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The eye test showed me that Williams is simply faster to the ball.

Is it fair to ask if the Bills were better defensively with Williams over Milano?

McD’s failings on the last drive didn’t cost us the game. The defense failed the entire game to make a play when needed and we let a punt get blocked. Hopefully, this film will help the team, coaches and players, re-focus for next week.

Chiefs will lose tonight and it will be like nothing happened but Josh gave me some big fantasy numbers.

7 to go.

SMU - F Bama! If Bama and the SEC want to blame the CFP for IU and SMU making the playoff, then they only have to look internally. The SEC gave GA, BAMA, Old Miss brutal schedules. GA played Texas, Bama, Ole Miss on the road, played Tenn at home and also Clemson on a neutral site. Brutal. Those schedules made ESPN happy, but ultimately hurt the SEC's chances of getting 4 teams in. These 16 team and 18 team conferences need to do a better job of balancing schedules. Unfortunately, you don't know that teams like Fla St, Wash, and Mich are going to crap the bed after big years. To start the year in ESPN's preseason rankings Mich was 9th, Fla St 10th, Mizz 11th, Utah 12, Oklahoma 17th, OKST 18th. What happened to those teams? Ironically Michigan beat OSU and Oklahoma killed Bama, which is why Bama is home crying right now. GA came through their gauntlet to with only 2 losses on the road to highly ranked teams, while Bama lost 3 including a home loss to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt. Tough luck fellas. Good to see some new teams for a change.

The answer like all answers is it depends. Did we lose a major player to injury to secure homefield and will that player be back and ready to go with a bye week? Would a bye help other players would be be out week 1 of the playoffs get back? If the team is playing well, do we really want to take a week off? If we get a bye, how beat up will our opponent be? Etc... every scenario is different. Personally I'd go with being healthy. Last season with so many injuries done the stretch it was truly amazing how the team kept excelling until they defensively hit a wall in the last playoff game. I'm hoping we get better luck on the healthy department and go into the playoff all guns a blazing.

Not until Josh is 31

Another crazy UGA game. What a great comeback after being dominated in yards in the 1st half. Hard to beat the same team twice in the same season. An SEC championship for Georgia after having to go on the road to play Ole, Bama, and Texas. Best news is that my Hoosiers won't have to play the Dawgs in Athens in the first round of the CFP.

A former 1st rd pick out of Georgia who is a great athlete but learning to be a pro football player. Drafted as a safety and being developed by the Bills as a linebacker. I can see him with a special teams role against LA. Long-term, the kid could end up as good depth. Maybe they envision him as a hybrid S/LB to play behind Taron Johnson for running downs

This is Amari Cooper’s game to go deep.

Bills are 6-1 on West Coast games since the Bills became a playoff team. 13-4 in dome games since 2000. Earlier we pounded Sea in Sea 31-10. This was the same score we beat the Rams to open the 2022 season. We have also scored 30+ 6 in a row and 9 of our ten wins. We are the better team. 34 -14.

This has been a wonderful season so far, but this was not a reset. This was a clearing out of older players whose careers had run their course in here. On offense we returned our QB, our top 3 RBs, out 3 TEs, our FB, 5 our top 6 OL and our starting slot receiver. Yes we dumped 4 WRs, 2 who were awful, 1 who was oft injured and often ineffective and one diminishing star with a bad attitude. This included 8/11 starters. On defense we returned 4/5 our starting DBs with new 5th a former starter in Hamlin. At LB we returned on paper our two starting LBs in Milano and Bernard. Unfortunately, we needed 2nd year player Williams to step up with Milano got hurt in camp. Williams did grear and now Milano is bad giving up even better depth. Lastly we brought back 3 starters (Groot, Oliver, Jones), 1 former starter (Miller) and one key rotational player (AJE) on the line. That’s 9/11 starters on D. Teams bringing back 17 starters are not in a reset. What Beane ultimately did was rid the Bills of overpaid not productive players and filled up the depth with kids (10 Rookies) and/or multi-positional players like Smoot (DT/DE), Cam Lewis (CB/S), Mack Hollins (WR/ ST Ace) and even Codrington (KR/CB). This fixed the cap short and probably long-term, helped the Bills to become young again while maintaining the high standards for the starters. The real kicker here is that this transition began 2 years+ ago with Beane using premium picks on skill players and then hitting on some late round gems like Benford and Shakir.

Giving up 180 yards to KC in 2021 and then 169 (with Mixon getting 103) certainly didn't help in 2022.

