Giuseppe Tognarelli

I think this thread is a good reminder to some posters not to be so snippy and rude to fellow posters and to instead keep things respectful when they disagree. That would be the foremost takeaway for me. A few other observations... Positive hot takes do seem to be more welcome than negative ones. For example, a thread "The Bills are going to win the Super Bowl!" is probably more likely to survive than its counterpart "The Bills have no chance of making the playoffs!" I believe that negative threads CAN survive if presented with well-thought-out opinions, but I also think there is something to the complaint about negativity being frowned upon. I think the "policing" of negative threads could stand to be dialed back just a degree or two. There are definitely a lot of posters who react negatively to anything suggesting the Bills' outlook may not be as rosy as they'd like. It's annoying, but it is what it is. Psychology is a field of study. Sports psychology is a subfield. It's something I studied in school, and it fascinates me. I look at a lot of things, like player and coach comments/press conferences, to try to glean insights. I've noticed that I've been rebuked whenever I've made comments from this framework. It's always confused me. The mental game is a big part of the game.

The players seem to be using 6-2 as a crutch for not worrying about specific aspects of performance. I've seen several players say similar things. Maybe it's not true inside the building, but the public comments are concerning at this point. The same thing happened when the Jauron team started well, so that's one reason why it concerns me. At that time, it was "We're 5-0." It quickly became "We're 5-3." As we all know, soon there weren't any crutches left. Hopefully we don't see the same thing here.

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That's the point... We haven't been successful, because we've let up when we've started to look good. Lorenzo Alexander said it: success is the greatest adversity (paraphrasing)

Until proven otherwise... the Bills have shown that they have a hard time handling success.

That's not the point. The point is that the Bills would have more losses if they had played the opponents I listed above. I just really don't want people to expect this game to be a cakewalk because they're 2-6. That is a very unrealistic take. The Bills likely would have been underdogs in ALL of those games, so to go 5-1 would be crazy.

I'm really concerned about the players continually saying they're happy to be 6-2. McDermott and Frazier saying it too. I think they feel like they have breathing room. I wish they were saying, "We're looking at it like we're 0-0. 6-2 is in the past."

Once every 16 years? lol Great players' entire careers would go by before they got a chance to play each other. Yes, the division that makes the most sense is Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Cincinatti.

I've said this in numerous threads. How do you think the Bills would have fared in the following games? LAR @ BAL @ SF SEA @ NE @ DEN ???

I bet Rams/49ers will be the night game. It'll probably be: BUF @ NE - early OAK @ LAC - mid-day because a West Coast game wouldn't be the early one LAR @ SF - late

Yay, another undersized DT! That'll fix the run defense!

Signed

Denver is not an easy place to win. I think the Broncos would be favored in a game against the Bills if played in Denver.

Tomlin said he never expected to be here. He knows they're not very good and have been getting lucky.

We shouldn't have to labor over this this year. Bills have some of best odds in the league and people are still freaking out talking about if-then scenarios as if we're 3-5.

It's one reason, yes, but the schedule is the main one.

I'm going to keep saying this. The Browns are not a bad team; the Bills would probably have the same record with that murderous schedule that Cleveland has played. People are in for a huge wake-up call next week.

We need Rob Ryan's stomach?

I don't follow. Mayfield was #1 overall. Does he hold a grudge against Allen for some reason?

Without Peko's story, he probably would have been.

Tennessee @ NYJ LAR @ Baltimore @ San Francisco Seattle @ New England Do you think the Bills would be favored to beat the Rams, Ravens, 49ers, Seahawks, or Patriots? I didn't think so.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.

Same record the Bills would be if we had the Browns' schedule. Why? Is he more motivated against us for some reason? (I mean, it seems like most teams are. I'm just not sure why Mayfield would be.)

Who exactly is going to go 11-5 and keep us out of the playoffs? ? The problem I see is that I don't think the Bills are mature enough to win four in a row. They'll get complacent and lose to one of these teams.

This is freaking amazing