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25 minutes ago, VW82 said:
Missed the game. Sounds like it was a stress free win.
How come Josh’s stats were so pedestrian? 148 passing yards on 5.9 YPA, only 56% completion percentage, and no TDs. I’m sure he was good cause he’s always good but gaudy stats always help MVP cases.
He did what he needed to do, not more, not less. The Jets actually did a pretty good job against the receivers, but there was room to run, so they did.
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16 minutes ago, Governor said:
Reminds me of Marcus Allen for some reason.
That’s some praise. I think he’s almost a clone of Robert Smith from the Vikings, just a different, highly effective RB that can do a bit of everything. He’s been really good the last 2 years.
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1 minute ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said:
I was. They had come out swinging in Week 1. I even watched the game and while not elite I thought they could game plan to attack our weak spots.
Apparently they sleepwalked through the week because just sweet mercy...
The Bills are the better team, but I honestly thought the Jets would show more life. They were sloppy and with the difference level of talent the Bills just had to be competent and they were that and more
I thought the Jets might be better than they are. I really overestimated the strength of the Steelers D. The game today looked closer on the score board than it was. There were some really untimely penalties on the Jets, especially early in that sunk them, but they couldn’t do anything on O against a banged up D, that’s a bad sign for them and very favorable for the Bills. -
1 hour ago, HappyDays said:
This is wild:
Not for nothing, but that was some balls to come in off the bench and make that throw and a lot of trust from Brady too.-
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3 hours ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:
Sad but this has been the story of Oliver's career. Dominat in a game or two, then gets dinged up and misses time or plays ineffectively while injured. He flashes brilliant play then disappears. I know this is a fluke but its happened pretty much every year.
Just start Sanders this week and let him show what he has.
Glad you said it, I was thinking it. He had his big game, he was going to be invisible for the next 3 weeks anyway, so it’s not much different. Now that’s sarcasm (sort of) because Ed is a solid player at baseline and has flashes of greatness. If he could ever consistently play like he did week 1, the “good, but not top 10 pick” label could be dropped.
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4 hours ago, nosejob said:
I hope we can get something from Bosa, but I trust Solomon and eventually Jackson will be good and fast. I also think Hoect (sp?) will be an animal.
Why do you think any of those guys will be anything? I like Solomon, but he’s done exactly nothing thus far, Jackson is only on the roster bc you can’t cut a 3rd round pick, but he’s practice squad right now. Hoect is a nobody who Beane is hoping is more than he’s ever been.
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4 hours ago, Max Fischer said:
It could be challenging for Hairston to be game-ready before Week 8 or 9.
He never played in pads, missed a ton of instruction, and until Week 10, it would be unfair to expect Hairston to do much more than a few garbage-time snaps.
Barring a slew of more injuries, it's possible that Hairston won't get a good number of snaps until the end of the season.
For sure, how could a guy that’s played football his whole life and was only a first round pick be expected to know how to play football? -
12 hours ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:
“The Bible” because the book was written on it years ago.
We have watched the same game by this defense for 7 years straight. 2017 it was good. That offseason teams learned how to get to it. We have still not changed. Our coach is only here because of defense but wins because of the offense.
If we had an ounce of competence on that side of the ball, we’d have 2 rings. And it’s not the players. We have good players on defense. It’s 100% the coaching. We have 3 LBs that can run and cover and get mauled by every physical team at the point of attack. We are the one team in the league that can play a base defense every down and instead We play nickel more than anyone. We are stubbornly obsessed with doing what we want regardless of it working or not. If a good DC was here and had complete authority over the defense, we win the Super Bowl
I thought you were going with that bc it’s “Holy”.I’d go with “Sex Panthers by McOdeon”, it’s made with real bits of Panther so you know it’s good. They’ve done studies, 60 percent of the time, it works every time.
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Prater has been good for a loooooong time, no reason to expect less from him. Bass needs to be replaced, this may be the guy for this year. He’s also 41, so that is going to be a factor in all of it, Bass should be the long term guy, but I’m sure the team knows he’s just not the guy they hoped he was.
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25 minutes ago, CoudyBills said:
I went to bed at 10:20, my son stayed up watching and shaking his head at me as I walked away. I'm such a jackass. We have Josh Allen
Bummer. I refused to go to bed bc I’d fall asleep and “we still have Josh Allen, it’s not over yet”. Boy was that a good call.
