TNF away team

[harmonkillebrew]

2 hours ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

Exactly. The defense has been wrongfully scapegoated for this loss. A top tier NFL offense should be able to muster a couple offensive TDs per half. There were plays to be made, but i guess that makes me a monday morning armchair QB to point that out according to some people. Brady is the problem. He has enough to work with to have a competent passing game and can’t get it done. Daboll should be hired immediately 

I don't think Defense is being scapegoated. Offense is getting the lions share of the blame for only mustering one TD in the 1st quarter. 

There seemed to be no coherent game strategy for facing the Texans top D on limited rest. 

O and D were out sync

[DaVinci]

I always had Bills losing against the Texans , but not Miami and New England

[harmonkillebrew]

2 minutes ago, DaVinci said:

I always had Bills losing against the Texans , but not Miami and New England

NE has gotten better quicker than anyone anticipated.

Miami was a head scratcher, but they wanted it more and we often wilt in the S Florida humidity. 

ATL was also a head scratcher, but I think their aggressive pass rush caused similar headaches as the Texans.

[BigAl2526]

23 hours ago, harmonkillebrew said:

Almost always loses. 

Texans were always going to be a tough game, given how their D matches up against our O. But you throw in a short week and the Bills having to travel to Houston, makes it damn near impossible.

 

I saw this game on the schedule and thought it was a likely "L". But the backup QB made me hope otherwise. In the end, the Texans D did what it does at home and with three days of opponents prep - it harassed and dominated. Unfortunately, McD and Brady couldn't create a game strategy that controlled field position and kept Josh's exposure to a minimum against that nasty pass rush.  Moving away from Cook after the 1st drive was a huge mistake.

 

But I give the team as a whole a pass. Playing on the road on TNF right after the big game against Tampa was a big ask. 

Giving the team a pass does nothing to improve their playoff outlook.

[harmonkillebrew]

50 minutes ago, BigAl2526 said:

Giving the team a pass does nothing to improve their playoff outlook.

But it makes me feel better. 🤣

 

[WIDE LEFT]

Not one to excuse poor performances, but we do have a top notch O line and yet Texans shredded them. It does strike me that some of our O lineman are getting up there in age, and these Thursday night games are tough on older players. And Brown was hurt. In any event, on O or D it was the older players who struggled the most. Especially against a younger Texan team playing at home. With all the negativity re: Bills, can’t be.ieve this wasn’t a factor.

 

THURSDAY NIGHT football speaks volumes of the insatiable greed of NFL owners, most of whom have already made billions in franchise appreciation. Never enough for some, especially with JERRY JONES leading the greed charge

[Psautcsk]

6 minutes ago, WIDE LEFT said:

Not one to excuse poor performances, but we do have a top notch O line and yet Texans shredded them. It does strike me that some of our O lineman are getting up there in age, and these Thursday night games are tough on older players. And Brown was hurt. In any event, on O or D it was the older players who struggled the most. Especially against a younger Texan team playing at home. With all the negativity re: Bills, can’t be.ieve this wasn’t a factor.

 

THURSDAY NIGHT football speaks volumes of the insatiable greed of NFL owners, most of whom have already made billions in franchise appreciation. Never enough for some, especially with JERRY JONES leading the greed charge

Three games this Thursday,  beginning earlier in the day. 

[oldmanfan]

We got our ass kicked.  No excuses.

[dreadlox]

Dawkins is 31 but the rest of the line i believe is 28, 28, 25, and 27. If i’m wrong my apologies and I do realize Dawkins was a huge issue. On defense, our older players sucked before Thursday and I’m not sure if the game were Sunday we would have seen a different result. The team got bullied. The coaches had no answers. Frustration is mounting with the fan base and even our beloved QB seems to feel let down. It’s hard for us to accept. We’re all in this together, bro.

[quincy]

I think the only thing that might have changed from a Thursday to a Sunday is that Keon might have had the chance to not be inactive and I would assume most fans would say that is not a needle mover.

 

We lost in the trenches on both sides of the ball and you cannot overcome that on most Sundays unless Allen and/or Cook go nuclear, even less so on a Thursday.  

 

You can say that Houston's DE's are elite and they were as advertised.

 

You would want to categorize ours as good and they were absolutely disappointing against an average o-line and a backup qb who isn't a runner/scrambler. The score was only relatively close because Mills took a while to get going.  

 

Why we didn't play the 6th OL and have Hawes in on 75% of snaps I don't know considering no WR is separating and Josh is under duress in 1.5 seconds. In contrast Houston had number 57 play a big amount of snaps as the extra OL. 

 

The established AFC teams just seem to be struggling for that intensity and fire this year so far, playing down to opponents and just squeezing out victories or losing by a touchdown or less. 

 

 

 

 

[HOUSE]

Our asses are just fine, stop exaggerating 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

4 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

Our asses are just fine, stop exaggerating 

[Ray Finkel]

How about we just not that good.

[frostbitmic]

The team didn't show up ready to play, again (seems to be a thing this year) ... No excuse for that.

[boater]

Blaming the loss on owner greed, that is imaginative.

[zow2]

As others have said, losing to the Texans on a short week with their top ranked menacing defense, was not a shock or reason to hang heads.  It was losing to the Falcons and Dolphins that made it way worse to stomach. 

[Turf Toejam 34]

The missed extra point really burns my buns.   

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

1 hour ago, WIDE LEFT said:

THURSDAY NIGHT football speaks volumes of the insatiable greed of NFL owners, most of whom have already made billions in franchise appreciation. Never enough for some, especially with JERRY JONES leading the greed charge

So you don’t think that this “insatiable greed” has anything to do with the wildly increasing player salaries? 

[ProcessTruster]

Grable, VPG and Anderson will be taking major roles next season on the O Line.  McBeanes did a great job on this.  

[Walking Tall]

Josh Allen lost his first Thursday game in his career. He is now 8-1.

 

No excuses were needed before this one.