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20 hours ago, Big Turk said:
As much as Leslie Frazier was blasted for being "vanilla" and refusing to adjust in big games to change things up, he was exceptional game to game and keeping a high level of consistently good defensive play.
We tend to forget that.
Oh I think you are looking back through jaded glasses, Frazier routinely got lit up the first half, left the Offense in a hole and then somehow would change just enough in the second half to slow the bleeding. I swear the strategy was to make the other team take more time than usual to score so they could only have 3 possessions a half and hopefully they would screw one of them up so they only scored 4 times a game, ideally settling for FGs.
8 hours ago, HappyDays said:I really don't think DQ's absence had anything to do with it. Oliver was back and played decently well. Walker was probably our best overall player in the game. The problem in run defense was our starting 2nd and 3rd level, same as it has been all year. Allgeier's opening drive TD run happens because Rapp takes a horrible angle coming down from depth. On the 81 yard Bijan TD run Bernard was the one turned out of his gap. Then Bishop takes a horrible angle and that's all she wrote. The pass completions and defensive penalties that extended drives weren't backups. Rousseau jumps offside, Oliver jumps offside, White commits DPI (admittedly a bad call), Benford commits DPI. Not once did I watch one of the many defensive breakdowns yesterday and think that a backup player was the guilty party.
Now if you want to say the players are more responsible than the coaches for these failures okay I am open to hearing that argument, but injuries still are not an excuse for that performance last night.
Discipline cost the game. How do you line up Offside on the FIRST play of the game. That play changed the entire game. Take 7 off the board and the momentum shift would have been huge as well. They would have come out, lost the ball first play, the Bills scored a TD, so if they could have done that, they already are down 7 to a team they feel they have to play perfectly against to win. The panic starts. The ENTIRE game was shifted by one idiot lining up wrong. Yes, that’s one the player, BUT that’s piss poor coaching to not have the absolutely ingrained in the guys. -
10 hours ago, tigerthelion said:
Maybe instead of signing mediocore players to ten or fifteen or twenty million dollar a year contracts, our GM should have been looking to sign actual difference makers instead, and filled out the roster with what money was left. Not one guy signed this offseason will make a noticeable difference for the Bills in all likelihood. Would have been nice to even have even one guy added to the roster who moved the needle. Up against the cap every year, but with only two real difference makers on the 53 man roster. Crazy.
Bad drafting coupled with bad contracts resigning those bad draft picks and the inability to find any meaningful contributors in FA, can’t see how they aren’t improving.-
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Should have been gone at 13 seconds, the next year confirmed it, and the year after that and it doesn’t matter bc they keep winning enough for Terry to not have to worry about it. They have officially made this the exact blueprint of the Panthers, a bend don’t break D that works when you have pro bowl DTs and Superman throwing to a bunch of rag tag WRs with a decent receiving TE who can’t block.. yep mission accomplished. All they need to do is run this MVP into the ground by providing no support cast bc the D is constantly in need of new toys and the whole thing will be destroyed. Just like Carolina.
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6 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
No the eagles have had way more top 15 pics than the Buffalo Bills
Both of their stud defensive tackles top 15.. one top 10... Davante smith top 10
The bills haven't had a top 15 pick in 6 years
But where did those picks come from? Shrewd business. Not because they sucked.
Again, excuses.4 minutes ago, DrBob806 said:There's certainly an element of luck.
I think you're stretching this argument a bit. There's plenty of cases where key players of teams were drafted in mid to late rounds and contributed heavily. Even some undrafted FAs.
If the draft was truly as important as you wrote, the NYJ, NYG, CLE, & the Raiders would be constantly in the playoffs ( well maybe not CLE & the Raiders, they sued the NFL and won, therefore they are frowned upon by Goodell).
The draft is insanely important, those who get it right, win. Those that don’t, lose. The Bills lucked out that Cleveland and NYJ took lesser QBs ahead of them and Allen fell to them. Without that, the team would still be a joke and the regret of trading away Mahomes would still burn strong today.
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7 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
I don't think any of those teams long-term are set up better than Buffalo lol
Not top to bottom
We're in a rock and a hard place of never being able to acquire Blue Chip talent because we always win 11 plus games
So we literally.. our defensive captain is a third round pick that people were ready to run out of here after his rookie year
That's the talent McDermott is working with
Not to mention only one true franchise quarterback has been traded in like the last decade in Matt Stafford and Josh Allen would command more
Stop with the excuses! The Bills manage to find most of their talent in the 4th round and down. Guys have been available that would have been stars, but the Bills passed on them for the duds we have. The talent evaluators are missing horribly on the top part of the draft. Even the year they had pick 10, they take Oliver and miss on multiple pro bowl Days who are all far superior. They just don’t get the job done, period. The Eagles are vastly more talented than the Bills, same draft area, the Chiefs pick after the Bills, still more talented, what’s the real deal?
