colin

Two terrible drives on O, Allen is off right now

Lol, we try a little misdirection pitch to our number 10 and the speed difference is shocking!

I'm gonna ask for a turnover every play

We really do. Just not a lot of size. We need another turnover

Bad time for that mishandled snap. We have a huge hole in the middle of the d, all the misdirection from the phins is gonna get our lbs biting

So, t Bernard out? We are down our two starting lbs. Some bad play in the gut that drive

That Miami TD was brought to you by some awful linebacker play

I didn't like the 3rd and 2 play, but that 4th down TD was brilliant Lfgooopo

This is it bro. two second half swoons, two zero contribution playoffs. he's not up to the moment, or at least he wasn't for us. the contract extension was a terrible idea

its just so crazy to me how they shipped out mayfield for watson. i could see them not wanting mayfield anymore, perhaps thinking they would have had to pay him a dan jones type contract (there is a strange path dependence to these things, if your team ditches you, " you aren't worth it" and you don't get big money, but if you want to keep your 4th year rook contract qb, you "have to pay him"), but in hind sight that woulda been a steal vs what they have done, and frankly i think baker would have been worth it (cap inflation adjusted). him having to sit for a year (almost), him costing those insane picks, and that nutso contract: any one of those is a great reason not to roll the dice to upgrade on what they had, but all three (and the character and criminal concerns on top of that!) of them make it just so shocking. this kind of puts into perspective the "overpays" that sf has had for guys (chase young was obv a bad move, but cmc was a good one), and the rams have like every other season. those teams got serious high quality players with no hair on them, who came in and balled out in exchange for good draft position picks. the concept of an over pay is so often over done, with russ wilson and this clown just destroying franchises.

to me what stood out is his effortless smoothness. really similar to dalton kinkaid. neither have huge speed, but they aren't really slow either. they just adjust and move and catch naturally. so many guys, gabe davis being a great (terrible) example, are like rushing and scrambling all the time, really frenetic pace type stuff. kinkaid and coleman look much more relaxed in the process of getting open and catching the ball.

based on what linemen cost, if spencer brown is healthy and keeps improving, this is a very good deal for the bills.

I'm not with you on the not going for jobs you "aren't qualified for" because unless it's some kind of actual safety/harm to people thing (if it is, then kudos to you) we all have to stretch into things to get better, but o/w this post just hits the nail on the head. The grown men heckling outside the stadium are sad and obv not classy, but so what? it's not materially less sad to stand around and clap for the guys when they are winning (it's way classier tho). the whole point of being a fan is to live vicariously and get a little stupid and crazy. fan is short for fanatic after all. i live in NJ and know tons of giants fans (some jets too, yuck lol). so many have seasons tickets, work hard and have done well in life and really live the work hard play hard mantra. they go to the games and lose their minds regularly. going into the meadowlands is horrible. traffic sucks, its super expensive, it's gross, and if you care about the team it hurts to watch them just absolutely suck like they do. I'm not defending these people really, but this is just they way it is, and you don't sell 80k tickets in NJ at high high prices and gouge for parking and drinks and food and merch without these people. and getting 9 flipping figures to play bloody football comes with all kinds of stuff, and being torn down by the fans of your team when you flat out suck is one of those things. i care enough about my team (who doesn't even care if i live or die) to post on this board since the day it was started and i care enough to get upset when they play badly at times in a game they end up winning, so i can't really look down my nose at people who do what these giants fans did, as classless as it is.

He looks like Kirby from the video games out there -- inhales the ball when it's near him, and does the same to dbs he's blocking

What stands out to watching this game vs watching the bills are two things 1: both of these teams have such smooth execution. They are lined up and schemed for a particular purpose and the execute towards that purpose really well as teams 2: the teams are like chess pieces who are extensions of their coaches -- meaning they are doing what they are set up to do, but they are just not dynamic at all. The bills on O especially are set up to attack everywhere, a big part of that is Allen, but it really feels like we can kill you 5 ways on any play while these teams are like one read, one snap and go. On D our team obviously lines up to confuse in the back end and everyone goes screaming after the ball once it's snapped. These teams seem more "all in" on what they are trying to do, with less room for secondary tacklers and such. I find this stuff interesting to contrast to our team

That's a great point. They let a better QB walk who was such a better human being (lol, imagine saying that about Baker!). They also paid a fortune for Watson, a d a ransom of picks. I b word a out how our fo signs and drafts a bit, but holy cow are they taking a dump on the fans on the other side of the Erie. That's a great point. They let a better QB walk who was such a better human being (lol, imagine saying that about Baker!). They also paid a fortune for Watson, a d a ransom of picks. I b word a out how our fo signs and drafts a bit, but holy cow are they taking a dump on the fans on the other side of the Erie.

The special teams coordinator should be on notice. Some horrible coverage lapses on d, and the o made money but imo it was mostly Allen being a hero. I think Brady went to the well too much a the first down runs, they were getting jacked up. A lil play action mighta broken it early. I think it's fair to criticize a sloppy game where they came out flat, that's a coaching shortfall

D was cheeks for first three drives, was good after. Secondary play wasnt great, line was sick. Penalties killed us. On o, we ran way too much into a wall, the cards called a great run d vs US but they had no answer for the passing, not the best of play calls by Brady. If we mixed in like 4 play action plays on first a d second down instead of runs we walk way in a laugher. Work in progress

if he gets hurt for too long or too often then this is a bad move, if he stays healthy it's prolly a solid one. he has some real ability and a lot more upside, and he's a physical monster and an intimidator. methinks w the young tackles coming up, the brain trust is thinking about when they have to move on from dawkins, and being in as much of an advantage position as they can be. say what you will about how kc builds their team vs ours, one thing reid never lets happen is he won't have a team without premier talent at the OT position. there is some wisdom there.

