CincyBillsFan

The Bills making a deep playoff run this year is no less likely than thinking that Tennessee would make a deep playoff run at this time last season.

As an out of conference game this is also the least important game that we play over the next 5 weeks. If I had to pick just one loss for the rest of the season this is the one I would pick. Sure I hope we go 5 - 0 but I would be thrilled to go 4 - 1. My guess is that SF sees it this way to.

What the hell are you talking about? We won the game by 10 freaking points? Is this how it will be with you wrong Joshers? The first time we don't see Allen light up the stat sheet you're going to say "it wasn't good enough at the end"? At least wait until we lose to make such a lame point. I really can't wrap my head around this statement Penfield45.

This is a great point. For some reason a lot of Bills fans, including their beat writers, call every Allen INT a "bad decision". You know sometimes the DB makes a great play or the D-line gets serious pressure as the QB is releasing the ball or the WR doesn't do what the QB expected. But in Buffalo none of this matters. Allen's INT's always seem to get described as "bad decisions". What I saw on that play was that Diggs was breaking open. If Allen had placed the ball higher there's a good chance that Diggs plucks it out of the air for a nice completion. Instead as Allen is following threw on his throw a defender hit his arm impacting the throw. That pick may have been a great decision by Allen throwing to a WR that ran a great route but ended up as an INT because of a great play by a D-lineman.

If the DB turns around that would have likely been a TD pass to Diggs. The DB interfered for a reason.

We had two very successful deep balls today. The first drew an interference call and set us up in a 1st & goal. The second went for 47 yards.

I disagree on Allen. He was having a brutally efficient game in piloting the Bills to a 24 - 6 lead half way through the 3rd quarter. He was completing 75% of his passes had one TD pass and one TD run. And hadn't made a mistake. On their first TD drive Allen's well placed deep ball drew a PI that set up the Bills at 1st & goal. At this point Allen was playing at an A level. Then Singleterry loses that fumble and the bottom drops out on Allen for the next two series with a careless INT and fumble. But for most of the game Allen played very well. The Bills approached this game differently and it was working until all the weird stuff happened in the 4th quarter.

He had three runs in the 2nd half that make me think he's 100%. All three showed him at his fastest on the run.

The total lack of production from our TE group is what kills us here. Today at least the RB's showed signs they could be solid down the stretch but the TE's combined for 2 catches for 5 yards. Typically TE's combine for 60 - 70 yards for their teams. This is a real problem with Brown out. I'm not sure they can fix it until the off season.

My three goals for the Bills this season were: 1) See Allen continue to improve which he clearly has. He is our franchise QB unless one of the "we should have drafted Mahomes" sad sacks on 2BD makes a time machine and we go back to the 2017 draft and convince the Bills NOT to make that trade with KC. 2) Win the Division which we are positioned to do. 3) Win at least one playoff game. This team is clearly good enough to win a playoff game.

I second that. The Bills led 17 - 6 after a solid workmanlike first half. Then the Bills looked like a division winning playoff team when they came out of the locker room and had a nice 6 minute TD drive to go up 24 - 6. At this point you had to be ecstatic at the Bills solid performance against a solid team. Then the weird stuff started happening. It began with a cheap unsportsmanlike penalty on Allen after his TD run. Then the D faces two 4th downs and allows LA to convert both. Stop the Chargers at midfield on the 4th & 2 and the game is over. Then we had a nightmarish 4th quarter. Leading 24 - 14 Singleterry rips off back to back 10 yard runs only to lose a bad fumble. After throwing a beautiful deep ball to Gabe giving the Bills a 1st down at the LA 22 leading by 7, Allen fumbles the snap and instead of just falling on the ball tries to recreate the Dallas game. A huge run by Moss is mostly eliminated by a 2nd chicken sh## sportsman like penalty. This time on Moss. Allen throws a bad INT. Allen rips off a 17 yard run for a first down that puts us at the LA 12 lard line. The play is called back after a very questionable holding call on Dawkins. Truth be told is we should have blown them out in the 4th quarter. The reality is that we led them by 11 and then by18 and for most of the 4th quarter by 10. This wasn't really a close game accept in our minds as we still remembered how we lost that Arizona game at the end.

