transplantbillsfan

The Bills have been 4-2 at this point 4 of the last 5 seasons. But because this season is now, the sky is falling.

I'm genuinely curious about this.... So you're honestly saying this year's team is less talented than last year's team? I feel like if you take a minute and do a position by position comparison to our players last year you would rescind that statement.

The transitive property doesn't work in the NFL

See OP

And I'm tired of people who don't understand that once the playoffs begin, everything resets. Being a part of the playoff field is what matters, and we will be. Once we're there, we have JA17 and other teams don't.

Wtf??? Low expectations???? All that literally matters is getting into the playoffs and starting to play the actually legitimately important games we can freak out about in a loss. The playoffs are an entirely new season and every other playoff team would fear the Bills, Chiefs and Ravens alone regardless of record and seeding simply because of who's under Center and previous playoff experience.

Wait.., we're going to the playoffs but we've already fumbled the year away with 11 games remaining? If this is your perspective, you're new to football. Teams in the NFL are almost always very different heading into game 16 than game 6. Once again, take a breath.

No. I just don't have the memory of a goldfish. I've seen this regular season script play out every year since 2021.

This freakin place is so awful after a loss. Obviously 2 in a row makes it way worse. We're making the playoffs. That's all i care about. I would love the #1 seed, but I reject any notion we need it. McDermott's playoff road record may be 0-whatever, but that leaves out the fact that other than 2019 (when we weren't this iteration of the Bills and Josh Allen wasn't yet Elite), every road playoff loss came against the Chiefs. That proves somehow we're doomed on the road against other teams in the playoffs??? Totally disagree. I also think this crowning of NE is really premature. Guys, before the season started looking at our schedule to start the season I think we all would have been happy with 5-1 at the bye. We're one game off that pace with a mass of circumstances I think we underestimated. Let's just take a step back for a moment and look at what really happened against Atlanta. Our #1 receiving weapon who's become Josh’s most reliable target and finally seemed ready to break into that "Elite TE" category was out. Josh Palmer got injured on the 2nd series and I really think that killed our offensive passing game. It was clear to me the Bills were about to integrate him more into the offense. Even the commentators brought up the conversations they had with Bills coaches last week about Palmer's deceptive speed. Daquan Jones suffered a calf injury during warmups leaving us with 3 active DTs, one of them being Ed Oliver coming off injury. (Side note: Deonne Walker is going to be awesome!) 3 DT rotation against Bijan and Algier??? Yikes! Bernard gets hurt mid game and exits. McGovern gets hurt and comes back clearly still hobbled. Plus we have 2 important defensive reinforcements coming in right after the bye and hopefully Hairston can play soon after. Say whatever about our remaining schedule but none of these teams are that scary. The Bengals will probably still be starting Flacco and their D sucks. The Eagles (as stated) look like the NFC version of us. Kansas City is, in reality, an inconsistent up and down team we're going to play at home and is the one team on our schedule this team doesn't look past. Yes they got players back, but they lost last week against the Jags with Worthy and it baffles my mind the way Rashee Rice is talked about as an Elite WR who will inevitably unlock their offense. The guy has played 20 NFL games and surpassed 100 yards a whopping 4 times. I'm not saying he won't be good and won't help, but the whole "uh oh!!! It's the high power Chiefs of 5 years ago!" is pretty ridiculous. The Bucs and Steelers look good, but how much do we really think that lasts? We aren't going undefeated after the bye, but who cares? January into (hopefully) February is all that matters. Just get there. Take the bye, get healthy... take a breath.

This freakin place is so awful after a loss. Obviously 2 in a row makes it way worse. We're making the playoffs. I totally disagree with the notion we need the #1 seed. Your stat about McDermott's playoff road record leaves out the fact that other than 2019 (when we weren't this iteration of the Bills and Josh Allen wasn't yet Elite), every road playoff loss came against the Chiefs. That proves somehow we're doomed on the road against other teams in the playoffs??? Totally disagree. I also think this crowning of NE is really premature. Guys, before the season started looking at our schedule to start the season I think we all would have been happy with 5-1 at the bye. We're one game off that pace.

We go through this lull every freaking year and end up right where we will end up this year. Wake me up in January when we're playing our first playoff game.

This might be the only thread I post in for the next week and a half. Walker is a stud.

He loves Josh Allen more than any other QB in the NFL at this point but gets burned by the Bills every single year. When he predicts they're winning the Super Bowl. The volatility of his rankings is his coping mechanism... that's all.

Sorry but this is a year every team in the NFL is flawed. We aren't fools gold to win the Super Bowl. We haven't been that since 2020. This team has been perfectly capable of winning a Super Bowl since 2021. We just haven't done it.

I think the bolded is wrong. Josh was Josh but not getting ANY help outside of Kincaid as far as receivers getting separation, the running game and play calling. Joe Marino's All-22 review today was interesting because it outlined our failure to take advantage of the Pats base defense in the passing game. He also emphasizes how much better Josh was on his review than he thought initially. Basically, outside of 4 plays he talks about specifically, Josh was excellent. And yeah we can talk about those 4 plays all day like the pass he didn't make to Samuel after leaving a clean pocket, but as essentially the last play in the passing game for a game where he watched his weapons get no separation, maybe Josh was justified in thinking he needed to roll out to give him more of that run/pass option. Also would have been nice to see the obvious DPI flag thrown.

I think @boyst would claim otherwise. Just a hunch. She's hot. Looks like Megan Fox. I also bet you'd find most NFL players have pretty attractive significant others.

Some players are gamers. He wouldn't be our #1 back. He'd be our short yardage back. Maybe he has better instincts than Davis, which could help more in those short yardage situations.

No. He's already done it.

At this point we should absolutely be bringing Frank Gore Jr. up and seeing what he can do in games. Joe Marino actually mentioned this in his podcast this week.

I think the Lamar fatigue is more of a Ravens thing than a Lamar thing. It feels like we've been hearing for years how great the Ravens are at team building. The narrative has been "they can only beat themselves" for awhile now. I get super sick of that. As if other teams play no role in the Ravens turning the ball over or Lamar making a ridiculous 4th and goal play where he loses 20 yards. Watch... there's still going to be a narrative out there among a significant chunk of people that the Ravens are the best team in football if they can just stop shooting themselves in the foot. One big talking point is going to be their decision NOT to go for it on 4th down countered by Detroit's 4th down decisions. Ignored will be the way Detroit handled Baltimore at the goal line on 4 downs. Lamar just gets that extra angst since he's the QB of that team.

You and @Royale with Cheese are on my list if we don't win the Super Bowl this year.

I asked a couple buddies if they thought it was crazy that I liked Frank Gore Jr. more than Ray Davis. It was preseason. They said yes I was crazy. I don't think I was...

Disagree about Keon. Liked his play. His "drop" was a tough catch and with a defender pulling his arm.

That non-challenge irritated me because it was so obvious on such a huge play. And to top it off the broadcast didn't even bring it up.