Logic

Absolutely. Drew Lock, to me, is like rookie-season Josh Allen right now. That is the exact type of quarterback on which the Bills defense usually feasts. I've said it before: bad to middling quarterbacks don't usually beat the McDermott era Bills. They just don't.

Bud Dupree and Devin Bush aren't walking through the door. Would Haden and Spillane and Williams have swung the game to the Steelers? Maybe, but I'm doubtful. Meanwhile, their offense entered the game quite healthy, and the Bills defense shut it down.

I normally like to go to the opposing team's forum after a win and read what the opposition's fans have to say about things. I could only spend about two minutes on the Steelers forums, though. It was just too sad. I have never seen so much pessimism, fatalism, and trash talking about one's own team -- when they are 11-2. ELEVEN AND TWO! They have a better record than the Bills by one game, and yet if you read the two teams' forums, it's night and day. And I don't just buy the "Steelers have a high standard for success" talk. A lot of the comments I saw from Steelers fans were as harsh about their team as the Jets fans are about THEIR team. It's nuts. I had to leave Steelers-land quicker than I thought I would. Too depressing/baffling.

I'm typically very cautious with any Bills-related optimism, HOWEVER... I find it hard to believe that the Bills are going to lose to a Broncos team missing its top four cornerbacks and quarterbacked by the very up-and-down Drew Lock. It's hard to look at the matchups -- Bills defense vs Broncos offense, Bills offense vs Broncos defense, McDermott vs Fangio -- and not think that they all favor Buffalo. I know, I know...any given Sunday. But the Bills players know that a win on Saturday wins them the AFC East, and as such, they are going to be supremely motivated. They don't seem like the type to take any opponent lightly. The Bills are simply a better team than the Broncos in every facet, and I think they win handily.

With AJ Bouye and now Duke Dawson out due to injury, the Broncos are really thin at cornerback. The Bills are beating the Broncos next week, with or without the highly overrated Melvin Gordon.

Same. I truly did not know it was legal to just....TACKLE THE WR AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE! 😯

Same. I pretty much just watch these things now in order to see/hear The Cole Beasley Show

Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills really just beat the #1defense in the league, in December, in prime time. The Bills beat the Steelers on Sunday Night Football in back to back Decembers in huge games. This is a new era of Bills football.

Taron Johnson swung that game. Josh and Daboll has the perfect second half adjustments. Levi Wallace slammed the door shut. Diggs....is just different.

The Bills didn’t run the ball on 1st down tonight. They must’ve read your advice 😉

Man...I’m just blown away. Back to back huge wins in primetime. The way this offense responded in the second half. The fact that the Bills closed out the win with a 7:11 drive. 😮 I had my Pancho Power shirt on tonight and let out a “Viva Los Bills!” before the game. Wish Pancho could see this team now. ❤️

Putting a scarf and a hat on the statue? The nerve!

I'm not sure how PFF defines "pressured", but the chart pictured was made using the 16 highest rated teams in defensive EPA per play, as provided by rbsdm.com.

This chart is absolutely, positively bananas. 😳 Oh, and this:

Good point. I'm curious to know how good the Steelers' nickel back (Mike Hilton, I believe?) is. I think a big part of Beasley's success against the 49ers is that they were down to their third or fourth string nickel. In any case, given that the Steelers defense leads the league in sacks, I hope Daboll has a good screen and quick-game audible package dialed up.

This would be a really good week to have a healthy John Brown. I read that the Steelers defense does a really good job clogging up the middle of the field and making it a dangerous area to throw into -- but consequently, the areas outside the hashes are where to attack them most effectively. That being the case, it certainly helps that Joe Haden will miss the game. Diggs should have his opportunities. In my estimation, this may be a week of tough sledding for Cole Beasley, and we may need Gabriel Davis to step up.

I'm seeing a lot of "we need to establish the run" talk regarding this game, and I can certainly understand that -- especially with the Steelers down a few linebackers. HOWEVER...I can't help but wonder if this will be another opportunity to sling the rock all over the yard. I saw on Cover 1 this morning that the Steelers defense has faced the MOST empty sets of any defense in the league, and have surrendered the most yardage against that set. Knowing how much Allen and Daboll love empty sets any way, it might be just what the doctor ordered. It would help Josh ID what the defense is doing and would help keep the Steelers from employing some of their most exotic blitz packages.

First off, Tre'Davious White is the most clutch CB in football. Between his third down success and his leading the league in 2nd half interceptions since 2017, he's just a playmaker when the defense needs it most. But secondly...look at Joe Haden! The Steelers won't have one of the league's best 3rd down CBs this week -- going against an offense that leads the league in 3rd down conversion percentage. Combined with their health woes at linebacker, that's huge!

So basically.... Every "hit" they've had can be chalked up to "luck", but they are absolutely to blame for every "miss"? Got it. Talk about "excessive bloviation!"

This was already stated within this thread, but here's the official Steelers report for the "link?" folks:

In a matchup as close as this, between two opponents who are both really good, you look at the factors that could swing it. It seems to me that the Bills are healthier, more well-rested, are playing with more confidence than the Steelers, and are playing at home. Granted, without fans in the stands, the home field advantage isn't quite the same, but I DO believe it provides at least a small advantage. If the Bills can play a clean game and avoid giving the Steelers short fields to work with, they win. If they have one of those "slap your forehead, 2-3 turnovers", type games, like they had against the Chargers, they lose.

I'm certainly no Kubiak , but I thought that this was without a doubt the best game of Josh Allen's career. I went back and re-watched the game and was even more blown away than when I watched it live. Allen's game was just short of perfect. His command, poise, comfort, pocket movement, accuracy, decision making -- everything was working. The thing that impressed me most about the game was that there were 6 or 7 off-script plays that just made my jaw drop, and those were IN ADDITION TO all the great plays Josh made within the structure of the play-call. That is to say: Allen ran the offense with precision and effectiveness for the majority of the game, but on the hand-full of occasions where the 49ers had exactly the right defensive playcall, it didn't matter, because Allen found a way to improvise and move the chains anyway. That, to me is next level, elite 2020 quarterbacking. A decent amount of QBs in the league can run their offenses really well, but the ones who can beat you even when you've theoretically beaten THEM on a given play -- those are the elite few. Against the 49ers, Allen was every bit the unbeatable, modern, improvisatory master quarterback of the modern NFL era. I couldn't have been more impressed with his game on Monday night. It was really high level stuff. I might just gave to sign up for the Buffalo News so I can read Kubiak's post-game reports from throughout the year. @Hapless Bills Fan, do you happen to know if his Allen writeups from past games this year are archived and still available to read?

Tonight I am a huge Rams fan. On Sunday afternoon I will become a giant Chiefs fan. On Sunday night I will pace nervously from room to room on commercial breaks.

Every time I visit another team's message board -- every single time -- I am filled with gratitude for TBD. Other forums are just so cluttered with ads, too many sticky'd posts, really old posts from as far back as draft day, and vast disorganization and/or inactivity. Then you come here, and it's clean, well-managed, highly organized, and has constant new threads and participation. I'm probably being biased here, but I have yet to visit another team's forum that holds a candle to this place, and I think it's the best message board of any NFL team. To answer the question posed, though, I guess I'd choose the JetNation forums. I can't tell how much of my enjoying that forum is due to my enjoyment of the misery of Jets fans, though.