Success

We weren't a player away from contending. We MAY be a contender w/ what we have. It's really down to Allen. He need to play like he did on the 1st few drives last week all the time. He needs to be consistent; he needs to be better. I think he can, but it needs to start happening pretty quickly.

There have been other dominant teams in the past, but I can't remember one of them making the league as predictable & boring as the Patriots. They'll make the SB, and some NFC team will give them a fight, and then the season will end.

The loss was a bummer. But 5-2 is a good record. I'm cool.

I need help w/ the logic here.

Still the 2nd best record in the ol' AFC. Yeah, we benefit from an easy schedule, but I don't care. I don't think we're necessarily as good as our record, but I also don't think we're as bad as the team we saw today. Allen has to get better, though. The 1st half + was really good - he made some money throws on 3-4 key 3rd down conversions. Then it all seemed to come apart.

That's all it is. Everyone will overplay it - here, and nationally. We're 5-2. I'm all in on that.

Boy, I'm really looking forward to the media this week. Both local & national should be a real treat.

Prime example of taking a very winnable game and handing it to the other team. This was old Bills. "Billsy," as they say. Thought those days were behind us.

I never consider a win to be a bad day. Division games are always unpredictable. I hardly consider today proof that the Bills are "pretenders" or anything.

I keep going back to that call by Daboll. Oh, well. We'd have all taken 5-2 heading to the 'Skins game. Just a bad day.

Haven't you said that a few times?

The punter has to do better pinning teams deep.

a couple of huge 3rd down conversions on this drive...

It was worth giving up the TD just to offset the impact of that 2-point conversion.

We need games like this. Not ideal, obviously, but we have a half to overcome a 2 score deficit, at home. That's the kind of thing contenders do regularly.

Don't downplay it. It's much more serious than that.

How often do you see error-free games in bad weather, from either team?

I was happy. Now I am not. I hope I am happy again.

I'm just about done w/ Daboll. I'm not seeing it. He gets way too cute when it's okay to just play smashmouth sometimes.

That is a TERRIBLE play call by Daboll. We have RB's. QB's are not designed to carry the ball into heavy traffic, outside of a basic sneak. A game we were in control of just became a comeback situation. That's extremely frustrating.

That was a tough one; the defender wasn't blocked. He didn't really have a chance to get that run started...

To be fair, I think the probability of overcoming a 3 point deficit in the 1st quarter is pretty astronomical.

It always takes the O some time to get going.

I used to root for bad weather because it would be an equalizer w/ better teams. I don't do that anymore; probably a good sign...

Gonna be a field position day - great punt to start...