Back2Buff

During the drought years I remember people saying it would be a dream just to be the Marvin Lewis Bengals. You got your wish.

Said it last year: https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/237912-pegulas-need-to-get-sean-payton/#comment-7582147

Eric Washington has to go. Kelly Skipper has run its course, bring in young blood. Obviously Frazier should retire. I don't know why guys continue to coach if they can't adapt. We run the same crappy system over and over again, so matter the opponent.

This is such a lazy narrative that grinds my gears. No O line will ever be "good" with a QB holding the ball for almost 4 secs. Allen has no idea how to read a defense. The dude will wait and wait until a guy has like 3 yards of separation. The only time he gets a ball out quick is when the D forces him to with a blitz and he will just throw to his hot WR. Teams have figured Allen out. He can't anticipate which WR will be opened based upon the D they are playing on that specific play compared to the play we are running. So teams just play Cover 2 vs Allen and he has no idea what to do. So he holds and holds, doing crazy stuff in pocket waiting for a guy to go rouge and create 3 yards of separation.

He's banged up and bad, because he is old and slow. A body doesn't stay strong forever, especially the way Poyer plays. This team needs to get more dynamic and younger.

Poyer should be no where near 15 million. I wouldn't go over 10 with him on a 2 year deal, that essentially can get out of for very little dead cap after 2023. The Bills are eventually gonna have to move on from both Hyde and Poyer. I would rather not do it at the same time. I would rather draft a safety high (Even in first round, Branch from Alabama), and have the rookie play with Hyde and White in his rookie year. We need to start transitioning away from this safety duo.

He's been getting paid as a top safety for multiple years now. After the first three games of the season, Poyer has been pretty average, maybe even below average. Obviously the injures have hurt him, but I don't see those just disappearing. Getting old stinks. Last 10 games: 646, snaps, 37 solo tackles, 54 total tackles, 3 TFL, 0 QB hits, 0 INT, 2 pass defended

I think Poyer is going to be very shocked at how little interest there is out there for the money he thinks he is going get. This season exposed a lot of what many worried about with Poyer, the body breaking down. He injured just about every part of his body this year and its no surprise its happening as he is 32 years old. I don't see any team giving him more than a 2 year deal, with the option of getting out of it after 1.

Not on the crummy metal benches at Highmark.

I love the instincts of Sewell and Eichenberg.

Draft one in first two rounds.

Trevor Lawrence has never lost on a Sat, EVER

There is a pretty large research being done about Generation Z and their lack of interests in sports. I think Generation Alpha will be even worse in terms of interest, with them growing up in the tiktok generation. Very short attention spans.

2nd and 18 in a critical time in 4th to keep them out of the end zone. Edmunds with an atrocious play. Rinse and repeat. Dude is too finesse and not enough grit. Everything is so methodical with him because he lacks instincts.

The NFL knows there will be stoppages for replays and injuries. In saying that, why take commercials when they don't have to then? College basketball recently adjusted this, where if a timeout taken from a team comes close to the under 4:00 mark, that counts as the TV timeout. They don't sit there and take another commercial timeout after teams took a break for the team timeout. The 2nd half already started extremely late yesterday. In the third quarter you had a stretch where it was 3 1 min possessions for each team, and 15 mins worth of commercials.

People keep bringing up recording the game and scrolling through commercials, or finding another TV show. You people realize that there are people in the crowd, standing in 30 degree weather, waiting for commercials to end, correct?

I seen more missed plays than completed good plays. People love to say he is so valuable because they just assume that his replacement is currently on the roster. You can do better than Edmunds for much cheaper.

On the dolphins last play, where Elam broke it up, there was a clear block in the back too.

Maybe, but teens these days have a way shorter attention span than the older generation, and in a general manner, are not into sports like the older generation, especially football where there are so many breaks. If more people of my generation tune out the game, it's going to hurt because the younger generation just doesn't watch sports as much as other generations.

The amount of commercials and the length of commercial breaks is so ridiculous at this point, it has killed the game. An NFL game should never be 4 hours. You are talking about 1 hour of clock time, and maybe 11 mins of actual game play. The NFL knows there will be breaks for injuries and reviews, they should not be taking 5 mins commercials after a 1 min drive. Over and over again, 1 min will come off the clock, and after a punt, there is 5 mins of commercials. I rarely watch prime time NFL games because I hate all the stoppages. On Sundays they have red zone and you pretty much avoid this nonsense. It has become a chore to watch the Bills play exclusively, and at some point, it's just too boring to continue. At least you have players making over 40 million a year. Props to the NFL for continuing to increase the cash flow, while selling a worse product.

We would have been able to take a safety and them need a TD to win it. A huge difference if a team needs a TD with 20 secs left instead of a FG.

I feel you man. I get no enjoyment from the Bills. It's way to stressful. I love college football because I have no allegiance to any team. Just flip from game to game looking for the best one. The covid 2020 was my favorite Bills year. I want to relive that. There seems to be too much "me" on this years team. Team just doesn't seem as close.

Yeap, McDermott should have went to Josh before the series and said immediately roll to the right out of the pocket and if you have the opportunity to run, then do it, if not launch it as far as you can. How many seconds would have came off it they did that three times. Probably gets you down to 15 secs on 4th. At that point to look into a safety.

Good memory with the Daboll text messages. This is a guy who was coaching his hometown team and would have left even without a HC job, pretty scary to think.