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Kind of sucks that if Josh starts we would lose his threat as a runner in this game considering only one team has allowed less passing yards than Bills and it’s the Panthers.

You know what bugs me the most? We’ve been at this for 20 years now with the Pats/Brady. And I feel that AT LEAST half of the games in which there have been major issues with officiating against the Bills have involved Brady’s team. Now when you consider we were playing this team for only 2 of our 16 games each season (this year 1), yet at least half of our games with inexplicably bad officiating have involved the NFL’s Golden Boy, how can you argue that it’s coincidental any more? It isn’t. And the WORST feeling for me as a fan is when you come to the realization that the NFL can and will force feed us with the success of whatever team they want. That in itself has made me wish I could stop being a fan. I was telling my buddy earlier. Drops cost us the Pats game. Refs cost us the Bucs game. I hate losing games because of self-inflicted issues, but NOTHING compares to refs dictating the game because that’s a situation the Bills have NO control over.

Well we went 13-3 without Star for an entire season… it’s mainly Tre I worry about.

hey… could be worse… coulda taken Ruggs, Jeudy or Raegor over Jefferson like 3 teams did…. And I’d rather have Diggs than all 3 of THEM guys

I should take this advice. Staying off social media and message boards. Cause to be honest with you what ALWAYS makes it worse is when you see those tweets and posts like: ”Check out this PI on the throw to Knox that wasn’t called!” ”Josh would have had a TD on 4th and 14 if the Pats DB didn’t make an amazing play!” etc… Yeah, you start to add up ALL of the missed opportunities and missed calls and think to yourself “if we just got ONE of these…” In addition to the 10 you were already aware of…. And that’s what makes the day after 10x worse IMO. so your approach would probably be the remedy for me… problem is I don’t trust I have the Will power to do it 😂

I almost made this question specific to Pats losses. With the well-known dominance of the Patriots over the past 20 some odd years, there have been SEVERAL seasons in which losing to the Pats rendered the Bills at a new low point. It is remarkable to me that every season (except 2020) we play this team and not only do they beat us, but they ALWAYS pour salt on the wound along with it in some way. There's ALWAYS some kind of negative impact towards the rest of our season that comes with it. This year for instance... Bills lose to Pats... suddenly our guys are walking out of press conferences... suddenly you have the usually tight-lipped McDermott throwing his players under the bus, throwing McKenzie under the bus, both publicly... suddenly you have fans saying McDermott has to go... there's starting to be perceived dysfunction within this group that not too long ago was described as a close knit family...... and it's all happening after the Patriots beat us. All of these things make it all the more difficult to digest and continues to fuel our hatred towards the Patriots. BUT... As I started to think about how long it takes me to process a Bills loss, I realized that it's pretty much the same with all of them, but with the Pats it is just amplified. So, I am asking about losses in general here. In other words, I'm asking how long does it take until you are OVER IT? When does the outcome of the game stop affecting your overall mood? For me, there are distinct stages in how I process a Bills loss to the Pats. The first 24 hours suck: I get depressed and it SUCKS. It affects my mood, my relationships, my energy/motivation, you name it. This is where I'll often wonder why the heck I care about this team so much in the first place? And how nice it would be to STOP caring about football because I hate the fact that it can literally ruin an entire day for me. And that entire day consists of periodically playing back EVERY missed opportunity from the game in my mind, and with each missed opportunity identified, the frustration grows. Then by day #2: The periodic reminiscing finally begins to subside and the rationalization process begins and at some point I'll land on a stupid-ass reason to remain hopeful, but this process of BS'ing myself (maybe) is essential to moving on for me because without that hope, there is not much to get excited about when you watch. FINALLY, by DAY #3, I've officially moved on to the upcoming game... So, what about YOU? I've always wondered if other Bills fans were as tormented by losses as I am. And if so, how long it took to stop thinking about it. Interested to hear the processing/coping mechanisms others have. That's right, I admit it... I NEED HELP!! 😆

To me this game is a lot like Bills Titans. We obviously played the best version of the Titans. Henry, AJ, Julio, etc. of course the Pats had to deal with none of those guys pretty sure. Titans physical defense like Bucs. We held our own in that game, should have won, but didnt, but there’s no reason we can’t put up 30+ against Bucs if we did it against Titans (arguably best team in AFC at that time). The problem is we have 5 losses and we are 0-4 in close games. And we are 7-1 in one-sided contests. sooner or later we need to learn how to win a close game against a good team. and the funny part is, It’s usually at our own hands fumbling and bumbling all over ourselves at the end of the game, more so than it’s the defenses “stopping” us. Well… I guess you could also sprinkle in some horrible calls at the worst times by officials. There’s that too

For what it’s worth… Olaijah Griffin is essentially the top rated CB on the “Practice Squad Power Rankings” as an honorable mention along with one other CB. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/week-12-nfl-practice-squad-power-rankings-honoring-alumni-on-thanksgiving-weekend/amp/ shrug… I think he’s worth a shot though. We have a good, CB friendly system where other DBs have over-achieved IMO..

