JohnNord

100% but on a tangent, this is why I think you need to be careful to just assume that Baltimore and San Francisco are going to have an easy path into the Super Bowl. They aren’t always going to get out to big lead. San Francisco and Dallas are great examples of this. Both teams looked unstoppable… and they then they fell behind to BUF and BAL and struggled mightily. I think they really liked Jeremy Chinn as well. I think either of those two would do in awesome in Buffalo.

It’s never BPA…it’s always “BPA determined by need.”

The move I like is signing Kyle Duggar or Jeremy Chinn in FA. They might be able to get by with Cam Lewis as the other safety

I’m good with this… the Bills have never spent a premium asset to draft a wide receiver and I’m pretty sure that changes this season - especially given Diggs’ age and contract. In fact, I’m pretty sure they restructured Diggs’ deal with this move in mind. They are confident he’ll perform at a high level for at least 1 season - maybe longer. With Diggs (and Shakir to a lesser extent), it allows the new WR to contribute as a rookie without being “the guy” Some have theorized that in a year or two a lot of the passing game will be run through Kincaid - the way it has in Kansas CIty with Kelce. But the more good receivers the better.

They are…but it’s not like the line is just knocking people backward in the way that Philly’s does to make it easy. Josh has a great feel of where to find daylight. Rather than just slamming straight ahead into centers back (like Nick Mullens against Cincinnati a few weeks ago) he moved forward and shuffles left right off of Knox’s down blocked down. I’ve noticed this a few times over the past few games

Bills games in Western, NY have an absolutely incredible market share - this is basically the percentage of households that have the game turned on. I believe they averaged 77% for 2022, which is pretty insane. Of course, Buffalo is one of the smallest markets in the NFL. We’re not talking huge numbers but that is a massive number locally. And when the Bills plays teams with popular fan bases from larger markets the ratings are huge

I’ve never liked him and roll my eyes when people try to cite him as someone that’s credible

Tough guy? I’m just calling out an old narrative that’s had been floating around here for a few years. And by the way, what “play” did Ingram make the past two times playing Miami?

LOL uh huh and Josh Allen can never beat Melvin Ingram…right? This was debunked twice last year - both in Week 16 and in the Wild Card round of the playoffs. Ingram is probably a competent pass rusher. I don’t know - I haven’t watched him this season. But the drop off from Chubb to Ingram and Ogbah is huge in 2023. Also there is certainly a reason why he sat on the couch until week 16.

You actually dug this post up to write this?!?!?’b

Everything I read said Miami was optimistic Waddle would be back for the playoffs. It would have made the bye week huge. I don’t think he’s playing next week. If he does he won’t be 100%

The Bills always marched up well against Miami. Even more now with their injuries and Buffalo coming in relatively healthy. It’s all in front of them. If they are going to make noise, they need to win big games like this

I wouldn’t say Tua’s injury was serious. It was an injury but he might have been able to go back in. He’ll play next week. But yeah Chubb and Howard were carted off. I’d be surprised if both played next week No way… Tua plays. Mostert plays. The rest are going to out He was injured. It’s just not serious

Miami fans are dejected over the Chubb loss. But aside from Chubb Miami is also looking at not having Howard - they are already down Jalen Phillips and Jerome Baker too. They should get Mostert back but Waddle is probably out and we don’t know where Hill is - he’s certainly not 100% with his high ankle sprain. Miami is also missing Conor Williams and Liam Eichenberg is not a great Center. Bills have a HUGE opportunity in front of them. They need to take advantage

Speculation from Boston beat reporters were that the interaction likely meant Belichick was not coaching in the division next year. He probably thanked McDermott and wished him well.

