Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

There's some nervousness by some, but many of the replies and posts here are more of the "I told you so" variety. They predicted something will be an issue and will double or triple down on it to prove they were right and they are smater.

What exactly were the expectations set for him by the Bills, guess I missed when that was stated by the team. Or is it just your expectations. You list his stats, but nothing listed about blocking. His role has changed somewhat this year as he's being asked to block much more than prior. Whether that's the fault of poor line play or not, isn't his fault for him being asked to do more blocking. Or could be that in the past the team didn't trust him to block, now they do so he's being kept in more.

Not shocked. So next week he gets activated, but even then still may not play. May be the Cleveland game??

Nothing new here, he's always been like that.

Thought Dion lived in the city as recall him commenting that he lived near the shooting back in May??

Doubtful, think Hodgins more replaced Crowder. He may not dress on Sunday, highly likely one WR won't be active.

Barring some type of huge change in play by either team, if the Bills were favored in KC, they will also be favored in Cinci.

Watching the Chiefs-San Fran game, listening to announcers talking about how amazing Andy Reids play calling is and the QB play of Mahomes. Makes it sound like the team is pretty much unbeatable. So if that's true, then what does that say about the Bills?

Could be the ref never had the autograph of someone who dropped such as wide open pass??

True but you were talking about Hostetler and Rypien. Not sure those guys could win today as need big passing game.

Recall when Patrick Ewing was drafted to the Knicks, could hardy speak a full sentence. By the time he retired wouldn't know it was the same person. Huge difference!

It was different game then. Wasn't as reliant on the pass, running the ball was the in thing to do.

Even last year, I didn't think his arm was looking all that good. But put him in a playoff game and something just kicks in and he takes it up to another level. Will that still happen this year maybe not, or even if he does look much better, much better still may not be anywhere near enough.

Just curious, any idea where Bills were ranked 3 or 4 weeks ago?

Any maybe we'd have lost last weeks game to KC without Basham . Believe I read some article the other day thathe actually has one of the highest rating's on the D line. The biggest issue this team has had for the past two seasons was rushing the passer and stopping the run, so can't in any way fault them for putting many of their resources in that area. Having said that, do think this coming off season will see more picks on O-line

Before the season started, many posters and columns I'd read were predicting at best a 5-2 and maybe a 4-3 start. Talk was 5-2 would likely still give them home field, 4-3 decent shot. Good chance they will be starting 6-1 So the question is who thought they'd start 5-1 and the one loss would be to Miami? Don't think any of the predictions picked that would be the one they'd lose.

So lets assume the Browns had picked Allen, would the Jets have then taken Mayfield, if not would we have? Would the Bills have instead traded down aways for Jackson?? Or if the Browns had still taken Mayfield, and the Jets then took Allen, what would we have done?? Darnold?? And if it were any of these other guys, would they have done better here with a more stable system in place?

And likely didn't have the level of coaching to correct that or was not able to put in the time to work on it enough to improve. Add in not the best WR's core either. May also have been poor coaching to develop a gameplan to take advantage of his strengths

Good overall write up, couple comments: #5 Allen The TD pass to Knox was great and produced the winning score, but thought two other Allen passes were more amazing, both to Diggs, on in Q2 for about 30 yards and another think was on the game winning drive for close to 20 yards. I put those two in the more amazing group only because both were more towards middle of field with more players around that could easily intercept if off even a little. On the Knox TD, he had to make sure the underneath defender couldn't jump up and get a hand on it, but likely otherwise either Knox catches it or it goes incomplete. Those other two to Diggs had more risk to them if not perfect IMO. #6 Mistakes From what I've read in couple of places the fault lies much more on Allen than McKenzie. Sounds like the ball was supposed to McKenzie early as more a handoff once it didn't he wasn't expecting it at all. Kubiak's column today called it a case of Allen trying to do too much. But overall do think McKenzie is kind of having a meltdown and agree with playing Shakir more. For that reason just dropped McKenzie from my FF team this morning!

From what's been printed CMC needs very little money this year. If it's for an extension, would have been easier to wait till off season. OBJ likely would cost big $$ now.

Has anything more come out about this?? Kind of surprised nothing more been posted.

They may have tried to trade him, but got no offers. Teller if you recall had already played one full year and had meaningful game action that other teams could go on. Also possible guys like Tenuta, Benford, and Spector were all drafted with the idea of hopefully hiding them on the PS for a year and maybe by next season, they'd be ready. I'll bet if you asked Beane May 1st (though he'd never publicly state this) how many of those three did he think would make the roster he'd have thought none. But both Benford and Spector showed too much in pre-season to chance on slipping to PS. Plus those two positions didn't have much depth. My point being, not sure late round picks are selected for trade bait, more to slip onto the PS squad for a year, then they are either ready, or cut/trade. But sometimes the player is better than expected and makes the active roster. Overall point calling Tunuta a miss as others have stated is a big over exaggeration.

Everyone was expecting the AFC West to be the toughest division, so far it hasn't happened. The problem is there were too many changes made to these rosters (QB's, coaches) and many often overlook how much time it takes all the moves to jell. I do think by the 2nd half of the season these teams will start to play better, particularly Raiders and Chargers. Seems every year the Raiders start slow and dig themselves too deep of a hole to easily get out of. Recent history also shows all teams loses games they were expected to win. Last year late Nov the question was would the Bills be able to win the division or even make the playoffs. By the end of the season if Allen had scored against Tenn instead of getting stopped on the 1 yard line, the playoffs would have come thru Buffalo. Point is teams will lose games they were big favorites in including KC.

So which offensive lineman would you have cut instead? Cause to say it's a miss, then someone else would have needed to be cut. Yeah other 6th rounders made the team, but that doesn't say they all will and the odds of that are very low. The others also were at positions that didn't have the depth that the O-line had. Recall reading during pre-season from someone who commented the Bills backups on the line may be be the strongest in the league. They are built to go deep into playoffs so doesn't make sense to cut experienced players to keep a 6th round rookie.

Think Jackson as more solid than Elam at this point. By Dec could be different. As also stated, likely White will ramp up snaps anyway