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That team had a really good performance in a loss to Tom Brady and the Bucs and a really easy stretch of games to end the year. They also struggled in some of those easy games, but everyone on TBD seems to forget the Atlanta snow game which might have had a different outcome if Matt Ryan knew where the goal line was. It will be a much steeper hill to climb this time.

I can't find any justification for the rule change in 2005. What I did find was this article (from Utah of all places) arguing that it's a modern version of the old wedge play from the early days of American football and used to actually kill people: https://www.deseret.com/2023/1/20/23563232/nfl-rule-that-allows-players-to-push-ball-carriers-forward-went-wrong-direction

They changed the language in the rulebook to allow the pushing (not pulling) of another offensive player in 2005. I can't find a reason for why they made that change.

Really only since Dorsey was calling the plays. Saleh has said that the Bills offense is predictable. Maybe we'll be less so today?

Yet another person who didn’t read the story. You also didn’t read it. It’s like a classroom full of students; it’s easy to know who didn’t do the reading.

i can’t tell if this is a joke or not, but a lot of athletes use smelling salts.

Only if they keep the current coaching staff. It’s them they finds value in DBs.

I’m going to sound like a bad fan here, but they’ll win or lose with or without you and that party sounds like a roaring good time.

Hyde was a full participant in practice on Friday and doesn’t have a designation so all indications is that he’ll play tomorrow.

You can tell the people that didn't read the story.

He then went to Arizona and lost his mind.

He's not a rook. He was on the Vikings practice squad for 2 years before going to Cincinnati in 2021. The strange thing is that the Bengals had Trevor Simeon in camp and released him to save a few bucks on cut-down day while Burrow was nursing that calf injury. How are they not talking to Nick Foles right now? They have the mini-bye.

Look at those ugly a** jerseys!

Struggling against the Giants, for whatever reason, really turned this season on its head.

Now he can spend the time he wants at home alone.

They absolutely did. No one of consequence except that kick returner was injured in our game.

All these stupid podcasts do is get athletes and media figures in trouble because people take things out of context and create clickbait stories. You should never take anything said on Pardon my Take or Bussin' with the Boys seriously; the hosts bait people into saying things.

Exactly. People lost money because the Bengals hid this. That's why the injury report exists.

FWIW, there is no scenario that McDermott gets fired midseason and Ken Dorsey isn't also let go. What would (and probably should) have happened is both McD and Dorsey get the axe, Washington gets the interim HC job, and Brady the Interim OC job. If a HC gets fired because an offense with Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs can't score points, the OC will go too.

I agree with all of this, except for the concept that McDermott doesn't understand offense. His entire career has been built on stopping NFL offenses. He understands play calls and formations because he has to call plays to counter them. He knows better than anyone how Josh Allen's running stresses a defense. because he had to stop guys like Vick and RG3. But he also had a front-row seat for Cam Newton's decline.

His natural instincts are to bail, scramble, and make plays. The Bills coaches have tried to change that, and there is a good argument to be made that this has cost us a season.

All of you on here yell "Nobody takes accountability!" and then when someone does you parse the statements to somehow make it a bad thing that these guys see that their substandard play got a guy with a family fired? Dorsey has a family and kids that he'll have to take out of school in the middle of the year. Ken Dorsey needed to go now, but there are personal costs to all of this, and these guys know and like the man.

I'm going to partially agree with you. I have no idea about QB mechanics, but I do think that defending Dorsey by finding flaws in Josh's game has become the cause celeb amongst the NFL's chattering class. But the stats tell us that the Bills OL is actually playing pretty well this year. The advanced passing stats on PFR are a fun read for stats nerds like me. My eyes tell me that Joash is bailing on relatively clean pockets a lot this year. He is being blitzed a lot (98 times which is 7th most in the league). Josh is ranked 24th in pressure percentage but he's scrambled the 4th most times. That's bailing on clean pockets. But Lamar and Mahomes have similar numbers. That's just who these guys are and teams should stop trying to turn them into pocket passers. The numbers tell you that Josh Allen is playing well, and he is. Nothing jumps out in the numbers but the TOs. There are lulls in games, but it's the costly TOs that are killing the Bills. Not all TOs are created equal and Josh has had two that have cost us games (that fumble in NY and the INT on the first pass in NE). If those two don't happen, we win those two games and the Bills are 7-3, in first place in the AFC East and contending for the one seed. I also think that if the Bills had been at 7-2 they don't lose that game to the Broncos. Sometimes seasons (and jobs) come down to a few plays. But what do I know? The RPO numbers are interesting. They've run 48 RPOs this year and only handed the ball off 5 times for 28 yards. They are fooling no one. But then again, the only teams that have double-digit handoffs from RPOs are the Ravens and the Eagles. Well, Taysom Hill has 12 rushing attempts and 0 passing attempts out of RPOs, but he's not a QB. I'm beginning to think that RPOs don't really work as well in the NFL as they do in college and that you will start seeing fewer of them in the near future. And for the angry yellers, Josh has the 6th most PA pass attempts in the league at 65. You can go play with the numbers yourself here: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2023/passing_advanced.htm

The current injury reporting policy was implemented in 2017. You can read it here: https://operations.nfl.com/media/2683/2017-nfl-injury-report-policy.pdf I don't remember how it was before that because I wasn't following this stuff as closely because the Bills were mediocre to bad most years. I didn't really care if EJ was limited at practice or if Tyrod had a hurt wrist that could prevent him from not throwing the ball down the field.

Just got a notice that the NFL is investigating this. What's funny is that the Bengals' PR team is who posted the video of him getting off the bus with the wrist brace. If anything comes of this, they only have themselves to blame.