Mango

Am I supposed to show my ticket stub or something before I comment? I was there. Lol.

Actually you have to keep leaving. You are part of the luck. Everybody do everything the exact same going forward please. Anybody who left both games early, and attend another game where we are losing need to exit the stadium immediately. This is not a drill.

Do you guys thing Josh was saying "Have more faith in me" or "Have more faith in the Buffalo Bills"? Obviously Josh isn't addressing any of us individually, hes speaking broadly about the 20k+ people that left the stadium early. And he is clearly saying "Don't sleep on the Buffalo Bills". The idea of getting into the weeds about "what about my specific situation" in relation to "I wasn't leaving because of YOUUUU, Josh" is weird.

This is one of those cases where a lot of things are true at the same time. Scale matters here. Of course every game has people who leave early for various reasons. And at a micro level, whatever. But the scale of Sunday night was bonkers. I think you and anybody else can leave early, especially when that is your weekly cadence, but I also think that because of the scale in which people left we, as a fan base deserve all the criticism coming our way. That stadium was empty. It is tough to explain how empty it was.

So this is sort of my understanding of it as well. But I thought that maybe it would be offsetting penalties and they would replay the down.

Nearly half the stadium left. This isn't an 8:20pm game issue. We deserve all the smoke we get.

I was there. The filtering out with started with about 10 minutes left in the 4th. It was bonkers. Dare I say bordering on disrespectful. It is 2 possessions and we have Josh Effing Allen. The only way I can explain it is that 1. The primetime game always seems to always draw a totally different crowd. Almost like people are there because of the nationally televised game, not the match up itself. 2. It is possible we have become soft in our successes. In 2010 we would have more people sticking around to boo this team off the field than we did to stick around to cheer for the comeback. I don't buy the "well it was late" narrative. I am a season ticket holder, and this exodus was something I haven't seen in quite some time and we have had primetime games. These people aren't leaving if the score was reversed (and held), the stadium would have roared the team off the field. Anyways, for a fan base that gets so much national attention for being "die hards" this was a pretty embarrassing showing on National TV. If Miami or Jacksonville did this we would have a 96 page thread on what trash fans they are. Be better.

I'm not sure O'Connell does either. When I turned the game on JJM was 1/2 for 5 yards or something like that. It was the second quarter. I feel like KO is at the very worst a "fine" coach and has made due with some very"meh" QB's. This game from JJM has the same vibe as that game JP Losman threw like 8 passes. They know they're toast.

Totally uneducated guess. He is in for pass pro on a passing down. Nobody expects him to run a route, they expect him to stay in and block for Allen. It isn't a trick, as we have seen with Cook, the staff puts a premium on the ability to pass protect on must have passing downs.

I hope we do better than that. Coop had a good play or two, but was largely pretty silent. 20 catches, 297 yards, 2TD's in 8 games/4 starts. 6 catches, 41 tards and no TD's in the playoffs. He wasn't worth a 3rd but it was worth a try I guess.

I am enjoying the historic win, but I would be lying if I didn't come away from that game with some concerns on whether this current team can sustain success (outside of Josh Allen). In no particular order I didn't love: - Offensive playcalling. - Our WR's ability to seperate. They were absolutely blanketed on a number of Allen scrambles and still couldn't break free. - Our run game overall. - James Cook's inability to be on the field for everydown. Again, he is barely on the field with the game on the line in the 4th. He just signed a major deal. He has to be better, but coaches also need to utilze him in those moments. - Our back 7 in pass coverage.

Honestly, if the vote for MVP is split between Josh and Lamar this will the tie breaker.

Why are some of you so hell bent on jinxing things. Like half the stadium left though, so I guess maybe this is like the SB years.

Piling on the pass coverage. The amount of times that Baltimore got Flowers one on one with Bernard was concerning. I thought Benford got burned bad a few times as well. Also I hate Bernard in 8. Hard to follow and train my brain that that is a LB. The same but opposite for Benford with no 47.

