Franco_92

The Bills are an elite football team that went 13-3, almost certainly got better, and will hopefully be healthier. The Jets won 7 games, didn't score a touchdown in their last 3 and added a 39 year old QB who hasn't shown anything other than mediocrity in at least 16 months now I don't care that the jets went 1-1 against us in 2022. The Chiefs didn't care in 2021 that the raiders beat them in 2020. It's completely irrelevant

Miami? LOL

Nobody thinks they'll be huge contributors. Reasonable people think they can improve on Mckenzie and Kumerow, while the RBs run through a fortified interior OL. And we won 14 football games last season,out of 18. The Jets finished SIX games behind us. They better hope that they progress a bit!!

This is honestly such bad football talk hurr durrr, da bills isnt aggressive enough!! They, er, don't blitz enough, and they use soft zone coverage! Ha! Do you have any data that shows the Bills are "soft" more than other teams? Do you have data that shows teams use press coverage in more situations, resulting in better outcomes, than the Bills D? Because statistically, the Bills D gets better outcomes than the vast majority of the league. Statistically, more 'aggressive' defense against the top flight QBs brings WORSE results for that defense. This is why teams never play man against Josh, or Mahomes. It's why they never blitzed Brady or Manning. This is a huge reason why our screen game is bad - all eyes in the backfield, rare blitzing (which screens can torch). The QBs you want to pound into submission have mastered avoiding that and destroying defenses that try it, and the WRs you want to mangle at the line with press man coverage would burn our DBs so quick (because you can't have Allen, and Diggs, and Miller, and Milano, and Sauce, and Ramsey etc.) that you and he would again be the first person in the thread bitching about the coaching and how terrible the Bills are. How many times did the Bills blitz Mike White? they change their formula based on their opponent, and their reasoning is on a level so far beyond the fans that throw tomatoes it's embarrassing I'd love Einstein or you to teach me something about these defensive splits for the Bills and the league, but it's all vague complaining and screenshots of the same play against cinci which was by definition the most aggressive defensive call in the book (and backfired). It's not the critique, it's that it's dumb critique for the sake of critiquing

Those teams are garbage lol. Ours is elite

Stats are not the thing to look at with Davis. He has a good QB, so his counting stats could over represent his ability. His depth of target is insanely high so his drops and catch percentage could under represent his ability. The problem with Davis is he runs like 3 routes well, and all of them take time to develop. He is bad at running other routes and in general is not quick so is rarely a good option when Josh is pressured. These things are typical for WR3, and he's very good in that role. When these are the characteristics of your WR2 in an offense that doesn't like to throw to TEs, you get the inconsistencies and frustrations we saw at times last year. He said the Sabres' situation is outstanding, not the team. The team is merely good, and young, and locked up to great contracts, and scored the 3rd most goals in the league with a stud goalie incoming. You disingenuously represented his comment. He is correct that the Sabres are positioned as well as an up and coming team can be. They have to take that step, and you can't deny their 12 years of futility, but any honest measurement of the current team has to conclude that the window of despair is closed barring catastrophe to a degree unreasonable to expect.

This poster is not particularly bright.

Was gonna say I've heard both of them say this a dozen times

These guys have a lot of airtime to fill all summer. The result is stuff like this

I'll be tagging you for your thoughts when D Hop has a good year wherever he goes

Hopkins has played 10 seasons, and he only has missed significant time in 2 of them - one for the PED thing (which IIRC was a misunderstanding during some offseason recovery and not just blasting roids?) and one for a fluke injury. Yes, those two things happened in the most recent consecutive years, but again the PED thing was a one-off and the knee thing wasn't a recurring "this guy is always injured" it was a fluke one-off injury to his MCL

No Nate's being a r*tard like usual

2023 Devonta Smith > 2023 Hopkins Philly shouldn't waste their money, they have 3 elite passing targets

Mental ######ation.

I'm watching Bills highlights on youtube like always. And man I hope we are done with blue on blue. It looks terrible. And now has so many of the bad vibes from last year associated with it

Nah I hope we see him kick like 30 punts to us this year. That would be awesome

Don't they have a good punter?

Miami knew their only chance in this game was to play a boom or bust defensive style that tried to force as many turnovers as possible at the expense of big plays. That's exactly how it played out. The number of times they blitzed, and blitzed 7 guys, is more than I've ever seen in a game. Eventually this led to a missed assignment that caused the fumble-6, and caused 2 other turnovers. It also allowed us to score 34 points and have many big plays despite the turnovers. Fangio will not call plays like this unless they ste using a 3rd string qb against us again because it is usually needlessly risky to play like that against established QBs.

He's athletic enough that that's never been my problem with him You cannot be remotely lean at 300+ lbs

I picked Tampa. So he isn't as rusty for cincy but still gets the 10 day break between games

I would start one that night but it would be obvious tongue-in-cheek

That game was a definite outlier for Allen post-injury. It's the only Josh Allen archetype game after @KC (which I would define loosely as 300+ passing yards and significant run plays, 3+ TDs, one turnover or less) It would be fun to make this a rigorous stat and track it for him and other dual threat QBs I also think Allen played well against Miami in the playoffs outside of the bonehead pick on the deep throw to Brown. Miami's run-cover-zero-every-play contributed as much to the big plays against us as it did to the big plays in our favor. I think that will change with a healthy elbow, a better O-line, a more balanced offense, and new weapons over the middle. Like I said elsewhere I'm pretty confident that Zen Josh is back in spades this year, and we will need him

The Ravens were knocking on the door to *tie* the game and were at 3rd and goal from the 10 or so. The weather turned that game into a bit of a joke. The staff needs to take a step for sure. I think they will, largely because I think Zen Josh is back

I'm such a sucker for tidbits like this, that don't get laundered through social media teams/media in general. Even when it's as inconsequential as this. One of the reasons I love this place

I've watched that more than once on YouTube during the dreary summer wait for football!