TheBrownBear

Good start. Let's go O!

Seems ridiculous at first glance, but Gruden is a good (not great) coach, and certainly better than that bum Del Rio. They are paying for a proven commodity. It's a very talented roster and the AFC West is up for grabs for the foreseeable future. He should have them in the playoffs starting next season.

This is what sociopathy looks like folks. Also, about as tone deaf as Rod Watson's recent article.

I'm not too worried. Even if he can't go, he should be ready for our next playoff game in 2035.

Honestly, we are like a crappy version of the Pats. Just plod along, minimize mistakes and allow the other team to eventually slip up and give you the game. Our talent, on the whole, is pretty pitiful. McDermott deserves tons of credit for what he was able to get out of this team.

I sort of agree with the original poster's sentiment. It's nice to have the streak ended just because of the embarrassment it's caused over the past decade, but this team, from a talent and potential perspective, is arguably our worst since 2013. Just look at the point and yardage differentials. This isn't a team on a trajectory toward greatness (or even very-goodness). It's an old roster without much in the way of young playmakers. Honestly, the only guy on the team that I can see being a Pro Bowl caliber player three years from now is Tre White. I'm not all that excited or hopeful for the future. Grab a promising first round QB and I'm sure my feelings will change. Compare this with the drought-breaking 1988 squad. It seemed clear, with our young core, that it was the beginning of something special, not just a fluke.

Still can't throw for 300 yards

I'm not ready to call him a bust, but it is frustrating to think that we'd be 9-5 if he'd come down with that ball in Carolina.

1983 Monday Night Football against the Jets. Broke the record for most arrests and ejections in Rich Stadium history. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/04/Thirty-nine-people-were-arrested-and-another-375-fans-were/4885434088000/ My Dad was supposed to babysit me that night (it was shortly before my 5th birthday) while my Mom was at work. He got a call around dinnertime from my uncle saying he had two extra tickets. He knew my Mom would be furious that he took a 4 year old to a 9:00pm game, but he couldn't pass it up. Left a note on the kitchen table and off we went. I remember walking through the tunnel and seeing the bright green turf for the first time and it was almost sparkling from the lights. Stadium was absolutely packed and very rowdy. The Bills got destroyed from the start, but I fell in love with Bills football that day because of the experience. My uncle's friend was smashed before we entered the stadium. Sometime during the first half he left to use the bathroom and never came back. After the game we wandered around the stadium looking for him and we finally found him asleep on a toilet...lol. Oh yeah, Mom was pissed when we got home!!!!

Peterman. Let the kid play a few games and settle in. See if he's worth keeping around as a backup. Taylor is done in Buffalo. It makes zero sense to keep playing him at this point. Sunday was his last stand and he absolutely came out firing blanks.

I agree wholeheartedly with the OP. It's really an unforgiveable disgusting act by Gronk. He basically curbstomped White and honestly could have seriously injured him (or worse). The Trevathan hit was nasty, but at least it was arguably in the course of actual gameplay. Gronk's was just a sickening cheapshot. Kermit Washington / Rudy T level stuff. Really no different than walking up to a random person on the street and punching the back of their head as hard as possible. I honestly will root for Gronk to suffer a career ending injury from this point forward. Something I've never thought or said about any player in the past.

Much easier divisions. Better talent than in Buffalo.

Hope springs eternal... lol.

Let Peterman finish out the season and draft a qb. We aren't bringing Tyrod back so why bother playing him.

Yep. I called us the '83 Bills a couple of weeks ago. Looks like we jumped straight to '84.

Rosen is the best pure passer in college football by a mile, but I still question his leadership and decision-making skills. Incredibly immobile too.

I suspect he won't be terrible, maybe mediocre. I really won't make any judgment until I see him play a few games. Even if he sucks and we get killed, I won't really care since that is what happened in the previous two weeks under Tyrod. Then we'll know we need to draft a new QB and that we're looking at a complete rebuild. Which is what I expected when the new GM and coach were hired anyway.

Tyrod, say what you will about his qb skills, is a legit playmaker with his legs. I would love to see us find a way to use him in a non qb role.

Actually, Los Angeles would be a good place to start NP. Will be a small crowd, maybe even majority Bills fans, mediocre opponent. I'd rather he get his first action there than at home against Pats.

They won't win another game if they continue the trend of the last two weeks.

We certainly were today. We were healthy, added a top flight WR, and still found ourselves down 47-3 in our own house. This was '84-'85 level ineptitude on display today.

Geez... This offense is frickin pathetic. Scratch that, this entire team is pathetic from top to bottom.

He was a complete rockstar from day one.

The goalposts coming down in '88 against the Jets. You just knew it was the start of something special. Second favorite was the '02 Miami snow game. It was my wife's (gf at the time) first Bills game. She was a born and raised San Diegan and had never even spent time in the snow. It was the quintessential Buffalo Bills experience (tailgate, booze, snow, comeback against divisional rival, Kelly whooping it up on the sideline, etc.) and she absolutely loved it!

It's much more like the 1983 Bills. 1st year head coach (Stephenson) with an aging roster, veteran qb (Fergy) and dynamic rb (Cribs). Start 5-2, then blown out by divisional opponent. Next week they came home and beat the Saints to move to 6-3. Then went on to lose 5 of 7 and finish up at 8-8.