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I remember seeing Allen for the first time in the Infamous college game against Iowa st where he threw five interceptions, hearing that he was a first round prospect and thinking "great watch the Bills be the team dumb enough to pick him". I had a more open mind at the time of my post that was referenced a couple posts back but remember thinking that he would need a couple years on the bench to have a chance at being good. I also thought that Sam Darnold was the most complete QB before than draft so it tells how much I know. I am glad to be wrong on Allen, but I think that he has exceeded almost everyone's expectations by now. The only question will be whether him or Jim Kelly will be seen as the best Bills QB of all time when Allen's career is done.

Vontae Davis: I've done the craziest most random in game retirement of all time Antonio Brown: Hold my beer.

Ian Book's stat line brings me back to the Losman/Edwards days and makes me thankful for what we have today.

Maybe not the hottest team yet, but they have played quality football again since the second half of the Tampa game. I am still worried about the run defense when it comes to the playoffs, but have more hope that they can stay hot and make a run then I did a few weeks ago.

Hopefully Beasley will restructure, it seems that many other Bills have been willing to do this recently. With his current price and the needs ot the team going into the next season, he may be a necessary price cut otherwise.

A friend of mine is driving in Connecticut to see family and listening to the game on the local patriots radio. He says that the announcers have been referring to McDermott as papa smurf and taking pot shots at the city of Buffalo the entire game. He is a Jets fan and hates both teams equally, so for him to call the announcers classless must mean that they are pretty bad.

Wow, Pats fans sure get pissed when the refs call a fair game.

5000 is pricey for a beer. He could have gotten about 20 Sam Adams Utopias for that

Announcers from Bills Jags game "Josh Allen got COVID from Josh Allen!! Wow! Can you believe it!"

Sure buddy. It was political, you know it and I know it.

Thank you for following the board rules about not making COVID talks political

What frustrates me is that they will not move this game unless the Pats had to put more key people on the COVID list.

The playoff game two years ago, Cody Ford was called for a penalty at a key part of a drive that likely gets Buffalo in field goal range to win. The refs admitted in the off-season that it was the wrong call.

Buffalo made mistakes that cost the game in overtime, but there needs to be accountability on the refs part. What happened today gave the Bills more of an uphill battle than they should have had at the end of the game. Look around and you will see plenty of non Bills fans complaining about the officiating in that game. I feel like many of the memorable bad ref jobs happen to go against the Bills (Houston 2019, Homerun throwback, 1998 Just give it to them/hailmary pass interference). At best there is an half hearted apology (Shouldn't have called it that way, oopsie daisy) with a promise to change, but no real improvement. It is not just Bills games, refs have made many of the games that I see unwatchable. The NFL needs to do a major overhaul on the officiating. Make refs full time, fire most of the current ones and start over, create a consistent set of rules not prone to subjective interpretation, and have an independent accountability board. It is time to do something because the game gets less credible every year.

I am disappointed in the team and McDermott this year, but no way that it is time to fire him. The team turned around under him and you are more likely to get a worse coach or lateral move than an upgrade. I do believe that the team needs to get rid of Daboll and Frazier and find out why they are on the short end of every close game this year. Something is different from last year and it is not for the better.

I hate to blame refs, but when it comes to the Diggs play at the end of the fourth and the Evans play in OT, you either call both or dont call both. The inconsistency was glaring and the officiating as a whole this season has been atrocious. I feel like the NFL wants a NE/Tampa super bowl and will stop at nothing to get it. I appreciate the effort and new found drive in the Bills during the second half. I hope that they can carry that over and treat the rest of the games in the season like a playoff game

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I do not get why they went for three passes after that run on the last drive. Make it four down ball, punch it in the end zone with less than a minute or at least get a short 1st and goal and have four shots in the end zone. Even with a TD on that last play, New England still had a chance to tie it up. Just not playing to win all around.

Get rid of Daboll, overhaul the o-line and add a running back along with a LB who can stop the run. That is the goal in the offseason.

This team has no sense of urgency, no ability to make adjustments and Josh Allen is not playing like last year. They played like a loss was inevitable the entire time despite having two red zone drives at the end. This is not a fun team to watch. There is a lot of talent, but they have the timidness of a Jauron team and the lack of discipline that you would see in a Rex Ryan team.

You are most likely right, but this is a strange year and there is no dominant team. My delusional hope is that they eek into the playoffs and get hot at the right time in in January and February.

Wow, I thought I was pessimistic. 7-4 and we are rebuilding? Not like we are Not 4-7. Even with Tre out, maybe not quite time to think rebuilding yet. Well, not THAT bad, lol.

Glad that Buffalo won, it was needed to keep them on the right side of the playoff hunt. This is at least a wild card team, but the two games against New England and one against Tampa will tell us where they are. I hope they win next week if for anything else to stop the announcers from gushing all over the Patriots and fawning over Mac Jones as if he is the next Tom Brady, that will be unbearable to listen to if New England wins.

This is the first loss that makes me question the rest of the season. This Bills team is underachieving. They are the same team as last year with some added depth, but they are suddenly looking a like a wild card team at best. The first three losses brought up concerns, this last one was flat out embarrassing. It has been very hard to watch football this year even before the Bills started floundering. Refs are worse than ever with flags every other play, conference after conference between plays, flags thrown and picked up, two refs making different calls on the same play and no consistency. Commercials seem to be more than before, and announcers just focus on one or two "fun fact" storylines(ex Josh Allen vs Josh Allen) and repeat the same corny ass one liners dozens of times. Yes, Buffalo can beat the Saints on Thursday, yes, a win against New England in two weeks, gives them momentum again, but it is suddenly not a guarantee. I hope that Buffalo will turn it around and will watch until they can't anymore, but if they fall out of it, I may be done with watching the NFL for this year.

Didn't this actually happen to Joe Klopenstein during Mcdermott's first year? Seemed like the poor guy was getting cut and re signed every week.