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They didn't lose Hill. They moved on because they didn't want to pay him.

Looks to me that the Bills have received more bang of their draft $ with 2 starters. KC has 2 starters as well and maybe Royals will develop into one, but Rice will be gone by that time.

While this post has some merit he was playing for the Bears. Fields was also coming off an excellent game where he had 266 yards of offense with 3 TDs and has an offense that features Breece Hall and Garrett Wilson. The Bills were also without Taron Johnson and Ed Oliver, but kept Hall to 29 yards rushing, Wilson to 50 yards (much in garbage time), and Fields to 76 total yards (mostly on the ground). It was a stellar performance and our kids on the DL, Logue, Sanders and Walker got valuable NFL experience. Babich’s gameplan was excellent from the opening snap.

Does this thread win worse timing of the year?

Got to feel for Robbins. NFL check one week, Dick's sporting goods the next.

Bills 35 - Jets 17

We need a poll.

I guess Lamar and Henry split the vote enabling Josh to slide in. 😜

I think you are giving yourself to much credit.

It’s biased against Josh and the Bills.

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Is it irony that our 41 year old kicker kicked the game winning FG to give us 41 pts?

I was thinking the same thing. Personally I think Harbaugh’s mistake was not using his time outs just after the two minute warning. Instead he waited until the clock was down to 45 seconds or so after the Bills had already moved into FG range. Ultimately, once the Bills got the ball back with 2 minutes plus left the birds were cooked given the momentum the Bills offense had.

I agree that the defense needs work. We knew that last year and we knew that coming into the season. However, Henry is a load for any team even a stellar defense. I firmly believe that the defense we see the Bills play will evolve (positively) over the course of season as Bishop gets more experience, Hoecht becomes part of the team and hopefully Babich commits to using Williams in more base sets as team try to run on us. By the time (and if) we see Baltimore in the playoffs, I think we'll do a much much better job containing the run. Don't forget we just saw the 2nd best offense in the NFL in the first game of the season.

These are the exact things said before the playoff game last year. The Ravens have also failed to stop our offense the last two games despite all their name brand talent on defense. As I mentioned before the Bills are 4-1 against Lamar and the Ravens in the last 5 matchups including 2-0 in the playoffs.

If the Ravens roster is so much better than the Bills’ roster, why is Buffalo 4-1 in the last 5 match ups including 2–0 in the playoffs when it really counts? If their defense has so many elite players and the Bills offense lacks any elite talent besides Josh, why have we torched them for 41 last night? One issue with making this comparison is that the Ravens rely on many more experienced players. The Ravens have 10 guys with 7 or more years of experience as starters or as significant role players like DeHop. The Bills only have 7 including Tre White. The core of the Bills are McGovern, Brown, Torrence, Bernard, Benford, Cook, Kincaid, Coleman, Shakir, and now Palmer and all have 5 years or less of NFL experience, most 3 or less.

I said this during the draft that Hawes has better hands than people give him credit for. He had a huge game against UGA and current Ravens rookie starter Starks for GA Tech and was someone I drafted in every mock draft I did as an upgrade replacement for Morris. My guess is Beane envisions him as Knox’s eventual replacement.

No. No one has the cap space or enough injuries yet to be willing to take on a guy who is sitting behind Shavers and Moore. He’ll only become tradable if some gets decimated by injuries. What will be interesting is when Gabe Davis gets healthy. Will they elevate Davis from the PS, cut Shavers and leave Samuel as a healthy scratch?

It’s pretty simple if you have followed camp and the pre-season. He had been nursing another injury early in camp and when he played he was outplayed by Hamler, Wilkerson, Shavers and Moore. The only reason he made the team was that it was cheaper to keep him on the cap than cut him. His cap hit is $9 mill and it was a $12 mill hit to cut him. The reason he is a healthy scratch is that he is behind Shavers and Moore on the depth chart and he isn’t one of the 48 best players to dress on game day. Bottom line is that he is a scratch because he isn’t good enough to be playing when everyone else is healthy.

Do you mean the oft injured $10 mill PS player?

The last KC playoff game was worse. i have zero idea why this wasn’t a booth review on either spot. I also don’t know why the Bills don’t have some intern watch the spots and radioing to McD after the terrible KC game? It’s enough already.

That was an amazing football game. Reminded me of UGA/OK when Baker Mayfield was OK’s QB and UGA/OSU game when Stroud lead the Buckeyes. As to the Bills, my simple takeaways were the team’s lack of quit, which is great news for the season, the great early returns on Kincaid, Palmer and Coleman, plus the same issue on defense as last season. However, any game facing the Ravens offense of Henry and Lamar has to be taken a little bit with a grain of salt. No other team in the NFL, not the Eagles, Chiefs or whomever present the same issues defensively as do the Ravens. The Eagles are the closest with Barkley, but Hurts is not close to Lamar’s level. The key for the Bills defense is whether Bishop gets better and whether Hairston can step in at CB and add some desperately needed speed to the secondary. Getting Hoecht back will help. The next 5 weeks will be a great opportunity for McD and staff to coach up the defensive secondary against beatable teams. If they don’t improve, it’s going to be hard for this team to take the next step.

Collinsworth is butt awful.