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The Bills are built for sustainable winning. The Bills have a young franchise QB locked into a long term deal. That alone sets you up for winning. However the Bills also have a lot of young talent and prime talent on both sides of the ball. Along with that they have a good coach and a good organization and ownership (for the most part). I know the Bills haven't always made the big time flashy "win now" moves due to fears of future flexibility but I think that's by design. The NFL playoffs often come down to luck and health. IF you put all your eggs into a 1-2 year run and then your window closes you are really banking on health and good matchups in a short window. Whereas if you stretch out your elite level run to 4-5 years you give yourself more chances to win even if you might have a lesser team your ticket to the dance gets punched more times. Both strategies have risks. Look at the Andy Reid Eagles. From 2000-2004 the team won 11 games or more and made the NFC championship game 4 times but only went to the Super Bowl once (in the first year they brought TO in) and lost. Had they made the all in splash move to get better at WR earlier in that run they might have won a Super Bowl. But then you have teams that go "All In" and only have a 1-2 year stretch to win and they get a key injury or some bad luck and collapse back to rebuilding. I tend to think that the modern NFL favors longer stretch runs of success. Giving yourself a really good team for 5 years is probably more likely to result in a SB win than ***** your future over for a 1-2 year window of having an elite team.

I think the O-line is settling in. They struggled in week 1 and were average in week 2 but really showed up strong in week 3. Hopefully the trend continues and they hold up well. So far I think Mitch and Dawkins have been the best O-line players.

Bills need to pile up a win here. They have a tough two game stretch coming up against the Titans and Chiefs after the Texans game. Fattening up to 3-1 against a bad opponent allows the team to split the next two games and sit solid at 4-2. Got to beat up on the bad teams.

If This team has the 2019 level of defensive dominance mixed with the high flying offense of 2020 and a solid special teams unit (which is what it has looked like the past two games for the most part) this team will make the Super Bowl and have a good shot to win. Still a long ways to go but dam you can't help but feel good about the team. Hopefully they can take care of the Texans before going into a tough two game stretch against the Chiefs and Titans.

Hard to argue at this point the Bills if you take the temperature of the AFC are not the favorite to come out of the conference. KC has come down to the pack playing very sloppy football and the Browns and Ravens sit at similar records to the Bills and neither dominating strong opponents to make you think they are better than the Bills currently. The two 3-0 teams are the Broncos whose three wins come from 0-3 teams and the Raiders who look to be currently exceeding expectations but are hard to project being a playoff powerhouse given the limitations of their roster. The Titans are also 2-1 but similar to the Browns and Ravens they aren't exactly going out there and dominating strong competition. I am still not writing off KC and I don't think The Ravens, Browns, Titans and possibly another dark horse team like the Raiders, Chargers, or Broncos are out of the mix either. But right now the Bills are the best team in the AFC sitting at 2-1. Still a long way to go, but the positive is that the Chiefs find themselves in a division that is very tough and they are already digging themselves into a tough hole as far as clinching the lone bye in the conference. The AFC East thus far for the Bills is a joke of a Jets team, a Fins team that while respectable is simply owned by the Bills and a Pats team struggling with a rookie QB.

I think a team looking for a vet stop gap will likely take on Trubisky. But I don't see him getting a massive contract or being a hot commodity. WFT, Texans, Steelers, Broncos, Lions, Giants and a few other QB needy teams might sign Mitch to a one year deal to compete with a rookie drafted up high or play band aid for one season. But I don't see any team going fully on board with Mitch as their sole QB option either. It was smart for Mitch to take the one year deal here as a backup and improve his confidence game and stock.

Correction he went 3-1 and played without Jimmy G the backup for 2 of those 4 games, still impressive.

PFF is still flawed but they seem to be correct in that Milano is having a dam good season.

Even in week one they lost a close game to a team that is at the very least decent. These things happen, sometimes you come out a bit flat and you run into a bad matchup. The past two weeks have definitely been a fantastic rebound.

Not going to call him a fraud just yet. He did go 10-5 a full season without Brady and 4-0 when Brady was suspended. He is now trotting out a rookie QB who is having growing pains. Let’s see how this plays out.

Cap goes up and they have some older players on decent sized deals such as Hughes, Addison, Butler and Star that can be jettisoned. Long term they will have to make some tough decisions but if they want to keep Johnson (as they should) they will be able to.

Clearly the coaching staff feels that he is a fit for this team and it’s defense. I tend to trust this coaching staff and their talent evaluation process given that it seems fairly successful over the past few years.

The Bills can bore me with their greatness.

I like Jerry but from what I have seen he has been average at best, I think at his age he is better off taking a reduced role. I like what I have seen from Addison and the young guys can go. Let Jerry take less snaps and hopefully be more effective in certain situations.

Knox seems like he has polished up his game a bit this season, liking what I have seen so far.

Texans aren't very talented but they aren't a joke. When a team is playing hard for a coach you can't just lay the pads out there and win. You really need to go out and beat them. This is a fairly big game for the Bills in terms of piling up a win before going into a tough two game stretch.

Just an all around great game. Back to Back good to great games from this team after a disappointing week one loss (granted a close loss to an at least decent team) and outside of a bad Special Teams play and one big play given up by the defense the team really just dominated wire to wire. The team even showed resiliency after being up 21-0 they gave up a big play on defense and a bad turnover and TD on a short field. They then proceeded to pad the lead back up to two possessions with a pair of field goals before slamming the door with a big second half.

Hoping to see him get some batted balls against really quick release QB’s. I thought for a rookie he looked solid.

The Steelers were just putting so much pressure on Josh and there was some instances of bad playcalling. I am writing this off as simply playing against an elite defense. No panic setting in yet. It was a fairly close game against a good team early in the season. Frustrating since they could have put them away early but instead only went up 10-0.

Overall a solid half, great defense, solid special teams but mostly bad offense. The Steelers have one of the best defenses in the league and the Bills got a 10 point lead on them. The offense put together a big driven when they needed it most. Happy to take a two possession lead into the second half against a good team.

They needed some space for emergencies, this gives them that space and at worst rolls over a little space for next season which won’t hurt.

The panic over point differential early last season was completely over blown. The Bills point difference was deflated in some games by late scores when the Bills were up by two scores.

One thing that has separated McBeane from past administrations is the attention to detail on the roster. In the past the team would just be satisfied with mediocre or average players in niche positions. Or they would pay a dramatic premium for returners and special teams specialists. The Bills have swung a nice balance of getting good value on the edges of the roster. Overpaying here and there but not too dramatically that they can't invest in key areas. Jones and the other critical ST players are really a good example of that.

He is a decent QB, a low end starter or a high end backup. Glad the team moved on from him but also don’t get the hate that comes his way either. He was one of the better QB’s the team had in the drought era and he turned up with a winning record.

He also had a winning record in the 3 years he played here and was a contributor in ending the longest playoff drought in the teams history…