TheCockSportif

Here's success for me this season: win a playoff game. While I think that this team can go deeper, there are three glaring things that aren't leading me in that direction currently (D issues, inconsistencies on O, ST issues in punting/kicking), but it doesn't mean that teams like the Ravens or the Titans won't slot themselves out and the Bills won't slot themselves in.

Well... they can't all be gems, but given 18 years of suck in terms of talent/competitiveness, I'll conclude that Beane has done a lot more good than bad. I can easily name a dozen players that were drafted as first rounders and did not work here. At all.

I still say 10-6 or 11-5. Right now playoff output looks tenuous to me. I need to see a few more weeks to see how the D, in particular, has been able to adjust.

It's totally doable, but the Fins should not be taken lightly, well, unless Tua is absolutely horrible and Fitz does his best pick machine thing if/when he replaces Tua. Of course, as learned today, the Pats can't be taken lightly either, but are more beatable than where I perceive the Fins to be at the moment.

He certainly is, and he entered my four-person ignore list today. I wish he was funner like Dunkirk Don or whoever that was.

Good HC, really good D, not sure about Tua, but given that the Bills have to really make it to 10-6 or better, they have to watch out for the Fins. 9-7 could win this division, and I could see Miami landing there.

You went there, eh? I should've chosen a career in marketing instead. Lewd ads are hilarious!

Well, sure, and I said the same a handful of responses ago. For me, having watched this team lose so many close games including (and after) the Music City Miracle, watching them close this one out was a satisfying way to spend the afternoon. Having some Knob 9 is a lot smoother now.

Pats' fans, and I say this is a WNY native who's lived in New England for a long time, are the biggest whiners on the planet. You should've seen that forum during Deflategate, when they were talking about the 1st, 4th, and 6th amendments. I never knew there were that many constitutional lawyers here!

You and me both, but losing is losing, and thankfully the Bills came out of today with a W.

I'm enjoying the "I'd rather lose in a blowout" comment.

I'd go with B/B-, but Josh wasn't the problem today.

Yeah, so? I admit that this game had shades of the 2004 season finale to me. I felt that the Bills could/would win but this one went down to the wire. If anything, it's a game that I saw this team lose from 2000-this year more often than not.

Haha, no. Not at all. I'm glad that they won (I've written it twice in separate threads now), like really, really glad. But in addressing the negatives I have to state what I've observed.

As I promised a couple of weeks ago, I'm not going to harp on the McD aspect of things until after the season is over. I think that given the parameters of the squad for the remainder of the season, a ton of their future success is going to come down to coaching. What continues to bug me is that when something is working -- then something else gets thrown into the gameplan. Run left? Working. Run left again? Working. QB sneak? Flea flicker? OMG, so weird, and does not make sense. When I used to play baseball, I was a fastball/curveball pitcher. My FB would top at maybe 91 or 92, but usually averaged around 86 or 87. When my curve worked it would bite hard and I'd strike guys out. My best games were when I threw the same pitch most (if not all) of the game because it was working. I do not know or understand why this team gets cute and abandons what works.

Can you expound on this?

Not a playoff contender? Time will tell. I will say this, though. 5 years ago this team would've lost this game with 100% certainty.

I wasn't thrilled with many aspects of this game, but beating the Pats is always worth even an ugly effort -- so Monday will be a happy one. Now on to bourbon!

I'll take it.

This is going to require a LOOONG drive. And a TD.

Just run your mouse over the icon and you'll get a popup where ignore user is specified. Then have at it!

Huh, well this game is not what I expected. I still think that, short of a total collapse, the Bills should win. As a positive, just added 3 people to ignore. So now my list has 3 on it.

Can the Bills score 7 or less points and win this game? I believe so. Gotta keep moving the chains though.

BOOMski.

I admit that my butt is kind of Chappy Sinclair'ed right about now.