JOE IN HAMPTON ROADS

"I don't know if Daboll doesn't understand what works for him or if he has a Martz complex where he feels like he has to prove how smart he is." This has been my complaint all year. Outthinking his own self. No one expects the unexpected!

you must have missed where I said "Redskins" right before that.

I like Tyrod, and many on this board did too. But Tyrod was not a rookie when he came to Buffalo, and he did not get better while he was here. Hw was what he was. If after three full years Allen hasn't gotten better, he will be dumped like any other QB over the last 20 years.

I feel you Doc, but in the game thread some of the posting is just over the top gloom and doom. Its like we have collective PTDD (post-traumatic draught disorder).

that's why we are still a year out on the rebuild. Bean will get r done yet.

I must visit this place.

not trying to steal Virgil's spot … this is more about the posts than the actual game. But good point!

OK guys, we are 6-2 woohoo! So why do so many Bills fans act like we are a terrible football team, edging toward implosion? Some of the posts today absolutely drove me crazy. I swear some of you are Russian trolls. 1. Just stop with the "barely beating bad teams" posts. 24-9 is a convincing win. Redskins are not a good team, but that doesn't mean we are going to win by 100 points. We had many missed opportunities, but at no point were the Bills not in control of this game. The R-words never led and never scored a TD. In the end we won by more than 2 TDs. 2. We are 6-2 halfway in. 6-2 x 2 = 12-4. Maybe we drop an extra game or two, but we would have to totally implode not to earn our way to the playoffs this year. That would be the first time we EARNED our way to the playoffs this century. Think about that. 3. Haters cannot have it both ways on Daboll. He drives me nuts because he outthinks his own self doing the unexpected at the worst possible times. But here's the thing: we collectively criticized him going into this game as not pounding the rock enough. And this game, he pounded the rock … a lot, and successfully. Yet, somehow, this became a liability late in the game with lots of "stop running on 3rd and 1" posts. Gore is getting those calls and we want Singletary, I get it but at least Daboll is finally running the football! Baby steps, sheesh. 4. Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today I hope he never goes away! 5. Still so many Allen-cant-get-it-done posts. He was 14-20, 160 yards and a TD with no INT. Those aren't great stats for fantasy football, but for NFL football it gets the job done. His job was not to score 50 points, it was to score more points than the other team. And once again, he made plays when it most mattered. And he is learning not throw INTs playing hero ball, throwing it away if he has to. And OK, I will admit he needs to hold onto the football better when he runs. But there was at least one put in Barkley post . . . SMH. 6. Booing your own team is never classy. I cant imagine it is helpful, either. Better to circle the wagons and support the team. Even online. Bottom line: By now you all know I like a good snark, and we all have fun with "any given Sunday" and "its hard to win in the NFL" tropes. But it is true that in this league, almost any team can beat almost any other team if they have a good game and/or get some lucky breaks. We won another game today, and are one win closer to earning a playoff spot. GO BILLS!

A for effort

sure why not

he was out 5 weeks or so … I doubt he was 100% even last week. Just glad hes back now.

Joe in Winslow may still be taking confessions

and we finally validate the run. even when they expect it!

you all know he was hurt right?

If SIngletary never gets hurt, we are 7-0 coming into this.

Going through Daboll's head every time the playbook calls for something logical:

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I get it but the call to run the QB in that situation was emblematic of the questionable play call Daboll has been giving us all year. I don't know whats going through his head but it seems he is convinced (by the analytics no doubt) we have to pass to win and only uses the run game to set up the pass game later, or to do something nonsensically cute like call a designed QB run when Frank Gore has been tearing them apart up the middle. I get the idea using JA's legs now and then but it just seemed like an odd spot to call a designed run like that. I just think he constantly outthinks his own self by doing whatever a logical person would not do. Its got to get to JA and the guys on both sides of the ball after a while.

that depends what can we get for Daboll?

I think we know the answer to that

I think a lot of McBean picks are going to keepers.

hes a moderator

it did seem out of character lol

sorry man, there are so many haters …

would you rather have a QB who plays efficiently all game only to poop his pants when it matters? Cause weve had those QBs.