ComradeKayAdams

10th time in 60 seasons that the Bills have started out 3-0. 5 of them ended in the AFL/AFC Championship game.

Do you even NFL, bruh?! I work at GMFB. I watch every game. Initially, I was skeptical like you. I thought he was merely the most transformative athlete this pro sport has ever seen in its illustrious 100-year history. But after Thursday night's game, I'm now convinced. He is the son of God, presumably back again this time to do good against the very dark forces that inhabit this beloved league of ours (Doug Marrone, Patriots, etc...). Will you bow down immediately and deliver your oath of fealty to Gardner Minshew, young GoBills808? Or will you continue to be a skeptical d!ck and pollute this message board with your heresy? Your choice. Make it a good one. As for me? I'm prepping my private parts in anticipation of Gardner's next mandate. Godspeed, GoBills808. Godspeed.

Easiest path to 10 wins and a probable wild card is: beat Jets, Dolphins twice, Bengals, Steelers, Broncos, Titans, and Redskins. This is very doable.

Gardner Minshew is real. And he's spectacular. He's an absolute dreamboat on and off the field. I'm e-mailing him my ovulation calendar right now.

But he's not at 65%. He's only at 64.2% 64.2 < 65. Conclusion: bust.

My thoughts exactly. White and Gilmore as your 2 CB's is devastating. But Levi Wallace has a lot of promise. Plus White is going to demand a Gilmore-like contract next year, so I don't know if it's wise to allocate that much money to your CB's in this style of defense. Oh yeah, and this is a very important point: I don't think Gilmore would fit in this locker room. All of these McBeane Bills actually seem to like playing in Buffalo and like the fans.

This reminds me how the NFL was a much better product back then, when special teams actually mattered and was legitimately one-third of the game.

Dolphins on pace for an 0-16 season, with 80 points scored and 816 points given up. Well done with the tank, boys. Well done. <slow clap>

Obviously not.

I like stats. They make me happy. Here are the 8 stats I always look for when evaluating the quality of a defense: 1. Points allowed per game 2. Yards allowed per game 3. Red zone TD percentage 4. 3rd down percentage 5. Run yards allowed per play 6. Opponent passer rating 7. Sacks 8. Interceptions They still need to work on the red zone defense, which was abysmal last year. More turnovers would also be nice. Otherwise, a great start to the season! We should keep bumping this thread and track their progression in all these stat categories. Can't wait to get the stat boost with the two games against Miami!!!

Nice to see the Jets, Browns, and Jags all deflating in week 1. Looking forward to seeing what the Steelers and Texans have. If not much, then our path to the second wild card could become a bit more hopeful.

I already miss Shady a lot. 10 carries for 81 yards, 1 catch for 12 yards. It was pure stupidity to cut him, in my opinion. HOWEVER....McBeane logic was that we wanted to give his carries to Singletary instead, because McCoy would have been a potential locker room cancer due to this (I'm not so sure about this...), and because there was no trade market for McCoy at his salary. So in reality, we are comparing McCoy with Singletary when evaluating the wisdom of cutting McCoy. And while it's very foolish to reach conclusions after Week 1, Singletary did go 4 carries for 70 yards and 5 catches for 28 yards today. As for Gore, I'm not too worried about him YET. The Jets' gameplan was clearly directed at stopping our run game in its tracks and making Allen beat us through the air. Their plan was a good one and almost worked.

No idea. "Decibel" Brown? Beane must have snuck him onto the roster without anyone "hearing" about him.

This says a lot about the development of Dawkins and Edmunds as players and leaders in the locker room. I would have guessed Morse and Hyde instead.

I know, right?! Is it GMFB's very own Kay Adams you are talking to on an internet mesage board?! Or is it just a sad, overweight, balding, middle-aged dude named Biff who is messing with you from his mother's basement computer in Tonawanda? And perhaps at a deep existential level, does it even matter?

This is probably my favorite Buffalo Bills meme.

Hi John. Whatcha wearing right now??? ? I'm in nothing but my skintight Bills Zubaz pants, lying oh so seductively on a folding table, dreaming of Riverside, California from my lonely studio apartment in Manhattan. You coming to the Bills game in Jersey tomorrow? ?

Three things about this franchise that should never ever ever EVER be changed: 1. The Buffalo location (on that note, please put the new stadium in downtown Buffalo). 2. The Bills name (homage to the defunct AAFC Buffalo Bills from 1946-49 that should have joined the NFL with the Browns, 49ers, and original Colts). 3. The red, white, and blue colors (I believe - but I could be wrong - an homage to the original NFL Buffalo All-Americans franchise from the 1920's who arguably deserved to have won the first two league titles in 1920 and 1921).

