ProcessTruster

this is the time where Josh will continue to be playing like he did last night. aggressive but no turnovers. run the ball and get it to the TEs . not the boat race stuff we like to watch,but its how to get an advantage. we shall see

correct, the entire secondary is usually in zone and staring at the QB; can diagnose the screen very early ; this is why the pitchout to the WR works sometimes as dbs are backpedaling to the their spot at/prior to the snap

stopped trying about 30 years ago

This is f ing America. If I want to take an interview for a job while I'm doing my current job, no one has the right to tell me I cannot. You can bet the teams are talking to all kinds of candidates from the college ranks, coaches who are not active right now, etc. I want to compete with them, so don't tell me I can't bc I'm still in my current job. Ridiculous. People are briefly distracted by job interviews all throughout their careers. This the way the real world works.

pretty common for this to be the case, until the next year when more HC openings appear. Plus being associated with a winner helps him get his next HC job. We'll see. I'm ok wiht McD carrying on.

Not me. I totally felt they could run the table. Look at my posts since Philly. No waver here. Trusting the Process all the way. Look at how all of Beanes off season additions to the roster (a.k.a. "the process "of continual roster improvement ) won the freakin game. Spector, Rapp, Harty, Sherfield, Douglas, Ford (Harty return would not have been six had Ford not stuck to the punter) . None of those guys were on the roster last year. And McDermott (whom you clowns wanted run out of town after Philly) held teams to average of 18 pts per game for the past 5 games (Dallas, KC, Miami ) without Tre, Milano, Jones and Miller. and lighting up QBs with the wildest array of blitzes since the days of "zone blitz" Dick Lebeau in 2003 (or was it 2004) Go Bills. Trust it.

he intimated recently that the knee is not yet right. so, yeah, just like Tre last year, year 2 after the ACL surgery is the year you come back full strength. no real surprise here, ACL tear waste 2 seasons , not just the one in which the original injury occurs. been shown to be the case dozens of times is what it is. shame.

In a single elimination tournament and with trememdous parity at the top of the league, all you can do is go out there and compete your butt off. Games will be very even play by play from scrimmage, but a late turnovers or referee call will probably turn these one-score games one way or the other. Hell, Philly lost the very close SB last year on a ref's call on a broken play. Predicting progress in a one-and-done tournament format is impossible. All I can say for sure is that this team will compete its butt off and I'm good with that. How the game score turns out at the highest level is pretty much a crapshoot

agreed .. I have NFL+ and watch replays of most games at some point during the week. Bills fans need to be very thankful for what they have... there is a massive amount of really bad football being played out there. Turnovers, drops, missed plays, bad QB play, anything and everything. Bills are so much better than 75% - 80% of the league.

I believe it. Most of these seats were bought long ago.

I like it. "Lombo". works for me ! lets go get us a "Lombo"!!

why bother with all the discourse when you stated your position very clearly in your first 7 words the drought did so much damage to this fan base so it is all understandable I suppose; the PTSD will probably take a full 10 years to recover from and we are only in year 5

I don't put a lot on the HC. The OC and DC call the plays. The positional assistants drill the players. The players play the games. The HC is mainly a coordinating person who gets the last say when needed, which isn't very often. So if you have great OC and DC and other staff, it is totally disfunctional to fire the HC bc that means a new HC replaces all the staff, setting the players and field performance back months/years. McD is obviously much more agressive than Frazier and the defense is much more an attacking defense. Frazier watched the defense, McD actually calls the defense play by play. I think it is insane to replace McD and set everything back by years. Why would you do this? Winning and losing games in the NFL is a knifes edge right now, I want as much stability as I can.

yeah, offensive misfires are pretty much 100% execution errors Josh or WRs screwing up in passing game

no top WRs will get out of the top 20 , that's for sure. deep draft for WRs , tho

At its core, these guys play football at this level mainly to "make money". Ed Oliver as much as admitted as much when asked about his increased sacks this year... he immediately referenced his big bonus for reaching 10 sacks rather than how it helped the team. and his sack bonus is small relative to his base contract, which sort of proves the point. He says "that's what they pay me to do". Value exchanged for value. Fans get lost in this "win one for the Gipper" mindset when guys like Jones, in a contract expiration year where he has very little on tape, needs to get back on the field somehow, anyhow, to show he still "has it" so that he can get a new big contract from some team for next year. Especially important now, as this will be his last big contract in all likelihood, so he needs to strike while the iron is hot. I'm not convinced that winning Super Bowls, etc. is front and center for most NFL players. The next big contract is. He would not be in such a rush to get back if he was signed for next year, in my opinion. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe some NFL players are more altruistic than I think (eg. Matt Milano, however I think he just screwed up) , but these guys mostly ball out in the last year of their contract bc they want to increase their market value, period. Eg. we shall see, but IMHO Epenesa and Floyd ain't takin "home town discounts" to help the team win the SB next year. They'll go where the $$ tak$s them. Hate to burst the balloon that Jones is coming back to "help the good ole team" , but it's largely about the $$ fellas.

Could be a defensive fist fight without many, if any, big splash plays. BB will probably double cover Diggs and take him out of the game as he always does Bills probably won't be able to run the ball on the Pats very well , so no Cook splash plays there. I'm guessing the splash plays will be from the Defense when it comes down to Zappe+a bad O line vs. Josh in the pass situations. So maybe pass rush causing a Douglas pick six turns a dull, close game in Bills' favor. So I'm going with Douglas.

hmm, maybe I'll take a short drive up 95 and see this one.. wave my own purple towel for a couple hours

I'll be dumping it as soon as the NFL is off of it. don't need any more reruns of the partridge family to choose from

He largely admitted yesterday that the knee isn't right just yet, so he's at pretty much the stage Tre White was last year... back but not really back. More support for the history of ACL tears ruining the season of the injury AND the next season. Tough call for Beane and Co. in the offseason. Will Von be old Von next season or semi functional Von next season? What are the alternatives? Edge rushers are hard to find and very very expensive

not sure its very fair to either team to flex the game to 8pm , as the loser may be forced to play an away wild card game against an unknown opponent on a short week the next Saturday . The fairest to all parties would be 4:25 on Sunday as the Bills can get back to WNY early enough in the evening to be ready to start preparations for (whoever) they play in 5 days.

he'll be gone

this team lives (and dies) with Josh. if he goes sugar high Josh, we lose . just hope he becomes late career Elway during the playoffs and just hands the ball off

he's setting up the league for the Miami game and beyond. just kinda layin' in the weeds, waiting the strike go bills

now that's the attitude.. well said