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2 minutes ago, BuffBillsForLife said:
I'm pretty sure suggesting that the Bills intentionally lose to the Dolphins so that the Dolphins make the playoffs is a sin.
I mean I wouldn't advocate us literally kneeing the ball on every down but let's give Fromm a chance to prove he can be the long term back up QB. Let's see what Dane Jackson can do as a #1 CB. If we have the #2 seed locked up there is no need to play the starters in week 17.
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Hear me out on this.
If the following things happen next week the Bills clinch the #2 spot no matter what:
Bills defeat Patriots
Colts defeat Steelers
Packers defeat Titans OR Browns defeat Jets
I think that scenario is quite likely.
Now take it one step further. If the Dolphins beat the Raiders next week, they would have to beat the Bills in week 17 to make the playoffs as the #7 seed over the Ravens. This is true even if the Ravens win out.
I don't know about you all but I would much rather play the Dolphins than the Ravens in the wildcard round.
So if the Bills go into week 17 with the #2 seed clinched AND the Dolphins beat the Raiders, I hope we play our backups with an extremely vanilla gameplan against the Dolphins. Let them throw everything they have at us to guarantee themselves a playoff spot, then use it to game plan against them the following week to win our first playoff game in over 2 decades.
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1 minute ago, Casey D said:
Need Titans to lose
Not necessarily. If the Bills and Titans and one other team all finish 12-4, the Bills end up winning the tiebreaker in most cases. And I would bet one of Cleveland, Indy, and Pittsburgh will end up 12-4.
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I'm not gonna lie I didn't feel 100% comfortable until that kick went through the uprights.
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Just now, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
I am going to say Steelers win this by 10 points.
I'll be shocked if they can score 10 points.
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Just now, BuffBills51 said:
If Pittsburgh loses tonight and next week to Indy and we beat New England we have the 2 seed locked up and can sit our starters week 17.
Not sure this is true. Titans could finish 12-4 and have beat us head to head. I think we have to win out to guarantee ourselves the #2 seed.
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Roethlisberger is averaging -0.2 yards per attempt. Yes that's a minus sign.
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The way the Steelers are looking right now we might end up playing them in the wildcard round.
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18 minutes ago, Chandler#81 said:
Didn’t Tannehill ball out? 5 combined TDs?
That's nothing. Allen had 5 TDs on a single drive.
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10 minutes ago, McGahee said:
It's Mahomes. He's on another level.
He has not been on another level from Allen the past few weeks. They've been on the same level. If you want to talk about the whole season then yes it's Mahomes because his worst games weren't as bad as Allen's, he has less turnovers, and he beat Allen head to head. But right now I would argue they both share the #1 spot with Rodgers slightly behind them.
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Someone needs to tell Josh Allen to fall over if he gets tapped by so much as a pinky. I don't want to see him running or taking big hits. Take long developing routes out of the play book. Go run heavy and play defense. If we beat them playing vanilla, great. If we lose, oh well. Nothing is more important than making sure Allen and Diggs come out of the game healthy.
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Just to stick it to the Jets I hope they pick Frank Gore.
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3 minutes ago, BruceVilanch said:
he hit Cole with a slant early in the game, and then later in the game he had Cole running the same route, pump faked the first zone window and hit him in the second.
You can see those plays broken down here:
Imagine being Josey Jewell. There's nothing you can do because whatever window you defend Allen will just throw it the other window. That has to be so frustrating for a defender when you play it exactly right and still lose. And Allen has plays like that multiple times in every game.
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36 minutes ago, Kelly the Dog said:
I love that Josh called that Kumerow play. Great stuff.
It's not mentioned in this article but he also called the deep pass to Diggs when we were already up 35-13. He wanted that dagger.
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What did you say about me back then?
The question from Bills QB Josh Allen took me aback a little, but it was a very fair one after the show he put on Saturday night—throwing for 359 yards and two scores on 28-of-40 passing, as Buffalo blasted Denver 48–19 to clinch its first AFC East title in a generation.
That you were raw, I replied. Was that fair?
