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Despite losing Milano and being banged up (plus the Von suspension) the defense has looked good. Not great or elite but it has been a defense that can win games. If they get some guys back I think they will be good enough to win in the playoffs. The question is will the WR core hamper the offense against better defenses? Which I think 6 weeks in is a yes.

Two division away games plus week one which is always uneasy and toss in a win against a bad Jags team and at 4-2 you have to like it. Fins are reeling due to the Tua injury and some other issues, and the Pats are the "one year away" team that we kind of thought they would be. The Jets are also reeling despite Rodgers being a decent QB which points to larger flaws. Overall the Bills are who we thought they were. They have a good defense that's a little banged up, they have a good offensive line and RB/TE squad with a great QB. However, they are a little lackluster at WR. Find a way to add some pop at WR and get healthy (esp on defense) and I think this team will have a chance to go far.

I wouldn't hate it. If the Seahawks are willing to eat a lot of his current 18 million dollar hit then I think Lockett as a rental would be a solid add. He's 32 while older for a WR is still towards the end of an age where WR's still produce at a high level. He's been banged up but never really injured, he's been active for 16 or more games pretty much every year of his career. He's also been very productive even in recent season 2022 he had over 1k receiving yards and in 2023 while a bit of a down year he still had just under 900 yards and he's off to a fantastic start this season. If the Seahawks lose a few more games before the trade deadline it is possible they could take offers for Lockett.

Even the best fall down sometimes. Josh had a bad game and even then the Bills were still in it. Hopefully the Bills can get Shakir back and get healthier overall while also having Brady adjust the gameplan.

Ty Johnson and Ray Ray should be good enough to get it done if the offensive line plays well. Suck this team is banged up, hurting for a bye week early in the season stinks.

I think teams have adjusted to how to play against WR's being "schemed" open and are daring WR's to make plays in tighter windows. This is just my eye test amateur take but it seems like teams are just saying hey we know the Bills WR's aren't very good outside of Shakir and maybe Keon so let's have them beat us so to speak. Joe Brady is going to have to adjust to the counters seen the past couple of weeks.

The Bills were far more banged up, I think you are just being hyperbolic and reactionary to a tough loss. Every team deals with injuries but it is very apparent looking at who the Bills were missing on defense and the lack of Shakir on offense that the Bills were set back more talent wise than the Texans. Yet the Bills took the game down to the wire on the road. The Bills went into the season with a lack of talent at WR and a shaky kicker situation, everywhere else on the roster the Bills are solid or better. I do agree the Bills should have found a way to get more at WR but that's the price the Bills have paid to retool their roster longer term. In the end the Bills are who we thought they were a good team with a major flaw at WR and a few other okayish areas. This team should still win 10-11 games and win the division with the rest of the division being very lacklust. If the Bills can beat the Jets on Monday they will take a strong hold over the division early which is a good luxury for a team figuring things out.

From 2005-2006 the Pats lost a lot of veteran free agents who were still performing well. Deion Branch, Ty Law, Willie McGinest, Adam Vinatieri, starting offensive linemen Joe Andruzzi and Tom Ashworth, Keith Traylor, Roman Phifer, and Troy Brown all left in the span of two off-seasons. The Pats always had years where they retooled their rosters and went through years where they cleaned house on vets and went with younger players and suffered growing pains.

I thought the defense despite being banged up has only had one bad game (the Ravens). The defense got punched in the mouth against the Cardinals but only gave up 22 points (6 of those 28 points given up on special teams) and only gave up a field goal and a 2pt conversion in the second half. The defense was lights out against the Jags and Fins. Against the Texans the defense only gave up 23 points and 3 of those were given up on a short field on a very long field goal. In fact the only reason the team had a chance was the two turnovers forced by the defense in the second half. Considering how banged up the defense is I think the defense isn't performing all that poorly. Of course this is all week to week and subject to change but the returns on the first five games have been above average.

This team was down 4 of its top 6-7 defensive players (Ed, Von, Milano, and Taron) plus another starter and role player (Rapp and Austin Johnson) and the team was also down its top WR in a WR core that is lacking, and they still played a close game away against a good team. Overall the loss is not that big of a deal, if the Bills can win against the Jets they are fine they will be in a great position to win the division sitting at 4-2 with a tough part of their schedule out of the way. People have to stop being so hyperbolic when it comes to each game. This team is who we thought they were a good team with a flawed WR core and some young pieces here and there that might have some growing pains.

Are you saying this message board is filled with hyperbolic reactionary takes week to week?

Beane is a top 5 GM in the league. The Bills from 2017-2023 have been one of the most successful teams in the league. They have 6 playoff appearances in 7 seasons with 4 straight division titles and 5 playoff victories. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater and have a hyperbolic reaction to recent losses.

Checking out prime vision hoping its as good as many have been saying.

