GunnerBill

We cut / lost almost all our best STs players over the last two years: Jones, Neal, Matakevich, Jaquan Johnson, Kumerow. That is a factor. As is Smiley sucking.

Me too. Much prefer that crew to the Harlan / Green crew or the Eagle / Davis crew. They should be the CBS B team IMO.

Yea I think on offense even yesterday some of it is just execution mistakes. Cooper drops the pass. They get a penalty on the 2nd drive. Its that stuff they have to clean up. Though I do think Brady should self scout his first 15. Not convinced he is getting the balance right there so far.

"Gotta be accountable. I gotta play better. But we did some nice things in the pass game we gotta run it better so we can actually pass" Hahaha. Never change ARod.

This isn't true by the way. If they finish outside the top TEN in first quarter point scored this season (they are currently 14th) it will be the first time since 2019 and they were top FIVE twice in 2021 and 2022. On first quarter points allowed they were bad in 2022 and only average in 2023 but they were BEST in the league in 2021 and 2020 and THIRD in 2019. So no, they haven't had issues for years with slow starts.

See I wouldn't our roster up against any of those except Pittsburgh. I think the other three all have better rosters than us. Can the Bills beat any of them if they are on their game and it all comes together? Sure. But I think they have more talent.

I expected the Dolphins to take a step back and they have. Even when Tua was healthy the loss of the cheat motion was going to affect their offense as was losing two key starters on an already average offensive line. Plus they lost their best defensive player in free agency and changed coordinator and scheme AGAIN. Would they be 2-4 if Tua was healthy? No, maybe not. They might be 4-2 with losses to the Bills and Seahawks. But they have the harder bit of their schedule still to come: Bills, Packers, Texans, 49ers all still to play. Even if they run the table other than that 9-8 is their ceiling. 7-10 or 8-9 more likely IMO. The Jets I felt had a chance to be good but it depended on Aaron Rodgers playing at a level we haven't seen him play at since his 2021 MVP season in Green Bay. I always felt three years (in which he went from 37 to 40) passage of time and a serious achillies in the meantime made that unlikely. I had the Jets second in division before the season but right now I feel like if the Dolphins could get to 9 wins that might be more than the Jets can manage. They are capable of losing any game at any time IMO because their O is (kind interpretation) inconsistent. I always thought the Bills would only need 11 max to win the division. I'm still there. And unless Josh is hurt I think we get there possibly with a game or two to spare.

I only ever watch on black monday. Beyond that I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.

when they hired Kyle Brandt?

The bolded is just not true. Coop is a good WR1. No question he is a massive upgrade for the Bill. I can take the argument he is an upgrade on the Diggs we got down the stretch in 2023, think that is true. But 2020 Stefon Diggs was a top 4 NFL receiver.

They will blow it up after the season. They are almost at the "Hire Rex Ryan" stage of the trade for the Packers old man cycle. Shows how important getting some LEADERSHIP from the Quarterback position is. Rather than a rolly-eyed tosser.

It allows them to use him the way he should be used. Previously they were having to run him vertically a lot to say to teams "look, we are willing to go vertical we keep running this guy down here" but it isn't his strength and honestly it wasn't fooling anyone. Just the presence of Coop (I think he played 18 snaps last night) means teams can't simply ignore the idea that the Bills will go vertical outside and that frees Keon up. I always said if we were drafting him to replace Gabe Davis I am fine with the pick. But he isn't a #1. And the Bills choices at the end of this season are 1) extend Coop; 2) find another legit #1 in FA; 3) draft another WR in the 1st round. Nothing else is an acceptable answer. I find it hard to envisage them doing #3. So #1 is the clubhouse leader. Let's hope he continues to show well.

This game definitely helps Coleman's numbers. And I'll say it again.... having a legitimate outside receiver who means Keon can be used more between the numbers in tight splits on slants and crossers plays MUCH better to his strengths than having him run vertically on the outside. The best facets of his game are his body control and athleticism at the catch point and with ball in hand.

He still isn't going to make guys miss like Cook. But against a team with major beef in the middle like the Titans maybe I'd have flipped the snap counts last night. Worth saying on Davis's big run 3rd Quarter the Bills two guards did a terrific job on the two massive Tennessee DTs. Edwards took Simmons out of the play and Torrence had a terrific block on Sweat. COT has been an encouraging story the last two weeks. He had a garbage first month of the year but he has just played two good games back to back. Rather suggests those of us who speculated he had come into the season out of shape might have been onto something. Took him 4 weeks to get game fit.

