Game week thread - Bills at Texans TNF

[BuffaloBillyG]

33 minutes ago, Richard Noggin said:

 

It was a list specific to 2023, no? Or that's how I was thinking of it. Wilson wasn't the same ferocity of tire fire he had been in 2022, but he still wasn't a top-10 guy in '23. 

I really don't think any of that mattered to Stroud when picking the listm

[Scott7975]

12 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.

 

This D can't stop a nosebleed.  You recognize they have an elite defense but want to run a conservative offense against that. IOW you want to give that elite defense more and more opportunity to stop our offense by adding unnecessary extra plays in the drives.

I just dont get this mindset. What do crap teams do when they are playing against an elite QB? They try to have long time consuming drives to limit the other QBs opportunity, right? So why do people want to actually do that to our own offense? All we do is limit our own offenses opportunity with the ball. We shorten the game and therefor the amount of possessions against ourselves. Then when a mistake happens it completely kills the game and we wonder why.

[Scott7975]

11 hours 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 

 

Freaking ty. The other teams actually want us to play small ball. It only benefits them, not us. McD runs a bend but dont break defense. Always has and probably always will. Now I am not going to say that the defense is good... but in the past it has been excellent (accept against the Chiefs in the playoffs) it worked so well because it caused other teams to play small ball. The more attempts they had on a drive the more chance they had at making a mistake. Our D thrived off turnovers. It wasnt good between the 20s but it was good at getting turnovers.

 

This is what people want us to do to ourselves. Run these long 12-15 play 7-10 min drives. A single mistake happens and the drive is over unless Josh pulls off some miraculous play. At the same time we are limiting our own opportunities with the ball because we are shortening the clock against ourselves.  You cannot play like this all the time. People expecting a QB to be perfect all game every game. Its just not going to happen.

Edited 1 hour ago by Scott7975

[Scott7975]

10 hours ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:

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. 

 

Because they couldnt score in those games, thats how.

Held the Rams to 14 points

Held the Bucs to 20 points (that was when the Bucs had receivers still)
Held the Jags to 17 points
Held the Broncos to 18 points
The one that got away from the was the Seahawks 27 points

Sorry but if I told you the Bills held the other team anywhere from 14-20 points, you'd probably expect we won the game right?
That also doesn't include some games they did win like holding the Ravens to 10, SF to 15, Titans to 13 and 0.

[Scott7975]

1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:

This needs to be a Cook game and absolutely in no way should Houston score anywhere near 20 points.  
 

They just don’t allow anything through the air and the pass rush is elite.  
 

Need to be boring, NO turnovers, and keep pounding the rock at them.  
 

We win this game and then follow up at hopefully a Rodgers - less Steelers and we can be in business to run the table.  
 

 

This was always the toughest game on the schedule to me after the Ravens game bc of that defense alone and it’s on the road.  
 

Game won’t look anything like yesterday.  

You play right into their hands by playing a close game.

[gonzo1105]

While not an official practice today for the Texans, Stroud was listed as still in concussion protocol so unless he practices tomorrow in some capacity he is going to be out for the Bills game but there are already reports that he is going to be out for the Bills game. 

[julian]

3 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

 

That's obviously noticeable but he has the right to his opinion

Bo Nix just released his top 5 QB list

 

Josh Allen

Matthew Stafford

Bo Nix

Baker Mayfield 

Jared Goff