Mango

Bell is the best (or at least most consistent) player in this game

Allen had a great first series and has made a number of impressive throws, but come on... He dodged a bullet on a terrible throw on a terrible decision that was bailed out with a defensive holding flag on a DIFFERENT RECEIVER. Beasley INT was way low and behind. Catchable yes. Good throw, no. On a slant, the ball went off Beasley’s quad on his trailing leg. It was low and way behind. Watch how many catches receivers are having to stop or change direction the other way towards the ball. Allen has less head scratcher throws, but ball placement has been pretty bad at worse, and super inconsistent at best.

The second was a bad ball that could have been caught. 50/50. It was low and behind on the slant. Came off of Beasley’s back quad not his hands. That’s how low and behind it was. Below the hip on his trailing leg on a slant.

Relax man. Dude has been pretty inaccurate today. That’s not a double standard, he’s consistently been throwing behind his receivers since the first series.

2 plays in a row!

WTF. Ed Oliver is 15 yards in coverage?

Lamar Jackson is 7/7 and almost 200 yards passing and 3 TD. Jesus Christ....

Thank are Oliver for that sack. He took on a big double team to free up Jerry.

Can I place my bet on first offensive play of the game now? Frank Gore through the A gap. Setting up 2nd and 7.

Relax dude, it was a little joke. Do I think the Bills coaches are sub-par. Not necessarily. I do think they are a bit unproven to this point, going 9-7, willingly gutting the roster, then going 6-10. I understand what they are doing, just unsure if it will work or was the night decision. McD does have a history here if being conservative with a bit of a run run pass offense, rarely passing on first down. I agree, some of that may come from personnel. But they’ve yet to show that one way or another as McD enters his third season. I have some concerns, but mostly a lot of question marks, and two seasons of watching them in red white and blue. But your assertion that I think they are bad or sub-par is a reach at best, and flat out wrong at worst.

How do they really win games?

They did rank them as they stand right now. There is no better tandem in the NFL than Tom and Bill. I hate it, but it’s the truth. BB proved last year he can make it work when he doesn’t have the tools. Until that pairing changes or shows a major decline, you can’t move them in a preseason ranking.

Until Allen proves he is a consistent passer (not a runner) in this league, our ranking won’t change (nor should it IMO). He had a strong stretch to finish the year. Allen is currently in a “what if” year. If he improves we will be much better. As much as he played better down the stretch, we also only beat a bad Jets team twice, split a bad dolphins team, beat a bad Lions team, and beat a bad Jax team. He was also at the helm for some pretty bad blow outs. Like putting up ZERO points against GB. I think our defense is a bit over rated. I’d probably put them last year around the 8-12 mark. Definitely not 2. We can’t tout Allen’s ability and our highly ranked defense with the amount of absolute blow outs we hadn’t last year. Also our RZ sucked on both sides. Something has to give here. Our O-line is upgraded with Mitch Morse (concussions) and tier two linemen. OL can be funny. That could be enough to make it a very good unit, but could also still be bottom half. John Brown isn’t scarring many people as anything other than fast right now. The have the the Bills at 7-8 wins right now. I’d peg them right around 20 with what our known commodities are and unanswered question marks.

J.E.S.U.S. C.H.R.I.S.T. ??

Allen has yet to really show he’s a QB who gets the ball out quickly or looks for the underneath routes. That doesn’t mean he can’t, it just mean he hasn’t yet. If that’s been the focus all offseason for him, we are about to get a good look at it week one. I don’t know why, but I am having nightmares this week of a Doug Marrone offense/game plan, where we play a stout front 7 (like the Jets), and come out with a game plan to run right at it, like a bunch of a-holes.

Sam Darnold is better at throwing the football accurately, or precisely, or whatever we’ve agreed to call it now.

Whoops. I saw them on Spotrac and didn't see the ERFA designation. I will remove.

That number will dip a bit with resigning some of our own. If all these guys play lights out in their contract year (2020), we could be down to about $60M. Extending a few keys guys a year early could drop us down to $30-40M. Still a ton of coin for FA. We need some help at OLB and Edge Rusher. Probably extend: Forgot they are on rookie deals and cannot be extended yet Robert Foster Levi Wallace Wait and see how the year goes: Kevin Johnson Shaq Lawson Quinton Spain Jordan Phillips Spencer Long (There is a club option for 2020) Possibly extend early: Matt Barkley Tre White Ty Nseke Trent Murphy Jordan Poyer Zay Jones Dion Dawkins Matt Milano John Feliciano

Kneeling during the anthem was never intended to be disrespectful. In fact it was a vet that suggested it to Kaep himself. Do you find Retired Army Green Beret Nate Boyer disrespectful as well? History treated Jesse Owens just fine, and it will do the same to Kaep.

I don’t mind that he retired. I respect it, and even admire it from a 30 year old. But week 3 of preseason as a high level franchise QB....he could have made this decision 6 months ago, or waited 4 months. Some people will lose their job because of this timing. Not totally fair

On a similar note. I looked at getting the Sunday Ticket streaming service. But was declined because of my region, I guess... I just moved to Saratoga Springs, currently cutting the chord. Anybody have options for getting an HD feed for Bills games. I really don't want to watch a crappy grainy feed every week, or drop 50 bucks a Sunday having a few pops and a snack. Cheers.

Every year TC happens, and every year I wish Astro was here. (And every year I forget why he left...??‍♂️)

He also looks great in shorts

What about a 19 game season and you play your division 3 times. Winner of best of 3 from the year prior gets the extra home game.