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Pray you can get pressure with your front 4 while doing a two high safety zone look. Force Josh to beat you with shorter throws and running the ball. That’s about all you can do is hope your front 4 are good enough. The Bills WR corps entered that game with everyone but Diggs hurt and then Diggs got hurt early in the game. Not really a fair assessment of the Bills offense give the mass injuries to the WR position.

The Bills are getting Tre White as their major acquisition and I think maybe there is an outside chance they sign OBJ. But as far as major trade acquisitions I just don’t see any happening unless there is a major injury that is causing major issues. For example if Dawkins or a key Oline player got hurt I could see the Bills trading a 1st replace him. The Bills are in a good position where they don’t have that one need they have to address via in season trade which gives them the ability to patch over a key injury or two if that happens.

Good game from Edumonds he is really balling out which is great for this defense.

Not a great effort from him tonight. A good learning experience while Davis gets a week to rest his injury. But Shakir is not a good run blocker and needs to make more of an impact as a receiver. I think he has to put on a little more weight and practice his blocking so that he can be a more complete WR.

Too many punts... Seriously though they did a much better job trying to protect Josh and not have him take too many hits.

Defense is banged up a bit. Dane is likely going on IR, Hyde hopefully just had a stinger and Phillips hopefully just had a cramp. Better news is that Oliver and Settle will hopefully be back along with Davis on the offensive side of the ball. Getting Settle and Oliver back is big for the D-line which if Phillips is out should compensate. Dane being gone is a loss for sure but if Hyde just has a stinger and is fine I think the defense will be fine going forward.

Bills need to punch this in have to have that killer instinct and not let up.

I think Settle and Jackson play, just a feeling but I think the Bills being extra cautious with injuries is a good thing. It's only week two and this is a marathon not a sprint.

He still practiced, seems more than likely a sprained ankle.

Bills 35 Titans 17

Chargers coming out good against KC but they don’t as a team have much playoff experience that might be the difference for them in the playoffs. Then again Burrow didn’t have any playoff starts and won 3 playoff games so stranger things have happened

D-line looked big and quick up the middle and quick and nasty off the edge. The secondary and linebacking core looked like it picked up from last season but with a bit more athleticism from the corners (which with Tre out is impressive). Looking forward to seeing how the Bills can dominate a Titans team that has had their number the past two seasons.

The Bills game plan against KC in the regular season in 2021 (and a lot of other teams had some defensive success doing this in 2021) was to play two high safeties to take away Hill and the deep ball and then jam Kelce at the line and beat him up with double teams and basically let the other KC players beat you. It worked because Kelce would get beat up and worn down as the game went on and the soft high zone would limit the big plays from Hill and the rest of the WR corps were pretty pedestrian so taking chances in zone single coverage against pedestrian receivers and a weak running game was doable. This year KC doesn't have Hill which is a huge loss but they are a bit more balanced on offense in terms of their secondary weapons (although Lazard, Juju and Sky Moore aren't really that impressive but not tragic). However, I think the key is to just jam and double Kelce and beat him up. Let him get his in the first half but make him pay for it and work for it and wear him down. Then play your standard zone defense and drop 5 against the rest of KC's receiving corp. The Bills are better equipped to go up against KC's very good O-line and get pressure with the front 4 and hold the point of attack against the run. But Hill not being there will hopefully make KC's offense less dynamic and easier to game plan against. Right now the early returns in the AFC week 1 are that the Bills and KC are headed for another playoff matchup with Baltimore and the Chargers being the tough outs. Still plenty ways to go as I am not ruling out Cincy and several other AFC teams that got off to a slow start week one. But right now it's hard not to see KC and Buffalo as destined to meet up again.

I think Atlanta will have a lot of “moral victories” this season. Their Oline is competent and Drake, Pitts and Patterson are a good set of weapons and Mariota will add value with his legs. But while their offense may be able to put up points their defense is going to let them down a lot but I can see them losing a lot of one possession games because their offense can score.

I don't know why this board is obsessed with moving Edumonds around. Edumonds may not be the strongest in run defense but he is pretty dam good in coverage for a team that values more coverage in the scheme from linebackers.

I have to think the coaching staff will either not call RPO's or tell Josh he needs to not take risks running the ball during the regular season. Hopefully Josh gets the message.

The half bye is a nice bonus to get the team 100% healthy for a very physical Titans team.

Dorsey called a strong game, too many designed QB runs but other that nippick not much to complain about. I would say he is better than Daboll just yet but I wouldn’t be shocked if in 2 months most people are saying that.

The Bills in week one are who we thought they were against one of the best teams in the NFC (the defending champs none the less) on the road. The Bills didn't even play that great of a game particularly in the first half and came away with a 3 possession lead. My biggest take away was how dominant the D-line and O-line were. The O-line had some trouble with Donald but that's to be expected he is the best defensive player of his era. But the O-line paved the way for a solid running game and protected Josh fairly well in the face of a dominant defender in Donald. The D-line had 7 sacks against a fairly good O-line and were so huge up the middle. Great game the Bills lived up to the hype but the season has 16 games left and the Titans are a real test next Monday. Really looking forward to how Settle, Jones and Phillips look against King Henry.

With past coaching staffs I would assume incompetence but with McD and his staff I think that there is some sort of reasoning as to why Shakir is inactive.

There is no reason to assume the Bills beat Cincy. Yes I think there was a good chance the Bills beat Cincy but you can’t just assume the Bills would have won. Burn it and go for it in 2022

Oh Hi Josh.

While McBeane isn’t afraid to play rookies they also are very aware of how to properly develop players and how to our players in the best situations. I think Cook is a third down back role player this year. It just makes sense for his development to see if he can handle a smaller role as a situational player before throwing him into the deep end.

I feel bad for the Jets here, not getting to see your young QB due to injury is a bad fate.

There won’t be any big deal unless he can prove he is anywhere close to the player he was when last seen with the Rams. He kind of has to prove it either at the tail end of 2022 or in 2023. But no big multi year deal is on the table for him unless he shows what he can do again.