[What is your level of patience on not advancing to the Super Bowl?]

oh shut up.  59-25 just does not lie.  

[Bills windows with Josh]

W 59 L25  past 5 seasons says it all.   When you're winning 7 out of 10 games I am a happy guy.   They'll get the breaks/stay healthy enough to get through the silly TV $$ driven single elimination tournament once or twice I suppose.  Don't really care when it is.   Give me a consistent winning program and that goes a long way.   You'll get your SB tee shirt at some point.  

[Bills spent the second most in the nfl on defense]

17 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

This is more of a "Fire Beane" post. If 1/2 of those picks were more than Jags,we wouldn't keep picking DL nor would we need to have signed Von ( another bad move).  

 

Last year Beane knocked it out of the park, but he really has to do a hell of a lot better job scouting WR, DL and DB's in the draft.

if Von was healthy and had 15 sacks, you'd be calling Beane a genius and savior of the franchise for getting him.  fans are idiots.   injuries matter.  Beane didn't go out and stomp on Milano, Von , Benford and Bernards knees for f's sake, so lets fire Beane bc guys got hurt.  fans are idiots.  

[What is your unpopular Bills opinion?]

13 hours ago, Mikie2times said:

I actually like this one and have some hope it could happen. His year 1 was adjusting from a predominantly man system and joining the NFL. His year two he was largely banged up. If he can start the year healthy next season I see him as a guy that has the potential to really outplay his current spot on the depth chart.  

yeah Elam will be fine.   

2 hours ago, Sweats said:

 

 

.....shoulve taken that big swing for some offensive weapons for JA

yep, I was wrong on D-Hop.  Totally should have gone and gotten him.   What a talent.  

[Chiefs are just better than the Bills]

10 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:

 And the funny thing is we actually end up getting to host KC in the playoffs this year and it still didn't matter 

With the way the Bills play offense, not sure home game in 20deg helps much.  

[Next year, it’s our Lombardi.]

11 hours ago, Beast said:

Laugh all you ***** want.

 

The Bills and Bills Mafia will be celebrating our ever living asses off next February.

 

Just wait and see.

that's the attitude!   I agree!   They'll be right there next year just they have been in recent years.    with some health and a few breaks, I could be us, not them

[Its Pretty Obvious why the Chiefs win every year]

eh, one score games throughout the playoffs that could have gone either way.   

 

I hate single elimination tournaments and the emphasis the media puts into peoples heads that one and only one team is actually successful each year.  

[Allen, the Super Bowl "window," and the KC hurdle]

11 hours ago, MikePJ76 said:

beating the chiefs is 100 % on the defense.

 

Mcdermott's group comes up short every year, low scoring games, high scoring games...doesn't matter his defense comes up small.

 

and now they are essentially starting over on the defensive line which will take up precious resources, replacing precious resources that have already been spent on the defensive line.

 

it feels like mcdermott is in the same spot tony dungy was in when he was in tampa...he just had no answers and could not get over the hump.

 

hopefully they have an A+ draft and find some productive players in mid level free agency.  

 

So far their answer to the defense not getting over the hump was to overpay for von miller who then was injured and is not the same player anymore and they are stuck with him.  He was supposed to be their charles haley, reggie white or jevon kearse to get them over the hump and he has been an expensive dud.

 

They have dug quite a hole with the roster defensively and with a bad contract to miller.  I am not sure how you rebuild an entire defensive line in one offseason.

 

 

yeah unfortunate all the defensive starters were out vs the Chiefs.  that was the moment , and none of the defense was on the field.   

 

is what it is.   Roster is great, but if they're not on the field for a single elimination tournament game, that's usually when you go home.   really unfortunate.   Injuries matter.  

[Our Window Is As Open As Ever]

On 2/4/2024 at 3:36 PM, Steptide said:

They won't trade Diggs, and shouldn't. I'd still give him another year or 2, especially if there's more talent around him 

Diggs's cap number is $28m for 2024 (over 10% of the team cap) , Von is $24m.   Von is old and beat up and can't really be traded, Diggs has good value and can be traded.  Beane needs to kick the can down the road and take an even bigger hit late or trade him now.  Its not personal, its just business (Cap business) .  Is what it is.  

