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5 minutes ago, JohnNord said:
I came away from this game thinking not overly impressed with Detroit. They had one very good drive but aside from that the offensive game plan wasn’t great.
Hutchinson was a beat defensively and KC got away with so many calls. Still, if Toney doesn’t drop those passes they might not get the W.
Overall I see Detroit in a similar position as last season. Good news for them is that the teams in their division are relatively weak
Maybe it was game plan as well, but I just don't see a very robust passing game with the Lions. I get weird shades of Greg Roman and the 49ers and Ravens offenses where the running game is extremely well developed and absolutely lethal but the passing game has maybe 5-10 plays. Maybe it's anecdotal, but I swear the only pass play the Lions have is that in-cut to the middle of the field and Goff completes a pass to a WR between the hashes. Everything else is screens and short passes to a TE.
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I give the Lions major props for this W, that's a tough thing to do to go into Arrowhead as an underdog and play a hard nosed game against the former SB champs.
That being said, week 1 is always a liar. I've watched so many teams (*cough* Chiefs, Pats *cough*) start slow, go 2-2, everyone saying the sky is falling and then they go into October having sorted out their ***** and just grind out W's otw to another SB.
This game tells us nothing. We see the Chiefs in December and we'll know exactly what kind of team they are by then.
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3 minutes ago, Sherlock Holmes said:
Difference is Bosa is tied as the best player with Watt 2nd only to Josh.
And Jones is 29 vs Bosa's 25, no chance Jones gets another long term deal with major guarantees unless it's front loaded and full of cap/contract shenanigans so that KC could cut loose in ~3 years.
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I honestly don't care, let them get hyped up. Honestly don't care too much either if the Bills start slow like 2-2 or something while we find our groove.
How many years did the Pats or Chiefs start slow with everyone clamoring 'dynasty over' only for them to settle in and just grind out wins otw to a championship?
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39 minutes ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:
I mean... a bit of an overstatement. Even potentially missing kelce and toney they still have... a top i dunno, 3 offensive line? Thuney and Humphrey are all-pro's inside with Trey smith who started 17 games as a rookie. Steady hand at left tackle in Donovan smith. Added a fairly big money deal to Taylor from Jacksonville.
Even missing some playmakers, they still will be able to create time and space for mahomes to operate, and lanes in the run game for pacheco to put you into makeable 3rd downs. Between Moore, MVS, and Mckinnon they have weapons to attack you at all 3 levels, and if Kelce plays you have to flow defense towards him.
Honestly, I don't know why people don't properly cover Kelce unless there's just magic/misdirection in how the plays for KC develop. We had a really good gameplan against them during both regular season wins with Tre or Neal just shadowing Kelce, getting in his face and if he caught the ball tackling him hard and making him feel it. Kelce is a bit of a finesse player at this point who works zones well but you can throw him off his game if you bump/rub him at the LOS to throw off timing and making him pay dearly for every catch he does make.
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Can confirm the tailgate at lot 26 goes hard and is a great time. Always attended when I lived near the city and could make it to games at MetLife.
Arrive early, the lot fills in FAST.
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21 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:
There’s a reason we’re a top 5 team consistently. We have great overall team depth and an elite QB/WR combo.
Beane hasn’t drafted an impact player other than Allen. Allen being a QB cancels out a lot of problems. A lot of average. But a lot of average with elite QB creates a good team.
Bolded for emphasis, that’s literally the Brady blueprint. We just need to get the line play on offense sorted out and this team should be consistently good until Allen gets old. -
50 minutes ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
just asking for a consistent standard here
miami eked out a win where they shouldn't have, yes?
I’m not really sure what you mean here 🙂I try to refrain from shoulda-woulda-coulda-ing any games. The final score is the final score and ultimately that’s all that matters in the end.
All of the games against NYJ and MIA were close. MIA got the stops they needed and scored more points and we didn’t, doesn’t matter that we were chucking the ball all over the yard on them. In the end we walked away with an L. The fact that all 3 games were close as hell against them, with that first one being a loss should tell you it wasn’t a fluke.
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1 minute ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:
First game against Miami was completely lopsided
go back and watch.
Oh I know that we dominated them completely by all measurable offensive metrics, doesn't change what the final score was. In 2020 we also dominated the Titans in that Tuesday shitshow game if you look at offensive metrics but the final score tells a very different story.
