Billsfan1972

Always been his favorite...... BTW teams are also afaid of Mahomes passing, Rodgers, Brees, Wilson, Dak, Brady....... So what, you have a stud and receivers that can overcome it? Great back to 175 yard passing games?

Let's blow out one vastly inferior opponent and then we can talk. How about a convincing victory over a good team (i.e. Tenn over us)..... I think the Bills are a good team. Maybe I'm wrong about that & 10-6 and squeaking out victories over NE & keeping it close against good teams is the most I should expect?

Thought the same. However if Cam doesn't fumble & they score a TD, can only imagine what today would be like here. Just once I'd have liked to have seen a cakewalk, but that is not in McD's DNA. He coached again not to lose.

The difference is that as a Bills fan, I have the Bills winning both games and the Offense putting up huge #'s (forecast is high 60's for Sunday). I hope against hope that McD coaches to score 40 & I can come here & applaud him. However I too will not be surprised if he coaches thinking 20 points will be enough. And another false excuse.... We hear this as an excuse too often.

The funny thing is that I'm probably a bigger Bills fan then most here (yes hyperbole). I've suffered through mostly downs since '72. The point is I do not see the Bills through rose coloured glasses & yesterday they were not that impressive. Impressive is Indy beating an inferior team like the Lions yesterday. Seattle finally pounding a good team 49'ers, as opposed to squeaking by (as they had done the first 5 wins).

Anytime the much, much better team struggles to win a game that comes down to the last second, you were outcoached. If the Bills were playing any other team with a 2-4 record yesterday not named the NE Pats (missing their #1 receiver & DPOY), the point spread probably would have been Bills +7. But yes I thank Belichek for the on-side kick, which probably was the saving grace yesterday.

Wow we recovered an onside kick. McD Coach of the Year!!!!!!😜 We get it the Bills won & I'm happy with a 6-2 record. Not happy how they've got there.

When playing a team as wounded & weak in every aspect of the game as the Pats were yesterday, and the game decided by a last minute fumpble when the Pats were at the Bill 20, then yes it is the coaching. The Pats on top of everything were also missing their best receiver Edelman & the DPOY Gilmore.

Here is the boxscore I wanted to see!!! Note they ran & threw for more then the Bills did. https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=401220136 I love the narrative on many of these threads. If you are not bringing your Pom Poms & cheering the Bills beating the Pats, then leave. The Bills won, check.... Did they play well? Maybe rushing, but overall no. This seems to be a weekly issue.

They ran the ball well... That's the extent of the positives imo. They squeaked by a much inferior team and again did not show their full potential. Have the Bills played a complete game yet (closest was Raiders)?

The Bills won and yep 6-2..... However to not see the issues with this team (particularly coaching) plays into the definition of Fandom. I'm a huge Bills fan and want to see them play to their potential, and I don't see that. They barley hung on to beat a decimated NE team at home.

It's a fair review, but again this "building" crap needs to stop. Will it stop only when they win the SB? We saw tremendous growth in Allen weeks 1-4 and now again he appears neutered by the the offense. Seems teams have again figured out Dabol, or he doesn't adapt. Always the same cliches trotted out about division games. This was a wounded NE team, the weather actually much better then forecast and took a TO in the last 30 seconds to win. This was a game I wanted to see the Bills win by 2 TDs. Yes we are Bills fans, but I do not see growth yet again this year. The Offense has regressed after being near the top and the Defense still is not very good. Oh & Tennessee lost to Cincy, the Jets who too had the ball with a chance to tie the game in the last two minutes lost by 26, Rams (the Bills best win dominated by the resurgent Phins)...... But I'll take 6-2....

Because I was turning the corner on McD. He is an okay coach, justy haven't seen him turn the corner. The post above also stated 2 playoff appearences in 3 years. Again not great records andwas acheived playing some of the easiest schedules in the NFL and 2 losses in WC games, that were winnable (oh & blowing a 16-0 third quaretr lead too in one of them). Offense were rated 30,29 & 24th those years. After 4 weeks this year the Bills were near the top & have been much worse since.

Again 2107-19 25-23 is not exactly lighting the league on fire.

The Bills played a wounded team, missing their best offensive player Edelman and best Defensive player Gilmore. A team that lost it's last two games at home scoring all of 18 points. The Bills were lucky (yes a TO there is a flukish play) to get a last minute fumble to secure the win. McD coached as many of us are used to seeing (while others see something different), scared, too close to the vest and the inability to put away a vastly inferior opponent. The first four weeks the Offense had turned the corner and there was a buzz about this team. The last four is meh at best and back to looking much like McD coached teams 2017-19. Allen had 18 passes (and really the weather was not that bad). NE traded punch for punch against a Bills team that on paper should have won by 2 TD's. But should anyone here question McD & the Process, well let's just not go there......😡

How anyone watching this game is not shaking their heads and wondering about the Bills coaching has their head in the sand. McD was terrible today.

After the first 4 weeks there was a real buzz. Now the team has revertyed to the 2017-19 Bills where they are okay and you keep expecting more. Allen seems to have all the tools and looked like a franchise QB, and again he appears to have been neutered. They played passive and as if they were playing an elite team as a big underdog. Very unimpressive & yes I blame McD.

A win is a win, but the Bills surprise surprise played scared. Very disappointed as again we see all of Buffalo's warts. 18 pass attempts by the Bills, so pathetic to see.

It is not a no win situation. Losing is not an option today. The Bills are the better team and it is an expected win. If it was any team as banged up and a 2-4 record, the game would be an afterthought nationally. It is just that it is the Pats that there is any notoriety. Maybe it is because of how many here are so enamoured with McD, that I have made a big deal about it. The Bills should win easily and you are right that if the Bills win, I wiull say "Of course they shjould have won and no big deal". However a loss or a struggle & again it will show McD's weaknesses.

Sure let's get excited if the Bills lead the dvision @ 5-3...... Lose & this will not be a happy place. Yes a loss tomorrow is inexcusable.

And now with so-so (or bad weather) people are starting to make excuses should the Bills lose. To me this game and it's importance is magnified to me as a fan. The Patriots lost at home to a decimated Denver team & were dominated by the 49'ers. If they bounce back vs. the Bills, it will say more about the Bills then it does about the Patriots.

It would be a terrible loss for a # of reasons. The fact that it is the Patriots definitely is at the top of the list. After three meh (or worse) performances in a row, trhe Bills do nee to assert themselves and just so happens it is New England (and the associated baggage).

Beating Arizona on the road would be a nice victory. I don't think they are a great team, however the way the schedule falls (and prior to the bye week) it is a litmus test.

I said it in an earlier thread, the bills can not afford to lose this game. It is not a statement game either. Very simply it is a game that the Bills need to win after three not great efforts to show they are a serious contender and a good team. Then they play statement games vs. Seattle & Arizona....

Like when Miami won 20 sraight vs. Buffalo from 1970-79? I remember. Again this is NE, and yep a 2 win team, but it is more then a divisional game given the circimstances & the opponent. Just a simple fact.