[Bills need a hardnosed, blunt QB coach]

19 hours ago, Low Positive said:

This thread is actually more like “The Buffalo Bills keep ruining my Sundays. I called One Bills Drive to ask them for permission to come down to the sidelines to scream at Josh Allen for making me sad, but they told me that I’m not allowed to do that. So, I formally request that the team hire a proxy yeller. And if he keeps playing poorly, this proxy yeller needs to keep yelling louder until his play improves. I coach little league, and I know this to be the ideal coaching style.”

well said.  this board is full of the OP mindset

[Who’s better?]

couldn't care less

[Am I the only one not planning on watching Chiefs/Ravens??]

18 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Chiefs are all banged up heading to Baltimore. Perfectly healthy when playing us though. 

Injuries matter.  "next man up" or in the case of the Bills last week, "next, next man up" is largely garbage

[Greg Cosell - “I don’t think they have a number 1 WR”]

19 hours ago, nedboy7 said:

 

I just dont see how his age can catch up to him in one week.  Usually you would see a slow decline.  But perhaps he has.  We will find out.  No way are they trading him. 

seems he was working through an injury

 

[Michael Lombardi on Pat Mcafee]

14 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

I'm just waiting for our culture to translate to a good playoff defense.  That's the only boat I want to rock.

They have a good playoff defense.   they were all on crutches on Sunday , though.   Is what it is.   timing is everything.

[Isn't This Game the Ultimate Referendum on Beane?]

4 hours ago, Rich Stadium Original said:

It was obvious a number of years ago Mahommes and the Chiefs were going to be the team to beat in the AFC for years to come.

Beane set out to mold his team as the one that could beat the big Boogeyman Mahommes through an effective pass rush.

 Yes Beane has picked up some great position players along the way, but its obvious with Rousseau, Epenesa, Basham (now departed), Von (I'm back to 100%) Miller, Floyd (and others) where he placed his personnel concentration. 

  Now he has a home game, with all these guys relatively healthy going up against some fairly average offensive tackles. 

  Yes, the secondary and linebacking corps is fairly beat up...but if Beane did his due diligence,  it shouldn't make a difference if they can dominate.

 We will know by midnight on Sunday.

We are only in this game because of Beane.  Period.  

[This is why our team is in good hands]

Agreed,

 

However,  if the Bills lose Sunday, most of the crazies on this board will be calling for McD's head within 10 minutes.   the vitriol will be sprewing everywhere.

 

write it down. 

[Injuries vs Steelers - Update from McDermott]

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

[Screen: what’s wrong with us ?]

20 hours ago, mikemac2001 said:

I think teams spy Josh so much when we go to screens it gets blown up bc they are just sitting there in perfect position 

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 

[Is anyone else a little frustrated by having to explain Lake Effect Snow to non WNYers?]

stopped trying about 30 years ago

[Solving the Coach Poaching Problem]

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. 

 

[Wink Martindale leaving G-Men]

8 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

Rivera may get hired elsewhere.  If I'm him I wouldn't want to work under someone at a job in the same position as someone who used to work under me.  I think McDermott promotes from within if he gives up the d-coordinator duties.

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.   

[Buffalo Bills post receipts]

5 hours ago, BobBelcher said:

To be fair, most of us were in doubt as well, after the Eagles game 😆

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.  

[Von Miller: Bills made “right decision” to sit me]

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. 

[Assuming the bills get in the playoffs, how confident are you they get to the superbowl?]

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

[Why does this team always seem like it's running on fumes?]

7 hours ago, Dr.Sack said:

I thought the same thing until I took the long Xmas NY break to watch as many games as possible. Every team looked bad outside of Baltimore and even at that I felt there were signs the Ravens are not invincible and can be exploited by an equally physical team (IE: Browns, Chiefs or Bills). 

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.