Having Tua and negative cap space is a terrible spot to be in.

My sister and brother in law are going. Apparently its going to be a Bills love fest. Maybe 40% of the crowd.

With the development of Anderson and Davidson, does that end Knox's stay in Buffalo after this season? Or do they wait another year when Knox's dead cap is better. He has certainly done an decent job while Kincaid has been out and is a far batter blocker than Kincaid or Davidson. Edwards also did well that year in the 6th OL position. His performance allowed the Bills to comfortable move on from Bates and Morse and slide McGovern to center where he is a better fit that he was a guard.

The Bills next year should be even better - On Offense - all the kids, Kincaid, Cook, Davis, Shakir, Colemen, Torrence will have another year of experience and hopefully a deep playoff run to to draw on. The O line will likely be back and intact. The only real questions here are whether Cooper, Knox and Hollins return. Depending on how the next 5+ games go, I'd like to see all 3 back, but our cap may not stretch that far. On Defense - starters - Rousseau, Oliver, Milano, D Jones, T Johnson, AJE, Rapp, Benford and Bernard are all under contract plus key depth Williams, Lewis, Vonn Miller, Bishop, Elam, Carter, Ingram, Spector, Solomon, Andreessen, Codrington and Ulofoshio. Only FAs are Hamlin, Douglas, A Johnson, J Phillips, Jefferson and Smoot. There is so much youth on this team that is contributing on a regular basis, that it's hard to argue that the team would take a step back as long as Josh remains healthy. The Bills probably have a 2 year window after this season to remain undisputed kings of the East. Miami and the Jets will be going through transitions next year as the Jets move on from Rodgers and Miami cleans up their cap mess. NE is in the cat bird seat to make a jump next year As to the other teams, - this is the Bills division, but there is talent on the Jets and Fish in particular, that teams could build around. Breece Hall and Garrett Wilson are game changers on offense, but they need a QB and until that happens, this team is at best an 8-8 team. They need help on the OL and Depth at WR, and LBs. The Jets have 32 mill in cap space. The Fish have a good but fragile QB who could be lost at any moment. The have excellent skill players - Achane would be a huge star on a better team. Are Hill and Mosert fading? I hope so. Their OL needs works as does more of the defense save their edge rushers. When a team is player Poyer and Neal as much as they have, its clear the secondary needs help. To make matters worse, the Fish have negative cap space according to Spotrac heading into next season. The Pats may be years away from contending, but this could change rapidly if they utilize their 139 million in cap space for next season wisely. With only 37 players signed for next year, there is huge opportunity in NE for FAs. Also Drake Maye has improved significantly this season.

I think he means in football. When you have a crappy GM and a crappy owner, a 14 year playoff drought is easy to accomplish, just ask the Sabres.

How soon until Hyde joins the coaching staff.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5971630/2024/12/05/the-satchel-bills-stadium-josh-allens-left-hand-december-dilemmas/

Last I look Landry had HOFer Rodger Staubach as his QB for the first 4 of the 5 straight. Danny White was the QB the next season. They also had HOFer Tony Dorsett at RB and HOFer Drew Pearson at WR. No coach wins without top notch players.

They also have producers, research assistants, interns and others to help them. Truthfully a cursory look at any popular website will have all the research there for them. Simple question: between the Bills, Fish, Jets and Pat how would you rate the QBs heading into the season? 1. Allen - lead his team 7-2 down the stretch last season and put up MVP Caliber numbers 2. Tua - put up his best numbers and has speedy weapons at his disposal 3. Rodgers - aging HOF QB who play 4 snaps last season 4. Maye - NFL rookie ….. and that’s how the teams will finish in the division.

The development of Rapp as a Bills' safety is on a very similar curve to Hyde and Poyer. He isn't at the level they achieved at their peaks, but his improvement year over year has been something to watch. Remember Buffalo wasn't Hyde or Poyer first stop. Rapp started 48 of 57 games for the Rams before coming to Buffalo. Despite starting all those games including 33 of 33 his final two years, the Rams let him walk and sign with the Bills for 1 year at 1.77. The Bills then extended him this off-season. Hyde came to Buffalo after 4 years in GB and Poyer after 4 years in Cleve, but neither had Rapp's starting experience when they joined the Bills. Rapp is just more evidence that Beane/McD know what they are looking for and see things in players, especially DBs, that other teams miss. Douglas is also a better player here than he was in GB.

Same posters who say fire McD and Beane.......