Buffalo4Life01

the recent uptick in the passing game has a tremendous amount to do with Cooper being on the field. It's taken attention off of keon and shakir. Will be interesting to see how the passing game looks if Cooper can't go Sunday... Agree. Also McDermott calling it 'day to day' instead of the dreaded week to week is reassuring

And yet the team still almost pulled the game out. That tells me all I need to know about the resolve of this team. And I'll add this small nugget of information as well. Don't remember exactly but Josh threw the ball away instead of forcing a throw 5 or 6 times and suffered at least 2 defined drops. He played closer to 50% completion football as a QB than he did 30%.

agree 100% But also, their pass Defense has not been good either. They have good players on paper but they have vastly underperformed this year. From what I've seen and read their secondary is too aggressive and are very susceptible to getting burned and giving up big plays.

Bills 31, Hawks 20. That is all.

The same people discrediting this trade now are the same ones who advocated the Bills trade for DHOP over the offseason. It's comical! =P

Let's revisit this at the end of the season. I really appreciate your candor and your point of view here also. Not trying to be argumentative at all. I just think a lot of people on this board are going to be real surprised (apparently) when Hopkins becomes a monster threat in the red zone and opens up so many things for that offense. We're going to see a motivated and carefree DHOP because he finally has a capable QB to throw him the football. Anyways, let's Agree to disagree and go Bills!!

If you don't think DHOP is as good as Rice, I don't know what to tell you. Would you take Rice over DHOP for a Super Bowl run 2nd half of this season?

My comment has 100% to do with player health. If they've investigated into his health, and they have, that tells me Hop is just fine. Toney was a headcase and Andy thought he could get more out of him. It failed. No one hits on every move. But KC hits more often then not and more often under the current regime than most other teams.

Sure. I agree with this take as well. They guy they are getting is not Randy Moss in his prime. But assuming he is healthy and motivated, I would not be surprised if he puts up huge numbers the rest of the season. Look at who he has had throwing the ball to him for his entire career. This must seem like Christmas has come early this year.

For anyone saying he is washed or that the offseason MCL injury is a major factor now, I don't buy that for one second. The Chiefs have one of the best front office's in the entire NFL right now. If they are trading for D Hop, it's only because they've done a thorough investigation and they believe without a doubt he is 100% healthy and will help them win a 3rd straight Super Bowl. Even if he has lost a step, good luck covering him in the red zone where the Chiefs have had some issues so far this season. He absolutely helps to solve that problem. Right now KC has a very good to elite defense, very good to great special teams, the best front office/coaching staff in the NFL, and the best QB in the game. Throw in DHop and if their 7-0 record didn't give you reason to pause before, it certainly should now. If I'm Buffalo I'm seriously considering looking for help at safety and on the D.line if I seriously believe the team can win it all this season.

Cupp is actually faster than Keon though

Just wanted to say while I'm super excited to see the Allen to Cooper connection and to watch the passing game get back on track, I do have one reservation. Cooper has a career average target rate of nearly 8 passes thrown to him per game. With all of the balls Josh has been slinging to the backs and tight ends, does Cooper see his target rate drop and if it does, does he show signs of frustration and being malcontent or will he be a great teammate regardless of his share of targets? I don't think he's ever been a bad teammate or an issue in the locker room which makes me feel better about this but he's likely playing for this last real contract. Certainly he is going to want to be an alpha for the offense, right?

FUNNY, I have little to no reason to be confident about this game and I find that normally my gut is correct. I 100% guarantee Buffalo will win tonight and get back on track. Just my gut feeling.

Yes, Josh had a bad game. His completion percentage was crap and he was rushing his throws. Also had a ton of very smart 'throwaways' which doesn't help his numbers. However, I'd like to argue that using a system that rates QB's based on numbers is a crap system. I like to use the eye test and the 6 turnover game (5 picks, 1 fumble) that took Nathan Peterman all of 2 quarters of football to turn in was perhaps just a 'WEE' bit worse than Josh's game vs Houston last Sunday.

it's a rebuild year and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to come to that realization sooner than later. Also, Allen needs better coaching, better players around him, and a smarter brain that can process defenses quicker. Fingers crossed!!

Josh is a great athlete with a cannon arm but he is dumb. Can not read a defense pre or post snap. And has a horrible deep ball. His flaws can not be covered up by our subpar receivers any longer. If we surround him with better players, we can make a run though!!

it depends on if Josh is really as stupid as some posters say he is. If he can't learn to read defenses pre snap and put more air under his long balls, he will go down as one of the most overrated players in the history of the NFL!

my turds generate more separation while falling from my butthole into the toilet water than a Buffalo Bill wide receiver has generated in any one snap this season. Time to regroup, refocus, and mount up!!!

Did anyone notice how several players on the sidelines appeared to grimace and hunch over a lot? My theory is that they all ate a big steamy pot of chili before the game at Josh's house and they didn't give their tummies enough time to settle before kickoff. This caused them to be sluggish the entire first half and by the time they had stinkied up the bathrooms at halftime, it was far too late to salvage the game. The damage had been done!!

I was too busy chasing my kids around before bed to remember to take my pregame dump. I didn't end up lightening the load until halftime and by then, I knew my mistake had cost the team the football game. I'm sorry my fellow Bills fans!!

we ready to roll!!! let's go Buffaloooooooooo!!! meep meep meep me nasties and away me goes!!!

I mean Josh does ONLY have 13 4th qrt comebacks and 19 game winning drives under his belt. We can do so much better!!

Wow, I remember that old site very well! Fall of 98' was my freshman year at college and I stumbled across the message board and created the handle RocketBills (or something close to that). I remember having many debates with posters, including Marjorie from San Diego, Bob Lamb, and Cable Lady, over Flutie VS RJ. I posted so much more back then than I do now (married, kids, priorities change...) but this has hit me with a wave of nostalgia this afternoon. Thank you for posting and I want you all to know that even though I don't post a lot these days, I still frequent this site often, almost daily, and consider you all friends and family. Go Bills!! John in NC

we can do anything we put our minds to boys!! meep meep meep me creeps, shoo shoo me jags!!!!! Bills 42, Jags 13!!

that's right! Also, does anyone else remember the Jags kept killing us all day with the same 15-20 yard out Trever kept throwing to his receivers, mostly Ridley and Kirk? They kept running the same route and sitting down in just the right spot in our zone (behind the CB and in front of the safety). That one play killed us all day as our pass rush was never able to push Lawrence off his spot.