Utah John

Daboll still has a very clear understanding of the Bills offense and clearly used that information. His former underling, currently his replacement, has added some new things but the basic structure is still what Daboll put in place. I'm less concerned about the Bills struggles last night than I am about whether other teams will analyze what Martindale did with Daboll's information. Dorsey is going to have to think up and install new components for the Bills offense, during the season and not during preseason or training camp when that work is usually done. I am not convinced he's up to that. The Bills dominant team in games 2-5 this year was beautiful but will be a distant memory by the December. One or two more serious injuries and the wheels will officially be off. The Bills better buckle up and win the games they are supposed to win, because any more cheap losses and they could fall out of a playoff position completely.

Does anyone know if Boogie Basham was active for the Giants in last night's game? I never heard his name mentioned.

Was it smart? Probably not. Will the rest of the Bills love him even more? You betcha. He's as tall as the linemen, though not as heavy, and he doesn't think anyone can push him or his teammates around.

The biggest blunder is one the Bills make a lot. It's called, playing down to your opponent's level. The Bills rise up to beat Miami convincingly, then seem to lose focus against weaker teams. In college, you can get away with this since even top teams have really bad teams on their schedule. In the pros, not so muich. Look at the Eagles and 49ers, who both lost to patched up teams with real problems. So the Bills aren't the only high-level team to have this problem, but it's the factor that separates the top teams from the rest of the good ones.

But who's gonna trade for him with that contract? Let's not forget Charles Clay. Better yet, let's.

ANY other Bills QB loses this game. Put Kelly into this offense and it doesn't work. Kelly had Thurman, Andre, James, Don, Keith, Kenneth, Pete. Josh has Diggs and a lot of other guys who are pretty good but no match for the early 90s Bills.

Great guy, not quite as great a player. I've seen him playing for the Vikings and he gets run over too much. Definitely not the second coming of Kyle Williams.

Maybe the people who stand up just want to stretch, or make sure they can get their bag out of the overhead. Both legitimate reasons. For starting new threads, not so much.

Oh great. The PJ's are back. Look, Bills, if you can't keep up with the laundry just tell us.

Let's try another experiment. We'll hold an NFL commissioner under water for 10 minutes and see what he says later.

Logan Thomas

About Elam -- Any thoughts that he stunk the place up on purpose, so the Bills can't get anything for him in a trade? Probably not. I think we all saw why he's been a healthy scratch.

The airlines have us convinced that we're supposed to fly at night to get to England or the Continent. It's stupid. The time difference is significant, but not that great. It's five hours difference between Buffalo and London, or four hours difference when the US goes to standard time in the fall instead of daylight savings time. In contrast, people accept a three hour difference from the west coast to the east coast all the time. Yes, it's an impact, but not too great. The problem is that everyone choose to fly red-eye to the UK, instead of doing it during the day. Have you ever flown red-eye from the west coast to the east coast? I did it several times back when I was working. You try to sleep on the plane but it's never enough, and you're in a daze the next day, trying to make it through to bedtime. I took those red-eyes only when I had no other option. Otherwise I'd just leave the west coast in the morning, fly through the day, and get to the east coast that afternoon. I would feel fine, with just a little problem getting to sleep that night on the east coast schedule. The next day, I was up and ready to go. Was it sports scientists (who exactly are THEY?) or the accountants who decided the Bills would fly at night? IMO they should have flown out on Thursday morning, arrived Thursday afternoon, and been completely fine by Sunday. If necessary they could have flown on Friday morning. Not everyone, just the guys Elam is covering. Scratch that. The guys Elam is watching.

There are WLBs and then there are WLBs. Milano flew all over the place, making plays with his speed, athleticism, and football IQ. The D line has been excellent, and it's true that Rousseau and Jones have been the best players there, although Oliver took advantage of being next to Jones to have his best season so far. If they're both out, and if Miller doesn't get back to being himself, we'll be watching QBs carve up our deleted LBs and secondary. And HE got hurt too today although he was able to come back. And it's not just one at each position. We were without our two best corners, our best LB, our best D tackle, and our best D end. And at one point Taron Johnson was out too, so make that our three best corners.

This whole thing is just ridiculous. First, playing on a field with that artificial turf. How many of the Bills injuries came about because of that turf? And, much less importantly, how many Bills slipped and couldn't make plays, leading to the loss? Considering age and severity of injury, it's possible that the Bills will never see Tre White or Matt Milano on the field again. Second it's ridiculous that one team could remain in London and be rested, and then face a team that just arrived. One of the premier teams in the league just got devastated, all so the NFL can make more money and try to spread its brand. It's tragic.

The Bills offense woke up late in the second quarter and played OK after that, but the defense couldn't get the Jags off the field. They were gassed by the 4th quarter. Not that losing Tre White Christian Benford Matt Milano DaQuon Jones Greg Rousseau had anything to do with that. I thought Williams did OK as backup LB for Milano (many of us were hoping Williams would see the field this year -- shame on us), but Elam might as well have not been on the field. It's clear why Benford played and Elam sat. Jones has been a major disruptor in the middle of the D line. Jordan Phillips is just not as good. Tre White >> Dane Jackson Christian Benford >>>>> Kaiir Elam Matt Milano >> Dorian Williams DaQuon Jones > Jordan Phillips Greg Rousseau > AJ Epenesa (only one > because Epenesa had the game of his career, but Rousseau is still better) Jordan Poyer 2021 >> Jordan Poyer 2023 Micah Hyde 2021 > Micah Hyde 2023 If the window is closing it's not Josh Allen's fault. It's all the injuries on this year's D. ALL the best players are out. Sad day.

I keep saying that at least once every weekend.

A couple of weeks ago I had a guy stop me in the parking lot of a grocery store here in Memphis. I was wearing a Bills cap as usual, and he said he'd been a Bills/Josh Allen fan for years though he'd never been to Buffalo. Then he asked me whether it was OK to use ranch dressing. I just smiled and shook my head, making him laugh. (What I SHOULD have said is that that's like putting ketchup on ribs -- something a Memphian would understand.) But he also made a comment that maybe the blue cheese dressing in Buffalo is different than elsewhere, and I'm not sure about that. I just said that it makes the wings taste better and we left it at that. But maybe there actually is a difference in blue cheese dressing in different parts of the country. Any ideas whether that's true?

Back when I lived in WNY the best beef on weck was at Schwabl's in West Seneca. Is that still a good place?

I hadn't caught that it was Norwood selling the Norwood jersey. What a great add for this commercial.

Yes, Memphis TN. And the summers are HOT as you said. But then, we moved here from Fairbanks Alaska so anything was going to feel hotter to us.

I've been seeing another commercial showing a young boy getting a Bills jersey, then getting more jerseys over the years as he meets a girl, has a family, and eventually buys a jersey for his grandchild. I have no idea at all what the product is that that commercial is selling, but I really love seeing the progression.

Here in Memphis too.

That's why they ... well, you know.

If he's not actually going to do anything on his own when plays come into his area, other teams will catch on, and all that height and length won't matter anymore.