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Man, this was one of those games where it was way more stressful than it needed to be. Here are the positives: - Cook continues to look fantastic. - Allen can still take over a game when called on. - Cole Bishop had a pretty INT. - Deone Walker looks good. - Still won by two scores while looking like doodoo for huge stretches of the game. Now for the negatives: - The defense continues to be suspect. Here's the thing, if they could tackle I think they'd actually be really good, maybe even elite. They're often times in the right spot, but they just refuse to finish the damn play. It's infuriating. - The Special Teams unit. Is it bad that I said "no big loss" after the punter got assaulted? He was bad, the roughing penalty is the only positive he had all game. - Ryan Van Demark looked out of his element. He was a really apparent weak spot on the offense. - Deone Walker is the only defensive draft pick that's contributing right now. Not great. Last week I praised the Bills for their intentionality. This game seemed to have none of that, it felt frenetic, chaotic, and rudderless for a good portion of the game. Despite that, they still won by a significant margin and the game was never out of hand. Celebrate the win and let's hope they clean it up.

Somebody else said it but the Bengals might give them a run for their money. Woody & Brick Johnson are hilariously dysfunctional though.

I have a morbid curiosity for who would be worst if they were asked the reverse.

He's the kind of player I hope the Bills would at least kick the tires on. Getting him in the building for a workout/sitdown seems like a no brainer.

I think it depends on how legit you think the Chargers are. If you think the Chiefs are unlikely to win their division, I can understand hoping they win. Baltimore has shown over and over that they're a talented team but very sloppy. If you don't think they'll clean it up, you probably want Baltimore to win this game. I'm conflicted, but I lean Chiefs if there's a gun to my head. To be clear, the only thing I'm actively rooting for is both teams to get diarrhea on the field and mass retire from embarrassment.

What are the chances that we can get Chris Olave to defect to the Bills?

Tyreek Hill beats children and breaks a woman's leg on purpose: Allowed to play. Allen points at someone... "FINE HIM AND HIS FUTURE CHILDREN!"

If it was obvious as a lot of posters keep saying it was, why didn't replay assist step in and overturn it? This seems very nitpicky, honestly. I haven't watched it since the broadcast, but I don't remember thinking it was obviously not a possession.

I can understand that, but nothing about vanilla games in September are going to give us much insight on how they'll do in January. Coming into this game, Joe Marino was talking about the variety of blitz packages and 4-3 base defense they're running this season and how it's a departure from past years. It's hard to evaluate without Hoecht too.

Dolphins gonna Dolphin.

They played the way they did intentionally. They should have executed better on third down, and the D-Line needs to get home, but the soft zone is a coaching choice. They didn't believe the Dolphins could win with 10-15 play drives, and they proved it. They showed nothing on offense because they didn't need to. The game was about 4 plays on offense from being a blowout, without the missed field goal everyone is talking about this game differently.

No, and I think it’s a conscious coaching decision to be boring until circumstances dictate we have to let it rip. The Bills are one of the most disciplined football teams in the NFL. They’re constantly methodically marching down the field and scoring, and they do it at a high level of execution most of the time. They’re daring other teams to do the same, and betting on the fact that they can’t, or that their variance is too high to make it sustainable for their opponents.

Walker was projected to be a possible first round pick until he had the back injury season. I think it's clear that we got an incredible value there and he's got a lot of potential. We might be looking back at this draft and calling it a home run in a year or two.

I think McD and Babich probably aren't losing any sleep about the secondary. The soft zone defense is an intentional choice and they wanted low event football. That's what soft zone will get you. I do think they'll be frustrated with the D-Line however. We got a lot of penetration but it wasn't effective often enough. We're missing guys there and the ones we have are young and learning on the job, so I think there's a lot of room to grow. Deone Walker flashed enough tonight for me to really take notice.

The takeaway I have from this game is the intentionality of this coaching staff to commit to soft zone defense and basically saying "we don't think you can score fast enough to win". I personally hate it, but I think you argue about its effectiveness. I would like to see more aggression in the secondary. The D-Line just needs to be flat out better. They need to finish and hit the QB, Tua had all day in a timing offense and it burned us.

Tom Brady is a known cheat who exploits the rules for his favor. Why wouldn't that bleed into his post-quarterback career? It's an obvious conflict of interest to be an owner of a team and a broadcaster with access to other NFL teams. He's not even a very good broadcaster.

This is one of the most nitpicky threads I've seen lately. Did he get hurt? No? Okay then. Let's move on.

31 Bills 13 Dolphins - James Cook has another 100 yard game and a TD. - Allen rushes for 50+ yards - Keon Coleman gets a TD. - Bosa gets 1 sack.

Usually one a season now, generally a snow game. My kid is too young to go to a home game and enjoy it, so I usually watch on the couch with him and stress text my friend group chat throughout the game. Growing up my dad had season tickets so I'd go to ~5 a year. I do enjoy the tailgate atmosphere and wish I could go more.

These might be the worst announcers I've ever heard. They have all the enthusiasm of golf commentators. Wow, what a garbage product they're putting out for this game.

That's just bad luck at this point. Dorian Williams is fine in run support but I feel like he gets abused when he needs to cover anyone. He's athletic enough though, so he's got the tools. I hope trends upwards.

They looked bad last year but got calls and got lucky a ton of times. This year they look bad and the refs aren't bailing them out. Besides Mahomes' scrambling ability there's not a lot going on with the offense. Maybe that'll change with Worthy and Rice back.

Me watching JJ play…

I assumed there should have been a flag.

Joe Brady will be a head coach after this season if we keep putting up numbers like this game after game. He runs an QB friendly system and has shown how to manufacture yards in a variety of ways. He might not call a perfect game but a lot of the Bills success on offense is because he’s not like Ken Dorsey. We just played two excellent defensive lines. I expect the pass protection to improve just by virtue of who we are playing down this stretch.