10/26/25 GAMEDAY Bills at Panthers Gameday thread

[Chandler#81]

 

Happy All Hallows Eve! 🎃 👻 
 

Ok, we’ve wept, grumbled and yelled enough. The frightful 2 terrible performances and a Bye week to stew on ithem are behind us. We now find ourselves looking up at NE* in the Division while stumbling hard in other rankings the League uses to tell the current story. Inept play on Offense & Defense and a week off from competing finds us relegated to also-rans and out of the spotlight. But this changes this afternoon with yet another inter-Conference road game in North Carolina vs the Panthers. It’s an opportunity to show we’re still alive and need to be feared as a perennial Playoff Power.  Other big changes include roster additions and probable position options. Ogunjobi & Hoeght -our 2 biggest FA signings are finally eligible to play and are expected to add significant upgrades to the DL. Not a minute too soon as we’re currently ranked DEAD LAST vs the run and the Panthers are ranked 3rd in rushing! The pairings of Oliver & Hoeght along with Ungujobi is now a formidable DT room. D. Jones is in the proverbial week to week.. 1st round pick Max Hairston is back practicing and looks pretty well healed from his preseason knee injury. How quickly he gets comfortable will determine when he gets playing time with the 1’s. Milano is still not practicing and I fear it’s time to write his career epitaph. Poyer has ascended to starter and this will continue. For all his disappearing skills, he’s still better than Rapp (now on Ir) & Bishop. The BIG news is Maxwell Hairston has been activated. We might as well start him! Better pass rush, better run Defense and a DB with world class speed? Whats not to love? Our OL should be rested and hopefully refocused. 30 penalties in 3 weeks, missed blocks, sacks and turnovers have derailed us the previous 2 games. They ARE better than this and we need to see a return to what they’re capable of! Utilizing Cook more in the 4th quarter and in pass routes hasn’t been used when it absolutely should be. He’s a game-breaker, but not if he’s on the sideline.. Kincaid should be back, which is welcome news! His absence was startling! Some guy named Milano may play as well.. As for QB1, when Gramma calls, GITERDONE!

 

 

Our opponent today, the Carolina Panthers, are another team trying to escape from the perennial outhouse. They’re 4-3 now and have won their last 3, so they’re no pushover. It’s a relatively nearby away game and many Buffalo transplants have relocated to the area. Plus, the Mafia has been known to take over their stadium in the past. Expect nothing else today. Their QB Bryce Young, who’s been the catalyst of their resurgence, suffered the dreaded high ankle sprain last week and expected to be sidelined. This brings in a ‘Buffalo hero’ Andy Dalton to try to keep their winning streak alive. Biggest key to this game is the Panther run game. It’s VERY good as is their OL! In contrast, our run Defense is threatening to set League records for futility averaging nearly SIX YARDS PER CARRY! So, Somethings gotta change here for the Bills to get off the shnide! 🤦‍♂️Panthers are overall a middling team with key stats showing they’re around 22nd overall ranking. Oddly enough today’s game is their final AFCE game and have beaten all our Division to date. What that means is no one knows how good they really are in their Division nor Conference as slapping our hapless Division around isn’t really much of a measuring stick.. 

 

So snap up your chinstraps, take a strong sniff of smelling salts and let’s get after it today! Given our recent level of play, we need to raise the bar NOW! 

 

“We’re at the crossroads.. If we DIE, we die together.. You can get it done. What’s more, YA GOTTA geti it done!” -Lou Saban
 

 

We GOT THIS!

 

GO BILLS!

 

Joe Marino chimes in

 

[Ray Stonada]

The season is teetering… let Josh and Cook rip and GET AFTER IT, boys.

 

LET’S GO BUF-FALO

[davefan66]

Go Bills!!!

[Special K]

Time to right the ship!!

 

Let's go Bills!!!!!!!!!!!