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I feel like I was right not to be overly concerned about the safety position when everyone else was panicking. Well I'll admit Rapp was much worse than I expected. I don't know if it was the injury or what but he went from being a decent player to an outright liability. My whole thing all along was I didn't need a superstar at the position, just no liabilities. Once Rapp was removed and we inserted a replacement level player in Poyer the whole machine clicked into place. Obviously big credit to Bishop as well who has elevated his game well beyond what I expected based on his early season play.

Besides the obvious signs of grabbing at his head after it bounced off frozen ground, you could tell he wasn’t right from how he was playing. He had a few drops where he was wide open and something wasn’t working right with his motor skills. The announcers even made some excuses for what they saw, like he must have heard the footsteps of White behind him after giving a 15 yard cushion. Then somehow he made that one handed circus catch touchdown.

past generations of players have already done that.

The Bills going through an October slump has pretty much become the standard. Penalties. Turnovers. Poor Run D. Even Josh reverting to bad habits. Sometimes it stretches into November. And it doesn't seem to matter who the opponent is. Then suddenly it hits Thanksgiving and the team wakes up.

He did against Pitt, but without having looked at anything other than live, I came away thinking he was getting picked on 2nd most after Cam Lewis yesterday. Seemed like he was on Tee a lot yesterday though, and thats a bear of a matchup for anyone. Cant really remember as much in the few weeks previous to Pitt game though.... I def remember him looking rough early quarter of season, weeks 5-9'ish are a bit cloudier. Would be great news if the reason Im not remembering is just a Corner doing his job!! Shaq Thompson - LB'er. Whos been lights out as of late! I doubt Lawson is on a roster, but not on ours [Edit: I stand corrected it appears? Shaq Lawson is on our roster? LOL mustve happened over the holiday and I missed it]

Don’t commit crimes. End of discussion.

I found this link to add some context to this guy. https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breaking-news/article/bengals-release-wr-jermaine-burton-after-he-was-suspended-for-bills-game-marking-latest-off-field-issue-202826552.html

Pete Hegseth needs to resign!

That was the game plan in the Damar game and in the playoff game too. That's why Josh was 0-2 vs them going into this game

NYC?

Very good point. Most teams with superstar QBs are going to be carried by their superstar QB. I would also argue that Buffalo has won as many (if not more) games this season because of James Cook, than because of Josh Allen. Also, Christian Benford should get equal credit for helping the Bills win that game (crazy pick six AND shutting down Jamar Chase).

I don't think he'd ever admit it, but I'm pretty confident that McDermott has dialed down the intensity of the players for the first three months of the season. I think we're just now starting to see more hitting, tighter coverages, more blitzing. I think he believes, and I agree, that for several of the previous seasons the Bills peaked too early. He doesn't want that to happen any more. He wants to peak in January. I say it particularly about tighter coverages. In October the underneath receivers on in-breaking and out-breaking routes were open a lot. They had big cushions. Compare that to yesterday. Yes, Burrow completed a lot, but playing against as good a pair of wide outs and an excellent TE, the number of plays when the defender was right there, often making a play on a perfectly throw ball, was impressive. It's the same defenders, but they're getting tougher and tougher as the season goes on.

More handouts for the most coddled, pathetic people in the United States.

I want to throw this out as devils advocate. Could a player conceivably sue the NFL for malfeasance in a situation like this? If a player is putting his health and safety in the decisions of Doctors and they fail in that responsibility is it legal negligence? Or do players accept the risk playing the very violent sport which is NFL football. Is said player responsible for his agreeingtg to go back into a game after his recent history? RECENT History too thoughts?

Im getting tired of you posting anti-American propaganda. Somali Americans are Americans. End of discussion.

I would call this roster very flawed. Not sure it's accurate to use the term "disaster" though. Previous seasons, I was worried about facing specific teams/players in the playoffs (Chiefs, Ravens, Bengals). This year, there isn't a single team that I'm really afraid of facing. Mostly AFC, but also the NFC. We are more than capable of beating every single one, even with the huge issues we've had over the course of the season. My biggest worry this year is consistency. Can we put together 4 straight quality games against good/very good teams once the postseason rolls around? I could easily see us smacking around the #1 seed Broncos and putting up 30 on their defense, and then somehow falling apart in a rematch with the Steelers. Nobody knows what version of the Bills is actually going to show up from week to week. I'm going to be watching several things very closely over the next four games to see whether the Bills have found some answers and turned the corner... or if we are going to continue seeing the up/down roller coaster for the remainder of the year. The run defense has been solid the last 8-10 quarters... pretty much since Terrel Bernard got hurt, and was replaced with Shaq Thompson. The Run D has easily been our biggest weakness this season. So keeping it at an average level would be a huge boost going forward. The passing offense has been very uneven at times, for many reasons. Josh Allen has been in a slump, but had possibly his best game of the year yesterday. Can he keep playing at that level the rest of the year? Dalton Kincaid being back healthy helps. Joe Brady's gameplans have been much better the last two games. Can Brandin Cooks give us a respectable threat on the outside? Can the pass rush get a boost from Joey Bosa and Ed Oliver returning down the stretch?

Well he did end up on the field, our safety room was trash... but JoPo has had enough left to be an upgrade and as I keep saying... no coincidence Bishop's light came on the moment Poyer got on the field next to him. He is getting by with what is between his ears and underneath his ribs. The body may fail. But the brain and the heart are undefeated. Absolute Bills legend. Put him on the wall. Tre has been okay. Passable. He has played at the level the likes of Dane and Levi have given us in the past at that spot. He has been more expensive than those two though. And that is a fair point. But he has not been a liability as you would think reading this board.

Fox had 11 snaps. I did not notice him at all.

Everyone knows #17 and Knox are besties. In a crunch game, Knox came up big keeping drives alive and earning a new set of downs. Knox is graded in the top 32 TE's so if we don't extend him, he has options. Bills we have three TE's in the top 32 and that's in a run heavy scheme which places a premium on possession receivers. For kicks and giggles, Hawes is ranked 2nd after Kittle, and Kincaid 4th.

He's holding his opponents a lot more than his own.

Poyer’s play has really surprised me. I thought he was done.

You must be some special kind of jerk to run yourself out of the league over it. If/when his frontal ever comes together he can look back and have some serious regrets about how his career went. Just don’t be a jerk for a while and see how things go.

He was so dam good yesterday.

I really don't have an issue with the game plan after the first drive. My problem was the first drive and playing way too passive. After that they were more aggressive. They got beat at times and I can live with that. But I can't live with Joe burrow just chewing up zone time after time Fair- but at the end of the day they weren't pressing, outside of the first 3rd down conversion. Maybe disguised press looks , but at the end of the day there was a ton of cushion for the most part on that first drive