Generic_Bills_Fan

Even if true the Steelers ravens and browns still play eachother multiple times it’s really tough for 3 playoff teams to come out of one division. Ravens schedule is brutal too so they could fall off…really anything could happen. There’s three afc north division games in the next two weeks Personally I don’t think the browns or Steelers are any better than us. Texans maybe they’re a complete unknown

5-3 finish with losses to chiefs, cowboys, and eagles and we are 90+% to make the playoffs If we win one of those 3 games and lose to the dolphins we’re still more likely than not to make it

They won in a nearly impossible fashion against the giants also so I’d say McDermott and his coaching tree lol

I feel like this has a shot at happening again…linval Joseph looked like a pretty big improvement right out of the gate never should’ve been 7-6 that year though to be fair we got absolutely robbed on what should’ve been the diggs game winning td against the bucs

Offense has been a struggle league wide is what I’m saying. We are far from the only team experiencing offensive struggles but the good teams are finding other ways to win when it happens. I’m not trying to absolve the offense of all their shortcomings just providing some context defensive struggles are a lot more interrelated with the offensive success than you’re letting on for sure also. We are forcing little to no turnovers and starting almost exclusively in bad field position on offense because our defense can’t get off the field

Defense has been dominating this year it feels like…can’t remember the last time I saw one of these lions chargers barnburner type games

Even if there was nothing wrong with ours(debatable) the lions are one of the best offensive lines in the league. They’re quite a few tiers above average in that department

The ravens blew a nearly perfect day

Dead last in defensive DVOA weeks 5-9. I’ve gotta go through the turnover numbers but we are hardly forcing any and are rarely getting off the field on third down also. our defensive metrics were extremely good prior to week 5 so just looking at the overall season numbers is hardly relevant (if that’s what you’re doing)

That’s kind of a league wide issue this year imo…defenses have been dominating and ours is just missing too many impact players lots of good teams have been winning ugly offensive games this year

They’re a pretty good team…bills and niners with a ton of impactful injuries made them look better than they are. They are just as likely to miss the playoffs as they are to go on a playoff run at this point

Neither look good enough to do anything this year and the bengals have a lot of tough questions on contract extensions coming up I’d lean bills honestly but it’s not likely for either…not because we’re better but because were in a bad division. Ravens are better than the bengals without a doubt and Cleveland seems to have their number also

One of the worst for sure…I’m not even sure it’s debatable. We absolutely nosedived in all the big defensive metrics in that stretch post jax despite seeing almost entirely bottom third offenses. The giants offense is historically horrendous also and it is by the grace of god they didn’t put up 20+ on us. It’s not like it was just the pats game. not saying it should be an excuse for anyone…people can hate whoever they want as much as they want whether it be coaches or players lol. But talent wise we were ‘out’ arguably our 5 best defensive players we focused a lot on the saints for some reason haha so I’ll continue that. Who was our Demario Davis when we played the pats? who was our cam Jordan? Paulson Adebo is playing out of his mind also. We didn’t have anyone in the same zip code of that much talent in that pats game

The defense we fielded that week was probably the least talented group the pats will see all season so it makes sense. All those guys we lost for the season plus Ed oliver and von is essentially out until his cast comes off. the only silver lining from the cincy game is it looks like linval and rasul can definitely contribute quickly

Our defense minus Daquan, Milano, tre white, Ed oliver and with von playing in a big cast is one of the worst defensive lineups in the league. We probably would’ve shut them out with a couple of those guys available

The defense was pretty dreadful post Milano/jones/white injuries until the cincy game…I’m hopin linval and rasul get us back closer to how we started the season. If we had them a few weeks earlier the pats game is more than likely a win and we’d be sitting at 6-3 with the division lead. offenses have been struggling all around the league this season but our d was way too easy to exploit for that stretch of games post jax. The offense has no doubt been bad too but there aren’t a whole lot of teams that are consistently moving up and down the field this year. This has been a really strange season

That’s literally all that line was and it’s pretty obvious lol it also is making me chuckle that people think McDermott just invented the phrase ‘complimentary football’ and it somehow means we don’t want to move the ball as quickly on offense 😂

Oh yea that was undoubtedly a hold but I had hit my bs limit by that point 😂

It really was ridiculous…I’m not trying to say we deserved to win but I have never seen a play like that not called a trip in my life. Then right after a play I have never seen called as intentional grounding is called as intentional grounding 😂 what are the odds

The refs blew back to back to back calls on that one lol. Missed trip was horrible, intentional grounding was horrible, then there seems to have been an insane amount of confusion where neither coach knew the clock was running to close out the half

I have never seen grounding called on an option play like that with the qb under 0 pressure once in my entire life

Nobody knew the clock was running…if anything the bengals got more screwed by referee incompetence with the clock there.. if we lined up to go for it they absolutely would’ve called a timeout

I think division is more likely honestly. This is seeming like a 10-7 or 9-8 type division winner to me

Nice little hold on that one to seal the deal lol play would’ve been stopped short

I’m as impressed with the defense playing like this short handed as I am disappointed in the offense lol