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Pats will be the #2 in this division for many years.
Drake Maye will be a good QB in this league.
Dolphins and Jets will be rebuilding over the next few years.
Our dominance will continue.
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The Allen haters are quietly coming around, albeit with a lot of resistance.
Now the McDermott haters! Those people will need at least two Super Bowls before admitting they were wrong.
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14 minutes ago, Rockinon said:
The Bills lost to them because they lost several defenders to injury during the game. Jacksonville's time of possession was 38:12 vs Buffalo's 21:48. The score was only 25-20. I don't think they are anywhere near Josh's headspace, other than wanting another crack at them.
I look forward to kicking their ass next Monday and putting an end to the Jacksonville talk.-
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If we go on a great run, Brady and Babich could be interviewed after this year.
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There's a mental sickness in the people who don't want to give Allen the props he deserves.
I've been following Twitter and I'm seeing people go from "He's a turnover machine!" to "He's the #2 QB in the league!" pretty quickly. They're just not emotionally ready to consider placing him above Mahomes in anyway. It's an emotional thing. "Allen has to beat Mahomes in the playoffs!" as if 13 seconds never happened, and everybody beats Mahomes in the regular season like Allen does, or like we weren't a centimeter away from throwing a TD to Shakir last year. None of it actually makes sense. It's a nuance subject at least, but people don't want to deal with that.
From the true hater side, I've been seeing narratives like "Why does he need to do that? He'll get hurt" after the Cardinals hurdle. And now my favorite "There are no good QBs in the league anymore, I miss the 2000s!".
It's like, if there is even a chance Allen is the best in the league, then it's because the league sucks and not that Allen is that good. And when he does something amazing, instead of saying "Holy sh*t that was unbelievable!" they'll say things to make it seem like it was weird or unnecessary.
All of this is classic haterade done for millenniums on all the greats. When the guy you hate is doing really good, start looking under the couch for quarters. Anything to keep them from getting the props they deserve. But they're clearly on their heels now, and every week the haters get more and more creative. It's a sickness.
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I've made the conscious decision to have faith in every player on this team.
I realized that faith is a choice, and not dependent on outside circumstances. And furthermore, people respond to people having faith in them.
"Losing confidence" in a psyche oriented position like Kicker isn't going to do my psyche any good, and definitely not his. And it's not like it's my call if we should get another one. So I just faith and confidence.
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Just now, HappyDays said:
Not taking anything away from the defensive performance but Tua flat out missed a lot of open receivers today and had two really boneheaded interceptions. He gave his team no chance tonight.
Allen on the other hand didn't need to be a superhero tonight but the pressure he put on them helped put the game out of reach early.
We took advantage of the other team’s errors.
Just like the Pats always did.
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I had a moment today. I had total faith in Allen to convert a 3rd down, and he did.
This must be what Pats fans and Niners fans felt when Brady or Montana were in their prime.
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6 hours ago, folz said:
Josh is a generational, dual-threat QB. And being a QB means he touches the ball on every offensive play. So, it will always look like Josh is doing everything...because he is just that good at everything he does.
Even if he had a team of all-stars around him, Josh would still be doing what he's doing. You just wouldn't be able to claim that it was because of a lack of talent around him.
P.S. Our talent-level is fine. Also, it was game one and Josh is still getting comfortable with his new weapons. Remember, Shakir was the only WR who had caught a pass from Josh in a game prior to Sunday. And as Josh said in his post-game interview, Keon was open in the end zone on one of his rushing TDs, but he decided to take it in himself. Maybe his competitive nature made him make that decision, because Keon was a rookie in his first game. But as they all get more comfortable with each other and the WRs keep making plays, Josh will trust his weapons more and more and not feel he has to do as much maybe.
Generational is right.
I think this is the year the sports world realizes it.
My prediction is most NFL stars have a down year in 2024 while Allen has an up year.
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7 hours ago, transplantbillsfan said:
Groot gets all the attention and deservedly so, but he already basically exceeded what he did for the entire season last year in one game.
When Von was on the field, you noticed him. 1 sack and 1 TFL as his impact plays aside, he was consistently a menace in the backfield. And anyone who doesn't want to give him credit for that sack should go watch the play again because he bull rushed the Tackle right into Murray, which caused it.
I was pretty confused at the amount of people saying things like "he has something like a 5% chance to do anything this season."
Who knows what his sack production is for the rest of the season, but barring injury, he clearly looks like he'll be a net positive for our DL.
Hope the Von doubters find that Crow tasty
This is why people have gotten rich in the stock market for centuries.
The public is prone to such absolute emotional swings, you can buy low and sell high. They simply never learn.
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Because WGR attracts idiots. It says more about the hosts than the listeners in my opinion.
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8 minutes ago, No_Matter_What said:
After beating the Cards today, Josh has beaten 30 teams.
So only Eagles remain.
We are scheduled to meet them in 2027. We might play them in 2025 if they manage to end up at the same spot at their division as Bills.
A Davis drop away from beating 31 teams.-
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What bugs me is his lack of emotional control when things don’t go his way. Like a child.
