Game week thread - Bills at Falcons MNF

[billsfan_34]

On 10/7/2025 at 11:12 AM, Johnnycage46 said:

So, looking at ESPN stats through week 5, Atlanta's defensive rankings:

 

#1 in yards per game at 244/game.

#1 in pass yards per game at 135/game.

#16 in rush yards per game at 109/game.

#15 scoring defense at 21.5 pts/game.

#6 third down defense at 34.1%

 

Going to be a tough game. They are coming off of their bye, have a load of skill position talent on offense and have a good defense. I hope the loss to NE woke up the Bills, if not, we're looking at a 2 game slide heading into the bye.

 

 

Meanwhile our D is a heaping pile of dung. It’s epically bad.

[Scott7975]

9 hours ago, gobills404 said:

I’m getting giddy thinking about once Ed and Hoecht are back

 

The Bills have been very good at getting pressure. They just have difficulty finishing it off and getting it home. They are also bad at losing edge contain.

[EssexBill]

9 hours ago, gobills404 said:

I’m getting giddy thinking about once Ed and Hoecht are back

Let’s hope Ed, Hoecht and Larry can actually tackle and don’t have butter fingers like the rest of the D, because all the pressure in the world doesn’t mean anything when they completely miss the tackles what seems like about 90% of the time 

Edited 3 hours ago by EssexBill

[gobills404]

5 minutes ago, Scott7975 said:

 

The Bills have been very good at getting pressure. They just have difficulty finishing it off and getting it home. They are also bad at losing edge contain.

I could be wrong but I bet it has something do with soft coverage as well. Giving opposing pass catchers big cushions allows QBs to get the ball out quickly on short passes. Pass rush has less time to get home.

[Scott7975]

Just now, gobills404 said:

I could be wrong but I bet it has something do with soft coverage as well. Giving opposing pass catchers big cushions allows QBs to get the ball out quickly on short passes. Pass rush has less time to get home.

 

I am sure that plays a part.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

23 minutes ago, Scott7975 said:

 

The Bills have been very good at getting pressure. They just have difficulty finishing it off and getting it home. They are also bad at losing edge contain.

It's a team of Ed olivers now

[Sojourner]

1 hour ago, Scott7975 said:

 

The Bills have been very good at getting pressure. They just have difficulty finishing it off and getting it home. They are also bad at losing edge contain.

Yup. I was encouraged by the pressure they applied against the Pats. Should have correlated to more stops on the backend. 

[SoMAn]

On 10/7/2025 at 9:52 AM, Walking Tall said:

Bills wearing the white, standing buffalo throwbacks.

 

Atlanta had a bye. Outside of the Carolina stinker, they’ve played well.

 

I think the Bills drop another game here.

It's entirely possible. Hopefully, the Bills are motivated after the Sunday night Cold Front debacle and pull out a win.

After what looked like a runaway division title for the Bills after 4 games, it's not beyond the realm of possibilities that the Pats (with a win over the Saints) could be on top of the division after 6 weeks. 😗

[finn]

2 hours ago, Scott7975 said:

 

The Bills have been very good at getting pressure. They just have difficulty finishing it off and getting it home. They are also bad at losing edge contain.

Beane has invested a lot in quick pressure after seeing from their two Super Bowl defeats that this is the way to beat Mahomes. Oliver, Hoecht, Ogunjobi, Walker, Sanders, Bosa... they're all penetrators, not edge setters or run stuffers. But he may have put spent too many resources there, at the expense of players who can tackle, cover, and stop the run. If you're good at only one thing and suck at everything else, other teams catch on fast. Not to put it all on Beane. Maybe he was expecting McDermott and his defensive staff would do a better job than they have. Anyway, plenty of blame to go around. The defense still has time to turn it around, as we keep telling each other.