Game week thread - Bengals at Bills (flexed to 1pm ET)

[Mailman]

2 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

Kincaid really needs to play in this game 
 

I think it's pretty obvious that Mr. Glass will not be suiting up again this week. What a debacle!

[RiotAct]

4 minutes ago, Mailman said:

I think it's pretty obvious that Mr. Glass will not be suiting up again this week. What a debacle!

nah he’ll play

[Psautcsk]

7 minutes ago, Mailman said:

I think it's pretty obvious that Mr. Glass will not be suiting up again this week. What a debacle!

Could be the rest of the year he will not play.

14 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

Kincaid really needs to play in this game 
 

EDGES ?

Rousseau 
Solomon

Morgan Fox

Shaq Lawson 

World class!  Hopefully the Bengals do not know about who will be playing.

[RiotAct]

1 hour ago, Blank Stare said:

Give it time. Still a couple practices left this week. 

he’ll probably need an amputation by Saturday.

[SoonerBillsFan]

5 minutes ago, RiotAct said:

he’ll probably need an amputation by Saturday.

Splinectomy 

[mannc]

3 hours ago, HappyDays said:

Another mystery injury that pops up out of nowhere and likely keeps an important player out of an important game.

Just shut him down until January.

[SoonerBillsFan]

2 minutes ago, mannc said:

Just shut him down until January.

At this point you might as well.

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

The Sabres have lost about the most man games in the league as well. Bad year for medicals in Buffalo.

[mjt328]

Dalton Kincaid somehow gets a mysterious knee injury while standing on the sidelines waiting for his hamstring to heal. 

AJ Epenesa apparently injured his foot in practice yesterday.  

Why are half our injuries this season happening outside of the actual games?

 

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

1 minute ago, mjt328 said:

Dalton Kincaid somehow gets a mysterious knee injury while standing on the sidelines waiting for his hamstring to heal. 

AJ Epenesa apparently injured his foot in practice yesterday.  

Why are half our injuries this season happening outside of the actual games?

 

Its really odd isn't it. Both Buffalo teams are having bad luck or is it something else. hmmmmm

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

43 minutes ago, mannc said:

Just shut him down until January.

January of what year?

[VaMilBill]

3 hours ago, Casey D said:

They have only played twice since then.

The Damar game was the third game. And it appeared they were about to put BTA on the Bills then too

[julian]

9 minutes ago, VaMilBill said:

The Damar game was the third game. And it appeared they were about to put BTA on the Bills then too

No way of knowing what the outcome would have been, in reality it’s been 2 games and in the minds of fans who’ve been hurt by this team it’s been 3 games lol.

[mannc]

57 minutes ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

At this point you might as well.

Same with Bosa.  Just shut him down, too.  We’re not going anywhere if he’s not healthy.

[Governor]

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

Its really odd isn't it. Both Buffalo teams are having bad luck or is it something else. hmmmmm

McD has really been babying these guys this entire season. 

[SoonerBillsFan]

1 minute ago, mannc said:

Same with Bosa.  Just shut him down, too.  We’re not going anywhere if he’s not healthy.

Gotta have both for the playoffs.  We are going to be  a wildcard no matter what.  If this depth is as good as McBeane says it is,surely this team can still make the playoffs without those two right?

[BADOLBILZ]

22 hours ago, finn said:

I admit I avoid the Patriots' games and so shouldn't comment on their performance. My animus toward all things related to the Pats* was showing there. But what gives you away in turn are your absolutes, as in your claim that the Bills' anemic passing offense is "all about" the wide receivers and nothing to do with Joe Brady, which I think is ludicrous. We see what we expect to see. That might apply to me, but it also might apply to you.  

 

Here's the thing.........you are just GUESSING from the perspective of a ball watcher.   You don't even have a detailed explanation of what Brady is doing wrong.    Yours is an argument that someone who just listens to the game on radio could make.    

 

The people who do make specific but basic criticisms often point to "WR screens".    Dink and dunk plays are the low hanging fruit of complaint.  NOBODY likes them in the moment.  Not even when they are going for big gains.......which they have numerous times.   Same goes for most run plays.......nobody wants to see them until after the game when hindsight and remorse set in.  So as soon as these types of plays fail it looks like a calamitous call.

 

Then we have the more intense criticism that  the Bills WR's aren't asked to run more diverse routes.   "Why are they running mesh again" or "why did they stop running choice routes?".   The answer to these questions is that they have a combination of middling to BAD WR talent.....AND.....in a feeble attempt to try to address the talent problem...... they've brought in mistake-prone players like Elijah Moore and Gabe Davis.  

 

The combination of no talent and unreliable talent has eroded Allen's confidence.   The lack of conviction has impacted his mechanics.   Subsequently his ball placement is all over the place.   He's a decidedly worse passer because the bottom has fallen out of this WR corps.

 

This isn't the top 3 WR room the Bills had in 2020.......this group started out near the bottom and got worse with Palmer out much of the season.   Nobody has stepped up.  Why people think this team should still average 30 per game and never punt when they have zero presence downfield in most games is ridiculous but predictable.  We got spoiled and the narrative of "everybody eats" made it seem that talent wasn't a factor.   It is THE reason.        

[Walking Tall]

At what point does the training staff for this team come under the microscope? This is like the third year in a row. Lots of soft tissue injuries.

[balln]

Again. How does one injure their foot so severely during a WALKTHROUGH (Wednesday practice) that they can’t practice at all Thursday. 
 

is Ed Oliver’s horse allowed in the showers or something ? 

[CincyBillsFan]

31 minutes ago, VaMilBill said:

The Damar game was the third game. And it appeared they were about to put BTA on the Bills then too

Everyone says this and it drives me crazy.  The Bengals got the opening KO and drove for a TD to go up 7 - 0.  The Bills responded with a drive to inside the Bengals 10 yard line where they kicked a FG.  The Bengal's got a first down at midfield when the injury to Hamlin happened.  Sorry, but games that are 7 - 3 late in the 1st quarter and in no way settled.