MJS

Because he played like crap for at least two thirds of the game.

Allen had a bunch of options on that play and missed them all, instead deciding to run around for no reason and then throwing it to a fairly well covered Shakir. Yeah, it was probably a PI, but not super egregious. He got there a half tick early. You'd expect the officials to call it, though, because they were calling everything.

Johnson was way worse than White. He wasn't nearly as good as those stats suggest. Most of his throws were checkdowns that the Bills missed a bunch of tackles on. He made only a couple of nice throws all night. The rest were checkdowns or great plays by receivers.

Penalties and bad offense were a huge factor for the loss, especially in the first half. And missed tackles by the defense. They must have had 20 missed tackles. Taron Johnson was TERRIBLE. So many times he took a bad angle and then just watched as Diggs ran around him. Terrible effort and tackling by him. I think he has reached his shelf life.

Bad offense in the 1st half. Bad defense in the 2nd. That's what I call complimentary football.

It's tough watching two bad offenses.

Diggs plays mainly in the slot now, right?

They said the plan was for Strong to get a couple of series to play before the game even started. White wasn't pulled because of poor play. It was just to get Strong some playing time. But I agree with the point about his health. Obviously, something isn't right with him and they decided to shut him down for four weeks to get himself fully healthy. The Bills are one of the more cautious teams with injuries. Right. I completely forgot about him.

We have a guy on the team named Franklin?

Well, there were games for the Vikings where he was really good and made really impressive throws, so I don't think it is accurate to say that he didn't have any high level plays. The way he is playing now was always in him. Even going back to his first couple of years with the Jets, he had impressive plays and even full games. His problem was always consistency and making bone headed decisions in stressful situations. He has always had all the tools, though.

Nothing good ever happens after midnight, especially when alcohol is involved.

That gets too close to questioning their fandom, in my opinion. There's no reason to believe that they aren't die hard fans just like you and me just because they are from Canada. Heck, I've only been to Buffalo once in my life. I'm from the West. But I'm still a loyal fan regardless of whatever teams are in the areas I live. I now live in Louisiana, but I don't cheer for the Saints or LSU just because I live here.

For the Toronto Bills fans, which there are a lot of, that's not the case. They like their Canadian teams and also the Bills. I think it's fine for the Bills to acknowledge that.

He has been awesome. It is so nice to have a good pass rusher versus just a good defensive end. He actually finishes and makes splash plays.

You do have to be in good shape for soccer, but you spend most of it just jogging around, staying in your zone. Then quick bursts when the ball comes to you. But with his size he'd be a defender, which requires less running around anyway.

Sean McDermott has a very good record against the Shanahan tree of coaches as well. Other teams must be really frustrated with the Bills because they pick up 3rd and longs all the time as well.

True, but he brings in QBs who have the traits he wants. All those guys are accurate, timing based QBs who just run the plays and stay within the scheme and system. They succeed because they are who the system was designed to use. Tua would be good there, for instance. The problem is when things break down, those guys can't do much. But he has shown you can get pretty far with QBs like that.

Yeah, I still think he can't block very well 😉 Allen got his MVP. It doesn't matter. Aldo, I'm not sure MVP voters considered Henry when evaluating Lamar Jackson's MVP case. Fans sure talked about it, but that doesn't mean much. Plus, Cook had his breakout year last year as well. That could have similarly been used against Allen.

Everybody eats. And everybody drinks the juice.

I don't think they can win the superbowl this week. Just go take a nap and I'll wake you up when the Bills have won one.

Still a ways to go.

Bills 37 Patriots 20

Rest them if they aren't ready to go. Play them if they are. Simple as that. That should happen even if he is healthy.

We already have receivers the same caliber as Meyers. No thanks. Why would we trade Knox for a 5th round pick? Especially since the 3 TE set has been so successful and he is a big part of that. That makes no sense. We already have guys coming off of suspension to help at DT and DE. We're not going to swing for a big name, so what's the point? We could add a corner, I guess.

I don't really know how you can have a league without a governing body to enforce rules, coordinate efforts, ensure quality, focus on generating profits, promote the league and sport, etc. People call that collusion, and I guess it is, but what is the alternative, really? That's what I don't get. How would they prefer it run? They aren't 32 individual entities. They are part of a league and depend on each other on a whole host of things.