Game week thread - Ravens at Bills SNF

[BlueRed]

If my math is correct the bills will need 6 inactives for tomorrow (I don’t think they filled Bass’ spot on the 53 -unless I missed it). 
 

WR Moore

OL SVPG

OL Lundt 

CB Tre White

DB Hancock

S Franklin

the other one I could see may be Javon Solomon if they want another DB active. 

[Beck Water]

4 hours ago, NoName said:

Who will get the nod if Tre doesn’t play?

 

Babich and McD are advertising for Strong to get the start.  Remains to be seen if it's false advertising designed to get Ravens coaches and receivers scurrying for whatever film they can find.

[Victory Formation]

Just now, boyst said:

Our upgrades at DL are suspended 6 weeks, for the most part. Bosa is a wildcard. I hope he can last the whole game but also don't have hopes he will last the season so blowing our wad with him in week 1 is a concern. 

Walker, Sanders, Bosa etc.. It will also  be interesting to see how my boy Javon Solomon does as well as I love the kid.. It wouldn’t surprise me to see him breakout and have a major impact on this team..

 

And we do have good veteran depth in front of the rookies... (Rousseau, Oliver, Daquan, Epenesa etc). We have a great mix of experience and youthful talent along our DL, imo..

 

And it is unfortunate though that Hoecht and Ogunjobi are out, but the way I see it is that it will be nice to have some fresh bodies along that DL mid season, which will hopefully give us a boost..

 

My biggest concern is play calling.. Can McD/Babich throw in some odd fronts and exotic play calls? That remains to be seen.. Hopefully we don’t play some soft bullcrap vanilla D.

[balln]

3 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

Babich and McD are advertising for Strong to get the start.  Remains to be seen if it's false advertising designed to get Ravens coaches and receivers scurrying for whatever film they can find.

Yea I agree. When bills were down corners last year. At Miami early in year - Ingram started. He played well too.

 

its gonna be Ingram. But maybe they rotate. Trade series. I feel like that’s happened before w McD here in Buffalo

[Big Turk]

25 minutes ago, boyst said:

Our upgrades at DL are suspended 6 weeks, for the most part. Bosa is a wildcard. I hope he can last the whole game but also don't have hopes he will last the season so blowing our wad with him in week 1 is a concern. 

 

Who cares. Fresher for the playoffs

[PoundingDog]

17 minutes ago, BlueRed said:

If my math is correct the bills will need 6 inactives for tomorrow (I don’t think they filled Bass’ spot on the 53 -unless I missed it). 
 

WR Moore

OL SVPG

OL Lundt 

CB Tre White

DB Hancock

S Franklin

the other one I could see may be Javon Solomon if they want another DB active. 

I think Landon Jackson is more likely to be inactive

[Capco]

Bills win, 27-21.

[cgang]

I have a bad feeling about the game but I always have a bad feeling so that means Bills will probably win.  Lol

 

Still though this feels like the game that Bills played against the Rams a couple years back.  Bills came in with retribution in their mind after being bounced in the 13 second game and kicked the Ram’s a@@.  Hope we hold at home and get a win!  Last home opener at highmark so good vibes from all fans and players from such a “rich” history (pun intended). 

 

 

[BigAl2526]

I'm greatly encouraged by Bobby Babich's opinion about Dorian Strong's recent improvement.  I realize it's one thing to show improvement and strong play in practice and another thing entirely to do the same thing going up against a quality opponent in games where it counts.

[newcam2012]

3 hours ago, boyst said:

No and yes. Anything coaches say can be this way; but I think they do like Strong. If we can get a starter quality out of him I'll be floored.

It's quite possible look at Benford. 

[Success]

It's cool that our game is the biggest one on the NFL's first Sunday, by a pretty wide margin.

 

I kind of wish there were a few more interesting ones going on.  The 4:00 slot has a couple, but the early games look like a snoozefest.

 

[Richard Noggin]

1 hour ago, BlueRed said:

If my math is correct the bills will need 6 inactives for tomorrow (I don’t think they filled Bass’ spot on the 53 -unless I missed it). 
 

WR Moore

OL SVPG

OL Lundt 

CB Tre White

DB Hancock

S Franklin

the other one I could see may be Javon Solomon if they want another DB active. 