To be honest, there’s been a lot drops that have just killed drives. I think this speaks to the talent more than anything. This is one part of the issue

Nobody wants to hear this but a big reason is JOSH ALLEN. You head that right….JOSH ALLEN. This is the hard truth no one wants to admit. You can blame the HC, the OC, the OL, the WR but he is the franchise QB and you need him to flat out play better when everything isn’t perfect. Fans here will blame anyone except the person who deserves the most blame. He just is not reading defenses and missing open receivers. He’s also been off target of deep throws and this was on full display today. I’m not sure if he’s injured or what, but he has not played well This is not to mention the turnovers. That INT today was a first down throw. It wasn’t an “arm punt” on 3rd down. The second issue is the receivers. It’s been the same issue as last season. When defense clamp down on Diggs (or if he can’t get open) no one else gets separation. Davis struggles with this. Shakir can be schemed open but a Josh doesn’t always see him. Kincaid is good but maybe not ready to step up as a rookie. With this crew you also have the issues with drops which has been a killer. This extends to the RB’s like Cook and Murray as well. Finally it’s the scheme. I’m not ready to put this all on Brady. He’s running a lot what Dorsey spent 1.5 years designing and building. He can’t throw it all out mid year and start from scratch. The scheme in Buffalo with the talent on the roster probably isn’t the best way to maximize Josh’s talent. I’m not sure if Brady is the right guy but the Bills will need an OC to design a system around Josh and have a commitment to improve the offense skill players. He’s right Dorsey was a big problem. Brady is running Dorsey’s offense using his personnel and likely many of his calls and concepts. But perhaps both were held back by the lack of talent at WR outside of Diggs and perhaps from Josh himself who can be hit or miss

It seems like a major screw up by Brad Allen and his crew. The league is now going into damage control and claiming that #70 reported but all of the video (and audio) will point otherwise. I know we’ve seen the officiating crew converse on the field and also for the “sky judge” to step in and help make the ruling. I’m not sure why this didn’t happen

There’s no way they are holding them back this week. Both are legitimately injured and if they could be active on Sunday, they would be. Based on your logic, Miami would be smarter pushing them to play this week to try to earn #1, and then allow them 3 weeks to recover. Even if they pull off a victory, Miami would still needs a win next week. Let’s say they play Waddle and Mostert. That gives them just 2 weeks to recover,

I don’t care about him. It just seems silly that so many are angry at Gronk and the people most effected by it don’t care and are cool with him.

But just about all of the Buffalo Bills have forgiven him. The Buffalo Bills organization did as well. I don’t get why fans are so pissed off, when the people most effected by the cheap shot don’t care.

White is beloved but he forgave Gronk…the whole org did…why are Bills fan so angry

Jones apparently has the ability of Poona Ford now

Fans care more about the hit than Tre White himself. Brandon Beane actually tried to sign Gronk out of retirement in 2021. Plus Eric Wood just had Gronk on his podcast. The Bills don’t care…fans should let it go too

Find me an example of one player who didn’t want to sign with the Bills in 2018? Who was a player the Bills wanted to sign and were unable to because “no one wants to come to Buffalo.” The only example I can think of is John Brown and he signed with Baltimore largely because the offer was better - but perhaps Baltimore was a better destination. Despite this, Brown was hardly the top FA of the WR class in 2018. He’d fall in line with the type of players the Bills were looking at. In 2018 the Bills were working to clean up the salary cap which included a significant portion of dead cap space. It’s not like Buffalo couldn’t get free agents. Plus Beane stated multiple times that his philosophy was to sign multiple FA’s who were undervalued in the market rather than go after big names. We would see this approach almost every offseason which a few notable exceptions (Morse, Miller etc) Also I’m not so sure Josh’s mediocre rookie year would be a draw for free agents. While we were impressed with Josh as a rookie, the majority of the NFL was not. Plenty of media pointed to his 52% completion percentage and his ability to pass for more than 300 yards. The additions in 2019, didn’t come the Buffalo for Josh Allen…they came because Buffalo paid them. And when you look at their profile, they are the type of undervalued players the Bills want. Beasley especially got a pretty nice deal despite being in the wrong side of 30. In fact, he was talking with New England and came to Buffalo for the money….not to play with Josh Allen. Did the emergence of Josh Allen help make Buffalo a more attractive destination? Yes but that didn’t happen until after 2020 when he proved he had arrived. So again, just as example of fans conflating the last and then trying to connect to dots to create a narrative which isn’t accurate.