First Round Bust

or loose and beat NE the next time and have NE loose to someone else...entirely possible that we could still win the div if we loose at home on MNF...persish the thought...lets go Buffalo

sorry - thanks for that - I skipped the pandemic year I guess

yep - last season home game against Pats - blocked punt was decisive - and Haack seems more susceptible to blocks than Bono tho he seems to be a better holder for Bass...

from todays Buffalo News sports section...easy schedules and some insights in the last paragraph Easiest Schedule of Offenses Faced in 2021 RkTeamY/Game Avg 1Buffalo 331.6 2L.A. Rams336.4 3N.Y. Jets 337.2 4Jacksonville339.0 5New England340.0 Source: Buffalo News The Bills’ defense is good. How good? The strength of schedule leaves it an open question with six games remaining in the regular season. The loss of cornerback Tre’Davious White for the season to injury adds to the uncertainty. A week after getting steamrolled by Jonathan Taylor and the Colts, the Bills’ defenders were feeling good about bouncing back. “Just goes to show ... the group of guys that we have in a locker room,” Bills safety Micah Hyde said after the Saints game. “We come off a tough loss like that last week and to bounce back on the short week, it says a lot about guys. But obviously, we got to continue to do this and stay consistent, and looking forward to the next matchup we have.” “After a loss last week, we knew we needed to come in with high energy and get some momentum early,” said safety Jordan Poyer. “Obviously, this crowd is probably second behind the Buffalo Bills as far as their energy, and we were able to take them out of it early. Just having some huge stops and guys making plays all over the field.” Entering Monday night’s AFC East showdown, it’s worth questioning New England’s dominance thus far as well. The Patriots’ defense ranks No. 1 in points allowed and No. 4 in yards allowed. But the AFC East has caught a bit of a break this year in scheduling, facing the NFC South, which is down, and the AFC South, which has two of the worst teams in the NFL in Houston and Jacksonville. New England has faced the fifth-easiest schedule of offenses, according to average yards gained. The Patriots’ offense has faced the seventh-easiest schedule of defenses. Easiest Schedule of Defenses Faced in 2021 RkTeamY/Game Avg 1Buffalo365.1 2Denver359.1 3Carolina358.7 4Cincinnati358.3 5Green Bay355.3 As with most statistical rankings, there is some nuance in the strength of schedule that is missed. The Bills faced a full-strength Pittsburgh defense in Week 1. The Steelers have had some injuries on defense and now rank 25th in yards allowed. The Bills caught the Titans on one of just three games in which Derrick Henry, A.J. Brown and Julio Jones were fully healthy. New England played the Titans minus all three of those stars. Conversely, the Bills played a New Orleans offense on arguably its worst week, decimated by injuries.

wow...and yeah the win one before I die choice.... pretty much applies to everyone except the youngsters...lets get it done

internal issues - OL line COVID-injury-instability and poor play, impacts Josh and his split-second decision making, he is not sacked a lot but he surely is under pressure more than ever and credit his athletic-scrambling here more than the line... external - we are playing some bad teams (backup qbs, poor offensive lines) and good teams and the stats-results seem to correlate to the quality of our opponents

the wind - I heard that the stadium sits on elevated ground thus the wind more of a factor, the city of Buffalo by comparison sits at 600 feet - the stadium is roughly 300 feet higher: Elevation of Orchard Park, NY, USA Location: United States > New York > Erie County > Longitude: -78.744092 Latitude: 42.7675323 Elevation: 263m / 863feet

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32736743/why-nfl-2021-feels-more-balanced-unpredictable-ever-before Bills details - quotes from Diggs and Dawkins It's a week-to-week [league], and you've got to come to play each and every week," Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs said. Diggs and the Bills, then 5-2, lost to the 1-6 Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 9 in one of the season's biggest upsets. Neither team scored a touchdown, and the Jaguars won 9-6 by kicking one more field goal than the Bills. "You just can't get comfortable," Bills tackle Dion Dawkins said after the contest. "You have to stay hungry and everybody is going to give us their best ball. We're in a position now that everybody is going to give us their best ball every week. Everybody's coming for the Buffalo Bills. "You have to go through the ups and downs of life in football and wins and losses to honestly feel that and understand that. It's a kill or be killed world, and now that we know that everybody has their best effort against us, then we just know that we have to be at our best every time. We can never take our foot off of that gas pedal."

