Bleeding Bills Blue

Matt Hasselbeck comes to mind... Walter Jones and Steve Hutchinson... as well as Shaun Alexander to the tune of 1800 yards.

They need to fix the oline - that fixes the offense. They had an elite oline in 2018, lost a couple players and others regressed. They were bullying people in their run game a year ago, and this year it's stuck in the mud. Problem - no draft picks, no money. They have 2/3/4/6/7 in 2020, and 2/3/6/7 in 2021. They paid - Goff, Donald, Gurley, Cooks, Woods, Higbee, Havenstein, and Hekker. They just traded 2 firsts for Ramsey who is a guaranteed holdout - and will fetch you probably 50 cents on the dollar at this point in draft capital (Whoever acquires him doesn't get a cheap year like you did so i would think you're unlikely to get the same back). Extending him doesn't eat into space in 2020 but it will be massive in 2021. You can create space in a few places (Woods, Weddle, base salary reductions) but any extensions, salary bonus deferrals basically result in doubling down on a roster of a non-playoff team with no draft picks. My friend whos a ticket broker thinks that all of this draft investment etc. was done to sell seat licenses to help pay for the stadium and try and get LA fans.

CBS didn't even show replays of buffalo's o-line penalties so i don't really know that they happened tbh. Probably because they thought they tripped them.

Gotta stop the run/screen game to have a shot in this one.

Mercy rules exist in situations - Youth sports, bar league sports, etc - Where you as the player paid a league and refs to play. These guys are making millions of dollars - there's ad revenue at stake - play it out.

Tyron smith has been struggling as of late, not sure if he's hurt or what - but i'm hoping hughes brings it. He's been pressuring QBs all year but i'd like to see him get home a few times.

Big game for both teams.

The chargers didn't figure out anything. They just "made him a QB" and he wasn't ready. He's shown he's more ready this year, better understanding of defenses and game speed. They're basically running a ton of 2 TE stuff - they tend to head towards the sidelines (safe), or cross (man beater), and run a lot of PA. The WRs have a lot of speed for big plays in PA game. If you screw up they can make you pay deep, but they're perfectly content running it down your throat and picking up 3rd and 3's - over and over again. Yeah - Ingram was a huge upgrade over collins. They still have Edwards to hammer you at 6 foot 240. Let's be real here. You have to score a lot to beat this style of team. I hope we have some tricks up our sleeves because its either going to need to be a windy sleet crap game where luck is in play, or we have to put up at least 30 points.

Yeah - containing the TEs with our LBs, tackling well, consistent rush angles. If they do those things, and force LJ to try and beat us down the field in a december game in buffalo- they would have a chance.

From a yardage and points standpoint the Broncos do have a top 10 defense. Penalties and drops really killed drives in the 2nd half. We had a very run oriented attack to this one, and putting yourself behind the sticks tends to get away from that gameplan. Feleciano red zone hold put us at 1st and goal from the 15. This one basically took 4 points off the board. Multiple penalties in the last 2 minutes kind of just - cratered any chance of that drive getting points. Mckenzie hold on a drive in the 2nd half put them at 1st and 20 instead of 2nd and 7 from the denver 40. Hard to say but this probably took points off the board in the 3rd quarter. Ford holding put them at 1st and 20. Right after a nice mckenzie 3rd down conversion we were on the denver 42. 3 big holding penalties that killed drives or took points off the board. I didn't see any of them on instant replay because CBS sucks (the mckenzie one was stupid and blatant) - but either way - gotta be better. Its probably like a 10 point difference in this one. I also think there were a few situations in a normal game i might go for it on 4th - or be more aggressive in Playcalling. But by the 4th quarter i didn't think brandon allen was going to make any plays so, why not just be a bit safe and win it that way.

They really hurt you running, and with TEs. They built their offense around heavier personnel this year after the playoff loss last year to a team basically playing an entire game in dime defense. Ingram the feature back, Edwards the power back. 2 TE's drafted in 2018 are playing a ton and creating mismatches. And you have insane speed and elusiveness on every play coming from the QB. Their WRs are also fast, so they will take shots during the game - but the backs, LJs legs, and the TEs are the ones moving the chains.

Our game was also a fundamental run defense error. Not sure how they addressed it - but the team has seemed to play a bit hungrier and angrier since the cleveland and Philly games. The fact that we don't have a strong screen game didn't help. Super windy day in buffalo and their o-line came in trying to make a statement.

So hard to get them off the field - theyre always in 3rd and makeable. Lots of first downs, lots of TOP... Just going to have to score points and attack. It's in buffalo which is nice - not sure he's played a game in cold, snowy, windy, wet conditions.

Because what you do in the regular season means nothing once you're in the playoffs. Offense is going to have to score points. Neither team has beaten anyone of note but dallas did beat the eagles who absolutely torched us with zone runs? The buffalo run defense is going to get a helping of OZ in this one with one of the best backs in the NFL. They better be ready to make some plays.

Cost us 4 earlier and put us behind the sticks there . And it was a dumb penalty. No reason to do that

Dumb penalty. Drop. Almost pick. Just a normal series once we cross the 50

Football can be so dumb sometimes

Penalty hurt them again

Let's see.. cam Newton won an mvp, mahomes won an mvp, wilson or LJ probably win it this year. Wilson also won a super bowl if that's the made up criteria. Moon is a HOFer, Cunningham had a pretty long decently successful career. Same with McNabb.

I don't think arizona is a cupcake either at this point. They've lost 3 straight close games - gotta think they are still playing hard.

They got a H2H against us and a really talented team. 2 games against the bengals, and 1 against Miami should be 3 easy ones. Then 2 of Pitt, zona, and baltimore. They're missing a really serious all-pro piece of their defense though which might end up biting them.

This is a big game this weekend for playoff hopes. I do think Buffalo will beat pittsburgh, and gase doesn't seem to finish a season once eliminated so i see buffalo winning that one.

21-10 Defense should shut them down and i like singletary-allen to move the ball well enough with their legs to open up some stuff in the passing game. I expect the pass game to be a lot of quick stuff to neutralize their pass rush.

Steelers looked really bad against the browns... and they play them again. Browns could be 9-7 when its all said and done. But don't you just picture them controlling their own destiny and blowing an away game to cincy to end the year?

Neither team has a really easy slate and now the colts have 5 losses. To get to 9-7 Indy needs to win 3 of Titans, Bucs, Saints, Panthers, Jaguars. I'm not sure they have the offense to win 4 of them so i look at them as a likely candidate for 9-7.