colin

im high on the joy of hopeful bills fandom. it's awesome, but the come down will make you angry for decades.

loser team lost to pitz! they coulda helped us! i have a feeling (hope, really) that cinci can sneak a win over balti and the pats, giving us a shot at the division.

bills 27 doncs 13

cowboys and it isnt close

i've kind of studied roman ever since he started at SF. he made michigan's harbaugh look a lot better than he is IMO. his O is borderline genius in it's blocking and match up schemes. where it falls short (as all schemes do fall short at some point) is that it is cumbersome and very inflexible. they have so many formations and packages that you are likely to have pre snap penalties and have very little time to audible and go uptempo. he may have figured some of that out in baltimore, however. he's kind of like what prime rex ryan was on D, but on O. complicated, but in roman's case it is complicated to scheme and staff, rather than complicated to execute, which was rex's downfall, and very tailor made to one thing. i'd like to throw in my usual two cents that he does not form anything around his talent, but has a system which he puts talent into. a coach like billecheck does the same thing, but has enough wrinkles and knows so much about football and his opponent that it seems like he can make anything work, but in reality he's got a philosophy and that's clear in all of his teams.

i figure he's gonna get about 12 a year, 15-20 guaranteed

he's like a tyrod taylor with more talent and most importantly a green light. tyrod had so little trust in his own ability to make passing plays (or fear of turnovers) that all the d had to do was take away the first read or two and he just turned into a turtle in the pocket. jackson hasn't shown that at all -- altho the pass rush from the chargers in the play offs just smoked him. let's hope the bills can do that to him in buffalo too.

brown is a stud, but i agree we need another target. some size and speed, the 2008 prototypical guy would be perfect.

Brady has thrown three balls which should have been picks.

I agree w the guys saying we need to use him, totally. I just get the feeling we ain't got nothing else as far as guys Josh trusts.

He was awesome, but at times, especially late, Josh was straight forcing the ball to him. He's all we got it seems

I've been pooping on him, but dbol is way way better while up in the booth

No idea why Roberts stopped running there

This is the problem w not getting touchdowns. A couple lapses and the game is much closer.

I'm not a huge fan of them, but the camera and production on this game is awful. Missing stuff, coming to plays post snap. Just cheeks

I feel the need to clarify: brown can't make physical contested catches, but he has moves and speed. Easily our best playmaker, singletery needs to get a bit better in the passing game to take that Mantle

Sick

Erry single run is left

Agree w the play call on 3rd being bad, but that was a decent read and throw by 17. Brown just can't make a contested catch.

The coverage on TV for this game is criminally bad

I like the result, but like alpha and a few others have pointed out, our wrs can't do jack to get open vs man. Just getting blanketed one on one

allen has definitely missed guys or thrown the odd bad ball. seems to be regressing and to not have the same wide open ability he showed last year. NE smashed us by confusing allen, overwhelming our blockers, and then knocking allen out. we still rushed for a good clip w frank gore barely moving that game tho. I have two problems with Dabol. 1: he chooses not to run the ball, rather than have it shut down. nothing will help a raw qb as much as that 2: he really tries to put a square peg into a round hole. Him rushing gore umpteen times on 3rd/4th and short for nothing, having our barely qualified for an NFL roster WRs running around failing to beat DBs, and having our raw inconsistent QB trying to be tom brady behind our good run and not so good pass blocking line. allen obviously needs to grow up and make the plays that are out there for him, but there is even less evidence that dabol knows what he is doing. i really want him to figure it out and balance the O, but i don't see how anyone can look at this offense and say he's put them in the best position to win.

there is room for flex due to the nfl being just so inconsistent on these things, but i get a sense that the general trend is towards harsher penalties for these kind of infractions. someone, and i think garrett, is gonna get a slap bigger than what those guys did after multiple infractions.

I do think the bills come out hard and fast and run the ball and get disciplined on D and dominate. of course, i know i'm setting myself up for disappointment, but i've been a pretty rabid bills fan for about 30 years, so im good at it!

my guess is he's out for the rest of the season, potentially more.