SirAndrew

None, but anything can happen, and it would make the last week of the season very exciting if we win this week.

I agree, but I think what you state points to the QB position meaning everything in today’s NFL. The best plans mean nothing without a QB in today’s NFL. Short term success can built upon being a complete team, but long term success is determined by whether or not you have a QB.

Beasley is a mess

These teams are evenly matched defensively. Allen should be the difference. You draft a first round QB so he can beat guys like Hodges. Time to prove it Josh.

I’m going with Hodges. It’s crazy how people are comparing Allen and Hodges like they are similar. Hodges was a third stringer, while Allen is a first rounder with out of this world talent.

Fair enough, you make great points. Money certainly doesn’t buy class, and being able to afford good seats as opposed to those who can’t doesn’t say anything about a persons behavior. I’m not on the older side at all, but I’ve just noticed I’m always surrounded by college age fans in the nosebleeds, and for whatever reason they are generally a crowd that gets on my nerves. I’ve seen stupid drunken behavior everywhere, and great fans as well. So I definitely agree with that.

I’ve sat in the nosebleeds in Buffalo a few times, and I’m just not into being around the younger crowd that inhabits the area. It’s naive to think that every fan doesn’t have different experiences. Just because you’ve have great experiences in the nosebleeds, doesn’t mean that others have. There’s also a difference between the upper and lower rows of the 300 section. The lower rows are great seats with many season ticket holders. The upper rows are generally a bunch of younger drunks who bought cheap tickets.

This is why it’s so difficult to maintain a great defensive team in today’s league imo. It’s tough to keep everyone together for a significant amount of time. That’s why the blueprint for success is taking advantage of having a great defense while developing a young QB. Eventually the QB who benefited from the great defense needs to become capable of taking over games. That’s why Allen’s development in the immediate future is critical.

I understand it’s difficult to regulate everyone who’s around a stadium in gameday, but’s it’s absurd the league can’t put better measures in place to prevent this. There was some interesting stuff in that article. Stuff like stealing play sheets out of the opposing locker room doesn’t seem like something that should be able to happen.

I think this true with many NFL stadiums. Heck, I don’t want to sit in the nose bleeds in Buffalo as a Bills fan.

For some reason I’m really picturing Eli retiring. Just my two cents with no evidence, but he seems like the kind of a guy who could be content letting the game go.

Yeah, what happened to Wentz being the next great one, and Pederson being a genius?

People worry about weak division champs getting home playoff games, I’ll take it a step further. The NFL needs to restructure the way divisions are setup. No one from the NFC East even deserves to be in the playoffs. The four team division with an automatic playoff birth for each champ is an issue.

Great points, and I agree that Daboll’s play calling is very erratic game to game. He seems to go from one extreme to the next. Ultimately, everyone needs to be better. Yesterday was a failure for everyone on offense. It really starts with the oline imo. I’ve been Daboll’s biggest critic, but we’re not going anywhere if we have games where the oline decides to stay home. Our offense will never function with them blocking the way they did yesterday. Even when we attempted to run the ball, we had defenders busting into the backfield two yards behind the line.

This^ I think the Duke love around here is crazy. Whenever we talk about needing a big WR, Duke is mentioned like we have Randy Moss on the practice squad or something. I’m trusting the coaches aren’t seeing much from him to make them believe he can contribute. However, what has Foster or McKenzie contributed ? Even if Duke doesn’t shine in practice, it’s clear the other two guys aren’t very useful, so why not give the big WR more of an opportunity?

Great information. Today was a huge moral victory for the defense imo. It reconfirmed they can shut down the best. I’m ok with preaching the moral victory to the defense, let’s just hope the same isn’t said for the offense.

I think we can slow down any offense in the league. When I look at our chances of winning a game, I simply look at the opposing defense. We stand a good chance of winning games where the opposition defense is weak, regardless of how good their offense is. However, we really struggle to score points against decent defensive teams.

Bad time of the year to ask the postman for anything, you might want to ask Santa.

Love the Clemson/South Carolina reference by Nancy with no mention they competed in practice on the Bills everyday.

We need a playmaker at the WR position, but people also underestimate how difficult it can be to find one. WR’s are notorious for being slow to adjust to the pro game, and many “sure things” never make it. The Ravens passing game is mostly dependent on TE’s, and they have no receivers who strike fear into anyone. I’m all in favor of trying to improve our receiver corps, but I’d also invest in improving this disaster of an oline. These guys get pushed around on a weekly basis, and we’ll never be able to assess Allen or the running game until that is remedied .

Allen is going to be great with a big time WR, and an oline.

Our Oline is a big weak spot, I don’t trust them in big spots at all.

Oline and WR’s need to make a play now. Give Allen a chance

For as bad as the last Allen play was, that was spectacular. I know the PI was lucky, but what a job keeping the play alive.

The entire world saw the pressure coming.