SageAgainstTheMachine

Also, notice how the goalposts move. Last year we were too dependent on blowout wins and had zero one-score victories proving that we couldn’t win close ones due to poor coaching. This year we have 4 such wins, proving that we can’t pull away from teams due to poor coaching.

What’s happening is that the first couple games of the season made people think we’d just roll over everyone and then the Dolphins loss broke their brains.

This post’s premise is so flawed. There’s no debate where the options are keep McD forever or consider replacing him. Obviously if something happens like we miss the playoffs a couple years in a row or have 2-3 straight wildcard exits he’ll be a goner. His supporters won’t say “I was a keep McD forever guy”. What I’m tired of is being 8-3 and Bills fans saying we have no shot THIS year all because we’re in a slump (if you really want to call a 3-2 stretch a slump) that is so obviously caused by a glut of injuries that will heal.

Singletary is a really solid runner but the single biggest reason he'll continue to see 70% of snaps is that he's in Josh's inner inner circle of trust. People who are expecting James Cook to supplant him as RB1 this season for any other reason than injury are wrong.

Every single fan base feels that they get screwed over by the refs and have conspiratorial thoughts about why the NFL doesn't want them to win. The fact of the matter is that refs make mistakes and there's negative and positive variance within that.

He's a rookie. I know that's an unsatisfying thought for a team with SB aspirations but every coordinator who went on to become a great coordinator had a rookie season and they'd probably all tell you about the bounteous mistakes they made. By the way we average the second most points in the NFL, so there's that.

I have to admit I stared at this puzzled for about 30 seconds before remembering Crowder is a person who exists.

The Elam pick was, among other things, an acknowledgement that Dane Jackson isn't a starting CB. He's just been a starter all season due to the injury bug. Hopefully in the playoffs he'll barely see the field.

I agree with you insofar as we haven't had a consistent slot guy as a safety valve.

Stefon Diggs might be the best possession receiver in the game. Having a second WR who's mostly a deep threat isn't a problem. We just haven't seen nearly as many of those splash plays as we thought we might after the KC game last year.

So reading this thread, it appears that the fans don’t want to win close games after all.

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YES. Wrapped up instead of trying to bump him down.

We have a lot of embarrassing plays. None of them are close to the Buttfumble.

You could poll every single NFL executive, coach and player and not find one who would describe the 2022 Bills' roster as "poorly constructed". I swear, nobody hates this team more than its fans.

Diggs is licking his chops on this one.

For real? Since the beginning of last season (29 games including playoffs) we have 16 double digit wins.

10 point road favorites is ludicrous given how both teams are trending. Not saying we can't or won't win a blowout but that's not where I'd put my money.

Headline - COACH AND PLAYER TALK DURING GAME

I got a sick feeling when the CBS broadcast prematurely updated our record to 7-3 and then that scary onsides kick happened. Guess it's the Browns who are worse hard luck losers than us so the fates allowed us out of it.

He's just not quite like other humans, even other NFL players. Kind of like Giannis in the NBA.

No meaningful evaluations can be made based on one game.

KC has a similarly bad loss to the Colts on their resume and we have the tiebreaker against them. Why do you think they have the advantage?

Yep. I can try to hunt it down but I read that we averaged 6.0 men in the box in the first half and 6.1 in the second half.

Oh yeah FFS, I've seen so many takes around here that the Bills may be in for a trap game because the fans aren't taking an opponent seriously enough.