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Hardman and Hoecht (and Strong and Oliver and Carter), we hardly knew ye!

Or sure loss, for that matter. I keep hearing about last year's game and how the Bills offense has no chance against the powerful Houston defense.

Do the Bills risk losing Davis every time he goes back to the practice squad? Or can he decline to sign with another team that wants to sign him? Or JaMarcus Russell, who had all the physical attributes except brain matter.

Whenever that happens, I dream of a scenario where Beane packages all the whiff picks and moves up for a franchise player. I do wish Beane would do something like this on occasion. It's hard to pick at the bottom of every round year after year, where the chances of landing a franchise player are so much lower. I think you have to roll the dice sometimes, maybe when you're sure of your targeted player (e.g., Garrett Wilson that year) and not too excited about the rest of the draft.

I wanted Beane to draft Pitre instead of Elam. (Subtext: I should be Bills GM, clearly.)

I was being a bit facetious, but when a team is so soft against the run, they create an impression of being weak overall. I do wonder why teams choose to throw when they're gouging the Bills with the run game.

4.59 forty, according to his RAS score. His overall score was 4.37, is that what you were thinking of? Neither number is very good, but Jerry Rice didn't score very well, either.

Tell that to Brady. He just figured out that Cook is more useful running wheel routes than sitting on the bench. He's a slow study, Joe. But give him credit: he has a firm grasp of the wide-receiver screen and the stop route. 😕 But they're playing against the Bills defense, right? The Bills....defense.

Adding to his record number of AFC Player of the Week awards.

Google AI tells me that teams with a good offensive line can exploit their defensive tackles, while their safeties are vulnerable to play action. Of course, Google AI also admits it is a "long-term existential threat," so...

Limited in a walk-though practice. That says it all.

If Allen and Cook get automatic game balls every week, Samuel and Bernard get automatic injury designations.

Exactly. I think people, especially McDermott, have been slow to realize Allen is a highly emotional player. When he gets fired up, he comes alive. It's no coincidence he played so well against Lamar, Mahomes, and Mayfield, three of his top peers. In the Miami game, I think if McDermott had gone for it on fourth and inches on their own thirty-yard line or whatever, Josh might have played a different game. McDermott's forcing him into a cerebral game-manager role is the worst thing he could do with this quarterback, that and not giving him weapons. He's not Tom Brady, he's better than Brady. Or rather could be if he had a GM, coach and coordinator who knew how to tap his enormous potential. In short, Allen is playing as well as is despite Beane, McDermott, and Brady, not because of them. I'm not saying they're awful at their jobs. They're just ordinary people doing ordinary things with an extraordinary athlete. And they're holding him back.

Maybe he started reading this board, which has been one step ahead of him this whole season.

Never in this lifetime.

Watching the Denver and Browns defenses now. Is it just talent that makes both so vastly superior to the Bills defense? Or it scheme and coaching? Asking for real, since I just don't know, although I suspect that it's McDermott's philosophy.

That last TD by Allen demonstrates what sets him apart from Lamar and other running quarterbacks. He absolutely trucked people into the end zone. Put that next to his long bomb TD, and you see why he's the best QB in the game. No other quarterback in the league can do both those things, much less in the same game.

Which is why you give your MVP quarterback receivers, Beane! (Took everything I had not to put that in all caps.)

Addition by subtraction. His replacement, Shavers, showed us today what we've been missing.

They were saying the same thing about Allen early in his career.

Why didn't they keep running it?

Turnover or TD coming.

Ok, maybe not.

True. It's like 2018 or 2019 Josh.

Samuel finally earns his pay!