dayman

Meh, not this year. Probably never.

Realism brother. We're highly likely to drop that one, and hopefully we don't **** the bed in London. 4-3 at the bye and we're still alive and doing fine. But that's assuming your boy Sammy shows up for us. As for the McCoy blame game....that's fair too. But he is helped b/c Karlos (when his head is ok) helps us out so well. We could get by without him for quite a while if he came back healthy later on closer to the playoffs ... the same can not be said of Sammy. We need Sammy, fully healthy or not, out there balling, right now, every game.

OBJ has pretty clearly earned his status on the field beyond any doubt.

This is a quality post and I'm glad to see some posters here are willing to say this kind of thing. The bottom line is we all love Sammy and nobody really wants to come out and criticize the guy b/c of that and b/c we all know he's talented and could blow up for us any day. But at some point...the dude has to go out and earn it. And it's just a flat out fact (fair or not to him, I say fair) that he needs to go big and go big often to earn it. He hasn't done it, and it doesn't look like he's poised to do it anytime in the foreseeable future. This kills our potential on offense.

Not really. We aren't beating the Bengals either way, "saving" Sammy Watkins until he feels like it's the first day of training camp isn't a strategy I can get on board with. Dude just needs to play. It isn't optional with him. Even if he just goes out there and pulls coverage and that is all he does...he needs to go out there and do that...every week. If he breaks down to where he literally can't go, then so be it. But we need him out there every game. And frankly, we need him out there doing more than pulling coverage, banged up or not. There are only 16 games...and we almost flushed the season down the toilet today.

We almost dropped one today that would have thrown us in a spiral. There isn't plenty of time. It's extremely frustrating and Sammy gets a pass. Everyone knows the kid is super talented...but it's always a month away to make him click for us on a dominating level.

So like...week 5 of year 3? That's what when we can reasonably stop waking up praying for him to play ball for us consistently?

You know how many other guys go out and play every week, even when banged up and drawing doubles and balling? Not that many, but the ones they do are called stars. It ain't Sammy. True. And I know there have been others, but I haven't started or given them much thought. Today is the end. It is time for this dude to play ball in my book. It's pathetic at this point.

I want to love Sammy...please...say something other than "look at the offense the last few weeks," and "he'll be healthy and play the majority of games some day." Defend Sammy with reasoning if you can (I would love for someone to say something to make me optimistic abou thim again). But we're out there looking terrible and it's b/c he's not able and available (and even when he is...he's not exactly dominating).

I have seen the offense, and I appreciate and have heard this statement over and over the last few weeks. Great. It still doesn't matter. It's pathetic to sit there and say he goes out there and pulls some coverage and that's a success for him...this is a pathetic response to a real discussion about Sammy and his consistent injuries and lack of consistent production. We need and traded for a star...Sammy isn't a star by any stretch. Take off your Bills glasses and watch the league. Learn what a difference maker on offense really looks like. It isn't Sammy.

I'm not calling him a bust, but he's either not playing or playing with limited ability a TON, and when he does play he rarely has a huge effect on the game. Here and there he'll make a big play which is great, but even when healthy and playing he's often not a fixture of the offense who is consistently helping us move the chains. How long will not playing and/or just being a boom or bust (to use fantasy terms) type guy hoping for a big play go on until he's declared a flat out bust? Meanwhile, several other young WRs are blowing up the league.... Again, I'm not calling the kid a bust just yet...but I think he gets a HUGE free pass when it comes time to talk about why the Bills aren't getting it done the way they should. He should be out on the field demanding the ball in a variety of ways and being explosive when he gets it. Instead he's hurt all the time and when out there he does not do enough for what he is supposed to be. It's not all coaching/QB. It's him as well.

Tennessee is terrible and mounted long drive after long drive. They couldn't finish a drive b/c they are terrible, and their coach is a little girl when it comes to going for the jugular. None of that changes the fact that the defense was beat today, play after play. We won this game b/c we played a terrible team. Both sides of the ball lost.

Team looks terrible. Don't know why anyone would take issue with what he said.

Bills 20 Titans 17 This is going to be a tough game. We'll be lucky to win.

Rex is going to need to rework the defense over time. It'll get better this year but not that much better. Ultimately we'll send Kyle Williams packing after this year, draft a bunch of CBs and LBs...and end up the chaos Rex D everyone knows and loves. But right now, and for the rest of this year, we'll be above average but not top like we wanted. It's one of the main reasons we may not make the playoffs. We're too crazy on D.

Rex can't stop the penalties, nobody can.

I just want to point out, if there weren't 7 refs on the field tonight, that meaningless touch of the football could have happened and been recorded and replayed with no ref watching it right there and been a perfect noncall with the right result reached and no real controvercy.

Pressers sucks, you can't hold anything against a coach b/c of pressers. The problems Rex has are the problems the Bills have, not the way he talks about them moments after they happen.

I have been thinking about the flag situation, and some of the issues are actually pretty tough if you think closely about them. Especially in an age of television, dvr, replay, etc. Of course it is easy to tell refs to just call the obvious stuff, but what is obvious and provides an advantage is a tough call. Especially in close games. Rules for a game like football are tough. So a quick wikipedia search surprised me, there are 7 refs on the field. 7. Just take 3 of them away. Thoughts?

I like Taylor, but the offense may be more Taylor-made for guys like Clay, Percy, and Sammy than chains moving guys like Woods.

I hope we go 3-1, and we really should, but I'm thinking it'll likely be 2-2. Could be a weird 2-2 also. I say we beat the Bengals but drop 2 of 3 to the others. A London loss seems like a real possibility for this team even with the Jags being the opponent.

*cosigns

That is a BS excuse and if acceptable means we're screwed b/c we play a lot of teams coming off of bye weeks this year. We play a lot of bad football, it's troubling.

We're .500 so far and obviously have talent and potential. So I get it, the sky is not falling and that isn't what I'm trying to say here. A win is a win, so I won't even peddle some garbage about Indy and Miami looking bad. However, we were blown out by the Pats. Totally dominated despite that little "comeback." I'm sure most will agree with that. Now, of course, you can write that off as "oh, well it's the Pats so whatever." I actually agree with that write off, but the fact remains that we played terrible in addition to playing the Pats. Today, I think we were basically blown out again. Now the problem here is between the penalties and Giants being bad (and thus unable to blow up the score) it's easy to not feel that way. Easy to say we beat ourselves. But I think we should consider this another manhandling and a game where we didn't show up. We couldn't run the ball today, and the Giants got enough on the ground to really help them against our "great D." We couldn't move the chains early today, and the Giants did enough early against our "great D." We couldn't finish drives, and the Giants scored 24 points. We couldn't control our penalties and...well...neither could the Giants but we were SO bad in this metric that it was still a clear advantage for them. Our offensive play calling was suspect for huge swaths of the game. Our defense was randomly gashed at terrible times. We lacked urgency. I would go as far to say we were physically dominated. My point here is, we're bi-polar. We flat out don't show up sometimes. Half the time, to be exact. That's a huge problem. It's a lot on coaching and it's also a lot on the players. Importantly, I don't see us fixing this, and b/c of that I think we'll be lucky to compete for the final wildcard spot. What we saw today is what we are this year. We're going to play well sometimes, and show flashes, and get penalized and win 9 games and miss the playoffs. That is what today reveals.

Bills better keep playing desparate or they will get caught today.