dave mcbride

I sympathize in a way with Saleh, but wasn’t that a fairly obvious penalty? Gardner was all over him with both hands.

The Bengals o-line in 2021 was abjectly terrible and Burrow covered for them to the point where he almost won a Super Bowl.

Will the bills game next week be unavailable too? I don’t have espn+.

It’s free if you subscribe to the New York Times, just as an fyi.

Those two QBs aren't even remotely alike.

I was somehow unaware of this. It collapsed in July 2023 and it involves a bad (and badly run) new owner (Champion Gaming, based in Toronto) that didn't pay staff: https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/football-outsiders-aaron-schatz-champion-gaming.html. All of the people who started the site 20 years ago left, including founder Aaron Schatz. Too bad.

Poyer ranked eighth overall in the entire NFL with regard to passer rating on balls thrown his way in 2022 -- 60.1. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2022/defense_advanced.htm

Are you suggesting Jones is auditioning for the person who pays his salary?

This is the fifth time Jones has done something like this. Here's the history, complete with videos: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/mac-jones-dirty-plays-timeline-patriots/mdhtlbuadezsf017gzqdogte

Here's the reverse angle. Looks like Jones did something:

Worth looking at this again. He's playing like the description here and like he played in the Sugar Bowl: https://www.syracuse.com/buffalo-bills/2022/04/bills-terrel-bernard-a-tackling-machine-had-sugar-bowl-performance-for-the-ages-4-things-to-know.html

An overview with clips of five dirty Mac Jones plays over the past couple of seasons: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/mac-jones-dirty-plays-timeline-patriots/mdhtlbuadezsf017gzqdogte.

It's the king of all NFL stats.

I don't actually disagree with you.

They had none vs the Raiders but don't let that fool you -- the d-line had good pressure all game vs Vegas and played well.

Yeah, that's my point. Martindale had a unique plan for the Niners' offense and I give him props for trying something different. It worked OK until it didn't; the Niners are just good.

What collective passer rating does that individual qb ratings don't is factor in negative sack yardage into the rating (which is the way it should be). The Bills have 12 sacks for 68 negative yards. The Commanders' team passer rating was 35.1. The Jets team passer rating factor in a Rogers incompletion and 24 sack yards was 73.3.

The graph is a little weird given that the Giants blitzed Purdy on 86 percent of his dropbacks on Thursday.

I think they beat the Bears next week with relative ease. I don't think there's a worse team than the Bears. I didn't watch the Fish game yesterday, but from what I've read Wilson actually played pretty well and was let down by his receivers (drops, fumbles). Fields seems terrible to me. By every metric, Wilson is playing better this season: 99.5 rating, 59.9 QBR, 7.6 ypa, 65.4 percent completion percentage, 6/2 TD INT ratio. His PFR rating-plus is 113, which means he's 13 percent above average in that category (he was at 91 last year).

Bizarre Bills defensive stat juxtaposition: 2nd in points allowed, 2nd in yards allowed, 1st in turnovers forced, 3rd in passing yards allowed, 6th in net yards per passing attempt, and ... 32nd in yards per rush given up (5.9 ypc). The most telling stat, however: Bills team passer rating: 90.3 Opponents' collective team passer rating: 54.0 That differential of 35.7 is massive, and passer rating differential is the best predictive stat of all with regard to aligning with winning and losing games. Of course, they've faced some pretty bad quarterbacking so far ...

https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore/_/gameId/401547431 For those who believe in QBR, Allen’s was a sky high 92.4 yesterday (100 is the max). That matches the eyeball test. I thought he played great yesterday.

Speaking of different times, check this out: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/1980.htm and https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/1981.htm. Joe Cribbs had SIXTEEN (!!!) fumbles in the 1980 season and TWELVE the next season. Those numbers are ridiculous! He'd have been on the street pronto in this era. Latavius Murray has fumbled once in his last 738 carries!

I think you are looking at this incorrectly. In 2021, the Chargers finished 5th in points and 4th in yards. The defense finished 29th and 23rd in those categories. Last year, they finished 13th in points and 9th in yards (and gave up the 4th fewest turnovers), and the defense finished 21st and 20th in those categories. The divide was similar in his rookie season too. This year, through 2 games, their offense is 6th in points and 5th in yards, while their defense is 30th and 32nd in those categories. That’s the issue. He is playing consistently well, but he can’t overcome a bad defense.

Um, no. #53 is supposed to cover Jones regardless. He failed. We also have no idea how the Bears' coaches were directing Edmunds to play in that formation. WRs are usually a greater threat than RBs, so maybe he was directed to shade toward that? I don't know, and neither do you. What we do know is that a) contra the original claim, it wasn't a 75-yard TD completion, and b) the person eating dust at the end and cursing himself for his poor coverage of Jones was not Tremaine Edmunds. Everything else is guesswork because we have no idea how the defense was being directed to deal with that formation. We also know that Aaron Jones averaged 6.7 yards per reception last season, so it could be the case that going into the game he was viewed as a standard-issue dump-off option that was less of a threat in the grand scheme of things than the receivers. I am not sure I am right about this possible scenario, but I am sure that you don't know for sure either. That's why all of this feels to me like yet another installment in what is a pretty dumb crusade against a player who had a good season for the Bills last year.

Wallace played well last night. He’s not great but he’s a decent starting-caliber corner.