That one was a freak injury too. He got stepped on. Hopefully once the swelling subsides there isn't any serious damage and it is a quick turnaround. He was dodgy first game back vs Houston, started to find his rhythm second half of the Jets game and was as you say - spectacular - last night.

They'd have beaten Miami and Jacksonville IMO. But that says more about the failings of those teams in those games. Our D won us the Miami game and Jacksonville's total ineptitude won us the Jags game. Last night's is an interesting question. Tennessee and Rudolph especially (who I think is v similar level to Trubisky) were clueless second half, but the Bills couldn't really get much going on the ground excluding the one big Davis run. So they had to win through the air. If that is Trubisky it's a 13-10 either way type game. I lean towards we'd probably be 2-4 with Mitch, possibly 3-3... but I think Arizona is a convincing defeat and Houston is as much of a blow out as Baltimore was.

Sean had nothing on it at the end. Hoped to for the Monday presser.

Yea Baltimore are an elite level team and on the day they outcoached, outmuscled and out executed the Bills. They played a top team who were firing on all cylinders and the Bills got whacked. I think Houston is a better example of their "let's see what they have early and then we will have an advantage late" working to an extent. They just couldn't pull it out at the end and they'd want, I'm sure, to have been better on offense first half. I don't think it is a big adjustment they need to make. But a few tweaks to try and get off to quicker starts are required IMO.

Yea I don't think it is a McDermott issue - though of course ultimately the buck stops with him - so much as it is a bit of a sign of the inexperienced coordinators. Brady in particular has gotta do a better job with his first 15. At the moment I feel like his first 15 are mainly used as a way of establishing to the opponent that the Bills are willing to run it at you if you make them. But run run pass punt; pass pass pass punt; run run pass punt - was the first three drives yesterday and I feel like that has been a common combination on early drives this year. When Dorsey had the O cooking in early 2022 he was a fan of the 1st down pass, 2nd down run combination and I wonder now with a better run game whether Joe could mix some more of that in. We have also got away from the shifts and motion that was so successful in the early weeks and for me we have to get back to it. On D I just think break tendency a bit earlier. Maybe run more cover 3 on those early drives and less 2 deep shell and dare teams to beat you over the top a bit. I know it is riskier but might just get teams out of their nicely scripted opening 15 if they think they have a chance for an explosive and maybe they overthink, take a penalty, make a mental error, throw a pick etc. Once the game is in its flow they mix it up well but they are a bit predictable early.

The standard of special teams coaching in the league overall is so poor. Gives the well coached teams in that regard a major advantage.

It's one of the biggest inconsistencies in the NFL playbook IMO. If you are a "runner" at the point you break the plane with possession it's a touchdown. If you are still considered as being in the process of a catch at the point you break the plane it is not a touchdown until you have completed the catch. I don't know how you fix it because if you go the other other way and say a player who crosses the plane while in the process of making a catch is in once he breaks the plane then you have an inconsistency with a player making a catch in the endzone who isn't credited with the catch, and thereby the touchdown, until he has completed all elements of the process. Personally, the bit of the rule they have gone way over the top with that played into Keon's play not being a TD last night is the "control" part of establishing possession. They are obsessed with "is the ball still moving" and in my view Keon caught the ball while his left foot was down, then got his right foot down and then the left came down again out of bounds. The fact that the ball was still moving when his initial left foot was in contact with the ground - so what? He had it, he never lost it, both feet were in with Keon having the ball. Don't get me wrong the officials called it right by the current rules and interpretation. I knew from the first replay it was not gonna count. But I think they need to look again at how they are defining this "control" point. Because it sucks.

Yea but not really after wins. When he got criticised was almost always after losses. If turnovers lead to losses that is when the talking heads pop up and if KC were losing at the moment you better believe they'd be all over Mahomes for his mistakes

What the Bills do on defense is pretty well established. And teams come out with all the stuff they have been working on all week to counter - all their clever design and their tendency breakers - and they have some success with it. But the Bills soon cotton on and adjust to take that stuff away and then it becomes less a gameplan game and more an execution of fundamental scheme game and once that happens against the bad to average teams the Billd have an advantage. But they have to find some way to tackle the slow starts. I suspect that means breaking some of their own tendencies early to mix it up and get away from the opposition knowing what they are going to get in terms of defensive looks those first few drives.

If Mahomes puts that in front Kelce makes that catch.

Skyy Moore sucks.