GunnerBill

Yea I normally cook during the Detroit game and eat during the Dallas game. Will be swapping that around this year. Late dinner I think 😆

The main person who didn't and still doesn't realise that is Aaron Rodgers.

Luck plays a bigger part in sport than most want to admit.

Saffold is the worst Bills player I have ever seen the team stick with as a starter for an entire year in my 22 years of fandom I think. I've seen other bad players have runs as starters but eventually they get benched. Not Ol' Rog. He was rolled out to make my eyes bleed weekly.

Benching him wouldn't have helped. The problem with Aaron hasn't been his throwing the ball. It is everything else. It is the poison that seeps out of every pore of the man. The toxic, corrosive, self-absorbed attitude. Once they brought that into their locker room for a 40 year old past his prime, they were dead. I think Douglas and Saleh were, two years ago, a Quarterback away from being the men that made the Jets relevant again. I know this sounds mad... they'd have been better trading for Derek Carr. Because all that young team needed was competent Quarterbacking and Carr, while limited, would have given them competent play without disrupting the chemistry of that young group in the locker room. Instead they sacrificed all the culture they had built to pander to the ego of a poisonous individual. When the story of Aaron Rodgers career is written in years to come it will be the story of one of the most incredible Quarterbacking talents to ever play the game whose biggest rivalry was with his own personality. And sadly the Quarterback lost to the person too many times.

My overall take on this year's schedule was tricky, but like the home slate, tough on the road. Next year I think tough home slate (but the Bills are great at home) but there isn't a single road game there that I go "man that's tough." Maybe Houston? Steelers and Falcons are not "easy" but the Bills are better than those two teams.

I think they have to keep showing they are willing to attack outside. It will open up those spaces that the Bills really want to attack in the middle of the field even more. I still want to see more Kincaid vertical when he returns. They managed to find that element when Brady took over last year but his depth of target has been down again this season. I know that is influenced some by the increase in his usage on screens and other catch and run concepts at the line but I want to see them find a way to get him vertical in that 10-20 yard range and I think spreading defenses out more horizontally my making them worry more about the Bills attacking outside will help. But we have definitely found a groove on offense in the past few weeks. Starting a bit better, putting up 30 regularly even with injuries, 3rd down conversions are up on earlier in the year. Definitely encouraging.

Orlovsky is the man. Great demonstration too of how you need the right call and the right execution to make a big play work. Great concept and a great job by the Bills players.

I mean I also think that was a great football game. Remember when that wild Chiefs - Rams game was being lauded as the best game ever... was it 54-51... ? I said man that is not my idea of a great football game. The best games are those 30-21 or 34-27 type games. When every drive feels like it ends in a touchdown... meh. Not enough jeopardy. That Sunday was a true battle between offense and defense, a fascinating strategy battle between two excellent coaching staffs and two all world QBs who were prevented from playing perfect but who each made 4 or 5 incredible plays over the course of the game. It had jeopardy, drama, lead changes and some great football plays. Maybe I only feel this way because we won - but actually I was saying it in the GDT at half time - that was my favourite Bills - Chiefs game of the rivalry. I loved it.

It was a massive coaching win for the Bills on Sunday. Of course the play of the year was Josh Allen pulling on the cape. But (with the exception of the dumb challenge) the previous 58 minutes that got us to that point was a Bills plan that had got the better of KC on both sides of the ball. Specifically: - found ways to pressure Mahomes with a front 4 without, for the most part, letting him escape the pocket. That takes such detailed planning and disciplined execution; - mixed in more man coverage than I have ever seen us use against the Chiefs. 30.8% according to the Athletic; - protection schemes that kept Allen clean for the most part - as @Buffalo716 mentioned - that doesn't just happen that is relentless planning all week "if we get this and we see that then this is our response in protection"; - attacked the blitz better than we ever have against KC. Said it yesterday but in previous meetings at times it felt like our plan when they blitzed Allen was survive. Just dump it off, or throw it away, live to play anothet down. On Sunday they saw Spags blitzes as a chance to attack the back end. Loved it from Brady and Josh. By contrast: - Spags struggled to create negative plays even when sending 5, 6 and on a couple of occasions 7 guys; - the Chiefs tried to confuse Josh on the backend by a lot of disguised zone - as Josh talked about on the 4th and 2. And the Bills were wise to it; - Andy Reid said himself he got away from the run too early and that was the Bills being brave enough to show a heavier box, even if they dropped out of it multiple times into cover 2; - the Chiefs could not get Kelce and Hopkins going at all who have been the big peices of the passing game the past 3 weeks. I give a ton of credit to McDermott and his young coordinators. I think in the 8 meetings of this Josh vs Pat series of Bills - Chiefs games that goes down with the 2021 regular season game as the second time the Bills coaches have conclusively won the coaching battle. I know for some they won't get credit until they do it in January, and I understand that. But man that was, as the thread says, a clinic from this staff.

