Buffalo4Life01

Facts. It's okay to criticize our offense sometimes. Some people here act like Josh is Jesus. Silly really.

There are always a host of excuses each year after the Bills lose to KC in the playoffs. KC fans are loving this. I'm sure our tears are quenching their thirst.

If i were a Utah Jazz fan back in the 90's,2000's, I would have used the exact same argument to say Buffalo was just as good as the Chiefs. That Stockton and Malone were just as good as Jordan and Pippen. No-one in their right mind outside the great state of Utah would agree with me but I suppose it would help me sleep better at night!

We all wear rose colored glasses when we view our teams, some more than others. It's called fandom. Just helps to keep things in perspective sometimes. I hope Allen and Mahomes meet again this year in the playoffs and Allen is victorious. Would go a long ways to helping to get out of Mahomes shadow.

All I'm trying to say is that crying about it and trying to mount any type of defense for Allen being a better QB that Mahomes is just plain silly and childish. Sadly there are more than a handfull of Bills fans and homers who will die on this hill no matter how it makes them look. We've had our chances multiple times and have not been able to get it done for a variety of reasons. That's all that matters. Hopefully this season will see new chapters written and in our favor!

I don't agree with you but I appreciate your take. I'm just frustrated that we wine and cry and complain and fight to the death that Allen is better than Paddy. Until the hardware is equal or much closer, no one outside of some Bills fans will ever believe that or give any credit to that thought process. Just reality. I'm not overestimating anyone on our beloved Bills. I'm just tired of all the crying and complaining and whining that we do as a fan base lately. Go out in the playoffs and beat KC. It's as simple as that. Until we can do that, nothing else matters. None of this crying and comparing of qb's to one another is anything more than wasted time.

Posts like this are why Bills fans are the laughing stock and the butt of many jokes over at Chiefs Kingdom. Circumstances don't matter in the end. Nothing is going to matter or change until Allen and the Bills finally beat KC in the playoffs AND win a Super Bowl. Yes, Andy Reid has certainly helped further Mahome's career to this point, but the same can be said in reverse. Andy couldn't get the job done in Philly with Mcnabb, TO, and Westbrook and the team decided to move on from him for a reason. Bottom line, both QB's are great and every team in the NFL would take Mahomes as their starting QB in a heartbeat and every team in the NFL would take Allen as their starting QB with the exception of one team. Narratives can be rewritten and revised and Allen and the Bills are still writing theirs now. Go Bills!!!!

I don't think he is pushing any narrative here. Beane certainly has assembled a solid defense most years that generates a lot of turnovers and plays well for the most part during the regular season. They do tend to get shredded by high end qb's with regularity. Yes, most teams do not fair well against Mahomes and Burrow and the like, but those teams seem to get the better of Buffalo's defense year in and year out, regardless of the scheme. The defense as a hole also seems to get obliterated each year in the playoffs. That can't be attributed to injuries alone. The scheme of bend but don't break will never be good enough to get this team to the Super Bowl. It's just as simple as saying 'the defense does NOT pass the eye test in the playoffs'. You can talk about all the regular season stats you want, they are meaningless when it really counts.

Yes we do. Last year the regular season dumpster fire game against the Ravens, when Shakiir went down the passing game turtled. I believe that's when they started looking at Amari Cooper. I would like to think the game plan will include a heavy dose of James Cook to control the clock but even that seems a little up in the air right now.

Very thoughtful and well said post. I agree with this 100%.

This right here 100%.

It's hard to argue against the facts you present and I'm not faulting Josh or the offense at all. I just remember watching the game and feeling like every yard gained, every first down, the offense had to try really, really hard to make it happen. Most of the scripted and scheduled plays didn't work well or seemed very difficult while some of the off schedule plays kept things going. I still feel like having a true alpha male wr1 with the ability to win one on one or go up and grab contested balls is something this offense is missing (and definitely was missing last season. Keon might end up being a star but he is no where near there right now). I don't agree with you that the offense had an excellent game. They played pretty well all things considered but left way too many plays on the field.

He's referring to Benford, but Bosa is a good guess!

I think what he is trying to say is only what we have all noticed over the duration of his career with our own eyes. On what most people refer to as 'bombs', Allen struggles with giving his receiver a catchable ball. Most of the time he doesn't put enough air under it and he overthrows his target or when he puts the ball slightly off target to either side, again, not enough air under the ball so it's very difficult for the receiver to track it and reposition his body to make the catch. No one is saying Allen can't throw a deep pass well. He throws those 15-30 yard frozen ropes on target as well or better than any QB in the league. It's the 'bomb's that he has always really struggled with.

haha. Just playing devils advocate. I love Josh. It's no secret that he struggled against the Raven's defense last season, as did a lot of teams that played them. Hopefully they come up with a much better game plan for week one. Go Bills!!

Wish He would have picked them apart either one of the two games he played against them last season

but our guy tossed 3 pics in yesterday's practice. doomed!!!!! =P

I agree with you that passing offenses struggle more week one, however, Buffalo is much more of a running team now than they have ever been during Allen's tenure. I think this game will be super close and will come down to whoever has the ball last for the win. Go Bills!!!!

haha. I've seen the Peter Pan guy floating around this message board for years now. Does anyone know who started it or why it started?

Pittsburg is stock piling picks for next year's draft where they will trade up and get a QB. I don't find this move surprising at all. For NOW at least it weakens another AFC opponent.

Great game and I remember that stretch of games exactly the same. Buffalo had the running game rolling at that point and Bledsoe was basically playing the roll of steady game manager. The defense was playing very well also. I also felt like if Buffalo would have made the playoffs, they were a hot team more than capable of goin on a run. Just found this blurb regarding the 2004 season on Wikipedia: '"According to Football Outsiders, who has tracked every play in the NFL since the early 1990s, the 2004 Bills were statistically the best NFL team (in their record-keeping history) to have failed to qualify for the playoffs"

This right here. Great points you bring up and it's all very evident from watching the tape. Needs to improve getting off press man and working with his hands along with elevating more timely. That said, what has me hopeful and even cautiously optimistic is the fact that he flashed more than enough before the injury to show what he can do on the field and what he can become with more practice and more time to work on his craft. Does he have the motivation to elevate his game and become great? Time will tell.

I keep hearing the Bills are in love with Josh Farmer, the DT from FSU. If he is there when Buffalo is on the clock at pick 56, don't be surprised if he's the pick. I'm reading he isn't flashy or elite but may be the most consistent DT in the draft. Very intriguing prospect in my opinion. Go Bills!!

I trust our FO to find solid talent in the middle rounds of the draft for CB if they choose not to take one in the 1st or 2nd rounds. Besides, they can take cb's early all day long if they want to but until they get better upfront and consistently pressure the qb/sacks, it's not goin to matter how good the secondary is. I'm still hoping they take the best DT available in round 1 and corner in the 2nd round. GO Bills!!