelly was awful in 1996. Not really a great comp.

Rex not only agrees, he thinks he has it in the bag! https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/rex-ryan-thinks-he-will-get-the-jets-head-coaching-job

The thing about "coaching in January" is that you have to get to January. The years his defense performed in the regular season -- coincidentally, when they were most talented -- led to January runs, but in only 2 years out of 6. It was borderline criminal that Cincy didn't make the playoffs this year given how good their offense was.

Defensive expected points contributed during Anuromo's full tenure at Cincy as DC (2019-2024): 2019 - Cincy's D was 26th in expected points contributed (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2019/opp.htm) - sort by last column 2020 - 22nd in expected contributed (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2020/opp.htm) 2021 - 12th in expected points contributed (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2021/opp.htm) 2022 - 9th in expected points contributed (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2022/opp.htm) 2023 - 26th (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2023/opp.htm) 2024 - 26th (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2024/opp.htm)

"Today is proof NFL teams rig games.. its worse than deflating balls, worse than spying.. worse than taping up players on other teams. NFL should take Buffalo #1 pick." https://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/threads/2024-game-day-thread-the-final-stinker-bills-pats.1165152/page-85

No, that's not true. From Rule 8, Article 1 in the official NCAA rule book: “A field goal shall be scored if a scrimmage kick, which may be a drop kick or place kick, passes over the crossbar between the uprights of the receiving team’s goal before it touches a player of the kicking team or the ground.” It cannot hit the ground and count as a FG.

No, not AP writers. Many talking heads and ex players too. Here are the voters from last year: https://apnews.com/article/ap-nfl-awards-panel-e71a6a4641246b75abcca6a553bc0dab

He is significantly better than singletary and moss, so I fully expect that the Bills will pay him.