Offensive stats don't mean much if don't turn those into points.
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35 minutes ago, Don Otreply said:
Dude, lighten up, stop falling for all the click bait and the posters here who are always spouting doom and gloom.
Jets O-line is trash
Miami’s O-line is trash, and their QB is fragile as can be
the Pats don’t even have a QB
Ffs get a grip,nuthin but luv,
GO BILLS!!!
Jets and MIA's lines may be trash but both of those teams gave us fits last year. Even with a practically non-existent offense the Jets defense completely stymied our efforts. We really struggled to put up points on them. All 3 MIA games were much closer than they had any right to be.
I agree that we'll probably roll the Pats, the other two teams are gonna be dogfights.
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6 hours ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
They always seem to show up in huge moments in the playoffs though…the regular season ranking doesn’t always tell the whole story.
And even so, cincy was 6th in points allowed per game last year in the regular season and kc is usually hovering around the top 10. 2022 they were 8th and 2021 they were 11th.
The rams are the only other Super Bowl winner with a defense outside the top 10 in points allowed per game in the last 10 years. Both those rams and chiefs Super Bowl teams got huge sacks when they needed them though, chiefs were second in sacks in 2023 and the rams were third in 2022.
Breakdown of scoring defenses for Super Bowl winners is:
Chiefs 16th
rams 16th
Bucs 8th
Chiefs 8th
Pats 7th
Eagles 4th
Pats 1st
Broncos 1st
Pats 8th(should’ve been Seahawks 1st lol)
Seahawks 1st
Of the four teams that made it to the conference finals last year, three of them were top 10 scoring defenses. 6 of the top 7 made the playoffs…only one that didn’t was the jets
defensive football is still very much alive, but things are starting to shift to who can come up with those big sacks to get a clutch stop when they need one the last few years. That’s really the only way to slow down the Allen/hurts/mahomes/burrow’s of the league. The bills just haven’t been making that one big defensive play against the bengals or chiefs in the playoffs.That's exactly right, you don't need the best defense but it has to show up when it matters. Chiefs and Bengals may have not had the best defense but when they needed a play to keep their hopes alive someone on that defense stepped up.
You can have the best defense in the league, but it means nothing if it turns into a pumpkin in the biggest moments.
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33 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
I think it was a "thought", especially with some pretty strong competition in the form of Taylor Rapp (who can play nickel), Cam Lewis (who they have developed as a nickel) and then Zayne Anderson on ST and a couple of talented young corners. He's no longer the only backup nickel CB or "big nickel".
But from everything that was reported, Neal played like his ass was on fire and tackling would put it out through preseason. He earned his shot.
It would raise his cap hit, since he's got a void year for 2024 that would move into this year if cut. Matakevich contract is also fully guaranteed $2.5M
Let's put it this way. McDermott and Frazier managed a defense that was just below average (#18) in 2017 and 2018 with lesser talent at LB - well, pretty much anywhere except safety, actually.
I don't expect the defense to be #2 overall this season. I think there will be mistakes, and we'll be gashed from time to time. But I think it will be good enough to win with most of the time. I don't think it will be trash.
And I could always be pleasantly surprised.
Spagnulo's and Anarumo's defenses are always somewhere in the middle of the pack and it's enough to get them to the Super Bowl or the AFC title game year after year. We shouldn't need the best defense in the league to get to and win a Super Bowl.
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51 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
How so?
(I'm old enough to remember the NFL moving the hash marks, but I must be too old to remember why they did it)
I’m far too lazy to type it all out here and this article broadly explains it far better than I ever could -
2 minutes ago, jletha said:
My understanding based on reading/hearings things over the years: College football (and HS) went to spread offenses in the 2000s and quickly that offense became popular in the NFL. The spread offense is still popular in college with some adjustments and has success so players want to play on winning teams. The main thing there is to get people in space, even when they run the ball it is getting the O-line downfield. Therfore the priority is leaner faster players that can run on the O-line. This body style is what will get you recruited to top NCAA programs so that is the body type the top HS players go for. The big fat boys arent recruited as highly. The top programs feed into the NFL. The leaner, faster O-lineman arent as capable to just anchor and block, theyre trained to run more.
