Brandon

There's nothing wrong with Hyde except that he's a safety and shouldn't be playing one-on-one against the other team's best WR in that situation.

Incomplete pass, automatic first down.

The entire defense deserves one, especially Bernard. Offensively, I think it goes to the OL. They almost completely negated one of the best front 4s in the league.

37-0 and you kick a FG??? Ewwww....

That's so stupid.

4th and less than 5 vs 3rd and 21. They'd probably go for it on 4th. IMO, the odds are better for the defense on 3rd and 21.

I think they learned their lesson after the Jets game. There's no need to be aggressive when the D is playing this well. Just take the points where you can get them and you'll win.

54 yard FG in that slop...nice work by Bass on that one.

That was just a miserable play call.

Diggs seems to be OK. Back in the game.

Bernard is having one hell of a good half.

Yeah, that last tenth of a second might be misleading. The defender was in good position to block Knox's vision to the ball through most of the route.

I can't really fault him for that. It looked like the defender was blocking his sight line to Allen and the ball.

Harris is a short yardage TD machine. He should be in there every time inside the 5.

That was a great play by Milano.

I would have kicked the FG, but I can't argue with it if it works.

I think I would take the FG here and go up 14.

To a certain extent, yes, but I think it's largely just a case of not playing for 6 months and getting impatient against a good D.

One of the biggest weaknesses of this offense in recent years has been the inability to grind out short yardage plays with the RB. It looks like they may have finally found an answer for that issue.

Yeah, they're going right after him.

I don't disagree, he needs to be more patient and I'm not going to defend that mess Monday night. On the other hand, I don't agree with this narrative that he's been an interception machine the last two seasons. His interception rate has been a little higher than you'd like, but not outside the norm, around once every 41 pass attempts. The fumbles are a bigger problem than the interceptions.

That's true, but it's also somewhat a function of throwing more passes than most other teams. Matt Stafford had a higher interception percentage than Josh Allen in both 2021 and 2022 (Allen was 17th and 24th, respectively). Stafford led the league in total INTs in 2021. They won the Super Bowl that year. These days, QBs are throwing so few interceptions that a few more than average is not necessarily the end of the world.

I think he had a bad game because he got impatient in the opener against an excellent defense. It happens. If it continues over the next few weeks, then we may have a problem, but I expect that he'll be fine. As for the second half of last year, we know he was playing with a throwing arm injury, so I can generally give him a pass for struggling at times.

I think he'll be fine and this was just a **** game against a team that matches well against them, but at the same time, Allen deserves plenty of criticism for this one. If he just plays smart and doesn't turn the ball over, the Bills were going to win this game.

There are no excuses for that. I thought he played reasonably well in the first half, but that second half was absolutely putrid.