Utah John

Yes, the Bills were statistically better than the Jets. The Bills lost Edmunds but add Micah Hyde and healthy Tre White and Jordan Poyer, plus their DTs look more stout, and shipping off Basham was addition by subtraction. And we'll see what Leonard Floyd has left, and in a month or so we add in Von Miller. But the Bills played Frazier's soft Tampa 2 D, and that let good QBs march down the field on them. The D didn't scare anyone. I'm hoping McD's D is more attacking and unpredictable. As for the Jets, they've been building a very strong D line, they have Sauce Gardner in the back, and their MLB always gives the Bills fits. Bottom line, on paper I don't know which set of players I'd choose. Both are good. If the Jets have an edge, it's in the coaches, where Saleh has done well and we don't know yet how McD will do.

This is all going to come down to which O line is less bad against the opponent's strong D line. I think our O line is somewhat better than the Jets' but the Jets D line is better than ours. Rodgers is mobile in avoiding the pass rush, and he's been a good runner in the past, but I don't think that's his game anymore. Josh will be Josh, hard to contain and a dangerous running threat. Overall I think we have the edge but it's going to be close. Could be the Bills best D is a strong D line, 6 DBs with Rapp playing the large safety usually close to the LOS, and 1 LB (Milano). This puts the green dot on someone's helmet who's not used to having it. But still against a weak O line the Bills strengths are anywhere except MLB.

I'm not going to read through pages of people flaming the OP for this, but I think there's a real point to be made here. Things DO NOT ADD UP. And yet the hero worship of Josh Allen, an excellent QB, will prevent people from acknowledging or even considering whether part of the blame for the Bills' failures the past few years are at his feet. Not all, for sure. The 13 second game was not his fault, it was on the coaches, but even in that game the Bills' offense sputtered in the early going, and caught fire late only after the KC defense got tired. (As did the Bills defense.) The Bills won 13 games last year and really could/should have beaten the Dolphins and Vikings, but don't forget they probably should have lost to the Ravens. The KC offense is almost always ON. Mahomes knows. He knows where the weak points are because he works hard to find them during the week. Allen plays with more spontaneity but that fails more often than Mahomes does. Allen does not have to be this way. He could choose to buckle down and prepare as hard as other top QBs do. Allen's teammates now see him not putting in that effort, and follow the leader. It would be better if he DID put in the effort, and then have the teammates follow THAT. Flame away, Allenites. I'm pointing out what many people not connected to the Bills see.

This was exactly the argument back in the 60s or 70s that forced the NFL to allow home games to be televised in the home market, if sold out 72 hours in advance. The public pays for so much related to the operation of the team that it's wrong to put restrictions on viewing. Of course now the home market can still see home games, but there are so many fans of most teams spread around the country that being a Bills fan should allow a person to get all the Bills games for a reasonable cost on a single streaming service. For this, I'd say NFL Sunday Ticket qualifies. But games on days other than Sundays should also be available, without a separate service or subscription. It's time to rattle Congress's cage about this. And I'll bet if Taylor Swift wanted to buy an NFL franchise, all the other owners (at least all the men) would be happy to let that happen.

Well this sounds great but I can't figure out how to select the Bills. I've looked around in the library and home pages and others and I can't find any place where I can identify the Bills as the team I want to watch. Is this something I should be able to do anytime, or only when they're getting ready to show a game? Appreciate the help.

There's almost exactly zero information in this clip that most Bills or Jets fans didn't already know. It's going to be a tough game either way.

You can't set up the taping schedule days ahead and count on the games being recorded. At least that's what the YouTube representative I called for assistance, told me. She said they've had other complaints about it and were working on it. Well, shoot, if they knew a year in advance that they'd have this business, why are they just getting to this now? I get it. The money we pay for streaming games goes toward the billionaire owners and the millionaire players. Without those TV contracts, there'd be billionaire owners and very wealthy but mostly not millionaire players. Is it all worth that?

Reading all these comments makes me wonder if people realize how badly we've been screwed by the NFL. Look how hard it is to see all the games! Look how many services you need to buy! And reliability goes out the window if a contract dispute you have nothing to do with gets a channel or network pulled off the air. We live in Memphis now and haven't had any CBS coverage for weeks via cable (DirecTV). Not just football, no CBS at all. This year we need YouTube to get Sunday Ticket, but the functionality we used to have is not all there. The hassles and the costs keep going up, and the availability and service keep getting worse.

