Mister Defense

Probably two dozen, but not because I am going back to the game and re-watching the run! It is because I wanted to hear what some of the national media said about the game. ESPN and the NFL Network have shown it over and over and over, often 5+ times on the same show. Overdoing it, so making it less interesting already.. I would much rather hear them talk about how this Bills' team is the best team in the history of the NFL and possibly the best team in the history of sports--ever. To me, that makes more sense, and I can listen to that all day, every day.

Have you watched this team play the last five years? He undermines the best offenses in the league no matter the injuries or circumstances. And molds this team into championship contenders almost every year. If Campbell does this for the next few years, then he may be placed in the same category as McDermott. Just because he acts like a truck driver does not mean Campbell may not be a gifted football mind. Outward appearances often lead people astray in their thoughts. You gotta start looking beyond the most superficial details to analyze effectively... To almost every Bills' fan, McDermott has an amazing football mind.

Wow, had not seen those stats. Thanks. Wonder why the Bills have not used him more on runs and sweeps, as we had heard a lot about that when he was signed. Teams are so worried about Allen running, and getting outside the pocket to make plays downfield, that if he can get the ball to the fastest players, like Samuel and Cook on the outside, it would add a new dimension to defend. Samuel could become a great players for this team, and on the cheap too.

I think almost all Bills' fans on this board would define McDermott as a "gifted football mind". Year after year he takes every Bill team and makes them better and better and better... no mater what obstacles are put in their way, and turns them into a championship contender. Just like he is doing, again, this year.

So happy this guy is the owner of one of the three teams in the Bills' division. While benching his team wrecking quarterback may not have been a bad idea, as the headcase had undermined almost every aspect of his team, it was Johnson who gave him the power over all, to do the many supremely stupid things he did. I hope Johnson, with his almost jerry jones' like meddling and football knowledge, lives a loong life and never sells his team. In fact, it would be great to see him make rodgers the actual, rather than just acting, GM after this year, the perfect compliment to his leadership. Kind of funny how so many on this board were worried about the rodgers led jets, even as late as this summer! Inexplicable to me, as this was the only outcome possible.

This should not even be a question, is not for the Bills. Some of the best young players at their positions in the game already, and just starting their careers. Next silly question is likely: should the Bills sign Cook to an extension? ('As running backs are a dime a dozen..') Duh. I think McBeane are much too smart to not get these current and future stars signed to long term deals.

But not necessarily true if he kicked in the wind and cold of Buffalo. What are his stats outside versus in a 'dome'? How about in games under 40 degrees? I looked quickly online but didn't come up with those important stats.

Not very familiar with Samuel before the Bills signed him--and up until a few weeks ago, still did not really know what he was. Slight guy, gadget guy, who could do a lot of things, but not as good as a true #1 or even #2? Fast, but not a great long ball guy? And he did not sound like a very physical, aggressive receiver. But was hoping he would become excellent under Allen. But now seeing him in action, I think he is very physical, a lot stronger at the catch point than I had thought, and a fast and fiery competitor who will give it his all on every play. If that, what we have seen lately, is the real Samuel, with Coleman coming along very nicely, perennial Pro Bowler Cooper added to the mix, and Hollins now looking like the Gabe Davis I had wanted Davis to be, and with Shakir , Kincaid, Knox, and all of our backs this could become the best group of pass catchers in the league, and soon... Detroit may be the only team with the same kind of talent.

Nice take on those specific aspects. They outcoached Reid and his coaches, just like they did in the playoff game last year. The thing is, that is the coaching staff we have. I have often said what many have said, "Best coaching staff since Levy's". But I think they are better than Levy's staff now, have for the last year or so. They had a plan and executed it very very well yesterday. I think they did the same thing in the playoff game last year, but with an injury depleted defense, and weak wide receivers, dropping 3-? big game winning balls, it could not come to fruition. Now, even with key players out, they just win, and do what they want to do, game after game. And, more importantly, they get better every week, are about to get some key players back, and seem to just getting started--while their next game is in December. Have not read through this thread yet, but curious to see what the small percentage of super ignorant McBeane and Bills' haters are saying now! Wondering if they are somehow twisting this team, front office, and coaching staff into something negative. Or just staying away, as they often do in situations like this when they realize how stupid they will sound... How do haters respond when the team they hate is the best team in the league?

