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That, of course assumes Buffalo will lose a game this season. Actually, one possibility that we might keep an eye on is the chance that Buffalo will have wrapped up home field advantage or even they playoff seeding before the last week or two of the season. I could easily see the Jets starters beating the Bills' backups.

I think that the decision to use more 4-3 lineup versus the Bills' typical 5-2 nickel as their base is probably due more to who they are facing. Everybody knows what Derrick Henry can do to safeties that he outweighs by 50 lbs and can often outrun anyway, but Hall is no slouch most weeks. Dorian Williams is no Matt Milano when it comes to diagnosing what the offense is doing and covering running backs and tight ends in passing routes. On the other hand he's faster and more athletic than most linebackers in the NFL and he improved greatly on the mental aspect of his game in 2024 versus the previous year. Given Miami's offense, I have every expectation the Bills will go with a nickel lineup as their base on Thursday whether Taron Johnson is available or not.

I picked the Bills in one and Atlanta in the board's official group. Still alive in both. I'm glad there was no early massacre like a year ago.

There are times when Brady is brilliant and a few times when I know what play he's going to call and I know it won't work and I'm right.

He was a Yogi Berra wannabe. Nobody could butcher the English language like Berra, but Hank Bullough certainly tried.

Harvey Johnson had been an assistant coach when Ralph Wilson fired the head coach. I don't think Johnson really aspired to be a head coach and may have known he wasn't head coach material. He was pretty pathetic.

I saw a couple from Dawson Knox today. I missed a good part of the first quarter. I think the first quarter was the worst, statistically, for Allen passing the ball. I also missed Josh's big run.

LOL That may not be the case any more.

I don't mind blowout wins a bit.

When on offense, the Jets have a running back who is faster than Derrick Henry, but not as heavy. There should be less of an issue with being bowled over, but it's' even more important to keep him from getting behind the DBs. Their QB is not as fast as Jackson, but still plenty athletic. Hopefully Tre White can come back. The Ed Oliver injury is worrisome. The injury report says it's an ankle. That likely means a sprain. Whether is its high or low, we'll have to wait and see what the Bills tell us. Hopefully, the boot is just precautionary until the Bills know the severity of the injury, and hopefully, it turns out to be very minor.

For good luck.

Agreed. Ogunjobi may have a struggle just to make the 53 man roster. At the very least, Buffalo is going to be very deep at cornerback and defensive end, assuming everybody can stay healthy.

I'm in two. In the first, I have Dallas over the Giants. In the second, I have San Francisco over New Orleans. The Dallas pick is probably a bit risky, but I think Russell Wilson is probably toast and the Giants aren't ready to trust Jaxon Dart just yet.

That's also why the Bills only had Prater on the PS and activated him from the PS for the Ravens game. They have since signed him to the 53 man roster.

There's always driving across the state if you enjoy flat, featureless landscapes.

Any other choice would have been a travesty.

Like many others, I was concerned that when Buffalo added defensive tackle help in the off-season, the additions all seemed to fit 3 tech DT better than 1 tech, even 330 lb Deone Walker and even Jordan Phillips, in spite of the shortcomings of Daquan Jones last season. If the Bills are deciding to address nose tackle just now, there is no way they are going to find much more than table scraps. The best the Bills can hope for is that their coaching can tap some upside in Mathis that has thus far not shown.

Let me get this straight, Spags, Buffalo beats the team that many thought might be the best team in the league, while the Jests lost to to a middling team led by a fossil at QB, and you think the Bills are the losers in this matchup? You know, the New York metro area probably has a robust mental health system in place. You should check into it

I think those who left the stadium early have already been punished enough for having missed one of the greatest comebacks in history.

Josh Allen deserves the most credit, obviously. Not sure who to blame, but the run defense was abysmal.

To me, DaQuan Jones, Deone Wallker and TJ Sanders were relatively invisible. I think Rousseau and Bosa had a pretty solid game to compliment Oliver's great game.

I hope we all understand that if Keon Coleman were to have a race with Tayler Rapp, Coleman would win. I have joined in a bit on the joking about Coleman's speed, but I've never been a hater, and never believed that trading with the Chiefs so they could draft Worthy was a mistake. It's not that unusual for a receiver who underwhelms in his rookie season to turn into a great receiver. Coleman's ability to win on the boundary looks like it might be special and that could prove invaluable to the Bills. Rest assured, defensive coordinators of future opponents will have to spent effort to try and figure out how to counter it.

The fact that he took on Henry shows how Strong he is. He realized he signed with the right team.

With Rapp, I think what we see is what we'll continue to get. He is smart enough. He's tough and physical, but is not that athletic and has seriously below average speed. That makes him an automatic liability in coverage. The faster and more athletic the receiver, the more Rapp's liability shows up. Still, as a veteran, there are things Bishop can learn from him. As far as run support is concerned, I think the Bills probably asked their safeties to do more of it against the Ravens than they usually ask of their safeties thanks to Derrick Henry. That might make him a bit rusty.

We may have waited 16 months since he was drafted, but Cole Bishop hasn't had all that much time to receive on the field instruction. He was injured at the end of July at training camp last season. I don't remember for sure, but I think he missed a good part of it. Once the 2024 season started, the coaches didn't have the luxury of devoting a lot of time to teaching young players the fundamentals with the same intensity that they do in training camp. A rookie who's been hurt has to pick up what he can while the team focuses on game preparation. Then he missed a good chunk of training camp this season. It is certainly valid to wonder if Bishop is going to have to deal with the suspicion that he could be injury prone, but he still hasn't had the instruction time that a typical rookie gets in his first training camp. If he doesn't show improvement through the season, I will start to wonder if he can be an answer to the Bills need at safety, but I'm not worried yet.