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Basically if the Jags show up, they can count on the Bills penalties outgaining the Bills O. EJ's soft spot is that he cant carry the team on his back, which he'll have to do because even though the Jags are terrible, they'll be able to score at will against Bills ricepaper thin D

meh. if, if, if, if, if. the bills hired a dopey coach and have a roster full of delicate flowers. if they win 3 more this season, we should all consider it a success.

If the queen had 2 balls, she'd be the king

I for one am really glad that we kept Hogan around. He's not made of crystalized sugar and gentle winds like the rest of the receiving corps (ok not robert woods). That and he catches everything throw at him.

The difference is the Bills have a coach who obv. hit his head hard at some point in the preseason. Thats an injury that's hard for the rest of the team to overcome

A good example of somebody attempting to quantify something, but completely borking the relationship between the variables. This is what Statistics is class that never has any journalism students in it.

I agree, we should let Sammy play on the DL

This really is a litmus test game. If the Bills come out strong, and don't make a lot of dumb mistakes and penalties, I think 9-7 is probably achievable. If they look lifeless, except for when they're committing field-flipping personal fouls, then I think probably 6-10 is the best we'll get this year, or any year under coach Rex

Over the last 15 years, nothing helps a team get well better than playing the Bills

Except that Lebeau fields leading defenses. Rex is an alltime leader in hype before the season, it's a shame that isn't a useful stat when trying to get into the playoffs

Lets face it like adults, the Bills, while still able to eke out a few more wins, maybe 3 or 4, aren't going to do anything this year. Call it what you will, bad luck, injuries, getting jobbed by the refs, whatever, the league bases it's playoff participants on actual wins and losses, not 'moral victories' or shoulda beens. Given that (and I wish I was wrong. I'm not) I think the secondary goal for us as Bills fans is to see someone knock the Pats off their perch. This Bills team isn't built to beat them. The Jets *might* be. Play solid D, don't get stupid penalties, and have an opportunistic offence. Most of the guys I work with are Jets fans, so I've paid more attention to them than other non-buffalo teams. They're not spectacular, and outside of Revis and Richardson, there aren't any superstars, but they play better as a Team than this iteration of the Bills. God how I miss last year, when the D could be relied upon. This week will be telling. I expect another piss poor showing by the Bills, but who knows maybe the Jags show worse. I know this, giving Bortles all day in the pocket isn't a recipe for success, and if the Bills do that, then Thurman should be fired before the plane leaves London. The game I'll actually watch this week (because I'm not sitting watching the Bills stream on my ipad at 930 in the morning, that's pants on head retarded) is pats/jets. If the game looks like ours against the pats, which lets admit, was nowhere near as close as the score indicated, then yeah the Jets can come back to the pack with us and enjoy being bridesmaids once again. If the Jets lose, but keep it close, and fight hard, that's a pretty good indication of their program heading in the right direction. if they win, which 538.com only puts at 16% likelihood ( then we'll know that they've arrived.

Hiding in plain site, you see. If we continue to 'blitz' like this, we'll lull the rest of the league into a sense of complacency, and next season, Rex will have the best D in the league! he's a wizard!

Watch next week, the DL will be Gilmore, Roby and maybe the punter, while incognito will play CB with EJ Manual at safety. you guys don't get it, rex is a wizard

There's lies, damn lies, and statistics. Right now the Bills and Jets aren't even on the same planet. Look at games against common opponents, that's your best barometer. We both pounded the colts, and we did a little better against the dolphins. We'll see next week when they play the pats.

only fan petition that counts is when people stop buying tickets. Having said that, if this team quits, which feels very much like what happened yesterday, OBD will have a much harder time selling seasons going into next year. It's going to be a lot harder to manufacture hype with the evidence staring us in the face that this is a brittle, undisciplined, boring team.

I'm mad too based on the last few weeks half assed performances, but all the top QBs in the world wont help if you have dumb morons committing penalties on virtually every play of over 5 yards. My wife, who works in HR, suggested yesterday that for each personal foul (taunting, whatever) that player be docked a week's pay. It would never work with the crybaby union, but if it did, that behavior would stop on a dime

an entire team built of rice paper and balsa wood. They are like those planes you put together as a kid, fun for about 5 minutes then they would just disintegrate

I thought you were talking about Tissue Paper Watkins

So then he's a coach who can make a horrible team close to average, but he can also make a good team close to average. Coaching by regression to the mean!

You know Romo will probably be back by week 16, right? Bills cant beat a JV QB, much less a perfectly adequate one. In fact, I suspect the Bills game will be where the media announced that Romo is truly back after throwing for 400 yards and 6 TDs, while the Bills get 17 penalties for 150 yards, outgaining the O.

Ha, yeah. We can't win at home, so I'd go on and assume the phins is a loss, plus they'll be looking for revenge when we accidentally showed up and played a game. We'll win 1 or 2 road games because TT is a baller, probably KC and DC, so what, 5-11? I wonder where that puts us on the draft order. The good news is, we'll have a high draft pick. The bad news is, we'll bundle it with the following year's first to reach up for a tissue paper fragile skill player that will play injured for a year or two then fade into obscurity.

God Almighty, is that stat correct? So what does that mean, the best he can possibly do is 8-8 or 9-7 year over year? I'll admit, I was giddy when they hired him but I'm feeling now like there was basically no due diligence done on this guy. I'm just a dopey fan, I can't imagine how the Pegulas are feeling. Even a billionaire can't be too happy about throwing $25m down the drain.

Same. It can't be overstated that Rex leaving the jets and coming to the bills made the jets better and the bills worse. The bills arent talented enough to overcome bad coaching, and make no mistake, Rex Ryan IS BAD COACHING. Also, I'd like to add, it really really pains me to say this, but the Bills were a better TEAM last year. if they had TT, I bet they would have won 1, maybe 2 more. We would all be grousing about another year under Marrone, but at least we'd have a solid D to rely on, this year it's a disgrace.

find me 5 games on the remaining schedule we can win

Agreed. I preferred the teams that never won but tried, this is disgusting