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Allens biggest flaw is that hes not as good as Mahomes. Bills fans want Buffalo to be wire to wire SB favorites over multiple years. The reality is that is exceedingly difficult. Reserved for the Pats and current Chiefs of the world. Teams have down years even with good QBs, think Big Ben & Brees. For that class of QB its about finding the right combination of team and luck in a year and it all coming together. Im sure year-to-year people in Pitt and NOLA were frustrated that werent as consistent as Tom or Manning. But in retrospect, that era is remembered fondly because they got their SBs. Allen is a very very very good QB. His careers will have ups and downs, twists and turns. The reality is that the Allen era will be about winning 1 in his career, not 3-5. I am totally fine with that.

He is actually 29, Sal asked him straight up because his ProfootballReference and wikipedia has different DOB.

I have said the same thing to my friends, that I oddly feel better about our chances for a SB this year than I did last year. It is exceedingly rare to be a wire-to-wire contender and then ultimately win the SB. Get in and get hot. You can find a flaw with every AFC contender right now.

its clueless for saying hes "asleep at the wheel" before everything was done. Not clueless for wanting him to sign someone. Everyone wanted him to sign someone.

Did you deliberately choose to contort what the post said or was it just a natural victim complex. Non troll: The Bills need to sign a guy like Linval Joseph and I am optimistic that Beane will do so. And if we dont sign him I will assume it is for a valid reason. Troll: The Bills need to sign a guy like Linval Joseph and we havent yet because Beane is asleep at the wheel, of course he didnt sign anyone. Other teams get better but not us. Fire Beane.

With him and Douglas, I think the D should be plenty good enough to contend if the offense holds up their end of the bargain. Obviously losing Milano still hurts

Im happy to hear he is hardcore about a DT.

The Bengals offense has been MUCH worse this year compared to last year. Yea I know Joe was injured, but hes not the first QB to have an injury. He was playing bottom-tier football. Negative EPA-per-play football! Maybe the SF game was the spark they needed and they will go on to dominate the rest of the way. But they also showed flashes of being "back" against the Ravens and Cardinals and then reverted to bad play again. Im just not ready to say theyve righted the ship based on one game. Many teams can ball out for one game and then play bad the next. Look at us against Miami and then what followed.

Some might say a Dream Team...

Are you hearing anything from your people?

How do you do it? I even edited mine from "X" to "twitter"

https://twitter.com/wbutterspgh/status/1719408311236239471?s=20 Levi traded to Washington Apparently its not true, I was misled by Jeremy White. Blame him

Do you watch the other 31 teams? Why isnt the wizard Shanahan adjusting?

Im interested to see our dime package with Po as the box safety against Cincy. Seems like a good counter against their WRs. But as you say the key will be winning at the LOS. If we can do that consistently and force some longer 3rd downs I think we can get to them. Im also hopeful for a well-times blitx here and there that McD has shown thus far. The D was really rattled after the injuries but its inevitable that improve with more time to as a unit. They looked much better against TB than they did against NYG and NE, which were worse offenses. Cincy looked dominant last week but they have shown flashes of their "true form" a couple times this year only to then revert the next game. I am really optimistic that the offense will continue to look good.

Its not that bold. Even if you focus on the last 4 weeks we are the better offense. There is almost no stat the Bengals/Burrow are better at even in the limited set of last 4 games. This is why you cant just extrapolate out of one game. The Bengals were BAD against the Seahawks. After the Miami I thought we might never lose again...things change. Now this doesnt mean Im guaranteeing a win but we have been the better offense to this point in the season.

Yea Im anxious as well. being 6-3 in the log-jam AFC will help tremendously. I think we are the better team. We are the better offense pretty much across the board. Cincy played great on Sunday, lets see if they can continue it.

Its also only one game. They have looked downright bad many times this season, including one week prior. Much worse than Buffalo. We will see Sunday.

Cincy looked like most expected them to look all season yesterday. But this was FAR and away their best game of the year. This is a week to week league. Our offense looked unstoppable against Miami and quite good leading up to that, and then sputtered. A lot of teams can look great for one week and then not the next. Cincy is absolutely stoppable. Will we stop them? Who knows. But to imply its a foregone conclusion seems silly. And our should continue to improve on what we established Thus.

two weeks ago someone called in saying we needed to trade Diggs so we can spread the ball around more.

The offense played much better, it was obvious to anyone that watched. Im a big proponent of EPA/play but it doesnt encapsulate the EPA that was generated in-structure vs out of structure and how the offense looked overall. Everything against NE felt hard. The entire offense was Josh beating a rushing, rolling right and looking for someone downfield. Yesterday was executed much more in structure. Yes the second half wasnt great, drives stalled. But the offense played better than they had in the last three weeks. Now... I do think the offense played better against NE than people want to admit. So while they played better it may not be *that* much better.

might be interesting to Joe, that they leave a rookie thats been starting inactive. Its a bit interesting that they wouldnt want to even have him learn from experience.

He didnt say it would be surprising, just interesting.

lol so many people jumping to Gabe and a pending trade in the replies. I think its going to be much more mundane and DWill is my guess too. But whoever it is I would bet it is not anything that groundbreaking

Last year we kept waiting for the "get right" game and it never happened. Only difference is we were winning games. This year, I am not expect that to change. We will continue to struggle unless something of significance changes. That needs to come from Josh, Dorsey or McD.

Ive been saying this to all my friends and coworkers. Go get Suh. He came in last year for Philly and was good, and cheap.