IronyAbounds

Is today the day we stop worrying about winning the division and start worrying about making the playoffs? Upcoming schedule is not exactly weak.

Finally, a big play!!

Hardly. Firing people now isn't the answer, but there clearly is a problem with the team right now. Losing to the pathetic Jags and struggling against the equally pathetic Jets points to problems. The team, particularly the offense, is not operating up to expectations.

The team as a whole has clearly taken a step back from last year. Whether due to complacency, failure to address needs, or the opposition figuring out how to deal with the offense I don't know, but something is amiss.

"If you looked at the Bills' performance only from a statistical standpoint, it appeared the offensive line had an OK day. Per NFL Next Gen Stats, Allen had 3.12 seconds to throw, his second-highest window of the season, and he threw 64% of his passes to open receivers, a season high." https://www.espn.com/blog/buffalo-bills/post/_/id/36546/what-went-wrong-with-the-bills-offense-and-can-it-be-fixed As for the .22, it was the worst in the league Sunday.

Well, my favorite college team, my alma mater, the worst FBS team in the country, finally broke its 20 game losing streak yesterday (mostly due to Cal losing 10 starters and 24 players total to injury and Covid protocols, but still a win is a win). So yippie! Follow that up with today's absolute abomination of a Bills' game, and you have a perfect example of the roller coaster of sports. I generally just watch games where one of my teams is playing.

Question: why do the running backs get labeled terrible despite running behind a terrible OL, but Allen's problems are explained away by a terrible OL? I think Singletary and Moss are perfectly acceptable backs who are just as hampered by the OL as Allen is.

It may be that over-achieving in 2020 resulted in a bit of a over confidence on the part of Beane and McDermott and they didn't take a hard enough look at the roster deficiencies.

In 1988 the Bills surprised by winning the AFC East with a 12-4 record and everything looked rosy heading into 1989. 1989 arrives and the Bills start quickly at 6-2 only to limp home 3-5 in the regular season. They still win a lousy division at 9-7 but lose their first playoff game. 2021 is beginning to look eerily similar to 1989 and the Bills could win the division with a mediocre record like 9-8 or 10-7. The good news is that 1989 was just a temporary blip and we know what happened the next four years.

No, there were only 3 seconds left. With that said, you at least send a guy running back to get the ball in hopes of a miracle.

Thing is, you can't whine about the OL being bad as an excuse for Josh and then turn around and whine about the running backs. A bad OL is just as much of a problem for the running backs.

Thank God for the weak schedule...oh wait.

Josh Allen is the MVP of this game. Unfortunately, it's the wrong Josh Allen.

Really can't blame the line on that one, Josh missed the blitz coming and then he made an incredibly stupid throw.

WTG Jets, one fewer 2 loss teams. C'mon Colts.

Hope the team proctologist is summoned at halftime in order to extract the team's collective asses from their heads.

Josh's brain fart rendered the Offside moot anyhow.

wow, what a dumbass sequence of events.

Ok, score here and get some momentum. It would be great to grab the lead after being outplayed the entire half.

I think it has to do with the fact that the Bills' passing game is geared toward slant routes and medium routes that evaporate once you get close to the goal line. Couple that with an O Line not good enough to push people forward for the running game, and you have a combination that makes it harder to score a touchdown once the Bills are in the Red Zone.

He really is insufferable. Michaels I like, but Collinsworth makes me puke.

Just a stupid call by Belichick. Even if the FG was made TB had a minute to get into FG range. Add in the fact it was a 56 yarder in pouring rain by a kicker who doesn't have a huge leg and you get WTF.

Hard to believe that this stadium is much older than War Memorial was when I went to my first Bills game in ‘62. The Rockpile looked 100 yrs old back then.

Think how intellectually challenged the average poster is and half of the posters are even more intellectually challenged. h/t George Carlin.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/will-josh-allen-regress-will-joe-burrow-stay-upright-two-qb-storylines-to-watch-this-season/ Just one week though