Game week thread - Bills at Texans TNF

[Johnnycage46]

19 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Sounding more like Samuel and Hardman are gonna miss Thursday... opening up the return bof Keon. 

 

Thrilling.

We have an ace up our sleeve. Say it with me. Keon Coleman:Slot Machine.

 

I really hope Coleman is inactive (not sure who would replace him with the injuries we have)...I think him not being out there was truly addition by subtraction. If he is again playing the most WR snaps like he had been all season, that is a bad move. If he is active, but has a reduced roll, that could work. I just don't want to see him leading the WR snap count.

Just now, Nineforty said:

Just heard a crazy stat.

 

Bills are 2-1 when giving up 200 rushing yards or more this year.

 

The rest of the league is 1-16 when they do that. 

 

Our secret plan!

[Virgil]

https://x.com/adamschefter/status/1990869360710173055?s=46

 

Stroud officially out. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Virgil

[Royale with Cheese]

52 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

I would hate the be him with a sore throat.

[Success]

1 minute ago, Virgil said:

https://x.com/adamschefter/status/1990869360710173055?s=46

 

Stroud officially out. 

 

David Mills is a fine backup - but he's a backup. This gives the Bills a significant advantage on Thursday.

 

[BillsFan619]

5 minutes ago, Nineforty said:

Just heard a crazy stat.

 

Bills are 2-1 when giving up 200 rushing yards or more this year.

 

The rest of the league is 1-16 when they do that. 

The JA effect.

 

Go Bills!

[Big Turk]

53 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

Mills has to have PTSD from the last time he faced us...

 

 

[PonyBoy]

49 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

Dude looks like Merton Hanks out there.

 

C'mon..  that's quite a stretch 😏

[Chicken Boo]

I swear, Shavers better continue to get opportunities.  He's earned it.

 

 

[Johnnycage46]

1 minute ago, Chicken Boo said:

I swear, Shavers better continue to get opportunities.  He's earned it.

 

 

 

And if he does end up with less snaps due to Coleman being back, that would directly go against everything McD preaches about earning your spot, working hard and being rewarded, etc. Shavers has put in the work, finally made the team in training camp, and had a career game. I hope he and Allen continue to build a rapport.

[BuffaloBillyG]

26 minutes ago, Johnnycage46 said:

 

I really hope Coleman is inactive (not sure who would replace him with the injuries we have)...I think him not being out there was truly addition by subtraction. If he is again playing the most WR snaps like he had been all season, that is a bad move. If he is active, but has a reduced roll, that could work. I just don't want to see him leading the WR snap count.

 

Our secret plan!

I don't care how many snaps he sees. Snaps on the outside for him are basically wasted reps at this point. 

 

Now if Shakir has a setback and can't go, I would be interested to see what a WR group of Palmer/Davis outside and Coleman in the slot may look like. But doubt Brady will think of that 

[ngbills]

31 minutes ago, Nineforty said:

Just heard a crazy stat.

 

Bills are 2-1 when giving up 200 rushing yards or more this year.

 

The rest of the league is 1-16 when they do that. 

Another way to look at this. There have been 20 games with 200 yards rushing and Bills have given up 3 of them. 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

Just now, ngbills said:

Another way to look at this. There have been 20 games with 200 yards rushing and Bills have given up 3 of them. 

was torn between the laughing and crying emoji. 

[BuffaloBillyG]

https://x.com/JoeBuscaglia/status/1990858038626890017?t=2DDuSfcTTRKK37apLcOlLg&s=19

 

Shakir excused from practice a second straight day for personal reasons. Online chitter chat is he may be celebrating the birth of his new baby. 

[Low Positive]

3 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

https://x.com/JoeBuscaglia/status/1990858038626890017?t=2DDuSfcTTRKK37apLcOlLg&s=19

 

Shakir excused from practice a second straight day for personal reasons. Online chitter chat is he may be celebrating the birth of his new baby. 

They don't do much in practice during these short weeks. Also, congrats, Kahlil. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

50 minutes ago, Nineforty said:

Just heard a crazy stat.

 

Bills are 2-1 when giving up 200 rushing yards or more this year.

 

The rest of the league is 1-16 when they do that. 

The bills are a straight up statistical enigma haha you’d think they were bottom of the league in everything watching them but we’re like 12th in yards allowed per game and 14th in points allowed per game 😂 

 

I think the run heavy opponent approach has kinda been a double edged sword…there’s been some comically easy drives but also quite a few three and outs where we stuffed a couple runs in the series.
 

The running game against us has been either home runs or minimal gains it feels like but to truly pound the run most plays I think you’d prefer a 5 or 6 yard gain every play 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Generic_Bills_Fan

[bills742]

https://x.com/BuffaloBillsPR/status/1990882816830148870?s=20

 

I think X/Twitter is broken, sorry for the links not embedding. 

[Cash]

3 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

The bills are a straight up statistical enigma haha you’d think they were bottom of the league in everything watching them but we’re like 12th in yards allowed per game and 14th in points allowed per game 😂 

 

I think the run heavy opponent approach has kinda been a double edged sword…there’s been some comically easy drives but also quite a few three and outs where we stuffed a couple runs in the series.
 

The running game against us has been either home runs or minimal gains it feels like but to truly pound the run most plays I think you’d prefer a 5 or 6 yard gain every play 

 

Yeah.  Like, the long TD runs we've given up this year are bad, there's no debating that.  But as failures go, giving up a long TD run isn't as damaging as giving up a series of 5-15 yard runs that ends in a TD.  The long run can be demoralizing, but getting wrecked over and over on a long TD drive is also demoralizing. 

 

I'm not *happy* about where the run D is this year by any stretch.  But I'm *less worried* than most.  

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

18 minutes ago, Cash said:

 

Yeah.  Like, the long TD runs we've given up this year are bad, there's no debating that.  But as failures go, giving up a long TD run isn't as damaging as giving up a series of 5-15 yard runs that ends in a TD.  The long run can be demoralizing, but getting wrecked over and over on a long TD drive is also demoralizing. 

 

I'm not *happy* about where the run D is this year by any stretch.  But I'm *less worried* than most.  

Oh yea it’s a real problem still but efficiency wise I think teams are passing so little that rushing for 200 on us doesn’t really mean as much as it does against other teams .  Usually when a team rushes for 200 they’ve got statlines like Atlanta did against us where it’s like 450-460 total yards a bunch of possession time  but some of these teams running on us are topping out in the low to mid 300s 

 

really odd season so far.  2/3rds of our losses we outgained our opponents and really didn’t give up a crazy yardage total.  And the 1 loss where we gave up a sh*tload of yards we were actually in the game late somehow and didn’t give up a ton of points  haha 

Edited 54 minutes ago by Generic_Bills_Fan

[Dan]

1 hour ago, Nineforty said:

Just heard a crazy stat.

 

Bills are 2-1 when giving up 200 rushing yards or more this year.

 

The rest of the league is 1-16 when they do that. 

Its stats like that… that give the coaching staff confidence that their system works. 

[Scott7975]

1 hour ago, Low Positive said:

Mike Glennon?

That’s the one thanks!