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Probably Worthy from that list. But I don’t think anybody of them will be great.
I think Troy Franklin will end up being the best of the bunch.
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17 hours ago, dma0034 said:
Josh didn't win MVP last year because of picks and the narrative about him being a turnover machine despite half of those picks being 3rd and long, 4th down and off Diggs/Davis hands. People don't care about that. They see 18 interceptions and go Oh he cost the Bills games despite having the 2 seed. Mahomes has 8 less interceptions the last 3 years. Mahomes has 105 throwing TDs, Josh has 100. Josh has 28 rushing TDs, Mahomes has 6.
So Allen has 128 TDs vs 47 picks
Mahomes has 111 Tds vs 39 picks
So Allen has 17 TDs vs 8 picks.
Yet Mahomes doesn't get hit with turnover machine. Mahomes throws a lot of TDs on TE screens and RB screens but his one yard shuffle pass to Kelce is more important than Allen's 1 yard TD. It's just the media creating a narrative. Lamar had absolutely no reason to win MVP last year. He isn't even the best player on his time (Roquon Smith) and because he didn't have to play at all down 2 scores the Ravens could protect him and not make him throw. It's dumb. Allen is the 2nd best QB in the league and the most talented but gets no respect and "over-rated" and choker labels put on him.
When the narrative and reality don’t match, that is when you buy or sell the stock.
Life has a way of eventually balancing out.
Sounds like Bills fans know what to buy while the price is cheaper than it should be.
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8 hours ago, Aussie Joe said:
Yes .. there are limits but I suspect that we aren’t even close to them as yet …All entertainment activities are getting way more expensive these days…
I think we get closer every year.
Things add up over time. I lost interest in the NBA with the 3 pointer barrage and social justice crap and jamming WNBA down our throats.
NFL will be death by a thousand cuts.
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2 hours ago, Mister Defense said:
The Bills were dead in the water before Brady, so your post does not make sense, ignores almost all of the big picture things from last year and tells us to not believe what our own eyes and what the dramatic positive changes after he took over meant for this team.
The Bills, in one game after another, could not score anything, or almost anything, in much of the first half, and in one game after another. They looked unprepared, both at the outset of games and in games, and increasingly so, as the season 'progressed'. They then had to crawl their way back into games and sometimes did so, but only because of players, like Allen, overcoming the mess that the lazy and incompetent dorsey created. The running game was an afterthought, and so no one needed to respect the run, making things much much more difficult for Allen. They had no rhythm in games until it was too late, and no identity. Players looked defeated soon after the games started and the offense ooked inept again--and then, again and again...
And they were not getting better, but worse, more consistent in their awful inconsistency.
Their OC had them unprepared for games, going into the game, and then was clearly unprepared in the game. He did nothing to make things easier, but, as Chris Brown said over and over, it looked increasingly like a "heavy lift" for the offense. Analysts like MROB and Dan O. were saying things that indicated they believed dorsey was not just bad, but grossly incompetent for the his role of OC of an NFL team. MROB was the first major network analyst to have the courage to call for a change, saying the Bills needed to re evaluate the relationship between allen and dorsey (in other words, fire dorsey).
Enter Brady.
The Bills immediately looked like an almost completely different offense under Brady--they looked prepared to start the game and during the game.
Their running game became a real running game, though with limited resources, and their offense started to move the ball consistently again. Ridiculous to say Allen's numbers declined under Brady as if that was an indication of an offense not working as well. Allen no longer had to play hero ball, game after game, and no longer had to try to lead his team back after falling behind again and again and again...
They went 6-1 under Brady, the only loss coming to the Eagles on their home turf, in OT, with only a 59 yard field goal in horrible conditions, overcoming the Bills on a day in which their offense scored 34 points and ran up 505 yards.
So, not sure what the question is you are posing above--there is zero gray area that the Bills were a dramatically better offense under Brady, a team almost certainly on their way to missing the playoffs, where the players' shocked and altered faces, early in game after game, told one everything to know about how much confidence they had in their 'leader', a man who will likely never again call plays in the NFL. Though I would of course welcome that, as it would mean one less team the Bills had to be concerned about.
The Bills went from dead in the water to one of the best teams, and one of the best offenses, in the NFL overnight after Brady took over. As Josh Allen said after the firing, "It had to be done." Then, after the first game under Brady, the first one!, he said, "I'm fuc*ing back."
If last year was an indication, then Brady will be an excellent OC for the Bills this year, while dorsey will be lucky if Cleveland trusts him to squeeze gatorade into players' mouths during the game.
Did you leave the country last fall and not get the chance to actually watch most of the games and see the dramatically improved offense after Brady took over, clear to what should be everyone? If not, go back and watch it--your eyes will not deceive you the way the comically meaningless stats you share have.
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17 hours ago, julian said:
I’m starting to think “ statistics are for nerds “ might have some validity, Allen seems to have the ability to lock in and raise his level of play when all the chips are on the line, evidenced by his Nov and Dec win/loss record. Hopefully these narratives of being overrated and not having weapons and Diggs made him are the perfect storm of doubt Allen needs to lock in raise his level of play right off the rip.
