CincyBillsFan

Aikman & Buck spewing words is like an overflowing septic tank. Worst pair of announcers in the NFL.

If the Bills go back to sucking I'm done with the NFL. The officiating is awful and inconsistent. That holding call was ticky tack and not throwing the flag on the interference was suspect to. And while I'm on a rant, Aikman makes me want to barf. What a bad commentator.

My TV is struggling to accommodate the color scheme on the field. Ugly is an apt description.

A great example of his down & distance awareness is that once he takes off running it matters what down it is whether he slides or tries to run through tacklers. On 1st or 2nd down Allen has gotten pretty good at sliding or running out of bounds short of the sticks. On 3rd down he almost always tries to get past the sticks when he takes off running.

Dear God NOT the "Bills traded Mahomes pick" reason to crap on Allen. I thought we were way past that point. Why be so limiting. I could come up with a dozen NFL players who if they were on the Bills would make them a better team.

Allen did his part and more. QB's will throw INT's and it sure sucked that a couple of his biggest passes got called back on bad penalties. But with the game on the line Allen drove the Bills 78 yards for what should have been the game winning TD. This is what makes a great QB and we have a great QB.

Knox is close to losing me. He had a huge momentum turning penalty late in the 3rd quarter today. After Arizona had cut the Bills lead to 23 -19 we had a nice drive going. On 2nd & 10 from midfield the Cards were off sides and Allen makes a great throw out to Singleterry on the free play. Motor takes it 20 yards to the 30 but at the very end Knox holds negating the big play and the offside. On the next play Allen throws the INT. There was no reason for Knox to grab anyone at that point. The play was over. Another bad penalty was the holding when Allen converted the 3rd & 23 with a 24 yard strike to Brown. To lose that conversion because of a lazy hold by a guard was disgusting. Now the Bills have to get healthy over the break. To win the division they need to beat both the Dolphins & Patriots and then win 2 of the 3 games against SF, Denver & LA. They finish 11 - 5 and are AFC East champs.

Connecting this thread to the upcoming Cardinals game any love for Leonard Smith? Good old #46 was a stone cold killer back in the days before targeting existed. This guy brought an attitude to the Bills D and had a real knack for the ball. We became a physical defense the moment he was back there head hunting.

Done - again. This is so cool and donating to a Children's Hospital - any Children's Hospital - is the right thing to do.

Done.

Not sure (shoulder again) but I heard Flaco was starting. But if Darnold shows up then Chandler is way premature about handing Allen the AFC offensive player of the week award!

Way to soon to predict this. After all Flaco & Newton are on tap tonight!

A great win for the Bills. A few things to ponder: * The last time the Bills started 7 -2 was in 1993. * Four of the Bills seven wins have come against teams with a winning record. * If Allen's left shoulder is heeled watch out NFL. * Listening to some of the tools on TV trying to downgrade the Bills win is disgusting. Hey guys did you see how KC dominated the Panthers today? No, neither did I. Or how abut Pittsburgh's big win over Dallas? A lot of style points there to. * Was it me or did the Fox clowns back in the studio look pretty damn depressed that the Bills kicked the crap out of the Seahawks? * Remember when folks cried that Allen didn't have any 300 yard games? He now has TWO 400 yard games this season and another THREE 300 yard games. * The Bills D was fantastic today. And maybe we've all been to harsh on Edmunds. As his shoulder heals his play is improving fast.

Aikman is such a phony baloney. If Allen missed that throw to a wide open receiver we would have heard an Aikman tirade about accuracy and how it can't be learned.

The reason this is great news and important to the Bills future: * Despite the drops, on paper Knox remains the most dangerous receiving TE on the Bills. His speed & athleticism force D coordinators to account for him in ways they don't need to for Smith & Kroft. Knox has the potential to have a big pass catching day against the Seahawks. * The Bills need to know if Knox is a star at TE. They can't find this out if he doesn't play. If Knox doesn't pan out the Bills will have to address the TE position in free agency. If he does pan out they can use the TE free agency spot to fix some glaring needs on defense.