Going to be a cop out answer but I think you are going to have to see how the next month plays out (trade deadline is Nov 5). The Bills pass catching core looked great against the Cards, Fins, and Jags. But against the Ravens the entire offense was not able to get in a groove and only put up 10 points. Problem is that the Bills don't play too many good defenses from now until the trade deadline. The Jets and maybe Texans are the best defenses the Bills will face until the trade deadline. The Fins, Titans, and Seahawks are the other defense this team plays and they range from mediocre to average. If the Bills offense continues to hum then I think you may likely look into adding a defensive piece or special teams piece. But if there's consistent struggles then you gotta look into adding something at WR. You may or may not need a true "stud WR1" but you may need some speed or something else there that the current core is missing.

Not sure why people are romanticizing drought era coaches. They were all either mediocre to bad.

There were literally no negatives in the blowout win. Josh was great, the offensive line was great, Cook and the RB's were great, Kincaid was great, the WR's were great, all defensive units were fantastic, and even the Special Teams unit was good (only negative was a block on the first Bass Extra point but Bass made all his other kicks, Martin nailed his punt for a 49 yard net, and the coverage units were solid). The Bills are just rolling right now. The only things that concern me as a fan are the quality of competition has been not the best especially the fact that the Bills have not faced a good defense, my other concern is special teams. The special teams unit has been shaky. Week 1 they let up the TD and Week 2 Bass missed a kick that was fairly short that's in addition to the ST unit and Bass coming off a generally shaky season in 2023. Hopefully Bass making most of these chip shots helps his confidence.

Bills really missed the boat on Khalil Mack a U-Buffalo prospect not saying this kid is a similar prospect seems like he's projected to be a day 2 or day 3 pick not a top 4-7 pick like Mack was.

The Superdome is constantly being renovated. They most recently did a massive 450 million dollar renovation from 2020-2024. There was also a major Post Katrina repair and renovation in 2005-2006 that cost 336 million. There were also several smaller renovation projects one in 96/97 that was for 22 million (about 44 million in todays dollars), another one in 09-11 for 85 million, and a smaller renovation project in 2016 for another 40 million. Since 05/06 there has been over 900 million spent on renovating the stadium. The NFL apparently likes to have the Super Bowl in NOLA due to the tourism infrastructure in place. Marti Gras takes place around the same time as the Super Bowl most years (give or take a week or two most years) so the city has a lot of experience in taking in a lot of tourists that time of year. The Superdome constantly being renovated also helps it keep up with newer venues. I think the concept of renovating a stadium massively every 20 years with a few smaller facelifts in between is a better way to go than building a brand new one every 30ish years.

The Benson family (mainly Tom Benson) has threatened to relocate the Saints several times. I think as early as 2001 Tom Benson threatened to move them if they didn't get the stadium renovation deal they wanted, there was also the Post-Katrina saga of the Saints possibly moving to San Antonio. I think Gayle Benson Tom's widow owns the Saints and the NOLA NBA team and it wouldn't shock me if she was willing to play hardball. I think the Jags and Saints are the two top relocation candidates. But both teams owners don't have any short terms plans for relocation it seems as both have gotten major renovation deals.

EJ needed to be drafted into a much better situation if he ever hoped to be successful. If maybe EJ was drafted to a team with an established vet QB who he could sit behind for 2 years and a team that had good infrastructure he maybe could have developed into a competent starter. But 2013 Buffalo was just not a good place for dam near any QB to be.

I am thinking Spencer Brown and Dawkins are gonna be critical. The Jags have a pretty dam good DE duo in Hines-Allen and Walker and if the Bills can limit them with Dawkins/Brown that's gonna allow the Bills offense to get a lot done.

The Pats ***** Mac Jones up with bad coaching hires and poor offensive supporting casts. I don’t think he was ever going to be a top 10ish QB but I think he could have been a early 49ers Jimmy G type game manager plus had he been given a quality OC after McDaniels left and the Pats added a few better pieces around him. It’s one of those cases of an organization regressing around a player that showed promise for a season. Not that I feel bad for the Pats but it’s just interesting to me how badly they bungled Jones

Mac Jones is such an odd case to me. He came out as a rookie and took his team to an 11-6 record and the playoffs. He looked like a competent game manager as a rookie which is not a backhanded complement that's actually impressive to run an offense (even a risk averse one) competently as a rookie. But then he just regressed massively after a productive rookie season. He went 6-8 his second year and then last year 2-9 and his stats and play took a dip as well. Usually a QB will not regress to that extreme degree after a quality rookie season but dam if that did not happen to Mac Jones.

NE is pulling what the Giants did with Kurt Warner/Eli Manning. Let the vet take the early season lumps and then plug in the rookie once the season is kind of lost and there's not much pressure. I also think NE probably wants to see how good or bad the surrounding offensive components are before throwing Maye out there. Because it is a lot easier to tailor an offense around Maye after you have 6+ weeks of regular season film of the guys that are going to be around him. I think it is the right call to let the rookie sit for at least 6 or so weeks and allow him to come into what will at best be a better situation or at worst be less exposure to a bad situation.

I think Rodgers is at worst an above average NFL QB but NE not having much of a pass rush is not surprising. They traded Judon before the start of the season and lost Baremore to injury along with their best LB in Bentley to injury. So take the 3 of the best players off an average to below front 7 and it is gonna look bad.