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I agree with this. How good is the Dolphins D-line that it is better than the Bills' with Von, Floyd, Groot, Oliver, Jones, etc?

Stop

You're wrong, the Bills are included in that group. LOL true, he had his 20 years, take a back seat for a while.

I don't think it's "very possible" the Bills don't make the playoffs. Even though the division and conference have improved, so have the Bills. Is the difference between how much other teams got better and how much we got better enough to knock us out of the playoffs? I have a very hard time believing that. I mean, Bills not making the playoffs would be a monumental failure with the roster and expectation.

I hate overly dramatic, unjust criticism that in no way, shape or form can you even explain at this point in time.

The Bills have had some troubles with the opponents opening scripted drive in the 2nd half of the season. But after that, they really buckle down and play solid. That was Cincy's opening scripted drive. Things could have changed a lot over the next 50 minutes. In the bears game, they scored on their opening drive, then only scored 6 the rest of the game. The titans scored on their opening drive and didn't score the rest of the game.

Knox and/or Cook on offense, Elam or maybe Phillips if hes ready to go and get some pressure on Burrow

If KC wins Sunday, it is very unlikely that the Cinci can get the 1 seed. However, even if Baltimore wins Sunday, Cinci can still win the division by beating Baltimore in week 18. So really, there is more on the line for Buffalo with losing the 1 seed than there is for Cinci in that regardless of outcomes this week, the winner of the AFC North will come down to that week 18 game.

That may have been it, I may have worded it a bit wrong. But either way, not something you want to say.

So I was listening to the podcast and Dunne and McKenzie were talking about how you prepare for bad weather before the game. McKenzie didn't really have an answer, then asked Dunne what he thought. Dunne responded by saying "maybe run the ball more. Is it that simple?" McKenzie goes "No, because we can barely run the ball when its sunny out." WOW 😬

We went through a worse slump mid-season last year and then we played amazing in the playoffs when it really mattered, I expect that to happen again.

So you are saying we're basically losing in the first round of the playoffs?

I mean, they didn't suck, and this Bills team is better than that Steelers team.

I don't think you can be 10-3 and suck.

lol not even close

Team is better than last year and we're the 1 seed. This doesn't change the outlook for the season.

Defense is most definitely not worse than last year. Added Phillips, Settle, Jones, white is back, elam added, improvements from edmunds

If anyone can work this contract out going forward, its Beane.

We didn't have miller or white last year in the playoffs and we should have at least went to the AFCCG.

This means even more that we need to win the SB this year. Use it as a rallying cry. We need to take advantage of this years team and possible 1 seed.

There's no way you would no they don't make halftime adjustments. And of course they do. They may not always work, but they certainly communicate about what changes to make. I'll point out again multiple starters out and still 8th in points allowed and that ranking will improve after Sunday. As for Dorsey has been figured out, I mean, I disagree, but as long as they are score 30 points a game, a lot of good figuring him out is doing for other teams. Oh and Josh isn't 100%. Also I'm going to say it: the offense is going to look different come playoffs. Last couple years in playoffs is when we break out the designed QB runs, overall better play, etc. We lost to Jax last year, improved and figured things out, and then scored a TD on every play against NE in the playoffs and score 36 against KC. And our team this year is better than last.

I see some posters say this about McDermott (that he's not a good game day coach) but rarely do they ever say what it is about his game day coaching or list examples from games which leads them to this conclusion. If they do bring up a reason (this isn't directed at you mrags) it is something to the tune of he didn't manage the 2 minute drill well, or used timeouts in dumb spots. While at times in previous seasons I did see this from time to time, overall his game day coaching has gotten better this year. Final 2 minutes of halves have been really good for the most part (see end of Baltimore, KC and Detroit games as examples). He is aggressive on 4th down decision and goes for it at the correct time almost all the time. I've watched every snap of every game this year and honestly I can't remember more than a few times, maybe, where I was like this was poorly done. Like yeah, there may be a few, but over the course of 11 games, show me a team that hasn't had a miscue or two. As for your points about the defense, I get what you are saying on some and it can be aggravating in the moment during the game. But here is my stance. McDermott knows this mainly zone scheme well and has implemented it over the last 6 years. It has been building into a more complex scheme as players get more accustomed to it (especially longer term players) and the results have been pretty good. We've been a top tier defense over 2020, 2021 and 2022. In 2022, they are 8th in scoring defense, 19th in yards allowed, 10th in sacks, 2nd in turnovers (this is also taking into account that many teams haven't played their 11th game yet). I don't usually want to point out the whole injury thing, but I think this year its valid to at least note that we have had several starters out for 1 or more games. All this, and the Bills have the hardest strength of schedule in the league as of now, and the highest strength of victory. Basically, I'm not going to go overboard if the defense minus some starters gives up some third and longs right now to decent offensive teams as long as we win the game. As long as we improve and get healthy, the defense will be fine. With our offense, the other team is going to need to score minimum 30 to beat us and I think our defense can hold any team under that.

100%, he cares more than any of us realize

It may be from before the Cleveland win, but either way we won that game and won the detroit game so if we're not 1, we're close.

I agree with this. These are the reasons I think you can make a reasonable argument that Bass missing the extra point on the Bills last TD actually helped the Bills. The Bills are now up 3 instead of 4 and the Lions are not in 4 down mode. They got into field goal range and had a 4th and 1 around the 35 or so of the Bills. If down 4, they are going for that and a pretty good chance the drive is continuing. There would probably be more urgency to conserve time as well. They played really conservative that last drive to the point where I was like, not only are they playing the FG, but they are playing scared and it caused them to have to go for a long field goal and leave 23 seconds on the clock with Bills having all 3 timeouts.