Utah John

He needs to get out of New Jersey and onto the practice squad of a team that will help him develop and mature. A team with a rock-solid, no question about it starter. A team in a supportive environment. In short, he needs to move to New York. Bills PS next year.

Interestingly, White has been so close to good that the Jets might NOT upgrade. Which would also be a colossal mistake. It sure is fun having Josh on the team and watching the other teams flounder. Tua has skills but no balls. He is fine when there's no pressure, or when the Dolphins are up and when his two great receivers are shredding defenses. He is terrible when there's a close game on the line and the other team's defense pressures the receivers and him. He's the anti-Brady. Well that sounds like Brady doesn't have skills, and I am not suggesting that at all. But Brady is a genius at pulling the fat from the fire, find a way to win when the chips are down. Tua just pushes the chips off the table and onto the floor.

At the time of this broadcast, the Bills were in their mini-slump, and the Dolphins were at the top of their game. The mistake two of these announcers made was to assume that the performances they had seen the last couple of weeks, was locked in to persist through the entire season. Turns out the Bills have been crunching out wins every week, while the Dolphins have gone into their traditional December collapse. Note that none of the announcers said it was unlikely that the Bills would get it together, but they were all in luv with the Dolphins. Luv as in man-crush, as opposed to love as in true hearts finding an enduring relationship. There are 36 pages of comments and I haven't read them all. When I find your post, I'm sure I'll agree with it.

Quite a few of the Miami fans responding to this politely told the OP he was wrong, and that Buffalo is the better team.

Pretty good call. Actually 26-20.

It WAS working for most of the year. Bass would drop the KO at the 1, and the Bills would rally to the returner and stop him between the 15 and 20. It happened a lot. It looks like the ST coach for one of their opponents figured out a blocking scheme against how the Bills were covering kicks, and since then they've been gashed over and over. It's time for our ST coach to step up and fix it. Failing that, then yes, kicking it deep is the answer. Cook was one yard away from a 100 yard game, and Allen could have gotten there too if it had made sense for him to try. (Which it didn't.) The Bills did well, but the Bears are really terrible.

I think the Bills played down to their competition in the first half. They came out of the locker room in the second half and took care of business, then waited for the game to be over. I do not think the level of play we saw yesterday will be continued against the Bengals. The Bills always seem to rise to the occasion.

Herbstreit is extremely knowledgeable. He thinks that providing lots of information is his job. Actually, I am fine with getting the entertainment buzz from the play on the field, and getting all that information from Herbstreit. I understand most people want more entertainment from the announcers, so most people think he's boring. I think the solution is to have three people in the booth, just like the old MNF team (Cosell, Gifford, Meredith). Cosell and Gifford alone would be sort of fun to watch, but adding Meredith with the big happy personality made that team rock.

We're so used to the Chiefs winning that they seem unbeatable, while we've watched the Bills notch a series of close wins. Well, guess what, the Chiefs are winning close games too. Which of them is better on any given day really depends on which players are injured. I think it's going to come down to, the Bills need to beat the Bengals in Cincinnati, once. Either on 2 January or in the playoffs. My strong preference is the 2 January game of course, letting (probably) the Bils AND Chiefs have the incredible records of 14-3. The Bills get the 1 seed. If the Bills lose to the Bengals on 2 January, and all three top teams win out, the Bills get the 3 seed since they and the Bengals both are 13-4. So then 2 beats 7 and 3 beats 6, and either 4 or 5 wins. Then KC plays 4/5, and the Bills are back playing the Bengals, in Cincinnati. If they can win there, they're back to KC. The Bills need to beat both of their peers, on the road, in consecutive games. I don't think the Bengals are good enough to beat the Bills twice, but let's not find out, OK? So if the Bills win on 2 Jan: Then KC is 2 seed and Cinci is 3 seed. The playoffs start, and 2 beats 7 while 3 beats 6, and 4 plays 5. Next week 4/5 comes to Buffalo before heading home for the season, while Cinci goes to KC, and one of the Bills' peers is eliminated with the other one coming to Buffalo for the AFCCG. A lot is riding on that 2 Jan game. If Burrow can beat the Bills/Josh, then the duopoly The Athletic is proposing looks pretty shaky.

Not enough sexy stats (ints, sacks). Just brilliant play. Lazy Pro Bowl voters take the easy way out. (to the tune of Fiddler on the Roof): TRADITION!

I was predicting a Milano snub early in the season. He doesn't get a lot of INTs or sacks which is what voters look at for LB recognition. It's a real shame since he's played so well.

