Richard Noggin

Mike Boone is good.

The dome obsession among many posters (not necessarily you) is tiresome. Many great franchises play outside in suspect conditions late in the season. Sure, OP runs the risk of more wind and precip than most. Also, apostrophes are never used to pluralize. I'll see myself out.

I couldn't agree more...

Free play and Bridgewater checks down. Checks out.

It's all about discipline and execution. You beat the Patriots by not beating yourselves (when you have a good roster like ours).

Almost ALL of us have EVERY idea how you feel. That's why we're here. That's why I'll be there tomorrow night. That's why I won't sleep as well as I'd like tonight. But it's true that being 7-5 after 12 games is NOT season-ending. Just ask last year's SB champs. Of course, it will be difficult to convince me of that (if it comes to pass) tomorrow night.

You're probably selling him short here. His physical traits seem meh when compared to other freaks at the position. But he makes solid, fast decisions and delivers an accurate ball. If it was easy to do this, more NFL QBs would. I will concede that his coaches and o-line put him in excellent situations.

Help me out, gang. What is the wind speed threshold that closes down the Skyway? Can't find the info online, and that's my preferred route to the game. Thanks.

You're fun.

So lame. Get serious. Miami?! Have you watched Tua play? I don't care what his completion percentage is. Now that defense isn't half bad, I'll give you that. But a team to fear? Nah.

While I HATE his ruthless disregard for the rules and for humane empathy in general, I actually enjoy his press conference schtick for the most part. It's a funny bit some weeks. Elite deadpan demeanor. Like for this year's return of TB12:

Maybe it's like when I'm waiting tables, and I cut an odd number of bread slices for an even number of guests: now they have to make decisions. Spencer Brown IS the more important player of the two right now, though. Right?

But I really wanna! 😭

I haven't gone back to watch any New England "film," but I did see their offense look pedestrian against the Falcons. And aside from gaudy completion percentages, it seems like Mac Jones has mostly been just an efficient game manager, thriving on the QB-friendly, underneath stuff like swings and crossers and slants. (Which, if memory serves, IS how New England's last good QB started his career, just sayin.) It's a testament to their coaching (effing gag me) and to Jones's coachability, no doubt. It's also exactly the kind of offensive attack the Bills defense struggles with: run-heavy with well-timed play-action and easy small-ball passes.

Just great posting in this thread so far. Kudos to Shaw for setting the table as he so often does. It ain't juicy clickbait, but this is the kind of discourse I log on to read. As one of the many BBMB refugees from years back, I've been enjoying Shaw's posts for some years. (Maybe he two-timed it all those years and TBD folks got to enjoy it, too? I dunno.)

Whadda ya say, Bills nation?! Reroute some of that Tre White money towards another noble cause?

This is the best thing I'll read about NFL officiating this season. Sincerely. Competing things can be true at the same time: like two BLATANTLY missed calls on one play, BUT when that happens in the context of a pleasantly and consistently UNDER-officious (nod to Marv) game, then we should take the good with the bad as the game is mostly decided by the ACTUAL results on the field with fewer interruptions. Bills home games, in particular this season, have been excruciatingly over-officiated and blundered by the respective crews. I've never booed the refs so hard so often in all my life as a fanatic. I just want the refs to stay out of it if the teams let them. That should be their goal. Too often it looks like they're TRYING to be involved.

I haven't read through the thread beyond your post, but the answer must be the way defenses can cheat against the pass without getting gouged by the run and short passing game. The Bills have been unable to consistently exploit what defenses are intentionally giving them. A defense CAN take away the deep passing game by design. A good offense has to adjust and force the D out of those looks. The Bills aren't doing that against good teams.

Not a "bro" in this entire post... Stark evidence of what these losses do to us.

Again, you're too damned reasonable to represent the chicken littles I'm annoyingly annoyed with!

I hated the title of this thread, but I found it difficult to disagree with the OP's criticism of this team's fundamental flaws. They aren't executing the basics. And I guess that falls on the coach. Of course, McD gets more time to sort it out. I think coaching changes would need to start on the offensive side of the ball, if anything.

I paid to see that and sit in freezing rain while coach ignores Josh's vigorous pleas to go for it on 4th down and instead sends out the FG unit for an ill-fated and ill-conceived attempt. Yeah, the org did not reward its fans today. I booed McDermott hard for the first time. (Brought back terrible memories of booing Marrone for punting in a similar situation years back...just gutless and uninspired.)

The tone of your post, unfortunately, is NOT the norm. I 100% agree that the team is NOT playing well, and that I don't see easy answers moving forward. I booed the hell out of McDermott's decision to kick that FG today, and I'm definitely pissed at how soft the team looks. People can post anything they want, of course. No one gets to tell you how to be a fan. But so many indulge hyperbolic negativity and fatalism, and do so repeatedly, and for what? It's kind of lame.

I have season tickets with my Sicilian mother (who taught me how to care too much about football), and therefore spend every home game at the stadium trying in vain to use humor and perspective to disrupt her old world fatalistic frustrations. In truth, it's exhausting. Then I come here and see the same s#!t: people falling over themselves to be more right about how bad the team truly is and how lost the season is. Is there some prize I'm unaware of for predicting their demise? I don't disagree that right now the Bills are playing bad football. But there are 7 games left and the Bills still control their destiny. What's fun about whining and declaring the end is near?

They looked like loose stool today. But the irony of posters waving white flags in mid-November while simultaneously calling the team soft is, well...it's just what the internet is for.