PolishDave

It pleases me to see the Jets' dumpster fire burning so well. I will happily offer them some extra firewood if they want it. Thank god they hired Gase! He is a gift that keeps on giving.

My guess is he was down in some desolate backwoods swamp near New Orleans for Bills the game twisting the leg of his Bass VooDoo doll every time the guy went to kick a field goal.

Allen showed he is a playmaker who is capable of commanding a dominant offense. He could have folded on himself after those fumbles and the missed pass to Brown. He didn't fold though. He didn't crumble from his own mistakes. He is mentally tough and I love it. Instead of bowing his head, getting rattled and playing a crappy rest of the game - the dude played through the end of the game like a confident leader who knew he and his team were the better team that day. He had/has the mentality of a champion in my humble opinion. I am excited to see how good this team will look when they play their best game of the year. I can think of three specific times I would like to see that happen 1) Against the Patriots 2) Against the Chiefs 3) Anytime post regular season

Make sure all USB devices are unplugged except mouse and keyboard. Then... 1) Remove cover - Eject and reseat ram modules. Then try booting again if no bueno 2) Boot to flash drive or dvd and run hard drive diagnostics. It's probably effed. If you have to replace the hard drive, replace it with a SSD. Not doing so is pure lunacy.

Na Zdrowie!

Stop it. This is all part of us getting ready to win the offseason!

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Sorry. Your post just feels very patronizing. My greatest pleasure this weekend (after the 3rd quarter of our game) was the demise of the Patriots at home at the hands of a (meh) kind of team. And I look forward to the Bills destroying your team repeatedly again and again in the future. Cheers!

You claim to be stoic, but acting like an emotionally charged person concerned over something totally out of your control. - Can you see the conflict? Not that there is anything wrong with feeling emotions. It is human to do so. And it is admirable to try to release them instead of letting them control your attitude. I don't buy into the New England players getting over a loss by the next day because they are New England players - that's no doubt entirely wrong. The staff might preach stoicism (don't know if they do), but even so, that doesn't mean all the players are automatically stoic. They are human and many of them highly emotional - especially Brady. very, very emotional if you watch him. McDermott might agree with you though. Perhaps McDermott is the stoic he preaches to be, and if so, he might very well believe that the Houston game means nothing. According to his own philosophy the outcome of the game is out of his control. If he can get each position to play better together the wins will outnumber the losses and they might accidentally win a championship. That is what the process is all about.

Simple answer is that you don't want your fans chanting when you have the ball. ?

In some ways I am over it - in others I am more concerned than I was before. I am over the fact that the Bills just weren't a good enough team - especially offensively - especially at Quarterback (even though I still like Allen and am optimistic about his future potential). I am concerned about the fact that the Bills dominated the first half and even into the 3rd quarter - only to curl up and let the other team regain their composure like we did to Houston in the comeback game. I still think McDermott is afraid to throw a knockout punch. He hopes we accidentally land a knockout punch instead of actually trying to. Situational awareness in the second half and late in the game sucked by coaching staff and offensive players.

I expect the Bills to play their best game of the year and steamroll Houston 31-13 Bills Nationally everyone will be like WTF? Buffalo is really good?

Didn't people on this board anoint Carson Wentz and Dak Prescott as the next Jesus and John the Baptist last year?

I don't think we aren't talking about the same thing. When a QB is throwing a quick slant, he has a precise window of time where the receiver is going to be open. The quarterback must deliver the ball within that window. The receiver must expect the ball within that window. That is timing. If either one screws it up - the play goes incomplete or worse. That's generally what people are talking about when they are talking about timing in regards to passing routes. When a QB throws to a flanker who is one on one and running predominantly towards the endzone - the quarterback might make that decision pre-snap based on coverages and tendencies of that team; the quarterback might make that decision 3 seconds into his read progressions or the quarterback might make that decision after being flushed out of the pocket and running in the backfield for 5 seconds. The quarterback generally is not throwing that pass to a predetermined spot on the field within a predetermined small time window - and the receiver doesn't know if he is getting the ball or not most of the time. At the point the decision is made to throw the long ball, the quarterback is not waiting or trying to time anything. The dude is trying to throw it accurately in a way that it is catchable. That has zero to do with timing. It is all about accuracy and touch. He is trying to throw into a window where the timing has to be perfect for the receiver to be open and the receiver doesn't know at what time the QB is going to throw it. The decision to throw to him is made because the receiver is already open (and will be indefinitely because he beat his guy) or because the QB wants to give his guy a chance to make a contested play when he is one on one. There is no timing there. You occasionally see a QB throw a deep ball to a spot on the field where he is hoping his receiver might be without checking first, but when he does that it is because he is getting rid of the ball hoping to avoid a sack. Even then it isn't because he expected a player to be at a specific spot 50 yards downfield at a specific time. It is just a poor decision.

There are players that come up big in games and win you games (like Brady has done over his career making clutch plays when it matters) and there are players that make costly mistakes at horrible times and lose you games (like Fitzy has done over his career). I think the coaches rightly place Yeldon in the (more likely to make a big mistake that could cost you a game) category.

