Game week thread - Bills at Texans TNF

[eball]

11 hours ago, sven233 said:

You won't be able to just throw 13 personnel out there all day and dominate on the ground and hope your passing game can make a few plays on every drive to control the clock.

 

Well, the Bills didn’t do that yesterday so I think they have a good idea of what they need to do.

 

Conversely, I’ve seen many games in which you think you know what a team can and can’t do, and are then surprised when they do it.  The Bills have shown that when they are committed to the run they can be successful even against good fronts.

 

The opening line is Bills -3.5.

 

[Kirby Jackson]

This team has been a bad matchup for the Bills. Find a way even if it’s ugly. Get by Houston and Pittsburgh and you’re back on track.

[Big Turk]

1 hour ago, Psautcsk said:

This is a Keon Coleman game. JK

 

I mean he did have a long TD against them last year on a nice individual effort.

Just now, Kirby Jackson said:

This team has been a bad matchup for the Bills. Find a way even if it’s ugly. Get by Houston and Pittsburgh and you’re back on track.

 

Pittsburgh I think they should trounce

[eball]

2 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:

This team has been a bad matchup for the Bills. Find a way even if it’s ugly. Get by Houston and Pittsburgh and you’re back on track.

 

Agreed, but their offense is really bad right now, which is just what the Bills need to get some confidence on D.

 

[Gregg]

White jerseys for this one. Either all white or white over blue.

 

 

https://gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/controller/controller.php?action=weekly&year=2025&week=12&league=NFL

[Kirby Jackson]

4 minutes ago, eball said:

 

Agreed, but their offense is really bad right now, which is just what the Bills need to get some confidence on D.

 

It’s possible we get Mills and Rudolph over the next 2 weeks. That would be ideal.

[Rockinon]

Houston has a very aggressive front. Teams like that can be exploited in the run game.

[TheyCallMeAndy]

Without riding the roller coaster, because I'm not sure we can rely on Shavers to go 4-90-TD again, but the air offense passed the eye test yesterday. Can't even recall the last time we saw so many mid and deep throws. 
 

Need to clean up the OL free blitzers, but I'm a little encouraged with what we saw yesterday. 

[BuffaloBillyG]

1 hour ago, Kirby Jackson said:

It’s possible we get Mills and Rudolph over the next 2 weeks. That would be ideal.

Mills isn't a bad QB. He has a much lower ceiling than Stroud, obviously...but I think he has a higher floor. He will be steady.

 

I said in the off-season, Rudolph should have been the starter in Pittsburgh and they should have passed of Rodgers. Aaron doesn't offer anything more than Rudolph does these days. The team likes playing for Rudolph as well. He can execute the gameplan and doesn't turn the ball over a ton. Honestly, I think I'd rather play against Rodgers because he's a statue these days 

[TheyCallMeAndy]

Crazy stat of the day:

 

The ONLY defensive player with a stat (tackles, TFL, Sacks, ext) thank ranks in the top TWENTY in the NFL...

 

...is Cole Bishop and his 3 INTs (T-5th)

[CincyBillsFan]

51 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

Without riding the roller coaster, because I'm not sure we can rely on Shavers to go 4-90-TD again, but the air offense passed the eye test yesterday. Can't even recall the last time we saw so many mid and deep throws. 
 

 

In the 4th quarter of the Ravens game week 1.  

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

Sal talking about playing a ball control low scoring game against Houston. To me I can’t think of anything that makes less sense. Houston is comfortable playing that way. That’s actually playing into their strengths. Houston’s defense is good but they can’t score. I want to get 24-30

on then there’s very little chance they can score that much. Even on us. The last thing I want to do is to get in a low possession, 13-9 game with them. We need to let it fly and try our best to use our strength. Do not play a low possession game. We need as many chances as possible 

[BillsShredder83]

15 hours ago, sven233 said:

Yup....it was great to celebrate this win for a few hours, but it's time to turn the page with the quick turnaround on Thursday.

