Generic_Bills_Fan

Idk…I personally see cincy as bills lite. Can’t really run the ball effectively and if the offensive line doesn’t play well things start to get a little bumpy. Burrow has got more passing targets when his pocket is clean but josh is much better when the play breaks down and improvisation is needed. I’m expecting the bengals offensive line to look like absolute dogsh*t without la’el collins but maybe they’ve got a shot at gameplanning around his absence. As it stands though they are in huge trouble at RT and adeniji will need a ton of help. The bengals didn’t do a whole lot after Collins went down and the pats were a fumble away from pulling off the comeback last week people seem to be mostly enthralled by skill position players but football is almost always won in the trenches(unless you have josh Allen). The bills have a big advantage in this game imo now that boettger bates and morse are all back and the bengals pass rushers are pretty banged up I could obviously be wrong but I’m callin it like I see it…this isn’t just blind fandom I don’t think lol. a lot of the experts have this one wrong imo. The only place I give the bengals the edge is wr but that gets evened out if their pass blocking doesn’t hold up. The bills corners haven’t played great but the bengals secondary is trash outside of Jessie Bates.

It was pretty flukey scheduling with the titans who were clearly not the best team in the conference ending up with the 1 seed. I think it’s pretty safe to say that the bengals likely wouldn’t have beaten the bills and chiefs back to back which is probably what is causing this big chip on their shoulder

He’s not even right lol Patrick Queen is pretty good but roquan smith and tyrus bowser are meh. Seems like after the packers game with jaire Alexander that teams think they can just get under the bills skin could also be that they are not happy about being home underdogs

I still don’t see Dorsey as a downgrade…Daboll had an extra veteran wide receiver, overall better offensive line play, an easier schedule, and his qb didn’t sprain his elbow and he got the same production or worse out of the offense. This seems like a recency bias thing…we were all on here last year complaining the same amount or more about Daboll 😂 frazier has done pretty well considering our secondary was absolutely decimated by injuries most of the year…I think that aspect is what might intrigue teams. We beat the chiefs with raw rookies/practice squad level talent all over the defensive backfield. I wouldn’t hire him as a head coach without a solid plan for an OC though. And if I was Frazier I would turn down the broncos job

Bengals are the bills lite imo. They aren’t super strong running the football and when the pass blocking is good, burrow looks good. He doesn’t have the running ability that josh has when stuff goes sideways though. they really haven’t been winning/playing any better than us so I’m not sure what these people are talking about lol they’ve had at least a bad half in the last three games

he makes a huge difference…the dropoff at safety after hyde/poyer is massive. A lot of what made 13 seconds possible was defenses constantly having to be fearful of tyreeks speed and he’s gone. The dolphins have converted quite a few third/fourth and forevers by hill and waddle just outrunning the defense

burrow is elite when he gets good pass protection. We’ll see if they hold up without la’el collins. And on the flip side the bills offensive line seems to be full go and the bengals have banged up pass rushers. Josh looks the best of the three qbs (burrow,Allen,mahomes) when his offensive line is having a rough night imo. burrow and mahomes are both significantly less effective than josh in those situations if their backup RT is a dropoff from la’el collins then woof. they could be in for a long night because collins isn’t even good lol Hakeem adeniji is terrible if thats who they go with

This doesn’t worry me a whole lot as the implication is usually ‘a team that has won a bunch of games in a row is due for a bad game’ but we have had bad games and are still winning

I mean in that alternate reality where josh Allen was a bust we’d be drafting a lot earlier every year and we’d have more draft picks contributing early. People are kind of ignoring the fact that these are mostly late picks because our team is actually good now lol If you look at the chiefs who also have picked late for years/not always had first round picks, they’ve got a pretty similar thing going on. The only meaningful player they got out of the 2020 and 2019 drafts was ljarius sneed. 2021 they hit on creed obviously and nick Bolton has been playing better this year. then 2022 they unloaded tyreek and had a ton of picks that are all looking mediocre at best. it’s still very early in their careers of course.

