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I don't disagree with any of this. This season's missed expectations has definitely done a number on me. To think that we could easily be in control of the 1 seed in a season where the Bengals, Ravens, and Chiefs aren't contenders has ruined me a bit.

LOL, good one. I would say this. Bishop and Poyer are playing better as a safety team than any other combination in the last 2 years. Benford is playing well. CB2 with Tre and Max splitting time is serviceable. Taron needs to get back to something of his former self. It hasn't gotten any worse and that's for sure.

Well it certainly helps your pass defense statistics when your run defense is so bad that my 94 year old Grandma can go for 70+ yards and a Tuddy. That being said, its also not a surprise, we usually fare pretty well in pass defense statistics every year - atl least until we play Andy Reid in the playoffs and McD and his Defense who seem to have no answers for the Chiefs offense even when their offense is having a down year.

As mentioned above, passer rating differential is the God stat in the NFL, and the Bills D's passer rating against is very good: 80.9. https://www.si.com/more-sports/2011/06/23/most-importantstatpasserratingdifferential

Fixed it for ya

using the ESPN playoff simulator I actually got them in at 10-7 with a loss to HOU this week. That would require the Chargers to fall back though. In that scenario: 1 DEN 13-4 2 NE 13-4 3 HOU 11-6 4 CIN 9-8 5 BUF 12-5 6 JAX 11-6 7 KC 10-7 KC would need DEN to defeat LA in week #18 in this scenario. DEN would be playing for the #1 seed.

I can 't disagree with this at all. It felt more like the Steelers lost the game more than the Bills won it. Similar to the Bills-Patriots game this year, we lost it with turnovers more than being beat.

8th in NY/A passing and 31st in Y/A rushing.

Pretty sure we've made Brady a top paid OC. I dont think it's a spending issue. I think it's more a McD needs to be the biggest fish issue. Brady was specifically the "Passing Game Coordinator" that legendary year at LSU. He ran a pass-happy offense before, and started that way here. But McD wore him down and enforced a run-first, "Complementary" gameplan (aka dont expose the precious defense). We certainly arent going to bring in an experienced DC that runs a different scheme than McD's. No change to a Schwartz/Spags/etc type. Plus those guys could be hired as Interim HC. So aint happening.

Everyone is of course free to say or write whatever they want, but your post is the fan's reaction equivalent of snagging defeat from the jaws of victory after a solid win. Not perfect by any stretch, and it doesn't mean we're SB bound or even playoff bound necessarily, but your 1-10 take is way too "glass half empty"/pessimistic/negative/woe is me than warranted in my opinion.

This would be the perfect signing. He's old and washed and those are 2 traits Beane looks for in WRs 😂

oh my god...are you worried about you little closed of world changing? are you worried that if you stop screaming hoax and fake news you may actually have to wake up and see what needs to be done in this country to get it back on track. if you can't handle even the most tame of debates, that's on you. i don't complain about the state of the place. i just complain about people that have no ability to think for themselves and just use basic logic to determine if something is right or wrong. i think this place takes up far too much of your life.

I’m not sure if it’s a real stat, but I’d be interested in something like success rate per pass attempt or something like that. Teams have so much success running against us, that any volume stats for passing (yards, TDs, passer rating to a degree) won’t tell the full story.

Great write up as always, even sans the music lyrics. I have to totally disagree about #5 and Brady. Why would it frustrate you to see that same play working so successfully. It is more an indictment against the might Mike Tomlin and his DC. If you have a play the opponent cant stop, you do exactly what the Bills did, keep pounding it. It was demoralizing to the Steelers and a hug bonus for our O Line (esp with both tackles out) to run the ball. #9 and Josh. I have been thinking the same thing all year. He has seemingly been really hyper engaged or floundering and seemingly disingaged. And I hope this thread doesn't dissolve into armchair marriage counselors second guessing his wife/

I mostly agree with this. Our passing offense scares me though. In 6 games since the bye week we've only seen the passing offense have 2 good games. It's just hard to imagine winning 3 road games in a row and then the Super Bowl with such an inconsistent passing offense. I guess the optimistic scenario is we get Kincaid and Palmer back healthy and that ends up being enough. We will still have to mostly rely on the run game though and I worry about what will happen when we inevitably get in a playoff matchup where the run isn't successful.

In past years, usually by the middle of the season we usually get a good indicator of what this team is. It's week 13 and I still have no clue who this team, probably bc they've been so inconsistent and weaker than previous years. I say this to only say it makes my stress levels go up significantly.

Yeah, I am not saying we can't - and I certainly hope we do. But this is more about my confidence in if we will. I have in the past seen things out of this team after mid season slumps to where I have gone on the record with a thread predicting we would win out, and we did every single time. This year though, something is off with this team. Just feels like there is less fire and fight in this team than years past. Allen seems off still - he looks less decisive, slower to evade and escape, less explosive with his legs, etc. The team was completely anemic the first half of football, I was at the point of ready to clean house at half time, especially with how defeated McD sounded being interviewed as he left for half time. As far as injuries go, I agree if we get some of those guys back we could see a boost. But, at the same time, many of the issues were there when those guys were not hurt too. I also think our biggest loss was Hoecht who is out for the season. And will the coaching staff have the balls to play the guys playing better when everyone is healthy, like Shaq for example at LB. Rooting for a win out and strong playoff run for sure -I just lack the high confidence this year that I have had in previous seasons at key turning points. Now we go out and look good and beat the Bengals I will start feeling a little better about it.

The Bills should snag Thielin and waive Coleman for the speed upgrade. And, my neighbor’s best buddy in Los Angeles says Clay Mathews is in wicked good shape and ready for a comeback. He was on an episode of the Mindy Project looking so fly.

I honestly wonder if we win that game if Queen doesn’t get that late hit on Josh and Bosa doesn’t get the strip sack. And why did it have to come to that? We were slugs prior to those happening.

Guess what defense has been thrown on the least amount in the NFL?

I believe any AFC playoff team could string together two or three wins to reach the Super Bowl. Right now, some are stronger than others, but I wouldn't discount any team that makes the playoffs (except maybe the Steelers, unless they beat the Ravens twice) As of right now, I'd tier them: (*wins division) Patriots* Texans* (I think they sneak in somehow) Chiefs (Chiefs probably need to win out, but it's possible they could, and in the process knock out the Jags, Colts, Texans or Chargers) Broncos* Bills (win three out of five should be enough to get in) Jaguars (head-to-head matchups with Colts and Texans) Colts (same) Chargers (tough schedule, Herbert health) Ravens* (beat Steelers twice?) Steelers (could swap with Ravens)

The Bills are 6th in team defense in the passing game: https://www.nfl.com/stats/team-stats/defense/passing/2025/reg/all. Sort by passer rating. Passer rating differential is the most predictive of all NFL stats in determining winning and losing. Here is the top 10: The Bills team passer rating on offense is 99.5, and the +18.6 differential is reflected in their 8-4 record.

I agree and have come around completely to it this year. We all know it won't happen though. If were hell bent on not changing, WTF is stopping us from going out and hiring the best G-D OC & DC possible. Stop being cheap. We can pay backups a few million... but shelling out a few mill a year for top coordinators seems like an incredibly cost efficient, highly predictable output chances.