transplantbillsfan

I agree divisional games are different as well and could also potentially see Miami losing to the Jets. I'm not predicting which game they lose, I'm just saying I don't think they win 3 straight.

Well... they do have injuries. Phillips is one who's out for sure as far as I know. He's not the only one. Washington took Philly to the wire twice already.

I don't know. They haven't had a 3 game winning streak since they surprised everyone to start the season. They barely beat the Raiders and Patriots. Why in the heck are people assuming they're automatic?

I don't think they win all 3 of those games.

Don't the Dolphins play 3 other games? It's annoying the way people just write in wins for teams... especially this year. Is it really going to shock anyone if the Dolphins lo Washington, Tennessee, or the NYJ? Paper tigers.

Yet, it's all about his turnovers

Nicely done. Could you do that also for Burrow and Lamar? I think that would cover the top 5 QBs in the NFL over the last few years.

This feels different than the 2021 team that was 7-6 and "in the hunt" after the Bucs loss?

Ummm... did you actually read the post and look at the chart? He does not have the highest ratio of the players on that chart.

I think you and @Alphadawg7 are looking at this in the wrong way. There should be one way to examine turnovers alone: It's about turnovers to touches. Total turnovers DIVIDED by the TOTAL number of touches which is simply pass attempts + sacks + rushing attempts gives you a true turnover percentage. That's how you determine whether Josh is really turnover prone compared to other QBs. Josh, Lamar and Burrow I know are all relatively close to each other. Josh is about 2.5% while Burrow and Lamar are about 2.1%. I didn't put in any work for anyone else, but since you 2 are going back and forth with this, you might want to. The thing is, to really figure out the cost/benefit to all this, you also basically need to do the same formula for total Touchdowns. Total touchdowns DIVIDED by the TOTAL number of touches which is simply pass attempts + sacks + rushing attempts gives you a true turnover percentage. That would be their actual TD %. Josh in this category is 5.6% while BOTH Burrow and Lamar sit at 4.8% So at least as far as these 2 other Elite QBs go, Josh's TD % is pretty notably higher than his TO % is worse than Burrow & Lamar, but the conversation is always about Josh being a turnover machine.

But people have never talked about Goff, Stafford, Carr, Ryan, Prescott, Cousins, Lamar or Burrow as turnover machines. All those QBs have about the same statistical tendency to turn the ball over as Josh with Stafford, Ryan, Goff and Carr being pretty significantly worse and Prescott, Cousins, Lamar and Burrow almost negligibly better.

I think it's interesting Joe came to that conclusion. I listen to Locked on Bills and heard that, too. Greg Cosell was on OBL today and he said the opposite. It's towards the end of the video, but what he says is (to paraphrase) is that in all his years of speaking with NFL coaches that players are taught that on a Zero Blitz, that leaves the middle of the field open and that's where the WRs should go to help their QB. I thought that was a great explanation and it makes perfect sense. If true (seems to be to me), the onus is on Gabe.

Figure it'd be a fun thread for Sunday and Monday to see how all these teams have done.

I agree with you and this wouldn't shock me.

Maybe the better question is who are you referring to when you're referring to "this team?" You including the 5-5 Buffalo Bills under Dorsey with the 1-1 Buffalo Bills under Joe Brady? I just think this is a different team over the last 2 games. The difference between the heartbreaker in Philly vs. the heartbreakers against the Jets, Pats and Broncos is that even though all 4 of those games were last second losses we easily could have won, Buffalo really played like the better team (and against one of the 2 or 3 best teams in the NFL) on the road on Sunday and just seemed to have absolutely everything go the wrong way for them to lose. In the first 10 games of the season, Buffalo often didn't feel like the better team... they were just lucky (or unlucky) enough to be able to have the lead at the ends of those games only to see them taken away. If the offense of the last 2 weeks is playing, we can absolutely go 5-0. I think the floor is 3-2, which would suck because it would almost certainly put us just outside looking in. But I don't think this team has a losing record in the last 5 games.

Joe Marino in his All-22 gives snap counts on Locked on Bills. Diggs missed less than 10 snaps.

First order of business... Slash Shawn Hochuli's tires at his house so he can't get to the game.

Happy Birthday!!! I hope we can get you a new BFF to play with you on the opposite side of the field as WR2 (for now) in Marvin Harrison Jr. 🙏

It'd be awesome if he came back next week and the Jets beat the Titans, the Dolphins the following week, and the Browns a couple weeks later.

Did our loss to Philly feel the same to you as our losses the rest of the season as far as our offense goes? I'll put this another way... if Buffalo started the season with the win against the Jets and that loss against Philly--same results and exact same games--would you feel like the team couldn't string together a series of wins?

He made basically 1 big mistake in the span of 2 games and 146 plays with that interception he threw to Bradbury. That's it. Other than that play, he was spectacular. Are you trolling us?

Yep. Wins and losses. Keeping the thread alive simply because the Josh Allen of old has showed up the last few weeks and if that's the Josh Allen we see the rest of the year, he still has a shot at MVP if we keep winning.

Zero percent? Did you watch Josh Allen play these last 2 weeks? Anything is possible when he's playing like that.

Since 2022 the Bills have won 9 one score games and lost 9 one score games. I know the narrative is that the Bills never win one score games, but it's not true. I think this bye week serves as a good reset for this team and hopefully Allen comes out firing in the last 5 games. Anything is still possible.