transplantbillsfan

It's entertainment. Hugely important entertainment to a lot of us, but still entertainment. Just because it's stressful doesn't mean it's not fun. If you aren't having fun during football season as a Bills fan, you should go bandwagon to different teams every week since no team in the NFL looks spectacular right now outside maybe the Rams. Suck it up or stop watching sports.

Brandon Aiyuk was a top 10 WR fairly recently. If he's gotten back to being mostly healthy (doesn't sound like he is... but I also wonder if there's just general friction over there) then I absolutely think you kick the tires on him. Stylistically he's very much a Josh Allen type WR.

This is dumb. The Bills are never going to do a true hard reset with Josh Allen still in his prime. It's Not Happening Beane (or whoever our GM is) can certainly get more aggressive with our retooling. But a hard rebuild isn't in the cards for probably the next 5+ years at least. Josh Allen will be in Buffalo as the QB of the Buffalo Bills for the foreseeable future.

Truthfully... seeing that play really made me wish we started forcing the ball to Gabe a little in this game. Allen and Palmer clearly haven't developed the chemistry we all hoped they would and, who knows? Maybe they still will... but for now we need to start getting the ball to Gabe considering Brady doesn't have a clue that Shakir is allowed to catch passes beyond the LOS, too.

Oh I absolutely think mental fatigue plays a role here. A good chunk of this team has made the playoffs multiple years in a row and almost every year outside of 2020 and 2022 they've lose games they could have and arguably should have won. There has to be a certain element of feeling like "man just get me back there so I can do it right this time!!!" I know for me I've really approached this season with a "wake me up in January" approach. I watch all the games and have fun watching them (yes, I'm one of the fans still having fun... and it might be because of this approach), but I don't really care all that much about these games because it's just the regular season. I know others will disagree, but I still really don't have a doubt that the Bills get into the playoffs. And once they're in, all of these regular season games are meaningless. Yes, I realize they matter for where the games are played, but Allen is a gamer and I still very much believe that this team's extensive experience in the playoffs is really going to help them. Now... the problem is that my approach to the season is just fine because I'm just a fan. Bills players need to find ways to not fall into that same mentality. However, they're human beings. And truthfully, they're the ones who were actually up close and personal to those losses in the playoffs over the years. So I could absolutely see them just looking ahead. I think we should prepare ourselves for this roller coaster to continue. I think we'll lose 1 or 2 of our remaining games and end up in the playoffs as a wildcard team on the road. And I'm fine with that. Maybe sending this team on the road in the playoffs will actually weirdly take a little pressure off their shoulders.

McDermott historically does a great job rallying his team off a loss, especially with extra rest so I think we win against Pittsburgh. As for the rest of the games I have no predictions other than I don't think we'll lose more than 2 of those remaining games. But they could be to anyone.

The Bills can beat absolutely anyone and can lose to absolutely anyone. For that reason, they can not only make, but win a Super Bowl. Not predicting it, but it won't be some outlandish occurrence if that happens.

Ummmm... our D is the reason the Bills were even in this game and that's the side of the ball where injuries have absolutely depleted the team. Our offense scored 13 points in this game and did bizarre things like run James Cook on 5 plays in a row including a 4th and 1 play where he was clearly tired and trying to pull himself out of the game. There are games to be Critical of McDermott as the defensive play caller. This wasn't one of them.

Do people really believe in the Patriots that much? I think they're dropping at least 2 more games. Same goes for Denver. I could see Buffalo ending up at 11-6. Maybe even 10-7 and ending up as the 7 seed. Say what you want about McDermott, but I don't think a McDermott coached team with Allen at the helm goes any worse than 3-3 to end this season. When I think about matchups in the playoffs, I'd almost rather the Bills end up as the 7 seed. That said, I could also see them at 12-5 or even winning out and getting to 13-4. Buffalo loves to rise and fall to their level of competition. They can beat anyone. They can lose to anyone. Anyone who definitively says anything about this team at this point doesn't really have a clue.... outside of making the playoffs. The Bills are making the playoffs.

