Generic_Bills_Fan

Have you checked on the pats injury/Covid situation at all? I just don’t think they have the weapons to beat us.

Yea def goes back to a coin flip type game if that happens…although brown has extra time to prepare for LT at least. Maybe they threw him in at LT last week in preparation for this game. I could see either team scoring 0 with the injury situations we both have and I have no idea what’s gonna happen lol assuming we don’t get Dawkins back

Totally agreed…they don’t really have a target that demands double teams to begin with and now we’re subtracting Bourne and maybe agholor? Their best chance of success honestly might be to run the same offense as last time lol also Harris has a hamstring issue but I think he can play

It’s more complicated than that though…they were one dimensional in a very specific way. You can’t just add the threat of the passing game on top of what they did last time and say they’re going to run it even better. They were more or less running a goal line offense all game and hoping to break one big run and that that would be enough. If they’re going to be more balanced this game they will drastically mix up the formations and who knows what will happen. If they’re rolling with less offensive linemen most plays and we can moderately defend the run out of the nickel they are in a lot of trouble…that’s a big if though. X’s and O’s wise with the injuries they have I just cannot see them beating us as long as Dawkins plays. But I thought we’d win last time too so what do I know 😂

I wonder if they won’t rank rodgers as highly because of the whole ‘I was inoculated’ debacle leading him to miss a game.

I think the rotation is helping a lot late in games but is it worth it? I have no idea lol we’ve had a few games where our defense was on the field nonstop without much of a dip in quality Could be part of it…I’m sure moving a guy from RT to LT like two days before the game wasn’t a great situation either

And the Steelers defense at full strength 😂 In the games where we faced backup qbs the backups weren’t far behind their starting counterparts lol kind of a mixed bag though we got kc without chris jones and NO missing a bunch of offensive players

Imagine if he didn’t get pulled in the fourth quarter in a couple blowouts. Kinda sad his red zone interception free streak ended when his arm got hit while throwing

A lot of those balls were very contested…I only saw it as one clear drop and he made one ridiculous catch while getting sandwiched by two dbs. We just really needed someone to come down with one more of those 50/50 balls and pretty much struck out on tons of chances. That deep ball that hit diggs in the arm was brutal although not an easy play with the wind pushing the ball around I’m sure bass was confident in that one…the ball looked very well struck I was surprised it missed

Lol I love how a clear patriots fan came out with some poorly researched article that claimed the patriots are like the 16th biggest cheater in the nfl and they cite it like it’s gospel 😂😂 Not saying they didn’t deserve to win but their receivers made every possible play in tight coverage all game long…had nothing to do with Tomlin being better than McD. We also kind of got screwed on that pick 6 Ben through after halftime that got overturned on a super soft holding call. Still waiting for some of these calls to even out 😂

Maybe I misread but I think he was more saying the system is unfair and they should test everyone and he’s being singled out. I didn’t really read that snippet as advocating people playing sick but I didn’t read the full statement if there’s more

Feliciano maybe? He tweeted he was in the ER He’s gonna get flamed by the powers that be for that tweet but he’s honestly right…I’m sure there’s plenty of vaxxed players not getting tested that are positive

He’s your classic really good player at settling in holes in zone coverage and with our offensive line being as bad as it is that hasn’t been very useful 😂

Ahhh ok thank you! That has been baffling me for weeks now lol

Does anyone know how they ‘test out’? Anyone I’ve known that has gotten it has been told they will test positive despite getting over it for several months and would need a doctors note that they are cleared to travel and whatnot. Browns are kind of in that Ryan tannehill hole…maybe the titans get it done this year but I think it’s too difficult to win a Superbowl with the current rules to have a qb that’s kind of a game manager/running game facilitator. Gotta win 4 playoff games against mostly hof level qbs who can get hot at absolutely any moment

I think Bourne so far…I can’t remember if dugger was on there last time or if he was injured

I think there’s still a point to made that he’s putting his team at a strategic disadvantage by not being vaccinated but as far as his health goes for sure. There’s probably tons of Covid positive vaccinated guys right now skating by by not being tested and playing right now…of course that is not the best thing safety wise lol I feel like the nfl kind of flubbed this one. They’re too scared to test everybody cuz they’d likely have to postpone everything. If nobody gets tested nobody can have Covid 😂

To ops defense a clutch 2-3 yard reception can be the most important play in a game. There should be some kind of stat revolving around that

Yea I think that’s alternate strains most likely but I have no idea…should be good til the new scary strain comes out but I am far from a doctor haha

I honestly think their best chance to win with their banged up offense is to use the exact gameplan as last time and hope to break a big run again. they’re gonna lose some rushing effectiveness trying to mix up the formations to threaten the passing game. That’s probably the best way to beat us honestly you’re probably gonna break a big run with 50+ carries. I don’t trust mac against our secondary at all with their ability to disguise coverages (that’s also why people are oftentimes late to their gaps in the second level on a running play too lol)

Not to defend his vaccine decisions but silver lining….he will be good for the playoffs and will almost assuredly not get Covid again. It’s a crazy situation where you almost want your guys getting it before the playoffs

Yea it’s a fun time to be a fan…Covid aside of course lol we are just such a pessimistic fan base after years of losing that we assume the worst 😂 the game day threads are hilarious if you spend any time in those lol if we don’t score every single possession dozens of people predict the game and season are over and you’re just like bro it’s week 1 relax hahaha

Lol it’s insane that this is actually a fantastic idea 😂 if we pull off the win in NE we are in great shape with two mediocre/bad teams left on the schedule. There’s some real danger that NE could drop another to Miami even before factoring the unpredictability of Covid in

I mean a win this weekend and we’re 3-1 against them in the last two years…that would make their 1 win look pretty flukey too. Hard to believe anything would shut them up anyway 😂 they will become the new 2000s bills fans who will constantly talk up their team until we beat them and then repeat the process for 15 years lol I honestly think deep down they know they’re not that great of a team right now and they’re getting their jabs in while they can. Mac jones doesn’t seem like the guy that even the biggest pats homer in the world would want to hitch their wagon to. If there’s any knicks fans out there mac jones kind of reminds me of Jeremy Lin-sanity where you know he’s playing over his head but it sure is a fun time haha

Nfl is kind of in control of what vaxxed players miss the game based on their ‘random’ tests lol I would not put it past them to ‘randomly’ avoid star vaccinated players who might have asymptomatically tested positive otherwise…they’ve gotta line their pockets after all 😂 I am not at all expecting a sweep 😂 I was always expecting us to split with them even before the first matchup. and we lose the division tiebreaker if the pats swept us in this hypothetical scenario also so we would need to be three wins ahead of them in games against teams that aren’t NE….extremely unlikely.