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I’ve liked what I’ve seen from this team. However we have beaten 2 of probably the bottom 5 teams in the league by a whopping 15 points. Until the defense neutralizes a very good offense, or the offense can go toe to toe in a shoot out, I still think we are hovering around .500. Cincy will I’ll be an interesting test. The. Seahawks should be decent this year (and built similarly to us) and they played them tough. Then got smoked by the 49ers. So we don’t know a ton about who is good right now. Just who is absolutely bottom of the barrel. For perspective, if the Bills win Sunday, and assuming the Giants really are terrible, Bills opponents will be 0-9. Not what anybody would call impressive. We could be the real deal. We could also have NE work us at home 42-17. We know nothing yet.

Here is a scenario: Brady goes down in the next 6 weeks before the trade deadline. Pats are still on a roll. They give up a 5th to NYG for Eli because of cap space. Eli goes 6-2 down the stretch, Pats win the division with a bye in the playoffs. Everybody is furious. Eli keeps playing lights out. Pats are in the SB. Eli shows up, plays OK, before an untimely sack fumble with a minute left in the game, that blows the Patriots lead. Pats lose, and Eli Manning personally delivers BB his 3rd SB loss.

Agreed. I also thought Falk had some moments out there last night. As far as a 3rd string/2nd year QB coming off the bench goes, I thought he saw the field well for the most part. Some issues with delivery and timing, but that was to be expected I think. He looked better than Simion.

I don’t disagree necessarily. Allen has looked better this year than Mayfield for sure. Allen continues to struggle with (relatively) touch, anticipation, and to a lesser extent this year, placement. Regardless. I don’t love playing the if’s and butt’s game. If a pass wasn’t tipped. If a ball was a caught, etc. they were, and you live and die by your results. I don’t hate JA, it’s just how I live my life in sport and career. It’s the only way to get an honest inventory.

I mean, Allen is closer to Favre then Mayfield is in terms of willingness to take risks, looking for the big things oh, Ironman, etc. That said, Mayfield was absolutely the better QB last year and it wasn’t close. He through with better anticipation, touch, and placement. Allen has been much better in general, and way better than Mayfield so far this year. Mayfield looks bad and lost. Single read, poor placement. Good skill positions.

I’m sort of half paying attention at this point. But it looks like the biggest issue since the end of the 2nd with the dumb call to go for it on 4th/not run it on 3rd is Gase not Falk. Edit: Holy balls, poorly timed quote...

At some point they are going to have to let Falk throw the ball regularly.

Has OBJ come off the field twice for helmet issues tonight? WTF?

I fully agree. We love to hate Greggo because of his time in Buffalo. But he’s a good DC. He’s just an ####### so he never stick around or produces long term because he loses the locker room. He’s a good stop gap for 2-3 years though.

Jets actually look like they are actually Sam Darnold away from winning this game. Browns look sloppy head head to toe. Jets look physical, they just can’t move the ball because their QB can’t complete a pass.

I keep traveling for work. I didn’t like Josh week 1 much at all. Impressed with Josh week 2, especially in the first half. Im sure you wanted that addressed. Wink. Ha

#imprecise throw there. QB’s are accurate, but they are generally not precise. Duh!

Jesus....it is week 2. Just get through Cincinnati next week. I am not saying we are bad or good, but this is the easiest part of or schedule. We have a lot of proving to do before we start talking about the division. Outside of Miami, we have a lot of tough games and could wins/coin flips but not really any should wins (at least not yet, everything will shift as the season starts to shake out). This is a team that was Jekyll and Hyde last year. For myself, I think they need to get through about 8 weeks without getting their teeth kicked in on either side of the ball, before I start to let myself feel like we have turned a corner. Mostly because I need to see them not lose by 14ish+ to the Pats, and play competitive football against the Titans, Eagles, and Skins.

It wasn’t phantom. He came in late and hit/pushed a guy who looked like he was getting in Allen’s face. I am OK with taking those 15 yards, everyday. Protect your QB, especially if you’re the OL.

Family section is quite and well behaved for sure. I wouldn’t worry about your daughter. Fun story headline, with little actual substance. years ago I got booted from the family section. I got tickets free from a family friend. A girl I was dating at the time was a section over. Met her in the concourse for a beer at half time. Hung out at her seat until the rightful owners came back before kickoff. Brought the beer back to my seat not really thinking. Took a sip. Escorted out within 45 seconds. It was incredibly quick. I’m surprised they didn’t just take the beer, rather than directly escort me to a gate. There was no misbehavior. I have a friend in Erie County SWAT. He basically said the entire stadium is under constant video surveillance and they keep an incredibly close eye on the family section. He wasn’t surprised, standard protocol. Bills got absolutely worked by the Pats. So I didn’t miss much.

I generally agree with the altering of events. Taking away events that happened, or crediting events that didn’t. Some of that might just be PTSD from message board fodder. But thanks for putting this together. It is well thought out and a great talking point week to week. At the very least I can follow your logic on most of this. Cheers and Go Bills! This speaks to my first point. It’s a silly point trying to scapegoat. I am am glad that the OP isn't doing this.

Agreed. I just moved to Saratoga Springs and cut the cord mostly. I have an antenna and subscribe to CBS, Hulu, Prime, and Netflix. I use families log in for a few other stations but don’t use them much. I also use a VPN and Kodi maybe 6 times per year for a specific movie I can’t find on other platforms. I tried to PAY for Sunday ticket, and I couldn’t without subscribing to DTV. It’s garbage. I am trying to give you $300 . Take my money. Give me the product! I used to have DTV. Loved it at the time. But my content is better elsewhere and I’m not paying for 100 stations of used gem stones for sale. There just isn’t enough good content for me to pay for and lock in a contract.

Sub Josh Reed for Zay Jones, and it’s like we are right back in 2004. ? Zay has higher up side.

It means what he said. Coming out of the draft it looked like he could be a starting QB someday. Technically he IS a starting QB but none of us know his staying power yet. Which is fair. He could still go the direction of Favre or Bortles. If he keeps getting better he’ll start. If he doesn’t he’ll get another look or two from teams then be gone. It is a pretty honest and fair assessment of Josh Allen in early September of 2019. Shurmer is the (terrible) head coach of another franchise. He isn’t going to go into detail on where he thinks another teams QB is going to be in 5 years.

Why can't you? Use either a free VPN (opera works well enough) or just private browsing/incognito

This deserved more coverage on the board. Tremendously impressive story. Good for Ty!

Seriously though...Tim Tebow was equally polarizing, because all that mattered was the W to some fans. Here is to hoping that Allen’s story ends differently. Take these events away and he looks pretty good insert excuse... I get what you are saying, and agree to a certain extent. But at some point Josh Allen needs to look good without adding “remove this” and he looked good. Or “considering” he looked good. He hasn’t don’t that yet. We hope he does though.

Switched from southern teir to blue light

I hope so. Just a heads up, last year we turned the ball over 4+ times in 2 games, 3 times in 5 games, and 3 more games with 2 turn overs last year. We were held under 14 pts 9 times last year as well. There were definitely some good flashes yesterday. But also a lot of things that stir some fear, because ultimately, the result was a lot of the same. A lot of turnovers and not getting points on the board.

Be less pretentious...go scream into your pillow about precision vs. accuracy. Stop trying to change an entire community that clearly uses this as an industry standard. He was regularly putting balls late and behind his receiver.