jrober38

I think that's just taking advantage of a cup cake schedule. Even if we go 10-6 with our wins pretty much all coming over teams picking in the top 10 of the draft, I don't think that makes us a good team.

Agreed. Josh isn't terrible, and he's probably a guy who can win 7-9 games each year because he seems to do well late in games and can do enough to beat bad teams, but there's nothing so far that suggests he's ever going to exist in the upper echelon of NFL QBs. There are still way too many simple mistakes.

The Bills are a bad passing team because their quarterback isn't a very good passer. He's still 28th in QB Rating. He's a decent field general, but in no way is Josh Allen someone you want dropping back 40+ times a game.

Sure, but people are acting like they think this team is good. It's not. Our offense is a major problem, with essentially every position group contributing to our inability to score points.

The Bills should win all four games. Washington is a train wreck and Dwayne Haskins might have to play. Cleveland is 2-5 and in the gutter. They can't protect Mayfield and their defense isn't very good. Miami is the worst team in the league. Denver is one of the 5-6 worst teams in the league. The Bills needs to walk out of the Broncos game 9-2.

At this point the Bills are who I thought they'd be. They're a team that plays hard, and has a very good defense and a bad offense that suffers from badly from inconsistency. The result is that our defense is good enough to allow us to beat most bad teams we play, and our offense is never going to let us beat anyone good. The Bills look like they'll coast into the playoffs with 10 wins and a wildcard birth, mostly due to the fact they play arguably the weakest schedule I've ever seen a Bills team face, but overall this is not a good team relative to the top teams in the NFL. The defense is solid, but the offense isn't even close to being good enough at this point.

Agreed. The Bills need to commit to Singletary as their lead back, and commit to running the ball a heck of a lot more than they have been. They need to establish the line of scrimmage, get positive yardage on 1st and 2nd downs and give Allen reasonable distances to overcome on third down. From that, we should then be able to throw off play action, allowing us to take shots down the field for big chunk plays which is something we've lacked all year.

I think he's being coached into not being reckless with the football. Turnovers have been a problem with Allen in addition to the fact he doesn't generate many big plays in the pass game (he hasn't hit a deep ball all season). The risk/reward of turning him loose suggests pretty heavily that he'll turn into a turnover machine without enough big plays to offset the mistakes.

Allen was fine yesterday. The first half was weird all around. The second half he was great. He needs to learn to throw deep, but his performance yesterday did nothing to change my opinion of him either way.

Do what it takes to get Julio Jones.

Trubisky is absolutely horrible. He'll be benched by the end of the month. Chicago should try to trade the farm for Cam Newton and admit they made a mistake.

Of course he did. He's directly profiting off the presidency.

I don't recall a QB ever suffering a major knee injury on a QB sneak. I think it was really terrible luck.

No brainer. Mariota is absolutely terrible. Tannehill is a low end starter or high end backup. Tennessee should be better off in the short term.

Shocking we got anything for Jones. Also shocking we traded up to pick him in the 2nd round. Hopefully that was a mistake we won't repeat.

Thanks for the context. I appreciate your recap. Sounds like he did a good job managing the game. That's something I've felt he's needed to do better, so if he was efficient and smart with the ball, that's a plus.

The Bills need an elite, big bodied receiver who is "open when they're not open". They've needed that guy since Eric Moulds left.

If the Bills can get into the post season, which they should, this team could make a run. If they can spend the next 3-4 games developing an explosive running game with Singletary, and learn to be more efficient throwing deep off play action, an explosive offense teamed with an elite defense could do serious damage in the playoffs.

I didn't realize that. As I said I didn't watch any of the game. Just going off the box score and what I heard from friends and family who did. They all said Allen was okay, and that the offense mostly did nothing, and that the pick was bad. Feel free to explain how his performance was "great" if you disagree with what I said.

We scored 14 points. He can't have been that great. Anyways, the Bills D is arguably the best in the NFL, and the offense does enough to win low scoring games. The Bills should pretty easily coast to the playoffs given how horrendous their schedule is this year and once your in the playoffs with a defense like ours, anything can happen.

I literally just got home after sitting on a beach in Charleston for 6 days. I didn't watch a second of the game (wasn't on locally and no one wanted to go to a bar). I heard Allen was okay but threw another terrible interception. Anyways, the Bills are 4-1 and should be at least 6-2 in four weeks which is great. I'm taking my son to his first game against Miami which should be a ton of fun.

This. One guy is the best QB in the NFL, and the other guy is one of the worst starters. Our starting QB struggles to throw a 5 yard out. He routinely skips check downs so he can throw it into double coverage. I can't think of a single other QB who struggled so badly with the basics who ever succeeded in becoming a franchise QB.

I agree with that. By year two there was an established supporting cast, and EJ couldn't have played worse.

Woods and Goodwin were rookies. TJ Graham was actually our #3 receiver when EJ was a rookie. Scott Chandler was our leading receiver his rookie year. Watkins came in Manuel's 2nd season.

There's no objectivity. Allen is 33rd in the NFL in passer rating and people are saying we shouldn't be concerned about his play. I want him to work out, but the decision making and difficulty he has completing simple passes is beyond frustrating. He's not a rookie anymore, regardless how many people want to try and pretend he is. He can't keep making so many boneheaded mistakes every game.