CincyBillsFan

Allen played much better then White yesterday. Throwing for a few more yards against a Frazier D playing prevent protecting a two score lead is no big deal. Allen's 2 TD drives at the end of the half and in response to the Jets 3rd quarter TD drive were critical to winning the game. When they were needed Allen made the big plays.

Didn't Ryan Fitzpatrick once have three 400 yard passing games in a row?

Seems like they took a similar approach with Espinosa. He didn't get a lot of playing time his rookie year but has quietly emerged as one of the Bills better D-linemen.

If the Bills only get the first seed they will have the daunting prospect of playing very dangerous teams like the Chargers in the 2nd round of the playoffs. Even worse the 1st seed will give the Bills a bye week and we all know how much they suck after a week off. It might be better to skip the playoffs this year then to risk such a game.

I don't enjoy them as much but agree that they're probably better for a team making a Super Bowl run.

Allen and Diggs hide a lot of deficiencies.

I had higher expectations from our offense to. But the fact that the game didn't play out the way I thought it might is the way football works. If you're going to site facts: * The weather did impact both teams offensive production. The Bills pass drops, which screwed up at least 3 drives forcing punts, were clearly impacted by the weather. * Both teams play very good defense which limited both teams offensive production. * The Bills low offensive output was in part by design. McD determined that the defense would limit the Jet's scoring and only short fields brought about by turnovers would allow the Jets to score a lot of points. You know like what happened in the KC/Denver game where the Mahomes INT's resulted in the Broncos scoring 28 points with only 320 yards of total offense. * The Bills held a two score lead from late in the 3rd period to late in the 4th period. Rather then try to stretch the lead to 3 scores, which is what we fans want, the Bills played the odds and protected a two score lead. The end result was a win.

KC benefited greatly from Wilson going down to injury and being unavailable after the 3rd Mahomes INT gave the Bronco's the ball at midfield late in the 4th quarter only down by 6. Had Cousins gone out in the 4th quarter I'm very positive the Bills would be 11 - 2 right now.

After watching Tua throw the ball in perfect conditions last night I'm very skeptical he'll be able to display his vaunted "accuracy" on a cold night with snow & wind swirling about.

You are not in the minority but are a part of the silent majority. I feel great that the Bills are 10 - 3, two games up in their division and the first seed in the AFC with only 4 games to go. They are 10 - 3 in spite of suffering a lot of bad injuries and playing a very tough schedule. If you go back and actually look through the 6 seasons that the Bills were a SB contending team you would see that they played a lot of games just like the last two games. Even though their offense was loaded with HOF players the Bills often struggled offensively late in the season, particularly in bad weather at home From Sal Maiorana's book Relentless: 1988: Bills 9 Jets 6. Game 12 in Rich stadium - Didn't score a TD against a Jet's team with a losing record. Tampa Bay 10 Bills 5. Game 14 1989: Seahawks 17 Bills 16. Game 13 Saints 22 Bills 19. Game 14 at Rich stadium in bad weather 49's 21 Bills 10. Game 15 1991: Bills 24 Jets 13. Game 13 in Rich stadium. Bills only led 17 - 13 in the 4th quarter. 1992: Colts 16 Bills 13. Game12 Jets 24 Bills 17. Game 13 in Rich stadium. 1993: Bills 10 Eagles 7. Game 13 Bills 16 Jets 14. Game 15 at Rich stadium. So back to back late season wins against good division opponents by 24 - 10 & 20 12 look pretty good to me.

Bingo. The Bills are playing late season, bad weather, playoff football. Don't make mistakes and protect 2nd half leads. Against both the Vikings and Packers the Bills tried to deliver knockout blows with an aggressive passing attack only to have TO's cause one game to be closer then it should have been and to lose the other game. Yesterday you saw the same thing in the KC/Denver game. Up 27 - 0 the Chiefs tried to obliterate the Bronco's only to see Mahomes throw THREE INT's and almost lose the game. The fact is that the Bills have only two elite, game breaking players on the offense - Allen & Diggs. The rest are solid but not spectacular. The Bills I think were overrating their offense and it was getting them in trouble. They are now playing complimentary football and winning games. For the 2nd week in a row the Bills played most of the 4th quarter with a two score lead. This is the recipe for winning games which is the only thing that matters in December & January.

The Jets have a great, top 5 defense. The weather conditions were terrible. Offenses are going to struggle. I'm not particularly concerned.

Sullivan, who is a miserable human being, could have asked that same question after the Atlanta and Jets late season games last season. Yet we saw what the offense could do twice against NE and at KC at the end of the season. It was a stupid and unnecessary question after a hard fought quality win against a very good opponent.

He made some great throws today. A couple of catches that were dropped and this might not have been a close game.

Well the Bills may have the two best guys at LB to do this.

The Chargers WR just made a great contested catch.

Allen threw great balls that were dropped to McKenzie, Singleterry and Brown. Remember the 3rd & 16 strike to McKenzie down the sideline that would have went for 20 yards and a first down? A perfect pass. The Brown pass was also fantastic and should have been caught at the one yard line The pass to Knox was a bit short but he had his hands on the ball and should have come down with the catch.

First off this was an excellent gut check win against a strong division opponent. Take a look around the league today and you can see that these December division games can be tough. The Bills are 10 - 3 and are in first place in their division and the AFC. Last year after 13 games the Bills were 7 - 6. In the off season the Bills must focus on getting another stud on offense. They are wasting a generational talent at QB by not swinging for the fences in the off season on offense. They have only done it once and it was a home run with Diggs. In hindsight, McCaffrey should have been a higher priority then he was. He would have been a huge difference maker on this offense. Today there were to many bad drops that forced us to punt. A couple were routine catches that should have been made by Singleterry & McKenzie. The others would have been tough, contested catches that were not made by Knox & Brown. If they continue to drop these passes the Bills are going to lose a game they should not.

The Jets D will be the best defense we play the rest of the season and that includes a very good Bengal's D.

IMO the game was lost because of events that occurred immediately after Allen had scored his 2nd rushing TD to give the Bills a 14 - 3 lead with a little over 6 minutes left in the first half. A Jets 3 and out or even better a TO and the Bills likley go into the locker room up 17 or 21 - 3. At that point the game would have been pretty much over. Instead the Bill's D allowed the jets bad offense to drive 75 yards for a TD to cut the lead to 14 - 10. Even worse the Jets used up all but the last 30 seconds of the 2nd quarter getting their TD. Even then Allen drove the Bills to the Jets 37 yard line where they missed a long FG. Allen's two picks didn't help but IMO the 2nd biggest reason the Bills lost that game was with the score tied 17 - 17 in the fourth quarter the Bills punted the Jets back to their 4 yard line. From that point the Jets drove 90 yards using up most of the quarter to take a 20 - 17 lead. Even then Allen almost pulled off the miracle with a 25 yard strike to Diggs that was called back by a holding penalty and then a 60 yard pass from Allen to Davis that was dropped. The fact remains that the Jets defense is their greatest strength. In contrast their Offense with Wilson at the helm was putrid. On the road it was reasonable that the Bills offense would struggle. What was not reasonable was that the Jets could put together a couple of long, time consuming TD drives at critical points in the game.

Don't see how any one can come to this conclusion. Allen didn't play well enough to win the game but the loss was a team effort. The D's inability to stop the run was the single biggest reason the Bills lost.

Which is why focusing as much as they do on stats for MVP isn't warranted IMO.

To be clear and based on the replays I've seen Jackson's knee injury came in the pocket, not while he was running.

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Did anyone else have the Bennie Hill theme song running through their head on that 30 second scramble by Jones at the end?