Utah John

The QB probably didn't want to have an incompletion messing up his passing statistics.

Henry doesn't get more than a few yards on that long run if the Bills defenders weren't held. McKenzie makes the exact same play if Smith doesn't hold his guy on the kickoff return.

Welcome to Buffalo, OJ. Betcha didn't see anything like THIS is SoCal.

I have no idea how good Warring is, but if they bring him up just for a couple of games and he shows real promise, the Bills will have to decide whether to put him back on the PS and risk someone else signing him away; or the Bills could keep Warring on the active roster and cut/PS/IR/trade someone else.

Thanks for digging that up. I remember Kelce as never looking back at his time in Detroit. He was 100% a Bill, and committed to the success of the team. Really a great player and a great man.

Go rewatch this game sometime. Both offenses struggled because both teams had great defenses. I told a buddy at work that whoever won this game was going to the SB, and I was right. Johnson did enough for the Bills to win, and when he left the field the Bills were winning. It wasn't just a gunner on the right side. Our entire KO team swung to the middle and left of the field, leaving the right completely exposed. If the Bills had done their jobs, they would have won that game, and I stand by my prediction that the winner of that game would go to the SB. Of course the Titans didn't win the SB and there's no guarantee the Bills would have, either, but the Bills team that year was loaded with talent. Of course they let the three big players (Bruce, Thurman, and Andre) all walk after the season.

Beasley's our Kelce. Gets open consistently to move the chains, and can hurt a defense if it doesn't take him seriously. Waller is a freak of nature, and if he ever gets everything figured out, he'll be unstoppable all by himself. Knox isn't used like the Chiefs use Kelce. Instead he's simply a big play threat, hard to cover, like a WR who's not as fast but is powerful and hard to block out. Kelce catches three balls for every one Knox catches, and that's fine.

Hell, as I get older, I do that to keep both hands on the railing.

Does anyone recall how we acquired Spielman? He was NOT washed up when he was on the Bills, but then he got hurt and I think that was about it.

Well, Williams might not be as good as a guard as he as a tackle, but Ford needed to sit and the best way to handle that was to move Williams inside. Brown is doing great at RT. So the bottom line is Ford + Williams <<< Williams + Brown.

The next opponent is Miami, a train wreck of a team but one that has two great CBs. Using four WRs to be sure someone's open seems like a good approach. I still think the best thing is to IR Knox. The next three opponents are all lousy, and the Bills should not need him to win easily.

Granted that the Browns O line made it possible for their 3rd string RB Johnson to get started, but he had a lot to do with his own success as well. Good sharp decisive cuts, finding gaps past the LOS, and really working for clutch 1st downs on their final drive. And he had the play almost at the end where he broke free and instead of scoring he went down on his own, to let his team run out the clock. Maybe this game was it for him, the big chance to play on a national stage against a truly sucky opponent. Whatever you want to say, he grabbed the opportunity. FWIW, I don't think Moss or Motor would have had as good a game as Johnson, with the same O line, the same play calls, the same alignments, etc. They just don't find the breaks in the D like Johnson did tonight.

The next three games are Dolphins, Jags, Jets. I don't think we need to rush Knox back for those games. IR him, let him recover fully, and let's see what Warring or Sweeney can do in the meantime.

Davis played great last year, no question, but teams were mostly concerned about Diggs so Davis was open for those great sideline catches. This year Sanders is the 1B to Diggs' 1A, and opposing teams are really stuck. Neither of them will lead the league in catches, but with Beasley and Knox as well as Davis all in the mix, the Bills as a team could lead the league in passing offense.

The aspect of having the D line wear down, giving the opposing offense the advantage, is I think why McBeane went for such a deep and good D line, rather than a D line with one or two really good players and the rest not up to par. Not that this has always worked out. No sacks of Tennessee, after the Jets got seven? And after Lewan got hurt? At that point I would have traded half the D line for one great pass rusher.