“Yeah, I can say that was,” Allen responded. “I’m just glad I was drafted to this organization. They’ve given me the tools to be as successful as I can be, and I feel like I’m still learning, still getting better. I love my teammates, I love how hard they work, how hard we work together. And the hard work is paying dividends.”
And this isn’t just about winning the division for the first time in a quarter-century, though that part probably felt pretty good for the coach Sean McDermott and GM Brandon Beane, who believed so deeply in Allen in 2018, and have been building toward this for four years now.
More so, this all feels, like Allen alluded to, like the Bills just starting to realize their considerable potential—with a roster young and loaded that only figures to keep improving, as long as Beane and McDermott can keep the core of young stars together, something that they started working on earlier this year with extensions for left tackle Dion Dawkins and corner Tre’Davious White. Allen, of course, will be among the first guys they approach on that front this season.
And that we’re at that point, with Allen likely to be the first of the 2018 draft’s quarterbacks to get his big second contract after this breakout season of his concludes, brings us back to how all his development from that raw prospect out of Wyoming was put on display (again) on Saturday in Denver. Two hours or so from that campus, three years later, Allen was nails.
That he’s here, of course, isn’t an accident. It’s the result of a team looking at the talent, and the person, and believing that he would do everything he could to harvest the former, which is exactly how this happened—how a scattershot passer became accurate, how a guy who played with a frantic pace got calm and how a coachable player found himself with the right people to show him the way.
“Well, I don’t mean to pat myself on the back, but I work extremely hard, whether it be in practice or the offseason, trying to find ways to get better,” Allen told me. “This offseason obviously was different with coronavirus, but it really gave me a chance to take a step back and see things from a different type of perspective, work on my mechanics, get more consistent. And the ball’s feeling good off my hand right now.
“When I’m on the field, I don’t think there’s a throw I can’t make, and being in the system for three years with coach [Brian] Daboll, him trusting me to go out there, give him suggestions on plays, and us calling those plays and having success, there’s just this trust factor that this team has. The guys around us, the quarterback room, Coach [Ken] Dorsey, it involves everybody. And it took a small army to get where I am.”
Through our conversation, I was able to pick up a couple of moments that reflected the work of that small army—from the coordinator (Daboll) to the position coach (Dorsey) to his teammates—and illustrated how it’s coming to life in Allen’s talent manifesting.
The first: Second-and-goal, Denver 22, 1:54 left in the second quarter.
At the two-minute warning, with the Bills facing first-and-goal from the 30 (thanks to three consecutive penalties), Allen went to Dorsey with an idea for a play. Dorsey relayed it to Daboll, and after a throw to Isaiah McKenzie picked up eight yards on first down, second-and-goal from the 22 was the right time to lean on what the young quarterback was seeing out on the field.
“We had a timeout right before, and I said [to Dorsey], I really like this play—let’s call this,” Allen said. “And I know it’s first-and-goal from the 30, but I was telling the guys, ‘We’re still gonna score; let’s not freak out.’ Coach Daboll trusted me with the play-call, I followed the quarter safety, he was trying to push over, but right at the snap, I saw him stop his feet and we had enough time, and [Jake] Kumerow ran the right route and made a heck of a catch.”
If you watched the game, you’ll remember the throw to Kumerow, of course—an absolute bullet to pierce the thin air of Denver, and one right down Main Street, between that safety Allen referenced, Justin Simmons, and a second safety, Kareem Jackson, and into a small window to his receiver, running a post into the end zone out of the slot. But what went into it, more so than the act of getting it there, is what matters, for our purposes.
In one fell swoop, Allen showed he had the voice to speak up to the coaches, the stature for them to listen and the ability to take things he noticed earlier in the game and project them into strategy later on. So no, this scenario wouldn’t have played out a couple of years ago.
The second: Third-and-six, Denver 34, 4:09 left in the third quarter.
Denver showed pressure and brought five at the snap—and on the play both A.J. Johnson and Malik Reed shook free to Allen’s right and bore down on the quarterback, taking away his vision to that side of the field. Allen was left to throw to a spot and had to trust Stefon Diggs would be there.
