BigDingus

Fair assessment. Too bad next week he's playing in NE, and Belichick is going to expose every mistake. Hopefully he can look past losses and not linger on them.

Yeah, that INT in great field position was awful. Thankfully the great offense did so much with it.

Exhaustion. Look how long the offense has been on the field this half, then look at three defense.

And being 100% unable to complete passes and relying on your defense all half is ruining us. They're exhausted.

And if they got stuffed, Bengals would be in position to take the lead, and everyone would call McDermott stupid.

If you guys seriously think every time Allen starts frantically running around is due to nobody being open, or the O-line's fault, you'll see when you watch breakdowns after the game it's not. His internal timer isn't fast enough. Last year he hung onto the ball longer than anyone else in the league, and he's doing it again this season.

And hey, look, Gore is running the ball well AGAIN! If the QB wasnt rattled, this would be a great time to pass now, but when you're over throwing open guys, it's on you. Wow, almost threw another pick too.

Among the numerous GREAT calls he's made all game, it's ok not hitting on ALL of them. And when the only thing we've shown any success in is running the ball, better to do that than trust Allen to do anything. But I'm sure people prefer blaming the OC or HC to the 1st round draft pick QB.

And people wonder why we don't get more "respect" from the media. You have to earn it and show you're different. We've eeked out 2 wins against bad teams, and are now tied in the 4th with another one, that isn't deserving of much confidence. Due to our favorable schedule, I still think 8-8 is the final record, but still hoping for a miracle.

When you only pass for 3 yards in the 2nd half, you're not going to be very successful.

Well yeah, they're on the field way too much in the 2ns half. They're tired. Reminiscent of the Tyrod years. Don't convert on 3rd down, do nothing after turnovers, and turning the ball over yourself is going to put the burden entirely on the defense to protect a small lead.

Gore has been playing great. It's the moment we stop running and begin passing that is the problem.

Again, if its not evident who is the problem right now, it's bias blinding you. I'm not even saying Josh is a bad QB or going to forever suck, but he's rattled right now for whatever reason.

Notice how we're running the ball so well? That opens up the passing game and play action. But when you throw awful passes, it's not the OC or HC, it's the QB not executing. Oh look, another almost INT. Totally on Dabol right?

He's trying. The Bills aren't executing. You need to complete passes to wide open WRs. That's why you work to establish the run like we did. But whiff on an open Brown for an easy TD and whiff on Jones for another possible TD. But yeah, it was McDermott's fault.

Yeah. That's the reason Allen threw a horrible INT in the 3rd quarter that allowed the Bengals to get back in the game.

But will there EVER be a complete game where he plays well all 4 quarters? It's just so exhausting... They're 0-2 playing on the road, and we have one TD. Open looks being over thrown, hanging on to the ball too long, etc. Our opponents are a combined 0-6. Not a good sign.

This is what I've been harping on about. Yes, we're winning games, but Allen can't ever put together an entire good game. There's always sloppy mistakes, turnovers, dead quarters where we can't complete a pass or get a 1st down, etc. And these things are issues carrying over from last season, and against weak opponents. Good teams will destroy us if we play like this.

If Allen doesn't pan out, yeah, they'll definitely get fired. But as long as Allen at least plays better than what we had with Tyrod Taylor, I think they'll stick around for a long while.... Even if Mahomes is annihilating records & winning Super Bowls left & right.

It's not that head scratching. He hasn't put together a good game from start to finish yet, is still inconsistent. He got credit for a TD "pass" last game for what was essentially a hand off, but aside from that, he has 1 x passing TD, 2 x rushing TD's and 4 turnovers. The only QB's I'd argue should be ranked lower than him at this point in the season are Kirk Cousins, Cam Newton, and Baker Mayfield. Yes, some of the other QB's are getting generous rankings based on their history (Aaron Rodgers), but we're only 2 games in, so I'm sure things will work themselves out soon enough.

Expect it to be tiring for the next decade+ if Allen doesn't become a star. There's some things that can be forgiven, but if Mahomes goes on to become a Hall of Famer and/or Super Bowl winner while Allen either becomes a Tannehill/Dalton/Keenum level talent or bombs out, Bills fan will always remember we passed on him in an era where we went 17 years without making the playoffs. Yes, it's tiring, but if you're confident Allen is a franchise guy, you won't have to worry about the Mahomes talk for much longer.

I know you're not arguing my point, but just wanted to respond with some numbers after doing a bit of digging: I just checked, Brady is 30-3 against the Bills (with one of those losses being the final game of the season where he only started the game, then was pulled along with the rest of the starters for the 2nd half to rest). So he has a 91% win percentage against us, while Manning had an 80% win percentage against the Jags, and he did it for longer. Since 2001, the Pats have put up 1,015 points against us compared to our 555 points against them. In that time frame, here are the Bills lone wins: 1) 2003: Bills win 31-0 in Buffalo to open the season 2) 2011: Bills win 34-31 in Buffalo 3) 2014: Bills win 17-9 in New England to finish the season, Pats rested many starters as they clinched playoff spot already 4) 2016: Bills win 16-0 in New England, Brady was suspended, Jimmy G was injured, Pats were starting 3rd string rookie Jacoby Brissett. That's all our wins in 18 years. That's an unparalleled type of dominance that's probably some kind of NFL record (or at least way the hell up there). Brady's thrown for 8,248 yards, 69 TD's & 24 INT's against Buffalo alone. He has more wins IN BUFFALO (16) than any of our own starting QB's since Jim Kelly (Tyrod Taylor is the next closest with 14). I doubt many other teams can say an opposing QB has more wins in their home stadium than any of their own QB's the past 22 years except maybe the Browns with Big Ben...and even then, by virtue of Brady almost never being injured & being around longer, I bet he still has more. Prior to Brady, the All-Time record in the Patriots vs Bills rivalry was 39-37-1 in favor of the Bills. Since then, it has become 73-43-1 in favor of the Patriots. That's ridiculous. ********************** TL;DR - Brady & the Pats have been SO damn dominant against the Bills, it's pretty much ingrained in the mind that the Bills start every season 0-2 by default. It's made it actually difficult to imagine that one day, Patriots fans will be discussing an upcoming Bills matchup & legitimately thinking "we know we're going to lose to the Bills, so we have to get our 9 to 10 wins elsewhere." But man, if that day comes, it will be an amazing time to be a Bills fan. That's for damn sure.

Just the thought of that feels so weird to me.... like alternate reality/sci-fi sort of weird. The idea that I could one day view the Pats message boards & see people just penciling in a loss to the Bills feels like it couldn't be real. I know people always bring up the 70's Dolphins having our number, but we've gone almost 2 decades of getting owned by the Pats in ways that shouldn't be possible in the NFL.

I 100% agree. A couple years ago, the Bengals were called a "trap game," and a team we should easily beat. Then they beat us. I still haven't forgotten that, mainly because when looking back on the season, it was the one game where it was so obvious the Bills crapped the bed. Thankfully for us, the Ginger Savior had our backs & KO'd the Ravens to get us into the playoffs at the end of the year. Had they lost, it would've been the Bengals game from earlier in the year that cost us the chance at breaking the drought. We started off that year 5-2 when we should've started out 6-1. This season, I'm hoping the team is different, and that we put away the teams we're supposed to beat. No more trap games, no losses to teams with 0 wins, let's just take care of business. Here's hoping the Bills can pull it off this Sunday.

Upon seeing the news, Mark Davis & the Raiders immediately called Rosenhaus to begin contract negotiations. Think of the possibilities of Carr to Brown in Vegas, what could go wrong!?