hikerprof2

This is obviously a legacy game for the Bills. I have optimism, not confidence, for a win. Both of these teams are excellent, and on paper either should be able to defeat KC and win the Superbowl. Optimism. The Bills have home field advantage. The weather slightly favors the Bills-while the raven's playstyle isn't affected by the weather, Jackson is a Florida guy at heart, and Josh can play in any weather. The Bills are healthy, whereas the Ravens are missing their best WR (who is only their third best offensive player). Optimism: we have Josh Allen, and Josh Allen can and will need to put on the Superman cape. The trouble is, that's not a huge advantage over Lamar Jackson if he does the same, since he is, respectfully, a great player himself. Concern: The Ravens Run game versus our light box defenses. The return of Milano, Bernard, T. Johnson, and Rapp (who missed much of the game) should help, but McDermott may have to adjust. Between a game script where we get out to an early lead- Josh will have to be perfect against an exceptional defense -- and either playing heavier boxes or some real heroics from a defense we all know has weaknesses --we have to neutralize their running game and make Jackson one dimensional. While Jackson has put up good numbers this year throwing, I believe he throws as a compliment to the run, off the threat of the run. Isolate that and make him just win the game with his arm, he is mistake prone and has limited resources. Moving forward, if the Ravens win this game just based on exceptional play on their behalf, while we play them hard, it's just the football gods having their say. If Josh has the rare bad day, it's the football gods again sporting with our Buffalo fanhood. If the Ravens pound us with the run and we don't adjust we have to look at Sean McDermott as a guy too stubborn to get us over the edge, and that puts the team in a bad quandary moving forward. If it's a close game and we lose in the end because of some time management issue or poor play call, once again the blame lies with McDermott. If we lose, next year I'd suggest bringing the offense back as is, including Cooper. The biggest improvements on that side of the ball will be made in continuity and comfort. Most of our draft and FA resources should be spent on revitalizing the D and developing new schemes. But if we win-if we win -McDermott is vindicated, and we move on to KC to play against Mahomes and the refs on their field, and I still think that is less of a challenge than the Ravens. Go Bills, a fan for 36 years.

Cook and Shakir on offense - the middle of their defense is weak as is their slot corner. Ed Oliver sacks on D and Terrel Bernard another pic when Purdy floats one over the middle with a weakened shoulder.

The turf. The turf has beaten Tua's head in the last few games we have played.

Quandre Diggs of the Titans. Free safety, Tenn is selling, in last year of contract, salary cap hit of only around one mil. Someone can check my math on the contract-seemed like that first glance. Vet with a little left in the tank. Probably an upgrade over Hamlin, especially if we have completely soured on Mike Edwards. Wouldn't give more than a 5th or 6th rounder.

Hobe Sound, so this is going to be west and north of me -best I'll see is a tropical storm. Thanks for the well wishes, and love to all of our West Coast Floridians, because the impact will be rough around Tampa.

1. Mack Hollins got 6 targets. Mack Hollins should have zero targets, not because we shouldn't throw to him, not because he shouldn't be a starter, not because he shouldn't be active, not because he shouldn't be on our team. because he shouldn't be in the league. We already have a guy who runs pass patterns sometimes/to catch a ball in theory but is mostly here to block. His name is Dalton Knox. 2. I said we would miss Stephan Diggs. Diggs had more receptions and yardage than our entire wide receiver core. I was told that Dalton Kinkaid, the great white hype, would replace him in receptions. Kinkaid is what he is-not a Gronk or a Kelce -he is a guy we saw today, a Dalton Schultz. That is his upside. You don't win with your main threat as Dalton Schultz. 3. Cook played well but we can't run him first and second down into a heavy box that is expecting him. That's suicide. 4. Josh had a terrible day. And we're going to get him hurt if we keep subjecting him to the type of abuse he took the past two weeks. 5. This team is no longer built for playing from behind/heroics because we've completely lost the ability to throw downfield, and that started last year. 6. Our coaches fold under pressure. Horrible management at end. I get the "we're only one play away" risk mentality, but there's little awareness of time management. 7. We all know the rest is the division is hot sewage -I'm not impressed with the Jets, but I'm not even going to feel confident there. What we have to ask ourselves is, is this a playoff-winning team? Do we have the WR core, or the coaching to get us there?

