Low Positive

People here in Cincinnati would disagree with you on Taylor. They think his offense is vanilla and relies too much on Burrow and Chase making plays. They all wonder what Mike McDaniel would do with their roster. The grass is always greener.

Cincinnati last year got stomped in week 8 by the Jacobi Brissett-led Browns to fall to 4-4. They looked lost and people here in Cincinnati were in about the same mood as Bills mafia is in now because they still had games against the Chiefs, Bills, and the Tom Brady-led Bucs on their schedule. They won out. The turning point was a beatdown of the Panthers at home.

Of course, Burrow played better than Josh on Sunday. There is no question of that. The question becomes "would you rather have Josh Allen than Joe Burrow" and I'm not sure how I would answer that question at this point. Burrow has done a much better job than Josh in adjusting to the new dink-and-dunk reality of the NFL. But Joe Burrow has also never won a college or pro game without an absolute all-star team surrounding him. What I will say is, having watched almost every game of Joe Burrow's NFL career, that watching Joe Burrow play QB is a lot less of a stressful experience for a fan than watching Josh Allen play. He always makes the correct decision, but that's because he's a coach's son. We Bills fans will have to be on the Josh Allen rollercoaster. We have no choice. Another thing (and I always get a lot of red Xs for this point); the Bengals offense is chock full of players who won big in HS and college. Did you know that Joe Burrow took Athens HS, a team that had no history of winning, all the way to the Ohio State Championship Game? People in WNY have no idea how big HS football is in a place like Ohio, but this is a huge deal. Winning is a learned skill, and Duke Tobin places a lot of value on it. Beane drafts for physical traits.

I've been thinking a lot about this over the past day. Why did a close road loss to a very good (and hot) team seemingly break the Bills? Is it the lack of execution on offense? Is it because of the way last season ended? We don't know what's actually going on, but the little bit that we do know makes it seem like they are having a bit of a crisis. I know that we fans get all depressed and think that the team can't win another game after every loss, but these guys actually control their own fate. They should be thinking "We'll just win out and win the division." I don't think that they can do that, but if they don't think that they can do that then we have a real leadership/coaching problem. And if Murray, a journeyman who's been here for all of half a season, feels that he needs to fill a leadership vacuum, then the Bills have a really big problem.

I turned off an NFL game for the first time this year. This game is bad, but not in a fun way.

You gotta think.

Is that the McCown that the Texans tried to hire directly to a HC job?

They should teach safeties to punt so that wouldn’t happen.

Well, that’s all she wrote.

FWIW, I think that the Bills roll them.

Al Michales just said "Dude." I already love this game. Fast anthem singer. This is really shaping up well.

The Broncos have nothing to do with it, but the Bills are a potential train wreck. That interests me as a neutral fan.

If I were a neutral fan, the Bills game is interesting. Just saying...

How about some snaps over Bryce Young's head? That would be fun.

I love a good trash bowl. I'm looking forward to this. I hope for many turnovers and general chaos.

As opposed to TBD, we we are all getting older and dumber from reading the posts.

Well if that's a bar, then the Cowboys and Dolphins suck too. That makes me feel a little bit better. Lace up the helmets and let's go boys. Let's beat em like we did the Kaiser!

I've watched a lot of football this year, and there are a lot fewer deep passing plays than a few years ago. It feels like when the Devils' Neutral Zone Trap was adopted by all the teams in the NHL. I understand it from a defensive standpoint, but it takes all the fun out of the game.

This is about how it went

So, this assumes that we're keeping McDermott: If everyone gets canned in NY, I like Mike Kafka. He's young and worked with Andy Reid for years. If not him, Tee Martin in Baltimore. The Bills talked to him last time. Darrell Bevell. Remember him from the Seahawks? He's currently Tua's QB coach. There are other guys, but those stand out.

Everyone already has Payton's playsheet

This all happened because they found out that with the addition of Fournette, McDermott wants to run 32 personnel in a T formation. Maybe you could bench Josh and just have Ty Johnson out there at the QB? Now that's complementary football.

We're going to get 20 pages out of a 10-minute locker room huddle, aren't we?

One message for the team from me. Play real football! The T-Formation was good enough for George Halas and Sid Luckman so it's good enough for Josh Allen and Ken Dorsey. I mean, the Bears won the 1940 NFL Championship Game 73-0 playing that way. What could go wrong?