finn Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 There is no real midpoint to the season anymore, but this is as good a spot as any to pause and consider the state of the team. Also, I'm hoping they're about to get back on track, so maybe this is the pivot point. My take: Positives/nice surprises: Josh Allen going supernova in the first five games; Diggs having a career season; the young guns in the secondary; Rousseau arriving; Von Miller time; DaQuan dominating; Epenesa and Basham coming along; Shakier contributing; Sam Martin getting it done; Dorsey's offense up to Packer's game. Negatives/disappointments: Saffold's mediocre everything; Bates' struggles; Brown's pass pro; Oliver continuing to "flash" and no more; Knox disappearing; McKenzie repeatedly hurting the team; Gabe Davis' lack of development; Cook's meek play; the endless injuries. Dorsey's offense since Packer's game. High points: Allen's shot-put of the Rams DB; beating the Chiefs (ahh); crushing the Titans; Allen throwing that bomb to Davis out of the end zone; Allen vaulting yet another player; Von's sack of Mahomes to seal victory. Low points: I don't have the heart to list them, but most of them occurred in the last ten quarters. Forecast: Dorsey gets more creative and less predictable; the injury list regresses to the mean; the team gets its swagger back and runs the table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einstein Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 For Gabe, I would say it’s less a lack of involvement and more an issue of him dropping pass after pass. He has to have close to a dozen drops. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostbitmic Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Positive - Hamlin Negative - Knox High Point - Beating the Chiefs Low Point - Getting beat by the Jests then throwing a win away vs the Vikings Forecast - Snow 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSE Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 It's mid season... The Bills are in 3rd place We don't belong here ... 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entropyrules Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Billy Buffalo still exists..total low point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBillsFanSince1973 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, HOUSE said: It's mid season... The Bills are in 3rd place We don't belong here ... 0-2 in the division and in third place was something I didn't think I was going to see this season. Hopefully they can bounce back and at least split with the Jets and Miami and either split or sweep the pats? They have got a lot of work to do to get this train back on the track. Which I do have confidence in them enough to believe they will. Edited November 18, 2022 by DaBillsFanSince1973 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 7 minutes ago, HOUSE said: It's mid season... The Bills are in 3rd place We don't belong here ... looking up to Fins and Jets in standings🤮 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, HOUSE said: It's mid season... The Bills are in 3rd place We don't belong here ... ….but I’m wasted and I can’t find my way home….. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reks Ryan Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 The ticket situation completely sucks. Already re-routed travel plans from BUF to Detroit. Was working til after 6 pm. Jumped online and to get 4 seats together in lower bowl is over $300 / seat. Not managed well by the Bills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78thealltimegreat Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Knowing you lost 3 games by a combined 8 points and in each game you where clearly the better team is crazy. I think we have seen enough now to realize the Bills when they are focused for 4 quarters beat any team in this league by 10 points. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reks Ryan Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 5 minutes ago, 78thealltimegreat said: Knowing you lost 3 games by a combined 8 points and in each game you where clearly the better team is crazy. I think we have seen enough now to realize the Bills when they are focused for 4 quarters beat any team in this league by 10 points. They are probably the better team of the 4, we will find over the next 7 weeks. Against Dolphins & Vikings it felt like the Bills were the better team. But the Jets completely dominated the 2nd half. Jets were the best team on the field that day in NJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Blitz Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 I’m just going to continue to think we’re holding back a slew of stuff on purpose with the offense. That’s my optimistic take. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanSD Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 1 hour ago, frostbitmic said: Positive - Hamlin Negative - Knox High Point - Beating the Chiefs Low Point - Getting beat by the Jests then throwing a win away vs the Vikings Forecast - Snow I'm giving Knox a pass considering everything he's had to deal with. Not disagreeing with you from a raw production standpoint of course. Just that I'm not worried about his future with the team. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostbitmic Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 4 minutes ago, BillsFanSD said: I'm giving Knox a pass considering everything he's had to deal with. Not disagreeing with you from a raw production standpoint of course. Just that I'm not worried about his future with the team. My negative is more the non use of Knox than on Knox himself, I should've been clearer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephilim17 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Benford is a huge positive. Has he been perfect? No, but he held his own against veteran receivers and has helped an injury-ravaged team win games. Early on, I was almost thinking of getting his jersey as he is the epitome of the underdog: a 6th rounder pick starting over a first rounder. I hope he continues to improve and carve out a very good career as a long-term starter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGOATski Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Forecast: The Bills reduce the turnovers. We know they can be better than the worst team in the league in turnovers. Just get back to turning the ball over at an average rate and they'll be okay. I think they'll regress back to their turnover mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Riverside Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Gabe having the dropsies has been disappointing and I would really like to see this team be able to grind it out on the ground whenever they want to those are my disappointing’s The positives? We are six and three we are not beating patty cake teams to get there, and in our losses we are not getting wiped out that is a change from previous years. Some of our winds were against fringe opponents, and whenever we lost, we lost big that stopped happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 This was the most highly anticipated Bills season in a generation. Expectations were high. Having three lossess to 2 rookie and 1 second year head coach, at least in part due to poor coaching decisions, is clearly the biggest disappointment so far. 0-2 in the division is a nightmare. Nothing over the course of the last two years suggests that game time coaching blunders will all of sudden stop. And now the head coach is signalling he will be finger pointing to deflect blame (McDermott's passive agressive comments about Allen after the Vikings loss, his passive agressive comments about Tre White). The way the AFC is split between good and bad teams, it is possible an 11-6 team misses the playoffs. 10-7 almost certainly misses in the AFC. The Bills have four divisional games remaining: 2 against the patriots who we rarely sweep, 2 against teams who already beat us this season. All of these teams are hungry and in the playoff hunt. Going two and two out of these four is the most likely scenario. This means we can't lose any of our other four games. Our other four games are against the Browns, Lions, Bears and Bengals. Browns are a terrible matchup for the Bills. The Bengals are defending AFC champions who are dangerous on any given Sunday. A loss tomorrow to the Browns will be devastating. As they say D-Day was a must win, this is just a football game. But if the Bills lose tomorrow, the path to a championship becomes very narrow. If the Bills win tomorrow, it will still be a slog to get home. There is certainly hope but the team is a true inflection point over the next 6 days. Two wins will help alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airseven Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 About as expected, which is to say about the same as last year. Some truly high points coupled with another mid-season lull and continued (predictable) struggle at OL. The team is good but all the underlying issues remain that’ll prove to be the Achilles heel in playoffs…coaching, OL, execution in close games, turnovers. Not to mention the injuries which makes them less dangerous than last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosejob Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 On 11/18/2022 at 7:04 PM, frostbitmic said: My negative is more the non use of Knox than on Knox himself, I should've been clearer. Knox has been our 6th Lineman in pass pro. I wish people would let up on him a little. It's the way he's being used. I hope the coaches coach smarter. Quit thinking you have to convert 4th and shorts every time....especially in FG range....And with 1:38 and a timeout left in the RZ and OT, take the timeout and think about what the Hell you need to do. We should have never lost let alone went to OT. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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