GunnerBill

Kenneth Walker is very good

The Oline still sucks. The rest I agree with.

DK Metcalf is such a child.

Yea was CLEARLY the injury. He looks a different player now he can, you know, move!

You gotta get to FA to be offered that though. I doubt Dion gets there. If the Bills want to extend him he will sign.

I don't expect the Bills to make the Superbowl this year. But I don't think that is because of coaching.

Agree with two points here: 1. If a change were to be made it would be HC and GM. They are attached at the hip. I just don't think it is at all close. Terry is still very committed to this regime. 2. They need to be aggressive on the OL again in 2024. McGovern and Torrence have already been a big difference (even though they didn't play well in London) compared to last year and they need at some point to do something at tackle. The point where I slightly take a different view is on Dion Dawkins. I think if the Bills want to bring him back he'd come back even if that means not testing FA and signing for less than his market value. I think he is totally committed to the team and the community. I only see him moving on if the Bills tell him he is no longer needed. Personally I am fine extending Dion after this season, but extending him wouldn't stop me looking in the draft. And if that means I end up playing Dion RT or even inside then fine (McGovern played some center in college you could shift him there play Dion LG and have a new LT). Essentially if you sign Dion you have a solid baseline at LT. But if you find a potential upgrade you slot Dion in elsewhere.

First it is Payton, not Peyton. Second as I have said many times before... McDermott has never lost in the playoffs to a team his Bills were clearly better than. Quarterback wise with a not quite elite Allen he lost to a pre legal issues DeShaun Watson and then since Josh reached elite status he has lost twice to Mahomes and once to Burrow. Sean Payton with Drew Brees (a first ballot HoFer) lost to Rex Grossman, Matt Hasselbeck, Case Keenum, Kirk Cousins and Jared Goff. If McDermott was losing in the post season to teams QB'd by those sorts of guys I can only imagine the reaction.

I think it can still be top 10 to 15 so long as we don't lose anyone else. In a lot of spots now we are one more injury away from being bad. Can't afford to lose Oliver. Can't afford to lose Bernard. Can't afford to lose Benford. 2020 the Chiefs beat the Bills. 2019 they beat the Titans.

Who just lost to Stanford.

His play calling arguably cost SF a Superbowl too when he suddenly went away from the run 4th Quarter. I feel like this is San Francisco's "gotta have it" year. Not that they won't be good again next year but to me they are comfortably the most complete team in football right now. There are some cap decisions coming after the season (not that they are in a cap crisis or anything but the path is narrower especially if they want to keep Aiyuk and Hufanga) and Trent Williams is 35 eve he can't go on forever. I feel like this is the season it should happen.

They have been "right there" they just haven't got over the hump.

We all WANT that. It just isn't realistic. This is not the AFC that Brady and Manning dominated for a decade and a half. You still just have to try and enjoy each week and the games. It's the climb. But I agree the next 3 weeks isn't going to tell us much, one way or the other.

It would not be smart..... but you know.... Falcons....

This is all basically correct. Although as Rob says above the grass pitch actually rolls off. Wembley have had major issues with their pitch being used by NFL too close to soccer games. At Spurs they use that field much more and so are even more sensitive.

Carr in Houston makes sense.

Was 72 a 16 game season? If so 90 over 17 is a jump but not as massive a jump. About .75 of a sack per game. Daniel Jones likely won't play this week though in any event and I think if they get Thomas back at LT the pace will slow. He is legitimately good.

Without Andrew Thomas, yes.

Oh you meant Daniel Jones. Got ya. I'm surprised Mac hasn't been sacked more though. That Pats line is the worst I can remember it.

McVay is arguably a better Head Coach. Honestly, as a play designer.... he a distance behind Shanny.

And the reality is the team that ends with the most sacks ALWAYS has a monster game against a bad team somewhere. The Eagles finished as league leaders with 70 sacks last year and also had a 9 sack game vs the poor old Commanders and two 7 sack games vs the Giants and the Saints.... so that is 23 of their 70 sacks.... that is a third of their sacks in 3 games. It is never the case that the top sack teams just consistently get 3-5 sacks every Sunday like metronomes. They always load up against the bad teams.

Behind that New England line..... if Mac plays an entire year..... 90 odd sacks is not impossible IMO.

To the bolded - I think he did too. Remember all the talk was that Kyle loved Mac and there were still people right up to the day insisting it would be Mac Jones. I never thought that because I couldn't see them going all the way up to #3 for a guy like Mac, but does make you wonder. Lance to the 49ers never a lot of sense to me. I also agree Kyle is the best play designed of his generation. There are lot of his disciples out there in the NFL as HC and OC on other teams and Mike McDaniel is good, Sean McVay is good, but neither of them are Kyle Shanahan and their offenses are just not as productive as a result.

I mean we lose to the Jags 9/10 is the reality. They are a proper bogey team for the Bills for some reason. They laid an egg against Houston, but they should have beaten KC. They are not an elite team but they are a team who on their day can beat any team and when given the advantage that they were last Sunday against the jetlagged Bills.... I mean I always said I was worried about that game.

I expect the Bills to win the next 3 and get to 6-2. They should be at worst 8-3 as well (I can actually see 9-2 unless something drastic changes with Burrow's health and the Bengals in the meantime). I don't think any of that will tell us much. How they fare over the final 6 weeks will tell us something. The options being: 1) this is still a team capable of competing for a Superbowl; 2) this is still a good team but it is missing too many pieces to go all the way; 3) actually this is a team that across the board is regressing and needs a re-set. All three of those options are in play unless we lose more key players between now and then in which case I actually think nothing that happens the rest of this season would tell us anything other than the Bills have had some really bad injury luck.