BigDingus

Josh throwing too high to an open guy yet again. Leads to tipped balls or getting the receiver killed, but I'm sure it'll just be easier for fans to blame Beasley because he technically had a chance by touching your the ball...

That'd be nice, but there's only about a 25% chance the offense does anything with it.

And Allen did mess up, so he deserves criticism. He praised Allen all game until then, so let's not act like he's got some axe to grind.

They need to make Minotaur looking ones for the Bills, not actual Bison since it can't fly around & look as cool. Make it more like a jacked up mascot Billy the Buffalo. Some large, satanic looking monstrosity that starts small and rises from center field holding a football in one hand and a pitchfork with the opponent's mascot on the other, all while roaring & having flames shoot out of his eyes. In other words, a truly terrifying experience that'll make children s*** their pants.

It's about damn time. It's 2019, I can't believe this is still an issue... Progress is slow, guess it just takes the oldest generation to slowly move out of power & make room for new blood to get policies changed.

Weak D's have given this unit trouble all year though... The offense has really only had one complete game all year, that was against the Dolphins (game 2). The Cowboys game was setup with great defense, multiple turnovers, great field position, etc. limiting what the offense had to do. We know 100% for a fact that this offense can not win in a shootout with anyone. Our team needs too much time to settle in and figure things out, and if we need to start throwing more, the less likely we are to win. I believe our D can keep any game close, but not one QB we've played is as talented a passer as Mahomes. That said, I understand where you're coming from. The Bills offense just doesn't elevate itself against good teams, and they would need to play better than ever to keep up with the Chiefs offense.

The first round bye really does give a huge advantage to that team. There have only been 10 Wildcard teams in the history of the league to make it to the Super Bowl. Also, home teams in the NFL have a 64.7 win% (highest in the 4 North American pro sports). Also, think about how often that helps old man Tom in his history? One less game makes it that much easier on his decrepit, geezer body. The majority of the time the team with the first round bye at least advances to the Conference Championship game, so it'd be fantastic to have. We kind of blew our chance with that last week, so you may be right in that resting our starters would be better for us. That is unless we have a chance of not having to play against KC... I'm not sure what scenarios would get us out of that, but that seems like a really bad matchup that I'd like to avoid at all costs lol.

I'm hoping the defense can really carry the game this next week. The Steelers are 6-1 in their last 7 games, only losing to the Browns. The Bills haven't been good against the handful of good teams we've played this year, but our defense has risen to the challenge each time, and we're facing a 3rd string QB. Allen's just as likely to play like doo doo as he is decent, so I'm not even going to bother predicting what he'll do anymore. But if the defense can continue to stop the run, we'll get good field position and get FG's out of it at worst. They've held the best rushing offense to only 118 yards, a team that consists of Lamar Jackson & Mark Ingram, and team that got the ball OFTEN due to our ineptitude on offense, leading to constant punts. That's impressive. And the prior week they held the 10th ranked rushing attack & 5th leading rusher Zeke Elliot to 103 yards. The Steelers rushing offense is 24th in the league, and their passing offense is 31st. Our defense should have a field day with that. If our offense, as pathetic as they can be, can just play a semi-competent game, we should win. * * * * TL;DR - Bills ***SHOULD*** win given the matchups, and having a great defense facing off against an abysmal offense. But our offense can shrink in meaningful games, Allen can look like he's throwing a football for the first time, and receivers can suddenly start having bricks for hands, so you never really know.

Hate? No lol. Frustratingly annoyed by - yes, absolutely I just want to like him so bad, but he makes it so damn hard sometimes.

At least the refs tried to make up for it at the end. Getting all those calls was the only way our offense was moving the ball lol

All of that would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that Allen, not the defense, prevented many big plays from happening. When the defense is already beat and your target is open, the only things that ruins that is the QB or the receiver. The first half was the QB wildly missing guys. The second half we had key drops on good passes. That isn't a product of good defense, that's a consequence of bad offense.

I think at that point it comes down to division wins, so yeah, losing to Miami would give us three nod. If not, it comes down to common opponents right? We lost to the Eagles, they beat them. We lost to the Browns, they beat them. We both lost to the Ravens, so that's a scratch. Even if they lose to the Bengals somehow, they're still up on us there. So yeah... losing to the Dolphins looks like the only real way we can take the division aside from them aside from straight up better record.

Pats just lost in an eerily similar fashion. 4th down in the redzone, down 23 to 16, just over a minute left, need a TD to tie it up. Fail to convert. Back to back losses, and 21 home winning streak over. If Allen and the Bills are going to redeem themselves, they need to go into NE and rise to the occasion. The Pats are beatable. The division title still up for grabs. The offense crapped the bed tonight, but they have an opportunity to prove this Bills team is more than just a product of an easy schedule. Beat the Pats and send Brady limping into the post season (and hopefully into retirement shortly after ?)!

Of course not. His pair of fumbles, countless missed open passes, horrible sacks that actually were on him that took us out of scoring range, doing nothing when in great field position, terrible reads, and looking totally lost aren't his fault. Because 3 passes were dropped, it's Daboll's fault for not possession each player and physically making all them execute their jobs. All Daboll. Josh's last drive was proof of his greatness. 3 penalties that gave us first down after first down, all proof of Allen's franchise qualties. Forget Lamar Jackson somehow finding a way to succeed against a great defense, why should Allen be expected to find a way to play competently?

Worthless pass. Brown was smothered in coverage. Allen too afraid to look past his first read. Penalties are the only reason we were in the redzone anyway. I hope they un-flex that coming Bills game. Games against the top teams shrink Allen's ability to do even basic things right.

If there's not a penalty giving us a new set of downs, it doesn't look favorable. Allen is scared, the O-line is getting bullied.

We need another penalty in our favor.

Nobody is stopping him but himself. He's afraid to run. It's been this way all game. You can clearly see he hesitates at his opportunities, then gets himself sacked.

Going backwards again. Yet again Allen takes a bad sack that takes us out of FG range AGAIN . Thank god for the PI. Moving the ball via penalties all drive. Wish it was our QB moving the ball though...

Aside from one play, these swing passes go nowhere. Ball doesn't get to the target fast enough, nobody there left to block when it eventually does.

Spoke too soon.

The Bills are getting super lucky with these penalties. Wow.

Are we really not going to give Daboll credit at all? Back to back plays called that got us within a score.

And it looks like we'll be needing that TO

Defense gave this team a stop when we desperately needed it. 24 points or not, they have played amazing.