Josh Allen and starters will play against the Bears

[Fleezoid]

1 hour ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:

I’m all for it. The “don’t play the starters” crowd was a lot quieter after last weeks fart. 
 

Im always good with watching Josh Allen led football, idc if it doesn’t count in the W-L column. 

 

I think that was more than just a fart. I think there was a little moisture in there. They were all a little messy in the shorts after that one. 

[oldmanfan]

Can’t blame them for this decision seeing how bad they looked last week

[Punching Bag]

4 hours ago, The Wiz said:

Need to do a deep dive on Twitter too see if Edmonds ever intercepted Josh at camp or practice.

Training Camp Highlight: Tremaine Edmunds Makes The Interception

Watch as Bills linebacker Tremaine Edmunds makes an interception on Monday at 2022 Buffalo Bills Training Camp at St. John Fisher University.

https://www.buffalobills.com/video/training-camp-highlight-tremaine-edmunds-makes-the-interception

[1ManRaid]

6 hours ago, Virgil said:

Please let the first play be Josh throwing a pick six to Edmunds.

 

I just want to watch this board implode

 

Aside from the entertainment of the board exploding, that would make the massively overrated/hyped Jets the favorites against us for easy money.

[Brand J]

1 hour ago, Chandler#81 said:

Risky

Are those 10 mins or so of preseason action riskier than the 1,020 minutes of football all starters will play over a 17 game regular season?

[Bubba Gump]

6 hours ago, Realist said:

Huh, you're not a McD fan? Never would have guessed...

 

He's a Pats troll

 

[Mark Vader]

7 hours ago, buffaloboyinATL said:

Interesting. I don't think that was the original plan, but I could be wrong.  I have a feeling McDermott hopes to end the pre-season on a high note, and build the teams confidence going into week one.

Let's also consider that when the game ends, the Bills will have 16 days until the Jets game.

 

That's a long time for the starters to go without any real playing time.

 

If they were not to play in the Bears, that means the starters will have gone 23 days without real playing time. 

That's a big gap.

[mykidsdad]

I have nver bet a preseason game, but I think Ive got an angry bills team to count on.

[Aussie Joe]

8 hours ago, HOUSE said:

I am counting the offensive penalties, this should be good

Over or under a dozen is the line

[maddenboy]

7 hours ago, frostbitmic said:

I'm guessing you'll need all 10 fingers and 3 or 4 toes.

there's a Dion Sanders joke in here, somewhere

[CSBill]

8 hours ago, I am leaving for good said:

I think this is a bad idea to put Josh Allen at risk in a meaningless preseason football game again. The Buffalo Bills also need to scan the waiver wire for a better more experienced back up at quarterback and offensive line options than what the Buffalo Bills have now in my opinion. Go Bills! Let’s Go Buffalo 

I thought you left? 

[zow2]

McDermott should be slapped with a wet noodle for playing JA in a meaningless final preseason game like this.  I don’t care about anyone else, but QB1 doesn’t need to be exposed.

[Warcodered]

 

[Richard Noggin]

11 hours ago, Virgil said:

Please let the first play be Josh throwing a pick six to Edmunds.

 

I just want to watch this board implode

 

[Richard Noggin]

9 hours ago, sven233 said:

According to many on this board, Edmunds is flat out awful so we should just send Kincaid at him a few times and we'll go right down the field and score to allow us to get out starters out after a quick series.

 

Doesn't feel like an accurate representation of the sentiment among those who were against re-signing Edmunds. I've found that most fans who wanted the team to move on from Edmunds felt like his lack of impact plays and his ineffectiveness as a blitzer made him unworthy of the contract he'd get on the open market. He's obviously assignment-sound and rangy enough to cover a lot of ground in coverage, but he's otherwise pretty unspectacular. Someone was going to overpay him, and I'm glad it wasn't the Bills.

[GoBills808]

3 minutes ago, Richard Noggin said:

 

Doesn't feel like an accurate representation of the sentiment among those who were against re-signing Edmunds. I've found that most fans who wanted the team to move on from Edmunds felt like his lack of impact plays and his ineffectiveness as a blitzer made him unworthy of the contract he'd get on the open market. He's obviously assignment-sound and rangy enough to cover a lot of ground in coverage, but he's otherwise pretty unspectacular. Someone was going to overpay him, and I'm glad it wasn't the Bills.

No

 

People legitimately thought Edmunds was so bad that now we mysteriously have even worse players in his position...they convince themselves that middle linebacker actually doesn't matter and it's not an important position to McDermott😂😂

[GunnerBill]

Remember this is the 3rd pre-season game. The traditional starters play a half game. How teams treat them has changed a bit since they webt from 4 games to 3, but this was always considered the optimum sort of gap between final warm up and week 1. 

 

What I would say is before last week I was for sitting Allen the entire pre-season. Having seen last week I feel strangely more in favour of playing him tomorrow. Still think on balance its a big risk. But, would be kinda nice to see the offense look in some kind of sync on Saturday and Josh to just look a bit more settled and less frantic.

[ALF]

Mc D was angry how they played in Pittsburgh , this is punishment , and deserved.

[Beast]

I’d like to at least two, maybe three series with starters in there. They don’t hit anyone again after that for 16 days.

Edited August 25, 2023 by Beast

[MJS]

22 hours ago, FireChans said:

Folks that say preseason doesn't matter are sick to find out the coach is punishing the starters by making them play in this one because of how crappy they looked

Tons of teams are playing their starters. The Bills are not unique. And they may have planned to regardless of what happened last week.