CincyBillsFan

Damn Darnold is a reincarnation of Fitz.

Allen, Cook, the TE's and the O line might be historically great churning out yards & points without a competent WR room. I'm not sure I've seen anything like it in the 21st century NFL. It also has me thinking that Brady may be doing a much better job then a lot of us think. He isn't aggressive throwing downfield because he knows his WR's are epically bad. Thin about that first pass of the game to Cooks. Great call, great design and he drops the ball? A HS WR would be upset at himself for that play.

Because the WR play is notoriously bad.

A lot of teams have injuries. IMO a reasonable expectation for the D is to be middle of the pack holding the opponent to 17 - 24 points per game. The Bills have focused their offensive strategy and the lions share of draft & FA capital on support of the D. Letting teams get up by multiple TD's on the first half is not acceptable. Sure they played a lot better in the 2nd half but by that point the Bills needed an almost perfect performance by the O to grab the win.

The defensive adjustments contributed to the win. But the win was almost entirely the result of an offense that scored 5 straight TD's after the porous D let up 24 points in only 5 NE 1st half drives.

The importance of this game is that if they can't win the division the Bills want the 5th seed. As good as the wildcard teams are likely to be it's not out of the question that division winners are going to lose home games this playoff season.

Agree. Strength of schedule numbers are why analytics doesn't really work very well in football. As you point out playing the Bengals with Chase, Higgins & Burrow is a lot different then NE playing them without Chase & Burrow. And that Raven team week one was a completely different beast from the injury ravaged Baltimore team later in the season. My guess is that Simms can't abide how the Bills are building their roster around Allen.

Agree. It's one thing to lurk and see what other fans are saying about your team but it just seems rude to actually post on another fan thread.

Nothing would be my guess beyond his secretly hoping for a rematch in the playoffs. The bigger question would be what happened to Diggs psyche last season when he was recovering from a season ending injury and Allen was leading the Bills to the AFC Championship game and collecting an MVP along the way.

I don't know if this is common for other teams but it seems excessive this season for the Bills.

I was at Jungle Noise and a Bengal's fan posted what I thought was a great description of the Brown family business: Yes…I am concerned but there are people who post that call him a cry baby, spoiled and entitled. Joe is the best the Brown family will ever get and they are pissing it away. The Brown family reminds me of a family who cannot manage their family finances well and end up receiving government assistance (NFL profit sharing) All of a sudden the family wins the lottery (Joe Burrow) and they piss the money away because they do not know what they are doing spending the lottery winnings partying and buying useless items. Eventually the family ends up bankrupt. It is a damn same Joe’s career is heading down this trajectory and it is because of the Brown family. Screw you Katie and Mike. You have no business owning a team.

Another factor is downfield blocking. Did people notice that on Allen's 40 yard TD run as he broke into the open the new WR Cooks blocked his cover guy all the way into the end zone.

Benford had the better day but in order for him to win two weeks in a row I suspect that they needed to see historic numbers by him.

In Ohio they broadcast the High School football championship games live (7 division so 7 games over a 3 day period) and I remember him QBing a small HS having an amazing game in a tight loss. I remember thinking that I had never seen a HS school kid with so much zip AND accuracy on his throws.

And Tampa Bay did it in 2021 winning three straight road playoff games to make the SB which ironically was a "home game" for the Bucs.