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5 minutes ago, DrBob806 said:
Yes, of course you need players.
Yes, the salary cap is a huge factor.
Teams employ scouts to obtain players as you know . They have their " big boards" to help them out on draft day. It's usually a team effort in drafting the player in each round.
It's up to the coaches to put those players in proper schemes to win.
Well it’s also up to the scouts to get it right. The Bills are one of the absolute worst performers in the early rounds of the draft and that’s a fact. I’d take Jerruh Jones in the first 2 rounds over these clowns.-
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12 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
If he's salking around on a 12 win team perennially he's not winning super bowl with any other team
The Kansas City Chiefs arent trading for a quarterback anytime soon
He's my favorite player he also has complete mental lapses for way too long of stretches . There's a complete difference between most talented player and most consistent player
He literally doesn't like to run anymore when he has wide open lanes and would rather flick backhanded passes
I'm just be honest and this is my favorite football player.. he's literally not perfect
Sean McDermott has one all pro on his roster.. plenty of coaches have fumbled better rosters
The Rams need a Stafford replacement, Steelers would be better than Buffalo, Seattle isn’t locked to Darnold for long, there’s Minnesota, etc. Allen had plenty of places to succeed, this team is NOTHING without him.-
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4 minutes ago, appoo said:
Part of me also acknowledged this is what happens to a roster when you constantly pick in the bottom 10 of the draft
No, this is what happens when you get no impact from anyone above a 4th round pick in the draft, year after year. The last time they had a top 10 pick, they got about the 5th best player at the position. It’s terrible college evaluations on the high end, whoever evaluates the late round guys needs to be the guy taking over the early rounds.
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At least 96 keeps flashing.
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I’m convinced this may be the weakest coaching staff in the NFL. McD is mid, the rest should be unemployed.
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This D is so pathetic.
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20 hours ago, mannc said:
He had a first round grade!
Was a steal in the third!
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They will get way cheaper, I went to the game last year, watched prices for months. I would up with club seats on the 50, first row of the box for less than the upper deck prices when I started looking. Arguably the best seats in the house for less than nosebleeds, don’t panic, they come down a lot.
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On 10/8/2025 at 10:54 AM, Ga boy said:
Interesting comparison. Me thinks that our skill guys are better than the Pats teams that won those Lombardis, but then there’s the coach.
I’m not sorry, but that’s patently false. Gronk is a first ballot HOF TE, they had Hernandez who was better than both TEs on this team for a couple years. Welker is also likely headed to the HOF and better than Shakir as been thus far. Unless you are delusional enough to argue there are future HOF guys playing on this team, which is just not real, this argument holds no water.
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On 10/10/2025 at 7:54 AM, mannc said:
God forbid we miss out on a Landon Jackson…
With everything we’ve seen from Jackson, it would be a huge loss.
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17 minutes ago, mannc said:
How in the hell in Cam Skattebo not a Buffalo Bill? Someone should be fired for that.
The guy has been awesome, but if he were here, we’d be complaining about a 4th round ( or 3rd to actually get him) who never plays.
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4 hours ago, Low Positive said:
Mike Brown went all in this year. He is demanding that they keep trying to compete. Also, Browning is playing like Peterman back there and Chase is starting to chirp. Something had to be done. But why this and not Russell Wilson?
BC Wilson is trash AND an #######.
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31 minutes ago, Brand J said:
Josh didn’t have the laser-like focus last night. Still made plays to win the game, but Drake made more. Pats deserved the win.
I don’t know why Allen has gone back to bailing out of clean pockets. He’s done that a few times in the last couple weeks. Wish he was more like Mahomes and Jackson from that standpoint - run around like a squirrel in the pocket until something breaks downfield, but he’s leaving clean protection which shortens the field and invites the rush.
I agree with everything you said and to that last point, Josh has looked off the last few weeks. I see what you are seeing, he looks like he’s losing patience with the scheme and wants to make something happen rather than “take what they give you”. Peyton Manning said it best, Josh has all the talent in the world, he has to be ok playing boring football if they are going to win.
We know Josh is not stupid, he has to see the flaws of the team. It also looks like he doesn’t trust Samuel for some reason. He seems like a last resort even when he’s open. I could be dead wrong about that, but it looks to me like he’s gone back to forcing the ball to his primary guy, come hell or high water. He wants the ball to Shakir or Kincaid, other times he gets fixated on 0 and tries to push it to him. No offense to Keon, but he looks to be exactly what a lot of people here feared, which is to say, just a jump ball guy. I don’t know anything for sure, but I don’t think Josh trusts Brady as the play caller and at this point, I think that’s justified. Some of these plays have zero shot in hell of working and they always seem to come right when they kill momentum. I know some people think he’s amazing, I personally feel he has zero feel for the game.
