mjd1001

Its mostly the offensive line. They just don't create holes. 2 years ago they were below average run blocking. Last year they were pretty bad run blocking. They haven't made any major moves this year to get them better than the last 2 years in a major way, and they are dealing with major injuries. Don't overthink it. Full strength they are pretty bad at run blocking, and they aren't even close to full strength now.

What we should have learned all along and should have been enforced in week 3: No team or coach or player is perfect. The best teams can lose, the worst teams can play good. Players and teams improve (Jacksonville) and some get worse. There are a LOT of variables in every game ever week. Basically, nothing is totally predictable and fans WILL over-react to each individual game. Some fans will also want or NEED to place blame on someone for every loss.

A lot of poeple were actually interested in watching Allen and Mahomes play golf vs Brady and Rodgers, so do things along that line. An NFL player golf match. A madden tournament. 3 point contest. We see these guys play football every week and a 'watered down' flag football game is embarasing. Lets see them do things that are different that what they normally do and things that fans PROBABLY would be interested in seeing them do.

Offense will have to carry the load more. Just keep outscoring them, don't let up, keep pushing for more points.

I would just spread the field every single time with 4 wideouts. If the D bunches up inside, then you roll josh out and take advantage of the space with him either running or a quick toss to a WR taking advantage of the open space. If the D spreads out and leaves room on the inside, its then almost automatic with a QB sneak or a quick run up the middle. Either way, I spread the field 100% of the time.

I know a lot of people remember this, but someone posted something on twitter a few years ago asking "what is your favorite Taylor Swift song" and a response was somewhat humorous when someone said "the one about her ex". If I'm not mistaken, it might have been the twitter page from Burger King?

I agree with you. For the the halftime show is the point in the game where I tell my wife to come into the room because the show is going to start....she watches the halftime show...gives me a very in-depth review of what she thought of it...she leaves....and I'm glad its over and the 2nd half of the game starts just in time for my sanity to return. I honestly don't even care if it is a performer or band I like. To me the performance takes me out of the game. I like music/entertainment by itself, and I want football with a 'less than 20 minute halftime' with my football.

I agree. Everyone standing vs everyone sitting has the same impact on visibility. I had season tickets for over 15 years until we decided to not get them anymore, but I remember the same thing. You were able to sit during the games, and stand for big plays. Standing the entire game, not for me.

I have lost my 'hate' for specific teams as the years have gone by. Not quite sure. Only 2 ideas I have why I may dislike a team more than another. 1.) When I see a fanbase act like entitled jerks more than other teams. 2.) When a team gets 'too good' for 'too long' and I just want to see something different. I really don't have any dislike for Miami right now because they don't fit into either of those categories for me.

I agree with this. Over the last year or so, when you watch the Bills big plays a lot of them are when the Safeties are SUPPOSED to play deep but they often bite on shorter routes, and when they get out of position that opens the medium-long routes up for the Bills. I'd want to make sure my DB's who are in zone are discipline, don't try to be a hero and make sure everyone maintains their zone.

I don't think you can go into a game thinking you are going to stop the Bills, with that said... I'd go almost all zone. No partial man/zone combos. MAYBE give the Bills 1-2 looks per quarter of man to keep them honest, but base I'm going to play zone coverage (should help SLIGHTLY with keeping Allen from scrambing for big gains) I'm going to go with exotic rushes. Very few full blitzes, but I want to bring some pressure from all over. Every other play I'm going to bring a Safety or even a Corner blitz from someplace. I want pressure coming from all angles just to keep the Bills guessing. Blitz a corner from outside the hash marks, have an end that play drop into a shallow zone coverage. Maybe have some plays where I only have 2 DL on the field, but then overload with pressure from LB/DBs all from one side of the field on those plays. Again, you aren't going to stop the Bills, but I want to do enough to possibly cause some turnovers.

I'll try to answer the spirit of the question, because obviously I don't miss the losing. What I DO miss are the lower expectations. Winning is almost always better than losing, but where your expectations are..that matters to me. The Bills winning 13 games in a season where I was expecting 9-10 wins is a MUCH more fun season for me than them winning 13 when I was expecting 13. The higher expectations can, if you let it, make the season a bit more stressful. A mid-season loss (or 2 game losing streak) when you are expecting a 10 win season isn't good, but it becomes a whole lot worse if you have that same thing when you are expecting 13+ wins on the year.

