Logic

Thanks as always for your thoughts. I put some of mine in the post-game thread that echoed much of what you said. The main thing I feel after this game is ENCOURAGED. My hope for the remainder of the season and even the postseason has been re-ignited. After the first half of the season, I was feeling kind of deflated. We struggled to beat some bad teams. We lost two straight games to what I view as inferior opponents. Out defense looked completely toothless. Our quarterback looked stifled and frustrated. All of that changed yesterday. Some if it started in the Panthers game, but yesterday looked like the real turning point. Suddenly, Josh was locked in. "Slotted", as he puts it. Set a franchise record for completion percentage and played his best game of the year. Suddenly, the defense was a shutdown unit, harassing the other team's All-Pro QB (and holding him to his lowest completion percentage ever), blanketing receivers, laying bone crunching hits. The combination of night-and-day difference in our defensive performance, the return of "MVP Josh", and the exemplary performances of multiple youngsters potentially changing the short and long term outlooks on defense in a major way....all of it adds up to a lot of big reasons to feel encouraged going into the second half of the season. The AFC East crown is still there for the taking. The AFC one seed is still there for the taking. The Lombardi is still there for the taking. BIG win yesterday, for BIG reasons. Go Bills!

Hey all. I haven't been around here much lately, but this win has me pretty excited, so I thought I'd burn off some of my jubilant energy explaining why: 1. JOSH WAS JOSH! 23 of 26 for three scores and no turnovers. A franchise record 88.5 completion percentage. Poised, decisive, smart with the football, took intermediate shots when they were there, checked down when they weren't. There were lots of reasons for today's win, but Josh being Josh was certainly a huge one! 2. Bills defense held Pat Mahomes to his lowest ever completion percentage of 44! Defensive line harassed him all game long, the coverage units did their job and married well with the pass rush, and #15 never looked comfortable, and the final score and stat output showed it. This was a HOT passing offense coming in, and the Bills defense stifled it in a big way. That leads me to... 3. Pass rush! Bosa, Hoecht (yes, the injury is mega discouraging, but what a day he had), even AJ Epenesa at times. The defensive line did a fantastic job today. 4. Cole Bishop played the game of his career! He seems to be arriving. Can't help but feel like the steadying presence of Jordan Poyer is helping. Maybe it's just all the reps he's been getting. Whatever it is, he was a PLUS PLAYER for the Bills in a big way today, and was a major and direct contributor to the win! 5. Max Hairston: You just got your NFL INT wings, young man! Hanging with KC's speedy WRs downfield all day long. Gave up NO big plays that I can recall. This kid belongs, and his speed alone changes Buffalo's D. 6. Joe Brady called a good game. Used all of his tight ends, got productivity out of Shakir, stuck with the run when he should, got a bit more aggressive when he needed to. Nice day from him. 7. Offensive line: my goodness! The displacement they got on some of those run plays was downright ridiculous. Wow. Sign Aaron Kromer to a lifetime contract, please, even if you have to put in a "no beach chairs" proviso. 8. James Cook. I said not to pay him. I was wrong. WRONG wrong. The engine that makes the Bills offense go. Today's win was HUGE. Not because it was the Chiefs. We all know that doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things. No, today's win was huge for AFC seeding, for confidence for this young team, confidence for the fan base, and for an overall team boost heading into the second half of the season. With the Colts losing today and Daniel Jones falling back to earth a little bit, the one seed is still there for the taking. At the very least, the AFC East is still there for the taking. Big day from Joe and Josh, big day for the D, lots to be encouraged about. Was everything perfect? No. But this is the NFL. That's rarely the way of things. OUTSTANDING win! GO BILLS!!!

I just wanted to point out that evidence of non-binary people and different forms of what we now call "transgender" people have been found back as far as 3000 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia. Their existence pre-dates Christianity. Non-binary people have been found across multiple continents and cultures for the past 5,000 years. Look it up some time. It's actually pretty fascinating. I think many Americans -- I dare say even the vast majority -- think of transgenderism as a new phenomenon, but it is not. At all.