Pat McMahon - comedy writer for Johnny Carson - back in the day St Patrick - Irish guy, for a saint he must have liked to party and drink green beer as we do this on his feast day, Irish or not Pat Lafontaine - all-time Sabre great Pat Paulson - 196-70s TV - Laugh=In star = ran for prez

I find it amazing how you warped the topic of conversation from qb pressures to a one-game run defense stat, Tenn ran for 250 yards and they have an above average line...which we could not stop....

I swear it like Jerry Hughes knows the area=spot-radius he has to get to to qualify for a pressure and sprints-fights to get there than gets tied-up, runs out of gas, or cant finish...seriously the opponents contribute to this, we have played against more backup QBs and inferior lines than most teams so there is some skewing...point being the upcoming NE and TB games will be against good lines and qbs that will likely release in 2.5 secs, esp NE on the road at our place on MNF the crowd noise will be extra-punped, lets see how well the defense performs over the next 3 weeks which is key to our playoff drive and positioning...lets go Buffalo

hoping for health, stability and continuity, example the O-line is once again beset by injuries and COVID where Brown has made only 4 starts, Feliciano out for several Dawkins recovery from COVID and then weak guard play...on the D-line Star has missed 4 games as well and Edmunds two...

umh have you guys checked out our salary cap lately - might have a little to do with moves the team might or might not be able to make https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/

cane expect some safety support for Jackson esp with deep balls, likely at the expense of some safety bliztes and run support ? cant have it all

take the best of the CBs, or DTs, OC-G in round one

sigh...really hurts..Tre is such as pro and fan favorite...get well soon buddy we goin to miss ya...but next man up...Dane Jackson does have over 300+ plays under his belt in 1.5 years experience including 2 starts, plus will get plenty of first team reps come practice next week...plenty of film work and coaching in store...

attention mods...clean-up required !

agree some designed rollouts would help diversify the O,of esp if we can catch the D off-guard, so its got to be the right call at the right time otherwise you are allowing the D to dictate your play call and you minimize the the field other than Josh throwing across his body and the field. If they blitz from the edge, the extra rushers pretty much blow the rollout play up so its back to the right call at the right time - part of exection

additonal...hearing Stevenson to be activated from IR ? Two DTs activated from PS

sigh...agree...think we have to commit one more year to Star which for grooming and replacement purposes which has me thinking high draft pick this year...as for the rest...Phillips is backup material at best and is UFA, Butler pls go away, Zimmer is recoop from ACL two weeks ago, Oliver is good but under-sized as well...so there has to be a changing of the guard, and other than Star we got no size...

its time - I see him as Mckenzie replacement next season - someone would have to get hurt or be removed from active roster in order for him to be activated - I dont see that person been Mckenzie...

next up is hoping it snows and becomes a "weather game"

Covid-medical-private Sal from WGR speculated if vax would be sooner based on testing results, if not vaxed 10 days quarantine, asympotmatc, etc from pos test date - which was around the date or the very date of the Jets game...so possibility avail just before Saints game, albeit with no or little practice which based on team procedures likely rules him out, Spencer likely out as well... so same lineup as Colts game with Feliciano possibly back (but not much practicing - see above policy and Edmunds as well)

not absolving him from being above blame, but there were drops (Knox had 3), pressure and O and D scheme issues to go along with the wind and rain

not as much as the partnership with the refs regarding roughing-the-passer penalties being called even for soft, ticky-tack touches are very maddening...