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I remember in 1991 a 10-1 Bills squad going into New England who was at their lowest point two years before getting Bledsoe and losing in foxboro. Not sure if 2004 quite qualifies as a good team, but losing to the Steelers backups in a game where a win would have meant making the playoffs has to be up there. Buffalo has had a rough two weeks, but I do not see them losing to the Jets. A bad team playing hard can win on a given day, but this Jets team seems to have lost their fighting spirit and have Gase as the coach. Being shut out by a Miami team that was not playing their best in that game shows that they are in a bad way.

Right now, Buffalo can beat the bad teams and some of the pretty good teams(Rams, Raiders, Pittsburgh last year) but still falls short against the top notch teams. The way that this season is playing out in the AFC east, 9 wins might be enough to win the division. These next few games will let us know whether McDermott is a good coach or just better than what we have had since Levy. If the defense can even come close to going back to last years form, I do not see a team left on the schedule that we cannot beat. If they play like they did against Tennessee and KC, eight wins might be a struggle. The Jets game is a chance to turn thing around, plays some of the younger guys on defense and rebuild some confidence. After that New England, Arizona and Seattle will be a true measuring stick on where Buffalo really is. Anything less than 6-4 going into the week 11 bye means that the team has regressed.

To me giving up 200 plus yards on the ground is worse and much more painful to watch than a few big pass plays even if the score is lower in the end. It did not matter if it was 3rd and 1 or 3rd and 17, you knew that the Chiefs were going to convert it 90 percent of the time. So far this season, the defensive unit which carried the team from 2017-2019 when the offense was not that great has now become a liability when the offense has finally gotten better. Hopefully, they can turn it around.

With the schedule as it was I would have been thrilled with 4-2 in the beginning of the season. It is way too early to panic but something does need to be done about the front seven. It is possible to still support the team and see them as a playoff contender and at the same time still be worried about a potential glaring hole that could damage the season if not addressed.

After everything, this is a game again if Buffalo can find a way to stop KC's next drive.

The team averaged 30+ a game and Allen average 300 yards for the first 4 games, so why does Buffalo suddenly think that rolling out the Trent Edwards offense is a good idea over the last two weeks?

Something is obviously happening with the team internally, they have flat out played like they dont want to be there over the last couple of weeks

I am not going to excuse the bad play, but this whole situation should not have gone down as it did. The team who mishandled protocol got to rest for two weeks while the team playing them had to not know if the game was happening until the last second and practice for two teams for a week. Bad game for the Bills, Bad deal for the Bills, Bad overall situation. I hope that this is an isolated day. The team is still 4-1 and hopefully they can move on from this and not let it set the tone for the season. Here is hoping that White and Milano are ready to go by Monday. They were clearly missed.

I would pick Fitz over Tyrod, but Fitz and Tyrod were the two best QB's of the drought era and most watchable. To this day I would gladly take either as a backup to Allen. I think that Fitz was more endearing that Tyrod because he had the personality to go with it and was seen as a guy with limited ability playing out of his mind. it also helped his cause that we had just endured years of Losman and Edwards where 100-150 yard efforts were the norm. Quite frankly, anyone would have felt like an upgrade at that time. Tyrod on the other hand started out as a diamond on the rough, actually made the probowl his first year but stopped getting better after that resulting in many being disappointed. Fitz teams were not seen as contenders but would always put points on the board and show potential for a true upset. Tyrod led teams were less exciting on offense, but better than most drought era teams. There was at least a chance to get a wild card, but that was the ceiling. Allen has turned into the real deal and is miles ahead of either, but I always appreciated the efforts of both Fitz and Tyrod.

Right now, because Mahomes is considered by many to be the best QB in the NFL and because the chiefs won a super bowl, I have to vote the Chiefs. This does not mean that it turned out bad for the Bills or set back the franchise. Buffalo needed a complete overhaul of a roster to change the culture at the time. The extra picks helped do this. The picks from the trade led to Tradaveous White, Dion Dawkins, Tremaine Edmunds and Zay Jones(cant win them all). White and Dawkins are long term players in Key positions. Edmunds could also be a long term asset if he polishes parts of his game. In addition the Bills got Allen the next year who appears to be our franchise quarterback for years to come. This is a nice contrast to the past when trading players like Marshawn Lynch and Willis McGahee led to picks that turned into nothing. Good drafting makes all of the difference. I do not think that Mahomes would have found the same success in Buffalo with the limited receiving talent that we had in 2017 and 2018 and I think that the Chiefs would have remained a marginal wild card team if they had stayed with Alex Smith and/or drafted some of the other available quarterbacks in 2017 or 2018(except maybe for Lamar Jackson). This is one of the rare trades where both teams got much better for doing it. I do not know if there will be a final answer to this until a few years from now when the careers of these players is over.