Perfect storm is a good word to describe the uncanny level of doubt thrown his way.
The thing about it is that deep down everyone knows how great he is. Including the media and casual fans.
Either an MVP year or a Super Bowl will change the narrative.
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It happened a lot during the mob era. Well documented if you want to go down that rabbit hole.
Nowadays it’s more subtle, and I’m beginning to suspect, not as persistent as it was say during the Pats and Brady’s heyday. Meaning if you keep outplaying the other team the refs/league will give up and let you do it.
I also suspect the league is more interested in keeping prime time games close until the 4th quarter, rather than picking a winner. This is for advertising rates late in games.-
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1 hour ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:
I can see this going two ways. Buffalo by soft blowout, something like 27 to 6, or a nailbiter still with Bills winning like 23 to 20. Full disclosure I’m ripped right now.
I’m going to start using the term “soft blowout” more often haha.-
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4 minutes ago, Sammy Watkins' Rib said:
A couple of things.
Are we certain Khalil is going to be the primary receiving target? Obviously, Kincaid has a very good chance to be that guy. But even outside of Kincaid, I could see Coleman being that guy as well. But I think a more likely scenario is that we see Kincaid, Khalil and Coleman all between 90 - 120 targets on the season. A fairly tight grouping for 1 -3 top target getters. If this is the case I think it takes more pressure off of Khalil as the primary target receiver even if he does end up leading the team in targets.
Second, Beasley rightfully earned a 2nd team all-pro selection for his 967 yard season in 2020 and hitting that magic number of 65 ypg. He was a crucial cog in the Bills success offensively that season with a 68% success rater per PFR's success metric. Good for 7th highest success rate in the league that year and higher than Diggs 65%. Khalil had a 73% success rate last year, qualifying as the number one success rate out of all pass catchers.
My hope is that the Bills have three players average in the ball park of 65 ypg receiving this year. Coleman, Shakir and Kincaid. With Cook and Davis combining for another 45 ypg. That puts Allen at 240 ypg passing. 4,080 yards on the season. Samuel is the wild card for me. If he stays healthy and the Bills feature him we could be looking at 4 players in the 65 ypg range with Coleman probably being the lowest average of the four.
We’re going to see a receiver by committee offense with no real #1. Don’t be surprised if Kincaid is the leading receiver at the end of the year.
I keep thinking peak Russell Wilson Seahawks as the comp with Golden Tate/Lockett/Baldwin/Zach Miller/Jimmy Graham.
When Allen threw his perfect game against the Pats, it was a committee performance. Don’t be surprised if this is a career year for Allen.
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1 hour ago, White Linen said:
I do think the quality of the WR talent matters but to say we've never seen a great QB cause a WR to emerge is absurd.
Wes Welker immediately doubled his output from Miami to NE and he doubled it for 3 straight years.
I also think the Bills change from Diggs, Gabe and Knox to Kincaid, Shakir and whoever emerges is rare. However to think Allen isn't going to cause a couple receivers to have great years relatively, IMO, is nuts.
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9 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:
As someone who visits San Francisco often, I don't see the ruination that's often talked about in politically biased media.
It's true that SF has a homeless problem. And, yes, downtown hasn't entirely recovered from Covid. Occupancy rates are still lower than pre-Covid and downtown retail & restaurant businesses suffer as a result.Nonetheless, San Francisco thrives economically. San Francisco is the heart of the Bay Area with a GDP of $729 billion, about 10x more than metro Buffalo and more than many countries. The only metro areas in the world with larger GDPs are NY, Tokyo, and LA. The average household income in San Francisco is about $119,000, one of the highest among the world's major cities.
And San Francisco is safer than Buffalo. San Francisco has 696 violent crimes per 100,000 versus 736 in Buffalo. Buffalo had 14.1 homicides per 100,000 last year. San Francisco had 6.2.
Then there's the diverse music scene, world class museums, tremendous parks, Michelin starred restaurants (as well as an amazing assortment of ethnic eateries), countless tourist attractions, and so on.
Last weekend I took the Husky for a 14 mile jog starting in Golden Gate Park, one of America's premier urban parks, to Ocean Beach where we passed people surfing, to Land's End - a trail along rocky cliffs with amazing veiws of the Bay, through the pretty Sea Cliff neighborhood where Robin Williams use to live, to the Presidio where hundreds of people were strolling along the Promenade, enjoying the view of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge, and back to GG Park. I saw thousand of happy people and not a single homeless person or drug transaction.
The city has its problems but it's hardly the post-apocolyptic smoking ruin some make it out to be.
The west side of SF is thank God still standing. But for how long?
But you know well what it’s like walking around the Mission in the evening, or even during the day.
For those curious, do you know what the library tunnel is like on Ellicott St in downtown Buffalo around 5pm? That’s what a large part of SF is like now.
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The QB school - Josh Allen Week 2 analysis - JT O'Sullivan
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They’re people who don’t know how to win telling a winner how to win.