Greetings Rumblers!

It's Bye Week finally! The Bills are much in need of this little break. With guys like Milano and Carter (hopefully) coming off IR and a very long list of weekly injuries this is a good time for them to rest up. I am really hopeful we see Milano activated soon and he should be back for Week 12 or back on IR for the remainder of the season (something tells me this isn't happening). I also look forward to seeing the Bills reduce the number on their weekly injury report, hopefully some of these nagging injuries will have time to get all cleared up.

The Bills have posted their highest injury score of the season thanks in part to Coleman, Kincaid, and Brown all missing the game. With this being the Bye Week, there is a very good chance this is as high as the score goes for them too, which would be excellent. We will see a plunge in the graph for the Bills in Week 12 as they won't have points from the weekly injury report or game day inactives added to their injury score (it will just be the baseline of the IR list) and I expect to see it stay pretty low in Week 13 if everyone can get rested up, Milano and maybe even Carter are activated. NO still leads the league overall though they have been trending healthy for awhile now and DEN is still the healthiest now for the second week in a row. NE and NYJ are right around league average and MIA is still in rough shape.

The Bills are still around the league average with the injury score overall though have now dropped to second worst in average of total weekly injuries. Among all the teams with a 0.700 record, every one with the exception of PIT has an injury scored of less than 34 (the Bills being the highest of that set at 33.57).

Of the teams that have a record of 0.400 and below and do not have highlighted injury scores (meaning they shouldn't be very affected by injury) we can probably safely assume at this point they just aren't good. Looking at this set of teams we see CIN (even Burrow and Chase can't elevate this team now), NYJ (fired coach, fired GM, Rodgers... Need I say more?), TEN (they are just plain bad), JAX (also just plain bad and probably with an interim HC soon too), DAL (The Jerry Circus), and CHI (they need to find a new HC before they ruin yet another rookie QB). All the other sub 0.400 teams can at least try to point to substantial injuries as being potential reasons for their part of their suckiness.

This really feels like a season of the haves and have nots. Doesn't seem to be many teams in the average category. I count 10 I would consider average between an 0.401 and 0.699 record. Less than half the league. There are 14 teams at 0.400 or below (8 of them in the AFC) and 8 above 0.700 (4 each in the AFC and NFC). So 22 teams are either below or above average. Still a lot of games left so we will see how it all works out in the end.

Looking at some of the more common injuries to this point and their occurrences on the weekly injury reports:

• Concussions with 104
• Shoulders with 299
• Hips with 121
• Groins with 154
• Hamstrings with 320
• Knees with 571
• Calves with 118
• Ankles with 435
• Feet with 125