Make them switch rosters with the Jets

Jacksonville would barely get 20000 even if they allowed a full stadium, and Miami would be likely to have as much or more fans from the other team. Could make an impact in Tampa though and give them an unfair advantage over teams who cannot have any fans yet. Kidding aside, seems like increasing it by a few thousand every week would be more prudent. I generally favor reopening things, but also believe in common sense when doing it.

Those two Rex teams underachieved and were maddening to watch in many ways, but even they were better than what we had in a long time at that point. Buffalo overall has been better from the moment that Ralph Wilson stopped running the team. It took Pegula a little bit to get the right fit, but I have a feeling that McDermott is here to stay.

Daboll or anyone who coaches the Jets next has a long road ahead of them. It took Buffalo four seasons to rebuild, overhaul the team and create a winning culture. That was while inheriting a team with 7-8 win talent and having a lucky playoff run in 2017. The cupboard is bare and the morale is even lower than it was in Buffalo during most of the drought years. In addition, they are in a division with McDermott and Allen, a Patriots team that still has Bellichek and a young up and coming Miami team. Rebuilding the jets is essentially at this point working with an expansion team except there isnt the excitement of newness that an expansion team would have. Whoever takes the Jets job either has a large amount of confidence or may feel that it is their only chance.

Hard to feel pity for any division rival but the Jets are a toxic mess right now. Years of bad drafting and poor choices in draft picks have taken a toll and left them with a very bad roster. Also Gase should never be allowed near a NFL locker room again. No team deserves a coach who disregards their players and puts them at risk for injury like that.

I feel like Biden had nothing to say and was classless in his own way(telling Trump to shut up, calling him names four times), but Trump blew it by being too aggressive. It was the football equivalent of running an exotic scheme with heavy blitzing against a team with Nathan Peterman or Ryan Leaf as quarterback. Sometimes it is better just to dial it down and let the other side get the turnovers.

It was ugly all around. Biden had nothing of substance to say and Trump interrupted way too much. Trump didnt make a concrete statement against white supremacy and Biden admitted that he was not implementing the green new deal(the lefts only concrete plan over the last four years) which will lose a lot of the extreme left. I think that both probably lost votes tonight, it is a matter of who lost more. For me personally I am undecided between Trump and Jorgenson only because I do not want the the far left running anything, but i do not feel good about the choices at all.

Good 1) Allen 2) Davis 3) Williams at RT and Ford at Guard DIsappointment 1) Edmunds 2) White 3) Pass rush One thing that I was noticing is that it is not just Buffalo and that defenses across the board are giving up large amount of points so far. I wonder how much of it has to do with the unusual circumstances of the season?

I would not hate this. Allen and Darnold train together and are friends so it might be a good situation for both. A change of scenery might save Darnolds career and it would likely be an upgrade over Barkley for Buffalo

If anyone wants to feel better, go to the Jets message board. It reminds me of the Bills boards about ten years ago. Quotes include "Start Flacco", "Darnold is worse than Sanchez", "Thursday's game against denver is for the #1 draft pick" and my personal favorite "I wish we had Rex Ryan again". Really helps with perspective.

I am seeing this in a better light than I was right after the game. We are 3-0 and beat a team that was in the superbowl two years ago. This was a game that could have been a disaster but they found away to win and Allen brought them back like a star QB. I am still a little worried about the defense with the teams that we must play this year, but hopefully this was more the Rams having a good offense than Buffalo having a bad Defense.

Not me, I am happy to see the Bills at 3-0 and think that they are a contender. I just saw some things that concerned me.

Meanwhile, the Jets are off to a good start in their quest for Trevor Lawrence with a Darnold pick six.

Buffalo is lucky to win this. Hopefully the coaching learns from their mistakes before it costs them.

Wow, we got lucky. Buffalo needs to clean things up before their more challenging games happen