transplantbillsfan

Why do you think we should wait until after we've played our last game before we consider this?

No they don't. Right now there are only 3 teams in the AFC that control their own destiny to the #1 seed: Patriots, Bills, Ravens

Conference Record would be the tiebreaker before SoS and the Bills would have a better conference record.

Won't that be week 16? that game has a decent chance of being flexed.

Yep. And I was wrong there. Allen has really improved, but I think Daboll and the gameplans are designed to hold him back. I thought Daboll might have legitimately been the next offensive genius, but instead he's just an inconsistent, often conservative and sometimes downright awful playcaller. No worries, I own being wrong there and the 2 bets I made to @GunnerBill and @Foxx I concede their victories already. Nonetheless, the OP here is correct. Bills control their destiny to the #1 seed at this point, and considering we're halfway through the season and that we were 2-6 at this point last year, that's an amazing thing. Personally, I don't think we will be the #1 seed. I think we'll be 11-5, maybe 12-4 and the #5 seed. But that doesn't change that we have a clear path to homefield advantage throughout the playoffs... though with the way Buffalo plays at home, I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing.

Because the Bills and Pats can't both win out. We play them week 16.

Also... if we were considering this a 3 team race to the 1 seed with the Ravens, Bills and Patriots, well here are their opponents remaining records, not including the games they play each other (meaning I'm excluding the Bills from the Patriots schedule, vice versa, and the Bills from the Ravens schedule and vice versa) Ravens opponents: 45.6% win % Patriots opponents: 44% win % Bills opponents: 31.3% win %

Pats losing to the Ravens tonight seals that. Buffalo is being overlooked by absolutely everyone as a good team. But we've also beaten every team we were "supposed" to beat. Who cares how it looked? Seahawks went to overtime against an inferior 2 win Bucs team with a turnover prone QB. Will the conversation be about how the 'Hawks are in trouble? Probably not. Packers lost to the 3-5 Chargers today. They're still going to be talked about as a legitimate Super contenders and this game will likely be an afterthought. Patriots have only beaten one team with a winning record: that was Buffalo and it was by 6 points in a game that they had a fluke ST TD and knocked our starting QB out for the entire 4th quarter. Tonight they got dominated like we did last week against the Eagles. So that leaves the Ravens. We play them. They stomped the Patriots. But they also got stomped by the 2 win Cleveland Browns. It's not like they're unbeatable. Wins are Wins and any team in the NFL can win in any given week, so don't overlook anyone! Just keep winning Buffalo!!!

No, it was a convincing win. But it wasn't the dominant win I think we've all been waiting for. Weird choices on the part of the coaches today. No challenge flag on that long 3rd down pass to Brown? 3 of the exact same play on the goal line? Running that little shovel pass to McKenzie twice in like 10-15 plays? Going for it on 4th and a very long 1 in easy Hauschka range where you could put the game up by 14 rather than 11? The predictable play call on 4th and a very long 1 in easy Hauschka range where you could put the game up by 14 rather than 11 after Gore was already stuffed on 3 straight goal line plays earlier? Bein honest... I think we have our QB... I'm not as confident we have our coaches--mainly our OC...

Yep. We have a coaching problem significantly more than a QB problem. Whether it's McDermott or Daboll, they need to get their crap together!!! That said. Look what happened this week in the NFL. In the end, we won by 15 points and we were never in serious peril today. All good.

Did he ever really have the long ball? Honestly it's looked like Allen has really excelled in the NFL intermediate throws between 10-25 yards. Those are the throws where accuracy and arm strength really matter because they're the plays with defenders all around. And so far, that's where Allen has excelled. I'll take that. He'll hit a long ball or two by the end of the year. But those intermediate ones are the bread and butter of an NFL QB, and that's where he's really improved.

Bills just won so I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a serious question about the plausibility of the poll. This poll only has 9 candidates listed and there are still about double that. GO BILLS!!!

I would really like Mayor Pete to win the nomination, I just don't think it happens. Thought Biden was the most likely nominee all along and still do. As for whatever closing of the gap there is in poll numbers... does it matter if he's still pretty clearly #1 nationally pretty deep into his candidacy and pretty close to the primaries? Oh, and GO BILLS!!!

This. That long ball to Foster was another frustrating long miss, but I really don't care about those passes if he's hitting the other ones. What about the missed DPI by the refs on that 3rd down pass from Allen? And icing on the cake there was McDermott not throwing the challenge flag. Allen REALLY needs to work on protecting the football as teams now know he has fumblitis, but as a passer, Allen's been really good. My problems have been with Daboll and, to a lesser degree, McDermott.

Halfway through the season I believe Daboll is the concern, not Allen. Allen looked good. Honestly his numbers should have been better, but play calling and a badly missed DPI along with a failure on McDermott's part to challenge it hurt the team. Biggest weakness on this team on the field is run defense. Off the field it's Daboll. Consider this: Last 4 games Allen has a 98.4 Passer Rating with 61.6 Completion Percentage, 7 passing TDs and 1 INT. 8 total TDs and 2 turnovers.

I don't get it... @Deranged Rhino told me to say bye to Joe

Because of your criticism of age on the Democratic side and your dismissal of Trump's age. Did you really need that spelled out for you?

Dear Lord. You guys are a strange hypocritical bunch over here, but you stick together so I'll give you that

How old is Trump again???

Pretty damn nice call by the OP

“Lack of viable contributory excuse”...??? Okay old man. Nice viable contributory though

I'm sorry, are you talking to yourself again? I hear that happens in old age.

Good grief. It sure was enlightening. It's enlightening the "sources" being used in that thread for actual facts and data. Talking heads posted on Twitter are not sources people!!! @Deranged Rhino had one post in there of a clip of a guy on Fox News and some dude posting the numbers distinguishing wage growth under Bush vs. Obama vs Trump. Almost every reply to that Twitter post is asking for the source of the information. But I went through the last 10 pages of that thread and found one or two relevant posts from credible sources regarding 3rd Quarter Fundraising stating that the RNC and Trump raised $125 million in the 3rd quarter and that between the Trump campaign, RNC and the Make America Great foundation there was $45 million in small donors. It isn't made clear that the Make America Great foundation fundraising is taken into account in the $125 million, but supposing it is, that means 36% of Trump's 3rd quarter fundraising was from small donors. That % is smaller if the MAGA fundraising isn't part of the initial number. So Trump certainly didn't get most of his money from small donors 3rd quarter. Did 1st and 2nd quarter small dollar donors blow the 3rd quarter away? That source also states that Democratic fundraising in total exceeds Trump.