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KC choke job. Next week will be 3 in a row. Late season swoon.

In the span of one second the Bills' day just got better. TDs by Carolina and KC.

Hey, your post looks familiar. Obviously I agree with you completely. And Hendricks didn't tap. GSP didn't have that sub on tight enough to cause anyone to tap. He didn't have the leverage he needed - which is why Hendricks was able to push his leg away (which is what looks like the tap) and easily get to his feet.

They do, and so does Cleveland. I agree that the stats Bruschi has cherry picked tend to be important ones but he weighs them evenly and just averages them out. That's not going to tell you much. I think I'd rather leave my advanced stats to guys who actually know a little math.

Is this a joke? Before his one good game Austin was considered one of the biggest disappointments of the rookie class. The guy would have to catch fire the last 3rd of the season.

This isn't exactly true. Cromartie didn't start running towards the goal line full speed and get passed by Goodwin. All of Goodwin's underneath stuff prior to this opened up the route. Cromartie starts running back pre-snap and after about 10 yards slows down anticipating a curl or a hook and which point Goodwin makes a slight move to the inside and turns on the burners. Cromartie has no chance to catch up. Nonetheless it takes nothing away from Goodwin's speed. Cromartie tried to cheat and stop the short route and got burned. If he plays the deep route the entire way he opens up the short stuff. Without safety help over the top the DB has to make a choice. With safety help over the top it opens up things for the other WRs. Goodwin's the kind of guy that will make the entire offense better just because of his speed. The one thing I'm interested in is how he'll do once guys start jamming him at the line - because it's going to happen. If he can make them pay for it they'll back off but if he has trouble...

While they could win all those game I could see them losing them all as well. When you have a QB who turns the ball over like Geno does you can lose any game.

What's with these bazaar stories always featuring roommates who are 40+? Who the hell lives with a roommate when you get to that age? I guess the kind of people who would do these moronic things...

SJ is the Bills best WR, he's not going to be phased out unless he can't stay healthy.

I just went through it and picked who I thought would win each game in addition to giving the Bills a win in each week up until week 17. By the last week of the season the Bills didn't even have to beat NE to get in... Of course, I'm like in 20th place in the TBD pick 'em contest so my prognostication skills aren't great.

What I question there is that it's 3rd down and every single target is running a go route. If Hackett wants to try something like that on 2nd and short I can see it, but on 3rd down? You don't give the kid any other choice? Manuel has no other option but to put the ball up with the blitz in his face and considering he got his right when he was throwing, it wasn't that bad of a throw either.

I've been hard on Spiller for making the wrong reads but those gifs show how putrid the OL was on some of those runs vs. the Jets. Sometimes you'd get multiple linemen not getting a hat on anybody. That's just pathetic.

I love that peole are still blaming the coaching staff and not Spiller himself. Spiller's struggles are a direct result of him not making good choices. There are plenty of opportunities he just doesn't see them. Spiller has horrible vision and makes bad decisions with the ball (like running backwards 7 yards vs. the Jets.). He'll likely see less and less playing time until he improves. Teams now know that they simply have to set the edge vs. Spiller and not let him get outside and he'll be ineffective (hell, he'll make himself even more ineffective by trying to run outside the edge setter.) There are lots of explosive players in the league but unless they learn to actually play the position and not just rely on their natural gifts they rarely amount to much.

"Geno Smith establishing himself as a Jets QB" I almost spit out my coffee on that one.

He brought Anthony Weaver and Jim O'Neill, DL and LB coaches respectively. I have no clue if they're ready to make the jump to DC though.

It depends what you mean. Are you going to say something like, "this week EJ showed poor footwork and an inability to drive the ball downfield to open WRs" or are you going to say, "he's shown me nothing, he sucks, what a wasted draft pick!" Because I saw very little of the former and quite a bit of the latter. There are a few posters who critique his game without moving into panic territory and I don't think you'll catch any flack for that. It's the posters (and there are more than just a few) who make declarations about his entire future based on a single game that end up look like irrational reactionaries. Don't be that guy.

I know Bills fans are excited about the Ds improvement but you'll notice that Pettine isn't getting any national attention. It'll take more than improvement to move his name into legit HC conversations. If the Bills D has a huge improvement from this year to next I can see his name coming up but I don't even see him as being a year away. It also takes more than just coaching up a unit to get a HC gig. Owners and GMs have to think a guy can make that jump - I have no clue how they feel about Pettine. What I do know is that it generally takes more than a year or two of running a D on your own to start getting noticed unless your D is dominant. The Bills D isn't dominant.

So people's complaints are that the coaching staff thinks too much of CJ's talent? That they should use him as a 3rd down, scat back and not a "give it to him until he pukes" type player? Hey, I'm on board with this but I've never thought of CJ as much more than what you're suggesting. Most of the people on this board who are complaining about the use of Spiller though are posters who thought he was something "special" and a top tier back. You're right, a top tier back should be able to run the ball without the need to have special plays called for him.

Per PFF: Bills have a lot of room under the cap. Pay your good players and if you're not going to pay them then use that money on other difference makers and bring them in. Letting players like Byrd go while they don't spend to the cap is one of the reasons the Bills have sucked for over a decade.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if 8-8 did cut it this year. You have a bunch 5-5 and 4-6 teams competing for the spot and all of them suffer from mediocre play. The problem is that 8-8 won't cut it for the Bills because of tiebreakers.

You may be right, it's definitely a possibility. Here's the thing and it pertains to every human on the planet: you don't assassinate someone's character without proof. A hunch isn't enough when you're questioning the make-up of a human being. Well, at least that's what I was taught. Of course, a lot of the niceties of life don't seem to pertain to the internet where people take on "personas" instead of acting like actual human beings.

And he still got toasted. I think it got to him a little too, after that TD Cromartie was pretty chippy out there. Goodwin has the skill set to be very good. You get guys playing off like that because of your speed and the middle of the field is wide open for you if you run good routes and have decent hands - and Goodwin does. If he can just stay healthy...

At what point does this become a crusade? Unlike most crusades you're respectful and bring thought to the conversation (which I appreciate even if I disagree with much of what you're saying ) but it's beginning to look crusade-like at this point.

Why?

With Dareus it's always been about his effort. He's bringing it this year. Coming out of college I thought he was the best player in that draft. He might not be that (thanks to AJ Green) but he looks like a monster this year.