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With the development of Anderson and Davidson, does that end Knox's stay in Buffalo after this season? Or do they wait another year when Knox's dead cap is better. He has certainly done an decent job while Kincaid has been out and is a far batter blocker than Kincaid or Davidson. Edwards also did well that year in the 6th OL position. His performance allowed the Bills to comfortable move on from Bates and Morse and slide McGovern to center where he is a better fit that he was a guard.

The Bills next year should be even better - On Offense - all the kids, Kincaid, Cook, Davis, Shakir, Colemen, Torrence will have another year of experience and hopefully a deep playoff run to to draw on. The O line will likely be back and intact. The only real questions here are whether Cooper, Knox and Hollins return. Depending on how the next 5+ games go, I'd like to see all 3 back, but our cap may not stretch that far. On Defense - starters - Rousseau, Oliver, Milano, D Jones, T Johnson, AJE, Rapp, Benford and Bernard are all under contract plus key depth Williams, Lewis, Vonn Miller, Bishop, Elam, Carter, Ingram, Spector, Solomon, Andreessen, Codrington and Ulofoshio. Only FAs are Hamlin, Douglas, A Johnson, J Phillips, Jefferson and Smoot. There is so much youth on this team that is contributing on a regular basis, that it's hard to argue that the team would take a step back as long as Josh remains healthy. The Bills probably have a 2 year window after this season to remain undisputed kings of the East. Miami and the Jets will be going through transitions next year as the Jets move on from Rodgers and Miami cleans up their cap mess. NE is in the cat bird seat to make a jump next year As to the other teams, - this is the Bills division, but there is talent on the Jets and Fish in particular, that teams could build around. Breece Hall and Garrett Wilson are game changers on offense, but they need a QB and until that happens, this team is at best an 8-8 team. They need help on the OL and Depth at WR, and LBs. The Jets have 32 mill in cap space. The Fish have a good but fragile QB who could be lost at any moment. The have excellent skill players - Achane would be a huge star on a better team. Are Hill and Mosert fading? I hope so. Their OL needs works as does more of the defense save their edge rushers. When a team is player Poyer and Neal as much as they have, its clear the secondary needs help. To make matters worse, the Fish have negative cap space according to Spotrac heading into next season. The Pats may be years away from contending, but this could change rapidly if they utilize their 139 million in cap space for next season wisely. With only 37 players signed for next year, there is huge opportunity in NE for FAs. Also Drake Maye has improved significantly this season.

I think he means in football. When you have a crappy GM and a crappy owner, a 14 year playoff drought is easy to accomplish, just ask the Sabres.

How soon until Hyde joins the coaching staff.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5971630/2024/12/05/the-satchel-bills-stadium-josh-allens-left-hand-december-dilemmas/

Last I look Landry had HOFer Rodger Staubach as his QB for the first 4 of the 5 straight. Danny White was the QB the next season. They also had HOFer Tony Dorsett at RB and HOFer Drew Pearson at WR. No coach wins without top notch players.

They also have producers, research assistants, interns and others to help them. Truthfully a cursory look at any popular website will have all the research there for them. Simple question: between the Bills, Fish, Jets and Pat how would you rate the QBs heading into the season? 1. Allen - lead his team 7-2 down the stretch last season and put up MVP Caliber numbers 2. Tua - put up his best numbers and has speedy weapons at his disposal 3. Rodgers - aging HOF QB who play 4 snaps last season 4. Maye - NFL rookie ….. and that’s how the teams will finish in the division.

The development of Rapp as a Bills' safety is on a very similar curve to Hyde and Poyer. He isn't at the level they achieved at their peaks, but his improvement year over year has been something to watch. Remember Buffalo wasn't Hyde or Poyer first stop. Rapp started 48 of 57 games for the Rams before coming to Buffalo. Despite starting all those games including 33 of 33 his final two years, the Rams let him walk and sign with the Bills for 1 year at 1.77. The Bills then extended him this off-season. Hyde came to Buffalo after 4 years in GB and Poyer after 4 years in Cleve, but neither had Rapp's starting experience when they joined the Bills. Rapp is just more evidence that Beane/McD know what they are looking for and see things in players, especially DBs, that other teams miss. Douglas is also a better player here than he was in GB.

Same posters who say fire McD and Beane.......

He saved the Bills 14 points against the 49ers with the shoestring tackle on CMC and the forced fumble at the goal line and those have been typical plays this season. In Beane and McD we trust.

As I’m sitting here eating my lunch and thinking about what McD can do to help stop the run if necessary. Getting and staying healthy on defense will help. Having healthy starters like Milano playing well is the first step. Having some bigger packages would also help like playing 3 LBs on obvious running downs now that Dorian Williams has shown he can also play the pass would also help. I doubt we’ll see 8 in the box. Of course scoring early and often and forcing our opponents to play from behind is the best medicine to stop the run. Hard to call runs when you fall quickly behind.

More opportunity to try things in college. There are more teams and teams with less “talent” have an incentive to try new things in order to gain an edge. The successful innovators move up. Take Brady for example; college OC to NFL passing coordinator to NFL OC too soon to be NFL HC.

Besides this year’s Baltimore game where we were run out of the building?

In the regular season and that's the issue. How do we take the next step if good teams can run the ball down our throats in the playoffs and limit our possessions.

He should have been suspended for the remainder of season including playoffs.

As they said on the Sunday night broadcast, the Bills D is designed to force teams to run the ball between the 20s. This bend and don't break philosophy is great in the regular season and works against 25+ NFL teams. Where it consistently fails is against teams that have elite running games. Henry and Barkley are often, but not always, this team's kryptonite. The question for the Bills is how to adjust the defense to limit those teams in the playoffs. I'm not sure McD has ever found an adequate answer.

Agreed!

But it is a covered stadium; no rain, no show. https://sports.yahoo.com/bills-snowy-dismantling-49ers-proves-110100583.html#:~:text=The Bills will still be,in domed stadiums since 2020. According to this article the Bills are 13-4 in domes since 2000.

The Bills are 6-1 in the last 5 seasons when playing on the road in the Western US (Denver to the West coast). The only loss is to AZ in that crazy game 4 years ago. I’ll have to research the Bills record in Domes.

Worrying about PFF grades from this past game is a waste of time. Game conditions gave the rushing games a huge advantage and the Bills still won 35-10. Winning the turnover battle 3-0 helped us significantly but we also were able to pass the ball more often and more successfully than SF. Time to move to the next two games where we’ll have good field conditions on the road and we’ll see how our run defense holds up.

The point of the OP stat is that McD and his players do a good job of learning from their mistakes and don't let a few bad games ruin the season and in fact comeback stronger. I wish the Sabres could learn the same thing. As Berman says, no one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.

Point taken

He's a Gator. What else do you need to know?

We should snap him up just to get the Ravens play book.

The Bills are now 7-0 after the two game losing streak earlier in 2024 in 2023 after losing to Cin and Den the Bills went 6-1. In 2022 after losing to the Jets and Minn mid season, the Bills finished 7-0 down the stretch In 2021 after losing to TB and NE in weeks 13 & 14, the Bills went 4-0 to finish the year In 2020 after losing in weeks 5 & 6 to Ten and KC, the Bills went 9-1 to finished the season That's where he gets 32-2. Edit: It's actually 33-2. The Bills are 7-0 after the 2 game losing streak this season. Before the 2 game losing skips the Bills were 25-8