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They don’t often get involved on penalties. They do it on play outcomes

Refs have called a good game but that was real bad

Sure, but I see the same thing with them with Michigan. Buffalos fandom and loyalty is just deeper and stronger. It matters more. To them, it matters but then when it ends it’s like it never happened. Characterizing sure, they have die hards, sure. Just different IMO

What is the word you would use. I’m talking about the Lions.

It's really led to some dog ***** match ups for too long

I think Dan sort of blew the NFC championship game last year. While fully respect his journey and his coaching prowess I feel like the Lions have a Billsy quality to them and will likely have a lot of playoff misfortune

Anytime they played a team with a pulse it was down to the wire. Honestly, I think the Eagles are better in the NFC

Goff can get confused and look horrible with pressure or certain coverages. This team is more than beatable. But they’re the best at beating up cup cakes for sure.

I remember my old man surprised me for the Thanksgiving game in 94 or 95 at Detroit. It wouldn’t have happened at these prices.

Detroit fans are like Buffalo light. Unlike Bills fans, they fully hibernated during the drought they had. They have never been very visible or passionate as fan base historically but Detroit sports have been so bad in most regards the last 20 years. Nowadays they're all in. They travel well and will pack that place. They want the image we have as far as passion to the bone, but I find them to be more fair weather. With this said, it will be very loud and reasonably hostile (although I think they're fairly accommodating). I have acted like a d bag a few times there and didn't get my ass kicked.

This is an phenomenal take. I immediately thought of the Jags as well as I keep up with these rates for defenses and know they're a heavy man team as well. As you point out the flipside of the successful QB needing better WR's is the defense needing better corners. Man just boils down to winning match ups and you need the talent. I'm a bit jealous of what Jameson Williams brings to the Lions. The article calls out he has the highest wide open rate vs man in the NFL at 17.6% this year. But just a fan of his game. Just a man killer with his speed. I like how our WR has advanced and certainly more upside but still long for that homerun hitter that can take the top off.

Came across this and noticed it had a lot of Allen/Bills content. Really great article breaking down QB performance vs coverage type. https://ftnfantasy.com/nfl/qbs-vs-man-and-zone-coverage Calls out how teams play a lot of man vs us because we shred zone. Also that we have a very high rate of open WR’s vs zone. Also touched on the concept that the better man QB’s might be that way more a a result of better WR’s. Which makes a ton of sense and why that number one or high end WR is still a big deal. FYI the Lions play the most man in the NFL.

Didn’t know that, has the Red been discussed as far as you know?

Red End Zone's with Super Bowl era throwbacks please

Why I liked the signing, for us

He would certainly be on that list

That escalated

In would argue the most detrimental thing that can happen to a franchise is having a QB that seems just good enough to keep

Who is on your list as the best QB’s of all time? Maybe top 5….

He really doesn’t have a point and as far as I can tell yours is fairly limited as well. I have been here for over 20 years. I’m here to talk about the game and the Bills. This entire thread was supposed to be about Purdy, it then turned into a conversation about the prestige of two franchises. If some of that overlaps with our playoffs failures I really don’t know what to tell you. It happened. It was relevant to the conversation to discuss. I guess you can block me if all this annoys you so greatly.

Fresh take, since I’m willing to debate against my team when it makes sense I should just shut up and leave. Nice way to build a balanced community. I’m sorry I don’t fit in your little box. Sure, some of me feels like this is different. But then I remind myself that I said I would never judge this team or coach on the regular season again. Just been fooled hard way too much. I’m about as far toward the positive with this team as I can be right now. I didn’t think I would get here this season but I am, and it makes me very happy. We have just seen the rug pull way too frequently with this regime so I’m still going to argue the side of balanced perspective. Not that you aren’t, as I largely feel the same as your post, just in general. Further I’m not even sure KC is the main threat at this point. All these AFC contenders can really run the ball and play physical defense. Seems like a really bad year to be an undersized pursuit defense. I’m curious given we have been aligned on some of this stuff before, how do you evaluate this year if we get no deeper than the Divisional again? Is it then become same old Bills? If you want to DM me a response that’s fine. Simon is not happy with this thread and I don’t blame him. I didn’t see updates on Purdy today either in case somebody has heard something.

I remember that Houston playoff game as well in 91 or 92, he was something watch late in games

Nearly every team in the AFC playoffs is going to try and pound us and they’re very physical teams. They either can run or play defense in a way that can really steal your will to win. Teams like the Titans in the past and the Colts or the Bengals really got us off our game by just controlling the ball. We probably match up with KC better than most the others. I’m optimistic with how much our talent can gel and if we stay healthy because we really don’t know what that looks like. But to me this isn’t the year to be a pursuit defense in the AFC. I see no easy outs in any of the games.

We have the same DVOA as last year, which was the lowest DVOA we have had in the 2020’s. In 2022 in was 38.9 which was the best in football. EPA aligns with this as well.

They will come out with the best effort they have, no doubt. It’s basically a year ending game for them. But it’s not a really easy spot for them either. Purdy banged up and the injuries, east coast trip, then factor us off the bye, getting as healthy as we have been all season. We certainly haven’t seen our best yet. It will be exciting to see Coleman and Kincaid back with a with Copper getting more acclimated along with Milano playing for the first time in forever. Hell, we saw like what,2-3 games of Bernard and Milano? This is must see TV just seeing all our guys playing. It might be the healthiest we have been this late in the year in McD’s tenure. We should take care of business here.