I cannot recall a non-starter making so many big plays in a season as Lewis. He consistently makes big, important special teams plays. And he makes big plays all of the time on defense. Have been thinking that lately, and obviously today, as Lewis was a vital part of the win. Lewis is sort of symbolic of the aggressiveness of this team, flying to the ball like every play was his last, and of the concept of TEAM that makes this team maybe the best in the NFL right now.

Tough one for me to call objectively, as the Bills winning this game gives them a decent chance of getting what they have not yet earned under Allen--a bye and then two home games in the playoffs. Brady, a very solid OC, but still learning...needs to do what he has done a very poor job with starting TODAY, and not just because it is the Chiefs--use the running backs much more and in a more diverse dynamic manner in both running plays and passing plays. Cook may be one of the top running and receiving backs in the league--start using him that way. Very impressive rookie in Davis, in running, catching, and in big plays. Looks like MJD, one of the best all around running backs I have ever seen play. Andy Reid would be riding him and Cook hard, but the Bills almost ignore Davis and under-use Cook. I think almost the same could be said about Johnson. The Bills need to better use these great weapons today and for the rest of the season. Don't be a lazy Ken Dorsey, Mr. Brady, and, instead, incorporate your dynamic weapons. NOW. If those things happen, at least to a greater degree today, and 1-2 receivers come through, Knox? Hollins or Samuel? (Can Cooper catch yet??), the Bills will win: Bills 30, chiefs 17 Everyone is talking about the Chiefs' defense, and very little about the Bills'. Almost every time this has happened under McDermott the Bills' defense has a game... I have not been to a Bills' AFC Championship game since they whooped Montana and the Chiefs in 1994, so today is the first step to that happening again in January.

I wonder about this sometimes.. A player like Butker who often praises a higher being when successful.. which seems to imply that somehow that higher being chose him, and his team, for success on that day, rather than the others. What is their theory when bad things happen to them, like this, or losses? Do they blame, maybe even privately curse out, that higher being for doing this to them?

Well, if you had just said that in the beginning, that that was your main point, "just saying" that I would not have disagreed.. Indisputable fact.

I hated Tony Boselli. Watching him throw our beloved little Bruce Smith around like a rag doll, looked like me trying to knock over my brother's much bigger friends when we played football: I couldn't budge them, like I was running into an immovable wall. No chance. That was my perspective sitting in the front row, 40 yard line on the Bills' sideline, at the Bills' playoff game against the Jaguars. Our great Bruuuce reduced to an afterthought, made me realize just how good that pri#* was, the best left tackle I had ever seen play. I think the entire game, Kelly getting 'knocked out', and in his last game, and the once dominant Bills losing to the short lived Jags, at home!, made those images of Bruce getting manhandled stick with me to this day. So I was very happy the day I found out Boselli was getting inducted into the Hall of Fame.

So, the fact that one of their division rivals has been good discounts that most have been very poor? The Giants, Redskins??? And the Cowboys have won big games over the last years? The Bills have not? Yikes. The haters get on these threads and say to themselves, "Hmmm... How can I twist this info around, these ideas, to further attack the Bills' leadership, undermine it? And with no facts, reasoning at all needed?" So obvious. it you want proof, just go look at their activity on their home pages. You will see the obvious pattern, humorously consistent , and for some, for years. I literally laughed out loud when I did so myself. Soo consistent. (Or, just look some of the next threads as they develop. Watch their hate, ignorance, spew out...) This very small group will almost always be there, ready to pounce. Thankfully, it seems, and I hope I am right, less than 10% of the posters on this forum are stupid or hateful enough to actually believe this irrational hate, this ignorance and nonsense.