Kelly the Dog

I say put Tre on Hill and just let him be. Tre will get beat a couple times but I think we can live with it. Put Poyer or Hyde double teaming Kelce every play. Switch up the DL often and throw a few blitzes at Mahomes from Milano/Klein or DBs.

I take all of Joe’s ratings with a quarry of salt.

Yeah, I don’t either. That sucks. He would have to be close to 100% to have them risk it. If it were an ankle or shoulder or something I think he plays. Hammy’s are too tricky.

IMO right from the start, Gilmore was very handsy. Many Bills fans seemed to hate him or jump on him because early on he got a lot of interference penalties. Back then, NFl officials used to let established or star CBs use their hands like that and not call it. Gilmore wasn’t savvy enough to prevent it. By the end of year three he was known as being a future star and started to get away with a lot. His last year here he seemed to do the same things but not get flagged and his reputation went up. Belichick likely knew this progression and Gilmore got away with mugging his whole Pats career.

Overall… Good for him. Good for Panthers. Good for Bills.

In 2016, Gilmore’s last season, the one he gave up on us, he had five INT, was voted to his first Pro Bowl, and won the EdBlock Courage award. The Ed Block Courage Award is an annual award presented to a player from each team in the National Football League (NFL) who are voted for by their teammates as role models of inspiration, sportsmanship, and courage

I do think the Bills will make calls to agent. I don’t think they are likely to make sufficient offer. But one of the strong reasons for signing him or wanting to, in addition to his talent, is to keep him away from KC, Balt, Bucs and anyone in our way.

I just said he wanted out at the end. But he didn’t hate it here, he didn’t suck, he was great.

You just equate cornerbacks with cop killers. Gilmore was great here. This idea that he hated it in Buffalo was nonsense from the start. He did want to leave at the end because we weren’t good and weren’t going to pay him the money.

He needs to throw the ball 20 yards

I think I would have preferred Bucs losing like this but agree with you. This was what we wanted for most part. Neither team looked good IMO. It was uneventful and boring despite Collingsworth blathering.

To me we are not going to be happy this year unless we go to or win the Super Bowl. The two single biggest obstacles to winning it are playing AT KC and playing Bucs in the game. I’m pretty confident in any other scenario.

They aren’t a threat. They’re a .500 team. At best.

Refs are confused as to who they should favor

The Pats are no threat to us in our division. Carolina or New Orleans could win division if Bucs lose 4-5 games. They have already lost one. Not winning division almost assures away playoff games after first week.

That was great pass.

Home field advantage in playoffs is enormous

One of the obstacles to Bills winning Super Bowl is playing the Bucs. Pats are no real threat. Pats winning this game overall would be good for the Bills even if you can’t root for it.

I think Josh throwing for 159 yards and 50% completion in games as a rookie showed a lot more promise than Jones tonight.

His arm is awful. He’s accurate on 10 yard passes. That’s good. But he can’t drive the ball downfield which is a death knell in nfl.

Jones ain’t good. He can’t throw the ball 15 yards down the field. They have 14 points. Any rush he gets sacked.

Thanks for that. JT does a really good job. That first TD to Sanders was insane when you see when he threw it.

Versus Pitt he just seemed off a little and their defense confused him a little. There were a lot of plays to be made. I didn’t see him getting sacked or rattled by one guy quickly rushing or in his face IMO.

Not so sure about that. Josh has proven that he can be truly great without it. Again, this is not how we would like it, and we need to do what we can to make it better. There were a lot of factors that went into the Bills loss to the Chiefs last year that rivaled the lackluster OL performance.