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But what is your point with the chart? Davis has basically replaced the combination of Sanders and himself from last season. How is Davis' yards per route this year versus that combination? Were the drops and INT% that high? McKenzie has replaced Beasley? How is that working out statistically? The chart itself doesn't change the narrative that Davis has been a disappointment and that McKenzie isn't good. McKenzie has been the final target on 6 important drive killing plays this season. That's a lot for a guy with his measly production. He's been lousy.

If he doesn't play is he becoming a Tre Madonna?

Tailgating. Of course. I understand this post is a little joke for people who don't attend the games but who gives a f#ck what you guys are doing on gameday if you aren't at the stadium anyway? It's about as interesting as you talking about your fantasy teams. It's generally assumed that you just do dumb sh!t like play golf(eball) and maturbate(dablitzkrieg). Is it not?

Bills played a stupid game........and got stupid prizes........penalties and a QB injury. No team has ever played a great game and lost because of officiating............teams play themselves into close games and then fate/human error play a larger role. Some people will never be able to accept this reality but that's OK with the NFL............nothing bonds fans to their team like the perception of outside injustice affecting a result.

Well, in fairness you didn't know that "blitzkrieg" was a Nazi term and you thought the Ramones were an Italian family..........I mean........it gets worse than being told to use Google. Get over it.

The latter would be incorrect. Times were much different 50 years ago and they likely wouldn't have stopped excavation if they found some old bone fragments and deliberately shaped stone tools or whatever. Don't ask don't tell. Beside that the ground was long farmed by non-natives before that and any burial site was probably plowed up and sorted out with the stones long prior. There isn't any curse on the Bills but there are a lot of people who like to feel sorry for themselves......and franchises that never win a title.....like the Bills haven't..........are magnetic to sad-sacks like that. Yeah I think he might have sprained an optic nerve during the bye week.

They are in their annual McDermott mid-season malaise so yeah I'd be fine with Keenum starting and the team have to focus on the fundamentals offensively and realizing that they actually have to tackle somebody now on defense. The effort in run defense the past two games has been horrific. McDermott needs to find an answer to this BS..........the players treat him like a substitute teacher every November.

No. It was after the long Allen TD run. And it was loud. The Bills chants going into the game were loud too and Jets fans really didn't try to shout it down. Unfortunately a high % of people that show up for road games get into things like that.........but don't automatically cheer for the team on defense. Tourists. We travel well but there are a lot of ex-pats who just use it as an excuse to visit places like Nashville, LA, NYC etc.. Getting many of them to show up in Buffalo in December? Not happening.

Maybe where you were sitting. The upper deck I would characterize as majority Bills fans with some Jets fans sprinkled in. I couldn't believe it. There were also a lot of Bills fans incognito wearing black Bills gear or Salute to Service camo clothes and mixed Bills/Mets/Yankees clothes. Likely afraid of being in the minority and being harassed in their red, white and blue. Not a lot of Jets green at all. And it was a late arriving Jets crowd at that. Midway thru the 1st quarter there were tons of empty seats. They were quite convinced they were going to lose, IMO.

The PA guy on 3rd down is particularly loud and drags it out a lot more at Met Life though. The Jets fans need it........they aren't easily fired up. It's annoying but so is the train whistle. Our PA guy could use the juice that the Jets guy has though.........especially as the crowd is getting more entitled and reserved by the week.........as is to be expected when you presume victory every week.

Yeah if going to a Bills game is only an occasional event then that's probably the case.............but I think if you are a person who attends 10+ games per year..........it's better to lose in person than watching it on TV. Just easier to get over the loss quicker in the atmosphere. Plus, having been in the stands you at least know you did your part if you made noise, etc.. Unfortunately these Bills fan occupations don't seem to move the players any longer. It used to fire them up. Now they just seem to expect it and don't feed off of the extra energy like they should, IMO.

Yeah but they were literally saying it........everywhere. They really lack an identity. After the win they played "Sweet Caroline"..........which is the Boston Red Sox song.

Are you concussed? He literally got concussed twice in that system this year. 😂 I asked you for an example of longevity being increased "astronomically" in a Shanahan style system.........as you put it. Maybe you are a little too emotional to be having this discussion......... Now the idea of adding another superstar receiver for Allen to throw to instead of the enigmatic Gabe Davis...........yeah I can get behind that.

So I was at the game yesterday and could not believe the amount of Bills fans. I was expecting 10K-15K with the Jets being good this year...........but half the place was Bills fans. Jets fans were in stunned disbelief themselves. Unfortunately.........it wasn't a boisterous group of Bills fans.........lotta' "look I'm a Bills fan" tourists taking selfies and getting up mid play to go get ice cream and other nonsense. Too many sat on their hands all day unless Jordan Phillips ran around and briefly fired them up. Got loud very late though and that helped on that last sack of Wilson.........but it was not a great noise showing considering the numbers. On the plus side there wasn't much taunting going out of the game because it was a largely split crowd. How do you taunt an opponent that occupies your stadium like that? Lot 26 was packed and rocking with Bills fans in particular.

