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  1. 6 minutes ago, Ramza86 said:

    Glad to see where we are at now. 

     

    But...we havent blown anyone out. 

     

    Jets/Titans. FG kickers could have put us away, but we were fortunate.

     

    Bless the defense man. Lord Bless them. They are fantastic. 

     

    But if we want to be a real contender we are just going to have to see more from the offense. 

     

    If we are going to keep playing every week down to the wire, we are going to start seeing some losses we dont want to see against lower tier teams.We stole one from the jets and titans...there will be weeks we get games taken away from us if we cannot get the ball rolling offensively. 

     

    Im still reserved/pessimistic lol. Just waiting for the offense to get this team into contender status. 

     

    We "stole" nothing from the Jets and Titans.  Those teams are both at least decent (I think the Jets are better than decent), but we were the better team in both games and we got the wins that we deserved.  

     

    There is no "number of blowouts" tiebreaker in playoff seeding.

     

    While I would like to see us score more -- who wouldn't? -- I disagree that we can't be a contender without more offense.  If we can score 20 points every game, that's enough to go 13-3 or so and win playoff games on the road.  The only team in our conference that I don't think we can reliably hold to fewer than 20 points is Kansas City, but even that is do-able.  Heck, the Colts did it.

     

    And besides, there is every reason to expect our offense to get better as the season goes along.  We have a young QB who is still developing, and nine (!) of our offensive starters are new to to the team this year.  We haven't seen the best of this unit yet.  

  2. I voted A.  He's the person most directly responsible for building a strong culture and team chemistry that this franchise has lacked since the SB era.  Since McD arrived, our team consistently pulls out a win or two in games that we have no business winning, which reflects well on the coach.  He needs better game-day management to move up to an A+, but that's a relatively small part of his job compared to the other big-picture stuff.

     

    52 minutes ago, Sunshower said:

    Defense has performed well, but the development of Josh Allen has been tepid and lackluster at best.

     

    Heading into the draft, I was led to believe that Josh Allen was a super-raw prospect from a third tier program who would need to learn the game from the sideline.  Nearly everybody agreed that he shouldn't see the field during his first year, and many argued that he would need to sit and watch for two seasons before being ready for game action.  With that as our starting point, Josh Allen's development has come along much faster than expected.  He's not there yet, but he's in his second year and he's clearly on the right trajectory.  Not much more you can ask of a coaching staff.

  3. I rewatched the Tennessee game on Saturday focusing entirely on Ford and Ed Oliver (when he was on the field).  Honestly, Ford was fine at RT.  He's clearly a better run-blocker than pass-blocker, and he did give up a sack on a play where he was beaten immediately off the snap, but he wasn't the liability in pass protection that he was in some earlier games.  

     

    I'm not sold by any stretch of the imagination and I suspect his long-term future might be at guard, but there's reason for optimism.

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  4. 41 minutes ago, nucci said:

    why are we due for this?

    The Bills have had no problem moving the ball on anybody except NE.  The only reason why we needed a comeback against the Jets was because of weird, flukey turnovers.  The only reason why we weren't up 27-0 on Cincinnati at halftime was because of penalties and mental mistakes.  At some point, we are going to have a mostly error-free game.  If it comes against a team like Miami, it will result in us hanging 40+ points on them.  Our offense figures to run way more plays than them because they aren't going to be able to sustain drives or even get first downs against our defense.  The opportunity is definitely there.

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  5. 1 hour ago, matter2003 said:

    Yes, they lost 24-17 on a 4th Quarter Kelly pick 6 after they had just tied the game with a TD pass to Metzelaars earlier in the quarter.  

    Browning Nagle was the Jets QB that day and the Bills were favored by 17 points. Bills had 4 turnovers, and Brad Baxter had a pair of TD runs for the Jets.

    Bills went to 9-4 with the loss and Jets to 4-9.  Bills then rebounded with 2 straight wins over Denver and New Orleans before losing badly on the road to Houston in the season finale and having to face them the next week again in the Wildcard game at home.

     

    We all know how that ended...

     

    One thing I do miss from that era...the refs and their crew didn't try to be the star attraction by calling penalties on every other play seemingly.  Teams looked like they averaged 5 or 6 penalties a game back then, with some games only having 6 total penalties called...now we get that on the first drive of the game sometimes. It's ridiculous. If everything is a penalty, nothing is a penalty.

    That was also the game after the Dennis Byrd injury.  Everybody expected the Jets to just mail it in.  Obviously they didn't.

  6. 4 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

    Sam Darnold playing really well. Jets look a completely different team. The week 1 Bills win was a good win. With Darnold the Jets are still around a .500 team and they still have a lot of winnable games on their schedule. They are not making a playoff run from here but don't be surprised if they go 7-5 or something like that from here on in. 

    I strongly agree.  At the time that we beat them, they were a good team.  Not world-beaters, but a very solid road win.  This is not really an 0-4 team.

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