Lucky for the Bills, Allen has that sort of trust in Diggs, and Diggs can justify it. So Allen threw into the face of the rush, and Diggs dove on the other end to get to the ball well past the sticks, then got to his feet before being dragged down after a 16-yard gain. Buffalo wasn’t able to cash that one in with a touchdown (that was the drive on which the Bills had two touchdowns nullified, and when Allen was caught on camera saying, “How many times do we need to score?”), but the sequence showed, for sure, just where he is with his receivers.
And with Diggs, specifically.
“It’s that trust factor,” Allen said. “He does his job. He works extremely hard in practice. The communication shared between us all, the receiver group as a whole, it’s unbelievable, and it’s different than anything else I’ve been a part of. To have that trust, you see it over and over, the juice that he brings, every time the ball’s in the air, he’s attacking it and trying to go get it for me, it instills that faith that I have in him.
“I definitely think he is the best receiver in the game for what he does, how he creates separation, the juice that he brings, the run after the catch, you name it. He’s top-tier in every single thing that he does.”
With every game, it sure feels like Allen’s getting closer to that level too, and that makes the Bills, going into Christmas week, the top threat to the Chiefs’ juggernaut in the AFC.
I don’t know if they, or anyone else, can beat K.C. at Arrowhead in January. What I do know is it’ll take a team with a certain self-assuredness to do it—and, after talking to Allen on Saturday night, it’s crystal clear to me that he and his team have it, both in themselves individually and what they’ve built collectively.
“Personally, there’s a lot of people that said there’s no way in hell that I’d be able to do this coming out of college,” Allen said. “I don’t play to prove other people wrong; I play to prove myself right, my family right and my teammates right. Obviously, the first time in 25 years, we’re [winning the division], it’s something special. But the work’s not done.”
So yeah, this weekend was just a step toward where they want to go. But based on where the franchise has been, and who it dethroned in the process, it was a pretty big one.-
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11 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
Man, if you’re Trevor Lawrence though— Jax?! That has to be more of a nightmare than NYJ.
This conversation comes up every year there's a top QB prospect but top QBs know they're getting drafted by a bad team. No #1 pick is walking into a good situation.
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Saints offense is just miserable to watch. Too bad because their defense has had a great performance.
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What is Brees doing? Saints have a great roster but they're not going anywhere with QB play like this.
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4 hours ago, NewEra said:
You can ONLY talk about what has happened. No one cares about “what if”. It’s a desperate plea.
Mahomes is mvp and Sb champ. He’s the best. If Josh wants to be the best, he has to beat the best. Then we can talk about Josh being the best. Til then, no one should expect anyone to anoint him as good as Mahomes because he’s won some regular season games.
All Hasselback said was that this year, especially over the last month, Allen and Mahomes have been on the same level. He wasn't trying to say that Allen is better or has proved more. Pretty simple point to comprehend but Teddy Bruschi decided to be lazy and talk about the playoff loss. No need to defend his opinion. He didn't understand the argument because he didn't listen.
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Wow Saints just squandered a huge opportunity there
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No wonder Diggs is happy to be out of there.
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Beane's best trait as a GM is drawing up contracts that don't put the long term salary cap at risk. I have trouble predicting what it will look like but I think it will be very creative. I guessed 7 years because that would put Allen at 31 years old with one more big contract to cash in for his career.
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1 hour ago, YoloinOhio said:
I think it’s tough to not root for josh Allen - a lot of players just gravitate toward him, humble kid who has earned everything he’s gotten.
I was surprised he made it in the NFL Top 100 list last year, that shows you what the players think of him. This year he'll be top 10 for sure, probably even top 5.
Scenario where Bills may want to intentionally lose week 17
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted · Edited by HappyDays
I actually just discovered a hiccup in my scenario. The Titans would also need to beat the Texans in Houston in week 17 for this to work. If the Titans beat the Packers and lose to the Texans, they would be the 7th seed and Miami would be 6th. If the Titans lose to the Packers AND the Texans they would drop out of the playoffs entirely and we would play Baltimore instead. So I still think we should rest starters week 17 if the #2 seed is clinched but then we'll be rooting for Tennessee that week as well.