Rochesterfan

Because Corey was a below average punter at placement and angling of kicks and was absolutely terrible at holding for FGs and XPs. Corey over the last 2 years has cost the Bills more points that Haack will - the issue is the blame was given to the Kickers not the problem point of the holder. Additionally - The blocked kick this year has given Haack 2 blocked kicks in his 5th season - while Corey has had 2 blocked in 4 years. Corey also had his 2 blocked in about 170 kicks versus the 2 blocks on Haack in 314 kicks. So basically we got a better placement punter, that is better at holding, and has had a better career record at punting without blocks by a significant margin - even being slower. Does that help answer your question?

Very hard to tell from the broadcast angles, but I thought you hit the DE rotation right on. For the DTs - I thought it was Star and Oliver on early downs - with Zimmer filling in for both depending upon need. I thought when the Bills went up bigger mid 3rd quarter - Star’s play count dropped (coming off injury with the heat) and Butler started filling in more. I felt like the Bills had Star as a 1TDT and Oliver as the 3TDT early and then Zimmer doing a bit of both depending upon who they wanted rotated out. Later when it was more rushing the passer all the time - you had Butler come in and essentially ran multiple 3TDT with them all just stopping the RB on the way to the passer. I can’t wait to see what the Cover 1 guys see/say. I get the feeling this coaching staff is adjusting and trying to get these guys in their best advantage possible. Early it was corners and DBs - along with Milano - blitzing and DE and LBs dropping into spaces to cover up quick passes - with DBs playing man outside. Later - after Edmunds went out with cramping and Klein filled in - it Klein doing the blitzing and Milano dropping into coverage. You also saw Rousseau drop a couple of times - including the nice play where Brissett squeezed through the rush and looked to try and take off and Rousseau cut to the middle and drove forward to take Brissett down. I was very impressed on that play with the leverage Rousseau used as he dropped to a zone - it was vacated and he kept his eyes on the QB. He drifted toward the middle and then read Brissett and then moved up and made a great open field tackle.

Not a concern in the least - if the team had a plan to use Mitch in victory formation- then they probably had him taking snaps before heading out - therefore I don’t think the risk was any greater. I would also rather at this point have Mitch trying to recover a fumble in victory time rather than Josh.

Hard to say - I am not convinced that JB is not just as good as Tua - although I think Tua has better ball placement - I think JB’s experience helped get him into better plays and make plays when nothing was there. My gut tells me that Tua probably finds some scores late - he did put 17 on NE and I consider them to be an excellent defense. I just think the Bills go even more killer and he would of eventually been knocked out because he just was not able to handle the defense pressure we were throwing up.

Was it a Super Bowl caliber win - who knows. What it was - was a convincing, shut out victory over a team that is expected to compete for not only the playoffs, but the division title. Miami was widely considered to be one of the top AFC teams and based upon last year and the additional talent they secured in the draft and via FA - they were supposed to be the AFC East team that challenged the Bills for the Division. They were the only AFC East team to get a victory last week and beat a team in NE that is expected to also challenge. It is not like Miami beat Houston or the Jets - so yes - it was a darn good win over a team that will be right with Buffalo until the end of the season. We will see where that offense ends up by the end, but to shut them out and stuff them on multiple 4th downs and force multiple Turnovers- yeah the defense deserves an A to A+ - just looking at your original post tells me your not a realist, but it is what it is - you can freely complain and most people can freely disagree and note that your assessment was just not good. Facts are facts and every game does matter and anytime your defense can force multiple turnovers, get multiple sacks (6), hold a team to under 75 yards rushing and 200 yards passing while blowing them out (even in garbage time) - then that defense did some incredible things. When your offense puts up nearly 150 yards rushing and 3 scores and you pass for multiple scores against what is considered to be a top 3-5 defense in the league - the offense also should get some praise. Do they have things to clean up - yep, but that is an excellent defense and they won many games for Miami last year and yet they found ways to move the ball and get into a rhythm. Overall - all 3 phases and the coaching were better than the opponents and they manhandled a very good team - with things that still need to be cleaned up, but an overall very good performance by the team.

Totally agree with the first part. Not sure what to make of the 2nd. What else could Miami have done to be “all in” on Tua? They drafted and picked up several offensive weapons - including Waddle - a perfect fit for Tua. They have drafted a ton of Oline men to try and protect him. They continued to start him last year - even when it was obvious that the team responded better to Fitz. They had a chance to draft another top flight QB this year - as high as #3 and chose not to - showing huge faith in Tua. I would agree that the owner has been a bit weird as it seems last year - he really wanted Tua in the draft and then to play and he has moved on to wanting Watson now, but Flores and the GM both seem to have been all in on Tua - especially this year.

