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Mikie2times
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1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:
Yep. Skinny. Is he moving to WR?
Spencer Brown is freaking jacked.He's got a nice rack
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39 minutes ago, eball said:
The first game last season bears no relevance to the discussion. But thanks for participating.
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.
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On 5/23/2025 at 6:27 AM, eball said:
I agree that this is a great opener. There are still a lot of people saying the Bills should have lost the playoff game and were outplayed physically by the Ravens. I don’t agree. The Bills led that game almost the entire way (after Baltimore’s opening TD) and Buffalo RBs (not Allen) rushed 26 times for 127 yards against the vaunted Baltimore run defense. Did Lamar make a couple of mistakes? Yes. Did the TE drop a tying 2-pt conversion? Yes. But the Bills played mistake-free on offense and drove for two 4th quarter FGs to keep the Ravens at arms length. If Baltimore had tied it, the Bills still had time to go and get a winning FG of their own. It was hardly a game Baltimore “dominated” and then bungled away.
I’m looking forward to the new pieces on D and how the offense will evolve further under Brady. It won’t be the end of the world if the Bills lose, and it won’t mean they’re going undefeated if they win. It will simply be a great opener between two excellent teams.
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.
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1 minute ago, streetkings01 said:
What was the reason it was shut down? I remember back in like 2004/2005 there was talk that the GM at the time (Donahoe) would lurk on the message boards…..I wonder how many other Bills personnel guys lurked?
I wonder how many current lurkers we get, players and coaches.
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10 minutes ago, Low Positive said:
If I had a third child (impossible because my wife is menopausal and I've had the cut), I would name him or her Nesmith.
Actually a really nice name!
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27 minutes ago, Mister Defense said:
Yuk
Was hoping this crap never happened.
Hope the Bills give them as little as possible, though I assume the producers will be allowed to get a bunch.
The Bills need no distractions this year, with maybe their best team in a while.
Hard Knocks is for teams coached by Rex Ryan, and the Bears, the Cowgirls, and the like.
Too bad.
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.
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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.
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5 hours ago, BigDingus said:
Most of the issues can be cleaned up by Kincaid getting better/stronger, but some of it is on Josh. He's got a cannon for an arm, but he just hasn't been good on deeper passes for quite a while now. He had one season where he had above average success on catchable passes downfield, but not so much recently.
This guy posted videos compiling all passes of 20+ yards from a clean pocket of many QBs, and you start to see Josh just does not have the touch, timing or accuracy for a lot of these throws. Sometimes we were successful, and sometimes it was the WRs fault (or just a great defensive play), but more often than not, our targets just aren't getting good enough passes thrown to them.
But again, Kincaid has bigger issues than JUST passes of 20+ yards. @HappyDays pretty much nailed it describing the miscues. And I wholeheartedly agree about Kincaid needing to be able to come down with difficult catches more often. Not every pass is going to be perfect, but a top-tier TE needs to be able to make those plays in order to be successful (but in this video, you'll notice how good Cooper was at catching those kinds of passes in tight traffic).
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.
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4 minutes ago, Simon said:
Just going by memory but I think those guys might have been here more than one year?
Andre Reed
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Mack Hollins is a recent one. He helped give the team more grit and performed well for what he was brought into do.
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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.
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53 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
I wasn't aware of this.
16 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:I had back surgery a few years ago....is that considered major surgery?
I was high before the surgery and during surgery. I vaped a good amount before I went under.
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.
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You just need to control things.
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2 hours ago, Orlando Buffalo said:
If I have to hear another student say " no one has died from pot smoking" I will explode. How are so many people aware that cigarette smoke causes cancer but completely unaware that any smoke in your lungs is bad. I don't have a moral qualm with smoking but the lying is annoying. Also doesn't mention the driving while high part, which is much more dangerous for the younger people.
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.
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5 hours ago, SaulGoodman said:
That's stating a fact. Through three games, he was on that pace. I never predicted what his final stats would have been or will be in the future.
That said, nothing he did was flukey or gimmicky. With Kelce slowing down, Brown injured and Worthy needing time to learn, he probably would have put up big numbers.
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.
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Gabe Davis!
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4 hours ago, SoTier said:
You really aren't trying very hard.
Always high end content from your end
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3 hours ago, Doc said:
Are people forgetting that AJ Brown and Barkley weren't even drafted by the Eagles?
Name the best QB Brady faced in the division.
Never mind that that's just 6 games out of 16/17 and divisional opponents are built for each other meaning sweeping the division doesn't happen often.
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.
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18 minutes ago, appoo said:
I mean this team has averaged something like 12 wins for 5 years now and have won a playoff game in each of those years.
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?
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5 minutes ago, appoo said:
I wasn’t saying that to defend the Bills. Buffalo has an above average roster who’s coaches and Josh Allen and oline managed to turn it into a great team that played well beyond its talent.