I think josh is better than lamar (i think he's a bit better than mahomes too, I might be biased!). The only real knock on lamar IMO is his playoff games. his passing and d reading flaws are more than offset by his green light while still protecting the ball, and his insane play making ability during the regular season. in the playoffs, it just seems like he gets bottled up and performs worse than he does in the regs. I see him as the QB equivalent (and perhaps the baltimore O) of our D. just top level overall stats and results for the reg season, but the short comings that get papered over in the regular season get exposed in the playoffs. for our d, i think there are some key personnel issues, but mainly its our play calling/scheme strategy, particularly when going up against teams in the playoffs, or for the second time (i.e. KC). there might be some of that with lamar and the raven's O, but he's pretty freewheeling and creates his own shot (similar to josh) but just like our D did vs him in 2021, if you can keep him from running past you and make him read the d and make accurate on time passes, he's historically faltered in the playoffs.

I think our TE and RB production is going to be near the tops in the NFL (combined). Our WR production will be maybe middle of the pack. Josh's legs will be the xfactor and provide key 3rd downs and of course touch downs on top. I think our OL will end the season better than the OL did last year. Put all of that together, and I think we have a top 5 possibly top 3 O. doing it with different combinations of TE and RB as well as mixing and matching the WRs will be the real strength. if we are not predictable on O then it's a horrible challenge for the opponents. if we can manufacture some YAC, we have a real shot of being a consistent 30+ point a game O.

6.5 spread, 2nd biggest of the opening week. I think the bills are still the team that blows out bad teams (last year injuries and coaching issues interfered with that), so bills 37 Cards 24, not as close as the scoreboard indicates.

his attitude was what it was, but it was well known when we traded for him, he had his own issues in mini. IMO, he wasn't removed for his attitude. he was junk the last 8 or so games of the past 2 seasons, and was not even jag level in our past two playoffs, where we got bounced both times at home in the second round. not catching the big balls that hit his hands, not scoring TDs, that's why he's gone. you can perhaps argue that his negatives from his attitude were weighted vs his lack of production, but if he had a couple big TDs in each of the last two playoffs (not much to ask a 30mm type player who's got josh allen chucking him the ball) he'd be back with the same attitude. if he had a stellar poyer type personal impact on the team, maybe he'd have been kept around, but not at what he was being paid. maybe at like knox money or something. he's just not good enough. my biggest gripe as a bills fan is the front office has inked up miller and diggs, two guys who's age vs production made their contracts bad moves, as well as guys like knox and milano (knox was above average for a year or two, milano was great for longer, but both cannot be relied on to be healthy). the NFL is a young man's league, and more cheaper younger players are necessary to build chip teams.

we are not going to look as set at the wr and offensive sets as we did at the beginning of last season. remember diggs putting on an absolute clinic vs the jets day one in a game we lost due to allen turning the ball over 4 times (and i think davis was basically the reason for two of them)? a mix and match wr group, supplemented by what i expect to be top 5 TE and RB production is our key to getting our wins early in the season. the d remains to be seen, but i fully expect it to be solidly top 10 and possibly top 5 (we were like 8 last year after some shocking let downs vs the jags, new england, and so on). imo we will make our money with play action and allen going off script. we have what looks like solid wr blocking for the first time since allen got here. i've always thought allen with a legit running game (away from his own legs) is a scary sight, and i think we have that more than ever this season. especially early, because the past 2 seasons cook was on the bench for the first 7 or so weeks.

we have injuries and lost people on D, we have the goat of all time at qb, being able to posses the ball and extend drives, while also being productive is the key for us winning, especially in the playoffs. cook gives us elite production right now. diggs and davis gave us trash production in the playoffs and end of the year the last two years, IMO that is why they are gone. I say you keep production and emphasize it, so this season no i would not trade cook. i think he can flirt w 2k yards from scrimmage this year. I view touchdowns as a team stat more than an individual player state, and we score a lot of touchdowns, so even factoring in cook's bad results dropping sure fire td passes (i do expect that to improve) he's one of our best producers. if we can be a very solid run team, like 125-150 a game, allen can put us over the top to be a top 3 O with like 30-40 attempts a game. cook is a big part of both of those. the jury is out if we will be in super bowl contention again this season, but the plan seems in place. we have bigger stronger passing targets (hollis and FSU rookie can bash bodies around blocking, and we have two starting quality TEs) we are 2-3 deep at rb, our qb is a turbo truck in human form when running the ball, and our o line can mash people around (although we have not been strong at all in short yardage blocking). being able to pass vs run ds, run vs passing ds, passing to backs, and being able to do all of it out of multiple formations is the corner stone of the EP offense. I think we have that as much as we have since we got allen, so if it ain't broke don't break it. if our back 7 can hold strong, and we get improved pass rush from von, groot, aj, etc, then we can absolutely be a top 5 d as well. the key, quite obviously, is the d holding up vs elite qbs in the post season. balance on O goes a good way towards helping that, but keeping the opponents o off the field, allowing us to dictate pace at various points of the game (the bills are elite in end of half scoring), and wearing out opponents, which imo is as much about breaking down the opponents d physically as it about mentally wearing them out. the old adage of "here comes tom brady again, another game winning drive" was in large part because the pats could set up great play action, chew up the middle of the field running and passing, and putting themselves in positions to score. that's who we are set up to be.