Matt_In_NH

I am surprised at the number of people who don't get this.

The Pats will fight for the division.....this is not the AFC South....the Bills have to take it from New England. BB wins with gameplans, matchups and with players that play hard pretty much all the time.

First, they are not as bad as you may think. Going into this game they were fifth overall.....going by yards. After this game they will take a big hit. Sometimes the higher ranked defenses are on teams that have weak offenses....the games tend to be low scoring and close, kind of like the Bills of the last couple years kind of fall into that group. Things have changed, the offense can score points and put the other team in a hole. When you have a team that does that it provided a good chance for the other team to get a lot of yards and points. They need to learn how to play with a lead, get to the QB and cause some turnovers. I think the D may just not be quite as good as we have thought of them as, they need to evolve this year to form a better match with the offense. They played a lot of weak teams last year, a lot of QB's with very little experience. This year the schedule is loaded with quality quarterbacks, we say that yesterday. McVeigh and Goff have had a lot of success, they were a super bowl team two years ago. Moving forward, its Carr, TanneyHill (Not Mariotta), Mahomes, Darnold, Newton, Wilson, Murray, Herbert, Garrappolo, Roethlisburger (not the chumps from last year), Lock, Newton, Fitz. Overall that list is way superior than the list of nobodys they played last year. Maybe there will be some changes, but all in all, this year is a lot more challenging for this years defense.

The Texans did the same thing in the playoff game. When Allen takes a long sack when you really don’t want a sack it has been from this type of scheme. They trap him to where he struggles to get a ball off even as a throw away.

They consistently had a guy coming wide around the edge where Allen would try and spin out of the pocket. This is how Belicheck handles Allen. Today he was able to do just enough to get through but it clearly was frustrating him. They need to find a counter to this technique....the Rams have some good DL so they could bring some pressure so that was part of it but there must be something open when they do this, probably an escape route straight ahead.

You can’t tell it was I’ll advised?

Play teams with bad offenses like last year?

I would give edmunds a break. His shoulder is probably not 100%

They said he was injured. Do we know what the injury is?

And the criticism can be totally ridiculous

The bills were fortunate today. Allen is clutch but he also played some hero ball today. Maybe you can’t have one without the other. He needs to be more reactionary on plays like 1 and 10. No sense doing wild things.

Terrible decision by Allen. But that was a catch all day

Jalen Ramsey is straight trash. And we play them this year. Looking forward to it.

I think you are not giving the bills enough credit. They are a challenge/one of the tougher games for all those teams you think will be favored. Many of the home games they will be favored or close to even on. The bills are one of the better teams in the league today. Why are the Steelers going to be favored in Buffalo? It is a tough schedule no doubt but they can beat most of these teams.

They are favored this week

I think he is a Dodson backfill mostly.

What if I was a sarcastic lawyer?

The jury is still out if we picked the wrong Josh

Thats cause they hate big markets like NYC

If there was a HOF for cool dudes, he would be in!

I know. But he also punted on 4th and 1 in OT. Not sure why he is so loyal to Tyrol. I like Lynn but he is not long for HC.

Now that is bad luck....he wont start again unless Herbert gets injured.

He is being set up to fail.

Other than Fins and Jets, the Bills opponents largely tend to be in the top half of these rankings.

he sure takes that Shnoman thing seriously