OldTimer1960

Need the ground game to materialize, Allen is too raw to thrive without it.

Going south - Allen is rattled

About as bad a way to start as possible. Must stay with the run game oriented offense. Can’t have 3 straight passes and punt.

3rd and 14 converted can’t happen.

This team cannot possibly compete when they don’t win the turnover battle. McCloud can’t be put out there again.

Here comes the deluge

Welp, that drive evaporated under penalties.

Again, if true -AND- there isn’t something else Benjamin is working on, then I think he’ll get the Dareus treatment soon (traded for little or cut). When the team’s identity is try-hard and a starter isn’t, they won’t be able to stand for that. Need to be careful here, context of Benjamin’s response is important and we don’t know what that was. Could have been “No man, I’m working with the trainer”

Hope you are right, but I fear their offense could explode today. D needs to carry the day as they did last week.

They have to find a way to get more from the passing game, but I don’t think there is enough to work with to accomplish that. Zay Jones seems to be coming along, but Benjamin is just taking up space and not contributing. They need some some quick passes where Allen is confident in the route, even if they don’t gain a lot of yards. Longer developing routes will be a big problem against the Houston D who will be focused on stopping the run and daring the Bills to beat them passing. if they fall behind early it could snowball as it has a few times already this season.

I think we are in for a long day against Houston. They are a much better team than their record indicates (IMHO) and aside from the miracle in Minny and a win fueled only by three turnovers, I think the Bills are not as good as their 2-3 record.

I would only *consider* trading him to the Eagles if they got a 2nd for him or if they plan to send Allen to the bench (and then have to draft another QB prospect). Leaving Allen in the lineup with no WRs, no OL and no RB would be a death sentence for his career, yet benching him now is also likely the same.

I don’t know if Anderson is here to mentor or play, but I strongly believe that the Bills’ handling of their expensive (draft capital) rookie QB was poorly thought out. They clearly initially did not want him to play early as they had him taking 3rd team reps for most of camp. However, they completely failed to have a viable stop-gap veteran starter available to play now. Now, with him being forced to play with no other option and a (understandably) very poor supporting cast, it is a certifiable disaster playing an extremely raw rookie behind a very poor OL with literally no NFL starting caliber WR. It is almost as if they are trying to ruin him and have him run out of town before he even understands what life in the NFL is about. I am generally OK with Beane and McDermott, but this appears to me to be a MAJOR mistake. Now, they can’t really backtrack and bench him without most assuming that Allen is a bust. I don’t see a scenario where Allen could reasonably have a chance to recover if he is benched for career backup Anderson. Fans and media would pile on and Allen’s psyche would likely be destroyed. How very unfortunate that the front office could not realize that if the plan was to sit Allen (as Patrick Mahomes was) that they needed a viable veteran alternative.

I would think that having the most punts downed inside the 20 could negatively affect hang time stat as those are generally shorter punts. The inside the 20 stat is important. I am not saying he is great, but you can see the leg strngth. Some more experience and he could be pretty good. Besides, of all the problems that this team has, punter is not in the top 10.

Never understood why that signing was SO unpopular. Ivory has a lot of miles on him, but he showed he still has some left today. His runs were important and his physicality helped equal the tone that the D set.

I stand corrected. Great running drive!

Just watch. I’m hoping, but definitely not expecting a drive by this offense.

Game over...

Is there a NFL WR on this team? Holmes’ fault all the way.

End of this drive

Make up call

Terrible call

Well, last year’s defense lacked talent. They needed to shore up the D

Why didn’t they try that half-fake FG play? I’m sure other teams will copy that play now that they’ve shown it.

Here it comes - the halftime deficit