D. L. Hot-Flamethrower

Don't mind him, he just bitches about everything Bills. He claims to be a Fan. LMAO.

My thoughts are as follows: 1. Offensively we need to score points, in the 20s for sure, just to be competitive. That means not turning the ball over, yet not playing too conservatively. We need to extend drives and finish some of them. 2. Control their running game and get pressure up the middle on the rush. Our strength needs to have an impact on this game and keep them one-dimensional. 3. Expect that they may complete some passes and move the ball between the 20s, but don't panic, tighten up in the redone and force field goals. 3 instead of 7 is HUGE! 5 FGS is 15 pts, 5 TDS is 35! 4. Finally, if we do all these things, we have a fighting chance to compete. And, hope that something happens like an turnover or two from them or a big special teams play. As a final, hope like hell like refs don't influence the game if we are competing. Always, a big question mark in this rules environment.

Pretty good list. I think Tannehill is way too high! Alex Smith also.

I loved the 90-91 Bills offenses as well. I admit there is kind of a soft spot for me with the 75 team. Hard to argue with number one in scoring and yards. For the period of 90-93 though its no contest. For ONE season i'm still on my boys.

Oh and if anyone wonders what the best offense in franchise history was...it was the 75Bills.

I am of the opinion that the only way to even have this discussion is by comparing how dominant they were in their own era. As to fact the players are bigger, faster etc today, give the players of another era modern training, nutrition, development etc and they would benefit -no? Otherwise we end up with each years defense being the best ever.haha

Ever heard of the concept of relativity.

The 76 Steelers had the best defense I've ever seen. Talentwise they were just loaded with HOFs and All Pros. Statswise they couldn't be scored on. The Bills best D was probably the 64-65 team,never saw them, but my Dad did and he has a great eye. The stats bear it out as well.

WOW!!!!

LOL that's pretty much the NFL talking isn't it.

They will not be getting anymore money from me.

Something smells over at PFF! Baltimore number one overall (is Mel Kiper doing the ratings!), Pats offense a minus 11 and tenth overall, Cardinals 27th in the league for the whole season etc. I tallied up the overall offense,defense and special teams to get a total team rating. Team OFF DEF ST TEAM Baltimore Ravens 60.6 62.9 33.3 156.8 Denver Broncos 41.7 93.5 -14.1 121.1 Philadelphia Eagles 6.0 69.2 40.1 115.3 Dallas Cowboys 62.5 -5.5 20.0 77.0 Green Bay Packers 67.0 -1.7 3.1 68.4 Indianapolis Colts 11.8 -25.0 72.4 59.2 Detroit Lions -53.1 77.8 24.9 49.6 San Francisco 49ers -25.3 71.8 1.7 48.2 Seattle Seahawks -10.3 30.2 15.4 35.3 New England Patriots -15.2 33.7 -4.0 14.5 Miami Dolphins -56.6 64.6 3.2 11.2 Pittsburgh Steelers 45.9 -20.9 -17.0 8.0 Cleveland Browns 2.8 11.5 -7.6 6.7 Kansas City Chiefs -64.8 27.6 31.8 -5.4 Buffalo Bills -111.7 83.3 16.6 -11.8 St. Louis Rams -80.0 11.0 43.6 -25.4 Cincinnati Bengals 12.8 -67.6 19.3 -35.5 New Orleans Saints 7.7 -75.5 30.5 -37.3 Houston Texans -34.9 2.0 -7.0 -39.9 Minnesota Vikings -74.7 44.7 -21.4 -51.4 Chicago Bears -46.2 4.2 -17.5 -59.5 N.Y. Giants -56.6 -10.0 -0.9 -67.5 N.Y. Jets -111.5 40.1 -4.1 -75.5 Atlanta Falcons -50.2 -48.2 20.6 -77.8 San Diego Chargers -69.5 -21.1 7.4 -83.2 Carolina Panthers -88.3 -30.3 9.6 -109.0 Arizona Cardinals -97.8 -5.8 -13.2 -116.8 Washington Redskins -57.0 -69.1 -10.4 -136.5 Tennessee Titans -84.0 -58.7 -16.0 -158.7 Tampa Bay Buccaneers -105.7 -50.0 -31.3 -187.0 Oakland Raiders -128.7 -42.8 -18.6 -190.1 Jacksonville Jaguars -125.6 -59.5 -12.8 -197.9

I bet Mike Carey gets a call from the NFL of Russia and is told to tone it down....or else they'll release those pictures of him to the media!

Agreed this is an enormous issue and needs immediate action.

I have been saying all year the league needs to do something about the rules and officiating. After watching college one day and then the NFL, it is apparent that the games are becoming unwatchable and downright random. They are going to drive fans away from the game. There was no need to change the emphasis heading into this season on illegal contact. The game had plenty of scoring an offense.

Thank you for this. I wish some on this board would just thankful for what we got in the draft.

The Bills schedule according to SRS over at PFR is +1.4 the Browns -3.7. Yes a 5 point plus edge supports Bills schedule being tougher!!!

All the power ratings I have seen point to the Bills as the better team clearly.

One of the best, most simple, intelligent posts I've seem in awhile. Agree wholeheartedly! The Bills have one of the toughest remaining schedules, only SD is tougher. So the sentiment seems to be they go 7-9/8-8 tops. I'm wondering, and I have no evidence other than I think they have pretty unfortunate a couple times, if they don't finish stronger than many think. The past week may have created a rallying cry and another solid win this week could get the train rolling. Even a competitive loss at Denver, followed by beating Oakland, should give them momentum coming home to play Green Bay. Barring a complete disaster I don't think Marrone is fired.

There are 2 keys in mind to this game. Avoiding turnovers on offense, they have created a fair amount this year- I believe 20 if memory serves me. And, secondly not giving up the big play in the passing game. They are number 1 at 14.0 YPC and now have Gordon back. We do these two things and we win IMO.

Bills schedule has been a lot tougher than Browns for sure.

I don't know what evidence there is for Florio to say the Browns are the better team other than a one game advantage in the standing. Would hope he was a little deeper than that.

I don't need to apologize. But have noticed the improved play almost since the beginning. Kudos to the Bills for identifying an area of needed improvement and addressing it with better players.

What QB can't you say that about. If he plays well we win.

Rest is highly underrated!!!!!