Shakir has played up to his contract.

Why is the division out?

Why do people keep pointing this out? It wouldn't have mattered. There was offensive pass interference on that play and even if he threw it to Knox we would have been backed up to a 4th and 16. Also, I think it's pretty annoying what the All-22 has done. It's made it so that all we do is look at screen shots of what's available on plays without acknowledging that NFL offensive plays are designed with progressions where there's a read where the ball is supposed to go first second, third, etc. And when there are rub routes like on that play, the ball is usually expected to go to a very specific spot.

I think the expectation we're firing Beane this offseason is nuts. Not happening. All we can do is hope he miraculously changes his stripes.

This team is so Jekyll and Hyde. Getting sick of Brady's predictable play calling. Maybe the wild card path is this team's route to the Super Bowl. Winning the division hasn't been working. One good thing about living in Hawaii and watching a game like this is that it ends before 7 pm, which gives me enough time to process everything so I can actually sleep. Time to take several days off from this board. Gonna suck here.

Annnnnnnd of course Chase is suspended

Really? Is that a special Thursday Night Football thing? Are you sure about that?

Since this is a Thursday night game does that mean Practice Squad Elevations are due by 4 pm EST today? That's an hour and 20 minutes from now. The 3 players up for this to me would be Davis, Latu and Fox. I'm kinda hoping they elevate Latu and Fox and bring Davis up to the active roster while putting someone like Mathis on IR.

When I was watching the game with my friend we were deep in the 4th quarter and I told him to remind me to say something when the game ended. I wanted to point this exact thing out, but I didn't want to jinx it while the game was still running.

All right!!! Shaq is back!!! Dorian Williams has really been coming on lately. Joe Marino's praise of him in the Bucs game was effusive. With Bernard playing better but still clearly hobbled I'd like to see McDermott give Bernard a rest week by making him active but only in emergency situations and start Shaq at MLB. I'd say put Dorian in over Milano but we know that's not happening. Other than Samuel, Hardman and Kincaid this team looks like it's finally getting healthy. The mini bye is coming at a good time

I understand that there's a lot posted on this message board and people don't read through entire posts so I'll just copy and paste this snippet from my unedited OP to show you I already acknowledged this: "This isn't perfect because Shavers was actually a UDFA in 2023 rather than 2024, but he stuck around and gained the most attention last offseason and I think a lot people believe he's a 2nd year player."

Well... this is Shavers' 3rd year

2006 our 1st round draft pick was John McCargo and we picked Kyle Williams in the 5th round. Meatball was a pillar of the team during the drought years and made 6 pro bowls and will eventually probably end up on the Wall of Fame. 2008 our 2nd round draft pick was James Hardy (RIP) and we picked Stevie Johnson in the 7th round. Stevie earned a big role relatively quickly and eventually became our #1 WR posting back to back 1,000 yard seasons. 2022 our 1st round pick was Kaiir Elam and we picked Christian Benford in the 6th round. Benford has turned into what many would argue is an Elite CB and has earned a lucrative extension from the team. Could Tyrell Shavers be the next in line? We all saw what he did in preseason. Granted, it's preseason... but he had a great game against the Bucs and it wasn't just on the TD. I heard a stat yesterday that he was getting a ton of separation on all of his routes and in Joe Marino's All-22 he talked about how good Shavers played overall. He looks like a MUCH more natural WR than Keon. This isn't perfect because Shavers was actually a UDFA in 2023 rather than 2024, but he stuck around and gained the most attention last offseason and I think a lot people believe he's a 2nd year player. I think we're all rooting for him, but I think based on McDermott's and Allen's PCs this week he may have earned himself a legitimate shot to become the WR Keon was supposed to be.

Ummmm... no... we want the Steelers to keep winning outside our game against them if we don't want the Ravens in the playoffs

To me? In no particular order... Super Bowl teams: Eagles Bills Rams Chiefs I understand records but I think it's one of those 4 teams hoisting the Lombardi