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I don’t dislike Bass. I was rooting for him last year when he had the yips the first part of the season. That said, knowing there’s a strong chance that we’re playing for the #1 seed as well as the Super Bowl, I think you go with consistency here. I think I saw a stat where Prater is 24 of 25 on game tying or winning field goals in the fourth quarter or overtime in his career. That’s as good as you can get without being perfect. The last two Chiefs losses in the playoffs have been by three points. Go Bills!

It clearly appears to have been a turning point in the draft, since about half of the next 15 or so players are in the same boat. I bet some of them were on inferior rosters, as well. I think a true and fair picture of the situation would include those facts, as well.

Dear sweet Baby Jesus please let him be proven right!

I think they will activate his window in the ramp up to the Panthers game but probably give him the full 21 days to get more comfortable on the leg and get some reps under him.

Just stop. The "little guy," depending on your definition of that, which is not clear, doesn't pay income tax. The overwhelming numbers are on the non little guy, and you can do the work yourself. It's easily found. Further, this country excels economically because people of means invest and provide capital for growth. This punish the investor class is suicidal, and thankfully, hasn't taken hold here, other than silly crap on social media and clueless politicians who have benefitted immensely from it.

Yes the jury is still out on BOTH defenses. The one good/great O you faced they gave up 40 points after that you faced the Jets, Dolphins, and Saints.. lol I don’t think anyone considering them great or good O especially with Tua this year for Miami.. The Pats D has played well enough to be 3-1 the O 100% lost the Steelers game with turnovers but they don’t pass the eye test it’s scary every time they are out there it feels.. So the Jury is also out on them even if if scoring D wise they are top 10.. they to have faced no scary good O yet till the Bills this Sunday.. Also my statement about the Steelers was more about the fact it is impressive because it’s a better D than either team has faced so far.. not that Buffalo recorded is tarnished by who they faced.. you win the games you have in front of you and they did. And the Ravens aren’t just bad on D they are the WORST D in the NFL right now.. injuries happen and they SHOULD have enough depth to win these games or at least help keep them in the games.. they have not they are awful.. and I won’t lie I don’t know if they were or were not 100% in game 1 all I can do is go by their stats and statistically they are just awful everywhere on D.

Come back after the bye week and get him in there ASAP to get reps and see what we have. ALSO trade for a CB. We don’t have time for questions in the secondary this year. Even Bendord has looked shaky.

Good for you. Well done.

Teams in this situation would always go with the hot hand, who is clearly Prater. That said, I don’t trust McD here. I’m hoping him saying Bass will be back when ready means he won’t “be ready” this year. Keep him in IR as another poster said to fully heal and have a TC competition.

I mean at this point - he's on IR until prater loses the job. And he's honestly probably cut next year. The dead hit plus a late round rookie is still less than he's paid and between previous unreliability, and now availability issues. It might just be time to let him go elsewhere.

I would hate to defend Josh Allen. He is a freak human being with football powers.

Just purchased it, it better not suck…..I kid! Thanks for this, I’m looking forward to it.

I think Kyle knows that offense better than anyone. And it has developed somewhat from the Mike version. McVay is a derivative of the Kyle Shanahan offense. And his record of shutting the Rams down is pretty good.

The tax laws are often changed. Almost always in favor of the rich. Closing loopholes for them would be welcomed by the 99% if messaged correctly. Trump located them with minuscule , short lived breaks of their own. Perhaps D’s could do the same while increasing taxes on the rich.

And just to note: The Bills are currently 2nd in points scored The Bills are currently 15th in points against The Bills are currently 3rd best in point differential at +43 points (1 point behind 2nd place Seattle, and 6 points behind 1st place Detroit). So, only two teams have outscored their opponents by more points than the Bills have thus far this year. So, even though our games have been closer than some would like, we are still winning by more than most teams. Granted it's only 4 games, but I don't see the Bills not remaining near the top in point differential because they were 3rd in 2024, 4th in 2023, 2nd in 2022, 1st in 2021 and 5th in 2020. So the idea of us not winning by enough or having enough style points doesn't really seem to be an issue when you compare the Bills to the rest of the NFL (over more than 5+ years now). They are generally winning their games by more points than 85-100% of the other teams (depending on the year---currently, this year, they are winning their games by more points than 93.75% of the other teams).

You still haven’t proved me wrong. And you did the work, not well of course, but it looks like I can assign it to you. The tax structure isn’t supposed to be punitive. It’s supposed to be fair. Why does the little guy get relative peanuts, but cap gains and top brackets are low? Rich guys love you because you make it easy for them. Prove me wrong.

Jaruon was the expert at the moral victory. The 2006 Bills for example were 7-9 that year and 6 out of the 9 losses were by one score (3 wins out of 7 were also by one score). The Jauron era Bills were also masters at winning games towards the middle end of the season to crawl at or close to .500 and on the fringes of the playoffs to only lose the last two weeks of the season or something to just not even make it interesting in the last week of the season even as a long shot. McD for all the Jauron comparisons had a very different pre-Josh 2017 season. The Bills that year if they lost tended to lose big. They lost 7 games in the regular season that year. Of those 7 losses on 2 were by a single score (and 4 out of those 5 multi-score losses with 3 possession losses). Of the Bills 9 wins only 3 were by 2 score margins. So they either won close games or lost by blowout. Whereas Jauron's teams usually had less blowout losses and more blowout victories for some weird reason. Just weird how the NFL works, hard to win in it... The 1 seed is such a tremendous advantage. I would also argue having nothing to play for in week 18 if you aren't getting a bye is a big advantage too. The Bills in 2024 had the two seed locked week 18 and got to rest everyone. Whereas the 2023 Bills had to play down to the wire to get the 2 seed. The 2023 team seemed to be a lot less healthy and more gassed by the divisional round. KC on the other hand was locked into the 3 seed so they rested in week 18 in 2023.

I don’t disagree with your premise, but I do think it needs to be somewhat more than that. To be effective on third downs, he’ll most likely need to get the feel of the game. And what I mean by that is, the feel of how people are blocking him and how they’re playing against him so he knows what moves he can make to get to the passer. It’s one thing to see tape on someone, it’s another thing to see how someone will try to defend you in live game action. I hope I’m making sense. Go bills!

I know they turned the footprint a bit to mitigate the wind and blowing snow, so the sun’s path across the field will be different. Hopefully, it will not affect play on the field. Also, the intensity is a bit different in ATL usually. I assume the home team will be on the sunny side, so that it’s colder for visitors.

Great post. But I've seen many Bills fans act like it's crazy to expect 1st, 2nd & 3rd round picks to be seeing consistent playing time their rookie year. Everyone acts like only Bills rookies need a few years. Expecting them to start, see consistent play time, or even just have any impact at all in their first year is totally CRAZY. Our roster is so stacked & has so few holes that obviously it's crazy to expect early round rookies to do much of anything! 1st round picks are projects that might start, but shouldn't be expected to do much for a few years! 2nd & 3rd round picks are backups or rotational guys unless someone gets hurt. It's only the 4th - 7th round guys (probably selected by scouts & not hand-picked by Beane/McDermott) that somehow can crack the starting lineup or make an impact! Of course, there's an exception to everything, but it still feels like if this team drafted better in the early rounds they'd have already gotten over the hump. I don't care what anyone says, but Worthy has been a very good weapon for KC & was the exact kind of speedy target the Bills could still use. Coleman could keep getting better, but he's not the home run, big play threat you have to game plan for like Worthy is.