Yes.........injuries like that. The Jets have been decimated too. And it's the defensive side of the ball where the Bills have so heavily invested in depth. The backups at CB, edge and WLB are 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks. Why Tre White isn't back is a f*cking mystery but at 11 months post-op next week...... it's time to stop saying he is injured. He's not.

Timing with what? Even though it's unusual for any QB to have suffered 2 UCL injuries my point is that he's taken a ton of punishment.....not that an arm injury alone is going to end his career. He could have TJ surgery tomorrow and come back throwing stronger than ever in 2024. That's the way TJ often works.........pitchers come back throwing harder. It's about the hard miles in general.

Give me another recent example of this working. Jimmy G? Trey Lance? Jared Goff? Matthew Stafford is playing some of the worst football of his career in year 2 in McVay's similar system. Nowhere in the Mike/Kyle Shanahan history has their offense ever been known to not get QB's hit. The first and easiest fix was address the WR position aggressively in either of the past 2 offseasons. Didn't happen.

Yeah it was astonishing how useless Cam became. It's hard to determine which really came first........his arm turning to jello or his brain. I'm by no means predicting an immediate end for Allen but the reality is that McBeane have endeavored to have 2 of everything on defense and yet on offense they are happy with Diggs, Dawkins and some guys. By rights........they should be able to beat Minnesota and Cleveland at home and Detroit on TG with Keenum at QB...........they have the most invested-in defense in the NFL in terms of dollars and premium draft picks. Every team has injuries.

Yeah it doesn't work that way. Can't rollback the odometer. The hits are just fine until suddenly they are not. That's why those with longevity in mind don't take them. McBeane chose to build this team around the defensive side of the ball.........just as those at their previous jobs in Carolina did. Whether that turns out to have been the right decision remains to be seen but it's all-in this season one way or another. Next year the parts start falling off and the degree of difficulty increases.

I think it's time people start revising their expectations of Josh Allen being an elite QB for "the next 10 years". No QB that has taken a beating anything close to Allen has been elite past their year 8 season.........this is year 5 for him. Maybe he defies the odds and makes it another 10 years as a top 5 QB but this also might be his best shot at a SB..........it's by no means a given that a long career of All Pro level football remains ahead.

He could have partially torn his UCL and thrown that pass. That would qualify as an elbow sprain. I think he did that to some extent against Houston in 2019. Depending on how serious the tear is he could play thru that. Former Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka partially tore his UCL and has pitched with it like that for like 6-7 years now. He intentionally doesn't throw as hard to protect it but would throw harder when he needed to. The UCL is more likely to tear entirely once it's partially torn and really never heals completely without reconstruction but he might be able to finish the season.

Oh they should have tried to draft a QB? Same ownership that reached an AFC Championship game with a veteran QB and then positioned themselves a couple years later to draft Peyton Manning and then Andrew Luck and subsequently had almost 20 years of mostly All Pro level QB play should have drafted a QB? If Josh Allen retires unexpectedly in July with an expensive veteran team having been built around him then I guess Brandon Beane should have drafted a QB in round 1 of the 2023 draft as well. If anyone knows how to re-set their QB position.........it's the Colts.

I did not realize that I will have to learn more about the Lovecraft story. Yeah I actually liked Prometheus a lot as a stand alone...........but it being tied to Covenant really dashed the great start of Prometheus. That just turned into a meh Alien sequel movie. I thought maybe Prometheus would be a trilogy and often the second one is the best in those. It was a let down.

Nobody said they were a shoe-in this summer. They were one of the smallest SB favorites ever coming into the season. Around 7% chance to win the SB in the betting world. By contrast the 2018 Patriots entered the season with Vegas giving them an 18% chance. As it's turned out.........what was supposed to be the mostly hotly contested AFC and perhaps conference since the merger has not turned out that way. So they gained some ground as a favorite in September and October. But ultimately nothing is different than last year. The Bills were a trendy SB pick last year........they took care of KC on the road and looked like the AFC favorite while they ran up by far the largest point differential in the NFL.......but ruined their hopes of home field with an inexplicable month plus stretch where they just looked disinterested.

Some of you have no memory whatsoever. This happens every season under McDermott.........starting with the epic mid-season collapse in 2017............whatever it is, he fails to push the right buttons and they play bad football for about a month or so. Doesn't feel different in the least. Past two weeks have been lousy, unfocused efforts. Lucky to come out of it 1-1 given that neither opponent was 2021 Jacksonville Jaguars bad. If they were a road warrior playoff team it wouldn't matter.........because he usually has them tuned back up for the finish...........but he's 0-4 on the road in the playoffs so it would behoove the McBeane regime to figure out how to bypass the mid-season vacation this team takes every year. You could hear his understanding of this ongoing issue in his postgame last night. All 5 years that they've been competitive(save 2018 when they were terrible at the outset and never in contention) under McDermott the same thing has happened at the same point of each season.