UKBillFan

The Chargers would have the upper hand as they're currently seeded seventh to the Raiders eight. So presumably the Chargers would move up to seven and the Raiders eight. But if both go 9-7-1 and the Steelers beat the Ravens wouldn't they come into play?

Yes, because I was being serious…

If Josh passes like he did at Foxboro, no. If he passes like he did yesterday, yes. They’ll punish the turnovers.

Josh is sixth in QBR this season (61.0), ahead of Burrow (53.9). I assume yesterday’s game have been accounted for with this.

Of course not. But more consistency in his play considering the strength of his arm and the clear attributes at his disposal?

I don’t think anyone is denying he was great on the ground yesterday? But his passing was poor and he seemed to deviate from good to bad (and back again) rapidly in that respect.

And yet he had passing issues despite that.

The Fitzpatrick injury curse won’t be good for Josh!

His leg wasn’t causing him too many issues when he was dancing in the locker room post match!

Because there’s something riding on it. The majority of the 1pm games have very little impact on the post season; yes, the Bengals’ seeding needs to be sorted and the Steelers could make the play offs if they win out and the Jags shock the Colts but all in all they’re nothing games. Whereas the late afternoon games either have something riding on them or the conference has something riding on it so are being played in the later slot.

Why? When did we last play well in bad weather?

But I’m guessing the broadcasters know the timetable by now of when the games will be?

If Diggs should have caught it then surely the weight was ok? Yes, he could and possibly should have thrown it softer but it could be the subsequent adjustment threw him off his game and led to his poor passing for the rest of it.

That seems to be the rule of thumb, we look sharp against the decent sides (Pats and Colts at home excepted) and sloppy, particularly post bye, against the average to poor sides.

What will the schedule be for the play offs? Saturday late afternoon, Saturday night, Sunday early afternoon, Sunday late afternoon, Sunday night and Monday night?

I can just see us being the Monday night game; I hope not as I'm supposed to be in the office the following day and I know I'll have a nightmare sleeping. I'm working from home on Monday so it'll be easier to handle it if I can't sleep!

Other than the Colts, we've tended to look pretty sharp against the good sides and sloppy (post bye) against the average to poor sides.

Would like us to finish above seventh seed so we can say we would have been in the Play Offs under the old system as well as the new. Should be possible!

The bye would be useful but I don’t think we have much of a home field advantage this year.

I said yesterday on the GDT (or somewhere) whether finishing behind the Pats and having to go on the road may not be a bad thing. Jacksonville excluded, our away performances seem much better than those at home - narrow defeats to Titans and Bucs, which on a slip and dodgy officiating could have been two wins, plus comfortable victories over the Chiefs, Pats and, albeit injury strewn, Saints who still have an strong defense. When compare that to the home performances and we have the limp start to the season against Steelers, the low scoring loss to the Pats, being blown out by the Colts plus the figures above. But what’s changed from last year? Was the weather better? But it was hardly dreadful against the Steelers. We only lost one game all season at home in 2020, a nine point loss to the Chiefs. Something isn’t right this year in comparison so maybe a trip elsewhere wouldn’t be such a bad thing. I’ll cling onto that should the unthinkable happen next Sunday.

In all honesty, this is what bugs me as this is what we hear a lot - hope Josh learns, hope Josh learns, hope Josh learns. But we’ve seen this creep back into his game just when we do think he has learned; the Steelers was a shaky performance all round, then (yes, with a bad O-Line) the Jags, then the Pats, then the first half against the Bucs, then the Pats at home, then the second quarter yesterday. Others have rightly said it’s great we adjusted, utilised his other strengths and won, with Josh managing to recover mentally in the second half to lead us over the line, but for someone who has all the capabilities of being one of the best QBs ever, not just for the Bills, he has these passing games more often than I like and, more concerning, more than he had last year.

Just did the Play Off Predictor where we lose to the Jets and the Steelers or Browns win out; in either case we fall to seventh seed (edit: If all other results go as expected).

This is what I'd love to see - the learning and adaption. Considering what happened at home to the Pats, and then the subsequent amendments from the second half against the Bucs through the trip to Foxboro, it seemed odd that our offense in the first half seemed be going away from what had worked before. I get it's important to switch things up and become unpredictable but, in turn, we harmed ourselves. Second half, with more use of the run game, worked much better.

Want to say Colts but could be wrong.

Thanks for replying rather than simply reacting. I guess a huge positive today, reading your post and thinking about it, is Josh and Daboll adapted the game (admittedly, they were given a chance to adapt) to pull clear. I think, previously, Josh would have become glazed over, started panicking, forced the ball more, and possibly falling apart completely after the three INTs. Today, there was a reset and we were able to pull away. The existence of a running game helped with this but Josh was a massive part of that too.