billsfan89

We all knew KC even if they lost to the Ravens would “get it in gear” and win at least 10 games and be the 6th seed and be dangerous. This win helps them push for their division. This upcoming Jags game is going to determine in my belief in KC. If they blowout the Jags away then KC is going to be a powerhouse esp if they go win an away game against a solid team by a big margin. If they lose their season is in trouble in terms of winning their division. If they win by a small margin they are the savvy veteran team getting stronger but not quite there yet

I wouldn’t say win and the division is over but win and that’s gonna be a 3 game lead with a tie breaker possibly in hand. It would basically set the Bills up to have a dominant lead in the division. That being said the Pats have a super soft schedule this year. If they pull off the upset they don’t have many harder games on the schedule. Just a game behind they could make it a close division race the rest of the way. Bills got to bury the Pats this is by far the biggest game of the year Well a solid prediction.

Fans also kind of forget that most regular season games in the NFL are usually 1-2 score affairs that are usually in doubt most of the way. I wanted the Bills to repeat the Jets game today where they just had a dominant effort wire to wire. But that’s just not always gonna happen. Bills will “get got” on one of these games but they gotta come out desperate next week because that game is going to determine if they can build a dominant division lead or not.

Arm punt, probably hoping for a call or to get it in a tight window. It’s effectively a 40+ yards net punt. Not the worst turnover

QB play yes but the bounces not going his way were kind of on him. The team in 2015 was tied for first in the NFL in penalties. That’s a big red flag for poor coaching. In 2016 they were 10th for most penalties. Theres some luck variance with penalties but if you are in the top 10 in back to back years thats you causing your own bad luck. This board wants to fire everyone when the team is done 7 points in the first quarter. If/when they lose a game it’s gonna be a complete cesspool here.

The Rex era to me wasn’t hopeless because the ownership was new and willing to spend money. I thought they may have gotten the coach wrong but eventually they will be decent. In the Rex era I was like they will rebuild properly and spend the money on the right players and the right fit when the right coach gets there. But in the Chan era in Ralph’s cheap ownership ways it just felt like the Bills were never going to be good

The Chan era was my darkest era of the drought. I really thought the team would just never be good…

Tua is locked in for next season the earliest the Fins could reasonably get out off Tua is 2027 and even then they have to take a 30+ million dollar cap hit...

It also was one of the worst matchups for an older Tre White. Miami's WR duo of Hill and Waddle are super good and super fast. Tre probably at this point could be hidden against one fast dynamic WR but it is going to be harder to keep him less exposed against two. The Bills don't really play a team with that dynamic pair of speed WR's until they play The Bengals so that's less of an issue going forward before this team could maybe get Mad Max back... I would much rather these young guys get in their lumps now so that by the time the playoffs roll around they have a full year of experience under their belts and can tighten up and improve.

I would just like to see a similar pace to the Jets game, defense needs to control the line and have a pass rush that can get pressure on third down at least semi-consistently. Offense needs to put up points on every drive to just build to a 2-3 score lead by half. The issue with the Fins game was both the early TD put the Bills behind the pace and the missed field goal gave the Fins momentum and kept it to a one score game. The Bills can't afford an early miscue because they won't be able to push the pace early and often to build a big lead and get this game into a 3-4 score lead going into the 4th where you just then need a defensive stop and a few first downs to grind out the game.

They called him but he quit half way through the call...

I loved when this team signed Mitch in 2019. He was the best center on the free agency market and the Bills had one of the worst offensive line and particularly starting center situations in the league in 2018. So you got this QB you just drafted in 2018 7th overall and you placed him behind one of the worst offensive lines in football. So grabbing the best center on the free agency market now that all that dead cap was off the books was a big move to help this young QB develop.

I would tend to agree they are probably not going to activate his "practice window" until after the bye at the earliest. It would make sense timing wise as it would give him another month to get closer to 100% and then they would have a 21 day window where he can fully practice but still not be on the 53 which would give him time to "ramp up". The Bills don't really "need" him just yet. The Bills are a little weaker at corner but they are still fine there short term the Bills don't have many uber fast WR tandems they are facing in the coming weeks (ATL probably the most dynamic skill position players but not really speedsters there).

