CincyBillsFan

I don't think it would be a bad play by Brady to be honest. You get a top 5 QB and some very effective offensive weapons. The key would be hiring the right defensive coordinator. An average D and the Bengals are a playoff team. The only question would be Burrow's health. But I suspect Brady would build a better running game which would somewhat protect Burrow.

First it was a catch s they had simultaneous possession. What happens after they hit te ground is not relevant. Second, it was clearly pass interference as the DB prevented the WR from coming back to the ball. That is called about 95% of the game that I have watched.

Yep. They both noted it then kind of acted like it was no big deal. Again I just watched my grandson play football in a Junior High (7yth & 8th graders) league and not starting the clock at the snap in that situation would have been bad form. In the NFL it's almost incomprehensible. As an aside this was more then a clock mishap given the situation.

What, did you miss the game? There were 6 seconds left on the clock and the Pats decided to run one more play which was risky. At the snap the clock did not start. BOTH announcers yelled out that the clock didn't start and the refs said the same. The only mystery is how did he refs determine only 4 seconds ran off the clock during a 13 yard run. This was an inexcusable mistake by the clock operator at the stadium and considering the circumstances may have been a deliberate attempt to ensure time did not run out before the Pats FG. Bush league all around.

Failing to start the clock at the snap at the end of the half was bush league or gross incompetence - or both. You would be pissed off if that happened in a Jr High football game let alone the NFL.

Depends on what half. I would say that they are not there yet but they could be based on the quality of their 2nd half play.

Stafford is having an MVP season but his weakness relative to Allen is that Stafford has a lot better weapons. I can think of a lot of QB's that would be doing well with LA but not so many that would be winning these kinds of games for Buffalo.

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.