dave mcbride

Philly fans are the absolute worst.

Refs too. That call on Wylie was laughably bad. His hands literally held nothing.

It was definitely not a hold. Terrible call.

AC joint injuries ain’t no joke for a QB. Look up Cam Newton’s injury history and what he had to say about the long-term effects of his AC joint injury.

The holding call on Wylie was a fricking joke. He literally held nothing. He did an arm bar, which ain’t holding.

Hey, I was banging the drum to sign Reddick before the season and wanted Suh too when it became apparent he was going to join a team. Year after year the man proves he can still bring it. He was awesome in the postseason for TB a couple of years ago.

Worst game of importance i have ever seen. For anyone who knows anything about josh johnson, when purdy went down it was obvious the game was completely over. He has been in and out of the league since 2008 and his qb rating is significantly below the football equivalent of the Mendoza line. And 1-8 as a starter. How he ever won a game is a mystery to me. D3 guy who played for Harbaugh when the latter started his coaching career at the U of San Diego.

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This is a really weak post. Sorry but it’s true. They literally are playing without a qb because of injury.

Good for trent williams. That was 100 percent justified.

This may be worst football game of any importance that I have ever watched. Obviously it’s the injuries, but seriously, the Niners should have offered a lot of money to Ryan Fitzpatrick when Purdy became the starter. How Josh Johnson remained in the NFL for so long is mind boggling.

I had heard of him! He has been around forever, and he has sucked forever.

Huntley isn’t good, but he is a LOT better than Johnson. Johnson spent 2019 and 2020 in the arena league and xfl. He is awful.

Fascinating fact about Josh Johnson, who is really terrible: his college coach was Jim Harbaugh and he was the starting qb for a team that won a D3 championship in 2006.

The numbers say that Hockenson is pretty darn good (60 catches in 10 games for MN; 86 overall). And he produced pretty well in prior seasons. I actually bet DT is sorry they traded him given how good they turned out to be in the end.

A wiser HC and DC would have rushed 3 and ordered the Bills DBs to play press and immediately grab and hold onto every eligible KC receiver for dear life for two plays, forcing a hail mary from the chiefs’ own 35 with 4-5 seconds left. Maybe even do it a third time to ensure that the clock gets down to under 4 seconds , ensuring one play only. It would have worked. Instead, they played off. Mind boggling given the amount of time left, kc’s 3 TOs, the quality of the KC qb and receivers, and the distance they had to go.

Dane Jackson actually had a pretty good game.

Totally. And fully agree about Daboll, who comes out of the Belichick/McDaniels style where the approach can change from week to week depending on the opponent. In their heyday with Brady, they’d pass it 45 times one week (mostly short passes too) and run it 40 times the next week.

I hear you about their running game, but as it happens every time I watch them I am generally impressed by Mixon and think he’s a tackle-breaking stud. Maybe I’m watching the wrong games??? Admittedly, I don’t see that many. I guess one way to look at it is that his talent demands that you have to account for him, so maybe it opens things up. YPC isn’t necessarily indicative of how good a RB is either; we all remember future HOFer Marshawn Lynch’s sub-4 ypc in his final Bills years but as it happens he also led all backs in the rate of getting hit behind the line of scrimmage while here. Anyway, I generally think you’re right, but I also believe that DCs worry more about Mixon than Singletary despite the numbers.

Pretty grim stat cited by Riddick: in the remaining games after Miller went down, not one Bill defensive lineman finished in the top 40 among DL in pass rush win rates.

Awesome stuff, @MAJBobby! The minor correction I’d recommend is that in your Knox writeup where you flag his decline in numbers from this season to last, you don’t account for the fact that the Bills played one less game. Given that the Bills were going to be throwing it a lot that game, he may have ended up getting decent numbers.

I don’t you’re factoring in how big of a loss Von Miller was — maybe because it’s been so long since the Bills had an elite pass rusher. Bill Walsh always talked about 4th quarter pressure and how it decided tons of games. Miller is still that guy, and he was doing it this year. He pressured Mahomes into throwing that pick, and vs Cleveland he pressured Jacoby Brissett on virtually every play in the fourth quarter. He is also a guy who almost literally won Denver an AFC championship game in 2015 by himself by relentlessly getting after Brady, sacking him, and picking him off for a td. As I said, Miller is that guy who can win his matchups late in games. He is not nearly as gifted as Elam, and Dane Jackson was one of the lone bright spots vs Cincy. They don’t have a strong safety - a required position - and he has experience at it. 4.55 for a CB is too slow but it’s ok for a safety.

DEs have historically produced far deeper into their careers - into their mid 30s - than players at other positions outside of QBs and some o-line positions. Bruce Smith’s best years were 1995-1998, and he had knee injuries too. Moreover, it sounds from what I’ve read that this was a pretty clean acl tear with little surrounding damage. I actually expect him to be 100 percent by October at the latest.

Let's not forget this playoff game either: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/202101090buf.htm. 472 yards given up, no turnovers, no sacks (against a statue), 27 first downs surrendered, and 6.2 yards per play. No team in NFL history with at least 450 yards and 0 turnovers had lost a playoff game before: https://coltswire.usatoday.com/2021/01/10/indianapolis-colts-buffalo-bills-history-made-wild-card-playoffs/. It is retrospectively shocking that the Bills won that game. It was all Josh Allen plus Reich going for it at least once when he should have kicked a FG.

Good point; I meant among people who were available. I will say that for me, Williams vs Burns represents a toss-up. Burns is REALLY good; it's just that he's on a subpar team that is also very boring. Who watches Carolina games beyond their fans? But yeah, Williams is excellent.