The flipside of this is the hulking neckroll downhill LB. That player isnt useful against a spread offense where you need lateral quickness so it went away and a Nickel DB is now a base defense.
Remember the days when we would argue about 3-4 or 4-3. Now we are only have 2 starting LBs.
Its all just long term trends.
The hashes being spaced differently also has a much bigger impact on the college game and how it transfers to the NFL than most people think.
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12 hours ago, MasterStrategist said:
Steeler defense is for real, their biggest issue is keeping their "stars" healthy in the past few years. They also upgraded their 2 biggest weaknesses on that side of the ball, both ILB spots and CB.
Their offense is what I think will come back to earth in regular season. Solid small attacking team, that has Pickens for the occasional 50/50 deep ball. I think they've got nice complimentary skills group, I just think Pickett is a Tier 2-3 QB at best.
49ers will be an excellent measuring stick week 1. Overall, I had Steelers at 10-7 and getting a wildcard (2nd best team in North)
That defense is for real, but if TJ Watt or Alex Highsmith goes down that line suddenly looks VERY different. They have very good players on defense, but depth is a serious question.
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14 minutes ago, Chicken Boo said:
Is it me or are there a lot of "taken off on a cart" reports this training camp season?
I think during TC they have the cart there for even minor issues. No need to look tough and walk off on your own when the cameras aren't on.
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2 minutes ago, Bongo said:
I would guess it is not a hands issue but a concentration issue. He’s making the ridiculously hard catches so I don’t think it’s hands. He missed the crazy easy catch. Probably thinking ahead too much because he saw it as easy; literally taking the eye off the ball.
case of Knox-itis 😂 -
4 minutes ago, Don Otreply said:
Yup, the pro game is the college game only better, but why can’t college guys block worth a dam when they get to the pros,
Because in college you're lucky to maybe play against one person who is NFL caliber on a defensive line when you play an opposing team. You suddenly get to the NFL and every single person on that defensive line is NFL caliber.
Also in college the hashes are much farther apart and you'd be surprised as to what that does to blocking schemes, formations and line movement and how that affects how defenses can play the offense, disguise coverages and how it forces the offense to play on a much 'wider' field in the NFL.
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11 minutes ago, Chaos said:
Preseason Week 2 - Bills Vs. Steelers, what do you hope to see?
Kyle Allen suck less
O'Cyrus really locking down the RG spot
Damien Harris in some capacity (if he's healthy)
More Shakir, that guy confuses me. Makes some INSANE catches and then stone hands a well placed ball right between the numbers...
More action for the backend roster WRs and RBs
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I like his blocking prowess and what he's shown as a pass catcher when given opportunities on other teams.
It makes the idea of 12 personnel packages with him, Diggs, Cook, Knox & Kincaid on the field VERY interesting.
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49 minutes ago, MJS said:
I don't think Chris Jones deserves to be that high, personally.
Nah man, Chris Jones is an absolute game wrecker when he wants to be. Guy has gotten a bit lazy in the regular season but he shows up in the playoffs or in late game situations when the game is on the line. He's like Von or AD, when you really need that play he's usually there for you.
I'd LOVE to have Chris Jones on the Bills. A front 4 with Jones, Miller and Floyd would be a damn cheat code.
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8 minutes ago, GoBills808 said:
bUT wHy DidN't hE tAke tHE unDeRneaTh sTUff
Why go under when you can just barrel though, amirite?
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1 hour ago, Virgil said:
Outside of Kincaid, I feel like I'm hearing Sherfield's name every day from camp. I wonder if he doesn't end up being our number 3 and end up with 5+ TD's this season
He was the WR3 (at least looking at yardage) in MIA last year and felt like I heard his name called a lot when I watched MIA games. Guy was just always open if a team had planned well for Waddle and Tyreek.
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3 hours ago, Behindenemylines said:
I agree that the contract was a massive mistake. I hope he proves just how horrible it was too and that they never make another playoff game in franchise history. If you aren’t the Bills and you’re in the AFC I want to see you fail. If your the Ravens, Miami, KC, NE, Cincinnati, Browns it’s a whole different level of Dislike!
Don’t forget the Steelers
Article on why Hopkins rejected Bills offer
in The Stadium Wall
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Man chose the bag instead of the ring, can't hate.
Can't create generational wealth with Super Bowl rings. Big bag of money on the other hand...