colin

Off setting is trash

If they over turn that it's a travesty.

Right now they can run and we can't, and that's why we only got one score off of two great deals position drives, and why the were able to pass on us imo

Oh gosh bass!

Bass

we need to form an entirely ty lineup. tyreek, tyquan, tyrod, wearing bow ties, flying tie fighters, playing for the tie, games in Thailand, broadcasted in Times Square.

nah, that's just not so. he has disappeared a couple times when i wish he didn't, but so do 99% of nfl D linemen. he's a legit top 10-15 DE in the nfl, it's just that he's not a great pass rusher, but is great vs the run, contains and sees screens and such really well, is good at pressure, and makes big splash plays pretty often. if he had like maxx crosby moves and was flirting w 20 sacks, he'd be a hall of fame talent.

without so much offensive firepower, kc could do basically what baltimore did, pressure the middle bunch of guys on the line, show pressure all the time, confuse josh and the OL. if they dare josh to find guys on the outside who are winning one on one, it's a long horrible day. we would need our coaches to show improve and scheme us out of that. i think i speak for most fans here when i say that a win for the bills is a much bigger positive than a loss is negative.

we lose this game by getting eaten up underneath and the interior OL of KC feasting all day and allowing them to stay ahead of the sticks and not punt. we win if we have positive results running the ball and lots of gainers going to backs, shakir, and TEs in places where we scheme up space. a little magic from 17 as well. achieving a positive result in either of the above will require our coaches to find some new wrinkles and the players to execute. OL penalties have been killing us all year, but we've generally been so much better than the opposition it hasn't hurt us (killed us vs miami in buffalo, but we over came and there were some horrible calls and non calls). kc plays hard and dirty, so we'll have to match that energy and still avoid the flags. winning this game with all the guys hurt will be a huge confidence builder, and if we see them again in the post season but plus coleman, kinkiad, cooper (our three top picks on O skill positions!) along w carter and milano it's gonna be a potential all time showdown. stacking wins at home is another huge confidence builder.

if we are going by peak, i think it's boselli. at his best he was disgusting. if we are going by longevity at the top, i have to say peters. he was legit a top 3 OT for like 12 plus years, and a top 10 for like 16. jones, ogden, williams, all deserve mention, but i see the above two as the best ever.

that's why i called him a jag+ when he's been fully healthy he's made some solid plays. but he's injured too much, and he's smaller and gets absolutely washed sometimes, which offsets some of his better plays.

there is still enough time left in the season for teams to get better and worse, but this week is gonna be the biggest indicator of who the top dogs really are. if the games end up being competitive and close then the playoff hype will be immense!

i had a lot of hope for ed, but he's a jag+. he might be still hurt, and has played hurt before, but at some point you judge the player as he is, injuries and all. groot is a monster and a top 10-15 overall DE in the nfl. he's not a great pass rusher, but he's a good pass rusher, plays the run great, and most of all for us is a real physical presence on the line, which we need with guys like toohill and solomon playing on the other side like 25+ snaps a game (solomon might develop as a pass rusher, but he's really small for DE imo, toohill is below jag). normally i look at injuries as a luck thing, but the number we keep having on D really makes me think our smaller D is just a little bit too physically frail for all of the ball hunting screaming head on fire stuff they are asked to do. milano and TB are both small and have had lots of injuries, von obv, ed has been hurt a lot, etc. i remember thinking star would be a great signing because he was a physical monster who a lot of people had pegged as the best player in the draft when he came out, but he was a physical monster who just didn't care much about football, it was a way for him to earn 10s of millions of dollars and he didn't have the temperament to match his body. our only chance this season is if we get everyone healthy enough to play their best, and that includes ed who i will give some excuse for as i think his hamstring is still not right.

i was expecting to read a list of hitler, stalin, and pol pot's meaner sister.

gosh, that was so flipping stupid.

He has his cheerleaders in this board, but ya he's sucked bad this year Just a non factor

the cynic in me will say that the bills schemes basically roast bad teams and sort of hope that good teams make mistakes vs us, and what we are seeing here is how little the missing talent really helped us win games when we had it (additionally, that the talent missing wasn't that great to start with). what's interesting in the past two weeks is what we saw was the team operating almost entirely within the scheme/plan. Last week vs miami the d was slow cooked but managed to greatly limit deep passing, which they came out and said was their plan. they didn't get any pop plays at all and it lead to miami just having long long scoring drives. yesterday vs the colts we saw the d make the opportune negative plays within the scheme (3 picks, 4 sacks) as well as the weakness of the scheme (the big run by taylor looked like a very typical bills d breakdown for huge yards, vs the constant 8-15 yarders vs miami). we also saw a bit less of allen going off script and supermanning a play late. i really hope getting cooper, coleman, kinkaid back on O and getting a healthy DL and milano back for the playoffs put us in the best position to win it all, but my cynical concern is that we have seen a fully loaded bills team fold vs teams with injuries (cinci and the scrap heap oline that murdered us at home in the playoffs, 13 seconds can't get a stop, the houston game where we let watson break tackles and steal the win) and an injured team (the aj klien debacle vs kc at home last playoffs) lose looking more or less how our team looks now. the common refrain from the mcd haters on this board (myself included) is that he can make mediocre chicken salad out of chicken poop, but can't make anything much better vs good opposition with better talent, and we constantly have players come in who just don't get burn or don't fit (mjs, samuel, bishop, edwards, in the past hines and others).

