BullBuchanan

Good. Did you catch that barn-burner against the Broncos or the one a couple weeks earlier against Carolina? I don't respect their offense at all.

Are you sure you mean to reply to me? Not sure that's an accurate description. I try to take a pretty measured fact-based approach to most discussions as I've done here.

13 seconds assumed we'd win two more games including a team that beat KC, and then another game against a team that beat the team that beat KC. It's always been a ludicrous point. Still on to this year - the team in general is maybe a push compared to where they were last year. Allen is playing significantly worse Singletary is slightly underperforming Cook is overperforming Moss Diggs is a push and the rest of our WR & TE group is underperforming OL is a slight upgrade DL is a slight upgrade LB is a push CB I have as a push until white gets back to form Safety is a downgrade Special teams is a slight upgrade Coaching is a push to slight downgrade. I don't see any evidence that this coaching staff learned a thing between this year and last, and I see absolutely no reason to believe that we'll be in any better position to win a super bowl this year than we were last year except if we get lucky and the train falls off the tracks for the teams around us. Despite our talent being more or less equal to last year on paper, we are playing much worse football. The last time we had a dominant performance was week 5. If we can hold a first round bye, that puts us in position to face either the Ravens, Bengals and Titans in round 2 and then the Chiefs in the championship game. I like our odds to beat both Ravens and Titans with the Bengals being a coinflip and then another coinflip against KC. If Dallas or Minn make the Super Bowl, I think those are both coin flips too. I'd give us a slight edge against Philly, Seattle or SF.

Propped up against trash-tier competition that's totally useless in the playoffs. Our "Top 5" defense gets roasted every January. It's a paper tiger.

Yup - and it's also why the team is golfing in late January instead of getting ready for a super bowl.

And that's why the law is what it is, so that's unlikely to happen.

I won't, just like I'm sure you won't. I'm not sure where you learned this, but the laws that apply to the government are to a higher standard than those held by individuals and private businesses. It's like that on purpose. Getting away with a crime because there isn't sufficient evidence to get a conviction doesn't make you innocent. There's been way too much justification of having sex with minors on this board for my taste. You guys keep really hammering on the defense of this that it really makes me question the moral fabric of the people that support this team.

He leads in a lot of categories: Passer rating Yds/attmept Yds/completion TD% 3rd in YPG 2nd in QBR 3rd completion percentage It's hard to say he's been better than two guys that have played at a very high level all year and haven't missed any games while he was knocked out of two and missed two more, but when he's been on the field he's been more spectacular this year to me. Mahomes has been extremely steady, but this may be his least exciting year as a pro. Hurts has also been electric at times, but has had 4 games with under 200 yards passing including 3 of the last 4. last week was his first 300 yard game since week 3. While yardage is not an end all be all stat for a QB, I'm not sure they're winning like they are on the back of Hurts but rather with him. The Phins and the Chiefs definitely go through their QB - as the Bills do.

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Never said that, but don't let that stop you starting your strawman argument.

As someone who thought the kid would be a joke in the NFL - he's been the best player in the league this year when healthy. Jefferson has been electric, but he's also had dud games and Kupp set a new bar last year. If Tua hadn't missed so much time, I think he'd be a lock for MVP. As it is, it's probably a two horse race between Mahomes and Hurts and Mahomes will need to fall off or Hurts will have to really start dazzling to stop Mahomes from getting his #2.

Strong consideration - and he'll probably still be back because there aren't that many teams looking to run 20 year old defensive strategies that depend on having 8+ starting caliber defensive lineman. We're not that lucky.

And hundreds of thousands or even millions more guilty roam free. Look at Danny Masterson. He's definitely guilty, gets a mistrial. Deshaun Watson, definitely guilty, gets a quarter billion dollars instead of going to prison. It took decades - decades - before cases against Weinstein and Cosby were given their due and especially in the case of Cosby there was no shortage of "witch hunt" defenses using the same line of logic you are now. The criminal justice system is absolutely, without question flawed, but more often than not it's flawed to the benefit of the rich and powerful. Just the other day there was a case about a very famous organization guilty on all 17 counts of fraud and conspiracy over a 15 year reign of crime and they walked away with a $1.6m fine - just a cost of doing business. This world is filled to the brim with monsters, and many of them never have to face justice.

He had sex with a minor as an adult. Him not being charged with that crime doesn't change that fact.

And an admission of statutory rape.

No they did not, and yes they did. “Ultimately, prosecutors determined it is clear the evidence does not support the filing of criminal charges and there is no path to a potential criminal conviction,” the office said in a statement. “Prosecutors can only file charges when they ethically believe they can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.” They said point blank that they haven't filed charges because they don't believe they can get a conviction. You have to read more than the first participle of the first sentence to understand the message being relayed. The reason that the evidence does not support the filing of charges is not because the evidence is not valid, but because it won't lead to a conviction. They are extremely clear about this and to attribute their statement to a line of logic of "they don't think a crime occurred" is completely incorrect. They may or they may not, but their statement indicates nothing except their opinion of how likely they are to win a conviction. And this comment right here is why the world is in the awful state it is.

Oh yea, poor guy...🙄

100% false. Could not possibly be more wrong if it was your explicit intent.

Way to fly right off the deep-end on a terrible take when they told you exactly what they think. No need to incorrectly re-interpret.

I don't know about you, but I don't plan on going back to 7-9 strategies.

He was on pace for 12 sacks this year which would have been good enough for #10 sack leader last year - and he did that playing only 61% of snaps. I'm not worried about him slowing down any further until he actually does. The whole point of Von Miller being on this team is to be a situational player for 3-4 games of the season. He's making that $20M so he can get the one sack on the play that matter most in January. While it sucks that he's not going to be able to fulfill that role this year, it would be a minor blessing if they just held him out until the playoffs next year. He's our Kucherov without the benefit of the LTIR cap relief.

If you didn't expect this - welcome to your first season as a Bills fan. It only goes downhill from here. As soon as he went down I planned on him being out or at minimum ineffective for the rest season, so it isn't much of a shock. We've never been a team that's winning games on the back of our defense and I didn't expect that to change this year. I don't see this loss having much impact if any on our chances. The offense needs to get right and game day coaching needs to drastically improve. If those two things happen, we'll be fine. Von ha a big impact on the way our line looked early in the year, but lately it's looked like less. It's time for Boogie to step up and realize the potential he's shown.

Stevenson should go on IR and be released whenever he asks for it. Not an NFL talent. Murray will be cut for Ike Lewis will be cut for Benford if he returns That leaves Klein, Spector and Rhodes (pending Benford) as the only places on the roster to make room for a WR.

Maybe you didn't understand me. You can't upgrade your line midseason. I'm aware of the concept of trading, but it just doesn't ever happen for starting caliber OL. They're simply too valuable for a team at any stage and it takes too long to get up to speed. At absolute best you can find a bottom of the roster player who's likely going to get cut anyway and you trade a 7th round pick just to get dibs. it's not a worthwhile solution to the problem.

Lights out? Meaning they play like they're blind? They routinely give up monster plays regardless of who is on the field, and without Miller, Hyde, and Benford we'll never hit the bar of "healthy". Our defense is a liability, not a strength. If we find ourselves in a playoff situation where we have to kick the ball off with under 2 minutes to go and up by less than 3, I 100% expect to lose.