I wonder if Tampa Bay fans are bemoaning their lack of a quality win against the one win Giants last night? I mean TB has been talked about as being the best team in the NFC and a favorite from that conference to go to the Super Bowl. So this morning are the national talking heads asking what's wrong with Tampa Bay? Are they second guessing the Bucs? Are Tampa Bay fans out on the ledge ready to jump because their team was lucky to get out of NY with a win? I mean by any measure the Giants are a worse team then NE.

Yep and back in a recent Super Bowl Seattle lost a game to the Pats that the Pats didn't deserve to win yet we still count that as a NE Super Bowl win. And just this year Seattle didn't beat NE the Pats lost because they couldn't score at the end of the game from the Seahawk's 1 yard line. If the Bills win the next 2 games the national media will be singing an entirely different tune. That's why it's a waste of time to worry about what they say.

We've beaten 3 teams with winning records. And before people crap on the fish they've beaten the Rams, crushed the 49's and came within one score of Seattle. Hell, NE had two shots from the 1 yard line to beat Seattle a few weeks ago, Seattle is a very winnable game.

There's a number of reasons for the drop in productivity including: * Weather. Passing conditions were bad in 2 of the last 4 games. If Sunday had been 65, dry and not much wind we're looking at a completely different discussion today. * Teams are defensing the Bills differently and focusing on taking away their WR's * Before yesterday the Bills rushing game didn't scare anyone. This could change after both RB's had a good game. * The Bills have the weakest pass catching TE group in the NFL particularity when Knox is out. This simplifies how you defense the Bill's passing game in ways you can't do with KC or Seattle. I think that teams approached defensing the Bills early in the season thinking that they were facing the 2019 version of Allen. The reality is that the 2020 version is much better and Allen carved them up through the first 4 weeks (and 3 of those teams currently have winning records so it wasn't just that the schedule was easy). Now teams are defensing us with an eye to our weakness which is at TE and RB - not Allen. If what we saw from our RB's is real with Mongo back in the lineup and Knox comes back from covid then we might see the Bills go on another offensive tear. It will just look a little different then the one we saw in the first 4 games.

I think today was a great example of where judging a QB by his stats can be misleading. I would give Allen a B+. As others have noted he had several successful audibles that resulted in big yardage. On the big pass play to Diggs Allen was looking for the home run strike way downfield. That was a check down pass that the 2019 Allen probably doesn't take and it led to a TD. In the 2nd half Allen led the Bills to 17 points on 4 possessions. And if Gabe hangs onto that TD pass it would have been 3 TD drives in 4 possessions. Bellicheat was counting on Allen getting greedy then getting rattled and he was neither. That played a big role in the Bills win today.

Absolutely and I believe Allen checked off to runs that worked well in the 2nd half on both TD drives. The offense played very well in the 2nd half. If Gabe hangs onto that pass the Bills would have scored TD's on 3 of their 4 second half possessions.

Great post and spot on. I guess it comes with old age and over 50 years caring abut the Bills but a win is a win. And when you put the ice-pick through the head of the zombie Pats it's a reason to celebrate. The weather was the great equalizer today. It took away the Bills most dangerous offensive weapons and gave NE a chance. And as you pointed out this game was the NE season. Cam knew it; Belicheat knew it, the Pats coaching staff knew it and the players knew it. This is a proud organization less then 2 years away from a Super Bowl victory and they were never going to go quietly in the night. They were only ever going to go away kicking and screaming. Today we got the monkey off our back. Going forward this will be huge and now at the halfway point we stand all alone at the top of the AFC East with a 6 - 2 record.

Simm's makes a good point BUT when the Bills throw caution to the wind (and this Sunday that might be literal) and ignore the passing game they can shut down the run. The fact that Cam is struggling and the water boy may be playing WR suggests the Bills will redefine crowding the box and be able to shut down the Pat's running game without fear of getting burned over the top.

Look I get it's likely to be windy on November 1 in Orchard Park NY. But IMO people are trusting the weather forecast way to much. It's Thursday so why would anyone believe what the weather clowns are predicting for Sunday? 50 mph gusts - maybe and then again probably not.

And it's tough to nickle and dime a team down the length of the field with a below average rushing game and below average TE receiving production. When we tried the same tactic against the Chiefs it worked as Mahomes and his receivers didn't really hurt us. But the Chiefs TE's and running game killed us.