GASabresIUFan

My family is heading to the game tomorrow. We'll be in section 221. Go Bills!

Did IU answer your question today? Cignetti is the man. Loved his interview after the game after the sideline reporter asked a stupid question.

I wore my JA17 jersey which I never do.

The Bills always have a clunker early in the year 2025 - L Week 5 to NE 20-23 Final record .............? 2024 - L Week 4 @ Balt 35 10 Final record 13-4 and the East 2023 - L Week 5 Jax (Lon) 20-25 Final record 11-6 and the East 2022 - L Week 3 @ Mia 31-21 (only blemish in a 6-1 start) - Final record 13-3 and the East 2021 - L Week 6 @ Tenn 34-31 (we beat KC the previous week) Final record 11-6 and again winning the East 2020 - L Week 5 @ Tenn 42- 16 (after a 4-0 start) Final record 13-3 and winning the East 2019 - L Week 4 to NE 16-10 (after a 3-0 Start) Final record 10-7 and a first JA playoff appearance The Bills have played well after early losses. In addition to the above examples they also lost game 1 to Pitt in 2021 (won the next 4), the Jets in 2023 (won the next 3)., of the 7 examples above they won the next game in 5 of these 7 Times The exceptions were a second loss to KC in 2020 and a 2nd loss to Hou in 2024. They followed the 2nd loss to KC with 3 straight wins and the 2nd loss to Hou with 7 straight wins.

....and I thought Davis made Cook expendable. What a difference a few months makes. Davis needs to be better. He is to good a player to play this bad. He lacks Cookie's vision or speed, but he looks timid and timid running is death to a running back.

As we have learned, 1st rd picks don't always pan out. Losing Lamar, Roquan Smith, Marlon Humphrey, Ronnie Staley among other injuries have left the Ravens in a deep hole. Honestly, I hope the Ravens lose every game, but I'm not sure he is getting fired (yet?).

I was checking for injury updates and found this article. https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-news-bills-patriots-patriots-vs-bills-injury-update-sean-mcdermotts-defense-faces-double-blow-mike-vrable-deals-with-multiple-headaches/ Did you know that Leonard Floyd had re-joined the Bills? I didn't either. LOL, I guess this counts for sport journalism now.

Do you really think his seat is red hot? How many injuries have they had to key players? They would be idiots to fire him. He'd be hired by someone else in 3 seconds. Finding a good HC is very hard.

The Sabres, since they tanked, are going on 15 years of failure. It's also a biblical reference to the Israelites wandering in the desert for 40 years. The upshot is tanking by bad organizations, be it the Sabres or the Dolphins, doesn't turn the franchise around, but creates more long-term failure.

This post didn't age well. Henry 33 yards today.

Tank away Miami. That means 15 more years of wondering in the desert.

Any injury updates?

I understand the frustration, but there is more at stake then a couple of drives. The Bills need to spread the workload. No matter how good Cookie is, the more pounding he takes early in the year the more likely he'll be slowed by injuries later in the year when we need him most. We need to get Davis and Johnson more involved. If they can't do the job, then we need to give Gore a look. Cook and Josh can't carry all the load. It's really that simple. Against a mediocre team like NO, that is a perfect opportunity to try to get Davis and Johnson more involved. I do agree with you that the play calling in those 3 drives was suspect, but that doesn't change the objective, or the overall quality of work done by Brady as our OC.

Yes. Beating Ill, a top 10 team at the time, 63-10 says so. Beating Iowa on the road the following week says so as well.

In the last 5 drives of that game, Josh was 17/22 for 259 yards a throwing TD and 2 rushing TDs. In those 5 drives the Bills scored 3 TDs and a walk off field goal.

This is why we pay to watch Cookie play instead of getting paid to manage an NFL team.

We saw the answer week 1 against Baltimore when Josh lead the team back down 15.

My best to your family. I hope and pray that she recovers fully. She is fortunate to have family that loves and supports her. That kind of support will go along way to helping her get better. Write to the Bills and see if they will send her good wishes to her recovery. My guess is they will. That should brighten her day.

As a further point of reference, in Brady's 33 games (RS & playoffs), the Bills have scored under 20 points only twice; the Baltimore Beatdown (10 pts), and the Trubisky started game against NE to finish last season (16 pts). That's it.

Close game through 3 qtrs but the NE can’t stop Josh and the 3 TEs. Bills lead 21 -17 after 3. Buffalo scores early in the 4th to lead 28-17, but NE drives behind some penalties and missed tackles to get it to 28-24. Cook breaks a long run followed by a Shakir score with a 1:40 left to go up 35-24. Bishop gets an int late to seal the victory. Final score, Bills 35, Pats 24.

Josh was 9/30 that game for only 130 yards. The running game was fine with 150 yards and average 5.4 yards a carry. We also had 4 scoring drives. I chalk that game up to Josh having a rare bad game.

I think the difference is balance, but also the Bills are less likely to get “behind the stick;” meaning our proficient running game and short passing game tends to keep us out of 3rd and long. As shown in the video, it’s hard to stop a team gaining 7 yards+ consistently on 1st down. Not to get to far off the thread, but the Bills defense has been good at getting teams behind the sticks, but lousy at stopping 3rd and long.

Food for thought: Since Brady took over as OC in 2003 the Bills are 23-5 with 19 games 30 pts or more including 5 games over 40 points. We have averaged 30.5 pts per game over those 28 regular season games. In 5 playoff games, the Bills have averaged 28.4 pts per game and are 3-2. The only true offensive clunker during his tenure was the Baltimore beatdown last season. Baltimore's destruction of the defense that day took the Bills out of their O game plan as well and team didn't recover. The Bills are 2-0 against Baltimore since scoring 68 points.

I see your point, but I'll respectfully disagree. Yes Brady has coached generational talent in college (Burrow) and the pro (Allen), but he scheme completely different offenses based on the talent in hand. At LSU, Brady had Burrow, Chase and Jefferson. He had Burrow throw the ball all over the place. In Carolina, despite losing McCaffery and having Teddy Bridgewater as a QB, he successfully ran an offense through only 4 other offensive players (RB Davis, WRs Chosen, Moore and Samuel - all 4 had 1000 yards+ from scrimmage). No real TE impact. In Buffalo, he has adjusted again to his personnel, with Josh, deep RB and TE rooms and WR talent in the slot (Shakir and Moore). By the way, Teddy's best season in the NFL was that one season in Carolina with Brady.

I think that is by design and with Josh's approval. It controls the game, limits mistakes, wears down opponents and keeps Josh from getting beat up. It's averaging 31+ pts a game. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.