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Sammy Watkins' Rib

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  1. What? You are ill-informed my friend. We want the patriots to win that game for multiple reasons. Let's just worry about the bills. If they win this week they are very much alive. If they lose they're done.

     

    Edit: Sorry Metzelaars, don't know why I quoted your post because obviously you agree Pats need to win tomorrow.

     

    I'm not 100% sure about that. If Miami wins tomorrow against N.E. , odds are they win out and go 10-6, their two remaining games would be against the Vikings and Jets. I think at this point you have to assume one of either Baltimore or Pittsburgh locks up one of the wild card spots. Or possibly even one of them wins the division and Cinci falls back to one of the wild cards.

     

    If that is the case, if the Bills also win out and finish 10-6 would we win tie breakers over the Dolphins, we will have split the head to head and also have identical division records. I think the next tie breaker would probably be common opponents. If so, we may finish ahead based on Bills beating Green Bay and Detroit (miami loss to both) while Miami only holds a victory over San Diego who we loss too.

     

    However, if the next tie breaker is conference record then we would lose out to miami 6-6 to their 8-4.

  2. Hoyer was injured on the Browns second series and less than five minutes into the game. He also had picked up three straight first downs to start that second series before getting hurt on the scramble.They likely would have gotten it going with him. EJ's injury came two full quarters later. It's possible that had Hoyer not gotten knocked out of the game so early, we may have never had a lead at the half in that game like we did.

  3. Last year didn't we knock one QB out only to have the other come in and turn the game around?

     

    I think it was more that they knocked our QB out and our back up gave them the game by not being able to move the ball.

     

    The game seemed to turn when EJ went out, not when Hoyer went out. Hoyer went out first and we still lead until EJ went out.

  4. Considering our d-line, I don't see this happening. And even if they lose this week I think they will be 6-5. They probably wait until the wheels completely fall off. But I seem them just playing Hoyer for the rest of the season, especially with Gordon back now. They have to figure out what they have with him. I think they are pretty sure at this point that they have a back up QB in him, but they need to confirm that 100% so they can start fresh for next season.

  5. If we lose the next two, our season is over before December.

    I think we need to win all 4 of the next games to have a shot at playoffs.

    I've said before, I don't expect us to beat NE, GB or Denver so these 4 (or atleast 3 out of 4) are crucial.

     

    We really don't deserve the playoffs if we can't find a way to win at least one against those three teams. Heck, you don't want to be going to the playoffs as losers of three of your last four games.

  6. Just two weeks ago San Diego looked like a shoo-in for the a wild card seed. But back to back loses and looking at their schedule, I think they have a tough road. Their last five games of the season are brutal with three of them on the road: @ Ravens, Patriots, Broncos @ 49ers @ Chiefs.

     

    We need to take care of the Chiefs next week to hold the tie breaker over them and home that the Dolphins ca beat the Chargers this week. And if we can beat the Dolphins the following week, our playoffs chances would likely rise to over 60 percent.

     

    The NFC North is a huge mess, but with the division playing the NFC South and AFC South this year it seems likely that they will produce at least one wild card which is why it is critical that we beat the chiefs this week and hope for as many san diego losses as possible.

  7. As good as Benjamin has been this year, I think you can tell that he is not a true difference maker like Watkins can be. Watkins already has one multi-TD game (should be 2) compared to Benjamin's zero. Watkins has (3) 100+ yard games to Benjamin's 1. And Watkins played with a terrible QB his first 4 games of the season, that is half the games he has played in this year so far. I think you could easily predict an extra 150 yards and 1 or 2 more TDs if Orton was the day 1 starter. Those numbers would look historically good for a rookie QB through 8 games.

  8. You have the numbers backwards. Sammy has the 590 yards and Benjamin 570, but moot point I guess. Of course, taking a look inside the numbers, we know that Sammy was hampered by the fact the EJ was our QB the first four games of the year. Sammy probably has a couple more TDs and 150 more yards if Orton was the QB from day one.

  9. This is a bad game to judge Hackett on. Clearly the game plan was to run the heck out of the ball since we had the lead from the very beginning. Remember, we threw the ball to get that lead and we did it well. Once we had the lead it was pretty much run, run and run some more. Yes we sucked at it, but we constantly had field position and the game was in our hand even after the Jets got 5 good minutes of play and managed to get "close" down 7.

  10. Yup. That Houston game is going to come back to haunt us.

     

    Yep.

     

    Thank you EJ!

     

    The next four games are all winnable. Entirely plausible to sitting at 9-3 heading into December.

     

    The Chiefs and Dolphins games are going to be BRUTAL. If we go 2-0 in those games I would practically guarantee playoffs at that point. Realistically we should be happy with a 1-1 spilt in the next two games.

     

    Bills are going to have to win at least 2 of those December games to have a chance at playoffs

     

    I think we can hang with Green Bay.

  11. 1) No turnovers! Finally. The last two weeks were brutal.

    2) We forced 6 turnovers! Easily could have been 8.

    3) Why isn't Chandler more consistently relevant and involved? He was a non factor today until the TD catch. This seems to happen far too often, and then every couple of weeks he shows up with 5 catches and 87 yards.

    4) The D-line is very deep

    5) At least half the sacks today were on Orton. He had time and space to get the ball off and just held on too long. Would love to see him throw it away more often.

  12. I agree that we find out who this team is on Sunday. You hate to call it a must win game in October, but it will be 'same old bills' if we lose. Our dominance over the NFC North so far means that all three of our loses are in conference loses. And we sit at 1-1 in the division. Lose tomorrow and we have a losing record in the division and 4 loses in conference. Definitely not a recipe for winning the division or making a wild card.

     

    Something tells me the Bears upset the Pats tomorrow, so it would be great to also win and keep the pressure on the Patriots.

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