I have no problem with people being critical of Marv Levy. It's important and interesting to discuss history with honesty and objectivity. However, I think people also need to use historical context when evaluating Levy. The NFL was a very different league 30 years ago. What seems like obvious professionalism and protocol now (forcing players to not party the night before a Super Bowl) wasn't so obvious back then. Also, read this to get a better sense of the SB 25 gameplan that allowed Bill Belichick to help the Giants upset the Bills: https://media.nyfootball.net/25/html/article-belichick.html I don't even fault the Bills too much for losing the next three Super Bowls, as they were the consensus underdogs in all three. The NFC East was simply incredible back then in the early 1990's. You had three converging NFL dynasties (Parcells' Giants, Gibbs' Redskins, Johnson's Cowboys) in addition to the Buddy Ryan-built Eagles with Randall Cunningham and an amazing defense. The teams in that division were simply built the right way for the NFL rules at the time. The AFC Bills were probably a little too light along the DL and OL for these guys (even though the Bills did well against that division during the 1990 and 1993 regular seasons). Pro football is a uniquely brutal sport where injuries and the competition level make it unusually difficult to repeat high levels of success. Winning 4 conference titles in a row is very impressive. How impressive, you ask? Well let's look at it this way: using the NFL's officially recognized standard of equating early day NFL titles (1920-32) and NFL Championship games (1933-69) and AFL Championship games (1960-69) with the modern day AFC/NFC Conference Champions, no team but the 1990-93 Bills has ever won 4 in a row. 3 in a row has happened 5 times (1922-24 Bulldogs, 1929-31 Packers, 1965-67 Packers, 1971-73 Dolphins, 2016-18 Patriots). 2 in a row has happened 23 times (1932-33 Bears, 1940-41 Bears, 1948-49 Eagles, 1952-53 Lions, 1954-55 Browns, 1958-59 Colts, 1960-61 Titans/Oilers, 1961-62 Packers, 1964-65 Bills, 1966-67 Packers, 1970-71 Cowboys, 1973-74 Vikings, 1974-75 Steelers, 1977-78 Cowboys, 1978-79 Steelers, 1982-83 Redskins, 1986-87 Broncos, 1988-89 49ers, 1992-93 Cowboys, 1996-97 Packers, 1997-98 Broncos, 2003-04 Pats, 2013-14 Seahawks). Winning multiple conference titles in a row is so difficult that no team besides the Patriots dynasty has done it in the 21st century with the sole exception of the 2013-14 Seahawks. By the way, notice how only 7 prestigious franchises have done this multiple times: Packers, Bears, Cowboys, Broncos, Steelers, Patriots, and....our Bills (a random shout-out to the AFL Bills)! Bottom line: Marv Levy was a flawed coach who made mistakes....but was still a VERY deserving Hall of Fame coach. Marv Levy was no Bill Belichick, but he's still among the top 20 or so head coaches in NFL history. Can't wait for the 2019 season: the one where the Cheatriots dynasty ends and the new Beane/McDermott/Allen AFC East superpower emerges.

It's also interesting to note that there is only one player on offense with a 1st round pedigree: the QB. On defense, there is an entire front 4 DL plus the MLB plus a pair of CB's. This maybe provides a little insight on how Beane and McDermott envision a roster construction. Using draft selection as a very rough proxy for talent, I'd say that the offense is in need for more elite talent next season (particularly WR).

I can feel Bryan Anger. He would give the Bills focus, make the roster stronger.

I think we're all ready to purchase a Bills jersey with "ANGER" on the back. Fun fact: Anger was the punter the Jags supposedly panicked and grabbed in the 2012 3rd round after we traded up to "steal" TJ Graham from them. Six picks later, Russell Wilson was drafted...

I suppose. But you can say the same for many others in the Hall of Fame. Curtis Martin, for example. If McCoy accumulates a bit more playoff experience to go with his numbers, he'll make it in. He's never going to be considered among the 10 or so greatest RB's to ever play the game, but he'll be considered with the next tier. He'll need to have 2-3 more reasonably productive seasons, however, to get inducted into the Hall. What's your opinion of Lynch's chances, by the way? Your "writing the history of the game" standard suggests Lynch should make it for his 4 elite seasons with Seattle.

Shady is only 1500-2000 career rushing yards away from solidifying his case for the Hall. He'll get all his needed yards, TD, and reception numbers with Andy Reid in KC. His first 10 years in the league have been better than Frank Gore's. I am going on record as hating this roster decision with all of my heart. Beane and McDermott may have severely underestimated McCoy's decline (mostly the OL's fault last season) and severely overestimated Singletary's abilities (4.66 40-yd dash speed for a scatback role?!).

I'm not sure. There are different types of #1 RB's. He's much more of a Barry Sanders shifty type than a Jim Brown power type. Actually, he is nearly identical to Barry Sanders in every way except one: speed. Barry Sanders ran a sub-4.4 40-yd dash in his prime. Devin Singletary clocked in at 4.66, which is atrocious.