Franco_92

I'm 24. This was unambiguously the best season that anyone my age or younger can honestly remember or have processed in real time. Thank you Bills. Please see and make the improvements that are obvious. My expectations for next season are raised. I want the division, and/or a playoff win. This is the first time I've ever been able to realistically set them this high. McBeane, you've done well to this point. We need that next step.

Obviously not yet. I'm pretty certain I'll know this time next year whether or not I want him around the following one.

Who are the last few Bills to be a first team all pro?

Wonderful. Congrats, Tre.

That sample size is incredibly tiny and fully susceptible to variations in line with this phenomenon. We can't bank on anything like this again next year. Not reproducible. Should be taken into account when considering how much our offense needs to improve this offseason, quite frankly.

The pats comparison is bad, as their coaching techniques and special teams players' skills are what cause them to block punts. Similar to the excellent Bills special teams of the 90s, led by Tasker. Whereas we've only blocked ONE of those misses, if I remember correctly. The rest are just kickers themselves missing.

Dallas Thanksgiving. Honorable mention (not quite top ten but it was awesome) to the win in Atlanta in 2017. I really thought we were going to lose a lot that season until that game.

I'm gonna watch the Sabres game, just to pass the time. Not going to eat very much. Will pace, jump, hide, scream during the game. Already nervous.

Watson is, of course, the better QB right now. But this is the NFL playoffs. This is our buffalo bills. I will answer this question with nobody but our guy, Josh Allen.

It's the playoffs, so I can't bring myself to EXPECT a win or a loss. These are two good teams laying it all on the line, in their house. I DO expect us to AT LEAST belong on the field and have a real chance to win right down to the final whistle. Anything less than that would involve players and/or coaches not playing to what they are capable of.

When his focus is on, his hands are unbelievable. When he's looking up field, he drops like everyone does. That's incredibly coachable and I expect our staff to help him fix it. When he does, he can be a scary good TE.

Bills: 27 Texans: 21

Season two was everything I could have realistically hoped for. Obviously we all would have loved an MVP performance, but that's too much to expect in year 2 from a project QB like Josh. Early he had problems with turnovers (though I think that was overstated - 4 NYJ turnovers in week 1 were all varying degrees of fluky, a fumbled snap that didn't reach his hands, a blind side strip sack that many QBs would lose, Beasley volleying a ball to Mosely who was like 5 yards away, and a batted pass interception on his only batted pass of the game while we batted 4-5 of Darnold's), and he responded after NE by only throwing 3 picks in the remaining 12 games, and losing 2 or 3 fumbles. That's huge, and was important to our season turning out the way it did. His mid-range accuracy improvement from 2018 was nothing short of miraculous, and gives me confidence that a boosted rep count on deep passes (which started hitting more towards the end of the year, and were in their own words sacrificed for mid-range reps all offseason) will follow shortly. An increase in the team's ability to run and block for screens will make his accuracy essentially a nonissue compared to all other QBs sans the freaks like Rodgers and Brees. He gave us some absolutely classic moments on 4th down scrambles to add to the leap against the Vikings, and played solid-to-great on national TV in the 3 games his team played for the country, 2 of which were forced because of how successful the season was. 29 total touchdowns, 2nd most in franchise history. A playoff birth in a DOME (he has had two of his best three or four games ever indoors) The to-do list for next season includes more consistent footwork (which was still way better than it was in 2018), improved deep accuracy, constant improvement in pre-and-post-snap reads (which he again displayed growth with this season) and learning how to hang onto the ball better (please fewer designed runs next year). Nothing crazy, and I believe each of those areas will be better for next season and as it progresses.

And I'm pretty sure that was just people vacating the parts that were getting dripped/rained on, to sit further back under the bleachers.

I was there in person and stunned at the attendance. I was in 308 and I didn't count any patches of bleachers to my right or left for as far as I could see.

Last year, and the 17 years before the one before that, sucked so bad. I am so grateful that this thread is here today, and am basking in it

Shoulda just stayed home, but it's only the second one I've been able to go to since 2013, and the first ever with my sister. We'll get to one earlier in the year next season. And we're going to Houston to play in the playoffs, so that helped things too!

It's getting really, really tiresome.

Bojorquez got that record with only like 2 of those punts being inside the 17 yard line...the dude is a magnet for the 19 it seems like, even if he's punting from the 50. This game was so miserable to be at. Not because of the weather - my gear kept me warm and dry. Fans in our section had no freaking clue where their seats were, because they were sloshed, and all decided to pile into my row. There were probably 50% more people in my row than there are seats, and it happened to the three rows in front of and behind me too, probably people that were on the entire wrong side of the 300s anyway. None of them spent a lick of time focusing on the game, just drunkenly shouting at each other, standing on the benches, faced away from the field, so that we all had to stand the whole game to see over them. Sitting wasn't an option, because they didn't want to get their jeans wet, because all they wore/brought to the stadium for the 45 degree downpour day were jeans and a sweatshirt. Guys next to us were getting stumbled into and beer spilled on them all game. There weren't enough empty seats for my group of 4 to move until the 3rd quarter was just about over. Just a thoroughly miserable time because of a bunch of clowns.

That's not very many though. The Bills are at at least 9, and it could be 10 I think. Baltimore facing 9 teams of winning or 8-8 records does not seem to be an easy schedule The Bills could conceivably have faced 10losing records with 3 8-8 teams if I'm doing this right in my head

Typo? 7 is less than half of the schedule?

Bills-Steelers was below average. The show averaged 20.5 million this year at the time of the game, and only 18.5 million watched Bills-Steelers. Bills-Pats was the 6th-most-watched game...of week 16.

I posted this in another thread, but Gilmore gets flagged just as much if not more with NE than he did in all of his post-rookie seasons in Buffalo.

It's pretty tough to run when nobody is scared of your quarterback throwing the ball. We just went through this last season

Maybe you hinted at this in your other viewpoint that I'm not gonna dig for, and I don't know a lot about football, but the people calling that simply a missed throw by Allen are handwaving too much away w.r.t. the difficulty of the throw itself. the spacing between guys underneath Knox and Knox, as well as guys trying to tip the pass in front of Allen, was such that to me it looked like the throw itself would be ridiculously difficult - a "touch pass" to get the arc high enough to not be in danger of deflection or an interception, that is ALSO fast enough to hit in the window that Knox was open. To me it seems like it would have been a magician throw if it had been made, and I don't hold it against Allen like I do plenty of other misses that he (and other QBs) routinely have. I thought he put that throw on a rope because he HAD to.