 

The offense showing signs of life with explosive plays was encouraging today, but this is a whole new level of test against the Texans defense.  The team as a whole may not be great, but make no mistake about it.....their defense is elite.  It was fun to light it up on offense today, but it is highly unlikely we have the same kind of success against this defense on Thursday night.  I think getting into the mid 20s would be a huge accomplishment against this defense.  Legit test and Allen will have to be at his best for us to have success.

 

If you thought it was tough sledding on the ground today, it will not get any easier on Thursday.  I think this is going to be a game where your philosophy has to change on offense.  You won't be able to just throw 13 personnel out there all day and dominate on the ground and hope your passing game can make a few plays on every drive to control the clock.  This is not a defense you can expect to play "complimentary football" and have multiple 10 play drives against.  Not going to happen.  You are going to have to beat them with explosives and hope you can score fast on enough drives and that the defense can do enough to hold the Texans offense down to out-score them.  This is a legit test against a team that ate our offense for lunch the last time we played them.

Allen will be completely off his leash with scrambling and designed runs IMO. it will go back on at some point.

 

I dont expect 44 or whatever again, but hoping we find a way to make it work

[Low Positive]

I have no idea what will happen, but the Texans needed a last-second FG to beat the Titans yesterday. So there is that. 

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

3 minutes ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

Sal talking about playing a ball control low scoring game against Houston. To me I can’t think of anything that makes less sense. Houston is comfortable playing that way. That’s actually playing into their strengths. Houston’s defense is good but they can’t score. I want to get 24-30

on then there’s very little chance they can score that much. Even on us. The last thing I want to do is to get in a low possession, 13-9 game with them. We need to let it fly and try our best to use our strength. Do not play a low possession game. We need as many chances as possible 

That would be the wrong strategy with our defense. We need to get ahead especially in this game.

[BuffaloBillyG]

12 hours ago, DapperCam said:

Really hope Coleman isn’t active again. In theory his punishment could be one game if they were serious about it just being for disciplinary reasons.

 

 

Yeah, I agree. I'm big on going with what's working, and yesterday without Keon it was working well.

 

The only caveat I have is that if Kincaid is still out, which I expect, AND Shakir had any kind of setback, I would have him active to work in the slot with Palmer and Gabe outside.

[BillsShredder83]

12 hours ago, DapperCam said:

Really hope Coleman isn’t active again. In theory his punishment could be one game if they were serious about it just being for disciplinary reasons.

 

 

I could wrap my head around him spelling Shakir lightly and maybe some reps for run game.

 

He'd need a good week at practice and a total attitude change. Could be great for him to have to earn it, instead of gift wrapping the snaps hes seen.

 

Could also completely undo him and see him off roster in 2-3 weeks. Im not worried either way about him

[TheyCallMeAndy]

3 minutes ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

Sal talking about playing a ball control low scoring game against Houston. To me I can’t think of anything that makes less sense. Houston is comfortable playing that way. That’s actually playing into their strengths. Houston’s defense is good but they can’t score. I want to get 24-30

on then there’s very little chance they can score that much. Even on us. The last thing I want to do is to get in a low possession, 13-9 game with them. We need to let it fly and try our best to use our strength. Do not play a low possession game. We need as many chances as possible 

Agreed, but I kind of feel the super dink and dunk passing game we had seen was more due to personnel issues.

 

McD's philosophy for years has been jump onto a lead early. If Palmer, Davis, and Hardman really opened up the offense like how it looked yesterday, we may see a more aggressive (but still balanced) offense. 

[billieve420]

McDermott needs to have this team ready to go on short rest. Margin for error is gone if they want to win division and compete for the # 1 seed. Offense needs to limit turnovers and on defense figure out how to limit these big runs which continue to kill team. In the offseason need to get bigger and physical on the front 7 tired of seeing undersized defense get pushed around all over the place.

[zow2]

I went to the Bills vs Texans game a few years ago when it was a pouring cold rain the entire day.  Davis Mills started.  The Texans intercepted Allen on the first pass of the game.  Then the Bills won 41-0.  

 

Houston embarrassed Allen and the Bills last season.  I like Buffalo in this spot...they will remember,  but the Texans D is tough.

 

In my mind last week, I had us beating Tampa and then splitting the Houston and Pittsburgh road games.  Hopefully we get this one.