Nephilim17

I have not heard Crosby's name today... he's not injured, right? If he's playing that's a testament to the O-line today.

Holy crap! I thought I read here that Harris can't run?

Yes. We give Beane crap for bad high picks — and rightfully so, at times — but Rousseau is a hit.

The Roose is loose!

D line is getting in a rhythm...

He did forget. And now he's remembering. Both things can be true.

Rousseau's the real deal. Good pressure and run D. A higher pick who's panning out.

Methinks that using Cook as a feature back is a mistake; need Harris and Murray to grind out the tough yards and not Cook. Use Cook for some outside runs and short passes (where are those, btw? We were told he was a good receiver but I can't remember any Cook catches).

What a catch by Davis! Good on Josh recognizing free play and then taking a shot. If Josh can maintain this patience for the whole game we're in good shape.

Good push by Oliver and great finish by AJ!

Bills don't have enough grit and toughness on offense. Murray brings that. More Murray please. And maybe some Sherfield for his great blocking too.

Good drive. Maybe we jumped the gun anointing Cook the feature back. I may want to see more Murray than Cooks when the game is tight.

Finally Josh throws a ball into a tight window... accurately. Need more of that.

Murray at his advanced age still looks good. I wouldn't want to stop him.

Bernard! Smart play and good hands.

Wow. Defense was as stout as a wet paper towel on that drive.

I am surprisingly unexcited about the home opener... First time in a long time, I think. I hope the team and the fans prove me wrong.

Von wearing the Josh shirt is a good show of support.

Exactly. Palmer saying this a) diminishes Josh's abilities (the greatness could only be harnessed by one man who isn't Josh and b) makes Palmer's influence seem insignificant. Josh IS responsible for his poor play week 1 and league-leading turnover over long stretches of time and needs to be held accountable. But Palmer should be more careful when discussing his clients in public.

Wow, respect for Irvin... Never would have anticipated that. Maybe he's right, at least about Diggs doing that. There's a time and a place to tell your QB he's being dumb. Then again, losing your season opener maybe waiting to get to the dressing room is too late. But I respect Irvin for what he said.

Good line. I'll have to remember that. And I agree with much if not all of what you said. Not sure about the "third world" conjecture but I get your broader point.

Have not read through the thread so sorry if I'm repeating what many have said... I would have been OK with losing. But it's how and why we lost that makes me so upset. Our elite QB has not been elite for a long stretch now and says the right things but does consistently does the wrong ones. I hope it/he can turn around.

Yikes. Really really bad quote from Terry there. I was hoping that quote was by someone else. It's not. It's Terry. If this is a legit quote, there will be hell to pay for this.

Reasonable logical conclusions need to be drawn on a dataset that has a large enough sample size. Josh has the most turnovers (and overall touchdowns) in the last five years or so, I heard in a video today. And Beast's thread on his TD/INT ratio since last year's KC game is a large sample of very recent evidence that Josh has been a turnover machine for a long stretch now. He played poorly against Miami and Cincy in the playoffs. And then, after all the talk and off-season resetting and "focus," he played a horrible game last night. The sample size is large and it absolutely recent. Is his elbow to blame? His O-line? His coaching? His head-space? I don't know. And I hope I'm wrong but until Josh starts to play at an elite level for a good stretch and including against elite teams, I think at the moment he is no longer an elite QB. An elite athlete, yes, but he has not shown elite game processing for a long time time. I hope I'm wrong and/or it turns around. I'm not super confident. 😕

Josh should have elected to take what the D gave him all game.