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@Hapless Bills Fan good addition to this thread. That could very well be a big part of it.

As always, your comments are well-reasoned, and I acknowledge that the offense had a bad night against KC. I'm not suggesting that the Bills use the same defense against every team that they used against Seattle, but I do think they are now willing to take more chances based upon the strength of the offense. They may have known Josh wasn't 100% against Tennessee and KC...I'm sure they'll never tell. Anyway, I'll be very curious to see how we play KC the next time, because I do believe there will be a "next time" this season.

Yeah I think that is sort of my point. No more “playing not to lose” against good offensive teams. The Jests and Pats*** are not good offensive teams.

And BBFS rears its’ ugly head...

Yes, it’s a Josh Allen thread. Sort of. Deal with it. So until last week the Bills’ defense has been decidedly mediocre, and in some instances just plain bad. They’ve had key injuries, sure, but the game plan against KC made me want to vomit. I think we saw a turning point with the defense, however, that I believe is in large part due to McD’s and Frazier’s confidence in the offense. The Bills’ D played with a risky, go-for-broke mentality against Seattle we have not seen previously. Did they play that way last season? Hell no they didn’t; they essentially played Jauron-ball (like they did against KC). I think McD now trusts Josh and Daboll to put points on the board against anyone, and if the D happens to get burned on a play or series the mentality is now “we’ll get it back” and they’re going to keep putting the pressure on opposing offenses. I will be watching the defensive game plans very closely from here on out.

This, but stop adding names to compare him to! Josh is a unicorn.

Umm, no. You clearly don’t understand what Hasselbeck was saying.

LOL! I literally cringed when I read the word “articulate” in the OP.

No person with an ounce of football knowledge would trade Josh Allen for anyone save the exception of Pat Mahones.

Horrible Harry is resting comfortably.

I don’t recall you calling for the drafting of Metcalf...quite the opposite, actually. But never let an opportunity go by to get a dig in at Beane and McD! It’s what you do. Must be difficult seeing all of your previous criticisms go by the wayside, one by one....

The comments about Josh “never being the league’s best QB” are funny to me. Aside from Mahomes there isn’t another QB in the league right now I’d want. Everybody wants to put Josh into a compartment — “he’s like Big Ben” or “he’s like Cam” — when he’s really a quite different player. Big Ben could only dream of having Josh’s athleticism. Cam can only dream of Josh’s guts and leadership (and accuracy — yeah, I said it). Josh will be a perennial top 5 QB while he’s in the league, and is likely to enter the yearly conversation of best overall.

@nucci is correct, although the networks have been "swapping" certain games for several years now. That part seems to be haphazard. But in general, AFC road team = CBS and NFC road team = FOX.

Any player with the ball can "give himself up" in the field of play. Tre White did it last year after an interception.

You may want to find another message board if posting new quotes and information about the team's starting QB bothers you. Just sayin'...

...from the Buffalo News this morning: "When people talk about quarterbacks, a lot of times they talk about intangibles and you never really know what that means," Hasselbeck said. "I just remember, when I got to Green Bay, Brett Favre was there and Andy Reid was the quarterback coach, and he basically laid out what he thought were the intangibles that Brett brought to the table. And some of those intangibles were the way that his teammates believe in him and rally around him and he sets the tone. The other thing Andy said was, 'Notice how Brett intimidates the opponent without even saying a word. Like when they get their game plan book, what are they saying? They're saying, 'Oh, boy, we got that guy. He can throw it all over the field. You can't rattle this guy. The harder the harder you hit him, the better he plays,' whatever it is that they might say.' Those are intangibles. "Some quarterbacks will never, ever, ever have those intangibles or certain intangibles. Josh has got them. I don't even know if he knows he's got them, but he's got them. And people fear his arm. They fear his athleticism. They fear his size. And I just know from watching the excitement (he creates for) his teammates. One of the things that Josh's teammates said he was, 'He's a stone-cold dog.' I said on the air, 'This guy's like a cowboy.' And people were like, 'Oh, is that a shout out to Wyoming?' I'm like, 'Yeah, kind of, but I really mean he's like a cowboy.' And it's infectious. Some guys have it, but very few do."

I don’t give a crap about SAS but what’s happening is that the Bills are figuring out how to get their D “swag” back while the offense has shown it can beat you in multiple ways. I can’t wait for a rematch with Tennessee and/or Kansas City in the playoffs.

Josh is becoming what many of us believed he could become, based upon his attitude, intelligence, and supreme physical abilities. The naysayers who looked at a late-developing kid who only played in Wyoming, and who didn’t do any homework beyond “advanced stats” have been proven dead wrong. I love it.

ESPN+ has been great for all of the live sports...I don't think I've watched an ESPN studio show in years.

That sounds Like a pretty Good plan for This game.

Great point. Except that's not what happened.

I have it on pretty good authority that Kyler Murray made "the face" after Sunday's loss so the Bills better watch out.

I'm actually pissed the Pats*** won that one...I bet them on the u9 for regular season wins and that L would have almost wrapped it up.

Itchy posting trigger finger this morning?

I hear what you’re saying but becoming an NFL head coach is a unique scenario that is about more than money. Meathead Mularkey (awful front office) and Saint Doug (big payout) aside, I can’t remember another situation in which a guy “opted out” of being a head coach. What we truly don’t know is how Daboll feels about it. I suspect that as much as he loves Buffalo and Josh Allen it is his dream to “run the show” himself and he will take that opportunity if it is presented — and it has nothing to do with money.