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Wish we would have had the stones to replace him in the off-season.

A little better ball to Cook would have been nice, but this is an ok performance against a really good front.

Was in a tough spot for this game.

Seems like we never play when the sun and temp are comfortable lol.

Our OLine versus their DLine is the key. Without the snark from above.

Burrow straight up couldn't grip the football.

I penciled in week 1 as one of our losses, but I think we take the division. And we all gotta remember that the SB is half a year away.

Plenty of folks think a whole lot of the Jags.

This game is won or lost in the trenches. Both sides matter but our OLine vs their DLine is the most important.

Bernard had a strong scrimmage right before he pulled that hammy. Hope he runs with it. Dodson sucks.

True but iirc his mobility and movement was pretty limited.

That was legitimately good.

I mean, sure, but it's "he's due" vs "precedent". It's not the secondary that worries me it's their DLine.

The jets defense can and has given us fits. They're d-bags but this is a tough game.

Much more worried about their defense giving us fits.

Please. Veach, Reid, offensive line. Each significantly better. They are a better team but the quarterbacks are about the same.

We'll live or die by the OLine. Brown (or Ifedi) is going to have to pan out at RT.

It's all about our offense vs their defense imo. My concern is them blowing up our OLine and putting us in hero ball mode. That can't happen if we want to win.

Defensive pessimism. Pure and simple. Hell, in my family when we're being defensive pessimists in other areas of life we literally say..."well, we're Bills fans so we can be defensive pessimists..." But you don't need to drag neuroses onto the forum for christssake.

Wants to spin this off from the Josh is lazy thread....makes a post that belongs in that thread...

Classy.

I can't stand how much Sauce gets away with flagrant holding etc. Why doesn't he get called for it?

With the moves this off-season (include those that happened down to the wire), the biggest question mark to me is Dorsey. We need to see an ability to adapt when we're getting punched in the face by a defense.

I didn't hear it myself but apparently on one of the networks that aired the Bears game, the audio from Beane and the announcers kept running when they thought a commercial break was overriding their mics. Beane was saying Kyle just wasn't getting it and expressed disappointment with his offseason (allegedly).

With the roster going through its final machinations, I've got three areas that I think are critical for our season: 1) Dorsey. I thought we were remarkably inflexible with the play-calling last year. It was fine most of the time, but I thought our ability to adapt to defenses was poor. We have got to lean on the shorter and intermediate game and sprinkle in deep shots as our default, and then adjust as needed from there. 2) The play of the offensive line. Positionally this is our most limiting factor. It's not a coincidence that the best OLine we've had in recent memory (which was only ranked 10th in the league fwiw) was the year we should have won the superbowl. 3) Health, as always.