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Vikings - Packers flexed to next Sunday night. Bills stay at 1 pm.

Maybe I'm mistaken but I'm pretty sure Brian Hoyer will be back for the Texans by then. He's not much better (despite having a big year). Fitz is also starting due to injury but Geno is a downgrade. Fitz is having a huge year (a better single year than Tyrod). But the point stands. If he grows off of this season and avoids the ineffective/negative impact games next year he can be in the playoffs. Or if the rest of the defense carries him. Or if the entire division collapses like it did for the Texans.

Cincy also beat some of the best. Oakland isn't "weak." But I'm with TrueBlue here. Don't have much thoughts on next year. That's a ways away.

Jacksonville beat us this year and is only getting better. There's no reason not to believe in Cincinnati as a GREAR regular season team. It's not the playoffs we're talking about. Oakland is going to be interesting because they could go either way, especially with them likely moving to a new city.

No chance they flex the game to SNF in my opinion. The Vikings and Packers are playing for the NFC North Championship. They'll also want the Jets and Steelers game to happen at the same time as they are very important to each other. My guess is they get flexed to 4 pm.

The win and other early results means the Bills can now draft as high as 11 or as low as 19.

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CJ Spiller a healthy scratch for the Saints today... Yikes.

That was my understand, as well, until about a week ago. Apparently there's an out after this season.

I have a feeling there's some people in the organization trying to force changes... It's no coincidence that Jason La Confora is the one always reporting on friction. Either he's making it up because he hates the team or he's got one source on the inside he relies on.

Fair enough. I'm not ecstatic about Shady's contract. In what was basically a playoff game (do or die for the division) last night Kirk Cousins had a huge game. 31 for 46 for 365 yards, 4 TDs and no INTs. One epic brain fart, too. Also: Ian Rapoport @RapSheet Discussed #Bills GM situation on @NFLGameDay: I'm told Doug Whaley is on very solid ground. Better chance he gets an extension than fired. Ian Rapoport @RapSheet The #Bills look at the improvements GM Doug Whaley has made in his tenure & Rex Ryan works well with him. The Pegulas are fans, too. If this is the case, that's fine. I'm actually of the mind, now, that Whaley should NOT be fired or removed after this season. The timing doesn't really make any sense. Whaley has done a lot of good. HOWEVER, an extension would be a mistake. I think they need to go into next season knowing that it's playoffs or best for the entire coaching staff and front office. Keep Whaley around with Rex and give them one more offseason to figure it out.

This is a joke, right? Kiko has been dreadful for the Eagles. McCoy has been very good here.

That was an all-time brain fart. What in the world? I figured they called a spike and he kneeled it on accident but they didn't - they called a fade to the end zone... http://ow.ly/WliTH Report says several NFL players used HGH including Peyton Manning, James Harrison and Julius Peppers (previously busted for roids).

That's still not what Abrams said there. He's just saying the timing is convenient because of the death. But he's not saying he woke up purely to make people feel better. R2D2's whole story line was not needed. They could've easily made them steal the rest of the map from the planet while they were in there to save Rey... But that didn't happen. He was working to get the map out of her. He believed he would've gotten it but didn't. The entire movie was based around getting this piece of the map to the resistance to complete the puzzle on how to find Luke... They finally get R2D2 to wake up and he shows them the rest of the map in a big moment towards the very end of the movie... Then Rey is there... Because the plot of the movie was complete as was the map. This is pretty cut and dry.

That's like the complete opposite of what he said: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/20/jj-abrams-answers-burning-question-about-r2-d2-star-wars-force-awakens He actually said his awakening was for him to complete the map. And he says his awakening was triggered by BB8 telling him he had the rest of the map.

Kylo felt Rey was all he needed because he knew she had seen the map. I thought that was very clearly indicated. That's why he ditched the pursuit of BB8. Your theory also doesn't mesh with the need for R2D2 to ever wake up. They made it a big moment when he woke up and completed the map because they needed that to find Luke, not because holographic puzzles are cool to look at.

Huh? I said they didn't find him because she was there before or knew where he was. I didn't say she had no part. She had a part in getting the piece of the map to the right people. The map is why they found Luke. It was what the entire premise of the movie was.

Nope. I've never said that was the case. My point is that they didn't find Luke because Rey was there before or knew where he was.

Again... She found Luke because they completed the map. That was the entire point of the movie.

I think the big theory on Snoke is that he's been around since the very beginning but never seen. He hates Luke... Probably because Luke is the one that struck him in the face. Also, Snoke is probably Jar Jar. Just kidding. Kind of.

