Dr. K

I don't care. A football team is just a football team. Donald Trump is President.

I've been very critical of Tyrod, and I'm still not sure if he's the long-term solution but the Bills could win a lot of games with that level of QB play. Can he sustain it?

Ryan's system makes them look worse than they are.

I did not expect the team to do well this year. I imagined the defense might be a little better but I had no confidence that they would be less penalized or better coached. I did not expect the leap in sacks. I could not tell whether TT would play better--it seemed possible--or be found out by the rest of the league and play worse. But as long as Rex was the coach, I had no hopes for them. Still don't.

This defense is designed to make Gilmore and Darby look worse than they are. In another system they would (and will) look first rate.

Who cares?

Aaron needs to retire before the only way he can get around is in a powered wheelchair.

Gillislee averaged over seven yards per carry against the Pats. The loss of McCoy did not do in the team Sunday.

Over and over again he doesn't throw the ball until the receiver is completely open. And by the time the ball gets there half the time the receiver is not open anymore and gets clobbered. If he sees them at all. Yet he may be the Bills best option. He has made plays with his legs, found open receivers while scrambling when the defense breaks down, like the pass to the fullback early in the game. Given what he can do, and what the rest of the team can't do, and the level of coaching, I'll be astonished if they win more than seven games.

This. I think EJ should be extremely glad to get out of Buffalo, and I think he has a good chance to become a starting QB and succeed on another team.

Start EJ. [ducks to evade buckets of hurled abuse]

Yep.

Whaley gave Rex the players Rex wanted in the draft. Just fire Rex and get it over with.

Gillislee is a legit backup. He's run well when he's had the ball today.

I agree 100%.

Because Tyrod is short, in a league of athletic linemen who are well over 6 feet tall and trained to batt down the ball. Maybe Drew Brees has learned to deal with being only 6' tall, but Tyrod has not.

I don't think I've made a prediction before now. I'll say 7-9 or 8-8.

What kind of coach has the entire offense resting on the back of a single running back, one who is not some beast like Earl Campbell or Jerome Bettis, but a relatively slight guy who counts on people missing, who has injury issues in recent seasons, and who before than had the most carries in the league for several years? I was saying after the San Francisco game that the hysteria about McCoy being league MVP and leading the league in rushing was a delusion because he could not carry that load for a full season without getting hurt. Here we are. Does anyone think the Pats game next week is going to go like the one in Foxboro, where the Bills nurse a slight lead through four quarters—with Tom Brady playing QB on the other side of the line? What's Rex's fallback position?

It does seem to me that TT holds the ball too long and is late on throws when the receivers have the coverage beat. The pass the 2 yard line on the last scoring drive got there late enough for the receiver to get nailed as he caught it; if TT had thrown it a second earlier he would have scored easily. Of course it's easy for me to say this after the fact.

Put Tyrod in a situation where he has to throw the ball, and the Bills are DEAD.

Ladies and gentlemen, your Buffalo Bills. 1-3 in the AFC, 1-2 in the Eastern Division. Soon to be 1-4 and 1-3 respectively, and dead dead dead even for a wildcard spot. Are you surprised? Has Tyrod Taylor ever led a 4th quarter comeback? If I'm not mistaken, EJ has had more of those than Tyrod has.

My point is not that the Steelers were inconsiderable, but that the Bills looked unbeatable going into that game and still lost. This current four-game winning streak is great. But it means very little in the large scheme of things. Let's see how they do against an improving Dolphins team and then against the Patriots.

The 2004 Bills started 0-4 (losing 3 games by a total of 8 points), and then went on to win 9 of their next 11 games, including a 6-game winning streak. During these eleven games they won games by the scores 38-14, 37-17, 38-9, 42-32, 37-7, 33-17, and 41-7. They looked like an absolute juggernaut, beating the snot out of everybody they faced (with the exception of the Patriots, of course). As you know, they came into the last game of the season against the Steelers, in Buffalo, needing to win to clinch a playoff spot. The Steelers rested their starters, and the Bills managed to lose 29-24. Talk to me about how great the Bills are at the end of the season.

I give him some credit for the turnaround. But I'm still wait and see. I just feel that his flaws as a coach will resurface. Ask me in January.

I'm glad to be wrong about this game, which I fully expected the Bills to lose. I'll eat some crow on that one.