ProcessTruster

not looking good , Vea, Suh and Barrett will feast on Bills O line. Hope Josh has his running shoes on, he'll need them

hmmm,,, yeah, maybe. pretty raw guy, but hey might be worth a try. he was pretty dynamic against a good Miami defense. RBs are pretty much interchangeable, unless they have a fumbling problem. I like it

but you ran in a second with the Pats and Rams home wins last year, which were beyond lucky and were nearly certain losses until wacko fate intervened . can't have it both ways

As my screen name suggests, I'm less into any particular game and moreso into whether the organization is growing in competitiveness and quality. If that is happening, then even with the ups and downs of the season (due to intermittent injuries to key players, crazy weather leveling the playing field for a single game, for example) the winning record and playoffs will happen more often than not. So no, I don't get worked up over any one game, be it one-off blowouts of severely depleted Jets or Saints teams playing crappy backup QBs (who have good rosters but didn't have them for our game) or losing a game pretty much played in Antarctica. Bills are a strong team and will be winning approx 2/3 of their games over the next 3-4 years IMO. McBeane's process has worked and is working. I'm interested in long term competitiveness, the wins will happen. Playoffs are a crapshoot as any single elimination tournament is, so that is less predictable.

one week at a time..

with McD's "do your 1/11th" mantra, which is fine, no need to pay top 5 money to anyone on defense... just get guys who can do their 1/11th... calling Edmunds the Bills "middle linebacker" like it means Dick Butkus or something is wrong, he's just one guy who happens to call the defensive set and then goes and does his 1/11th... which he struggles with on run plays. so yeah, interesting decision this offseason on him, probably offer him Milano $$ and see what happens. If he leaves, he leaves. Very fortunate the Saints did not have half their offensive roster or any of their skill guys. They'd have run over this defense as well. Teams have figured out the Bills defense ... just run it at them and run it some more

If Bills split with the Pats and beat the Jets again, they win the tiebreaker for the division if they have the same record as the Pats at season end. So losing tonight is bad, but not fatal.

when you start out 0-7 don't matter much how hot you get I believe we will see both the phins and jets next year.. but that's next year

amazing that cancer is still on any roster

When I had lower bowl season tiks years ago at the beginning of the drought (Bledsoe years), Pats fans would buy from Bills season tickets holders and fill the Club seats.. really bad vibe. Given the level of data analysis available today, does anyone know if there is a zip code analysis of StubHub/Ticketmaster buyers to see how many NE fans are coming? I believe there was some analysis available for how many Canadian citizens come. Really hoping 5,000 club seat and lower bowl season ticket holders did not sell their tickets to those guys for a national home game in prime time.

well, with the entire roster back for the Bills on MNF (less Tre of course), with this game and the one 2 weeks later, we are going to find out. LFG

home schedule rough this year. 4 home games after Dec 1. pretty unusual.

OP already preparing mentally for an L. sad Let em play the game

Without Star , Mac won't be throwing much as that massive O line and Harris will be doing pretty much what Indy did. The frozen quiet as NE runs for 200+. 7 or 8 total possessions on offense (maybe). In bed by 11. Thanks Star. 2020 all over again. Good job. If you can't stay on the field, Beane won't have much mercy this time.

tough break in a contract year.. no way he could get it repaired.. would have ended his career... which might be over anyway, but he had no choice but to play through it.. man, NFL careers are short. He's in a tough spot. Needs to get it fixed, but cannot afford the time off if he gets it fixed.. yikes.

yeah, the whole "next man up" is a bunch of garbage. with the salary cap what it is, the "next man up" is as often as not some league minimum salary guy and a steep dropoff from the high paid starter. Also, this is a reality we will need to get used to once Josh's cap hit kicks in. time for McD to pick his best pass rushers and keep them on the field longer than he does now

training camp is over... its a week to week grind at this point.. familiarity is probably more important than anything now... plug and play is the watchword.. so, probably rolling with their PS and guys who have been with the team this year... time to rush the passer more effectively...

forecast for MNF looks pretty bleak; probably around freezing by halftime; few inches of snow. i guess that is to be expected. was thinking on coming up for it, but nah, I got pretty cold at Jets game in NYC and that was low/mid 40's and some sun. gettin old i guess.

Looks like we are going to find out all about Dane Jackson now. Bills do play a lot of zone, plus I assume the offense will carry the team anyway. As the offense goes, this team goes. Give me a better run defense and a high scoring offense; that is probably most important. If CBs become an issue and Zone D increases, maybe McD goes to more pressure on the QB to compensate. One guy going down won't kill the D; there are options.

nah, just give me Feliciano, Brown and Star back and then see what they can do. Those guys are key players on this team and they are all out. Shame on these 20-somethings for not vaxxing. It's a high, close contact environment; they are letting the entire organization down.

Yeah, figure out how to get past the Saints under the dome (yay!), get all your guys back for the MNF game, and then go from there. 0-4 in turnovers you can't win against anyone in the NFL. Pretty simple. That McKenzie fumble was key; a replay of the punt block that turned the Steelers game. Their must be a stat out there correlating turnover TDs with losses. I'll bet the correlation is pretty tight.

Bills/Colts loss was what it was (a ball security failure game-- those happen) and also somewhat predictable with our key tough guy linemen taking themselves off the roster by choice , the more important Q is when can they come back? Specifically, do fans get to know if Star or Brown have Covid? Or is the "Covid List" some mystery designation and the league determines when they come off? My point is, if they have Covid, that's bad and players could be out for weeks and weeks (see Dion Dawkins), if they were exposed but did not get it when can they come back? Are they out for Thursday as well? Seems fans don't really know what's going on with the "Covid List". Maybe it is just me. I predicted long ago that the impact of non-vaxxed players was the largest existential threat to this season's level of success ...and this risk is starting to become reality. If the Bills lines get beat up again on Thursday and we have two losses in 5 days, Star and Brown are at least partially responsible bc to me this wound is self inflicted and the hard vax effectiveness data says was highly probably avoidable. Still boggles the mind that key participants in a large roster team high contact sport can choose to pull themselves off the roster, screwing the team in the process. Again, is what it is, but McBeanes must be pissed. You draft/sign talent, and then they stab you in the back.

Both will be playing for the Division, in all likelyhood. Cool

I think they'll be fine. Kinda lovin' it, beat the Saints, then the game of the year with a full roster on MNF. Fun!

ok ok, I'm back. thanks for the attitude adjustment