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It’s not even about being in a different style of play. Sure you can name 5-10 QB’s with shotty rookie year stats, that ended up in the HoF. But for every one of those, there are another 30 JP Losmans, Trent Edwards, Brian Brohms, etc. Sure there is a chance it turns out well. But the odds of a QB being “the guy” after turning the ball over 22 times (18 INT, 13 fumbles, 4 fumbles lost) in 16 games, is low.

I am unsure Starr gets cut unless there is a significant up grade. It basically means the Dareus trade nets us about $32M in dead cap space. Never mind the fact that we paid Starr $10M the same year we ate $13M from MD. I think it’s too bad of a look for the FO to pull the trigger. We shall see.

I would take Dalton right now on this team, for just this year. He wouldn’t be nearly as good at hero ball, but I don’t think we would have had to either. I’d throw Brisset into the mix as well. I am not throwing JA’s future out. Just looking at how this team is set up and the QB play they need.

These next few games worry me, and will decide if the Bills have arrived this season. We have a stretch here with similar teams that we "should" or could beat. The Titans, Ravens, Brown, Eagles, and Steelers are playing hard, even though their record isn't favorable. We need to win those games. If we get 2018 Barkley v. Jets, we will be fine. If we get Barkley yesterday or Allen v. Pats/Bengals/Jets, we are in trouble. We can't keep expecting to turn the ball over against similar tiered teams and expect to keep adding +1 to the win column. Sitting up in 300's, Allen had a few misreads on cover 0 with guys having a step out of their break on either a post or seam. It was frustrating. It got to the point where you could pick the route as a fan from the stands pre-snap, and Allen went somewhere else.

Part of the issues is JA is inaccurate with the deep ball. He can throw it out of the stadium, but not on target.

He isn’t morphing, he has always held the ball too long.

Josh Allen once again turned the ball over more than he found the end zone. The 2018 season, Bengals, and Jets aren’t an anomaly or a bad day. They’re now a pattern, and it cost us a W today.

We gave the ball up 3 times in 58 minutes. The refs were absolutely not the problem. Buffalo stole the game from thelmselves

And how not to treat women...

Man, the Jets game would have been a blow out if it weren’t for tipped passes, bad snaps, and poor decisions. But they did happen. Part of getting better is owning each and every mistake, not pawning them off as just a mishap, bad day, or other players.

16 games. Larger roster. 2 bye weeks. Same football games, but more TV weeks will add more revenue. Stop testing for weed. Make OTA’s non optional. Require more time in the facility, but no contact. Make the product on the field better. Add another round of playoffs with an extra two teams from each conference.

I’ve definitely criticized this FO and Coaching Staff for some decisions. But this absolutely spot on! McDermott is a tremendous leader of men. There shouldn’t be any question about it, and it’s his greatest strength.

Yeah, definitely not predicting, just saying what we need to be capable of. If I had to put my mortgage on this game, I think I’d be a homeless Bills fan.

He won’t be wearing a red jersey Sunday. If Poyer or Hyde can line him up right a few times, we’ll be in a good spot. JE....not so much

It happens in every sport. Being elite at the very highest level takes a different breed both physiologically and psychologically. Every once in a while you get players who transcend both. But just about all athletes, even in the NFL, will lean more one way or the other.

Honestly superstitions are real. I try not to drink regional beers for away teams on game day. Sadly every time I’ve been drinking not blue light this year, the Bills go on a skid during the game. Cheap beer for me on sundays for the next 12 weeks

I’m gonna get flamed for this, but here is a hot take: I think I would rather lose a close one to the Pats and beat the Titans. At least we know who we are. Winning games were supposed to. Losing games were supposed to. AFC record stays in tact. This how we get to 10+ wins. Beat the Pats and lose to TEN. Holy shite, every week suddenly becomes a toss up for us. It’s what has gotten us 7-9/9-7 every year for an entire generation. Perfect world, we are 5-0 and that’s what I’m pulling for!

