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How could I forget?

Who is Mathis? And is Cam Lewis the random practice injury for this week?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team where so many players regressed so badly from one season to the next: Milano, Rapp, Bernard, Johnson, even Benford…unprecedented. All under 30, too, except Milano…

To be ranked lower than Taylor Rapp…is really something. You’d have to be seriously injured or not even trying. Or both.

With their schedule, and the way they are playing, NE has to be considered the favorite to end up with the 1 seed. As you point out, the other 2-loss teams have MUCH tougher schedules, and both look somewhat fraudulent. NE seems to be getting better and gaining confidence.

The Bills have played pretty poorly in about half their games this season. KC game was an outlier…not to say they can’t turn it around, but if you think it’s all good, then you’re just kidding yourself. To me, the most obvious difference is that (other than QB sneaks) Josh Allen designed runs have been removed from the playbook. Defenses no longer have to account for him as a runner and that’s taken away a huge advantage…there may be good reasons for this, and maybe it returns in the playoffs (if any), but it’s a pretty stark difference from years past.

My memory may be a little off, but this seems like a carbon copy of the situation two years ago that got Dorsey fired: A seriously flawed offensive system gets figured out by the rest of the league and runs into a wall. If we see something similar vs Tampa, I don’t expect Brady to survive it.

Cook didn’t get many carries because he was getting stuffed every time they ran the ball and it was putting them behind the sticks in a game where they trailed from the beginning. People don’t want to admit it, but Miami has a pretty formidable front seven vs the run. It’s their DBs that are awful and we couldn’t take advantage.

Like Buddy?

All it would take is a phone call or two from Josh Allen, and I think he’s almost ready to pick up the phone and start dialing.

Because you could well be wrong. All it would take is for Josh Allen to have a heart-to-heart with Uncle Terry…

Non responsive.

Noted. IMO, it simply has to be an offensive-minded head coach. No more defensive geniuses who have to cycle through offensive coordinators every year or two…

Expect both to end up on IR…

It’s absolutely the kind of game that the McDermott Bills have usually won…and if they don’t, it’s going to get ugly.