Mikie2times

What makes the lesser triumphs not as appealing to me at this stage is those 90's Bills. This franchise already has the gold standard in all of sports for doing everything BUT winning a championship. The success of this team is nearly unprecedented comparative to the lack of success in the postseason. That will be the narrative that gets remembered long term about this period in Bills history if they never get it done. The pursuit of a championship is always enjoyable. Josh is incredible. It's a much more fun time to be a fan than the drought years. I think that can be true along with the general feeling some of expressed in this thread.

If history is the judge it is true. Take the Patriots undefeated regular season. Without question the most dominant year in NFL history. But when that topic gets brought up they aren’t even in the conversation.

Allen averaged 6.5 YAC per completion last year. His next closest since 2020 was the year prior at 5.1 and after that no season over 5.0. Shakir was #1 in the NFL at 100 targets or more. We run a ton of screens that are basically extensions of the run game. Outside of Shakir, Kinkaid is participating the most in those concepts. So while Kincaid is good at turning upfield after the catch he also doesn't have a lot of lower YAC outcomes in his sample. Very few jump balls/contested catches or comeback routes which yield low YAC. He's always in motion when he catches the ball. All of this is a large result of Brady's offense and scheme. We saw none of this with prior OC's and were consistently one of the worst in the NFL in YAC leaning more into total air yards per attempt.

Does this mean he's trucking people to accomplish that or being schemed open? I don't have the answer, but just calling his YAC out isn't the answer either.

Some here argue Bernard is a Pro Bowl LB. Which was always dumb. He's a fringe starter on a lot of teams and works here based on scheme.

Somebody needs to let Kyle Whittingham know he runs a soft program.

One judge was put in under Reagan, one Obama, and one Trump.

He’s on a one year deal. How else would you have spent his contract?

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.

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!