Billsfan1972

And that lousy defence on the 4th down pass will cost the bills 30 yards...... Defense has not been good.

Again this was Jacksonville. They also had a 73 yd TD drive, a 36 yd drive that had two out of the three plays stopped in the back field & that 79 yard 10 min drive. All teams have 3 & outs during a game, don't go on about how wonderful Buffalo is becuase they had some too... Two of the TD's were on third downs and the final was a 31 yard out play when the whole point was don't let them score a td!!!!!

Flacco is not Bortles..... Jax got on the Bills side of the field and scored everytime (outside 4 runs from the 3). This was supposed to be at worst a top 5 defense, with an elite line with all the worries about the offense. At home the Bills D has been very suspect. Add to that missed coverages and bad tackling at inopportune times has too cost Buffalo.

Beating the Titans is not something that should be at the top of your resume.

needs to be held accountable. This was to be the Bills strength. Thus far average (or below) at best. The Offense has been actually much better then expected, but when a stop is needed, a big play required or the line to come through, it has not been there. Add to that penalties, redzone defense (one int vs. NYG and the stop yesterday) and third down conversions and you just shake your head. I did post eslewhere but yesterday again is a perfect example. This is Blake Bortles and he drove 84 yards to win the game. They had a 75 yard TD drive and converted key third downs in the red zone. Even the short drive contained two consecutive plays where the bills stuffed the receiver and rb behind the line and both times they gained positive yardage (the second resulting in a 28 yard TD run). The 79 yard 10 minute dirve, Bills fans are supposed to applaud because they were stopped on the 1 yard line? This came after the Bills had seized momentum (scoring 10 points prior to half) and then killed by that drive. As for the line, here are their stats wrt sacks & qb hits through 7 weeks. So far this season..... Indy 2 Sacks 6 Hits NE 2 5 Mia 2 10 NYG 1 1 Tenn 2 7 Cin 0 1 Jax 2 3 11 27 And when you need a play, they haven't delivered.

Not the point. Just a comment on the lack of pressure.

JJ Watt..... 2 Sacks, 4 QB hits, more then the entire Bills team. And this was one of their best games!!!!! So far this season..... Indy 2 Sacks 6 Hits NE 2 5 Mia 2 10 NYG 1 1 Tenn 2 7 Cin 0 1 Jax 2 3 11 27 And when you need a play, they haven't delivered. Sorry letting a team go 79 yards and chewing up 10 minutes and then applauding that you stiffened @ the 1 yard line means little.

The defence allowed a game winning 84 yard TD drive. They allowed a 10 minute drive to start the 3rd quarter when momentum was on the Bills side. The allowed a 73 yard TD drive and couldn't tackle on the short 36 ydard TD drive (twice had runner in the backfield). Three qb hits and 2 sacks (the vaunted line only had one of each) is not the defence Bills fans were led to believe they had. This was Jax, not NE. The point is you stop them when you have to. Example is NYG, few penalties, took the lead on a 100 yard kickoff return and then held. One brought up GB allowing 500 yards.... Absolutely right, but when SD was first and goal at the 8, they held.

How aout not one hurry, hit or sack and the bills were home. Tennessee was easily beaten by the Dolphins and while only scoring 13 points vs. the Bills, they moved the ball. The Line & LB's have created very little pressure and sacks. Add that to penalties and bad third down % and you are scratching the surface as to what's wrong with the D

Not a single sack or hit on Dalton and it was a home game. No excuse whatsoever. Philly at hiome controls the Giants and creates pressure. The Bills were okay, took OBJ out of the game, but when they needed a tackle allowed a 51 yard TD. The Giants are okay and not a juggernaut. NE killed us and that happens. The D was not as great as others made them out to be vs. Indy & Mia, but did play well. Mariotta is a damn rookie and played well and moved the ball, and the Bills got 1 sack. When they do have a good game they bak and go on as if they are the best D ever. It is embarassing. They are lost right now.

Yep, been on and off TBD for a long time and often join up again when a major controversy arises or something pushes me to post. Sorry the minutiae of the draft does little for me. I can't and don't get riled up about most signings or many of the secondary and tertiary decisions the team makes. What I do is watch every single game and Sunday I was there and yes Watkins was the focus of almost everyone in our section. We watched him lined up the same spot (outside), the coverges and he was open, with no plays or looks (yes one incompletion) his direction the first 25 minutes. What I also have mentioned over and over is that there seems little motion or interesting offensive alignments. Watch the better offenses and they will look at the defenses and see the coverage on their #1 target. Sammy says he's open 90% of the time and watching the games it appears that way. As for the rest of the offense no screens, swing passes or lining Sammy in the slt (until the TD). BTW the first observations was on how putrid the defense was.

The Defense was terrible. Read Winners & Losers on Grantland and see that the Bills were 24th against the rush and 29th in Defensive Pressure. At home an not a single sack or hit on Dalton Please no comments that Cincy is good. Deplorable D yesterday. Cincy converted third downs easily and were 4 for 4 in the redzone Watkins comes out with his comments and still EJ and Roman called all of one play the first quarter and a half. Heck EJ looked his way only one other time. Every play was the same with no mothion and Watkins lined up outside. The 89 yard drive 4-4 and the only time an interesting formation and a TD pass to Watkins. How after Watkins comments, you come into the game ands again didn't use him for the first 20 minutes defies logic. I posted the exact same thing last year. The Bills offensive scheme is so vanilla and pedestrian that it has no chance to succeed.