That isn't how it works with deep balls dude. Deep balls aren't all about timing. Crossing routes, slants, back shoulder throws, even screens; they are about timing. Deep throws are about accuracy, trajectory and ball speed. Once the decision is made to throw to the guy on the go route, the quarterback tries to throw the ball to a spot where the receiver is going to be based on the speed of the receiver, the angle he is running at and how far away he is. It is a split second mechanical (how hard do I throw this and at what angle) decision. Allen is failing at it. It's like shooting pool and choosing the wrong angle - you miss. It doesn't require waiting for the perfect moment. It requires accuracy - enough to make it catchable by your guy. And accuracy requires lots and lots and lots of deliberate practice along with some natural physical talent.

You might be right about Lamar being the next Russel Wilson. Time will tell. I just don't think Lamar is anywhere near the quality of a passer that Wilson is. And I don't think he ever will be. To me Lamar seems like an elite running quarterback with mediocre passing abilities. Those exceptional running capabilities are what allow him to be in positions to pass the ball more effectively right now. I think that opponents will learn to contain him and limit his running ability. In addition to that I think that the extra abuse his body will take from running the ball too often will add up. Eventually his coaches will try to make him a pocket passer - just like the coaches here did with Tyrod. When that happens, I suspect the NFL will see a rapid decline in opinion about how good of a quarterback Lamar Jackson is. But I could be wrong. It's just an opinion. P.S. What does Allen have to do with whether or not Lamar Jackson is going to be a great quarterback?

Agreed. He left easy touchdowns on the field when players were wide open for toss and catch. He missed throws that people here made routinely when ten years old playing backyard football. Seriously. I still like him as my quarterback, but you can't excuse suckitude of that level. In the NFL if you don't make those plays you lose. Dude sucked donkey balls. And when he finally started making some throws, Murphy's law decided it was the best time to have the receivers play a game of hot potato. When they needed to, it seemed nobody on that offense could make a play. Even when the opportunities were right there to make a play, they came up lame. Looking forward to a big bounce back this Sunday at 3 rivers.

Agreed. If his legs fail him in a few years, his arm and pocket passing ability likely won't save his career. My spidey senses tell me he will likely be a backup somewhere 5 years from now.

I'm thinking Allen's problems are mostly mental/emotional coming into the games. I don't know if it is the pressure of playing in front of a jam packed stadium full of your own fans or what. I suspect that has a lot to do with it. Maybe he is putting an excessive amount of pressure on himself when he runs out of that tunnel in front of tens of thousands of googly eyed fans practically worshiping him for what they think he might become. That has to be intimidating. Perhaps the solution to the lack of consistency from Josh Allen can be found in his pregame routine for home games. Maybe the guy needs to meet with his receivers on a practice field game day mornings (other than the stadium) for home games and throw a hundred passes before the game until his guys are catching everything he throws. Or perhaps change his routine in some other meaningful way to get him feeling loose at the start of the games. It's the coaches' job and Josh's job to figure that out. If this offense played close to their potential with consistency as the defense mostly does, this team would beat every other team in the NFL who didn't play to their potential. And they could do it as soon as this year if they could manage to get it together here at the end of the season going into the playoffs.

Honestly it depends where you sit in the stadium and it is hit or miss. If you sit near the endzones, you are going to see a lot of the 1 game a year fans who get obliterated and act like fools. If you sit in a mostly season ticket holder section you will find the fans are much more sensible and mature. My section in the stadium is about half and half season ticket holders and non-season ticket holders. We have managed to weed out the Bills fan dickheads from the section. Just call them out for being classless losers when they act like it. Public humiliation works wonders. Chances are the other people around you are thinking the same thing and are just afraid to speak up.

They look so much bigger when you are seeing them at the end of your barrel. A few minutes later you're walking up to the dead deer thinking, man, I've seen bigger dogs. Truth. Then you hope none of your buddies see that you shot that little thing, because they are going to mock you. Eventually you learn to be more patient when hunting and take your time sizing them up. But kids, they are just happy they get to shoot at something. It is a primal feeling of awesomeness.

Don't hold your breath. It is not in his nature. He coaches to try to win by 1 point. He does not coach to be dominant on both sides of the ball all game long. He wants to get ahead by a point then crouch down in the fetal position and hope the other team runs out of time trying to beat him. That is what you get with McDermott. That is what you are always going to get from him. It is programmed into his personal character of being a nice guy. I think he is otherwise a good coach. He just lacks that desire for total dominance. He wants to win, but only in a nice, friendly, competitive, sometimes you win sometimes you lose kind of way. In other words, emotionless. Shucks, let's just do our best guys. If that isn't good enough today, well then, so be it.

No he didn't. He ran his run first offense like he always has. They just got a QB who could run too. You are giving him credit where it isn't due. Roman is the best run game coach in the NFL. But he didn't modify his offense in a way that best suited anybody. He would run the same damn offense with Tom Brady as QB. That, unfortunately, is his biggest drawback as a coach.

Eagles have a dominant offensive line. It is how they got to the superbowl a couple years back and won with a QB like Foles. They don't get the credit they deserve. If the Bills had the Eagles offensive line, I suspect the score would have flipped the other way.