All Activity

Topic titles must reflect the content of the topic (and it must contain more than just a name). This helps to reduce the number of duplicate topics and makes the community much more user friendly. Please edit the title so that it properly reflects the discussion that you started. Thank you.

Because fans like to complain...

Apart from the last FG drive, we had 25 first downs in the game if I count correctly. We passed 13 times and ran 12 times. How is that predictable?

The best chance the Bills had to win the SB was last year. If they had gotten a half inch on one of two questionable spots, they probably make it. Everyone forgets the Bills were 7-6 coming out of the loss at Tampa Bay and had to win out just to make the playoffs. If Matt Ryan hadn't taunted on a play where in fact he failed to reach the EZ, we might have lost at home to a pretty bad Falcons team. We were that close to not even playing in the "prefect game" and the 13-second game. But will it be fun?

I think this is the game plan against inferior teams. When we play good teams and we need it, he will unleash it (eg, Baltimore 4th quarter)

I thought it was about McD’s use of time outs!

Same.

That's a you problem

This is a James Cook offense that happens to also feature the best football player in the world. Kinda weird but it works.

So that's how you judge the team, You just look at the points and determine if it was good or not... You don't weigh in quality of opponent? (Miamis defence being dead last) You don't weigh in how they got the points? (7 off a roughing the punter and 3 off a late interception) There are times where the offence scores 24 and I think they played really well depending on context. And there are times like tonight where they score 31 and I think they were a bit off, especially in the 2nd half. Sorry if I don't just blindly look at the box score and say "hey we got 30 points so it was a great performance by the offence"

I changed my mind. Cook is worth it.

17-10 loss 25-24 loss 38-30 loss 34-3 loss 34-31 win 49-21 loss 37-31 loss 52-28 loss 23-21 loss 34-20 loss 17-9 win 37-22 loss 40-32 loss 20-13 loss 16-0 win 41-25 loss what is this? these are our games vs New England Patriots 2009-2016 you know what i see? a few blowouts yes. but i see a lot of close, 'winnable' losses my point is, the last dominant team in the division didn't always look pretty. hell, they often made mistakes, but always found a way to win. much like this bills team is doing now.

And Hairston is going to overtake Tre as the starter, I believe. Love Tre, but he def looked slow last night versus the Dolphins. Max’s speed is going to turn some heads.

look at yall celebrating the loss of free speech. Freedom!

Very Thurman-like. He used to do the same.

I like the meticulous ball control passing offense but think a few moderate 12-15 yrs passes could keep the DB’s from cheating up and loosen things up a bit.

Well first there is never a such thing as nice win….but. Winning is winning no matter how you do it. If the Bills won this game 3-0 tonight there would be 12 threads about how the offense isn’t championship caliber. I mean there is one already about our passing offense struggling when we have put up 41, 30, and 31 and let’s be frank the 30 against the Jets could have been much more. Do the Bills have defensive flaws? Yes I don’t think anyone is going to deny that. One of the things I appreciated about the difference between NFL and College football 20-30 years ago was the NFL had a semblance of defense while college games were 50-24. Unfortunately the NFL has made it so easy for offenses to score in 2025. The ball used to get placed at the 20 and now it’s coming out to the 35. Combine that with all of the rule changes where basically if you touch a QB in the wrong spot or your even remotely tugging a jersey by a Defensive back it’s a 15 yard penalty or a spot foul and you can see why defenses are struggling to stop teams from scoring. Take into the fact that more and more youth players are playing offense and participating in year round 7 on 7 and a lot of the best athletes now also play offense while defense gets the scrapes. Lastly, the boom of the kicker has made scoring much easier. 30 years ago 50 yard FGs at best was 50/50 and now kickers are hitting FG 55+ like it’s nothing so a team essentially just needs to get 25 yards to put up 3 points. We gave up 21 points to a good offensive football team. We were missing our top DT, top LB, first round pick CB, Michael Hoecht, and Larry Ogunjobi.

I loved it too. Showed that he would do anything to win

I now pay more attention to Cook than ever on how he does it. I do like what Herbstreit said that you just need a small crease for Cook to get thru. Somehow Cook is able to make himself small to go thru the small gaps very very fast. It aligns with his vision superbly. Then of course, the speed in open field. Last night there are a couple of runs he nearly break to the house.

Did anyone else catch Josh smiling as he flipped the ball to Hawes for a TD right after he watched him blast Judon? Great stuff!

I’ve laid out what I thought Cook’s value was and why. Several times. I disagreed with the people saying pay him big money and I disagreed with the people saying not to extend him or to only do so at a pittance. What he got was right in line with my estimates of his value to the team and the RB market. He got more in effective guarantees (4 years vs 3) and less in effective AAV (≈$10M AAV on extended seasons vs $10.5M). I was very happy with how it turned out. He got paid his worth, but not overpaid and Beane didn’t buckle under the pressure so he didn’t incentivize other players to use those tactics in the future.

When considering our 3rd down defense, I believe you are correct to a noticeable degree,

But this Josh is far more likely to win a Superbowl.