Is Tua a top 32 offensive threat? Brissett isn’t great, but Tua has not shown himself at this point to be better. Anytime you pitch a shutout in the NFL - it is worth an A at minimum. I was also impressed that when they knocked Tua out - the Bills didn’t go back to a plain vanilla defense - they still attacked him and forced him to try and make plays - they gave up very few “easy” throws to either Miami or Pittsburgh.

It looks to me like they are using more safety coverage on the TE this year and using Edmunds more in an underneath drop into areas around the slot - getting into passing areas. I saw a lot more of Poyer and Hyde picking up TEs than last years. It is not a great matchup, but Ithink they are looking at different ways to attack a TE heavy team - like Baltimore and KC.

I just found Matt to be useless. It seemed obvious that both commentators were completely unfamiliar with both AFC teams and had nothing really relevant to add to the broadcast. Millen was interesting in the fact that he talked and talked about unrelated things like an old school meathead and at many points was just rambling on about utter non-sense. At least he did not take himself to serious - he sounded more like a fan doing this for the first time than an actual long time NFL veteran with playing and front office experience. If you just listened to him speak - I would have thought he maxed out at high school football and barely understood the NFL game. The physics comments were just so out of left field, then the fart comment, dissing his fellow commentators yellow tie was another highlight, and then he got totally lost trying to explain a good referee versus a bad referee. I was interested until once again about half way through the ref speech - he lost his point and was like a bad referee let’s the players decide the game. He certainly wasn’t cliche’ and that is good, but he also was just talking to talk and gave little insight or even strong input.

Coach should be fired on the spot. No reason for that kind of stupidity. I really don’t get how you can do that as a staff. They weren’t winning anyway, but Get a clue.

Those were all better than the physics dissertation he gave that made no sense - coupled with his fart comment on a play. Complete and utter waste of a broadcast. His talk of recruiting both Marino and Kelly in college was another brilliant point. The man should be removed from the booth.

Only if the entire foot comes down. Seen it before - thought they got it right - I was shocked. Then the Titans give up a huge drive by basically playing off. Terrible coaching job.

@DasNootz - Haven’t airlines gone with the first option - due to federal mandate - all people on public transportation are required to wear a face mask without exceptions. That makes it pretty easy to enforce and gives them a strong backing. There is very limited people on a flight and you can enforce and it has still lead to increase incidents and violence. It does not work in a stadium with 70,000 and as you said people that can buy food and drink. We saw at practices and the 1st game the mask requirement in the stadium concourse and inside areas was a 100% failure. Therefore - they had to shift and follow the Raiders and go to 100% vaccination route - therefore making that the least intrusive option for fans.

@Hapless Bills Fan - I get the negative test request, but there are viable reasons why that is not offered. Right now in NYS - unvaccinated individuals are supposed to be masked when indoors in communal areas - so like grocery markets, shopping, etc. Vaccinated individuals are allowed to enter those spaces unmasked. For me I mask-up everywhere I go because if people are not wearing a mask - you have no way of knowing are the vaccinated and following the rules or unvaccinated and not following - it is all on your honor and I don’t really trust my fellow neighbors to be fully honest at this point. In regards to the stadium - if we follow that - and maybe they won’t- this mandate of 100% vaccinated people - allows them to eliminate masking and make it easy to enforce as everyone is 100 vaccinated. If you allow testing of people - even same day testing - but even a percentage of those fans are unvaccinated- then you have unvaccinated fans that should be required to mask up in certain “indoor” spaces and now you return to the Bills having to try to enforce something that was proven to be unenforceable in practice. I think making it 100% vaccinated makes it much easier and more consistent for enforcement. If there was a way to show immunity - such as using the antibody tests that are available - I would 100% be on board with using those results to gain entry once immunity levels of the antibody have been established- then vaccinated or not - they have all shown to have antibodies and should be ok. Until that becomes widely available- 100% vaccinated is the best way to go to prevent having unenforceable rules that must be attempted.

First - Negative test has nothing to do with immunity - so it is not an immunity test. Having a negative test is a viable option at some places, but more and more places are not considering it viable. Having a fully vaccinated groups makes it easy to set and enforce the rules as the entire stadium is on equal footing. They can then set masking rules and be consistent. An unvaccinated person with a negative test - still would be required to mask-up when inside any parts of the stadium and that becomes unenforceable - you wouldn’t know the status - so how do you enforce the rules. You act like they are excluding a specific group, but the truth is - they gave a mix vaccinated crowd a chance last week and found it impossible. This change allows them based upon State vaccine rules to treat everyone the same and not have to guess is this person unvaccinated and a negative test and must be masked or a vaccinated person that can be unmasked. It is really simple and it makes 100% sense and I applaud them for making this a simple and enforceable fix.

