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If it takes a hail mary like that to win a game when we aren't having our best day out there, I can tip my hat and live with that play and it says some pretty good stuff about our team. The hail Mary is not the real issue. The Bills are a good team mostly driven by excellent QB play but are missing elements that probably aren't going to be completely fixed this season but we should enjoy the ride.

Fair catch then you get one chance.

That's a pick!

That pick was a pass Allen had no business throwing.

They did stick it to GB. I think GB, NO and TB are the best teams in the NFC.

Brady is there largely because he doesn't want to work as hard as he did under BB. Arians is largely known as a laid-back guy and it causes the issues often seen here in TB. The NFC largely doesn't have great teams, though.

Where this whole experiment comes up short is that Arians is mediocre and easy to figure out.

Buffalo is still in good position here. Pittsburgh and Arizona are the hard games left for Buffalo, and Miami hasn't played KC or Vegas yet. Outside of that, the schedule is largely common opponents and the head to head matchup. Miami is also 2 games behind in the Division tiebreaker.

The tweet here is exactly why reports of the offense's demise was greatly exaggerated. The Jets game was something like a 40 year anomaly where Buffalo didn't score at TD or punt but drove into position 8 times. Then they ran for 200 yards vs NE. underneath the somewhat lack of points, the yardage and first downs indicate that Buffalo is still moving the ball.

Pittsburgh is probably the best team going so far. The NFC West plays a lousy schedule this year, so I don't know exactly what these NFC West teams are, but Arizona does look good.

Yeah I can def see why he's here.

Murray is an electric runner and I'd prioritize taking that away next week.

Hard count and the punt is the right call there.

That's very clearly pass interference.

The issue is that Tua is a high risk pick because Drew Brees is the only comp. Guys without ideal size that succeed are largely electric athletes like Wilson and Murray, and Brees is a historical outlier in terms of accuracy and precision. So drafting Tua is basically betting that he's a historical outlier. Maybe he is and he's a good prospect, but with Houston's high pick going to Miami and their likely position to be able to get into the QB market again, Tua isn't going to get time.

No chance for Jones there.

The answer is largely that they don't, you just watch the Bills more than you watch other teams. We've seen defenses take deep passes away from teams a lot. team synthetic against Kansas City so much that Patrick mahomes is 20th and intended air yards per attempt. Russell Wilson's deep ball accuracy this year is a historical outlier, so the answer to the question is that Seattle has a historical outlier that no other team has Thanks to Advanced stats, we can actually analyze air yards now to actually see who's throwing the ball down the field the most. Would you look at the air yards per passing attempt, you largely got it mixed bag. Carson Wentz and Drew lock are the two guys that throw the deepest per attempt, and neither of them are good at it. Beyond that you have cousins Wilson Ryan Stafford Watson and Allen ranks 10th. But that tells you is that Buffalo is still taking their shots, and we saw that on a few drives in the Patriots game.

Yeah I couldn't agree more with this.

5-3 or 6-2 is the likely record over the last 8 unless they clinch the division sooner. The offense is slowly getting back on track the past 3 weeks. Right now Buffalo is squarely a good team that's missing elements, like everyone in the AFC not named Kansas City or Pittsburgh. I'm confident in wins against Chargers, Broncos, Dolphins and Pats. I'll also say Buffalo is going to beat San Francisco because they've shown an ability to contain these one-dimensional offenses and San Francisco is ridiculously erratic and inconsistent this year and it's a west coast to east coast trip. I'll say split between Arizona and Seattle, though I think both games are winnable. Probable loss is to Pittsburgh.

He's trying to do way too much with no support here.

I largely think that Tua isn't going to work in the NFL and it's better for the Dolphins if they find that out now. I'd submit that the current Miami win streak is largely the result of an unsustainable turnover rate. Miami has a good defense but they've gotten 8 takeaways in the last 3, with 3 coming against SF and 4 today. Any team that gets turnovers at that rate is going to look more impressive than they are, and while they're clicking now, when that regresses to the mean they're going to look bad again.

The counterpoint here is that Buffalo has been a top three defense in the league for the past two years so there haven't been too many bad outings with him so you're completely wrong. I think the issues on defense largely stem from the line, which hasn't been good, but it's because of change going into the year with no TC or preseason. The only starter on the team this year on the line that was around last year is Hughes and they don't have a 1-tech. Injuries have also forced some of those newer guys in. This offseason, they prioritized the offense. The early draft capital was Diggs, AJ, Moss and Davis. Oh and they got Bass, who's the youngest kicker in the league and who's won 2 games for Buffalo so far. Next time around, they'll prioritize defense. Every acquisition on the offensive side of the ball except maybe Knox has contributed to some degree. The entire receiver room, Allen, Morse, Williams, Feliciano, and Ford are all Beane acquisitions as is the running backs.

Largely the only issue people have here is with the 18 attempts. Josh stayed patient, the Bills attacked New England's weakness and the offense worked. Unfortunately Davis dropped a TD pass, also. The best thing I saw from Josh today were his audibles. The run play to Moss before the TD and the screen pass to John Brown were good examples of pre-snap recognition from Allen.

The Bills identity this year is their offense. That's where the talent capital went and that's paying off. Today was largely back on track for them against a good defense and it was good to see the run game come out against a team dedicated to stopping the pass. On defense, Buffalo is largely a victim of not having TC and preseason to acclimate all the new defensive lineman, opt outs, free agent signings that aren't working, and some injuries. This largely isn't fixable in total this season, but we've seen Buffalo he able to defend what they want to defend and play well in spurts.

That onside kick is something bad teams do. Largely I appreciate Buffalo sticking with the run today and hammering New England in a New England type game. Nobody has really shown the ability to pass on them this year and it was good to see Buffalo stick with what worked.