I understand where you are coming from, but I don't totally agree. Obviously the Titans didn't look that good tonight. The question is, are the Titans that bad? or did the Bills make them look that bad? I'm still at where I have been with the Bills and Josh Allen.....If the Bills play their best game and the opposing team plays their best game, the Bills are winning, vs anyone. The obstacle they face is they may not consistently play 'their best game' as often as the Chiefs, or possibly some other teams. its early in the season though, teams change as the season goes on. Injuries happen. Teams 'iron out' some issues. But the Bills are in as good of a position right now as just about anyone else.

Of course it isn't a 100% given, but I still think it is 90+%, which is where I have always been. Miami? maybe they can be a tiny bit more of a threat than we thought a month ago, but I need to see more than 1 great quarter out of them.

Terrible map for us, at least in my opinion. Its close, but I'd rather see the Miami-Baltimore game than NE/Pitt Arizona-Vegas would be my preference by a lot over Dallas-Cincy Tampa-NO is a WAY better and more interesting game than Carolina/Giants, that one isn't even close.

Chiefs, Chargers, Ravens (in that order) in the AFC Tampa in the NFC. I'm 'amost' over Arizona because they simply haven't been that good, but the back part of my mind always think if the do 'figure things out' they could be trouble.

And if he and Tampa DO win the superbowl, what else will that do for him? Risk/Reward for Brady is weighing much more heavily toward 'risk' at this moment. But maybe for him its not about the risk or the reward....its probably about the attention and needing the spotlight.

I'm all for letting either go if they want a lot more money that what you can value them at. The offense is what will take this team into/deep into the playoffs or to the Superbowl. Ensure an elite offense (including a 'good' O-line to keep Allen from taking to many hits) and do the best you can with the D-unit with what is left over.

The only thing I don't like about the deal is the length, same with Josh. If you have a guy in his early-mid 20s and you believe in him, I'd rather see 6-7+ year deals rather than the shorter ones the Bills are doing.

There are some people on this board that going back even 5-10 year, they said BB was a great D-coordinator and an 'above average' head coach with a great QB/Roster that made him look better. Even when the Pats were winning SBs I know some posted that and stuck by it. Looking at his career, the good and the bad, and what is happening now (and what happened Before Brady), I think that assessment is turning out to be the closest to the truth. Add to that the cheating that the NFL admitted to by punishing the team and I think that reinforces the above point even more. Opinions about him are all over the place. But for me, it you are caught cheating AND you spent the greatest part of you career with who some consider the greatest QB of all time....but WITHOUT him you teams (more than one franchise) are average-to-below average, you don't get the nod as the 'greatest coach of all time'.

I'm still upset about it. Nothing is going to change for me that it is one of the bottom 5 moments in franchise history for me.

I haven't comment until now because for me this is black-and-white. If he participated in a crime, and/OR gave statements that were not true to cover up any kind of investigation, he gets cut. If he didn't participate in a crime, you keep him.

I like Simon. However, I like the 'young' guys on nights and weekends just as much, or better than Schopp and Bulldog. I'll miss Simon though. I'm really surprised by the hate for the younger guys. Are they perfect? No, but I find them much, MUCH more enjoyable to listen to than what they put out there from 3-7. Very few things/people have gotten me to change the station because of how bad the sports talk hosts are/were on local radio. The WGR young guys don't do that for me. Schopp does, and when I lived out east and could pick up NY radio stations, Mike and the Maddog did also (I have no idea WHY people like him screaming and yelling, but it drove me crazy 1.1 seconds after he started)

It is enough, I agree. But as fans, if we keep going to the games and watching on TV, it doesn't matter. The NFL can say or do what they want, the athletes can put out any statement they want, but not much changes if the dollars keep coming in. Nothing new there. Personally, many things about the NFL have worn me down, including this. I don't buy tickets for the games anymore. I watch less of it on TV (including the Bills). I cannot even remember the last time I bought an NFL product (shirt, cap, video game, etc). I just don't do it anymore. I do watch MOST bills games, and I do watch a couple other NFL games per month but that is it. Part of the reason I am not into it as much as before is I have pretty much seen everything in a game I think I will ever see and not much is new. But the high salaries, the issues you brought up about players/owners getting away with stuff.....those things matter to me. However, I haven't seen to totally give up on watching or following the sport. I just do it less than I used to.

I'm OK with it. Well, I'm not totally fine, but as others have said, supply and demand. If someone wants to go to the game, they put a value on how much they are going to pay. If the tickets are getting sold, then the people who are buying them are making the decision that the price is good for what they are getting out of it. Ticket buyers may LIKE for tickets to be lower, but if they are paying the current prices then by definition they are making the decision the product they are getting is worth it.