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I really doubt there was heavy action on the Bills to cover the spread. Especially after the Bills had already failed to cover the previous two weeks against the Dolphins and Saints. If anything, I would guess the public was on NE if it wasn't an relatively even split.

I don't get the "who would you replace him with" questions. We'd have to wait until the offseason, sure, but then the Bills would have the pick of litter among the best OC and head coaches available. (I would not hire a DC). Every coach would love to coach Josh Allen. Heck, we probably should've just hired Vrabel ourselves.

Outside of QB, can we really make a case that the Bills have more talent than NE? Both teams have good o-lines. Both teams have RB depth. Maybe Cook is the best RB talent but it's just RB; Stevenson and Henderson would thrive in Buffalo, too. Diggs is better than any WR we have. We have more TE depth but Henry is as good as any single TE we have. Neither d-line can rush the passer consistently. Pats do have a couple of good interior rushers, but hopefully Oliver coming back evens that up. Pats secondary is better, and Christian Gonzales is easily better than anyone we have back there. We probably have better LBs but are lacking depth. As for QB, Maye still has a lot to prove. If you scheme to stop him from rolling right (lol at McDermott), then he's too concerned about the pass rush in the pocket and can't make plays downfield. Collingsworth made it seem like that's just something he'll have to improve on but that's easier said than done. A lot of QBs never get over this.

Re: Brady's LSU stint The season right before Brady arrived, LSU already had Burrow, Jefferson, and Chase, and they were a bad offense. Seriously, the season before Burrow threw for 60 TDs, he threw for only 16 TDs without Brady. Brady actually was not the offensive coordinator and didn't call the plays on game day, but he designed that passing offense. If you followed college football closely that season, there was no doubt that the bulk of the credit went to Joe Brady for LSU's transformation from bad to historically great offense.

I support the "4-0 is all that matters" type takes because we've literally done it the other way before. There were at least two seasons recently where we had a dominant September (but were only 3-1 instead of 4-0 after four games) and statistically, we looked like the best team ever according to EPA / play or something like that. (There were threads on here that shouldn't be tough to find). But, as we should know by now, dominating September doesn't matter and didn't matter in those seasons. By the time the playoffs came around, we didn't play that well. For this season, I want to see us healthy and playing our best ball in January, after having rested because of the playoff bye / 1 seed. All that matters at this point is that we're 4-0 and in pole position for the bye / 1-seed.

Yeah, plus the relatively early bye isn't ideal. It also might be more accurate to say that the Bills' schedule is backloaded rather than outright easy. I mean, we're still playing first-place teams as a division winner from last season, we just happen to play most of them in the back half of the season.

Being greedy, I would've wanted our secondary to play better and for our passcatchers to look more explosive and create more separation. Happy with 3-0 though of course

Browning will fall to 4-4 today. Still no wins against playoff teams or teams not resting their starters. (And Minnesota, who is pasting Cincy, might not be a playoff team this year). If the thinking was that Browning is a starter-level backup, let's slow our roll on that.

I'd be worried about picking the Bucs this week. Feels like the Jets could rally around Tyrod (who might be an upgrade at QB), and the Jets DL finally makes TB pay for all their OL injuries.

Yes, we're trying to win a Super Bowl with less receiving talent than other major contenders like the Eagles, Ravens, etc. But that is old news. We knew this already. Josh is still going to power us to 30 pts/gm and hopefully for the first time, we'll get the 1-seed and bye this year, and that can push us over the top.

Worried as Bills fans, yes, but that's typical Survivor. Week 1, I had the Eagles and they could've lost to the Cowboys. There will be many closer calls than last night as we advance each week, and it wasn't that bad, really. I don't believe Miami ever had the ball AND the lead., and it's only when the enemy can open up a two-score lead that you begin to sweat a bit. Otherwise, you figure Josh Allen will tie it or take the lead, whatever the case may be. And he did.

I don't get it. If it's a tough week elsewhere (meaning it's tough to pick winners?), then this is the perfect week to use double-digit fave Buffalo.

I know there are other factors that go into this, but I can't imagine we'll have a better week to use the Bills. Thursday night home teams have historically had an edge due to the compressed travel schedule / practice time for the opponent. Miami is dealing with turmoil and could see their coach and GM fired after this game. Finally, they just gave a huge effort against the Patriots and lost a heartbreaker and now have to go on the road to face this Bills team and these Bills fans. Feels like Miami is going to let go of the rope in this one.

Bills obviously

The Steelers only gained 271 and 267 yards total in their first two games. Again, that's total. I don't think their O will be much of a challenge for the Ravens.

Putting up 30+ a game with average receiving talent is commendable. A lot of what we view as playcalling weakness probably is just the receiving talent. I would like to see us recapture last season's QB sneak magic, if possible. We were the second-best tush push team last year, and it's such a huge advantage to be a 4-down team like the Eagles.

Project 1 Seed says we should start 10-0 I know it seems like we always hit a lull somewhere in the middle of the season but what if we've become keenly aware of that and it's in our power to stop it? What if a mature, height-of-his-powers Josh decides no more of that ish? "This year, we're getting that damn 1-seed and bye."

3 months, eh? I wonder if he's going to rush back for the Bills game on Dec 7th?

Browning was 4-3 as a starter two years ago. Here's his game log: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrowJa08/gamelog/2023/ He did well against non-playoff teams and teams resting their starters in Week 18. Lost against all playoff teams, including getting swept by the wild-card Steelers. He's a pretty good backup but Cincy will not make the playoffs with him at the helm. Most importantly, they are now out of the 1-seed race. They were probably a pretty big underdog in that race, but now they have a 0% chance.

For today... now opponents will begin to scheme for him. Jake Browning is a large dropoff from Burrow

Here to eat my crow for betting Jets +6.5. Couldn't be happier to do it, as I just want this team to get the 1-seed/bye Great job by the staff to run all those corner blitzes that shut down / TFL'ed the Jets running game early. When the Jets couldn't establish the run early, that was all she wrote.

lol, Romo apparently thinks the Jets get the ball first in 2H

I'm not going to link anything directly because not sure if it's against the rules. But this is site is an aggregator of the best sites to stream live sports for free on the internet: https://fmhy.net/video#live-sports I'd be shocked if you spent 15-30 minutes poking around and can't find the Bills game. You might have to spend 15 minutes though. I'm not giving you a direct link. I'm teaching you how to fish instead of giving you a fish.

SF is still more talented, better coached, have a winning culture, etc

No one should take 5.5 at this point. You waited too long. Early in the week I backed Jets +6.5 and am happy with that. Would never take a stinky in comparison line like 5.5 where you're too late to the ballgame. 6 is a decently key number. It's not 3 but games end 30-24, 27-21, etc all the time.