BADOLBILZ

Yeah that was a great game but it was the 1998 season. This season the NFL playoffs will be played in 2023...........that's how it works.

I was actually a Moulds fan but I have to speak the truth on the guy. He is SO overrated by some folks here. That 1998 season was still the most dominant season by a Bills WR ever, IMO..........he couldn't be stopped. But overall, he wasn't close to the player Diggs is, IMO. Moulds was a rare balance of incredible power and very good speed in 1998......but put on close to 10# of muscle going into 1999........much of it in the legs......and it noticeably slowed him down. Agree with the part about subpar QB's feeding him relentlessly.........he had more passes thrown to him when he was covered like a blanket than any WR in Bills history. For one great season he was probably the best receiver the Bills have ever had........but overall he was just a very good one.

MUST signing by Yankees. Drop in the bucket of upwards of $1B in revenues for by far the most profitable team in the sport. Need to get that payroll up over $300M. Pay the Cohen tax, Hal. Yeah some teams win with small payrolls.........for a while........but you can't expect to field a winning team for 30 straight years and build thru a draft where you never pick anywhere near the top.

Sure and if the Bills can just win 8 straight.........a very reasonable expectation at some point in a #1 seed season for the team that entered it as the consensus SB favorite.........then they will have the #1 seed in the AFC this season. I'm well aware of ALL of the seasons that have been had by teams that attained the #1 seed. I don't have "Bills myopia".....I follow the NFL in real time every season like that. There are many combinations to get to the minimum .750 win % or better that has been needed for 39 of the past 40 #1 seeds to get the job done. But the problem for the Bills has been that they have had the same issue at midseason EVERY year. It's not a "well that year this and this year that" thing........it's a habit. This season with just 2 consecutive losses and a last second escape in Detroit they seem to have avoided the more serious damage that they self inflicted in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021 when that slump resulted in 3-5 losses EVERY time. They dodged a similar bullet in 2020 when they appeared to be about to lose a 3rd game in a month to the Patriots before Justin Zimmer stripped Cam Newton in the closing minute as he was heading toward the end zone and a 7th straight Patriots win over Sean McDermott. They still lost a 3rd in Arizona before their bye........but they didn't bury their home field hopes entirely in their malaise like they did in 2021.

In each of the seasons the Bills have been competitive under McDermott they have had a mid-season malaise. Typically that involves unforeseen home "no show" asskjickings to teams like Philly or Indy..........or a stunning loss like the 9-6 defeat to the worst team in football last season. This season their malaise lasted 5 games with the damage being stunningly blowing huge second half leads to the Jets and Vikings in back to back weeks. As I've said before.......if you expect to finish with the #1 seed in one of these season you need to have one where you do not string together month plus long stretches like that. Of the last 40 #1 seeds in either conference in the NFL only ONE has finished with a sub .750 win %.

I'm glad we can agree that 52% is awful..........but I wouldn't exactly say calling out those guys numbers is being fair. The very top WR catch% guys are DeAndre Hopkins and Cooper Kupp at around 76%..............Metcalf all the way down at 91st overall still catches 67% of his targets. Davis is a freakin' country mile away from the pack at 52%. And it's not an outlier. When he was facing teams 3rd and 4th CB's in his first 2 seasons he was a 55% catch guy.

Gabriel Davis also 183rd out of 192 receivers in catch %.

Yeah he's totally fallen off the cliff because he's at a major disadvantage in the pocket............and now he can't do much outside of it anymore. It is also cautionary tale about a QB who took a beating playing that style for 10 years...........whether it's dropping off a cliff like Wilson or more gradually turning into a liability like Big Ben.........a lot of that could have been avoided with less wear and tear than they(and their teams) subjected themselves to. The sooner the Bills can get JA17 converted back into the pocket passing version of 2020 the better for his long term outlook.

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.