Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Are these the rankings of Tenn or the team they played each week?? Example: 23rd ranked offense and 19th ranked defense To me the question is which defense shows up, the one they played the 2nd half of the Raiders game or the one who played the 2nd half of the 1st three games. If we can have the Raiders defense all game, think we should be in good shape. I'm mostly worried about Henry much more than their passing game. Are the ten players for Tenn who tested positive all out for this game? Were they all placed on the Covid IR list and does that mean they are out for three weeks?

LOL Well they don't mention the Miami game at all so apparently that wasn't a dominant one, though I'm sure you'll find a headline someplace where some one used the word dominant. So blowing a 28-3 lead and having to come from behind after that to win defines dominate?? One of the quotes in the article about the Rams game was: "Then, the Bills pulled an Atlanta Falcons" Does that sound dominant to you? Go ahead knock yourself out thinking they're dominating everyone.

True, though is concerning that a 4-0 team isn't doing better running the ball since they had the lead. The post I originally replied to asserted the Bills are a dominant team period, didn't state offense only or passing only, just dominant. While their passing game has been dominant and overall offensively great but without the running game being better IMO wouldn't call them an overall dominant offense. Certainly a team that wins 3 of 4 games by one score only and lets the opponent back into the game three times by blowing leads is far from dominant. They are doing great, winning and I'm happy.

I'd say: They have dominated every team they played on offense for the first half and played well in the 4th quarter and only thru the air. 4 TD's a game isn't dominant, not when you're giving up 2 to 3! They certainly haven't done a dominant job running the ball and defensively no area has been dominant. He was Fitzmagic with a bunch of no name receivers other than Parker because our defense was bad. Imagine if Miami had the receivers we have, we probably would have lost. 2 of the 4 games the opposing QB had more yards than Allen. We've only won one game by more than one score and that was only 10 points. We are playing very good, better than the opposition, Allen is playing at an MVP level and receivers may be the best group in the league, those two areas you could argue we have been dominant and wouldn't disagree, but overall as a team far from it. If you think that's overall dominant, you don't know what the word means.

You forgot about another guy who was a 6th round pick who has had a decent career. Barring an injury or a major collapse by Wilson or Mahomes, (which could also happen to Allen) one of those two will likely win the MVP this year. But Allen certainly will be in the discussion going forward and likely any games against any of these other top QB's in future will be a national TV game. Was looking at the schedule ahead to see if the Seattle game would get flexed, but that's a Fox game and CBS has the doubleheader that week, and the Sunday night game is a good match up so likely won't happen. The way the schedule works out every upcoming game for the Bills that would be worth considering to flex, the other network has the doubleheader game. Plus the entire month of December they are on national TV every week assuming the Denver game is moved to Saturday.

Have to say was surprised to read in 91 and 93 the defense was ranked 27th! Seemed like they were dominant on both sides, but guess it's a case of having a couple superstars like Bruce hid things. Plus that back back everyone was online 24/7 so much less info/stats easily available to fans.

The only place we've dominated is on passing stats which in most cases (though the trend is changing) is by the losing team. No where near the top in takeaways, rushing yards, yards given up and many others. And had to come back against 1-3 Miami and blew a 28-3 lead. You call that dominating!

Minor concern. Look how easily they signed both of them plus others in the past two years that have been much more than salvageable. They could resign one or even both for a relatively cheap contract, if not find the next similar guy on the FA market and probably should draft one in the 2nd or 3rd round. There is always a number of Felicinao type's every year that hit free agency. The Bills i.e. Beane seem to know where to find them better than most.

I almost feel sorry for Belichick!!

Wow, don't think I've ever seen a game where so my calls went against Belichick both marginal ones and blatant bad ones.

Based on the video, thought you were going to suggest he take up MMA or something along those lines.

While I'd agree with you regarding Cam and NE, what's happened to Tenn is above and beyond and injuries. Plus you'd usually know by Monday who got hurt in last weeks game and can't play the following week or will be questionable. Here' you have players hitting the "injury list" every day. How many teams lose ten players in one week of practice? How many will still be out next week too? 10 days after symptoms, so makes it hard to even know who will or won't be available.

That's my point, if the owner is going to allow these trades, why then give up after only 4 weeks. That to me is the crazy part here. He should have fired him when he proposed the Hopkins trade. Makes me wonder if the owner fired him now more to try and save face from all the criticism thrown at the team.

OK, but unless you decide to put everyone in a bubble, how can the league or team control what one player might decide to do. Cam goes to a party tonight, that becomes the teams fault?

I understand the compliance part, and handing out stiff penalties. But making it tougher for tryouts, signings, etc you're penalizing teams that maybe did nothing wrong. Even NE I know we hate feel bad for NE, but in this case since so far only Cam tested positive, seems like Cam did something stupid so why penalize the team. Or maybe it's not even his fault.

Wow, shocked so soon. Owner is to blame here too. If you're going to fire the guy this quickly, why'd you ever allow him to make the trades. Should have got rid of him then.

Of all you list only the Falcons, Lions, Chargers and Texans have either established or good prospects at QB. Though Ryan and Stafford are getting a bit old. Maybe the Jets if they keep losing. Not sure Daboll has enough cred to justify full control so without that, many of these spots might not work out particularly with the history with the Jets. In hindsight while widely blasted here, McD bringing in the GM worked out fine. Hard to hire a new GM at season ending as teams aren't going to allow anyone on staff to leave prior to draft so your only choices are those who'd been fired.

Was reading an article in the Athletic, below was one quote: Daboll used 19 different packages on Sunday. If that wasn’t impressive enough, he used 15 different personnel combinations through the first half, which consisted of only 30 plays. Got me thinking some, is more of Allen's improvement due to him just finally understanding the offense? Maybe last year when he'd drop back half the time he'd be trying to understand the play that there wasn't enough time left to often throw a good catchable pass. I'm sure working on the mechanics helped too, but maybe the mental part is a bigger reason for the improvement than people realize.

League average is 93%, exactly where Bass is on extra points. Yes it was in a dome, etc, but that balances out with kicking the ones he did in Buffalo. Wasn't one of the games pretty windy too? That 93% league average BTW includes kickers who kick inside every home game too.

I'd argue Allen's development is more dramatic as more people were labeling him as borderline bust after two seasons. Jackson didn't look strong as a passer after his rookie year, but only had one year of looking bad. Many rookies don't look that good. Did Jackson even start every game as a rookie, didn't Flaco start the year and go hurt? Allen's 2nd year while much improved still could easily create "lowlight" highlights of him. Also seems less people make such a big change from 2nd to 3rd year so was less expected this year so more dramatic.

One time I could read his lips (through his mask of course) where he said one.

I'll be willing to bet they won't be. I can recall in the past they came down on people for much less, maybe one time hearing an F bomb as opposed to multiple times. Agree in today's day and age, no big deal, but it is to the FCC. That seems to be their one sacred cow

Also feel of all the newer coaches, Flores seems to be better than many of the others.

Really where exactly are they winging it? What should they have done. How about a bubble, great idea except the players said no. It's real easy to say too bad, but it doesn't work that way, the league isn't allowed to just tell the players too bad, we're taking you away from your families for the next six months, players need to agree to it. So other than a bubble what exactly should they be doing right now? What past experience should they be looking at to determine how to handle this one?

I assume there's not a method to make this work if wanting to watch directly on a TV using CBS All Access app though as not able to spoof location directly on TV? Can easily plug laptop into TV via HTMI, but would be nice if could do it directly.