It took them six minutes to "decide" Tua had a concussion, a conclusion anyone could have come to within 5 seconds. Don't care that most of us are not "medical experts" man hits his head, goes unconscious, crumbles up and initiates an automatic "fencing pose," you can't hide that. Why did it take so long for the official word?? Because that is five minutes trying to invent some excuse as to why what is obviously a concussion was not a concussion -pay some fake team Dr. Nick Riviera to say "it's only soft tissue damage to-the hip" and cart him right back out there, in a desperation attempt to win a game that they needed to win, just like two years ago. I don't want our team to be responsible for the death of a player-Miami has to do the right thing. I live in Florida though, and I can attest "doing the right thing" and "Florida" are just not congruent in this tropic dystopia. We look pretty. Everything else is a moral abyss.

Final line "Most of all, Bills Fans, I want you to take heart. No matter how fraudulent you are, you're always less fraudulent than the F***ing Dolphins." If you can't appreciate that, maybe you are the thin skinned "Perfectly rectangular dude from Cheektowaga."

You are missing an o in this thread title.

And when a stadium is built for a multi billionaire on the public dime, where does that money come from? Taxes. So I don't weep for these guys paying taxes.

I have lived in both Florida and Buffalo, and while aesthetically South Florida has it charms, Buffalo has better character, a better football team, more integrity and grit, is far more pleasant in the Fall. It is crazy to live here now, with insurance rates skyrocketing, driving insane, the state a political clown show that raced Texas to the bottom in dehumanizing all but the rich and fascist-leaning. I'm sure the state will be underwater in 20 years, although our policy will be to convert the bodies of the poor and middle class into seawalls to protect multimillion dollar beach homes. I can assure you the Dolphins will never win a championship-football still remains a sport of toughness and you cannot be tough in South Florida-there is far too much fun for football players to have to truly dedicate themselves. The fan base has evaporated since the 70's -you'll find the stadium only half full because it is a soulless heat-humidity convection oven, and frankly people would rather be at the beach or on the ocean. I plan on retiring anywhere but here.

I think this is the first Bills game I ever saw on tv, and it hooked me as a fan. I was a sophomore at UB, from downstate but I'd never been a big football fan. A local Buffalo guy named Jerry was in our dorm and he said "you gotta watch this team." 36 years ago. How time passes.

CC Couldstillbe Cut. I'm not excited about what someone does in OTA's. It's not a bad sign, but... at least wait for preseason games before feeling froggy about someone.

I stand wobbly with him, ready to accept dain brammage.

So he is our anti-Rodgers, actively trolling conspiracy theorists? Excellent....we should have him on defense, then. Or maybe he can coach up Ed Oliver, so that when Ed sacks Rodgers and snaps his other ankle he can say "I just gave you the real vax, freak. Now go back to your batcave and stick your leg in the ground like a magic mushroom until it sprouts a new tendon."

I'd be happy with an 8 sack season-and he keeps up solid play of the run. I think after Oliver he had the most stops behind the LOS. it does seem like he gets out to a quick start every year and then develops ankle problems. If Von Miller had stayed healthy, Groot would be getting more sacks just as collateral damage.

