dhgold

Watching the kicking machine Aubrey work underscores how mediocre or worse the Bills kicking game has been for several years. This table drives the point home as far as this season. (And I consider Prater an improvement over Bass.) Note: Prater's FG percentage is decent but that's partially because he tries fewer 50+ yard field goals than almost any other kicker.

Who else expected Prater to miss the FG?

First down coming up. Brady scouring his play sheet for a two yard run.

Have the Bills run on every first down?

I wish there was a filter that would block out everything Romo says.

JFC! Who would have expected that the Bills would run on 1st down????

Do the Bills lead the league in holding and/or illegal block in the back during returns?

I only jump on these threads when I'm super frustrated. I skimmed the comments on this page: negativity coming from many different directions. I agree with all of it.

Here to rant, not listen. Glass is 2/3 empty. The Bills have played up to expectations against the Jets, the Panthers and the Chiefs. They played 10 inspired minutes against the Ravens but were otherwise outclassed. They played below expectations in the first Dolphins game and against the Saints. They were outplayed losing at home to the Patriots and were downright bad against the Falcons and in the second Dolphins game. The defense has been shakey almost the entire season, is ravaged by injury and won't have Hoecht and Oliver, arguably its two biggest difference makers this year, for at least the rest of the regular season. Special teams are mediocre at best. With the exception of Shakir, Cook and Kincaid, all offensive skill players have disappointed and Cook and Kincaid are showing signs of over usage. Really ripping the bandaid off here: even Josh Allen has not been played up well, let alone up to his standards of the previous five seasons. Coaches have shown little ability to right the ship. I feel considerably less optimistic about the Bills prospects at this point in the season than in any year since 2020. At no point this season have the Bills demonstrated the sort of sustained excellence that I would need to see in order to drink the Kool Aid and convince myself that they're capable of making a Super Bowl run.

I just want to vent (and not read) so someone else has probably already said this but it seemed to me that on the 4th & 17 (and, IIRC, a similar situation earlier in the game), the Bills went into a prevent defense with minimal to no pass rush, and given all day, Mahomes was able to wait for someone to come open. When the Bills had pressure on Mahomes, he didn't do so well.

The broadcast so far has been amateurish. They've missed a lot.

A top career 10 JA17 throw.

Worst: Facemask penalty called against Bruce Smith when he one-hand sacked Boomer Esiason, clearly grabbing only jersey, during the first half of 1989 AFC Championship game.

Hurts' numbers came mostly in the second half after the game had been decided by the Philly Dline. I would have voted for Sweat who made the biggest numeric contribution to the Dline first half dominance.

Well deserved. The vote should not have been that close.

Bills need someone who can stretch the field

I feel better about the Bills playing the Chiefs in KC than I did about them playing the Ravens in Buffalo.

Since JA got whacked in the head on his 2nd to last run of the first half, he hasn't thrown one good pass. Since the ensuing touchdown, he hasn't run once. Just saying.

This came up in passing in another thread. My first and thought is that the best season by a Bill was OJ's 1973 2000 yards season when he gained 75% more yards than the league's second leading rusher. To put that level of domination in perspective, Henry, this season's 2nd leading rusher, is currently on track to gain around 1700 yards; were Barkley, the leading rusher, to dominate in the way the OJ did, he would end the season with just short of 3000 yards, or more than 90% of the single season team record! However, were Josh Allen to extend his remarkable season to the point of willing the Bills to the Super Bowl or even winning it, a case might be made that his season surpassed OJ's. What do other Bills' fans think about this? Any other contenders for best individual season in Bills' history come to mind?

Arguable at best. OJ averaged 143 yards rushing per game in 1973. Present day MVP voters looked ready to vote for Barkley (who has a lot of high end talent around him) over Allen (who doesn't) when Barkley was averaging 122 yards a game. At that point Barkley had a slight lead over Henry for the rushing lead. The #2 rusher in 1973 averaged under 82 yards a game, not much more than HALF of what OJ did. I listen to a lot of national sports talk and during the discussions for MVP (which I think JA should win in a runaway), the argument against Allen is that his stats aren't overwhelmingly impressive. Josh Allen is having a fantastic year but OJ's 73 is numerically unrivaled.

Lot of recency bias here. That said, JA is on a trajectory to be #1.

Pathetic

I wouldn't get rid of Bass at halftime, but I would explore all opportunities to replace him before the next game. But before cutting him, why not let him try the 66 yard field goal? IMO, that has a much better chance of scoring than an all-or-nothing screen pass.

Definitely

Things that pissed me off besides the coaching SNAFUs: Bills blitz packages which rarely if ever generate pressure. Nick Wright called both Rams upset and Stafford going toe to toe with Allen.