Game week thread - Bills at Texans TNF

[stevewin]

19 minutes ago, Buffalo03 said:

Hopefully we get a W in Houston on Thursday, if we do, what are the odds that Cinci beats the Patriots next week. The game is in Cincinnati so, maybe we have that going for us?

Unfortunately Chase will prob be suspended for that game 😠 

[mannc]

1 hour ago, Kirby Jackson said:

That argument may work with an “unknown” as the number 2. You could say, “Rodgers hasn’t been great and I believe that ____” could be better. Rudolph is not that unknown. He’s a bad player with 32 appearances and 8 years in the league. He’s a functioning number 2 I guess but he’s not on the level of a low end starter. Even if you believe Rodgers is the 25th best QB in the world, or whatever, there isn’t an argument to be made that Rudolph is above that. 

Disagree. I think Rudolph is very possibly an upgrade from Rodgers.  For whatever reason, Tomlin has a track record of not always starting the best QB on the roster (think Russ Wilson, Justin Fields and Kenny Pickett).  Rudolph isn’t great, but not bad.  I thought he played well in the playoff game vs the Bills a couple years ago…

[Captain Hindsight]

9 hours ago, boco357 said:

5 straight losses in Houston, last win there in 2006.

Better sign JP Losman 

[BuffaloBillyG]

Mills has won the last 2 games for the Texans. He's not incapable. Gonna be a challenge either way IMO.

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

37 minutes ago, PoundingDog said:

So here is the balance - you want to go all out and let Josh sling the ball all over the place, there is higher chance for a turnover. You want to minimize mistakes then I think it is likely a low scoring game because their D is going to make stops if you expect us to have  8+ play drives to score. 

Heres what I want. To win the game. Here’s how we do it…don’t play scared against a physical team that’s comfortable playing in low scoring tight games. Try and get them in a shootout. Your goal is to try and get them into a game like the Bucs was. If you play a 12-10 game, we are going to lose. It’s incredibly simple. Also, our offense is absolutely excellent. It will not be stopped all day by Houston. If you want the ball 5 times instead of 10, that’s how THEY can beat you. You do the slow down game against a team that YOU can’t score with. You do not play that game with the Texans or broncos. You make them score. They can’t hang with us. Don’t play careless but we want a 38-20 game 

Edited 3 hours ago by Brianmoorman4jesus

[Buffalo03]

18 minutes ago, stevewin said:

Unfortunately Chase will prob be suspended for that game 😠 

Why do you say that? Did I miss something?

[eball]

2 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

Hopefully we get a W in Houston on Thursday, if we do, what are the odds that Cinci beats the Patriots next week. The game is in Cincinnati so, maybe we have that going for us?

 

Unlikely.  Chase will probably be suspended for spitting on Ramsey.

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by eball

[DapperCam]

I hope we don't play a conservative game plan. I don't think our defense is stopping anybody, so we really need to just stack points.

[nosejob]

Throw to the backs.  Take a deep shot here and there.  Blitz a lot....unless Fox can become Hoecht.  Bills 24 - 13

Edited 2 hours ago by nosejob

[BearNorth]

Texans defense is no joke, actually grades out higher than OUR offense - hopefully our defense comes to play.

[TheFunPolice]

It's the Texans. Go in there and smash them! 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

43 minutes ago, DapperCam said:

I hope we don't play a conservative game plan. I don't think our defense is stopping anybody, so we really need to just stack points.

i don’t know, man. I don’t see the Texans doing anything on offense. I just worry about turnovers giving them a chance to score points. I would prefer to play very conservatively, especially on a short week. 

[PoundingDog]

48 minutes ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

Heres what I want. To win the game. Here’s how we do it…don’t play scared against a physical team that’s comfortable playing in low scoring tight games. Try and get them in a shootout. Your goal is to try and get them into a game like the Bucs was. If you play a 12-10 game, we are going to lose. It’s incredibly simple. Also, our offense is absolutely excellent. It will not be stopped all day by Houston. If you want the ball 5 times instead of 10, that’s how THEY can beat you. You do the slow down game against a team that YOU can’t score with. You do not play that game with the Texans or broncos. You make them score. They can’t hang with us. Don’t play careless but we want a 38-20 game 

I don't know anyone plans for a shoot out game or ball control game to be honest. The term refers to what happens in the game, as in both sides scores a lot, a shoot out, both sides runs a lot but not much scoring, ball control. If one side is not scoring, thee is no shoot out. If the Bills are up, and see Texans not moving the ball, do we say "we are in a shoot out mode so keep throwing often and deep"? 

[Bermuda Triangle]

Read that Bishop may have tweaked his hammy near the end of the game.  Hoping he can go on Thursday.

[atlbillsfan1975]

Man, how some of us are talking about the Texans, you would think they have the 85 Bears defense in Houston waiting for the Bills. How did they lose 5 games already? Come on, go play your game and make them keep up. Bills showed they can change up from run to pass. Do it again Thursday and win. Move on. Bills are better. 

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

3 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

We need to play this game like we have played the jets.

 

no turnovers, very conservative on offense, let Houston make the mistakes. 
 

they have an elite defense and nothing on offense. Our ST and defense should be winning this game.

Ahhh No

[Cash]

If Davis Mills starts, we should absolutely win.  I'm hoping we can build on the positives from last week, while cutting out the turnovers.  Allen's first INT was caused by bad blocking - Edwards blocked nobody while a blitzer came untouched through the spot where Edwards started the play.  The second INT was more of a great recovery by the defender, but Allen could've been better there.  The Hardman fumble was just a poor decision not to fair catch it, with 2 Bucs bearing down on him and no blockers.  And the other fumble (Ty Johnson I think?) that we recovered wasn't great, but also more of a good play by Lavonte David than it was a glaring error on our part.

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

3 minutes ago, D. L. Hot-Flamethrower said:

Ahhh No

how do we historically lose to the jets? Some dumb interception or fumble and some ST gaffe. When we beat them, it’s always playing a clean game and letting them make the mistakes.

 

texans D is elite. They are going to try to capitalize on our big mistakes. It’s their only chance to win. 

[Stretch]

4 minutes ago, Cash said:

If Davis Mills starts, we should absolutely win.  I'm hoping we can build on the positives from last week, while cutting out the turnovers.  Allen's first INT was caused by bad blocking - Edwards blocked nobody while a blitzer came untouched through the spot where Edwards started the play.  The second INT was more of a great recovery by the defender, but Allen could've been better there.  The Hardman fumble was just a poor decision not to fair catch it, with 2 Bucs bearing down on him and no blockers.  And the other fumble (Ty Johnson I think?) that we recovered wasn't great, but also more of a good play by Lavonte David than it was a glaring error on our part.

Allen said he slid the protection the wrong way on the first INT, so that led to not picking up the pass rushers.

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

I don’t know why but I hate this ***** team. We have had some real frustrating painful losses in Houston. Go there and just kill them. I don’t care how good their defense is. We are significantly better than them. Kill then.