CincyBillsFan

As an aside all this Beasley hate is an interesting social phenomena. I would think that given the facts that have emerged since the end of the covid outbreak Beasley's comments don't seem quit so controversial today. As to whether or not he was a distraction, I agree with other posters who point out that there is absolutely NO evidence that Beasley was a distraction to the Bills football team last season. And if he can add just one additional 3rd down conversion per game that the Bills would otherwise not have gotten his signing will be more then worth it.

Of course Beasley's skills were deteriorating in 2021. We could all see that. Yet his 82 catches, many for first downs and at critical times in a game, were far more productive & consistent then we've gotten from the slot this season. Beasley's greatest strength is his ability to read zone defenses prior to the snap. Here his relationship with Allen is crucial. His presence on the field immediately increases our chances of converting 3rd and short and extending drives. We're at the point in the season where extending only one or two drives will be the difference between winning and losing a game. IMO those that are hostile to Beasley's signing here are just pissed off that he took an unpopular stand on covid vaccination. How do I come to this conclusion? Because there is no logical football based argument against signing Beasley today.

It was a question of cost versus productivity. Clearly Beasley was to expensive going into 2022 and his skills were deteriorating. The Bills recognized that they needed to replace Beasley's production with a younger and cheaper slot guy. Crowder was signed and Shakir was drafted. They also hoped McKenzie could grow into the role. But Crowder got hurt and McK/Shakir haven't been able to take up the slack. Signing Beasley at this point in the season is dirt cheap and the risk even if it turns out he can't play is minimal.

Have you been watching Bills football the last 4 seasons? Beas brings a special skill set, breaking down zone coverage's, that we badly miss. There is no one available on a practice squad that brings Beasley's special set of skills: like knowing the O, knowing Allen, having great hands and is sneaky good at finding the open space in a zone.

Allen has done it the right way whereas Rogers has gone public in a big way. From day one Allen has seemed wiser then his years.

This is also an admission by Bean and McD that the current crop of WR's is not productive enough. People can claim that Allen made this happen but even Allen couldn't get Brown & Beas back if we were seeing good production out of the slot and were stretching the field more. This also indicates that game film was not kind to the WR's & RB's running patterns and trying give the Bills a semblance of a slot receivers production. They didn't go after McCaffrey for his running between the tackles. I give McD & Bean credit for swallowing their pride and bringing these two guys back to help the team. Even though this action signals that Bills management failed in the off season to upgrade or even maintain the production of the WR group.

Not necessarily. This move might actually free up McK to be the gadget guy again whose best plays in the passing game are when a play breaks down and Allen goes off script. I suspect that the ineffective two RB formations on passing downs will be replaced by more 4 WR formations with Diggs, Davis, McK and Beas. This will give Allen & Dorsey a better layering of the field on pass plays.

And we need him to CATCH a 5 yard pass on 1st down and set us up with a 2nd & 5 rather then a 2nd & 10. I also think this might actually help McK out. Rather then ask him to run the precise, sit down in the zone, routes that a Beas can execute to perfection McK is now able to freelance more which is in tune with his gadget player mode.

Allen played much better then White yesterday. Throwing for a few more yards against a Frazier D playing prevent protecting a two score lead is no big deal. Allen's 2 TD drives at the end of the half and in response to the Jets 3rd quarter TD drive were critical to winning the game. When they were needed Allen made the big plays.

Didn't Ryan Fitzpatrick once have three 400 yard passing games in a row?

Seems like they took a similar approach with Espinosa. He didn't get a lot of playing time his rookie year but has quietly emerged as one of the Bills better D-linemen.

If the Bills only get the first seed they will have the daunting prospect of playing very dangerous teams like the Chargers in the 2nd round of the playoffs. Even worse the 1st seed will give the Bills a bye week and we all know how much they suck after a week off. It might be better to skip the playoffs this year then to risk such a game.

I don't enjoy them as much but agree that they're probably better for a team making a Super Bowl run.

Allen and Diggs hide a lot of deficiencies.