It's great we have two very good TEs. A 22 formation would be very hard to defend against, with one of the RBs and one of the TEs a very skilled receiver. Lining up as a 22 puts a lot of strength into the running game and with our personnel leaves a very dynamic passing attack.

He played in the last two SBs, against Dallas, in his first two years, and then played eight more years with the Bills before moving to the Arizona Cardinals. He was drafted to shore up an aging O line, and he did a good job, not HOF or even WOF-worthy, but still good.

All these captains are talented, dedicated, hard-working, elite or near-elite. The Bills are trying to promote a core group of leaders to solidify the roster's will to fight. I think this goes back to the playoff loss to the Bengals, where for whatever reason the team came out flat and never recovered. The brass is trying various things to keep the team motivated through the postseason. The risk is that factions will coalesce around various players, and instead of unifying the team, there could be pockets of guys talking only to each other. I hope this works out and the team stays completely unified, while each captain seeks out and destroys slackerhood and defeatism.

There was talk recently that the Bills would lose the 3rd round draft pick for losing Edmunds in FA, if Keenum was cut by the Texans. He (and also Davis Mills) made the Texans' 53 as backups to C.J. Stroud. Does anyone know if that locks up the 3rd round pick for the Bills?

Probably not. The Jets D line is already top notch all across the board. They have other needs.

The Dolphins have serious over-the-cap problems now, with worse ones to come next year. They're trying to do what Beane is trying to do, construct a roster than gets strong and stays strong, year after year. They're facing the same restrictions Beane is facing but haven't had the same success Beane has had.

Two consecutive threads: "OT Quessenberry released", and "Boogie traded to the Giants" Boogie was probably the only DE on the roster that Q could block most of the time, and Q was probably the only OT on the roster that Boogie could beat some of the time. Fina's problem was that he wasn't built like a traditional OT. No big butt, no big belly to give him a strong heavy base. He looked more like a good athlete. Maybe everyone missed a chance by not trying him at tight end. Anyway, he was somewhat better than what Paup indicated, but not great, certainly no.

The league has gone to passing so much at the expense of rushing, but here's a thought. Get back to having halfbacks and fullbacks that all carry the ball. In the years when OJ was so good, Braxton was also a serious running threat. He wasn't just a blocker, like most FBs these days. If Cook is our HB and Harris or some other larger body is the fullback, that enables Cook to get into the passing game while still keeping the fullback in the pocket or to run. That still leaves three spots for WR/TE personnel, which coupled with Cook (or Harty) out of the backfield produces a much more complex offense to defend against.

Well, with Basham gone and Miller out, he's going to get starts and more snaps, and he damn well BETTER show us more. Without a strong pass rush, our deep hole at MLB will be exposed, and we could be 2-2 or worse by the time Miller gets back.

I hear he's a little nicked up. I'm here this weekend.

Which I'm sure he would do, if the Bills brought him back. He is available unless another team has grabbed him.

PSE got to be a very big and complex organization, and with Kim not there to bulldog things, I think it's just too big for Terry to handle alone. The parts of PSE other than the Bills and Sabres will just have to find new homes.

It was very helpful for You Tube to show yesterday's Bills game. I was able to try to watch the game, and couldn't get it to play. I spent about an hour on the phone with a You Tube rep, and we finally got things straightened out. I would be royally pissed if I'd wasted an hour of a regular season game doing that.

That's, cool, but I'm less interested in that, than I am that he sounds like a good high-ceiling project at a position the Bills need and the Browns gave him up for only an anonymous RB. We've got RBs to spare. I wonder if Beane was trying to make this deal and just lost out.

The mystery isn't why he keeps getting cut. The mystery is why he keeps getting signed.

To me, the happy news is that Benford as developed into such a good player, not that Elam hasn't. Elam is not a complete bust, just a guy who's not developing as much as you'd expect from a 1st round pick. He'd probably be playing if Benford hadn't refused to go quietly into the night.

Thanks for the reminder. IIRC Fred used a stiff-arm on his run.