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6 hours ago, JaCrispy said:
I don’t know how the Bills fix this defense- even in the offseason…
2 DE’s will be be free agents, so we will likely have to acquire a starter in FA or the draft….
DT Jones is a FA so we will need a staring 1T…
Milano is a FA so we will need a starting OLB…
On top of all that, we still need a #1 WR…
It literally feels like Groundhog Day, as this team keeps spinning its tires, and never improving…
No wonder Josh said it is no longer superbowl or bust, for him- but rather he said he’s just going out and trying to have fun playing…
The resigning of mid tier starters to long term deals at top 10 player money is killing the team. How would you expect to improve while not getting better talent on the field? Not to mention the team is constantly against the cap and has no real game changers outside of Allen and I guess Cook has to be considered one. The years of non-impact players in the draft and resigning all of them has caught up.-
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6 minutes ago, BillsShredder83 said:
Open your eyes bro. We LABOR to move the ball. Completely one dimensional, and now the gameplay against us is public.
Stack the box. Sell out against the run. Bracket Kincaid. Clog the middle of the field. Commit ZERO resources to defending the outside WRs
All these dumb stats mean nothing. 3pts in a half to New England 🤣
But were gunna beat Spagnola, and then Fangio in the playoffs?
We narrow the field soooo much. Outside - ZERO danger. Deep- when was the last time we hit anything deep??? That's 50% of the field defenses do not need to guard or account for
All facts.
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Is Bosa’s conditioning a question? Seems like the guy is constantly gasping for air.
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45 minutes ago, chongli said:
Ravens fans are demanding Harbaugh be fired. Just saying...
Pretty obvious that’s not happening, BUT I could see them doing it if they continue to have problems getting over the hump with Lamar at QB. It’s kind of similar to Buffalo if they don’t win.
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2 hours ago, frostbitmic said:
All the Defensive injuries are like Deja vu all over again.
The positive is it’s early in the year and all APPEAR to be short term. It could be a blessing in disguise, there are a lot of young guys getting meaningful experience against a softer early schedule. You don’t need to peak in October, so maybe, just for once, the injuries won’t haunt the team at the end of the year as it has been seemingly every darn time they have a legitimate chance to make a SB. This year, if anything, the Bills look to be favorites from the AFC to make it, which is a bit of a change and let’s hope they roll in at full strength and break the curse, sending the Ralph out in the best possible way.
2 hours ago, Maine-iac said:For his career Benford missed all the 2022 playoffs (and half the season), most of one game and all of the next in the 2023 playoffs, and then played 2 playoff games and missed most of the 3rd last year. So of the playoff games we've played since drafting Benford he's been available less than half the time. Sadly we probably have a number of players in much the same boat.
I think just about the whole defense is in a similar boat, if they didn’t miss the games they were severely limited or went out during key stretches. It’s been really rough.
2 hours ago, Cash said:
Barring injury, I’ll be surprised if Ciarlo plays any defensive snaps tonight.I don’t know, Williams hasn’t been very good and they called him up, not a move up for a game, this smells like something a little bigger. I don’t know if we WANT him on the field, but if he’s earned a spot from practice and what he showed in preseason, then let it rip. He looked great out there in preseason playing kind of a S/LB role. Maybe he can help on 3rd downs at least.
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1 hour ago, djp14150 said:
they drafted a QB not knowing how Darnold would even be.on the Vikings. Then McCarthy got injured/ lossy for the season.
THRY WERE ALSO 9-1 in one score games. If you have 10 most teams get 4-6 wins. Thsts an outlier
they also had a weaker schedule getting the afc south and nfc west and lower positional opponents.
the concern around Darnold has been arm strength/ throwing in cold/ windy conditions .
the bigger surprise has been in Indy.
Indy is exactly what Darnold was last year.. perfect storm, but more luck than anything.
Josh Allen Played Most Undisciplined Game in Three years Against Falcons-- Jim Kubiak BN
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Not for nothing, outside of the 4th quarter of the Ravens game and the 1st quarter of the Pats game, this might be the worst we have seen Josh in years. He has had a few drives here and there where it looked good, but for the most part, he has not been himself this year. I think he came in with the “everyone eats” thing being ok in his mind and he has lost faith in it. He’s pressing bc the WRs aren’t worth a damn and teams have started to key on Cook. That’s my armchair evaluation anyway. JA is an intelligent guy, he sees the garbage around him and there’s no way he wants to run these dumbass sweeps on crucial plays. The defense is a joke and he obviously knows that. I don’t see how he wouldn’t be questioning everything and pressing to try to win it himself.