It blows my mind that they’re not sure he has a concussion and the only ‘evidence’ is Mike McDaniel watching the film and thinking tua playing bad(he called it inconsistencies) could’ve been because of a head injury. I thought it was tua reporting symptoms but it sounds like that may not be the case. A bit of a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory but the people that think they wanted to bench tua in a graceful way for the playoff push may have a point.

Assuming tre really is this visibly bad on tape, I’d assume he’s going to get safety help. So proclaiming whoever he’s covering will be open is a little bit ridiculous 😂. You don’t just strand a guy who’s not playing well one on one regardless of his name recognition

If that’s you’re reasoning, I don’t understand how this could be the biggest because we could’ve been on the road the entire playoffs last year if we lost that second game against the pats

Yea I think there’s some recency bias going on here lol a loss to the pats last year would’ve been throwing the division away. This bengals game at worst were the 3 seed and we have already clinched the division. We’ve won 2 of our last 3 at arrowhead and were a defensive meltdown away from 3 out of 3 so it’s not like we have no chance if we’re not the 1 seed.

Didn’t he love baker? Lol

‘Not even close’ hahaha. Burrow is useless when his offensive line isn’t playing well. And I don’t think Allen’s offensive line has ever consistently played well Second regular season game against the pats last year was bigger imo…dolphins game this year was bigger too

Maybe the word terrible is an exaggeration but the point is the same. Light rain is a lot harder to play in than no rain or wind which has been every chiefs game this year as far as I’ve seen lol when we beat the chiefs last year there was light rain and we heard all night from the announcers about how hard it is to play in those conditions 😂

I’d feel quite comfortable honestly, I’m more worried they’ll move on from tua than I am that they’d keep him. They really don’t have the draft capital/cap space to shore up the oline any further anyway and armstead I’d assume will have a short career based on his injury history. If you take tuas first read away in the middle of the field he looks absolutely lost regardless of how much time he has in the pocket. Their offensive scheme effectiveness seems to fall off the closer they get to the opposing end zone … they may not even be a top 10 offense in ppg by the time the season is up. They rely on clearing out space in the middle of the field with the speedy wr threats they have and there’s big time diminishing returns the closer they get to the end zone. They’re pretty terrible on the defensive side too so they aren’t built well to compete with the bills long term imo. Maybe when they dump their defensive coordinator things will improve. Jets are much more on the right track. I think it’s gotten to the point where even if you believe that tua is good, you’ve gotta weigh the injury risk and consider moving on. He has just missed too many big games in his short career especially if he misses the game this weekend. Two possibly 3 concussions for a qb in one season is bad news.

Mahomes hasn’t played 8 games in terrible weather…he’d be a lot less consistent if that was the case 😁. I think op has a point about the chiefs honestly…they are just barely sneaking by bad teams that frequently are down to their backup qb. No problem with the eagles being above the bills though. KC winning a superbowl years ago is definitely counterbalanced by mahomes melting down in the afc championship last year / being 1-5 against the bills and bengals the last few years with the only win being heavily influenced by a coin

He’d probably turn that job down honestly…this would be his last chance probably

I think the jets are on the right track but the other two teams are going to go backwards. We’re just spoiled as a fan base and think sweeping the division should be easy so people are panicky 😁. The Tom Brady pats hardly ever swept the division. josh needs one more division sweep to tie the Tom Brady era pats

I think the dolphins know what they have in tua and they will definitely be looking to upgrade when his contract is up…he’ll probably get another starting job somewhere though. mike white is still a pretty big question mark

It doesn’t make sense that it’s a ‘sugar rush’ for 1pm games that doesn’t occur in prime time games with everyone watching lol I think it’s a lot more to do with the other two things you mentioned.

We’ve played like 7 bad weather games and josh sprained his elbow since then lol

I’m not sure how sustainable their roster will be though. All those guys they got early in this draft will need big contracts a few years down the road and they will likely be hovering around .500 going forward and picking later in the draft. The best way to ensure long term success is still franchise qb and Mike white is not quite there. They are definitely on the right track a lot more so than the dolphins though

It’s getting to the point where they’d probably think about moving on from him even if he was consistently playing well. His availability just isn’t there and he always seems injured for the big games