Logic

Three determining factors in that outcome: - Leslie Frazier moving to a 3-man rush with Milano spying Mahomes for much of the second half - Von Miller, closer - Josh ***** Allen

A couple of great early window outcomes for the Bills, with AFC contenders Baltimore and Miami losing. The Jets won to get to 4-2, but is anybody really worried about them this season?

The Giants are totally the 2017 Bills. An inferior roster winning games because of a culture change, discipline, and a newly instilled confidence. Way to go, Daboll.

I’d like to know where this rumor came from, too.

Well, I suppose I look at how healthy the Bills roster has been compared to the rest of the league over the past few years. Yes, a lot of that is obviously due to luck and chance, but not all of it. Soft tissue injuries, for instance, as noted in the article below, have been dealt with well. Vet rest days, being smart with injuries that have the chance to be recurring, etc. I don't think the Bills' excellent medical facilities and medical staff should be overlooked as contributing factors to the health of the Bills roster the past few years. It also seems like they err on the side of caution more often than not with regard to bringing players back from injury. Compared to the years leading up to the McDermott regime, the way the team deals with injuries has quantifiably improved. Here's an article talking about this issue. https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bills-enjoyed-the-second-healthiest-starting-lineup-in-nfl-in-2021/article_b37146d8-8e94-11ec-ac3a-f787068ebed4.html The Bills were the second healthiest team in the NFL in 2021 in terms of fewest games missed by starters, according to a study by The Buffalo News. The Buffalo Bills continued their impressive string of good health under head coach Sean McDermott in the 2020 NFL season. The Bills lost only 36 games by starters, which counts both injuries and games lost due to Covid-19. Only New England had fewer games lost with 23. In 2020, the Bills had the fifth healthiest starting lineup in the league, according to a News roster review. In 2019, they lost the fewest games in the NFL by starters to injury. In 2018, they lost the fourth fewest, and in 2017, they ranked ninth best. Bills general manager Brandon Beane credits a team effort by the Bills’ training and medical staff. Nate Breske has been the Bills’ head athletic trainer since early in 2018. Eric Ciano has been head strength and conditioning coach since 2010. Joe Collins was hired as director of performance science in 2017. Dr. Leslie Bisson is the team’s medical director. “It’s a credit to our group,” Beane said. “When I got here, we had injury issues. It’s something we took a deep dive on, and we built up our sports science department. We meshed Eric Ciano’s group, Nate Breske – who we brought in – and Joe Collins and his group. “It’s important those guys are all on the same page, it starts there,” Beane said. Some football injuries – particularly broken bones – simply are bad luck. If a player is making a tackle and a teammate’s helmet smashes into his forearm and breaks it, it’s unavoidable. “Car crash injuries you can’t do anything about,” Beane acknowledged. However, the Bills have done an outstanding job keeping soft-tissue injuries – hamstring and leg-muscle pulls, in particular – to a minimum. Like all NFL teams, the Bills closely monitor the running and workload of each player every day at the team facility. “They really follow the GPS – the load that each player has,” Beane said. “You see the veteran rest days guys get, and sometimes the limited vet rest that happens. We want the guy out there, we want to give him some reps, but we don’t want him running too much. “We really, I think, have a good process in place,” Beane said. “There’s a lot of communication. Availability is the No. 1 ability. You’re paying a lot of money for guys to be on the sidelines.”

I'll never cease to be amazed by the degree to which posters on an internet message board rate their own medical expertise ahead of that of trained professionals. Agree to disagree.

With all due respect, the Bills have one of the best, if not THE best medical staff in the league. They have shown time and time again that they prefer to err on the side of caution when it comes to injuries. If they felt that Phillips was ready to play, then I trust them. Guys get re-injured, it happens.

From the Ringer article I posted above, I found this line pretty astonishing: "I’m not exaggerating when I say that an Allen-to-Davis post route might be the most effective play in the history of ball. The duo has been perfect on those plays, going 9-for-9 for 426 yards and four touchdowns. That’s 47 yards per throw." ---------- Needless to say, a healthy Gabe Davis is a game changer for the Bills offense.