Why would you think this at all? It is illogical as NYS has an already much higher vaccinated rate than many states that have football teams. The top states are mostly in the NE and cover a limited number of teams (although Maryland is right there). Why would other teams fans be more vaccinated and ready to travel without complaining with their vaccine cards than Bills fans? My guess is it has little impact and if it does come down to a huge influx of vaccinated opposing fans coming in - we’ll good for them for getting vaccinated and wanting to travel and following the rules.

You have been flamed because of your take on the subject and it being a problem. He has been consistent that it takes him a few throws and maybe a hit to get settled down. You have constantly acted like this impacts for the entire game and seasons. It is just beyond stupid.

It is a non issue. He talked about this 2 years ago and making changes. Will he be over excited- probably, but it means nothing and people that keep acting like it is an issue are just looking for something to complain about. I recommend just letting it go, but you do you.

Good Lord dude - give it a rest. He has talked about this many times in the past. It does not mean anything. Dumb.

Not to question, but when you say he will be gone in a year - a year from when? He is under contract this year and next year already - so are you saying he will be gone in one year from today - prior to 2022 season? Are you saying he will be gone after next years season - so a year and a half - end of the 2022 season? Are you suggesting he will be traded? I understand people wanting to move on - I do not understand the time frame you are looking at - since his contract runs through the 2022 season and the coaching staff likes him - I am going out on a limb to say he will be on the Bills this year and next year. Then there is the possibility that the Bills give him a contract extension- so it could be longer - so minimally I see 2 years and potentially more. Not sure I only see him lasting this year and then the Bills moving - so I think I disagree with your original timeline.

This ⬆️. I think you could even push top-5 pick to top-20 pick. There are just so very few that make a second contract worth it and even the 5th year option is to much money for that position. There are some great RBs that are elite, but so few actually are difference makers and he best in Henry was a 2nd round pick.

Another RB and Peters both with Potential ACL tears back to back. Unbelievable! That is all 3 RBs and a CB gone before game 1. I hope Jackson has been practicing.

I think the ownership has a lot to do with the issues Flores has right now - I totally agree. I am not sure that Tua is who they wanted to draft at 5, but I know that is who they deconstructed their team the year before to get. It just happened after the season and injury he was no longer the best QB in the draft. I think Flores would of preferred to ride with Fitz last year as he was Fitzmagic and held Tua until you started to see Fitztragic. Instead - I think ownership pushed him and the GM to start him before they were ready and hence the poor job at managing him and what seemed to be a lack of faith. Then I think the owner also is pushing the Watson issue - which further undermines the Tua relationship, but then I think Flores and Grier mishandled the talking points around this. In general the owner is self sabotaging the QB/coach relationship, but they have also done a poor job in handling everything.

Hard to say, but they signed some big type FA last year to multi-year deals and then in one off season started cutting them during this off season. That in and off itself is not an issue, but several players seemed to balk at several of the cuts and trades and talked about losing major locker room leadership and vocal guys. Then you have the issue with their top CB not dealing with his contract dispute in house, but using the media - again showing a lack of respect and then winning and getting his demands - makes you question how things are done. Tua though is the biggest issue. They started him last year, but it was obvious that the coaching staff was not comfortable with the decision because every chance things went a touch sour - they pulled him for Fitz. Then tried to smooth things out by going back to him. Then this off-season which should be huge for Tua - they begin looking at Watson as a trade at QB. Again showing a lack in confidence at the most important position. Then you follow that up with another interview where the HC instead of putting the flames out - fans the flames by beating around the bush. Then he meets with the team to give the “full backing of the team” speech, but at the same time denies that he needed to do that and then poorly navigates that interaction as the rumors come out that the owner wants Watson to join the team. The final straw to me in the lost of respectability is the way some of his players talk about Tua on national broadcasts - there isn’t this talk of leadership and growth - it is very muted. I think the players don’t believe he is the long term answer and that the team is trying to get someone else in place and they don’t want to say something and have it contradicted or have the team make them look bad. I think you are right the sign of a leader is how they handle adversity- see McD with the Peterman choice in SD. That decision could of cost him a locker room, but he talked with the team leadership and they navigated it and still made the playoffs. Conversely- Flores poorly handled the Tua situation last year and really poorly handled the decisions and choices as if it was out of his hands. Then he moved on from respected leadership within the locker room that many players questioned and now he has poorly handled the Watson rumors. I think all 3 show a muted lack of leadership by the HC.

He doesn’t seem real bright - so probably not. If he thought he was underutilized on the Chiefs active roster - on the PS should have him really complaining shortly.