Silver lining takes only

[Casey D]

35 minutes ago, Buffalo Boy said:

Fans are finally opening their eyes to how incapable this regime is.

Acceptance is necessary for change 

How will fan acceptance lead to change?  That does not make walking around sense, unless fans buy the team.  We are all just passengers on the Bills train.

[TheyCallMeAndy]

Silver Lining?

 

We, my friends, have seen worse.

[Tierlifer]

Mediocre Bills football is better than no Bills football. 

[Steptide]

Silver lining - the 13 seconds year, the bills were actually worse(record wise) , with much better players (on offense anyway) and they were absolutely on fire in the playoffs that year. Still believe they would've been in the superbowl that year had 13 seconds not happened 

[ProcessTruster]

9 hours ago, Kelly to Allen said:

Someone give me hope 

 

I guess with Allen, and if we can get relatively healthy in a completely open AFC anything can happen?

 

🤷

Sure, Bills grab a WC while everyone gets healthy, then make a run sure why not?    '

 

Historically it is all about which top tournament entrant is the healthiest.   It could happen.   No big dominant team this year.

Edited 51 minutes ago by ProcessTruster

[KCNC]

Higher draft picks?

[strive_for_five_guy]

15 of the last 20 Super Bowl winners have 12 wins or less in the regular season.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

4 hours ago, Donuts and Doritos said:

We aren't the Jets

 

Jets have five first rounders the next two years. If they use them well, they'll be a force.

[HappyDays]

4 hours ago, BillMafia716ix said:

The team is 7-4. Everybody crying like they’re 4-7. But I guess that’s what happens when you do a lot of winning. We’ve gotten spoiled. Everything is still right in front of them. 

 

Right, Bills fans, a famously spoiled fanbase.

[muppy]

Ray Davis with a special teams run back for a TD. I have been WAITING and calling for one every week

 

atta boy Ray!

[Artful Dodger]

There's a very good chance that the Chiefs won't make the playoffs this year.  

 

[Psautcsk]

We still have the fourth best odds to win it all (tied with the Lions)

NFL Championship Game winner

2/9, 6:00 PM

Los Angeles Rams+500

Philadelphia Eagles+550

Kansas City Chiefs+900

Buffalo Bills+1000

Detroit Lions+1000

Baltimore Ravens+1100

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Silver Lining?

 

The Bills still have those guddam Rivalries uniforms.  There's silver in those. 🤨

[bills6969]

Cole Bishop is good.  Starting to look like Micah Hyde flying around all over the field.

[Bill51390]

We’ll have better draft position this year.

[DapperCam]

Silver linings:

• Baltimore very well might miss the playoffs. Everybody is assuming they will catch the Steelers, but I think the Ravens have looked pretty bad even in their wins.
• KC is in real trouble for missing the playoffs. If they lose this weekend to the Colts I would argue they are done.
• AFC feels wide open. Is anybody really afraid of Daniel Jones or Trevor Lawrence in the playoffs?
• Pats schedule has been baby soft, and nobody will be surprised if they get bounced in the first round.

Bills path in the playoffs might not be as tough as you think. I just did a full ESPN playoff simulator and this is what I got for the Bills (5th seed):

Wild Card at Pittsburgh
Divisional home game against Chargers (I had the Chargers as the 6th seed and upsetting the Broncos, I had KC as the 7th seed and upsetting the Pats)

AFCCG at Indy

That playoff seems totally doable to get to the Super Bowl, and it even has a home playoff game.

Edited 1 hour ago by DapperCam

[Haslett_Stomp]

The Sabres are within one game of being .500

[Comebackkid]

your still alive..take it for what its worth.   

 

we still have a team.    at one point that was a ? mark

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

Not peaking too early this year.

[Gunsgoodtime]

4 hours ago, Casey D said:

We've been through all this before.  Remember 2023 when the Bills were 6-6 after that crushing loss in Philadelphia.  The problem is that the regular season means little to many fans now.  Win the Division, so what?  When only a SB appearance--at a minimum-- is acceptable, then anything that suggests we won't meet that lofty goal means the team and all its management and players absolutely suck.  Lots of fan bases would give their left nut to have a team like the Bills.  So just let the season ride out, we are 7-4 and have an 87% chance of making the playoffs.  In the playoffs anything can and has happened.

 

It is hard to believe that after a loss like Thursday.  Other teams-- particularly in primetime-- get fired up to play the Bills because they are the Bills.  Think about that.  I mean Houston has a good defense, but they don't fly around like lunatics every game like they did Thursday.  Why?  it's the Bills in primetime.  It  is hard for the Bills to match that intensity when playing-- Houston?  And despite all that, and all the mistakes, the Bills almost won.

 

So sit back and chill.  Forget seeding and all that, and play one game at a time and get to 11-6 and into the tourney.  Let's then see what they do, before deciding to get out the pitchforks.  Does that work?

No