I like Beane but I have some doubt with him in how he’s managed the defensive side of the roster.
But I also don’t have an issue with a lack of “elite” players, because they’re consistently drafting after the 25th pick and to get elite players there is basically crap shoot
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.
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47 minutes ago, appoo said:
McDuffie, AJ Brown, and Carter.
What is our match if those guys are not elite? Taron, Shakir, and Oliver? lmao... Really?
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22 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
It isn't that he can't improve. It's that in round 1 (I know Keon was technically #33 but you take the point) you generally want high floor, high ceiling. By the end of the round those guys, inevitably, have gone so your choice is generally high floor, lower ceiling or low floor, high ceiling. Essnetially do you prefer the safe pick of swing for the fences.
The problem with Keon is he is relatively low floor and lower ceiling. The way he has struggled so far in the pros is exactly the way those of us who didn't love him as a prospect thought he'd struggle. And the ways he has had success - screens and slants near the line of scrimmage 'ball in hand' and yards after catch - are the ways we thought he was most likely to succeed. When I first said as far ago as February last year that I thought he was a big slot at the next level I got a ton of pushback. Matt Harmon said the exact same thing 3 weeks later. So far the evidence supports our opinion.
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.
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15 minutes ago, folz said:
Injuries are not the reason we lost all of our playoff games, but no doubt they were an important factor in certain years (a couple of the losses). It shouldn't preclude us from looking at other reasons or factors in our playoff losses though (for instance, 2021/2022: coaching/talent/defense; 2024/2025: refs, etc.).
Going back to Detroit last year, they had a lot of injuries...but for some reason, even the backup players got listed in articles and posts about their injuries/losses last year. That usually doesn't happen. But, as far as their playoff game, they were missing 4 players (Hutchinson, Peko, Barnes, and McNeil) who were starters at the beginning of the year. And Anzalone was recently back from injury (so probably not at his peak).
But, for instance, in '23/'24 vs. Chiefs in the playoffs, the Bills were missing 5 players (Tre White, Milano, Bernard, Benford, Gabe Davis) who were starters at the beginning of the year. And Rasul Douglas was playing with a knee injury and Taron Johnson was playing through a concussion he sustained the week before. And then if you want to talk volume (in comparison to Detroit's backup players missing, etc.), the Bills were also missing both backup safeties (Rapp and Hamlin), Jordan Phillips, Baylon Spector (normally not a big deal, but with both starting LBs out...), Damien Harris, and our punter Martin was playing injured (groin if I remember correctly). And we only lost by 3 points. Not sure how some posters still don't think injuries were not a factor that year.
And, again, why does Detroit get a pass for last year, but the Bills don't get a pass for '23/'24?
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?
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28 minutes ago, folz said:
The first bolded statement is a decent point. We have tended to go small on defense at certain positions (LB/Secondary) and that could be a factor in those players getting injured. And yes, we have had some injury-prone players (particularly Milano). So, no I wouldn't be surprised to see Milano or a couple of other guys injured. I do hope this is something the Bills brass has at least looked into, from all angles. But, I do think we are a much deeper team now (at most spots) that can withstand injuries a bit better than the teams from say 2020-2023.
The weird thing is that the first 3-4 years of the McBeane era, we were one of the least injured teams. Then from the end of 2020 to 2023 it felt like we were one of the more heavily injured teams. Was it a change in training/conditioning staff/methods, was it the type of players we were bringing in, was it just bad luck?
And of course, other teams have injuries too. But, there were particular games, Bills/Chiefs 2022 for instance, where we were missing a number of key players on defense (like 5 or 6 guys) and they were only missing like one starter or whatever. It does have an affect on the game. But yes, say in the Cincy game, they were banged up too. I guess we'd have to look back at each game to see how significant the difference was on the injury report, etc. and then how much we think those losses affected the outcomes. So, I get not wanting to lay too much of the blame on injuries, but no doubt they were a factor in at least some of the playoff games.
To the second bolded statement. Yes, no question the Lions were depleted by injuries last year and it played a big role in the end of their playoff run. But that's the thing, the national media talked over and over about Detroit's injuries, and posters here too have brought it up a lot. But then when some of us say, well injuries played an issue for the Bills in some years, people say, aw you're just making excuses. Why do injuries factor in for Detroit, but not for Buffalo?
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.
Joey Bosa with a pulled calf
in The Stadium Wall
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This thread has the full dose of Bills ridiculousness. You get the sky is falling negative people. Then you get the nothing to see here people mocking the negative people.
The guy hasn't been healthy in years. If you booked his comeback tour for this year that's on you. He was a no harm signing. Anything he gives us is a + anything he fails to give us is sort of expected.