Big Turk

NWS Buffalo is literally the authority on trusted local weather people.

There is a separate weather thread on the forum somewhere, but here is the latest from NOAA/NWS for OP Sunday A chance of snow showers before 1pm, then rain and snow showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Man, I injured my patellar tendon from squatting when my knee buckled and I probably should have had surgery and didn't. I can tell you it still bothers me to this day with only the slightest aggravation to it. This dude is going to be in a world of hurt at some point and it isn't going to take much for it to happen.

Wow...that's funny. We have a Bengals fan who watches every game saying they HAVEN'T played well in a month. But I guess you know more even tho you never have watched any of their games most likely? You and AirTroll should hang out at the Bills game and talk about how bad the Bills are and how they are going to lose every game. Think he was talking about the Bengals.

As the game headed into the 4th quarter it was only 2.6 Yards per Play. Miami's lone long drive of the day was the 4th quarter TD drive to bring it within 34-31 and it helped their average quite a bit.

LMAO...maybe it was a mole planted by the Bengals as it was former Bengal Gio Bernard that screwed it up.

Thompson has some mobility...he made some nice plays to move around and get out of pressure...a lot of times it led to off target throws, but it could have been a lot worse if he stayed in the pocket. The Bills are probably the best team in the NFL at getting "almost sacks" but allowing the QB to make a play still. Like, they are all around the QB, getting hands on them, diving and missing, getting shrugged off while trying to make the tackle, etc and then the QB either gets out of the pocket and runs or makes a play throwing the ball...goes back years now. I've never seen anything quite like it and watching other games pretty frequently, it seems to be a problem that happens far more often to the Bills than other teams. I don't know why it happens so much, but it does. You'll be watching the play and be like "how did the QB escape from that"?? Bills turn more sure fire sacks into positive plays for the opposition than I've ever seen.

To me, I think it's going to be a close game that will end up coming down to one or two big plays be either team to win the game. Like a RZ turnover or a ST blunder, etc... One other thing I am curious is the large split on defensive DVOA for the Bengals in home vs road games. They are 2nd at home and 27th on the road. Is this something noticeable? Like does the eye test bear out they play better at home than on the road on D? Just curious as to what you think might be behind the difference...could it simply be they played better teams on the road than at home this year, or is there something more to it?

You definitely should! Granted, this take is coming from like 25 years ago, so a lot could have changed by now, hahaha

The Bills may fall on the other side of the coin...they may play too aggressive with leads and allow teams to come back too often. Like against GB and Minnesota. It's kinda like with the Bills now it seems no lead is safe. I mean we are up 17-0 on the Fins last week with a 3rd string rookie QB and all we had to do from that point is not turn it over and we likely cruise to a victory and yet there we are chucking the ball up 60 yards downfield like we are trying to beat them 55-0. Almost came back to bite us in the ass. Or missed an XP.

That brings up an interesting offshoot...does SF with Shanahan have the biggest advantage in the entire NFL? It appears they will be able to keep winning games and being really good without having to pay a QB franchise type money. It is the easiest system in the NFL for a QB to play in and look good in...they can seemingly keep plugging in mid-tier guys and get great success which will leave them with far more cap space for other pieces around the QB than other teams that have franchise guys that are not on rookie deals.

I would like to talk ball... My question watching the Bengals fairly regularly is why do they seem to disappear on offense in one half most games? It's like they go from looking unstoppable to doing nothing or go from doing nothing to looking unstoppable. Like in the Pats game...they led 22-0 and then had to hold on and get a what some would say questionable assist on the Stevenson fumble inside their own 10 yard line when it appeared forward progress was stopped...otherwise they were in danger of losing that game. Same last week after they scored to make it 17-10... With the weapons they have on offense which might be the best in the NFL, it seems a little odd for that to happen so often. It's like for what they have offensively, you would think they would be better than they are. Not that they aren't really good, but for instance you would think they should be Chiefs level good.

The Bills won-lost, KC won-lost but CIN lost-lost.

But that game would directly have affected the Bengals ability to be the 2 seed(or 1 if the Chiefs had lost). How is that any different?

GoldStar over Skyline. I said what I said. I lived in Cincy for a little over a year, I know it's not a popular take, but it's the truth

Does it not seem kind of strange the NFL made concessions for a Baltimore-Cincy playoff game possibility(coin flip if Baltimore won week 18), a KC-Buffalo playoff game concession(neutral site if they meet in the AFCCG) but not a Cincinnati-Buffalo playoff game concession when those were the two actual teams affected most? I can't blame the Bengals and Bengal fans for feeling like they got screwed in this whole thing. They kinda did.

Sounds like he already knows this is his last season here...

Great...another lost "Home" game.

I think you mean Idaho 😂

Only for one half. Then the other half they do nothing on offense.

Hamstrings are not something you want to risk playing with half ass. Players always will try and play through stuff, it's up to the trainers and coaching staff to do what's best for them and the team. So if he played and then went down early 2nd quarter from reaggravating the injury and the Bills didn't someone ready that would make more sense. Hamstrings are notorious for feeling fine and then all of a sudden pulling again once a sudden movement happens, only then a little worse than before.

I think it's hard to throw someone into the mix that has had very little time with Allen built up in Crowder. Last you need is them not to be on the same page on a critical 3rd down. I swear with some of the comments on this board either people have their memories wiped so they only remember the last game played or they literally have terrible memories and misremember things from the past on a regular basis.

Who cares, they can think what they think. Lmao...I like GoldStar over Skyline...that should get them all in a tizzy!

No team plays their A game all the time. It simply isn't realistic to think that. Thinking back to when you played sports (if you did), did you always play your best game every game? It doesn't even make sense.

We don't. But even if that is true he has more yards than Mixon on about 40 less carries.