 

1 hour ago, PoundingDog said:

I think Landon Jackson is more likely to be inactive

 

Franklin will be active and Jackson will be inactive, imho. Just signed Franklin to the 53 and why would they need to do that if he's not going to play STs? Unless another team was looking to poach him so the Bills had to sign him or lose him? Either way, he offers more value on the gameday roster than Jackson does right now. 

[BillsFanForever19]

2 hours ago, boyst said:

Our upgrades at DL are suspended 6 weeks, for the most part. Bosa is a wildcard. I hope he can last the whole game but also don't have hopes he will last the season so blowing our wad with him in week 1 is a concern. 

 

While I think people are generally overlooking Michael Hoecht - this idea that "Our upgrades at DL are suspended 6 weeks" isn't true.

 

Especially along the Interior. T.J. Sanders and Deone Walker is where the major improvements were made. Larry Ogunjobi is an upgrade over some of the depth we had. But I don't think anyone's looking at him as the real game changer among those three additions.

 

And like I said, I expect bigger things out of Hoecht than was thought when we signed him - especially after the impressive off-season he had. And we'll be better when he is in the lineup.

 

But Bosa is where the major upgrade is. The only "wild card" about Bosa is whether or not he can stay healthy. And there's also Landon Jackson, who was hot and cold in the Pre-Season. 

 

All this to say we made 6 additions along the Defensive Line to improve it. We have 4 of those 6 on hand now and they're most of where the improvements are expected to come from.

Edited Sunday at 03:17 AM by BillsFanForever19

[DaVinci]

50 min and this turns into game day thread!

[BillsFanForever19]

2 hours ago, BlueRed said:

If my math is correct the bills will need 6 inactives for tomorrow (I don’t think they filled Bass’ spot on the 53 -unless I missed it). 
 

WR Moore

OL SVPG

OL Lundt 

CB Tre White

DB Hancock

S Franklin

the other one I could see may be Javon Solomon if they want another DB active. 

 

I don't think Franklin is going to be inactive. They brought him in specifically for Special Teams and he's one of Tabor's favorite ST'ers.

 

I would expect one of Landon Jackson or Javon Solomon to be inactive. Possibly Jackson, as Solomon is a Special Teams player.

 

I know Shavers is a fan favorite lately, but I'm not convinced that he'll be active and Moore won't. Shavers is the #4 Boundary WR on the Depth Chart. Moore is the #2 Slot on the Depth Chart. 

 

It wouldn't surprise me if Shavers dressed over Moore. But I would be equally, if not more unsurprised if it went the other way.

Edited Sunday at 03:37 AM by BillsFanForever19

[NewEra]

One more sleep!  Merry Christmas Eve ladies and gents 

[Special K]

As others have said, I love the fact the Bills are playing in front of a national audience so often, but I really hate having to wait all freakin day to see the game.

 

I'm just ready to get this season underway.... if the Bills can get a win tomorrow, it could be the first of a pretty decent winning streak to start the season, whereas a loss would not be the end of the world, but would certainly make for an annoying next couple of days.

 

Lets get this win, boys!!

 

Go Bills!!!!!

 

 

[DaVinci]

Just waiting for Chandler.

[Scott7975]

10 hours ago, boyst said:

I've listened to a lot of coverage on this game. In the shop this morning I caught Carruci and dan lebetard on NFL radio.

 

I've always always always appreciated their straight forward non-hot take perspectives. Which, when eating lunch just now I see nfl.com says that the game will be a shoot out, 10 TD's between he QB's. 

 

I guess I get the idea. Everyone is expecting fireworks. But, back to Carruci and Lebetard they seemed more balanced. I am, too. I don't see either team scoring the 35+. The Bills offense has the potential, and their defense has the unpotential to give it up. The Ravens offense has the ability to score but not the explosiveness of the Bills. Their defense can shut down and offense.

 

If the winning score is something 31-20something I'd expect that about the highest. 

 

If both teams touch the mid 30's I will be amazed.  I don't know the Ravens have the horses to play like that - I don't know enough about their depth. I know the Bills could score 40 if they fire off.

 

There have been a lot of games that people anticipate high scoring shootouts over the last few years that ended up being a big defensive game.

[stevewin]

6 hours ago, Success said:

It's cool that our game is the biggest one on the NFL's first Sunday, by a pretty wide margin.

 

I kind of wish there were a few more interesting ones going on.  The 4:00 slot has a couple, but the early games look like a snoozefest.

 

There's always hate-watching the Jets/Fins/Pats as well