Mc1320 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 They are to inconsistent and turnovers will kill them in the playoffs. If they can play the way they did against Dallas 4 games in a row they will have a shot, but they will probably stink up the joint for at least one game like the Chargers/Patriots the last two weeks and get bounced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Day 10 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 I have confidence that they can win 2 home games against some combination of Houston, Indy, KC, or Jax. Cleveland concerns me, but they would get them at home. Going to Baltimore is a really tough deal. Im hoping 2 weeks off blows them up and the lose in the Divisional Round.... If the Bills lose to Miami... I have little confidence in running the table @KC, @Balt, and probably @Cleveland or @Miami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo03 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Gotta get to the playoffs and anything can happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDIGGZ Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 I don't have a lot of faith unfortunately. The Bills are too streaky to play (including this weekend) 4 great games in a row. People will say they won the last 4 in a row and I'd respond that we played like crap the past 2 weeks and still won over really bad competition. There are no last place teams in the playoffs. You can't take a week off and barely win anyhow. We need to win Sunday to get in. So that means beating Miami on their field, followed by home game against Miami again, home game vs KC, away at Baltimore. If you look at it like that as if it was a regular season schedule you would assume Bills lose 1 if not 2 of those games. Just being realistic sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephilim17 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 10,000% more confidant than I was at 6-6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuvian Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 The perplexing thing with this team is how we allow mediocre opponents to hang around and beat us or keep it close. I believe Zac Taylor sent Clappy to school in last year's playoffs vs Cincy. Maybe changing OCs really was the spark we needed. But all of that is in the past. We will no longer face mediocre teams except perhaps the AFC South entrants. I am not afraid of any of the NFC teams, even SF. Brock Purdy was exposed by the Ravens as a caretaker QB who can be rattled. We have proven we can hang with the Cowboys and Eagles. The Lions are very solid but Jared Goff is not. We are not playing as well as the Ravens are right now. They look like they are hitting on all cylinders and are mostly healthy. Psychologically, Lamar Jackson doesn't have much playoff experience compared to Josh. If he wins the MVP as expected there will be more pressure on him. He's having an amazing year but their skill position players don't scare me. Their D is very good but not Ray Lewis/Ed Reed/Terrell Suggs good. If we were to face them it would be as a 7 point underdog. If we get a turnover against them we could score an upset. The team that scares me is the Browns. They have beaten both SF and Baltimore largely with practice squad QBs. That defense is killer good. I feel that there is no pressure on us. I also believe we are a better road team than home team. I believe we can rise to the occasion against all comers on a given day. How many given days we can string together remains to be seen. One thing we have this year that is an improvement is an established running attack. We are as healthy as any other playoff opponent. I don't expect a SB victory given how we've performed during the year but we have all the ingredients to surprise and upset people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBear Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 I have very little confidence in this team winning a playoff game, let alone 3, but far crazier playoff runs happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Process Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Significantly more confident if we get the 2 seed vs WC, Sunday is huge imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toyo321 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 (edited) Josh Allen has to play better. His last two games have been pathetic. He has missed receivers left and right, over throws, underthrown, thrown behind the receiver and then throwing into double coverage when there are other options on the field for him. He has to get his head right and hopefully this starts in Miami. We only go as far as he takes us, and he needs to makes big improvements over the last 2 games and not this 50% completion 200 yd game crap we have seen on the field in the last 2 weeks. We need to see the offense like it was in Philly and some of the Dallas game too. I think they have it in them, but its going to take an extra ordinary effort for them to make this happen. They have been playing with house money the last 5 weeks and they managed to get 4 wins out of 5. Lets see if Josh pulls it together with a 3TD 350 plus yard passing game in Miami, and Digg's has a big day to get these two guys focused and back on track again for a playoff run. If he can do this and the D does not self implode. Yes they have a chance. Edited January 5 by Toyo321 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilthyBeast Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 It's truly hard to gauge this team right now, if anything because of how wildly inconsistent JA17 and the offense have been all year. The ST unit is also a major liability on a week to week basis. On one had you can say this team could one be and done if they get to the playoffs, on the other you can say they can get to the Superbowl and possibly win it. I guess what truly concerns me is it seems like they are on the same type of trajectory as last year. And even if they win against a reeling, injury riddled Dolphins team on Sunday night I could see a carbon copy repeat of last year's playoffs (i.e. barely win wildcard game, then get handled easily in divisional round and lose by 2+ scores). If there was one positive sign to hold on it's the defense, because aside from the 2nd half of the Eagles game they have truly come together since MNF Broncos debacle and making key plays when needed especially at the end of the game. But even with a true semblance of a rushing attack make no mistake about it, this team is only going as far JA17 takes them which is why we need to see some resemblance of 2021 playoff JA17 starting this week in Miami. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH3 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 14 hours ago, Don Otreply said: They got this! It’s gonna be ugly as Fuh k, stumbling bumbling rumbling all the way!!! GO BILLS!!! Thats the dream right - wouldn't it be great to clunk their way through...play the Chiefs and win in some crapshow just to piss Nick W off.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaMilBill Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 13 hours ago, Dick_Cheney said: Against the 49ers, not so much. If somehow it's against anyone else, I think we'd have a legit shot and probably be the favorite. See I think we would play the niners really well. I think McD is very good at game planning against unfamiliar QBs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Nobody should ever be confident getting to the superbowl. That is thinking about it all wrong. 13 hours ago, Dick_Cheney said: Against the 49ers, not so much. If somehow it's against anyone else, I think we'd have a legit shot and probably be the favorite. McDermott has a great record against Shanahan and his disciples. Just saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Firebaugh Kid Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 VERY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steptide Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 2 hours ago, Beck Water said: I wonder if you could add a poll? Not sure I can, I don't know how to anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie's Dead Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Not very. I see us losing to the Ravens on the AFCCG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 If the Bills bring their A-game, no one is beating them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethro_tull Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 One game at a time. This team is capable. The penalties are way down! Work on the turnovers. Defense is helping out. McD has a history of bottling up Lamar Jackson. The NFC is beatable. In other words- the competition is also down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Red King Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 They find ways to win, and they can go toe-to-toe with anyone when they're at their best. Not sure if they're gonna bring that 'A' game any given week, so I'm not saying it's a lock, but I see it as a definate possibility. I'm confident they *can*, if they get in at least. I'm not looking past that step yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBF81 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 (edited) 15 hours ago, sven233 said: Put it this way......I am more worried about this team beating itself like they always seem to do in the Playoffs in some way, shape, or form than I am about a team just beating us because they are superior. Yes, the Ravens are playing great. But am I afraid that they are so good they will just run through us? No. I am more worried about McDermott wasting TOs or challenging stupid plays, or not going for it at the right times than I am of another team just beating us because they are that mich better. I am more worried about our offense not being able to move the ball because they can never scheme open their best WR or run it from the shotgun with Murray right into a lineman's back on 4th and 1 and not just using the tush push. I am worried that Allen might just have one of those days like he had Sunday where the ball just doesn't come out of his hand right and he just misses guys that are open. I am worried about taking the lead with a minute left and the defense not being able to close the game when needed the most. So, all that said, I am more worried about us and what we do than other teams just flat out outplaying us. Of course that could happen, but it's not what I am focused on or worried about the most. I'm with you here. The past two seasons we've had the #1 and #2 defenses, yet they collapsed in the playoffs in the 13-Seconds game and last year against Cincy, and we were hardly above-average much less #2 in facing Skylar Thompson's Fins with essentially no RB. So I'm in the have-to-see-it-to-believe-it mode re: our defense in the playoffs. Seems to me that if the offense doesn't carry the games as it did in our four playoff games in '21 and '22 except for the Ravens' game, with no offense by the Ravens, and averageing 36 PPG in the other three games, not sure we do much. Having said that I'm hopeful. Also thinking that maybe being a 6th/7th seed might be the kick-in-the-pants that we need to win one. We've also only played three teams ranked in the top-12 in scoring, so it's not as if our D has played the best offenses. Philly took our D to task. We got the best of Dallas, but they're slumping, so how much is related to that. And Miami was early in the season. Edited January 4 by PBF81 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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