Your comments here are pretty accurate but not relevant to the signing of Sanders. I think the O line will be next year's Beane project. He has built a strong and deep roster across the board, so he doesn't need to play whackamole to fill egregious gaps. Instead he sees where we need to improve the most and addresses the need in a logical and cost-effective way. I too am disappointed in Feliciano's play this year. He lost a lot of weight in the offseason which seems like a stupid thing to do, since he's no longer able to bulldoze DTs.

The Bills offense is better this year. The passing game improved a little beyond what was already deadly, and the running game has improved from C minus to C. Sanders has a lot to do with the overall improvement. (So has Knox of course.) And, he's an experienced leader where I don't think Smoke was the same.

Beane has given the D line a great deal of attention and investment. We still need another big 1-tech DT. As for the O line, many of us have felt that in his plans, next year's draft is when he'll beef up that line. Skinny Feliciano isn't cutting it, Darryl Williams is a tackle not a guard and so isn't going to be optimal, and Morse hasn't played up to the level of his salary. Dawkins is good, but we need better than good at LT.

The Bills ranking didn't fall much because they showed against the Titans pretty much what everyone thought. All year they've passed easily up and down the field, didn't run particularly well except for Allen's yards, struggled in the red zone, done well on pass defense and struggled to contain a strong rushing attack. We saw the same strengths and weaknesses on Monday night that the rest of the league already knew about, and that's all been baked into the overall evaluation of the team. Even if they'd beaten the Titans the same strengths and weaknesses were right out there for all to see. The Bills are a strong and deep team. We have a great rest of the season and postseason to look forward to. EVERY team has flaws and some positions where they're not as good as somewhere else. On Monday our O line and D line didn't do as well as they sometimes have. They're still a strong and deep team. Arizona is playing better than we are right now and deserves the top spot.

Cookie's career was messed up, missing out on college ball because he was tricked into signing a semi-pro baseball contract. With better coaching and today's training, he would have been just as good as Henry and even (forgive me my sins) Jim Brown. But he was what he was. And he didn't play that long after the Bills traded him to Denver.

McDermott saw the Titans score on their last six or seven possessions. His defense wasn't stopping them. The Colts-Ravens OT game was won/lost on the coin flip. Once the Ravens got the OT KO, the game was over. McDermott wasn't going there. It would have been a much more devastating loss for the Bills' morale to lose that way. I completely agree with the decision to go for it on 4th down. I don't agree with the call. Instead of getting into a contest of who's more manly on the LOS, be smart and fake the sneak and run wide, or pass. Also, the first few drives the Titans couldn't do anything. It looked like they were not going to score a lot. Taking the first two FGs was the smart move. It didn't work out because something changed during the game. I'll wait for the all-22 but I'm thinking the Titans changed their blocking scheme and the Bills had no answer. The last couple of drives, the Bills made the choice for Tannehill very easy on every down. If Edmunds played close to the LOS to help stop Henry, a play action worked every time for an easy completion to Brown over the middle. If Edmunds backed out, he'd hand off to Henry. This was not rocket science. For a professional defense, whether ranked as the top D or not, not to be able to handle this, was very disappointing.

That's all true. And, the FG against the Lions came when the officials let the Ravens not be penalized for delay of game - the clock ran out at least 1.5 seconds before their previous snap, And their miracle comeback against the Colts came after all the Colts' CBs were hurt. (Note, the Ravens took full advantage of that, and the Bills didn't.) The Ravens are a good team but will lose games in their division.

Yep. As I and others, he missed a lot of open receivers tonight. On his third sack, he had a wide open checkdown in the right flat with lots of green space in front of him. But he had decided he was going to go deep.

Only one undefeated team has ever won the Super Bowl so 2 or 3 or 4 losses out of 17 is not bad. We're in good shape, barring injuries or covid surprises.

We are NOT one dimensional. It happens that the Titans D line is good against the run, and their secondary is all injured, so passing tonight was the better choice. Against other teams, the Bills have run about as well as most teams (not as well as the Titans or Browns).