Casey D

Not a punctuation issue, it is being a Luddite and not understanding what I did wrong. I added the "and Allen" after I wrote the post to make the title clearer, and then did not go back and add a comma. My only defense is living under the pressure of a totalitarian regime. :-)

Don't think I agree. Allen took lots of shots on Sunday when he had open guys for short chain moving completions. He needs to continue to improve his reads, not just be a gunslinger.

Lots of things. I know you love to be negative, but Allen is far more intelligent-- look at his Wonderlic-- than his predecessors. He has a great work ethic. And if you look at his game by game progress he is getting better. It's not linear, he took a step back against Cleveland, but if you compare his first five games to where he is now, there is substantial progress. He needs to continue, but kicking him to the curb this early on is foolish IMO.

Applies both ways. Buffalo "won" a couple of games this year where the other teams' kicker was awful. Cleveland game was chickens coming home to roost.

Reading Jim Kubiak's weekly analysis of Allen's play in today's BN drives home that football is about mistakes and missed opportunities. Allen fumbled and missed several reads in the second half against the Browns-- mistakes and missed opportunities. The Bills lost the game, Cleveland did little to win it. That also explains why NE has been so good for two decades. It's not that they are perfect, but Belichick and Brady don't make mistakes and they take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them. Doing those two things leads to greatness. All this gives me hope for Allen. He is a smart guy and seems to work hard. Right now, he makes too many mistakes ,e.g., fumbling, and passes on too many opportunities, e.g., missed reads, but with his inherent intelligence, I am hopeful that all he needs is continued experience to get there. It is clear his skill set far exceeds past Buffalo QB failures, e.g. Tyrod, EJ, Losman etc., etc., and his problems seem like things that will get better as he gains experience. Certainly he deserves a much longer rope, IMO. I know we live in an instant gratification world, but I think patience is warranted here. Just my opinion

This is when it gets fun or things fall apart. Next two games are needed to get to 8-3, don't care how they do it, just do it. Then they get four real games to see if they deserve to get into the tournament. At NE Dallas and Pittsburgh, and home against Baltimore gives the team four chances to get a quality win as an underdog and show that they deserve to make the playoffs. One win should be enough out of those four to make it. If they can't win one of those games, they do not deserve to make the playoffs. Really that simple. But the next two games they are the better team and they need to take care of business. If they do, the last five weeks will be a blast.

Not in free agency. Most guys who hit free agency have flaws, that's why their teams chose not to hang onto them. But FAs get big money due to the market. The only way to get a DT better than Star is to draft, develop and keep. The grade A players rarely hit free agency, so what FAs get paid does not translate directly to the talent level.

Great stuff!!!

Actually Tennessee and the Eagles have the same record, save for the Bills game.

I think we tend to overestimate other teams, which explains the high percentage. If you play with it, the Browns game is not must win, but rather a win and the odds of the Bills not making the playoffs are very small, like 19%. In other words, a really nice game to win. Of course, you have to trust the simulations it runs. The chances of so many 10-6 teams are remote. This time of year it seems there will be a bunch of them, but it rarely happens. It does happen, however. The Pats were 11-5 with Cassell one year and did not make the playoffs. At 10-6, I'd say your chances are about 95%

Picked them all so the Bills would be 9-7.

According to this, if the Bills only beat Miami Jets and Denver, their chances of making the playoffs are 61%.

Of course not, there is tons, and I mean tons, of criticism of the Bills on the Board-- perfectly fine. But your posts a clearly troll-like, and designed to upset with little logic. It is sad that you are so unhappy you get joy from spreading misery.

Given your attitude, do you kick the space puppies?

That's so two weeks ago. :-) Check again.

Well the Browns are 2.5 point favorites. Perception clearly is that the Browns are pretty good at 2-6, and the Bills are not nearly as good as their record. Should be a fun game, as no way the Browns make the playoffs with 6 losses already.

In life, happiness is simply the gap between expectations and reality. If you expect a lot from other people, you likely will be disappointed. Keep your expectations in check, and you'll be happier. This was a 6-10 team last year that has a QB who is just in his second year. The OL was revamped, but has not jelled, as the inability to gain a single yard on repeated occasions shows. The WRs are better, but just OK. Your expectations are too high-- lower them. And remember the team is on an upward trajectory into the 2020s, enjoy the ride.

Uh no.

What a jerk

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God is great, beer is good, and there are Bills fans everywhere. Went to the Sabres/Caps game on Friday with my family. Game was awful but the bonding with tons of Buffalo fans was a blast.

Whatever the ESPN stat is trying to say, if it says there are equal chances to make the playoffs it is plainly wrong. Right now the Bills playoff odds are 63% at 538 which is a great stat site. Pittsburgh is at 26%. These odd include the ability to win the division, i.e., different pathways to a playoff spot, which is why the Bills odds are as low as they are as catching NE is almost impossible at this point. But if the Bills and Steelers both win Sunday, both teams' odds will improve. Steelers may jump to 35%, and Bills to 70%. So the delta for Pittsburgh might improve more (9% to 7%), but no way in absolute terms the odds of making the playoffs are the same. That simply does not make walking around sense when the Steelers would be 2 games back of the Bills.

Wouldn't we all. Watching the Pats right now, everyone else in the league is playing for a participation trophy. I'm looking at this game by game, and hoping for playoffs to get this core a taste of what playoffs are like. That will help this team in 2020, when there will be a lot more help through the draft and FA. Worrying about more right now is meaningless, because, to quote Bill Murray in Meatballs-- "it just doesn't matter."

Kelly-- a particularly good read today. You captured the various moods on the Board perfectly. Very much the voice of the collective fan! :-)

Please give it a rest. There are scores of people on this board saying that the Bills are mediocre or worse. It's OK to have that opinion, but others think it is an over-reaction to one bad game. If all this gets you so upset, just do something else or follow another team. No one is upset that you have your opinion, it's just your inability to recognize you are unduly negative and contributing nothing to the discussion that bothers people.