The thing is, after Allen was injured (maybe because of the injury, maybe not) he had a string of non-MVP-type games. Defenses figured out route trees the Bills' WRs were running, and Allen tried to play hero ball too much. The fumble at the end of the Vikings game, which denied the Bills a stone-cold win, was a bad look too. I just don't think he wins it this year. And besides the only MVP award I really care about is Super Bowl MVP.

You could make a good argument the MVP is Justin Jefferson or Tyreek Hill. Both of them would make a huge difference for any team they played for. I pick Mahomes, due to the gopher holes. I'd hate to see Allen injured.

We're Number One! We're Number One!

Quite right, too.

I recall that one of the concerns about Rosen was that he was independently wealthy. I don't remember the source of the money but the point was he didn't need to make a bundle playing football, and that he was just as likely to walk away if things didn't go well, and so he might not put his full attention into the game. Maybe there's been a change on the bank account situation. Why would a guy basically put his life on hold, to move around so much, not getting going with the rest of his life, if he didn't need the money? Clearly he's not going to be a star in the league. On his side of the ledger, he did get totally mishandled by his coaches and front offices. Drafted by the Cardinals, and then immediately shoved to one side because Kingsbury wanted Kyler Murray. Then traded away into a situation where he had no shot at starting. On an on it went, with him never getting a real shot. Contrast to Mahomes, who had the complete luxury of sitting his entire rookie year, watching a professional QB (Alex Smith) and learning how to do things in the NFL, and then sliding into the starter job in his second year, with the same coaches and strong roster around him.

I think a lot of the posters here are missing the point. The analysis is about the context of the play design, the defensive alignment, and what actions the QB needs to take and when to take them. These are all valid topics not related to Josh. A QB without Josh's talents has to make different choices, OK fine. In Warner's eyes, those other choices are what he was trained to make. OK fine, he has a yellow jacket and a Lombardi, so he's worth listening to. But there are two points to make. First, those other QBs without the special talent will have defenses sitting on their routes because they can't make the special throws. Josh's ability to make the special throws limits what the other team's D will try to do, and it makes them just a little less free to play an attacking style. Second, the game has changed since Warner was playing. Defenses are always adapting and improving. Josh is playing against today's D. Josh (and even Peterman for that matter) would destroy the Warner-era Ds. If I was watching this as an average-talent QB at the HS or college level, or even in the pros, the lessons I would take away are how I would be trying to beat defenses by excellent play design, route running, timing, and decision making. The Bills don't always have the best of any of those characteristics and yet they still are winning. But they could be more effective. One more TD drive per game and the Bills become much more dangerous, and that added drive could come about because Josh takes a layup now and then to move the chains.

Good point.

Actually, Tulane University in New Orleans bills itself as the Harvard of the South. Maybe that's just aspirational...

If Tre doesn't get hurt Thanksgiving 2021, the Bills don't lose to the Chiefs in the 13 second game. That said, he's making very good progress. He played a lot of receivers very well on Saturday.

Actually Josh Allen fights Chandler Jones for the ball, then runs around the left side for the score.

That's the worst part of it. Maybe Myers thought the Pats were losing and needed a last-minute miracle. But no, all they had to do was hold on and go to overtime. The Pats had the momentum since they'd come back from a big Raiders lead. OK, that's better than my submission.

The LEGAL home run throwback.

As for Saffold, he recently tweeted something about being willing to do whatever it takes to stay on the Bills next year. He was bragging about not giving up a sack or holding penalty, as I recall. So who was that guy in Saffold's uniform against the Dolphins?

We're all thinking about how good the Bills were to start the season, before all the injuries. Since then it's been a weekly adventure to see how well the subs would hold up, and the games have gotten a lot closer. Our starting 22 (24?) is definitely outstanding, all working together, but when we lose most of our starters in the defensive backfield, or on the O line, things just don't work as well. But there are enough good parts of the team that they can still keep winning. Other teams also have injuries, and degraded capabilities in sections of their teams. Last night the Bills O line was devastated and Josh didn't have time to take very much advantage of the Dolphins D-back injuries, but he could do enough to win. That's just the nature of the game. The Bills beat the Jets with an excellent defense, they beat the Dolphins with a dangerous offense and a good D line, they beat the Lions which as everyone can see is a tough game (the Lions only loss the past 8 games was to the Bills), they handled three games in 12 days with two trips to Detroit, and they beat the Chiefs in KC. It's our nature to worry about the flaws instead of relaxing and enjoying the success.