Big Turk
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With how well McD is usually prepared, I would be very surprised if he didn't already have this situation prepared for ahead of time.
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3 minutes ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:
If CLE wins tonight, we'll slip out (not that it's relevant at all at this point)
If Cleveland wins tonight it would be a minor miracle while fielding a team of replacement players. Plus their remaining schedule after tonight is brutal and they might not win another game...Packers, Ravens, Bengals.
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11 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:
Yeah, the point differential doesn't match up with our W-L record.
Neither do our yardage stats. We're #1 in defense and #8 in offense. That sounds like the rankings of one of the best teams in the NFL. Yet if the season ended today, we wouldn't be in the playoffs.
If we won just half of the close games we've been in, our W-L record would better align with some of these other numbers.
That's not true. We are still the 7 seed. Currently the Ravens are out of the playoffs due to a worse record in common games. We are 3-2 and they are 2-2(we played the Fins twice and won, they lost to them)
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1 hour ago, Max Fischer said:
I think differential matters to a point. It clearly indicates good and bad teams, but it’s harder to analyze without closer examination. For example, each game, an extra late touchdown scored or given up could substantially change a team’s ranking, but not a game’s outcome.
IMO, the NFL is as close to parity as it’s ever been (in my lifetime). Bills lose to Jags, Bucs get shutout at home to the Saints, Cardinals lose to Lions, Chiefs looked terrible and now good, Titans are difficult to figure out, Packers almost lose to a backup QB and his hurting defense. Abundant examples every week.
Bucs got shutout last night by the Saints and we're absolutely destroyed in their earlier meeting in New Orleans. Saints clearly have their number and they Bucs could be in trouble if those injuries last night are serious.
Godwin, Evans and Fournette all went down in that game and didn't return.
Tampa Bay was the best offense in football...imagine what they would be saying if the Bills got shutout at home by a bottom feeder team.
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7 hours ago, MJS said:
I think it illustrates that the team is probably better than what we have seen from them this year. They have gotten no lucky breaks in their favor, no lucky bounces of the ball (like Cam's fumble that bounced right to his receiver), and have been on the wrong side of a lot of bad officiating.
Last year I think it was the opposite. The pendulum swung the opposite way. The truth is probably somewhere in-between last year's and this year's team.
Things can click for them at any time, though. That's what is exciting about this team. The offense can be struggling in a game, but you know they have it in them to turn it on and start putting up TD after TD.
I find it amazing how the offense can struggle but then still end up with 30+ points. It's like they just are a threat to go on a blitzkrieg of points at any time.
2 hours ago, Utah John said:I think what's bothering people is that the Bills haven't yet played a complete game. Early in the year some of the teams they beat were playing really bad, and the Bills crushed them with a B- effort. Every now and then the office gets it in gear for a quarter or so, and we see what they're capable of, and then the wheels come off a little bit.
Aside from the Oline Raliroad Trainwreck, there have been new areas of concern. Josh has been missing receivers this year, open guys, that I don't remember him missing last year. Those mistakes stop drives.
Washington was a pretty complete game and so was KC I thought. Probably Houston also.
2 hours ago, CSBill said:Not sure anyone thinks the Bills are "bad." And that is the problem, at time they can look great, and at other times, not-so-much. What the Bills are, and this is the frustration, is wildly inconsistent.
I mean that is true...according to Pro Football Outsiders, this year's Bills are the most inconsistent team they have ever tracked going back to 1983
1 hour ago, Thurman#1 said:House, you're better than this.
They're very likely to re-sign him, and he's a major part of why this defense is very very good.
The problem has been inconsistency, on both sides, but more the offense.
Penalties too. The stats show we had a lot last year too, but last year they seemed to convert 1st and 20s without breaking a sweat. This year not so much.
Agreed, about a complete game. They've only had one or two, against tomato cans.
I mean, we have the number one defense in the NFL and people are still complaining about things like we are at the bottom. Every team has flaws on both sides of the ball and on balance, I would rather have a team built to stop the pass.
