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Morse & Allen failing on the most fundamental aspect of football really is a hell of a thing.

Browns can bring pressure on D and they can run the ball, both kryptonite to this team Bills better figure out a plan, maybe even tailor the game plan to emphasize strengths and minimize weaknesses. An entirely radical concept, I know. If the Bills lose to the Browns, with this much on the line, that's season and we can get back to what we do best, arguing about the draft

Yeah really who would want to last a whole minute? What am I, superman?

No you arent I'm betting my last $5000 dollars on the vikings. dont tell my wife am i doing this right?

Excuse me sir but this is neither the time nor the place for sober reflection and analysis

competent team

It's not a good thing at all. If Josh is out Sunday, we're going to see what we have with the rest of the team. I'm not all that confident in the Bills minus Josh are anything better than 7-9 or 8-8 type team. Can't run or stop the run. No weapons on O outside of Diggs. Coaching that seems to be fighting the last war every week. Incredibly inconsistent and weak play out of the DL excepting Von Miller

This is the crux of it - The Bills are a much scarier team when everyone is kicking in. When Allen is in super man/sugar high mode, that means he's trying to do it himself. Give me B- Josh and A rest of team and we dont lose another game. Give me A+ Josh and C- everyone else and we'll win some exciting games but miss the playoffs. Give me C- Josh and D- rest of team (as per Jets game) and we dont win another game

Yup. And teams will look forward to playing the Bills. It's a get well game when you can control the ball for 40 minutes and run own the D's throat all game long. Even with our supposed elite O, one turnover and we're toast

There was something off about the team yesterday for sure. With maybe 6 minutes left, they showed Diggs on the sideline and he had a 1000 yard stare. He's probably the hardest working guy on the team, and the last one I'd expect to give up, especially with that much time left, but he did look like a guy looking forward to the game being over and getting out of there. You'll never get everyone on the same page at the same time, but yesterday kind of felt that way, only in a negative sense

a very promising trend line!

WE NEED TO SPEND MORE HIGH ROUND DRAFT PICKS ON DL!!!!11!!!

0-2 in the division and a collapsing run D isn't going to get it done

I get it that he's not the best technique guy, or even all that disciplined, but he absolutely has to be accounted for, and when he turns it on it doesnt seem that anyone can stop him. It's a toss of the dice every play with him in there but it's not hard to imagine a scenario where he turns in a game changing play

Agreed that it was an odd technique but was also a big boy play. It was asserting physical dominance. I'd prefer he tackled in the more traditional fashion but part of me really enjoys watching him be the biggest strongest guy on the field

it does feel like they let off the gas in the 2nd half but it never felt like the game was in danger. It was an odd feeling 2nd half for sure, my daughter called it a 'low energy game'. I'd like to see better focus next week, and expect we will. Dillon is the exact kind of RB that had given them fits though, so not too much of a surprise.

Just lol. Who do you bench to play Tissue Paper Watkins?

Agreed. Disrupt his timing, hopefully enough to let Von cause Kermit some happy feet

lol you're a genius, thank you.

I'm cringing so hard right now and yes, i remember seeing this on channel 29 while watching star trek reruns that and the FIGMOS commercial. I didnt imagine that, did I? My sister remembers it too but have never found it online

I played around with some of this (it was in SPSS, and it was 30 years ago, but same general idea). Once I got the model set up and power ranking the teams they way I thought it should, I went back and played with prior year stats and tried to back into a predictive value. I will say, it was a whole bunch harder then because there wasn't a million websites with stats to copy/paste. For that matter, the web itself only barely existed though I did find a FTP repository with historical NFL stats. The net was a formula that could most weeks come in +2 games for the week which was enough to keep me in beer and skittles and confound my bookie. Oh, Ian, you never saw it coming! Anyway, my suggestion is run last year's stats into your model and see how it does.

Do we have some kind of logic around this or is it just the NFL preferring KC to Buffalo? 5 in a row makes no sense

Money shot!

Oof that draft day thread. We aren’t a bright group, are we?

Good night, sweet Prince