Dearest @boyst, Do feel free to keep tagging me from now until the end of time whenever a new lunatic shoots at somebody. I know it was wildly upsetting to you that someone new came into your frothy-mouthed right wing echo chamber and dared to challenge your trans-hating rage party. Of note: there is still no concrete evidence that Robinson's actions were motivated by leftist ideology. Just because JD Vance and Kash Patel say it doesn't make it true. In any case, no amount of tagging me will change the fact that over the past decade, the majority of mass shootings in America are statistically, verifiably committed by cisgender white men -- not trans people. It also won't change the fact that over the past decade, right wing extremism accounts for the majority of domestic terror incidents and fatalities caused by domestic terror in the U.S. I trust this message finds you well. And by "well", I mean "hanging out in the PPP, finding new reasons to be angry at those awful Antifas and trannies, who you suspect for being the ones who put mustard on your burger yesterday even though you said 'ketchup only'". Happiest of autumns to you and yours. All my best, Logic

Me come Sunday

Me stepping into this thread to see what people are saying about Ben Johnson and seeing what it has become instead

Thanks for sharing that. This was always the most likely outcome. Why rush them back for a Thursday Nighter on four days rest when you can try to get by an inferior opponent without them and then give them 10 days to heal?

How does "crushing a division opponent at home, putting the Bills at 3-0, the Dolphins at 0-3, and going into a mini-bye week as the 1-seed in the AFC and giving big Ed and Matt Milano some time to heal up" sound to everyone else? To me, it sounds pretty ***** good.

I agree. The Dolphins know that their season is on the line, and that they can play the Bills close (because they've done it before with this QB and this coach). Thursday night games are also weird and fluky sometimes. I'm not predicting a Dolphins win, but I also don't think this game will be nearly as easy the Jets game. If the Bills DO dominate the Dolphins and make them look hapless and hopeless, it would not surprise me to see a coaching change after the game.

Where Hawes transforms the Bills offense is this: They can use him as the "6th O-lineman" in jumbo sets, but he's an actual threat to catch the ball, unlike Alec Anderson. I could be mistaken, but I don't believe I've seen the Bills roll out a 6OL package yet this season. I HAVE seen (especially against the Jets) a good amount of 12 and 13 personnel. Hawes is Lee Smith Jr. For the Bills to say he was the best blocking tight end they've EVER evaluated, and for him to already be getting this much time on the field...you know he's special as a blocker at that position. Dawson Knox is set to make $17million next year. Given the realistic constraints of the salary cap, people aren't wrong to say that long term, Hawes' presence could spell the end of Knox's Bills tenure. Going forward, a Hawes-Kincaid duo at TE could indeed be the thing. And if Hawes is able to develop the receiving part of his game? Look out, man.

Dorian Williams, Shaq Thompson, Keonta Jenkins, come on down!

No such thing.

This is exactly what I thought after watching it. I hard heard that it was from "the creators of the Office", but once I saw Mike Schur's name wasn't on it, I became less enthusiastic. Greg Daniels is funny and a great creative mind in his own right, but I think a big part of what made The Office what it was is Mike Schur. I don't associate Greg Daniels nearly as much with that brand of comedy. On the flip side, speaking of Greg Daniels... I HAVE been enjoying the King of the Hill reboot. Good stuff.

Three Pro Bowl players drafted immediately after Kaiir Elam: Tyler Smith, Tyler Linderbaum, and Jermain Johnson II, right in a row. Ouch. George Karlaftis, Kyler Gordon, Breece Hall, George Pickens, Trey McBride not long after that. Double ouch. Hindsight is 20/20, every team has misses, and the Benford pick helped. But man...imagine adding any of the above players to the current Bills? Yeesh. Ah well. Ya win some, ya lose some.

I was an enormous Office fan, and saw that this was by one of the makers of the original (Greg Daniels), and it exists in the same "universe" as the Office and has Oscar as an accountant again. I gave the first episode a shot and did not find it funny. Like...at all. I'm willing to watch another episode or two and see if it finds its footing, because I see that it's gotten good critical and audience scores and has already been renewed for season two. But so far? Yeesh.