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7 hours ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
Ed Oliver FINALLY did what I've been wanting him to do. He made a game changing play in a HUGE moment. Good job Ed, now jeep doing it.
Yes, it would be great if that’s the guy we got weekly, which has always been a problem, he has flashed for a game or two a year. I’m hoping he can find that level more often. That play vs Henry was the best of his career, very impressive.
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12 minutes ago, harryS said:
For once, thankfully the opposing coach was better at choking. Harbaugh should've gone for it on 4th down instead of punting it away to Josh for a potential (inevitable, really) game-winning FG drive. Once the Ravens punted, I knew we would win.
It was what, a 4th-and-3? Some sort of rollout with Lamar so he has a run / pass option, and I think they convert 80% of the time. Bad, bad coaching job by Harbaugh there.
If they had gone for it and didn’t get it, the Bills were in immediate FG position. It was a tough call and I’m not sure which way they should have gone, but the way it had been going, I would have thought going for it was the better choice, they had pretty much owned the Bills all night on those roll outs, the Bills O was rolling, seems like they took the “safe” choice and it didn’t work. -
It was a heck of a game. The Ravens were pretty dominant on O, but the Bills held their own and stayed in range. That was the best play of Oliver’s career to take that ball away from Henry and then JA happened. I’d be bummed as a Ravens fan, but I’m still in shock as a Bills fan. Awesome to be 1-0, have the number one scoring offense and 31st scoring defense 😂
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Just now, BuffaloBill said:
Bills need a stop here. Ravens get 2nd half kick.
Huge possession, TD here, have to think it’s over at the half.
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Gotta go for that IMO
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20 hours ago, chris heff said:
Not overreacting, just telling you what I saw. Chiefs looked pretty pedestrian last night as they did in the Super Bowl. It was a good game plane, two slot receiver formations get defense thinking run, but they consistently threw out of it. Chargers were struggling running the ball, not using Harris was head scratching.
Harris sucks, so I’m not sure why that’s head scratching. Signing him was the questionable action.
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On 9/5/2025 at 4:24 PM, TFBillsfan said:
I struggle to understand why if they’ve known about Bass’s injury and what he’s been dealing with, why they weren’t proactive in having a plan B in case he isn’t or wouldn’t be ready for week 1?
Who were they going to get that’s better than what they got?
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On 9/3/2025 at 9:26 AM, Royale with Cheese said:
Ed Oliver next?
No, restructure means you have to kick the can down the road, the last thing they need to do is lock more money into a mediocre DT.
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I still think Brandon Marshall is his ceiling and Gabe Davis is his floor, so I’m hoping to see more towards the high end this year, but I’ll take Gabe Davis with hands and no option routes.
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On 8/27/2025 at 11:38 AM, ChronicAndKnuckles said:
I can’t find footage of the punt anywhere.
That’s too bad, it was a GREAT punt, for anyone, not just bc it was a TE who had t done it in the pros at all. Carried 62ish yards with height.
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12 hours ago, Lost said:
It's essentially the same team as last year. If they can perform at the same level then theoretically they should get back to the AFCCG
Reasons for optimism.
-Keon looks like he might make a second year leap after his great camp.
-Matt Milano is healthy to start the season and is playing well.
Reasons for concern
-Rookies unlikely to make much of an impact this year allowing other teams to gain ground.
-Cole Bishop is still a big question mark going into the season.
-It's still the same team that hasn't beaten the Chiefs in the playoffs.
End thread
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If this is anything more than a mentor role, I give up. McD and his “system” being “too difficult” for players to grasp without years in it, tells me everything I need to know at this point. For one, it only works when the other team screws up and the real competition doesn’t screw up enough (playoffs) when it matters. Two, he can’t play guys who don’t fit his system instead of showing true coaching ability and making the scheme maximize the talent. This RIGHT HERE is the difference between good and great. This is why Belicheck was/is one of, if not the best coaches ever. He had a base system, but he could plug in anyone and adapt the system to fit the guys he had, letting multiple guys become stars with the Pats and duds elsewhere because he put them in a place to succeed. Here, either you fit McDs scheme or you’re another wasted draft pick. It’s ludicrous.
Simplicity is the mark of genius. Any idiot can make something complicated, it takes real intelligence to make the difficult simple. I give McD credit where it’s due, but if he won’t change this stupid system, this team will always come up short.