I wonder if in the McBeane era has there been a player resigned in season? I know Brown was resigned shortly before the season started. but not in season. I just don't think it is going to happen in season as that's not very common across the NFL. But I would love to be proven wrong because losing two starters along the interior in Edwards and McGovern would be a setback. I get that you have to bring in younger players here and there but I tend to want to cycle out 1 guy at a time. When Morse was lost in 2024 they replaced him with Edwards and shuffled around the line but it was only 1 in and 1 out.

I was hoping this team would have extended McGovern prior to the season. Because then you could slide McGovern out to guard and put in Anderson or SVPG at center and draft a guard in the mid-rounds for depth and development.

I would wager that the FO is at worst an above average FO at worst. The Bills lost to the Bengals once in the playoffs in 2022 by a large margin on a team that was beat up after a season from hell (the 2022 game with Hamlin was the no-contest). Other than that the Bills lost one other regular season game to the Bengals in 2023 24-18 game hardly taken behind the woodshed. That's it they haven't faced off since. To me the Bills FO is top 5-7 in the league. I don't put much stock into Daboll and Schoen failing in NY as being an indictment on the Bills Front Office because sometime coaches and executives are good in one role but not ready to go up a notch, doesn't mean that when they were in Buffalo they weren't put in the right places.

I think he could be a key piece for a stretch run if he's able to come back which we will have to see. This team could use another corner and esp one with speed. If this team keeps piling up wins early and gets a massive division lead that could leave room for some margin of error to get Mad Max some play time esp towards the middle and end portion of the season and get him up to speed and fully shake the rust off.

This falls more so into the gamesmenship category, not a major story...

The Bengals had a two year window to compete and it shut because the team has not drafted well and they can no longer paper that over with cap dollars as Burrow is no longer on a rookie deal, they got one round farther one year and you are using that as the basis for why the Bills aren't effective at roster building. I know fans like to dismiss the regular season and just focus on the playoffs but I'm sorry the regular season still counts and even in the playoffs the Bills have had some success. In order to think that the Bills are the terrible or mediocre front office and it is being papered over by a great QB you would have to look at the Bengals and see what a truly mediocre supporting cast looks like and how a great QB can only paper over so much.

I don't really think it is arguable that the Bills don't have one of the best front offices in the league. You don't win your division 5 years in a row and 7 playoff games just by having a great QB. The Bengals have a comparable QB's and they have not had nearly the same amount of team success for example.

There's a reasonable case to be made that the defense should be significantly improved. This team threw their first four draft picks plus most of their available free agency dollars on the defense (the only major offensive investment cap or draft wise was Palmer). This team should be able to take a defense ranked 17th last year and push it into the 9-12 range at a minimum. I think Mad Max is the best chance this team has to try and help with speedy WR's but the positive upside of that is that most of the AFC teams that have super elite fast WR's are looking like garbage this season. The Bengals and Dolphins have elite speedy WR tandems but one team's QB has a longer term injury and the other is 0-3 and dropped a game against this team. There's not a lot of other teams that boast super fast dynamic WR combos. DK on the Steelers, Worthy on KC, and a few others here or there but it is a lot easier to game plan around 1 WR who has a lot of speed. It's teams with 2 dynamic speedy WR's that can cause issues. Luckily there is a chance that the Bills also have a speedy corner that can help in that situation coming off IR hopefully in the coming weeks.

The point being made was that most NFL games are decided on tight margins of error. There aren't many NFL games where teams can't at least be competitive in. So the Saints game should be a blowout but that often times doesn't happen in the NFL for various reasons. I expect that this game will be a 3 score win but there's just so many variables in the NFL that can make a game close.

It's not like NFL Europe didn't have success stories. Generally I agree the idea of developing talent in American Football is harder but I don't think having a NFL Europe style system in Canada wouldn't hurt.

Most NFL games are decided on extremely small margins. The Bills should have lost week 1 and could have lost week 3. The Saints game is not to be taken lightly these are still NFL teams playing their asses off early in the season.

"Merger" might be the wrong word, partnership or acquisition would be better. The NFL isn't going to suddenly inflate 4-8 teams absorbing a bunch of Canadian markets and cutting down each teams share of those massive TV Deals. That's what's holding up the NBA's expansion to 32 teams because the 30 owners don't want to lose a cut of their TV revenues longer term. But I could see the CFL positioning themselves to be a minor league feeder system for the NFL similar to the working relationship the UFL has. I don't know if that's the CFL's longer term goal but given the longevity of the league and the exclusivity they have in bigger markets it might make sense for the NFL to revive the NFL Europe model with the CFL.