Logic

Fair enough. Saying "the Ravens secondary is very good" or "the Ravens secondary has three excellent corners and two great safeties" is one thing. Coming onto the message board of the team with the 3rd ranked pass defense to state that your 13th ranked pass defense is the "best secondary in the league" is just, well...it's inaccurate fan hyperbole at best, trolling at worst.

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You can come in here with your freshly created account and spout lots of nonsense. One thing you can NOT say, though, is that the Ravens have the best secondary in football. The Bills have the 3rd ranked pass defense in the NFL. The Ravens? 13th. Nice try. By the way: I'm sure if the Ravens lose, you'll be sticking around on Monday to talk about it, right? ? Trolls gonna troll.

It's endlessly funny to me how worked up people get about uniform combos. I get it -- to an extent. We all (myself included) have our favorites and our least favorites. But without fail, every week, there are people getting straight up MAD about this stuff, and that makes me laugh.

Can anyone elaborate?

This has been known for at least a week now, since the Bills-Colts article came out and mentioned that Kim Pegula requested these jerseys for this game. Has to be my least favorite Bills uniform combo. At the end of the day, though, who cares? Just win, baby!

Totally true. You're right. Personally, I just don't see the clinch likely this week. Not only would the Bills have to beat the Ravens, but the three or four other outcomes that would have to happen just seem unlikely to me. I don't expect this week to be the week the Bills clinch. For all intents and purposes, the Bills just need to win one more game to assure playoffs. It may not technically, officially clinch for them, but it pushes the playoff odds above 99%, which is good enough for me.

I've said it before. It's really simple. The Bills need only win ONE of their remaining four games to have a >99% chance at playoffs. This according to FiveThirtyEight and the New York Times playoff machine. Just one game. Any one of the remaining four. Doesn't even matter which one. Just win one and they're a virtual lock.

Check his Twitter timeline. He has some.....interesting beliefs.

You're right. I am wrong. I stand corrected. Pot is much stronger these days.

But Kuechly has made has living as a WILL. Why make an All-Pro WILL linebacker change positions? And why ask him to do it in order to unseat a guy who is ALREADY playing well at MIKE for Buffalo? And what about the fact that your SAM usually comes off the field for about 40% of plays? And why would Kuechly choose Buffalo -- a team who, in your scenario, wants him to change positions -- over other teams that would let him play his natural position? So many questions.

The Cowboys, for instance, could likely have dominated the game against the Bills if they had simply FED ZEKE and stuck to the run. To the Bills great fortune, they did not. I definitely don't think just ANY team can beat Buffalo by running and running only. The Ravens, though, appear to be one such team.

Me either. It would really stunt his development, in my opinion. I just have to hope that Sean McDermott and Brandon Beane, being notoriously meticulous and well-prepared guys, have got a short list of OC replacements on hand, and that whoever they choose in this hypothetical scenario keeps things as similar as possible to Daboll's scheme. I suppose I'm getting ahead of myself with all of this, but it IS one of the risks of having a head coach whose pedigree is defense. Having one's DEFENSIVE coordinator hired away isn't as big of a deal. Having to make wholesale changes to OFFENSIVE systems, though? Not so easy.

This. Entirely this. When I take emotion and bias out of the equation and look at this game from a strictly matchup-based point of view, it doesn't look good for Buffalo. A middling (at best) run defense against an elite, Roman-schemed running team. And even IF you devote all of the necessary resources to stopping Ingram, Lamar will take it on a keeper and gain 20. The only way I see the Bills winning this game is by matching the Ravens score for score and being the last team with the ball as the game ends with a chance for a winning TD or FG. I simply do not see the Bills stopping the run or keeping points off the board. I hope, hope, hope I am wrong, but this has all the makings of an ugly one for Buffalo.

I considered it reasonably likely that Daboll would get poached. I had presumed that Dorsey would step into the OC role, making for a seamless transition. If BOTH get taken? No bueno.

If the Bills somehow end up losing both Daboll and Dorsey to other jobs this offseason.....Ouch.

Perry Fewell -- second time interim head coach. Interesting career note, that. Also: I wonder if it's hard for Panthers fans to see the best parts of their front office/coaching staff (Beane, McDermott, et al) leave while Rivera remained, only to then see Rivera get fired any way.

I really don't see how he was trolling? He gave his breakdown of the game, which is obviously slanted towards the Ravens since he's a Ravens fan. Lord knows his post was a more meaningful contribution to the discussion than 70% of what Bills fans post here on a regular basis.

I don't think McDermott wants Watkins anywhere near the Bills. I think that McDermott got one whiff of Watkins and his "I'm a four dimensional lizard god and we're all a homogenous field of vibrating energy" schtick and said "Nooooope" and promptly traded him away. As just a player? Sure. But I don't think his personality/mindset fits what Buffalo's got going on right now.

Great first post. Welcome to the forums. If the Bills somehow, some way manage to beat the Ravens, I hope you still stick around. ?

Baltimore - 20 Buffalo - 16

Just wanted to thank everyone for the kind words and give this thing one shameless bump before it dies. Go Bills!

I like Hooper, but I think Knox/Kroft/Sweeney will be the tight end depth chart for the next few years. Don't count out Jason Croom, who is on IR but who will fight for a roster spot as a flex tight end this coming offseason.

As a fan living on the west coast, this is just fine with me. 5:20 start time? I'm there. Now if only the Bills are able to have as successful an outing against the Steelers as they had against the Cowboys...

Great observation. When it was announced that the Bills - Steelers game was flexed to prime time, I was initially irritated -- The Bills usually do poorly in prime time games. Then I remembered that we have Josh Allen, and that, as you say, he seems to thrive in these situations. Let's hope that continues against the Steelers on Sunday night and the Patriots the following Saturday.