colin

maybe once covid is over you can start up a successful English store and recoup!

every time josh sneaks, it looks like we get a pretty good push. i think our short distance running w the backs is a problem because of the play calls/designs, blocking, and perhaps the biggest impact is the RB themselves. they really don't blast into the hole and power through. we've seen our team get run on in 3rd and short situations where an LB or DL knifes through only to get the tackle broken and the back lumbers forward to convert, but we don't seem to have what it takes to get that done ourselves.

boooo! well, that means that any likely season outcome where we beat miami in week 17 gets us the division at the least.

as it stands, we are a better team than everyone we play except miami (roughly equal) and pitts (worse). what is interesting to me is that the teams we have for the rest of the season are some outside pass rushing monsters. depending on health of course, but these teams all have a really strong ability to win 1 on 1s vs OTs and get sacks, pressures, and turnovers. im happy our OT is the strength of our OL, but it's still scary considering our only o is 17 passing to the WRs. these teams can also run the ball well too, so just like the first pats game, there is a match up issue of them being good at stopping our strength, and us being bad at stopping theirs (for all 6 games, really). i expect us to come out strong vs the chargers, if we lose my confidence in the season will be shaken, but how we do on the road in SF to me is a huge test. we played pretty poorly in all phases of the game at times vs zona, yet it took a miracle and a mash unit of a D for them to beat us. i will feel certain we take the division if we go 2-0 going into the pittz game, so i agree w opie, that game has the makings of being the statement game of all statement games for the clap master.

is head to head the division tie breaker? i thought it was division record first

wait, does this mean that the signature wins that were missing in mcclappy's career have been pouring in all year? assuming we can beat up on the weak sisters of the poor and new england, SF, PITTS, and MIAMI are gonna be just huge games. also, if we get hot or the fish get cold, that week 17 game may not matter anyhow, so really SF and PITTS coming up quickly are gonna answer all the questions we have coming off this bitter loss into the BYE. gonna be some pretty exciting football into Dec for bills fans, you love to see it.

fact. yeldon doesn't have the issue of needing to get into the feel of the game either, he can come out and hit holes hard and catch passes. he's maybe less dynamic than our other backs, but they are slow enough it doesn't seem to be working anyhow. our O outside of OT, QB, and WR (particularly with all the injuries) is just about woat. ironically, those three positions are the biggest ones in football (outside of corner and DE) and we look pretty stacked there. but the middle of our line is trash, our RBs are pretty much JAGS, and our TEs are near the bottom of the NFL. hopefully ford and morse coming back will fix the guts, and maybe make our RBs look like NFL players.

consistency is more important than net yards or gross yards. that punt basically cost us 3 points. he's not an asset to the team, but the whole team is so inconsistent that i wonder if the issue isn't deeper

how could he be on every roster in the nfl?!?!??!!? is this a league for ants!?!

good question. id bet that if he were capable of playing yesterday he would have been a better player than knox. both addition through subtraction of the bone head stuff that knox does, and he'd maybe actually catch a meaningful pass too.

im still a 1pm truther. just seen this team be so bad on prime time games, basically not showing up. this team getting healthy over the next two weeks going into the chargers game is HUGE tho. if morse, our DBs, milano, and ford can come back, along w our TEs and brown getting back to healthy, this is a much much better team IMO.

that is such a good point. playing back as hail mary eraser would allow a pitch and catch underneath, but who cares? clock woulda stopped at 00. the biggest gap between buffalo and the pats has always been situational preparation. the pats always have an idea and a plan, doing nearly anything to get better results at ends of halfs and such, we are just terrible at it. they flashed a state, prior to the miracle 58 yard kick by bass, that the bills were the worst 2nd quarter 2 minute team in the nfl, coming into the game w 3 points.

we really lack talent at the TE and RB positions. one guy at each of those who can make meaningful plays would transform this O, and possibly have us up 1 or 2 in the win column this season. i really wanted that TE who left TB for big money this offseason. we coulda ditched some of the scrubs we signed on D to afford him, maybe cut kroft.

ive been taking a dump on the bills d all year, but honestly the loss today was less on them then the O. yes the dbs messed up stopping the hail mary, but that was a super fluke kind of play anyhow. if the o avoids the 2 picks, or turns a single FG into a TD, we walk away as winners. im still angry and defeated by the loss, but given how bad the team played in all 3 phases today. kicker was sick, but return game was net negative, catching the punts and letting the kicks to out of the endzone would have netted us like 60+ total extra yards, d flopped at the end and get walked on a few times, including a few 3rd and longs, and the o was terrible on 3rd down, allen handed over the ball twice (and tried to 2 other times), and singleterry dropping the once perfect screen ball was shocking. i meant to add: given how many guys are missing on our D right now, given what they had i think they actually played decent overall. sad.

the tenn turnovers lead to a run up in teh score, leading to the difference in points.

so basically aside from garbage time turnovers vs tenn, our D is like a hair a head. nfl D's are pretty awful this season. this is likely the most reasonable test of our O all season, not a garbage D, no weather, and a somewhat healthy team (assuming at least one of our starting guards is back). anyone know if morse can come back, or has he had one bump too many?

i mean, if it was hurt enough to wear a brace, and then it improved enough so that he didn't have to wear it anymore, it doesn't seem like much of a leap to say the corresponding difference in his play was impacted by that. what are people arguing about?

looool, cmon brah the joke was shown in the first 3 words of the post!

Our lbs are having one today. Color me shocked

Coaching to lose. Clappy blows the to, and punts nawful

That td was 100% on the coverage, not sure who but I presume johnson

So like what did those two tds take off the clock, ninety seconds? Insane

Oh dear, 3rd quarter. And now our o has to get back to huge drives and scores. Such a maddening team

Knox really is trash. He's gotta get better really fast or get gone

This is falling apart here, blocking and play calling has gone to pot