Cold Weather? Snow? Buffalo's Run Defense? Peyton Hillis is Going to Love It

Thats all? not 1200?

Sorry, we don’t rate defenses on yards allowed. Hillis won’t have any special advantage here.

You get a bye week! Count your blessings you greedy sob!

that sucks

Zastudil won us a few games.

That’s pretty awesome. I love football weather!

Jamal Lewis also had a great game for us that day.

I was also there, and that was probably one of the happiest sports trip of my life. I was told that I should bring a blanket but thought it would be annoying to carry it to the stadium. That was a bit of a mistake as my pants were frozen solid by the second quarter.

Like you said, you’re in anyway (The Brown Note isn’t going to outscore you by 50). I can’t believe you’d throw Hillis under the bus like that. Have you no soul?!?

Dude. Cleveland is always over fantasy, seriously? If Hillis puts up like 40 points and you get demolished, that means he ran for like 200 yards and a few TDs! That’s a win anyday in my book.

Simple solution…

Hillis runs for 40 yards down to the 1 yard line, calls for a breather. Next play, Mike Bell 1 yard TD run.
Hillis runs for 36 yards down to the 2 yard line, calls for a breather. Next play, Mike Bell 2 yard TD run.
Hillis runs for 26 yards down to the 1 yard line, calls for a breather. Next play, Mike Bell stopped for no gain. Next play, Hillis fumbles as he stretches for the goal line and Buffalo recovers, but on the return, Buffalo fumbles and Delhomme picks it up. Delhomme then throws a touchdown. Hillis gets -2 for the fumble.

SCAB!!!!!!

Thanks to Direct Tv™ and it’s Sunday Ticket™, of course.

Surprising. I’d guess we’d be -2.5.

PS they have gone thru 7 different LB’s this year due to injuries

It depends on how you define horrible. He has only played in 2 games in his career that I could find where it snowed. In those games, he combined for 23 of 36 for 362 yards and a 97 QB rating. While this is a SSS, it seems like he is good at generally avoiding turnovers when it is cold out. He only passed about 18 times in those games so he has never been called upon to carry the load, but he can manage a snowy game.

If you are talking about all games where the weather was “bad” (where it was around freezing point and was at least under 30 with wind chill), he has played in 8. In these 8, he is 139 of 218 for 1638 yards with 9 TDs and 6 INTs. Compared to how he normally performed over his career, he passed less (less completions, less yards, lower y/c so he wasn’t stretching the field as much, and a lower TD%) but he was more efficient (higher comp %, lower INT %, slightly higher y/a) and has an 88 QB rating.

If it snows, it will be hard to predict how he will do. He has done fairly well managing cold weather games. However, 2 games where he averaged a hard to equal 10.5 y/a in a small sample size is not enough to conclusively say. If it will just be really really cold, i think we should be fine (cold and windy)

John Harbaugh pulled a “F*ck you, Go root for Buffalo” on a fan who called into his radio show, basically. Learned it from Phil.

Yeah, he can’t carry all of us like Joe Thomas can.

This game will feature two of the top three rated centers from the 2009 draft, Eric Wood and Alex Mack. Max Unger was the other one. Alex Mack and Eric Wood cracked round one, the first centers to accomplish that since the early 90´s I think. The Bills took Eric Wood, the second ranked center, at their allotted slot of 28, in round 1. Max Unger, the top rated center, slipped all the way to slot 49, in round 2. Alex Mack, as we all know, went at slot 21, first round, after we spectacularly traded down from slot number 5, three times! First with the Jets to slot 17, then with the Bucs to slot 17, and finally with Philadelphia to slot 19. Players taken by these teams at these slots: 5. Jets/Marc Sanchez. 17. Bucs/Josh Freeman. 19. Eagles/Jeremy Maclin…all three of these teams have a chance at the playoffs this year, in no small part due to these players. Alex Mack´s services are worth 12.2 million dollars for five years. Eric Wood´s sevices are worth 9.335 million dollars for five years. Eric Wood served at guard for 10 games in 2009, and 12 games in 2010, after an injury he will be promoted to center for this game. Alex Mack has been consistent at center for 16 games last year and 14 this year. These guys are doing alright, I´d say.
Now, what happened to the top rated center of the 2009 draft, Max Unger? He became the first offensive lineman since 1992 to start as a rookie on the Seattle Seahawks, he played the first 13 games at offensive guard, and the final 3 games at center. This year he played one game, and has been on injured reserve since injuring his toe. In comparison, he is getting a measly 3.7 million dollars for four years, as compensation for dropping into the middle of round 2.
What´s at stake this week is a wild card for the Cleveland Browns, if they make it to 9-7. It would seem like low stakes, considering the odds for beating our final four opponents, even if the Bills and Bengals at 2-10 a piece at this point don´t need to win, and you might suspect that the Ravens at 8-4 and Steelers at 9-3 seem to have the playoffs locked up, might be able to afford a loss.
What am I saying? To tell you the truth, I´m having a hard time wrapping my mind around it myself.
But our loddy-doddy attitude, and Alex Mack, as the third rated center in 2009, at slot 21 lotting three playoff teams top performers, at the exorbitant sum of 12.2 million dollars for five years, tells me this needs to be extremely high stakes, so we wake up and smell the coffee.

I’m done hearing about fantasy football.

…that was also in the preseason…and Green Bay’s line isn’t too bad this year.

plus it was the PRESEASON and we couldn’t get pressure on anybody.

i think he’s referring to last year’s regular season game.

Rodgers had been sacked a league-leading amount of times. Don’t recall the number, but it was bad.

We never even got his jersey dirty.

I was at that game, and SO entirely pissed at our lack of pass-rush whatsoever.

I know what you are talking about.

I am counting on the Bills horrendous LB corp to help Hillis.

A valid concern I hadn’t considered. I expect Jake to throw his typical pick six, but I have a feeling this will be a closer game than it should be and that there won’t be enough slack to cover too many mistakes on our part….

Oh man, I hope not.