I had higher expectations from our offense to. But the fact that the game didn't play out the way I thought it might is the way football works. If you're going to site facts: * The weather did impact both teams offensive production. The Bills pass drops, which screwed up at least 3 drives forcing punts, were clearly impacted by the weather. * Both teams play very good defense which limited both teams offensive production. * The Bills low offensive output was in part by design. McD determined that the defense would limit the Jet's scoring and only short fields brought about by turnovers would allow the Jets to score a lot of points. You know like what happened in the KC/Denver game where the Mahomes INT's resulted in the Broncos scoring 28 points with only 320 yards of total offense. * The Bills held a two score lead from late in the 3rd period to late in the 4th period. Rather then try to stretch the lead to 3 scores, which is what we fans want, the Bills played the odds and protected a two score lead. The end result was a win.

KC benefited greatly from Wilson going down to injury and being unavailable after the 3rd Mahomes INT gave the Bronco's the ball at midfield late in the 4th quarter only down by 6. Had Cousins gone out in the 4th quarter I'm very positive the Bills would be 11 - 2 right now.

After watching Tua throw the ball in perfect conditions last night I'm very skeptical he'll be able to display his vaunted "accuracy" on a cold night with snow & wind swirling about.

You are not in the minority but are a part of the silent majority. I feel great that the Bills are 10 - 3, two games up in their division and the first seed in the AFC with only 4 games to go. They are 10 - 3 in spite of suffering a lot of bad injuries and playing a very tough schedule. If you go back and actually look through the 6 seasons that the Bills were a SB contending team you would see that they played a lot of games just like the last two games. Even though their offense was loaded with HOF players the Bills often struggled offensively late in the season, particularly in bad weather at home From Sal Maiorana's book Relentless: 1988: Bills 9 Jets 6. Game 12 in Rich stadium - Didn't score a TD against a Jet's team with a losing record. Tampa Bay 10 Bills 5. Game 14 1989: Seahawks 17 Bills 16. Game 13 Saints 22 Bills 19. Game 14 at Rich stadium in bad weather 49's 21 Bills 10. Game 15 1991: Bills 24 Jets 13. Game 13 in Rich stadium. Bills only led 17 - 13 in the 4th quarter. 1992: Colts 16 Bills 13. Game12 Jets 24 Bills 17. Game 13 in Rich stadium. 1993: Bills 10 Eagles 7. Game 13 Bills 16 Jets 14. Game 15 at Rich stadium. So back to back late season wins against good division opponents by 24 - 10 & 20 12 look pretty good to me.

Bingo. The Bills are playing late season, bad weather, playoff football. Don't make mistakes and protect 2nd half leads. Against both the Vikings and Packers the Bills tried to deliver knockout blows with an aggressive passing attack only to have TO's cause one game to be closer then it should have been and to lose the other game. Yesterday you saw the same thing in the KC/Denver game. Up 27 - 0 the Chiefs tried to obliterate the Bronco's only to see Mahomes throw THREE INT's and almost lose the game. The fact is that the Bills have only two elite, game breaking players on the offense - Allen & Diggs. The rest are solid but not spectacular. The Bills I think were overrating their offense and it was getting them in trouble. They are now playing complimentary football and winning games. For the 2nd week in a row the Bills played most of the 4th quarter with a two score lead. This is the recipe for winning games which is the only thing that matters in December & January.

The Jets have a great, top 5 defense. The weather conditions were terrible. Offenses are going to struggle. I'm not particularly concerned.

Sullivan, who is a miserable human being, could have asked that same question after the Atlanta and Jets late season games last season. Yet we saw what the offense could do twice against NE and at KC at the end of the season. It was a stupid and unnecessary question after a hard fought quality win against a very good opponent.

He made some great throws today. A couple of catches that were dropped and this might not have been a close game.

Well the Bills may have the two best guys at LB to do this.

The Chargers WR just made a great contested catch.

Allen threw great balls that were dropped to McKenzie, Singleterry and Brown. Remember the 3rd & 16 strike to McKenzie down the sideline that would have went for 20 yards and a first down? A perfect pass. The Brown pass was also fantastic and should have been caught at the one yard line The pass to Knox was a bit short but he had his hands on the ball and should have come down with the catch.