Beat the Chiefs Sunday and I think you’re back in first

[Billsfed1]

I see all the “experts” going on about how devastating it would be for either the Chiefs or Bills to lose on Sunday, but the flip side nobody is talking about;

 

Before kickoff on Sunday we’ll know the outcome of the Patriots/Falcons. Atlanta has a sneaky good D (2nd in the NFL in yards surrendered) and has an explosive offense at times. This is not a gimmie game for the Pats.

 

It would be rather funny to leapfrog the Pats on Sunday despite them having the head to head advantage at this point.

Edited 22 hours ago by Billsfed1

[Chaos]

I did not watch the Dolphins/Falcons game.  What happened there? 

[Success]

Falcons are pretty banged up, and it's in New England.

 

I expect a few wheels to fall off of the imaginary Patriots resurgence - but my hunch is that they pull out a W on Sunday and the media continues the "they're back!" frenzy.

 

[90sBills]

9 minutes ago, Chaos said:

I did not watch the Dolphins/Falcons game.  What happened there? 

Atlanta’s offense didn’t explode. 

[Sojourner]

Good call but if they Falcons roll out Cousins again I don’t see them winning. Dude looks a shell of himself. 

[machine gun kelly]

35 minutes ago, Billsfed1 said:

I see all the “experts” going on about how devastating it would be for either the Chiefs or Bills to lose on Sunday, but the flip side nobody is talking about;

 

Before kickoff on Sunday we’ll know the outcome of the Patriots/Falcons.  Atlanta has a sneaky good D (2nd in the NFL in yards surrendered) and has an explosive offense at times.  This is not a gimmie game for the Pats.

 

It would be rather funny to leapfrog the Pats on Sunday despite them having the head to head advantage at this point.

That’s only if the Pats lose and we win.  We’re actually behind if we don’t win.  The Pats even in this circumstance has the head to head on us.  We have to also beat the Pats in Foxborough.

[Psautcsk]

2 hours ago, Success said:

Falcons are pretty banged up, and it's in New England.

 

I expect a few wheels to fall off of the imaginary Patriots resurgence - but my hunch is that they pull out a W on Sunday and the media continues the "they're back!" frenzy.

 

What is so imaginary about it?

[Success]

39 minutes ago, Psautcsk said:

What is so imaginary about it?

 

The teams they've beaten.

 

We're their only good win, and that was a silly kind of game w/ the turnovers & penalties.  Any other ref crew & that's a Bills win (imo).

 

[BuffaloBillyG]

3 hours ago, Chaos said:

I did not watch the Dolphins/Falcons game.  What happened there? 

Both Penix and London missed the game. Sometimes it's not who you play, but when you play them that matters

[Koufax]

We have earned the right to not get over stressed about October games and October standings. We should try to go 1-0 this week but if we do we aren't a Super Bowl lock, and if we don't we aren't a bust. 6-2 is better than 5-3, but both are on track to play a really important game in January somewhere that we can worry more about the narrative and impact of the outcome.

 

Go Bills.

[NeverOutNick]

Pats are playing good football right now. I don’t think they’ll lose to the falcons. There HC is Vrabel not McDoucher

[90sBills]

2 hours ago, Success said:

 

The teams they've beaten.

 

We're their only good win, and that was a silly kind of game w/ the turnovers & penalties.  Any other ref crew & that's a Bills win (imo).

 

I’m not sure we should use sos logic. NE is the only good team we’ve played and well you know.

 

I don’t think their resurgence is imaginary. But I’m with you in that they can, and will, lose more games. Bills will end up winning the division and they’ll be the wildcard. 

[Psautcsk]

8 hours ago, Success said:

 

The teams they've beaten.

 

We're their only good win, and that was a silly kind of game w/ the turnovers & penalties.  Any other ref crew & that's a Bills win (imo).

 

They beat us at home in prime time. Their other wins were pretty good. Should they be 3.5-2 instead of 6-2?

Edited 12 hours ago by Psautcsk

[4th&long]

Wouldn't the pats have to lose? 

The bills would tie them with the pats having the tie braker. 

[ProcessTruster]

Pretty sure Mahomes lights up the Bills D this week. 

 

Hairston/Benford/Bosa would need to be excellent in man coverage / pass rush all game for that not to happen. 

[seannc]

On the other hand, should the Bills lose and the Pats, Jags, Chargers, and Broncos win (taken individually, these are all likely outcomes), the Bills will be looking up at a lot of teams in the standings. 

[dgrochester55]

15 hours ago, Success said:

Falcons are pretty banged up, and it's in New England.

 

I expect a few wheels to fall off of the imaginary Patriots resurgence - but my hunch is that they pull out a W on Sunday and the media continues the "they're back!" frenzy.

 

 

The Patriots may be the darlings of the media for awhile with the light schedule, especially if we take an L to the Chiefs.  The Dolphins were like that two years ago and were as far ahead as three games, but eventually, we took the division.  Granted, Maye is better than Tua and some positions have legitimate talent concerns, but there is still plenty of season left.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

2 minutes ago, dgrochester55 said:

 

The Patriots may be the darlings of the media for awhile with the light schedule, especially if we take an L to the Chiefs.  The Dolphins were like that two years ago and were as far ahead as three games, but eventually, we took the division.  Granted, Maye is better than Tua and some positions have legitimate talent concerns, but there is still plenty of season left.

It’s giving me pretty strong dolphins vibes…I think the pats floor is pretty good though while the dolphins got figured out and just couldn’t adapt.  Someone is gonna pick up on some tendencies with their offense and they’re gonna hit a rough patch I think 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

2 hours ago, ProcessTruster said:

Pretty sure Mahomes lights up the Bills D this week. 

 

Hairston/Benford/Bosa would need to be excellent in man coverage / pass rush all game for that not to happen. 

Commanders covered up the designed plays pretty well but I don’t think they had enough experience against kc to know how they like to adjust their routes in the scramble drill type situations though 

 

it was a really interesting game last week…as bad as the result ended up being I don’t think they were too far off from having a good defensive game if that makes any sense 😂

3 hours ago, 4th&long said:

Wouldn't the pats have to lose? 

The bills would tie them with the pats having the tie braker. 

Yea they would…doesn’t really mean much of anything when the teams have a rematch against eachother and different amounts of games played anyway 

[Livinginthepast]

Atlanta are a bad team that apparently had their SB against us. Instead of spanking them badly we enabled them with our unpreparedness in that game. I think NE will handle them easily if Maye doesnt get injured.