You got me man, I went full John Madden on that one. If we hold them to less points then we score, I like our odds. The last year or two, generally you hold NE under 24 you’ll win. If you can put 28 on them, you should be in the middle of a good football game, no matter what they do.

If we could keep Harvey Weinstein out of this, that would be great. ??

Any lead against NE by less than 14 with 1:30 or more on the clock, terrifies me. I don’t bet on NE v. BUF games. I did almost parlay BUF, MIA, NYJ last week though. Also, eff you Peyton Manning and Phil Rivers. A few years ago I parlayed each division winner, and the Chargers had a crap year largely thanks to the Broncos. It was the only one I missed and cost me a pretty large profit.

I was thinking the same thing. The football IQ seemed to be pretty high with their press corps. They didn’t seem to have a Jerry Sullivan sitting in the room. Interesting you chose 44-3. I walked out of the Ralph after Sunday’s game thinking, if we do this next week, we’re losing 42-7. Not far off. Haha Then again, it’s what BB does to young QB’s. Much like the Taliban, they disfigure the young so they remember for a lifetime. (Sorry if that was too much)

“I wouldn’t say they do anything complicated, but what they do, they do well” BB was about as praising as he gets here. He regularly muffs on people’s names and just says positions. He named Poyer and Hyde specifically. But the above quote is a worry of mine. I think we play really sound football, and do what we do well. But if TB and BB figure it out, the offense will need to carry the load because it’s not tricky on that side of the ball. Which is fine by me, because as BB said, it’s worked in CAR, and worked here for 3 years, why would we change. Realistically, I think we have a great shot if we can hold NE under 24, and we can put up 28. I think no matter what happens 24 points has got to be the bare minimum on the offensive side of the ball

The team is 3-0, albeit closer than we would like to 1-2, but at least they won, which is at least some change compared to other years....even the last two. I actually think that TEN is a must win. Win or lose vs. NE we will be viewed as over achieving or under achieving. We are in a similar tier to the Titans. We either come off really high or really low against them, either way, we have to win another AFC game on the road we have to win. We need to build some wins against better similar teams on the road to come out of the WAS, PHI, CLE run. All teams I think that are similar to BUF. If we can beat the Titans, and come out of that 3 game stretch 2-1, we are right as rain.

I am constantly a guy who focuses on what could be better tomorrow, rather than what we did well today. Wanted to take this thread to make sure I am on the record as a fan (but worried somtimes) of Josh Allen. If we can see more of the below quote. We will be definitely be "good enough" in year two of his development. Allen has been more accurate this year, cutting his rate of “poor throws” (according to Pro-Football-Reference.com) from a league-worst 24 percent in 2018 to just 6 percent — which ranks fourth-best this year. Some of that can be attributed to a dose of shorter throws,1 but the NFL’s Next Gen Stats estimate that Allen is completing passes at a rate 0.9 percentage points higher than expected this season, even after adjusting for the depth of the pass and other particulars, while he checked in at 7.7 percentage points below expected last season (second-worst in the league). You left out the rest of the paragraph. Don't get your panties in a bunch everytime somebody isn't 100% positive about Buffalo. They gave Buffalo a better chance to win than the betting line. Tom Brady has a long history of winning, and Buffalo/McDermott a history of losing. Patriots are doing what they do, and the Bills have done what they normally do. I thought this write up was relative positive and fair. So let’s be honest: A lot of signs point to the Bills’ magical season-opening run coming to a screeching halt against New England this week. (Our model gives the Pats a 65 percent chance of winning, despite being on the road, and that’s conservative compared with the probability implied by the Vegas line.) But we also give Buffalo a 70 percent chance to make the playoffs — and for a franchise with only one playoff game under its belt since 1999, that’s as good an excuse for a raucous parking-lot celebration as anything else.

Totally agree. We could win 12 games. I’m just going off of the last two years and the first 3 games. We’ve had some blow outs the last two years, and squeaked by some bad teams. We are only a few plays away from heading into NE 1-2. But we did find a way to win which can’t be discounted. Well know more through the middle of the season.