That was the game where the Bills were first starting to display the power of their no-huddle offense. They got up on the Eagles 24 - 0 in the 1st quarter which back then was unheard off. The Bills almost lost the game because they didn't stick with the no-huddle the whole game. They won 30 - 23.

For which season are you asking the question? Back in the Ron Jaworski years or more recently?

I think there is a real advantage to forcing the LA defense to prepare for either Morse or Mongo at center. Not as much as prepping for different QB's but I suspect there's some subtle things we fans aren't aware of that make this a bit of a headache for the Chargers. In the end if Morse is truly ready to go then he and Mongo on the field at the same time seems like the best option for the Bills O-line.

Fair points about tanking but I disagree about the value experts bring to the decision. Consider Mahomes, how many experts were saying he was a can't miss prospect? Very few. Reid saw something that most of the experts didn't see. Or even closer to home what were the "experts" saying about Allen? Or Darnold? Or Mayfield? My concern with tanking is it puts a stain on a franchise that is forever. If Lawrence were the next Mahomes it would be worth it. I just question the certitude with which so many people are claiming that Lawrence is a can't miss prospect. My 50 years of following the NFL have taught me there is no such thing.

I really think he would benefit from one more year at OSU. With Lawrence out of the way Fields would be the presumptive #1 pick. He doesn't want to go down the path of Haskins or Turbisky if he can avoid it.

Trevor is a great PROSPECT but the operative word here is prospect. He is no where near a sure thing and I was reacting to the insane list that had him the 2nd best recent NFL QB taken in the draft before he threw a single NFL pass. To tank to draft Lawrence would be crazy IMO. I would also have some concerns about Justin Fields. As an Ohio State fan he reminds me of an athletic Haskins. That is when he has all day to throw and is playing against B1G secondary's he can destroy them throwing to a posse of future NFL WR's. But put pressure on him as IU just did and his accuracy and judgement suffer.

There have been 3 pass interference calls on the Rams and only the middle one was legit. How the hell does Brady get these calls all the time? Come on NFL fix your officiating problem.

As a college football fanatic I would also point out that Lawrence doesn't exactly play against a lot of elite teams. In last years Championship game he looked pretty ordinary going up against those future NFL players on LSU's defense.

The bad weather helped NE because their passing attack is poor and definitely inferior to the Bills. That day the weather was an equalizer. Against the Chargers poor weather helps us as the Bolts O is much better then NE at throwing the football. They depend on a vertical passing game to move the ball. I also think that playing & practicing in the wet/wind will allow the Bills to be more effective then LA at throwing the ball. Bottom line is that weather plus the Bills solid pass defense, which looks to be healthy, is favorable for Buffalo. Against NE it was our weak run defense against NE's rushing game which was their offensive strength. I see this as Bills 31 LA 21.

He has 6 games to shut us up. Finally start to produce and all will be forgotten & forgiven.

Green is not close to being the Green of a few years ago. Franky he's a liability. He has dropped multiple passes some of them potentially huge gainers. Reminds me of the guy we got from the Panthers to help Allen in his rookie year. Boyd & Higgins are solid but the Bengals have worse TE's then the Bills and that O line is really bad.

Not really. Mixon has been out the last few games (and today). Higgons & Boyd are solid. The best Bengal's TE was hurt early in the season and Green is way past his use by date. I'll admit the skill position players are better then the O-line but that's not saying much.

I hear you guys about Burrow but if you saw the amount of Bengals games I see you would fully appreciate how bad this team is. Marno had a better offense around him at Miami then Burrow has today in Cincy. Herbert is good but LA has a lot more talent around him then Cincinnati has around Burrow. Spain is starting today for the Bengals and he's a huge upgrade. The beating Burrow takes every week is a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Joe Burrow is the best rookie QB I've ever seen and that includes Marino. When you consider what he has to work with his productivity is simply astonishing.