Game week thread - Dolphins at Bills TNF

[Royale with Cheese]

33 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

Ronald Curry, only been here since 2024 and never been a play caller at any level. If Brady leaves in 2026 I would suspect they would want an experienced OC 

Ben Johnson after Caleb Williams takes the Bears to 0-17

[Sierra Foothills]

1 hour ago, JakeFrommStateFarm said:

Who's the current QB coach ?

 

Bills usually promote up

 

1 hour ago, billsfan89 said:

Ronald Curry, only been here since 2024 and never been a play caller at any level. If Brady leaves in 2026 I would suspect they would want an experienced OC 

 

Curry has a very interesting football history.

 

He's one of the greatest high school quarterbacks in Virginia scholastic sports history and he proceeded to re-write the North Carolina Tar Heels record book as a QB.

 

But he was drafted as a wide receiver and never played QB in the NFL... and now he's the position Coach for one of the greatest QBs in NFL history.

 

Edited September 16 by Sierra Foothills

[Peace Frog]

[WinterSoldier17]

9 hours ago, Mikie2times said:

This game has the feel of a regime ender 

Much agreed.

 

Put our foot on their throats, and put them out of their misery. Miami is a soft team without strong leadership, they generally fold up into the fetal position when teams hit them in the mouth.

 

 

[Harold Jackson]

6 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said:

Ben Johnson after Caleb Williams takes the Bears to 0-17

It's game 2 and they haven't looked Dolphin bad. They will win. 

[Behindenemylines]

12 hours ago, Mikie2times said:

This game has the feel of a regime ender 

But dont we really want McVape to stay around for a while to continue he reign of mediocrity.

 

[Gregg]

19 hours ago, Big Turk said:

Line is Bills -12.5...I'm laying the points and taking the Bills...should be a win by at least 20.

 

They probably will cover but I don't like giving that many points in an NFL game. You always have to worry about those back door covers if the Dolphins get a TD in garbage time.

[PaattMaann]

9 hours ago, billsfan89 said:

Ronald Curry, only been here since 2024 and never been a play caller at any level. If Brady leaves in 2026 I would suspect they would want an experienced OC 

 

I think Curry will absolutely be a strong consideration. He is well thought of in the football world as an up and comer, Josh loves him. I don't know if I would say he is a for sure in house promotion, but I would not be the least bit surprised. 

 

Davis Webb would be another candidate that does not have a track record as play caller but that I could absolutely see being considered. 

[Coffeesforclosers]

40 minutes ago, Behindenemylines said:

But dont we really want McVape to stay around for a while to continue he reign of mediocrity.

 

 

Correct. The Tua/McVape regime has been great for us.

 

We'll miss them when they go, but I have faith the Dolphins owner will ***** up their next hires as well.  Just look at the coaching talent he's shoved out the door.

[Royale with Cheese]

3 hours ago, Harold Jackson said:

It's game 2 and they haven't looked Dolphin bad. They will win. 

 

Caleb looks bad.  When you have a QB that looks like he's regressed by year two and his accuracy is very bad right now....they are trending as a bottom 5 team right now.  

Those rumors of him not really putting in the time, when he's looked like this so far, start to gain ground.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

3 hours ago, Harold Jackson said:

It's game 2 and they haven't looked Dolphin bad. They will win. 

Game 1 looks worse for them after the Vikings looked horrible against Atlanta 

[Cray51]

Tua is NOT playing well right now.  With the way our front 4 have been getting to the QBs, I dont think it's going to go well for them.

 

Benford and White will lock down Waddle and Hill.  Achane is a problem, but he is banged up and with Taron Johnson is back along with Bernard and Dorian Williams I'm not overly concerned.

 

Bills 38 Dolphins 17

[Mango]

17 hours ago, wjag said:

Thursday night games are really unfair to the traveling team.  Their work week gets compressed even further when you have to travel Wednesday after playing Sunday.  So Monday is a film day.  Tuesday is off.  Wednesday, hop on the plane.  How can they possible do any game planning?

 

And on top of that these guys are barely practicing anyways. It is killing the product. 

[billsfan89]

2 hours ago, PaattMaann said:

 

I think Curry will absolutely be a strong consideration. He is well thought of in the football world as an up and comer, Josh loves him. I don't know if I would say he is a for sure in house promotion, but I would not be the least bit surprised. 

