Jrb1979

That's what I am afraid of. Allen has looked very good against the weaker defenses but so far against the better ones he has had his worst games. Allen is at his best when he moves around to make plays. When teams have made him stay in the pocket he has looked pretty bad. Til he learns to be a better pocket passer and picks up blitzes better nothing will change.

What did Flutie do that's so bad?

Them Sabres won again last night and are in a playoff spot. The Bills defense has been good but Allen wasn't good yesterday. Why can't you criticize his game? In case you didn't notice Allen didn't have a very good game. You keep looking through your rose colored glasses and keep saying 9-4 9-4 9-4.

The Bills would have more home games in December but the owners like more home games earlier in the season as they are an easier sell. Don't blame it on favoritism. Blame it on the fans for not filling the stadium in December. The game against the Jets isn't even sold out yet.

I agree a dome is needed. The last game of the season isn't even sold out yet.

The Bills defense carried them to being that close in the game. Allen wasn't good. His deep ball is awful. I watch around the league and I see deep ball passes that completed quite often. Allen struggles with it.

Fixed it for you. The Bills offense was awful starting with Allen. He has looked good against the weak teams but so far against teams with good defenses he has been bad.

Fixed it for you. So far against the teams with good defenses he has played below average. That should be a cause for concern. These next 2 games he plays 2 good defenses. These games plus the Ravens game will show if Allen has really turned a corner.

The Bills play 2 of their last 3 at home. There is no favoritism. From what I have heard the Bills want most of their home games early in the season as December games are a hard sell. Even yesterday for a meaningful game tickets on secondary market could be had for cheap. The last game of the season isn't sold out yet. A team on the verge of making the playoffs should have that game sold out weeks ago. That shows December is a hard sell in Buffalo and why they need a domed stadium.

What's so shameful? We all should be happy with 9-4? Allen and the offense didn't have a good game. Its like you can't criticize the Bills and you have to be a big Homer like Murph is.

The problem is with almost all teams at the cap its hard to make any moves. I disagree that Botterill hasn't made any moves. He rebuilt the defense since the end of last season. If the UPL keeps playing like he has in the minors I can see him up with the Sabres by mid season. My question, since you seem to think this is NHL 20 and trades are easy to make, what would your plan be? So far there has been a couple of minor trades of bottom 6 players.

The reason I say limit season ticket sales is that a lot of out of towners seem to sell more games then they attend. I can see the Bills keeping an eye on ticket holders that resell a lot of their tickets. The Denver Broncos revoked a lot of tickets from season ticket holders cause they sold more then they went to.

Fans like you are fine cause you go to almost all the home games. Its the ones who buy season tickets that go to 1 or 2 games and sell the rest are the ones that's the problem.

The Bills best thing is to get a domed stadium for one. I think their biggest issue seems to be that a lot of season ticket holders are from out of town. The Bills would be best to make it so if you want season tickets you have to been in certain zip codes. Why should a guy who lives in Florida be allowed season tickets when you know the odds are they aren't going to many games a season. This also says a lot of how Buffalo fans can't afford a new stadium with higher prices. They can't sell out when the team is 9-3, then I don't see how they will sell out a new stadium.

At some point its going to cost them a game if not many. They have been lucky they have played teams with average offense or worse. This isn't Rockpile days football, you need to keep your foot on the gas on offense the whole game.

Why would they mention the Bills? The Ravens played the Pats who stat wise is a better defense the Bills and they couldn't slow them down. What makes you think the Bills defense will?

As good as they have been playing, I blame the way they play in the 3rd qtr on their conservative coach. Today was a day to keep the foot on the gas for all 4 qtrs. Instead they try to run out the clock half way through the 3rd. Good teams keep trying to make plays and put up points. Not the Bills, McDermott seems to like running out the clock early.

The difference is the Pats and the Boys blow out their weak teams. The Bills had to come from behind in a few of their wins against the same teams.

They have any easy schedule left minus the Ravens, whom they beat once.

The Denver game scares me. This is the first Bills game against a good defense since the Pats game and we all know how the offense did in that one. The Bills have to 3-3 to make it. The Raiders will probably finish 10-6. I can see the Browns only loss the rest of the way against the Ravens. If they finish 9-7 the win the tie breaker against the Bills.

Yeah they weren't winning but the players had tuned out the coach. They stopped playing for him. I have my doubts a new coach will change anything. The Leafs have too many guys with character flaws.

He has looked good at times this season but that's mostly been against teams with bad defenses. These upcoming games will tell a bigger story on how much of a jump he's made this season.

Buffalo has to go 3-3 to make it. If they only beat Denver and the Jets they most likely don't make it in.

If the Bills don't go 3-3 the rest of the way I doubt they make it. Its going to be Colts or Houston in the one wild card and Raiders taking the other.

I do get what you mean but judging by a lot of the comments in this thread a lot of you expect Botts to make magically make guys like Sobotka and Okposo disappear.