6 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:Who does that for us? When did that happen? Bc last year, Kareem Jackson and Lewis Cine were in our system before the season started. And Cine wasn't called upon until late into the season.
When was the last time we plugged and played a Practice Squad player "off the street halfway through the season"? That's not something that happens every season with this regime. Maybe with other teams, but a lot is required of our Secondary. It's a complicated scheme.
Who is the Safety that's floating around right now that would agree to a Practice Squad spot that would be an upgrade over Poyer without knowing the Defense?
You defined the problem, why can other teams make it work, and it’s impossible for McD to get guys ready?
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11 hours ago, HappyDays said:
Rookie EDGE Bradyn Swinson cut from the Pats was the big shocker to me. Admittedly I hadn't followed him through training camp or preseason but he was widely mocked in the early/mid 3rd round and I know some draft analysts really liked him. He fell to the 5th and the thought was that the Pats had gotten a steal. Instead he was waived on cutdown day and went unclaimed on waivers, and ended up on the Pats PS. Not sure what happened there, I guess the draft analysts were just way off on him.
or it was some Belicheck-esque mind ninja moves to sneak him through to the PS by Vrable. Seriously though, draft “gurus” usually have a fair idea of the top 50 players, beyond that, what NFL GMs see is pretty different. Even the top 50 is a bit of a stretch, for example, I don’t believe I saw a single mock with Sanders not in the 1st round this year. In watching his highlight package, I thought the kid was as good as anyone coming out as a passer, but as always his name was the biggest reason anybody knew him. My guy to watch was/is Dart. He’s Josh Allen light in my eyes, he could be that guy that straps a franchise to his back and takes it next level, or he might be Mitch Trubiski, glad I don’t have to pin my job on which one he will be, but he would have been my pick of the QB class this year, maybe I’m missing something with Ward, but I don’t see “it” with him.
I like to think I should have stayed on course and ended up in a front office somewhere, it seems like my 20 minute evaluations of most guys is just as accurate, if not more so than a lot of paid professional talent evaluators haha. That said, I only count the ones I was right on and I haven’t paid close attention to college ball in ~10 years so maybe (definitely) I’m giving myself too much credit for my skills, much like the guys who sit around writing mock drafts all day.
1 hour ago, Ayjent said:Kyle Trask in Tampa was a bit surprising as a 2nd round pick that didnt look awful but really has never had an opportunity to play much in his time with the Bucs. Although i get why the Bucs went with an experienced backup with their aspirations this year. Bridgewater was coaching HS football and getting in troubke doing it. Just weird that Bucs made that investment, and have had 3 OCs in his 4 preseasons. I thought Trask was over drafted but he is a very accurate passer and in the right offense could be pretty effective.
To me, he’s a classic case of being in the wrong era. He likely would have gotten a shot 30 years ago. Today, he’s just not dynamic enough.4 minutes ago, henry jones said:Plus… since Beane likes to do his shopping at the Twin Fair/Gold Circle of NFL teams, this seems like an obvious move!
😂 valid point. I do think if they hadn’t strapped themselves with the Samuel/Moore contracts, Renfrow would already be on site at OBD, but here we are. I’d be kind of shocked if he doesn’t end up having a solid year somewhere. Seems like NYG would be a good landing spot for him.
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19 hours ago, BarleyNY said:
Diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis, a chronic autoimmune disease which causes inflammation and sores in the large intestine. It caused him to lose weight and experience fatigue, which is typical for those dealing with the illness. He didn’t play last season due to this, but he was apparently doing well this preseason in his comeback attempt.
I know the Bills have plenty at slot, but I’d take him, he’s a nice piece to have, kind of like Samuel, but more likely to be healthy.1 hour ago, Ayjent said:Kyle Trask in Tampa was a bit surprising as a 2nd round pick that didnt look awful but really has never had an opportunity to play much in his time with the Bucs. Although i get why the Bucs went with an experienced backup with their aspirations this year. Bridgewater was coaching HS football and getting in troubke doing it. Just weird that Bucs made that investment, and have had 3 OCs in his 4 preseasons. I thought Trask was over drafted but he is a very accurate passer and in the right offense could be pretty effective.
To me, he’s a classic case of being in the wrong era. He likely would have gotten a shot 30 years ago. Today, he’s just not dynamic enough.
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Fields was consistently bad again yesterday, Glenn must have really reached him.