 

Davis Webb would be another candidate that does not have a track record as play caller but that I could absolutely see being considered. 

 

This is one of those things where it is likely going to come down to internal information. On paper I just don't see them going with an unproven play caller in what is supposed to be a Super Bowl window. Joe Brady had been an OC for two seasons at the NFL level before taking over for Dorsey and that was a mid-season take over where they couldn't do much else to jumpstart things. Curry has never been a play caller at any level. Whereas let's say Daboll is available and interested in being OC do you go with a guy that's done it with Josh before or do you go with the unproven up and comer? 

[Dillenger4]

Let's go Bills. Take this game seriously and pound these stumps into the turf!

I wanna see an all out shilaking. Kill Miami and make a statement!

[Pete]

13 hours ago, wjag said:

Interesting Josh isn’t on injury report 

If his nose is not broken, what are you going to put on injury report?  Bloody Nose last Sunday- probable 

[billsfan89]

3 minutes ago, Mango said:

 

And on top of that these guys are barely practicing anyways. It is killing the product. 

 

I've maintained that if the NFL is going to do Thursday games they should find a way to do them only when the teams have a bye the week before. Add a second bye week to the schedule (which I think will help with player injuries). 

 

The opening week Thursday Game is fine as is because teams get the rest/prep not having the last pre-season game. I would then have the team that plays in Brazil on Friday play one of the teams that played on Thursday. It would be 6 and 7 days between games for both teams with the team that played in Brazil being the home team for the following Thursday game. 

 

Afterwards I wouldn't have TNF in weeks 3 and 4. Then you start bye weeks in week 4 and any team that plays a TNF game will have had a bye week before. Given that each team has two bye weeks this would actually lead to higher quality Thursday games while still having an actual full second bye week in the season. Byes go from Week 4 to Week 16. No byes weeks 1-3 and weeks 17-19. No Thursday games weeks 3/4/18/19. 

 

Of course the NFL would never do this largely because that would mean they would have to lose 4 Thursday games and actually care about the quality of the product....

[Mango]

4 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

 

I've maintained that if the NFL is going to do Thursday games they should find a way to do them only when the teams have a bye the week before. Add a second bye week to the schedule (which I think will help with player injuries). 

 

The opening week Thursday Game is fine as is because teams get the rest/prep not having the last pre-season game. I would then have the team that plays in Brazil on Friday play one of the teams that played on Thursday. It would be 6 and 7 days between games for both teams with the team that played in Brazil being the home team for the following Thursday game. 

 

Afterwards I wouldn't have TNF in weeks 3 and 4. Then you start bye weeks in week 4 and any team that plays a TNF game will have had a bye week before. Given that each team has two bye weeks this would actually lead to higher quality Thursday games while still having an actual full second bye week in the season. Byes go from Week 4 to Week 16. No byes weeks 1-3 and weeks 17-19. No Thursday games weeks 3/4/18/19. 

 

Of course the NFL would never do this largely because that would mean they would have to lose 4 Thursday games and actually care about the quality of the product....

 

I totally agree. 

I was just piggy backing to continue whinning about the lack of practice that teams do these days. Guys are barely in the facility at all. It is slowly eroding the Sunday product and TNF is throwing gasoline on the fire. 
 

[Pete]

On 9/15/2025 at 12:32 AM, Dick_Cheney said:

Bills open as a 12.5 point favorite. 

Take the over

23 hours ago, SoTier said:

What are the odds that McDaniel doesn't get fired before the weekend?

20%

[billsfan89]

1 minute ago, Mango said:

 

I totally agree. 

I was just piggy backing to continue whinning about the lack of practice that teams do these days. Guys are barely in the facility at all. It is slowly eroding the Sunday product and TNF is throwing gasoline on the fire. 
 

 

I think the lack of practice has eroded the beginning of the season. I think the first two weeks of the regular season are almost teams shaking off rust and getting into form. Except the games count. Less off-season and camp practices plus one less pre-season game leads to sloppier starts to the season. But by week 3 I think teams with 2 games under their belts are sharp and the impacts of less practice fade. Teams in the 2000's were so beat up by mid-season they basically didn't practice much.