I've watched TT (though only 2 and a bit games with Watkins) and you can tell he doesn't look for him. Too many plays it is obvious from the get go that if a passing play it is called for someone else. To me that is the OC's responsibility.

Let's get this right. Sammy has missed 2.5 games. TT didn't look at him vs. Indy, got a few tio him vs. NE & maybe 2 X vs. Miami (one long completion, another completed OB). The last 2 weeks the WR's were MIA and pretty obvious Harvin disappeared as the primary target with Watkins out. Only Clay @ TE a viable target. Watkins is right that TT and the OC barely look at him, while Eli Manning basically looks at OBJ every play (whether he throws it to him or not). This goes back to last year and does get old and I understand Watkins complaints. One other thing that is seldom shown is catchable balls or open targets. To say someone was targeted 8 or 10 times and caught 6, means little if the other 4 were throwaways and uncatchable.

I am not reading all 29 pages bt will say it is pretty obvious from the last 2 weeks (with Watkins out) that he is important to the offense. It is ridiculous that he is used way too often as a decoy. http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/player/_/stat/receiving/sort/receivingYards/year/2015/seasontype/2 The fact is that it's sad how little they use him in comparison to other wr's. At least on PTI tonight outsiders agreed with Watkins' stance.

Huge difference. Bills hold them to a fg and the defense bent but did not break, which is a psychological difference and 12-3 vs. 16-3. That changes the placalling throughout the game. The score is then 12-10 after the williams TD, not 16-10. Also if Urbik not called for the hold it is 12-10 and the Bills ran 3:09 off the clock after that and then missed the FG..... We can go on and on, but the offside was as stupid a penalty as a team can take.

Yes Manning got rid of the ball quick, but he wasn't hit either or pressured most of the game. What he did was release it quickly. There were not hands in his face or tipped balls either. He wasn't throwing the ball in 1.79 seconds because he was under pressure and that is the point..... The one sack was at the line of scrimmage.

Yes 1.8 means you are dumping the ball. However there were plays that needd to develop and little pressure there too. Only part of the story.

I wonder what he said behind closed doors. The histironics was embarrassing and the amount of penalties (particularly pf's) unacceptable.

Reading yesterday's disappointing loss and look back at the first four games and some notes..... Where is the pass rush? Sorry at home vs. an average team & 1 sack for -1 yards is not impressive (nor acceptable). Very little pressure too DB's did a good job. OBJ was contained. No excuse for so many penalties. The illegal formation on the Giants FG is as stupid a penalty as a team can make and cost 4 points. Two ticky-tack penalties (the hold was 50/50 at worse and the chop-block was 100% wrong cost big). Bills had all 3 TO's and a minute left. If the Urbik hold ot called it is a TD and an extra 3.09 of playing time Missed tackle resulting in the 51 yard TD was the play of the game. Make the tackle and the game is different. Missed Watkins big. Like OBJ, he creates a match-up nightmare, which would have opened up Harvin, Woods or Hogan, which is exactly what was missing. What is it with the schedule? NE & NYG 10 days to prepare. And this week Tennessee 14 days. Can't blame the Refs for everything, but they are not Bills fans and seemed happy to throw flags.

And he could have called the timeout (like he should have) and the exact same result. BB made a mistake, got away with it and some need to add to the mystique/lore of BB. Absolutely wrong. Butler was the hero, and don't be surprised if BB cuts or releases him, which would be classic Belichek.

Not a chance..... It was a mistake plain and and simple. Without the int, a TD is scored and max there is 25 seconds left (if scored on second down). Would they have then taken a timeout (if a run and no TD)? No BB had a brain cramp. The int was a fluke play and a colossal error by the Seahawks. BB deserves no credit.

BB blew it..... Got away with it and now looks like a genius???? Peter King is full of it. It was a mistake plane and simple. They have to use their 2 timeouts and try and stop Seattle. Worst case scenario is Seattle scores the last play of the game on 4th down. The expected scenario is 3 down with 55 seconds to go (as Seattle would have used their TO if 4th down). Lucky doesn't begin to describe what happened.

What NE was doing not calling a timeout with 1:02 to go after Lynch got it down to the 1 made no sense either. Then Seattle lining up with an empty backfield and no choice but to pass was ridiculous. You line up for a run and have options galore with Wilson as the QB and Lynch in backfield. Plenty of time and 3 plays to score. Add to that they threw into a crown (the middle) was asinine.....

Will remind you about these two catches that changed the outcome. Sure ODB would catch them too..... http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2014100502/2014/REG5/bills@lions#menu=gameinfo|contentId%3A0ap3000000405801&tab=videos http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2014100502/2014/REG5/bills@lions#menu=gameinfo|contentId%3A0ap3000000405416&tab=videos