Not smart enough for my own thread but a couple of notes now that I'm home from the game 1. The 8pm crowd is different than the 1/4. It was shocking how slow the crowd was to get into it. This was maybe the least rowdy Hopener I can rember since pre EJ Manuel. My entire section was seated and quiet on the first two defensive drives and I am a season ticket holder. 2. Piggy backing on 1, it was INSANE to me that a third or more of the stadium left with 10 minutes on the clock, down two possessions, with Josh Allen at QB. I was embarrassed. WTF. Have we become that over privileged? Are we the Patriots? It gave me KC AFCCG vibes. I was there and 10's of 1000's of KC fans were leaving with Buffalo still alive. 3. I thought this game would be won by whatever team ironed out their early season wrinkles first, I thought it would be by 2 scores, but it wouldn't really matter. I was wrong on all counts. 4. We won today because of Josh. But he was rusty for sure. A couple of plays he should have taken off and he threw some bad balls instead. A couple of head scratchers. That will all get worked out. Worth mentioning but not a concern. 5. Bernard wearing 8 is something I'm not used to and I'm not sure I ever will be. Pretty sure I hate it. 6. I expected a couple of blown assignments to crack this game open. I didn't expect Bernard to get out on Flowers 1v1 on multiple occasions. And I didn't expect Benford to get targeted for so many large gains. 7. I like James Cook. I am glad he was extended. But man, I was hoping he'd be a three down back after signing his extension. His lack of presence on the final drive was frustrating. $12M, game on the line, and still on the sidelines. He was also not good on short yardage. Thats partially on him and and partially on McBrady.

His senior year he averaged something crazy like 300 yards per game and 4 TD's.

Funny you mention that. I posted something a few days ago. I've been wondering since camp. The whole thing seems odd. Total speculation but I thought maybe he even already had surgery because they were so vague about the whole thing. Total speculation but that's what my gut has been telling me.

I really hate the groin issue for Coleman. That just feels like a thing that will nag him all year. IMO, he likely should have stayed very limited early in camp. Missing 7 days and then being 100% for 5 months is better than being at 95% for 5 months. The margins in elite sports are fractions of a percent.

Weird rep indeed. It looks like he got beat inside, but he didn't have to. He just kep watching the WR and had no idea WTF was going on with the football. Speaking of, has anybody noticed that defenders seem to never turn around and look for the ball anymore? It seems like most replays I just see a WR running with their head upfield towards the WR with their hands in the air. Looking for the ball used to be the prerequisite for DPI. But now it seems like as long as you don't grab or truck the receiver you can do whatever. I would be fine with a little more grabby/physical play if DB's were tracking the football.

Part of me loves opening the season in primetime v the Ravens. It is an exciting game, and the Ravens very next meaningful game after losing at the Ralph. But part of me hates it. I think this one gets won by whichever team has the most early season wrinkles ironed out first. I have a sneaky suspicion that this one won't be close no matter who wins. The score will be meaningless, but it will drive the losing teams narrative for the rest of the year.

I thought it looked clean live and barely "meh" in slow mo. He was right there and he didn't really try and hit the guy.

What a bag call

Again. I'm a Bills fan. But the cognitive dissonance to say that when we seem to run into a brick wall against Mahomes ever.single.year. is wild.

I like being high up, but I prefer to be between the 40's. I'm last row right on the 40 on the visitors side. I'd prefer to be a bit lower than last row but I like the upper deck. I see more football. Don't get me wrong. The lower bowl has its perks. You feel like you're part of the game. But you watch so much from the scoreboard. For my season tickets I like to be higher. If it's a one-off game I like being low. I was on the field at MetLife and 4th row at the KC playoff game last year and it was great.

I think this is where Lamar is probably judged a bit too critically. I think that because he is such a good runner, people have higher expectations as a passer in order to "feel" like LJ is a "Complete QB". The "Lamar is a bad passer/RB playing QB" trope is way too overplayed.