Nihilarian

It took a season in Denver before DC Vance Joseph was able to get his defense working properly. Looking at the Bills' players and the talent on that defense, I don't think it will be long before these players have it together. They were able to make some big plays at the right time. I'm really looking forward to that point. Top five defense, in my view.

Thanks for posting this. Great win!

The 49ers, when fully healthy, are a very good, solid team. Their problem last season was all the injuries.

So much for the Rams winning this year's SB.

For everyone taking a dump on Drake Maye, the guy did take his team to a 14-3 record in 2025. Then, after a Week 13 loss to Buffalo at NE last season, the Patriots still won the next six games, including three playoff games, until the Super Bowl. In those playoff games, they beat the Chargers, Texans, and the Broncos...minus Bo Nix, of course. Now, granted, they did have a windfall of good luck at times with a very easy schedule. Still, that Patriots defense went 4th in points allowed and 8th in yards allowed. Pretty darn good. The Patriots offense was even better, with the #2 offense in points scored and #3 in yards. Not bad for a first-year head coach. Maye threw for 4394 yards with 31 TDs and 8 INTs, and while their run game was good, their passing game was better. Maye finished the season with a 113.5 passer rating. I believe it was McDermott's cover-six defensive scheme that stymied Maye somewhat in the Week 15 loss to Buffalo, as it took away his deep passing. That was the coverage that Seattle used in both this last game and the Super Bowl. If the kid ever figures out how to defeat that defensive scheme, and he doesn't face such a fierce defense, he still might turn out alright. I'm not rooting for him, just sayin. 😁

It's the first game of the season on the road in a very tough, loud stadium to play in, and not to mention against one of the best defenses in the NFL. Last season, the Seahawks were the #1 team in points allowed and 6th in yards allowed. I'm not going to put much thought into how bad the guy played against that defense, with the entire NFL world watching. After all, he did drive the Pats down to the Seattle 16 and put them into position to win or tie. From what I gather, he was trying to throw it away when it was intercepted, and it was a great toe-tapping play by the defender to end the game. We will soon see going forward because that Patriots defense is pretty darn good, and their OC is darn good himself. Maybe they can do better, but they won't be creeping up on anyone this year, and defenses have figured out that cover 6 is Drake Maye's kryptonite. They should beat the Steelers and then face Buffalo in Buffalo. We will see.

Let's not forget that the Seattle defense was top 5 last season and #1 in points allowed. I can only hope that Buffalo looks close to that good this year. Great game, though. Maye looks average, and I gotta wonder why the Pats OC doesn't have him trained up in the just get the first down theme as he did with Brady.

What's interesting is that the Seattle Seahawks primarily used disguise-heavy zone coverages—leaning heavily into Cover 3 and Cover 6 (quarter-quarter-half zones Fourth-Quarter Adjustment: As they protected a late lead, they shifted heavily into soft zone structures (Cover 6 looks) to prevent deep plays. Isn't this what McDermott did against them in the second game? Now the entire NFL world knows how to defeat them...then they need a solid secondary like the Hawks have 🤣

Boring game all the way till the end...and the MVP throws an INT in the EZ. What an ending!

Sweetness...

Man, I hope that the Buffalo defense is as good as the Hawks! Drake Maye...haw ha

Tom Brady took a discount in pay for a few years to help the team to acquire other players, only to be screwed by Belichick. (Then again, his wife was making much more than he was.) Anyway, Belichick went to Pats owner Robert Kraft and told him Brady was washed up...only to see him go on to win a Super Bowl with Tampa. 🤣

Buffalo fans here don't want to see injuries and say they are an excuse. Now think back to the very first game of 2025: which defensive player made one of the biggest plays in the 4th quarter? Ed Oliver caused Travis Henry to fumble, and that play gave the Bills the emotional momentum to make a big comeback and win that game. Then what happened to Ed Oliver for the rest of the season, 3 games is all he played in. He returned for that Denver playoff game only to miss the second half due to another injury. Michael Hoecht is another; after serving his 6-game suspension, he looked like a game wrecker against the KC Chiefs, only to be injured again. He played in 2 games in 2025. Looking back at his playing history, the guy played in all 17 games in his previous four seasons with the Rams. Looking at the Buffalo defensive players for 2025, only six played in all 17 games. The starters are Cole Bishop, Deone Walker, and the other four are backups. Sad stuff.

Agree. What a lot of Bills fans simply don't get is that when McDermott hired a coaching assistant OC, he allowed that guy to implement whatever scheme he wanted to run. Which is why the total difference between what Brian Daboll ran and what Joe Brady ran, as opposed to his first OC in 2017, Rick Dennison. That last name didn't last longer than that first year because he stunk. The O-line coach/ run game coordinator back then was Jaun Castillo who he knew from his time with the Eagles under then HC Andy Reid. Another coach who proved to be not so good despite all his years of experience, so he didn't last long in Buffalo. Sean McDermott was a very demanding head coach and expected excellence from his assistants, and when they didn't show up, they didn't last long under him. (Probably why some coaches dislike him and call him overly demanding) If they did their job well enough, he left them alone. Brian Daboll was a master at setting up offensive passing game plans, so much so that he was basically a genius at it. His problem was neglecting the run game to a degree. Some Bills fans seem to forget that he hired Joe Brady as QB coach and then promoted him to be his OC. He is now the new Buffalo Bills HC. He also hired O-line coach Aaron Kromer, who Joe Marino calls the best line coach the NFL has seen in a decade. Which is probably why Buffalo has had one of the best offensive lines in the NFL despite not spending high-quality draft picks or expensive free agents to build it. McDermott's entire problem, it seems, was his Tampa 2 style, bend but don't break defensive scheme that most everyone here hates, myself included. He break away from that scheme and he should build a good NFL team. The guy probably could have made it work with Sam Darnold or Baker Mayfield at QB in Buffalo, just not as well, of course. Probably not with the guy the majority of this fan base wanted, Josh Rosen, though. Lastly, I heard a rumor that he attempted to hire a big-name DC after Leslie Frazier had left Buffalo after 2022.

We will know by week five, at Houston, Detroit, the Chargers, the Patriots, and the LA Rams. All five are linked as playoff teams this season. Regardless of inheriting an already-playoff team. A new coaching staff, along with an entirely new defensive scheme, may or may not show what's in store for the rest of the season. Six more possible playoff teams ahead on the schedule, too. Tough schedule for any team.