Not sure if anyone has posted this yet. It is a fantastic article and I highly suggest everyone give it a read. There are tons of graphics and things that wouldn't paste well here, so just check it out if you're interested. https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2022/10/14/23403727/bills-chiefs-game-plans-schemes The Game Plans That Will Decide Bills-Chiefs The game of the year is here. Kansas City and Buffalo have electric quarterbacks, incredible offenses, and capable defenses. Who has the upper hand in a game that could go a long way in determining who wins the AFC? Everybody stay calm. It’s Bills vs. Chiefs. The greatest game of last season—of perhaps the last several seasons—was played between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs just nine months ago. You remember? The one in which Josh Allen scored the game-winning touchdown, and then Patrick Mahomes somehow came back and scored the actual game-winning touchdown—until, of course, Allen drove down the field and scored the final game-winning touchdown—that is, until Mahomes used all 13 seconds remaining on the clock to drive into field-goal range, send the game into overtime, win the coin toss, and (you guessed it) score the actual, final, I-really-mean-it-this-time, game-winning touchdown. Yeah. Pretty good football game. Entering Week 6, it would be unfair to expect the same fireworks from the rematch. But of course, there is still reason to get excited. These are the two best teams by expected points added per dropback by a country mile, as Allen and Mahomes have become the defining quarterbacks of this generation of football. And they’re both AFC contenders, looking to repeat as division winners and make the playoffs. Where they might meet again. And might meet every year. For the rest of time. OK, it’s very tempting to expect the same fireworks. There is no doubt that Buffalo and Kansas City have planned around this Week 6 matchup for awhile. So Steven Ruiz and I took a look at last year’s matchup—as well as this year’s versions of the Bills and Chiefs—to try to understand what each team will bring to this game. We’ll break it down on both sides of the ball; I’ll play the Chiefs, and Steven will play the Bills. We’ll start there: when the Bills have the ball. Ruiz, take it away....

That much I expected. Bryce Brown, Marquise Goodwin, and a middle finger emoji...those I did NOT expect.

This thread got weird.

Stopped by Chiefs Planet hoping to read a little insight as to what the enemy fans are thinking. I immediately remembered why I don't go there ever. That forum is an absolute cesspool. Some of the worst "football discussion" on the internet. It's weird, because almost everyone who has attended games in KC or hung out with Chiefs fans says they're welcoming, friendly, knowledgeable, etc. Whatever the case may be, the absolute worst of the Chiefs fan base seem to gather on Chiefs Planet. I cannot stress what a garbage den that place is. Makes me really, really thankful that we have a place as nice (and well moderated) as TSW to talk Bills.

I disagree. White tops with blue pants look like a jersey paired with blue jeans. The Bills' most soul-crushing road losses also always seem to happen in that uniform combo. Now blue tops with white pants....that's a good look.

Of the current Bills jersey combos -- not including the throwbacks... White-on-White is either the best or second best option. I don't make the rules. It's just science.

Snagged two tickets to the final two shows, at Oracle Park in San Francisco, and two tickets to both nights at the Gorge, which is such an awesome venue. Looking forward to one more Saturday night with the Dead (err...two more?) Now everybody's dancin' down the local armory With a basement full of dynamite and live artillery Temperature keeps risin', everybody gettin' high Come the rockin' stroke of midnight, the place is gonna fly

No Flaming, I see where you're coming from. The Bills are great at coaching up DBs, and they have a talented, young, up-and-coming group there with Jackson, Elam, and Benford. I'll only say this: Let's put a pin in this idea until after the KC game. Something tells me that nobody will be wanting to trade away an All Pro corner after the Chiefs game. As the saying goes, you can never, ever, ever have too many good corners in the NFL.

Great news. This is definitely the most sensible approach. Have him ease into practice today, then have the full bye week to ramp up. Hopefully he can be active by the Green Bay game. It seems almost unfair that the 2nd ranked scoring defense in the NFL gets to add an All-Pro corner at the midway point of the season. Pretty awesome.

Great post, thanks!

Built in Buffalo has about as much credibility as Dunkirk Don.

The injury status of the Bills roster is the defining factor of this game, in my mind. I am confident that if Buffalo has Poyer, Edmunds, Knox, and McKenzie on the field, they can win this game. If they are missing any or all of those guys, my confidence in a victory goes down significantly. At the end of the day, I have the gnawing feeling that last year's script will be reversed: We'll drop this game to KC in the regular season (largely due to injury depletion and missing guys like Tre White), but then beat them in the playoffs. I'd take that trade-off. One thing's for sure: This game very well may decide the #1 seed in the AFC playoffs. Big, big game.

For most teams, adding a UDFA safety to the practice squad wouldn't be noteworthy. However, for a team whose coaches have identified and developed 5th and 7th rounders Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer, 7th rounder Kurt Coleman, got a lot of mileage out of UDFA Dean Marlowe, and seem to be developing 6th rounders Damar Hamlin and Jaquan Johnson into quality NFL starters.... Maybe this signing isn't nothing.

The things that pop off the tape for me with Shakir are his toughness/fearlessness over the middle and his run-after-catch ability. The play last week in the Ravens game where he caught it near the line of scrimmage and proceeded to juke a defender and run for 12 yards and a first down was a thing of beauty. For a team that has talked as much about getting RAC -- and has put as much effort into manufacturing it -- as the Bills have, they can't ignore what Shakir has brought to the table in this department. He's a legit RAC guy -- he was that throughout his career at Boise St, too. Almost like a running back once the ball is in his hands. I'm really excited for this kid's future.

Good for them. Let them get fat and confident off an easy schedule, then the Bills can whoop them up and down the field on Super Bowl Sunday.