All Activity

A few guys Mic'd up will give you some insight as how they talked about plays during the game. Josh is the best Bills to do so I have watched. I liked how he explained to guys what he saw. One particular scene is he and Palmer worked over a play where they exchanged each other's view on the play. I know this is fairly common on NFL sidelines, still it makes you feel good that a new comer like Palmer should be getting more in sync with Josh as the season goes on. On the funny side, it sounded like Josh got his butt (right side?) burn on that first-down-run slide. He probably can't wait to slide on the grass turf next year at home. Mrs. Allen may not want to look at hubby's bum for a few days.

Would it be too much to ask if y'all want to reprise 13 seconds AGAIN, for the umpteenth time over the last 4 years, y'all migrate to a separate thread for the purpose and not do so in the game day thread? @Simon?

Hey Shaw…congrats on the book! I’m curious if you have the big red hard cover book that covered the first 35 years (I think) of Bills history? It included a statistical game by game summary of every game in Bills history up to that time. Your story reminded me that for Christmas one year I gave my dad that book, and inside it, I pinned personal notes and stories/memories of each of the important games we attended together since I was a little kid. My Dad is now 92 and having suffered a significant stroke this year is unfortunately a mental shell of the man he once was. But….he still has that big red book of memories on the shelf in his room. Go Bills!

Knox isn't going anywhere, he's Josh's best friend on the team and is a perfectly servicable (if overpaid) TE2 who does everything well enough.

Hahaha, and Josh’s response…. “Awww that’s nice.”

Arizona or Lions. Saints have a winnable game this week so the otherside of that match up is out this week.

That may have been the most complete game IU has played ever.

There was another thread where soemone mentioned that 3rd and 5 run by Josh just sucked the souls out of the Saints and it wasn't long after that where Rumph came up to Allen and said "I hate you"

I don’t know his contract, but I think Knox is gone in 2026 if he’s not a lot of dead weight if cut. He stays if there is little space created when cutting him.

Y'know, the crowd noise has been there for all years but 2020. It's never been a factor before. Just a reminder that the Bills had the #4 D in the league in 2023 with Bernard at MLB (and Babich involved in the defensive design though not officially DC) and the #11 D last year with Babich as officially DC. In that time, the Bills have changed quite a bit of their defensive personnel. In 2023, the Bills had a core DL of Rousseau-Oliver-Phillips/Settle - Floyd (gap solid, good edge defenders) and an unexciting but assignment sound DB of Douglas-Benford-T Johnson - Poyer and Hyde. The LB corps was sketch with Bernard and Dodson, but they compensated by bringing Poyer into the box on passing downs playing a form of dime. In 2024, the Bills had a core DL of Epenesa-Oliver-DQ Jones - Rousseau (Epenesa not as good against the run) and a transitional DB of Douglas-Benford-T Johnson - Hamlin- and Rapp. Mentally, those safeties are a big step down from Dr Poyer and Mr Hyde. And, Douglas was losing a step. They were not playing Johnson all the time, and playing more base D. The LB corps of Williams and Bernard was also a step back. Now we've got Bosa, who has one wondering, was he ever expected to set the edge against the run? Oliver has been out for 3 games so a rotating cast of who? at DT. Again Williams, who I don't think is playing as well as last year and last year he struggled to be in the right spot. Bishop is being given every possible chance to earn the starting safety spot, but it's clearly a learning curve for him. Communicating the play call only goes so far if the Jimmies and Joes have trouble reading what the offense is doing and translating that into their proper response with that play call, or if they're busy thinking about it instead of playing fast with instinct.. The play calls are seldom "you - do this!" they're always a flowchart of where the player is supposed to be and what his responsibilities are. This is a transitional year for our defense, and several of the players we were counting on to anchor the transition are in the body-and-fender shop. Several of the players we were counting on to improve the D, aren't out there. @Simon I think it was, pointed it out: the defense can compensate for 1 or 2 missing starters or guys who aren't quite as assignment sound as you'd like. But once it mounts up to a point, it's Bad News. This is just my impression and I could be wrong, but I think Hamlin was more of a factor last year. Physically, he's a limited player and him playing deep cost us yards, Mentally, he knew the system completely, knew where he was supposed to be and I think, kept Rapp in system. Now we have Rapp trying to keep Bishop in the right place, which has elements (in my opinion) of the blind leading the blind. Weren't you the one who argued that the loss of 1 or 2 starters can be compensated, but when it mounts up at every level of the defense, it's a problem?

How can you not absolutely love this guy?

"Maybe he was trying to say mayonnaise?"

Gag me

This is the ad I got earlier. Topless, happy, chubby chicks. E-bikes. Luxury watches. Yall gotta up your browsing game!

Nah…the Illini didn’t play a game two weeks ago. 🙄

I guess my point is that it is the same base defense and philosophy quite honestly I am less into the cover 2 or 3 and more looking for being aggressive up front. I think McD prevents the big play in a more passive defense i think when you have Josh Allen you can take far more chances and be far more aggressive with your defense than when you have say Justin Fields or Joe Flacco... so we can talk zone scheme cover scheme whatever scheme you want my issue is 1 the lack of effectiveness overall 2. The lack of aggressive play go ahead and get beat deep you have Josh but to sit there and suffer through these long drives 3rd and long completions hoping to hold the other team to a FG while we score TDs falls flat and in my opinion needs to change

I understand. If you want to talk about Josh Vs Lamar and playoff success in this thread that's totally fair. I just don't know why it was brought up to me when my comment was on Lamar isn't faking an injury. But A hammy pull is a hammy pull. That's not a bump or bruise. Josh or any nfl player would also be missing time with a pulled hamstring. Theres nothing you can do to push through with that injury

Super Bowl rings aren't beauty contests. If you're on a team that wins one you deserve it. If you're not, you don't.

72 receptions, 862 yards, 4 TDs is the pace through 4 games To maintain this pace we’ll need to average 4/50 over the rest of the season. I think that’s a fair to expect at this point.

Did IU play Ill recently? I remember a scrimmage with a team in orange uniforms.

Sound advice and he's right.

I'm old enough to remember the K-Gun, where the K was TE Keith McKellar. Perhaps the three TE set with be the J-Gun with Josh, James, and Jackson.

I was in Ocean City, MD at a music festival this weekend. We were chatting with a nice couple from Long Island who, upon hearing that we were from Buffalo, told us this. Their daughter attends FSU and got to be friends with Keon while he was there. They said that Keon is the nicest kid you’ll ever meet. Just a genuinely good person and total goofball.

The results look very much the same very much this defense as it stands needs to be better if we are to win it all... you dont think so, you like what you see, you think it takes us to the promised land that's awesome we dont agree and in the end I hope you are correct. But as I see it... same missed tackles, 3rd and long failures, gashed in the run game, problematic pass rush defense....

Ditto