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Allen has been doing Davis favors for years now by buying time and allowing Davis to get open much more often than he would be with a QB who is cutting the ball loose at 2.5 seconds regularly. Davis simply hasn't stepped up this season. He was expected by MANY to emerge as a $30M type WR1 that fans were going to lament not being able to pay after the 2023 season...........in fact he's been the same inconsistent, foot injury plagued guy.......but now he can't get open as easily or often because he is finally playing against CB1 and CB2 type coverage regularly. So Allen is giving him chances to make plays in coverage that very good WR's make.......and he's not been making them. His drop % has come down from a terrible figure of almost 20% in the past two weeks so maybe he has fixed some of the shaky technique that has plagued him. The Jets game will be a good test for him.........he's dropped a ton of passes against them the last two games. Last year he had that woeful 14 target/3 catch game against them in Buffalo and then the game in the Meadowlands where he really failed big time.

That was kinda' the problem last year though too..........the Bills didn't play to their potential at midseason while the Bengals were surging........and that allowed Cinci to catch and move ahead of them in the seeding(#3) and then manipulate their way to #4 by tanking their finale so that they instead lined up with a punchless TN team in the second round instead of KC.

1) And yet it's not..........winter tends to make the world feel smaller and subsequently brings people together and bonds them to their area.........like bad officiating does to fans and their teams. 2) Yes, if they aren't Cuban and you run into them in a Publix there is a good chance they are from those cities(SLC and Portland aside, those people are in Arizona).

Prior to the Bears......the franchise with the most "all-time" wins was the Buffalo All-Americans........who had been coming off a few really good seasons.

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Yeah........reminds me of when @eball quit his 26 year season tickets in disgust with it all in spring of 2017. Then team starts winning. @letsgoteam are you going to be starting fan-shaming threads to re-establish your undying loyalty now as well? I'm girding my loins just in case. 😟

Yes. Channel 7 I believe they said on WGR today.

Very different play in so many ways.

Yeah I'm told da players removed all da snow by demsvelves...........that's da only reason da two Detroit games was even close.

This is stuff fans think about far more than players. The players are worried about their own individual jobs with regard to contracts. And there are players getting released and signed at the bottom of the roster every week yet somehow fans only concern themselves with how the movement at the top of the roster must look to the locker room. The majority of the team wants to see the team go for a Super Bowl then and there and let the chips fall where they may thereafter.

He also looked like he was about to make a catastrophic mistake about 20 times. Jimmy G is a huge loss for the 49ers.........no sugar coating it.

Are you another one of our resident douchebags who can't make it professionally in Buffalo so they live down south........but still want to tell me about how hard snow removal is?

Claiming that the expectations were "placed" on them implies that they didn't expect more from themselves. The team realized that they blew it last year while playing an easy/favorable schedule while dealing with very few injuries and then ending teets-up in Arrowhead again. Their stated goal from the outset was to actually achieve home field this time around. It wasn't lip service. They just lost their focus at mid-season again and now they don't control their own destiny in that regard.

Yeah I didn't think you intended to, but since that's the way it read...........and since this is the internet.........I gotta' make it clear that I never said it was easy. Otherwise people who didn't read the first 3 pages jump in and start demanding that I explain how it was so easy. The OP crafted it like this was some herculean task for a SB contending team..........it wasn't. Frankly...........just one trip to Europe sandwiched between 2 other Sunday games would have been more challenging than a couple puddle jumps to Detroit and a quickie to Boston.

It's the truth........they replaced Daryl Williams with Rodger Saffold(a worse pass blocker and better run blocker) and Quessenberry literally allowed the most sacks of any tackle in the NFL in 2021 but had a GREAT 80 PFF pass blocking grade. Spencer Brown and Dion Dawkins are both much better run blockers than pass protectors........Brown more notably because he's truly horrible in pass pro at this stage of his career.

Not easy? I was debating the "unprecedented" nature of the adversity and now I'm accused of saying it was "easy"? To paraphrase Dick Jauron......"it's not easy to win in the NFL". And despite it not being easy........when you've already lost several games you were heavy favorites in...........you then gotta' win the rest of the games you are supposed to against very flawed opponents like 2022 versions of Cleveland/Detroit/NE if you want to be the top seed in your conference. To illustrate that point........in the last 20 years only one NFL team in EITHER conference has earned that #1 seed distinction with a sub .750 win %........and that was the Titans last year. The standard is clearly higher than "not easy".

In reality they are "built for this". They have assembled an OL of primarily run blocking specialists and they have invested 3 day two draft picks into RB's......then traded one of them and another pick for an upgrade.........and their QB is a great runner. What they aren't built for is for a QB to sit in the shotgun running a spread offense and dissect a defense thru the air. They can't pass block for sh*t and aside from Diggs their WR/TE group isn't very easy to complete passes to.

Allen saw that Sweeney was failing right away and was already on his way to the right. It was a bad block and then a bad hold. In fairness, Sweeney had a great block on a run player earlier where he took out two defenders. A little less handsy on the end and the flag doesn't get thrown on that bomb.

I don't know what it takes to quit my season tickets because the Bills hired an unproven DC from Carolina to be their next HC? To create fan-shaming LAMP's on TSW while day drinking box wine and peanut butter whiskey because of my guilt over hastily withdrawing my financial support of the franchise? You definitely know better than me what it takes to do those things.

Because here's your quote: 1. Because practices have nothing whatsoever to do with them traveling to Detroit. Were they too over-rested from not practicing a couple days before to nap on the 40 minute flight? 2. And "they had to get shoveled out" by some other people is of what great consequence to their ability to play a game that they arrived the day before to play? As I said........the exaggeration by some of you mother hens is priceless.

You act like these guys had to dig their own walkways to the airport and got in just before game time. They got picked up at or near their homes and took a puddle jump flight to play an inferior opponent in a climate controlled environment. The biggest issue was that they were still in their midseason malaise.........which is on them. They played down to their opponent in both of those Detroit games. Last night they were much healthier started to get back on track but still aren't executing at a high level offensively again.

So we have negotiated it down from "unprecedented" to "a big deal"? If there was even one game in that batch where they weren't a significant favorite to win.........then it might have been "a big deal". They were actually fortunate that they got these 3 overmatched opponents at the tail end of their annual mid-season malaise. Allen versus Goff/Brissett/Mack10 should be 3-0 every time. They took care of business and didn't let missing a couple practices lead to an upset loss after being upset in two consecutive games.........that's the reality.

Edmunds is having by far his best season. He's been very good. His weaknesses are still his weaknesses though. He doesn't make any plays on the football whatsoever and until that changes dramatically it will relegate him into the various levels of "good" rather than into the "great" category. He's been as uninstinctive wrt the football as any LB I've ever seen. He misses EVERY opportunity to make a play on the football that is presented. And he really struggles to get off blocks and can turn into a tumbleweed when OL get to the second level because of it.........leaving the Bills vulnerable to long run plays.

Yeah if it's a road game for the opponent as well........it's not a road game..........it's a neutral site game.........like the Super Bowl. And the flight to Detroit is like 40 minutes. To Boston is like an hour. The travel aspect was insignificant. In fact, they got two controlled environment games during flu season and a pleasant evening weather game in New England. The hyperbole is out of control. If they had lost any of those games it would have been a huge disappointment.

Again..........almost every team that plays on a Thursday is playing their 3rd game in 12 days...........Sunday to Sunday to Thursday = 12. Nice job taking care of business against 3 inferior opponents on the road...........the rest is hyperbole.