Correct. If Rey was at Luke's training then Kylo would remember where it was too as he was there.

I did say "bottom of the top ten" but said "bottom of the teens." I changed to top of the teens vs bottom of the teens because that's a more realistic projection of where the Bills will be. Missed some big ones at 9/10, though. Anthony Barr, Luke Kuechly, Stephon Gilmore, Tyron Smith and Jerrod Mayo.

2014 NFL Draft 11-13: Taylor Lewan, Odell Beckham Jr, Aaron Donald 2014 NFL Draft 17-19: CJ Mosely, Calvin Pryor, Ja'Wuan Jones Verdict: That's a HUGE difference even if early. Lewan is very good, Beckham and Donald are two of the very best offensive and defensive players in the league. Mosely is good while the other two lower picks are "meh." 2013 NFL Draft 11-13: DJ Fluker, DJ Hayden, Sheldon Richardson 2013 NFL Draft 17-19: Jarvis Jones, Eric Reid, Justin Pugh Verdict: Not a huge difference here. I'd take 11-13 easily, but Richardson is the only stud of the group. Fluker and Hayden have injury issues but are mostly solid. 2012 NFL Draft 11-13: Dontari Poe, Fletcher Cox, Michael Floyd 2012 NFL Draft 17-19: Dre Kirkpatrick, Melvin Ingram, Shea McClellin Verdict: Easily taking 11-13 here. Poe is one of the better nose tackles, Cox is a DPOY candidate and Floyd is a good number two. Kirkpatrick and McClellin are flops so far. Ingram is very good, though. 2011 NFL Draft 11-13: JJ Watt, Christian Ponder, Nick Fairley 2011 NFL Draft 17-19: Nate Solder, Corey Liuget, Prince Amukamara Verdict: Watt skews this one. If you take him out 17-19 is much better, but you can't ignore that one. Solder, Liuget and Amukamara are all very good. Ponder and Fairley are busts. 2010 NFL Draft 11-13: Anthony Davis, Ryan Matthews, Brandon Graham 2010 NFL Draft 17-19: Mike Iupati, Maurkice Pouncey, Sean Weatherspoon Verdict: Easily going with 17-19. Two very good offensive linemen. Weatherspoon is good but injuries have ruined his career. Davis was good before retiring, Matthews is a solid RB and Graham is getting better. 2009 NFL Draft 11-13: Aaron Maybin, Knowshon Moreno, Brian Orakpo 2009 NFL Draft 17-19: Josh Freeman, Robert Ayers, Jeremy Maclin Verdict: Toss up. Two busts and then two very good players in both. Could see an argument for either. 2008 NFL Draft 11-13: Leodis McKelvin, Ryan Clady, Jonathan Stewart 2008 NFL Draft 17-19: Gosder Cherilus, Joe Flacco, Jeff Otah Verdict: Skewed a bit by Flacco, but 11-13 is the winner here. McKelvin is a decent corner who was a great returner at one point. Clady is one of the best tackles in the game when healthy. Stewart has been big in Carolina. Cherilus and Otah are busts. 2007 NFL Draft 11-13: Patrick Willis, Marshawn Lynch, Adam Carriker 2007 NFL Draft 17-19: Jarvis Moss, Leon Hall, Michael Griffin Verdict: Two potential Hall of Famers in the first group. Easy. Hall and Griffin are solid, though.

I don't think so, at all. They know they failed miserably this season and in embarrassing fashion. If anything I see more motivation in being 6-10 than 8-8 as they'll be out to prove they're not a bunch of scrubs. But any difference is minuscule, in my opinion.

I understand that the spinoffs won't be connected, but they're still Star Wars movies being produced in the middle of another trilogy. My guess is there will be some connections made in them. By the way, Rogue One is between 3 and 4, right? There's also a Bobba Fett spinoff Disney is still planning on making. Rumors are that Michael B. Jordan may play Bobba. Finn could be related to Mace or Lando... But it might be even cooler if he's related to Bobba Fett. Not that we need a relation for everybody. I think the best route would be to make Rey not related to anybody major but have Finn have the family connection. It keeps with the family connection storyline Star Wars fans love but throws a slight curve ball. I think her training was definitely from Luke, but I don't get where this idea that she knew where he was comes from. Kylo got some limited info from her head, but he likely caught a glimpse of what she saw with the saber and the map. I think it'd be best if Rey was just a nobody, as you said, who had relatively unimportant parents who had a small connections to Luke or Obi Wan. It could even be that she was rescued from her home planet by the Jedi as Vader was invading and killing them... Something like that.