Listen up Sheeple. We all know Aaron Rodgers won the Superbowl, the MVP, and the Miss USA pageant last year, and the CIA, Zombie Ralph Wilson. The Bilderberg Group, Joe Biden, Michael Jackson and the Franciscan Gay Man's Catholic Choir of Nova Zemba covered it up, and made up a story about him hurting his Achillies in the first game, when WE KNOW THATS NOT THE TRUTH ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF MY USE OF ALL CAPS!!!! Do your research. If Aaron Rodgers has hurt his Achillies tendon (and we all know the Trojans won that war, not the Greeks-so much fake fighting, so much fraud, Agamemnon is a loser. It shouldn't be called the Achillies tendon) if he had hurt his tendon he would have gone into his dark Gotham Batcave below the stadium with the bones of Jimmy Hoffa, planted his ankle in the ground like a mushroom, taken more mushrooms, burned a truckload of COVID vaccines and VIOLA! Instant healing!!! Big Pharma lies!!! Connect the dots. Rodgers is a Jet. What leaves chemtrails-Jets. Who flies the planes-the Lizard people. What color are lizards? Green. And how do we really know Al Green isn't the antichrist? Do you have any pictures of him hanging out with Jesus? YOU DO NOT! So to recap -Aaraon Rodgers-stable genius -miracle worker - Superbowl LVIII MVP and emperor of Arrakis! He has all the spice.

I've never understood the "Diggs has attitude" narrative except from what I've seen: he hates losing. I think we need more players like that, not less. And now we have none. Josh plays like he hates losing. Sometimes that leads to mistakes, sometimes heroics. But when we lose Josh isn't much of a leader. He develops that 1000 yard stare, that look like a kid you took off his Adderall and he just goes-blank. Not inspiring. Our coach claps after every play, good or bad, and his main leadership style when we lose is-find someone to lay the blame on. Still hasn't owned up to 13 seconds. I give credit to McDermott for bringing winning back to Buffalo and making us a playoff team. I'm not of the fire McDermott crowd because I don't have a better replacement. But if we win a Superbowl it's despite his leadership, not because of it. Matt Milano plays like he hates losing, but he's not vocal, Jordan Poyer also played like he hated losing, but he's physically done and gone. Von Miller isn't capable of playing like he hates losing anymore, though he had it once. The rest of our roster is made of above-average guys, but nobody exceptional. Maybe our new CB, Douglas. And I love watching the Bills win, and our winning seasons. I still have confidence there. But we are missing something to get us over KC and other teams are nipping at our heels. I think we are going to miss Diggs, and it would have been better to have one more year of Diggs and a rookie late first round WR who upgrades Gabe Davis then expecting a rookie to come in and play like a top five league wide WR. If you're a "believe in the great white hope" Kinkaid that was a nice pickup, but he averages 9 yards per reception. He's not a game changer. And Curtis Samuel is a slot receiver-which we finally developed in Khalil Shakir. Going into next year if we are lucky we will have a #2 receiver in our rookie, two exceptional #3 receivers in Khalil and Samuel, a #4 in Hollins, and two tight ends we don't know how to use. The strategy to earn 11 yards per 3 downs (out to Kinkaid for 8, Cook runs for -2 to 1 yars as they know he is coming on second down, Josh has to bull ahead for 1-4 yards every 3 down) no chunk yardage, move down the field slowly- will get Josh injured and often leaves more room for offensive turnovers. It didn't work last year when KC at will can gain 20 yards a play.

I wouldn't want Belichick, as it exacerbates a problem we already have. McDermott has been a defensive minded coach ; Belichick is even more disbalanced. We wouldn't get another wide receiver or players to compliment Josh. The offensive side of the game has passed Belichick by -he is a great D coordinator and a game-plan mastermind on that side of the ball, but his offensive success was nearly all Brady. It seems like other teams have passed on him.

I believed they could go all the way this season, but not that they would. We saw several versions of the Bills this year, with no consistency. The Bills that hammered Dallas and Miami in the first game could beat any team in the NFL. There was also the Bills that lost to the jets and the pats, so they could lose to the worst teams in the NFL. We had KC in a good position this year, as the game was at home and their receivers were not spectacular. Sure, we had a banged up defense. The one miracle play in the game, Poyer's forced fumble, went our way. 35 years a Bills fan and all I want is for them to win one SB before I die.