Hell, Stevenson muffed one too yesterday, but was fortunate to recover. It’s honestly 50/50 when that happens though, but you’ll only get punished when the other team recovers it 😂

You know, I always hoped Warren G’s kid would get promoted to active roster. This isn’t the way I hoped for it to happen, but I do hope he gets a shot. And not just cause of the name either; seems the kid has talent and a smart corner. Another undrafted, solid corner from USC like our boy Robey Coleman? Shrug

except for Hebert19

but Cynthia Freuland said we had a 98% chance to make playoffs before Sunday! As if we weren’t playing like sh*t and had the 7th toughest remaining schedule. WHEN we don’t make it, hope the Bills are the reason we don’t have to look at her ridiculous “advanced stat” playoff percentages ever again.

I thought it was odd when Cynthia Freuland had us at 98% chance to make playoffs going into this game… wonder what it’s at now? And if we don’t make it, does that mean we failed to do something that advanced stats said we had a 98% chance of doing? cause I’m pretty sure 98% of bills fans would NOT be surprised 🤷🏻‍♂️

I mean … when Derrick Henry, miles Sanders and chase Edmonds all went on IR for me in fantasy…. Michael Carter was all I had left (in a 12 team league). so yeah… I like him too.

Yeah he’s an MVP candidate needs to manufacture points with the game on the line….. but what do you do when he is doing just that at the most important part of the game and Gabe Davis drops a pass that would’ve put us into chip shot FG range at the MINIMUM. of all the things that went wrong, that’s the one that sticks with me. I personally think Allen did everything he could when it was all on the line… …but everything that could go wrong today, did go wrong, and that was no exception

Horrible performance on offense but without a doubt EVERYTHING that could’ve went wrong, went wrong. Speaking of which… whatever happened to Tre White on that dropped int late in the 4th quarter? He okay? I missed the first half but watched the entire 2nd.. about the ONLY break I can think of us getting was the missed deep ball by TLaw that would’ve put the game away right then and there. the other 15+ “Things that could go wrong” went wrong for the Bills

but how much of that is just the result of the top seed simply being a much better team than everyone else in their conference? I can say from the AFC, KC was easily the best team in the past 2-3 seasons already, and they would’ve made the super bowl even with an extra game IMO

I just have to say, after YEARS of just hoping to get IN to the playoffs, it’s kinda cool to discuss where we will seed instead of How and when we are going to clinch a playoff berth (and for many years that was a miserable repeating pattern of holding on to the slightest shred of hope all the way up until the moment we were officially eliminated). Threads like this remind me how far we’ve come…

thank you for this. Much more positive outlook than I was expecting, in regards to week 1, which is the only game that matters. Now let’s hope the “brief action” our starters get on Saturday doesn’t add any new names to the list 🤦🏻‍♂️

No secret we have a laundry list of injuries. But I was hoping to have one thread relating to the severity of injuries to notable Bills players. Of the following players, do we know who is/might be expected to miss Week 1 at this time?? Any (important) names I missed, let me know. Isaiah McKenzie (Shoulder) Dion Dawkins (COVID) Spencer Brown (Knee) Harrison Phillips (Knee) Sounds like we know this one is long term Marquez Stevenson (Foot) sounds minor, but iffy to make team anyway Dane Jackson (Stinger) levi Wallace (Hip) taron Johnson (Hand) who else we got?

Forget Kaepernick! If Taysom can get a starting job, I feel bad for Tebow.

I belong to a card collecting / memorabilia group on Facebook that primarily consists of Buffalo Bills collectibles. If you end up wanting to move them, I am sure you could do it there. PM me if you want the name and/or an invitation (might be one of those invite-only groups not sure tbh)

so I’ve always wondered.... is it pronounced like “Darrick” or “Da Rick”? the latter would be more cool ”It’s Da Rick, B*^%#”

Another example of why you see so many late round draft picks and undrafted rookies produce in the nfl. Don’t waste those Top picks on running backs. Just build up your oline

So, am I correct that losing to Miami would eliminate any possibility of getting them in the WC round? If so, we need to win this game!!