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Many think the team isn't good and yet we lead the NFL with a +151 point differential, 11 more than the second place Patriots and 47 more than the 3rd place Cowboys.
It's hard to reconcile these two things.
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13 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:
Spencer Brown was not ready to play on left tackle he was doing pretty darn good as a right tackle for us with Williams at guard and they should have left it that way and played Bates
I'm not sure about "ready" as being the issue...it's a position he hasn't played before and everything is completely opposite on the other side. Flipping sides is a huge deal, not some minor thing...
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Saints really have Tampa Bay's number...they blew them out earlier this year
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28 minutes ago, MAJBobby said:
He really hurt the team this week with his penalties and McD rightfully sat him down for a Bit.
I had no idea why he thought taunting was a good idea after playing the way he did today...granted he had it rough with having to basically play LT with no prior experience, but still...
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For as "bad" as the Bills have played some games, they lead the NFL in net point differential by a country mile at 151.
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17 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
Meaning they see us as a 1.5 point favorite on a neutral field.
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1 hour ago, D. L. Hot-Flamethrower said:
So unless the Raiders beat the Browns, we will spend the whole week listening to how we aren't in the playoffs now.
If they lose to a team with half their roster out, they have serious issues.
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Just now, YoloinOhio said:
Yes
Still sucking I see hahaha
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Was that the same John Miller on the Panthers OLine that used to play here?
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39 minutes ago, UKBillFan said:
But they will be more suspectible to a disease that spreads far easier. More likely than not, they will be asymptomatic or just get cold-like symptoms but will they take that risk?
I reckon they'll dismiss cold-like symptoms as a cold rather than testing, so it'll only be coughs/change of taste and smell/fever that get tested.
Then people will start hiding minor symptoms...this has the makings of a disaster
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I mean...how does this make any sense? So MORE people can land on the COVID list??
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Why is that a first down after Bridgewater dove? Any time a QB leaves his feet now to dive it is supposed to be treated as if he slid, which means it would have been dead at the spot he took off from which was 2 yards short...
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Allen
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Flutie
Fitzy
Ferguson
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3 minutes ago, NewEra said:
Bengals close with @balt/@KC/cleveland. I’ll give them 2 losses.
Yeah the other teams have much tougher schedules than we do the next 3 weeks, except the Pats, but we get a chance to handle them next week.
Wow...Bridgewater looks out and the Bengals player looks like he is seriously injured on the same play.
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5 minutes ago, Dablitzkrieg said:
Wrong
Not according to ESPN Playoff machine
http://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs/machine
Chargers are 7 seed, Bengals are 6, Colts are 5, Bills are out....
EDIT: this includes the Raiders winning, so I might have spoken prematurely
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If Bengals and Ravens both win, Bills will be on the outside looking in heading into next week.
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1) We are far better at quick rushes to the edge than at runs up the middle
2) Brown sucks at LT and had no business taunting anyone in the game
3) Dane Jackson is better than we think
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3 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Happy they won? Worried at the lack of confidence in the offensive play calling? Disturbed by the ease they moved the ball on us? Upset by the lack of discipline penalties? What does this game tell us about the rest of the season?
We took care of what we needed to. No big injuries. Onto the Patriots.
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2 minutes ago, BillsFan130 said:
Top of my head is:
-Gabe
-Obada
-Singletary
I didn't think Josh played very well today- He was ok. And this is coming from someone who is a Josh Allen apologist.
He started out meh, heated up for a while, then cooled off until the last TD throw...
It was an OK game, but the OLine was mostly dreadful in pass pro and Panthers are a good defense.
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For as bad as some think the Bills are...they lead the NFL in point differential by quite a bit
in The Stadium Wall
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Probably not that many. Agreed....I mean they made the Broncos play a game last year with no QB. It just pisses me off that the teams that have done nothing wrong are the ones who get punished in these situations. The other team gets a chance to have some players back that wouldn't have been eligible and then they are forced to play again on a short week against an opponent coming off a normal week.