TheBrownBear

Yeah, but once he's cleared the Bills staff will want to ramp him up to game speed over 8-10 weeks like Tre, so he probably won't be back until next Thanksgiving at the earliest. I keed, i keed.

There's definitely something to be said for being the "hunted" and every middling team's "Super Bowl."

Jefferson was actually well covered most of the day. Almost every single one of his catches was contested, and some of them were just ridiculous individual plays on his part. Not sure about Cooper, since I didn't watch the game closely as I was traveling, but he was blanketed on the first touchdown catch and came up with a highlight reel grab. Seems as if our DBs can stay with these dudes, but they just aren't finishing plays right now.

Kind of an early (or late) start. I think I'll just stick with the live version on Thursday morning.

I actually like our running back situation now that Cook is looking more comfortable and Hines has been swapped in for Moss. Yeah, no bruiser, but I suppose that is what Josh is for should we absolutely need 1 tough yard.

The guy looks so good with the ball in his hands. Is he at all capable of playing the slot, or is that just not in his skillset? Hard to imagine him being that big of a drop off from McKenzie as a route runner and he's clearly better than him in space. It's honestly pretty frustrating to see his talent being wasted. What's interesting is that Colts fans had the same complaints about his usage in Indy. So, what is it that the coaches see that we fans aren't picking up on?

You wouldn't be a Bills fan (at least, not one with a functioning brain) if you didn't entertain those nightmare scenarios.

I agree. The question is when does it become a necessity for the Coach/GM to level that ultimatum to White? We are still on track for the playoffs and still control our destiny within the division. I'm comfortable waiting through the Pats game (depending on the outcome of that game).

Well, he was medically cleared (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), and I'm sure the staff figured, "he's 'healthy', so let's get him back into game shape sooner rather than later." It's not as if these confidence issues might not still be there if we had started his active practice window 6 weeks later. In that scenario, we have precious little time to decide if he's a guy we can count on for the playoffs. Yeah, things don't seem to be working out too great at the moment, but maybe that changes and maybe these extra few weeks of practice are just what Tre needs to get right both physically and mentally and we see him as an important contributor to a deep playoff run.

You can't just look at the final score and say it was a mistake. Also, consider that the Browns went for 1 and not 2 on that final touchdown. Let's say we kick that extra point, get to 23 and ultimately 32. Then the Browns would merely go for 2 on that last touchdown instead of kicking the EP. And that's to say nothing of all the little decisions between the failed 2 point conversion and the end of the game (including CLE going for their own 2 point conversion and failing) that are changed by the Bills instead opting for the EP following the Singletary touchdown. It was analytically the correct decision at the time and we ultimately won, so I can't really find anyway to complain too much about it.

Poyer and Milano seem to be above the rest - well, at least it seems that way for now until we experience our next critical injury to a defensive stalwart.

Yep. Liked the decision and liked the playcall. It was more creative than we've seen lately from Dorsey. It just didn't work out. Couldn't find much to criticize there.

If he's at a point with his confidence (or lack thereof), that he looks at guys like Lewis and Rhodes (to say nothing of Benford and Jackson) and "knows" he's not currently at their level and believes he would be hurting the team, then I absolutely have zero issue with him relaying this to McDermott and asking to remain inactive. There is no point in taking a spot on the gameday roster, if you have nothing positive to give. But in McDermott's defense, he's got an entire roster to juggle going forward, so it's understandable that he's slowly nudging Tre towards a "s*&% or get off the pot" type of ultimatum. We could be getting close to that point - my guess is the coaches start to really turn up the heat shortly after Tre has had a full month as an active practice participant, i.e., the Pats game. Neither guy is really wrong and no one really deserves any blame, IMO.

I'd sign up for this, and maybe the occasional spider walk and projectile vomiting in the face of the opponent's no. 1 WR, but that's as far as I'm willing to go with The Exorcist style of defense.

You watch Mahomes and Kelce do this over and over and over again for years on end and it just feels like the Bills will forever be their B. Just really sucks. We must vanquish them in the playoffs and it will be in Arrowhead thanks to the Bills pissing away those Jets and Vikings games.

Yep. Hate to say it, but there's a chance that White is cooked. Alarms went off for me a couple of weeks ago when he talked about his struggle during rehab and how he talked about life without football. Prepare yourself for another first round CB draft pick this Spring.

Murphy is horrendous

Obviously, the team moving to Detroit made zero sense (other than it being Ralph's home), but my heart still skipped a beat.

They could easily lose this weekend. They are very very good and Mahomes is obviously great, but they aren't some world beaters. They just very narrowly escaped a loss in a game where the opposing QB could only complete 5 passes. But man, looking at the current standings, it is hard not to be completely sickened by the way the end of Sunday's game played out. Definitely still stinging for me and probably will until we get on another winning streak - hopefully, starting this Sunday.

Yep. Saw this yesterday. It was just a terrible throw. I think he just came to him late and made a bad toss of the football. He had a few throws on Sunday that were off but he was bailed out by his receivers. That one unfortunately went right into Peterson's breadbasket.

Disagree. It's the choice between a 2 score or 3 score game and you only need 2 yards to sustain that drive. It was the right decision - you have a freakishly mobile battering ram of a QB who is considered a top 5 player in the league - it was just a mix of bad playcalling and terrible execution.

Agree with the general sentiment of the thread. If we could somehow get somewhat healthy in the secondary and Josh stops playing hero ball, we can easily finish somewhere in the 12-5 to 14-3 range and host a home playoff game. I'm more worried about the endless injuries to the defense, than I am about Josh. Josh is frustrating as hell right now, but he's driven to win and will figure it out shortly.

I agree. In most of Josh's best games, he takes the checkdowns early and often and it opens up the rest of the field for him. He did this effectively in the NE playoff game and it's why we were able to gash them over and over again. I'm not sure how many times Josh needs to bang his head against the wall before he finally learns this lesson.

Almost every coach would go for it there these days due to the analytics supporting it.

Possibly, but I get the feeling that Knox is a well liked guy by his teammates. He's not playing poorly either. They are using him mostly to block and then serve as a dump off outlet for Josh. When they actually send him out as a true downfield option he produces. I think it's a Dorsey/scheme issue.