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I would like this 100 times if I could. I think the challenge too is the emotional aspect of this loss. Wanting to see Allen continue to demonstrate improvement, wanting to beat the Patriots, and wanting to avoid injuries. To see all three happen in this game I think affects people to where, at least the first few days, it is much harder to step back and put things in perspective. My tinfoil hat hypothesis is that the NFL with their advertising and hype are trying to cause this in us fans also. To make football our God and as such we have intense visceral emotions after each game instead of being able to calmly learn from it and move on.

We are incredibly fortunate that our safeties are Poyer and Hyde. Best duo since Milloy and Vincent?

Someday Allen will hit Zones deep in stride

He has been a phenomenal pickup so far. So glad he is on the team.

Our defense is incredible, please Josh give them some points.

Imagine if we got to have seen a McVay, Peyton Manning duo. Although maybe that'd be a case of too many cooks in the kitchen.

After his angry run you have to wonder if we're going to see even more of that.

Yeah, just cause it's Rex doesn't mean he can't be right.

The Rams are interesting. I have a hard time discerning how good of a QB Goff is. At least for 3 games in, Dak seems more consistent.

Yeah, I agree and a reason I posted the link. I appreciate the caveat that Allen is not playing like Jim Kelly, but that he is playing significantly better than Trent Edwards also. I just wish they used the caveat that he is playing worse than Fitz, but at that time Fitz was still Fitzmagic instead of Fitztragic.

As someone with an untrained eye, it is nice to see that Oliver is doing a lot even if it isn't showing on the stat sheet.

I guess I read 538 a lot.

I hate to say it, but my guess is Gilmore will effectively mitigate Brown or Beasley, whichever BB considers more of a threat in addition to taking away something else. That being said, I agree with you with how well Josh has been distributing the ball. I hope he keeps it up this Sunday.

Don't disrespect Chris Gragg like that!

Interesting to read this and consider that our defense has allowed by my count 8, 14, and 14 points respectively. Clearly someone on the D is playing exceptionally.

I feel like of our DT's he was playing the best. This is awful.

Maybe this is revisionist history on my part, but I think some of those games the Bills D was able to keep the points low most of the game only to eventually wear down due to the offense not making due on their end of the bargain. If the offense can actually put up points and sustain drives it might look different this time around.

I've been wondering the same as to whether we'll see something new. I wonder if we'll take more deep shots, but no huddle is a good guess too.

My guess is that the Bills play tough and that the Pats pull away in the 4th. The score won't be indicative as to how the Bills will be better than the score reflects. A pretty typical Belichick vs McD game.

Pretty much. I like to think of it as we're almost two touchdowns better than the Jets and Dolphins.

To add to this, I think psychologically we try to look for patterns to be able to predict what is going to happen, but with the NFL it is really hard to do because so much is going on. Then of course there is a team like NE which makes thing seem predictable.

You make a good point. Somewhere lost in the spectrum of we're going to beat NE 56-3 to we're 3-0 against a combined 1-8 teams is the fact that the Bills have looked like the better team all three games and that it indicative of their playing ability.

It's a shame that Jauron was so poor for us, because he isn't wrong. Every game in the NFL is a battle. But because Jauron said it, that phrase has been taken less seriously than it should.

The only thing I'd add is that running the ball in the 2nd half seems to be working or at least it did this game. It was frustrating getting to their 45 yard line only to stall once we started passing more.