lol, it's not playing well vs the run, i can tell you that. we've seen him line up vs back up interior OL and get washed so so many times. at first i thought we got a great deal on his contract, but honestly i think its basically his full offer side market value, or even a little over. we had him and miller and the odd DT here and there out after the baltimore loss. it really didn't show on the field as much as it should given he was a top 10 pick and we retained him. there were what, 3 other DTs taken that year after him who are head and shoulders better.

the data with brady, just over a season of games, show's that we are at our best when we run the ball well, use motion, have 1 TE on the field, hit underneath stuff to rbs in the passing game, and use multiple concepts in passing to allow josh to find the open man. two TEs (im not counting the extra OL being eligible), traditional screens, too many formations and no motion, underneath stuff to wrs (except shakir, he's our surest target no matter where he is) and gadget stuff basically sucks for us. samuel seems to only be used in the second list above. he might suck, but he's been used in in ways that we stink at anyhow. we also need play action. we are so so much better with play action than without it makes me wonder what brady is doing sometimes. i think his biggest weakness is essentially his play selection and timing. he's got plays that work wonders (anything on 3rd or 4th and short or near the goal line that goes to the edge, for example) but he dials up gadgets (baltimore), straight drop back deep passes (late houston), qb draws (so many wasted downs near the goal line with poorly done ones right into the teeth of the D), bad tendencies (runs on first down), and gets way to far away from whats working be it a given back or play action. i think samuel is basically a free agent bust for us, but can be salvaged if brady figures out his play calling just a little bit more effectively. if we are down cooper, coleman, and kinkaid vs kc we are gonna need a stellar performance from brady to have a chance and samuel will have to end up being a plus player for us.

I'm not nervous about this game because I don't think we are healthy enough at wr to beat them, so it's all about seeing the team do the best it can. I just feel like the 2 or 3 seed is a near certainty, and the 1 seed is a near impossibility, so playing strongly in defeat and then getting healthy for the end of the season is acceptable. On game day I reserve the right to retract these rational thoughts and go ape at every little thing.

Our dts have sucked out loud this season. Ed Oliver is not a high level guy, I know there are posters in this board who hold hands and pretend he's some kind of impact player, but at best he's good when healthy and just always hurt -- which is the same thing as not good because ability requires a availability

Game of the year? Just an insane display of some team/video game football. Detroit looks like the NFC team fo destiny. I saw a chart on Twitter, interesting title, something like menacing vs charging taking about impact plays on I and d. Bills were like top 4 in both, kinda surprising on d but it's because we are +13 on turnovers. The most dominant on menace (the d state) was Houston and boy did you ever see that last night. That d plays how MCD wants the bills to play, hair on fire and athletic and the fastest on the NFL. Being down their top wrs really knocks them down a peg. We are missing maybe more of you include d injuries, but the quality of our rb/te/ok really shines vs what they have. I think with the exception of Baltimore the ds in the NFL have taken the mantel from the os, exciting season

i was really high on bishop, i'm pretty disappointed in him so far, but it's early and he's really athletic. i hope he pulls it out

i could see pittz edging out baltimore in the north, and pittz being 4 and baltimore being 5 and baltimore at pittz becomes a pivotal game in the afc playoffs. i think pittz plays baltmore really well, and can match up physically up front. russ is great at one thing, that's extending plays and throwing deep rainbows and baltimore plays d like riverboat gamblers and loads up the front and dares you to go over the top (while commit fouls on nearly every play hoping they don't get called, my gosh they are physical and dirty). this kinda sets russ up, who struggles vs disciplined d's but gets big plays vs aggressive ones. this means if buffalo beats the 6 seed as the #2, who imo is one of houston, colts, chargers, but i think houston wins the 3rd seed so it's prolly the chargers, they host pittz in the divisional round and i think we match up well vs russ team that is a better fit to beat baltimore. i suppose the even more silly dream scenario is that kc hosts bmore in the division round (not that unlikely, if bmore is the only wild card to win week 1 in the playoffs) then we have a shot at hosting bmore in the chip round presuming we win our divisional round (vs i suppose houston, who will be 3 seed imo). that would get the kc monkey off our back via luck if bmore beats them, and then you have what might be the most interesting game possible with bmore and lamar who crushed us vs the at home bills for the afc chip. they crazy bit of it is if we win that and go on to face detroit in the chip, we will be playing games with our absolute worst match ups and not facing kc. another goofy thing i could see is the above, we beat bmore at home to get to chip, but detroit turns into a pumpkin vs a veteran philly team and we have the absolute easiest shot at a chip because while hurts and barklay are tough matchups, i don't think philly is as big of a grind it out without mistakes team as bmore or kc or detroit, and they just don't get pressure on the qb well, which sets up a legendary allen performance.

Bmore is so flipping dirty