Mikie2times

He's got a nice rack

You can also choose to defend your take. The Ravens beat us handily in every major statistical category across both games. So why is your take accurate here? We ran the ball well in the 2nd game. We played excellent first half defense. We played about as well as we could have and we still got statistically dominated (talking about the 2nd game). So from my perspective I wouldn’t make us a favorite here. But lines are lines and even Vegas opened us up as favorites. So it’s not like your opinion is THAT novel. We are recognized as one of the league elite and at home. Regardless of what the line says I see a lot more paths to Baltimore blowing us out than Buffalo blowing them out. As it stands I think they’re ahead of us, but that’s why we added a bunch of pieces which needed to happen. But they likely wont have the best moments of the year Game 1. So in the nature of this thread I think it’s not a good thing to play them early.

They averaged 7.3 yards per play to our 4.6. The first game it was 7.9 to 4.1. They had more total yards, like the first game. More totals first downs, like the first game. More rushing yards in total, like the first game. More rushing yards by running backs, like the first game. Better EPA offense and defense, like the first game. In two games vs the Ravens last year, they had 843 yards to our 509 and averaged over 7.5 yards per play. They did literally anything they wanted for about 6 out of the 8 quarters we played. We won the turnover battle 3-0, that is why we won that game. Which is nothing to dismiss, if we played again the odds are with us that we will force more turnovers and likely not give any up. But we were outplayed physically and it wasn't really that close. This is not the same team as last year. But then again, we just punted on a 1 tech for about the 15th year in a row. So we will see. That is the role that was important to fill for this game.

I wonder how many current lurkers we get, players and coaches.

Actually a really nice name!

I get it, but if this is enough to unravel us, I don't know if it was ever going to be enough. I'm not sure if we have ever seen this kind of look into our team and the team itself is likeable and interesting. Learning more about the structure and "process" is also really interesting. It will be must see TV for any Bills fan.

4th and one used to be one of the most exciting plays in football. Now it's one of the least. It's just not good for the game. We basically had our season defined because spotting the ball was almost impossible. I don't want the best teams in the NFL partially defined by who runs that play better.

If I'm a defensive coordinator vs Buffalo I would give up more real estate in the 10 yard+ range in the middle of the field. We don't run seam passes to our TE's. We don't seem to run a lot post patterns . Just an area of the field we don't really take advantage of. I think most TE's like that real estate. But all our downfield passes seem to go outside the hashes.

Andre Reed

Mack Hollins is a recent one. He helped give the team more grit and performed well for what he was brought into do.

What interesting is they all do have stars, they just aren't household names at this point like some have been. Brunson, Edwards, Haliburton, and Gilgeous-Alexander are elite players.

The use of "major" was a bit silly. All of them are. It can slow wound healing, so I suppose the larger the incision the more of a risk. Mine was fairly large and got infected. I'm sure that could happen for a lot reasons so I can't say it was that specific thing that did it, but ya, it's a thing.

You just need to control things.

Fun fact, they say not to use THC for several months prior to major surgery. I guess it impacts your body's ability to heal larger surgical wounds. I did not listen. So I needed another surgery to fix the fact that the other one didn't heal correctly. Cannabinoid receptors are very complicated with so many interactions to our body. Despite being around forever the medical community still doesn't have a grasp on it all. Certainly not long term impacts of chronic use from edibles or extremely high THC concentrated products. As a simple example most edibles don't contain CBD. CBD is considered to potentially be a neurological protector to some of the negative impacts of THC. Even if we did know more, we don't know what ingesting just THC without CBD will do over a long period of time. That's just one product and one consideration. We have THC extracts at 50%+ THC levels. All sorts of ways to ingest it that are far outside what we might know more about. I would guess it can't be worse than alcohol, but just as confident it's not benign.

In the 13 games prior to his injury including 4 playoff games, he had 93 catches, 1,068 yards, and 6 TD's. He would have went for something like 115 catches, 1,200 yards, and 10 TD's if he stayed healthy all of the last year. That is getting into elite WR production. So maybe a little premature to say he was that, but it was certainly looking that way.

Gabe Davis!

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If we had one ring let alone enough to fill up nearly two hands we wouldn’t be talking about this. So I guess I don’t get the comparison.

Name the best QB we have faced in our division outside of Tua, a guy that has lost like 70% of his starts vs winning teams. I don’t know what this statement is trying to prove. We are the best regular season team in football since 2020. Does that mean we have to an elite roster or are we accomplishing it with turnovers, MVP QB play, and a horrific division?

Aj Brown is a top 5 WR. Barkley is the best running back in the NFL. Jalen Carter was a first team All Pro. Again, how does that compare to Shakir, Cook, and Oliver? That’s just 3 of the 6 Eagles players voted All Pro. This is one of the worse takes I’ve seen on here in awhile. We have a thick “B” roster. Outside of that we might have 1 All Pro and the fact that nobody knows if it’s Brown, Cook, or Benford sort of speaks to how dominant they really are. We aren’t left to guess with the Eagles top 5.

What is our match if those guys are not elite? Taron, Shakir, and Oliver? lmao... Really?

I also think he would be much better fit for the big slot role. But we have Shakir, Samuel, Kincaid, Moore who are all likely better in the slot than anywhere else. Throw in Keon. Just not a lot of room for Keon to get reps there.

Not trying to be a jerk here, but this is the usual stuff on the board and I don't give anybody a pass. You have no idea if our injuries are more or less. Even within the context of just playoff teams, let alone the the regular season. The Lions or the _____'s or the ____'s have nothing to do with it. The injury beating crew do it without the context of what is normal and what is not normal. How can anything be abnormal if you cant establish normal? I will place my fake bet and say the Buffalo Bills from 2020-2025 have not faced an abnormal amount of injuries comparative to the league average. Are you putting your fake bet down to say that isn't the case?

But ultimately we are left with this narrative that we have been severely hamstrung by injuries. Which I don’t dismiss but has also never been verified within context. I hate that this thought lingers as one of the reasons but ultimately we have no idea.

The way the ended the Wild Card year was a full implosion. They started 10-1 ended up losing 6 of 7 and got blown out in the wild card game. It forced both coordinators to be fired and the GM basically dictating changes to the HC or he would get canned as well. The changes resulted in what you saw this year. What would you call that?