It is like the year John Brown was the de-facto #1 and had 1,000 yards and people were arguing he is therefore a true #1. It's not about yards put up. It's about what they can do and what they can't. Shakir isn't a #1. He is a slot guy. John Brown was a boundary guy but also wasn't a #1.

0% chance it's the Redskins.

Haha. I'd have hated it but it would have been funny.

I hate to be that guy.... but I did like the Campbell hire. I liked him as far back as his interim stint in Miami after Philbin got canned. I am a "hire a leader" guy at Head Coach though. It's "in" this year apparently and teams are after leaders and culture setters. Presumably after watching such non-entities as Brian Callahan and Dave Canales get Head Coaching shots last time around teams have realised having called a few good offensive drives does not a Head Coach make.

Yea the Brady trick play was a momentum killer for sure.

I haven't properly looked at him to be honest. I've only seen tv highlights. I will let you know once I have got to work in the new year.

I don't think Babich will get a job in this round, but he will be a Head Coach at some point IMO. As for Joe, I think he gets interviews this year. He got interviews after one pretty average year with the Panthers and then was fired as an OC halfway through the next season. If I had to bet now I'd bet on him not getting a job this year but being one of the hot 3 or 4 names next year and getting a job in that round. I'm not as convinced as others that there will be 8-10 jobs. I see 5 or 6 and I think a) Belichik and Vrabel being FAs and b) teams thinking primarily about culture builders in this round means that there will only be 1 or 2 offensive hotshot type hires this year and if we work on the assumption Ben Johnson is one then it only leaves one of those spots.

RapSheet on GameDay Morning was indicating house cleaning is coming.

Nothing.

I just think the Ravens exposed our limitations on both sides of the ball. Reasons to be encouraged are Johnson, Bernard and Milano all missed that game and the Ravens attacked that "second level" of Lewis, Williams and Spector relentlessly. I counted it up and in the first half they called only 2 offensive plays not designed to attack that unit. And on the other side they, by their own admission, compressed the field because they didn't think the Bills could beat them outside down the field. I doubt they'd be so confident to do that with Amari Cooper on board.

I don't think he'd have knocked it down even if he tried. Jefferson had position, he caught the ball. Lewis is behind him and as they come down he has hands on the ball trying to push down on it. This "he could have just batted it down" he couldn't. Jefferson got hands on the ball first. Yes, Cam was trying to catch it, that was a mistake. But it would have made no odds to the play.

no, to mine.

He did but the defender already had leverage IMO. That play was on Josh who should have waited a split second longer for Samuel to uncover. Brady even said it yesterday in his presser. He wouldn't take back the playcall, Josh wants the execution back. They showed Josh on the sideline after in with the ipad kinda pounding his helmet I think he knew straight away that was a bad play.

They have played some bad offenses. Their last two wins are impressive but they are Jayden Daniels (rookie) and a divisional opponent they seem to have a Hex on. Bengals x 2, Eagles and Chiefs still to come, plus Ravens in Baltimore. We will know by the post season what that defense really is. I know. The sarcasm laced in the post obviously doesn't compute to everyone.

Haha, there have certainly been times in Dion's career where he has visibly been over his ideal playing weight