That's No Moon

I want to see the numbers about how they do getting balls to stop or go OB inside the 10. I also want there to be at least one windy day for both the punters and the potential returners. Agreed. Some of these guys need to start panning out. Now.

The offense struggled many times last year and IMO the defense is/was overrated which is why I smh when people discount articles that wonder if the Bills will win 12 games. I get that it isn't what you want to hear but they are playing likely a good portion of this season without Tre White and our corner depth is all unproven, the offensive line is still a weakness and a lot of it is broken and the RT has a back problem, the running game is still a huge question mark, they have a new play caller who has never had that role and nobody knows how that's going to go, etc. People want to act like the offense was a juggernaut because how the season ended but in real life they had big time issues a lot of the time last year. People also want to wave around the #1 defense as though they didn't get absolutely torched by the Chiefs all game long forget about how it ended. If you can't defend for 13 seconds you aren't #1 of anything, I'm sorry. They needed the defense to make one stop to win that game. One. They had 2 chances to get that one stop and they couldn't do it. Not only couldn't they do it they barely slowed KC down. Does Von Miller fix all that? I kinda doubt it. It's unpopular to say it, I know it, I just won't be surprised if they struggle again. Particularly early in the season. There are still a LOT of things to work out and the schedule does them no favors this year.

And like I said before, it's easy to feel that way until the new QB you have stinks up the place and you start losing because of it. Ready to move on? Sure. Ready to deal with a full season of Duck Hodges like performances? Probably not. One thing that fanbase is is spoiled. It won't take long for the knives to come out for any new QB, particularly with a popular high draft pick waiting in the wings, which was my point.

The Bills defense was incredibly overrated last year.

Tell that to the many Steeler fans I know. Also, it's easier to say that now. If the team struggles because of QB play it will become more of a problem. Pickett is also already taking reps with the 2s.

That's what I heard as well but he's in a tough spot right now. He's following a HoF QB who had achieved near god-like status in town and he has a 1st round pick, who played for the hometown college, right behind him. He has to come out of the blocks on fire and pretty much stay that way to keep the Roethlisberger comparisons/criticisms in check and to keep the locals from calling for Pickett. I know it's hindsight and easier to say now but the Giants would have been an easier place. The incumbent QB has disappointed, didn't get his 5th year option picked up, and has some stink on him. The new HC and GM both have more of a connection to MT than to Jones at this point and if Jones comes out bad, or gets hurt again, the locals would be the ones clamoring for MT to play. Sure, MT is the starter right now in Pittsburgh. I just think it's more likely that he'd be the starter in NY at the end of year than in Pittsburgh. That said, if he IS still starting in Pittsburgh at the end of the year that means he played really well and Pittsburgh won a lot of games. If one or the other of those things doesn't happen, you'll see Pickett.

They could ban them from the property if they really felt like it. Easiest way to make them stop would have been to give them the media credential they asked for.

If this is going to happen one would think it would be before the season so the team could use the PUP designation. They could also do it in week 2 to avoid him being fully vested for the season and stick him on IR. The team can bring as many as 8 players back from IR during the season now. If they know they want to do this the benefit is he can get into the playbook even if he can't practice. You then also have the team medical staff involved for a longer period of time.] and you're able to utilize the 21 day practice window before activating him. In the end it will come down to money and what OBJ is willing to accept given that he won't be available for at least half the season. The other option is to let him sit out there until he's closer to being ready to play, but then you invite more of a bidding war with another desperate team who also wants his services.

Then why were they 6-10 the year in between the Super Bowl and Conference Championship when he missed 10 games?

It's insane that you can take your team to a SB and a Championship game in a 3 year span and get thrown away like a piece of garbage.

I encourage you to go back and look at the list of illustrious names we plunked down hard-earned money to watch over the years.

In related news, the Bills still haven't punted against New England's defense...

Yes. I've said in the past that Stevenson might have the worst field vision I've ever seen and I'm legitimately concerned for his safety returning kicks.

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If he's just out there to catch the ball, yes. In a perfect world we have a real PR but that's not McKenzie I don't think it's Stevenson and I need evidence of anyone else catching the ball before I offer any sort of opinion. Catching kicks in Buffalo is probably the hardest PR job in football.

Until someone else demonstrates they will catch the ball reliably I want Micah Hyde to FC everything and be done with it.

Or it was a long night down in the Tenderloin....

the good old union suits. they do pop in the snow to be fair

Bledsoe, Flutie, and Fitz. Not necessarily in that order.

In my experience, poor fan behavior increased this year compared to before the COVID shut down/parent lockout year. I had to throw four people out of a flipping middle school track meet this year for constant verbal abuse of meet officials. A track meet! Middle school!!!! Basketball was a giant mess, court invasions, near riots of people trying to come into sold out games, referee abuse out of hand. Id like to say hockey was better, but it wasn't. Parents kicked out for ref abuse, entire student sections removed for boorish behavior at high school games, brawls between opposing student sections.

Unless they moved Shippensburg that's I-81 😉

Of course, the defense won't have seen it either.

I'm fine with just not punting fwiw.