dave mcbride

The Bills are first in the league in yards, 3rd in points, 2nd in points per drive, 2nd in yards per drive, 1st in rushing yards, 1st in rushing attempts, and 1st in turnovers lost (meaning fewest). https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/2025.htm What are we complaining about again?

Happened last week with Houston too. The Texans clearly let Chubb score because otherwise they had zero chance.

Dude, math. Hypotenuse.

Huh???? Rodgers showed today and the past couple of weeks that while he is no longer a top-three qb in the league, he is CLEARLY in the top 12-15 QBs.

Collinsworth was absolutely right about the distance of the throw.

You are factually wrong. Just watched it again, and he released the throw from his own 34 yard line on the far right edge and threw it to the 9 yard line (with room to go) in the air on the right side hash — which is actually pretty much exactly 70 yards.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6643448/2025/09/19/bills-dolphins-tnf-josh-allen/ “Bosa had an outstanding game against the Jets, and with fellow starter Greg Rousseau dealing with a bone bruise on his knee from the Ravens game, Bosa — at least in the short-term — has become their most trusted asset.” He was limited in practice the last couple of weeks.

You just know they are saving it. We will see deep shots soon enough.

Rousseau is a very good player currently suffering from a bone bruise in his leg that he got late in the Ravens game (which he played pretty well in). I *guarantee* you that it’s affecting his performance. They tend to be very painful. They do heal, though.

Jackson had gone down and they had basically bad practice squad players plus Rasul Douglas playing corner. Exploit it at the moment. We can agree to disagree here. It's the exact sort of situation that Tom Brady would have attacked.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201309080buf.htm https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201211110nwe.htm https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201509200buf.htm Scroll down for the final plays and series in these ones.

I think part of that is simply Miami. Waddle and Hill are SO fast, and no other team has a pair like them (Tee Higgins is good but not blazing). The basic philosophy, it seemed to me, was to never let them get behind the D, and they didn't. On the deep shot to Hill, two defenders were behind him and ready to make a play. They figured that making Miami march slowly down the field would result in a lot of completions but also a couple of crushing mistakes, and it usually has worked out that way in the past. But Miami played well and McDaniel outschemed Babich on third down: 10-15 on third and 1-1 on fourth, so essentially 11-15; that's inexcusably bad. The other thing is that on the three times Miami moved the ball, they got TDs as opposed to FGs. On the fourth try, they finally made the mistake that matched up with the Bills expectations, and it was game over. I'm going to push back a little with regard to one instance: When they were up 14-7 and in the red zone, on second down and long they ran the ball despite Miami being down almost all of their CBs for that particular play. When you're up against non-NFL level talent in an opposing secondary, you have to exploit it immediately. They didn't, unfortunately, and I thought it was a very, very bad play call. There were of course a ton of play calls, but in that instance, you have to throw the script/gameplan to the wind and exploit the extreme weakness that had just manifested.

Two special teams failures (kickoff return and missed easy FG), a ridiculous non-challenge by McDermott, and a ridiculous decision to run it on second down in the red zone when Miami is down practically all of its (bad) corners is why we're here. I mean wtf, Brady - exploit non-NFL level talent when the very rare opportunity presents itself.

But someone above says early season losses don't matter!

Of course they all matter. Cincy was one of the best teams in the league late last season. Does anyone think that opening-game loss to a terrible NE team didn't matter? They would have made the playoffs if they had won it.

He actually had 49 tackles in his rookie season and started 5 games. Interestingly, it's the only season in which he played in every game. He missed 3 games in 2018, 6 games in 2020, and 2 games in 2022. Lotta soft tissue injuries over the years.

? - "Big time drops"? The game was an utter blowout (the Bills could have scored over 40 points easily if they hadn't called off the dogs), and Knox had what appears to be his highest-rated blocking game ever in a contest where the Bills ran it down the Jets' throats all game.

Before the 2024 season, GB was my super bowl pick for the NFC. They ended up with too many injuries, though. I think they're the most likely team to go this year, but I also think the Rams are a respectable pick. Philly of course too.

Fumble. Knox was also legit being interfered with on the final drop, although it was still catchable.

Tough to say. Their defense is elite. But this is a sack/pressure fest on both sides.

He’s just not a playmaker. This is from after the Bears-Vikings game from last Monday night:

He was pretty mediocre in MN.

You can’t have it both ways. He has one elite and one very good receiver, but also a terrible o-line and a dime-a-dozen RB corps now that Mixon is gone. Literally no one who works in actual personnel evaluation in the NFL would agree with you, so think about that.

Allen got sacked a ton in his first two years: 8 and 7.6 percent, respectively -- https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/A/AlleJo02.htm. He became adept at avoiding sacks starting in year three, and he's truly elite at it now.

? - Purdy had a complete tear of his UCL. Allen didn't. Both of his UCL injuries were sprains. If Allen had a complete UCL tear, he would have missed a season. Also, playing with a torn ligament in a toe would make Allen a pretty immobile QB. That's not his game, and I would anticipate the Bills hoping for the best with Trubisky and getting Allen back fully healthy for the final 3-4 games and playoffs.