BigAl2526

It will be interesting to see what happens in the rematch two weeks from now. What I hope is that Brady and Babich show the ability to study New England's offense and defense and are able to nullify most of the stuff New England was able to do in this game. It will help if they are a little healthier on defense. Fewer phantom penalties on Buffalo would be nice too. Lastly, the special teams need to figure out what they're supposed to do.

Aaron Rodgers = The Grinch

The coaching staff deciding it, and it actually happening (or not happening) are two different things. If Josh sees a situation where he can make an important first down or gain a chunk of yardage, he's probably going to take off regardless of what the coaches plan.

The same question has been asked before. It's not going to happen. Voters greatly overweight turnaround situations. I expect the winner will be from a team that struggled in 2023 and has had a much better 2024 season. Buffalo does not have that much room for improvement. Consistency in team record is weighted less than one year improvement. At least that's the way it looks.

Bills - 27 Cheatriots - 13 Drake Maye shows potential but has no supporting cast. Buffalo goes up, well up, early then takes their foot off the gas by going run heavy through a good chunk of the second half. That, plus bitter cold temperatures cools off Buffalo's high octane offense a bit in this game.

That is the most likely matchup for the conference championship game for sure. Buffalo matches up better versus KC this year compared to the last few.

The physical attributes are similar, but Newton didn't have near the ability that Josh Allen has to dissect defenses and make off script plays when necessary.

I think there is some merit in those arguments, but I agree there is still reason to be concerned about the Bills' D. It is much more of an issue versus some teams, less of an issue versus most teams. For instance, should Buffalo make it to the Super Bowl and Philadelphia is the NFC opponent, I think Saquon Barkley could be a real headache for the Bills.

The Bills seem to have pigeon holed Samuel into the role of a gadget player, but the one game in which he made a significant positive contribution to the offense was the game where the Bills were very shorthanded at WR. This forced Buffalo to play Samuel in more of a traditional receiver role.

Mostly, I want to see Elam and Bishop get more time on the field because I think it would help them get better. Yes, they are faster and more athletic than the guys they replaced, but at some point you need live action to improve your skills.

This is the key. Buffalo is the far better team, but they have shown a knack from time to time of playing down to the level of their opponent. They have to maintain focus.

It's simple. The Buffalo Bills are America's team. Jim Nantz said so. "The winner of this game (Bills vs Lions is America's team) They get better ratings than other teams. CBS is trying to squeeze out ratings however they can even when the Bills are up against a crappy opponent.

Josh is fine. In other news, geologists have identified a new fault running through Ford Field in Detroit after a small earthquake was felt in Detroit early Sunday evening.

Wasn't he a sprinter for Canada in the Olympics years ago? He got his medal stripped for using PEDs.

Josh Allen is making it very difficult for anyone to vote for somebody different as MVP.

I decided not to watch the Cricket Celebration Bowl. I suppose it is so named because the sponsor is Cricket Wireless, but I couldn't help wonder who would want to celebrate crickets.

Buffalo - 38 Detroit - 33

I would guess the main focus in the off season will be defense. I don't have much more I can say.

I'd guess McDermott would say that defensive lapses are due to lack of discipline in maintaining assignments: things like gap control, containment on the outside, communication in zone coverage etc. I'm sure that's part of the problem. I'm not sure how big a part though.

OK, so the 49ers held the Rams to 4 field goals (still losing). What did they do differently from Buffalo to contain the Rams offense?

So, is there any correlation between winning the award from Sports Illustrated and winning the league MVP award. How often does the winner of the Sports Illustrated Player of the year go on to win the MVP award.

It's all about the Super Bowl at this point. Yeah, 10 wins in mid-December is nice, but having come to this point what I'm thinking about is what the Bills can do to address their suspect defense.

Rasul Douglas is strictly a zone CB. He got exposed against the Rams when Buffalo tried to play some man. I get that Elam is a liability on special teams, but when he's starting, that liability becomes less of an issue. Elam is still not a great zone CB, I suppose, but he's not the liability he was as a rookie. If Buffalo is going to adjust their defense to be more effective at stopping the run and pressuring the QB more it stands to reason they are going to need far better play out of their D-linemen and/or mix in some more man coverage from their CBs.

I'm with the consensus. The defense, particularly the defensive line and especially the tackles are disappointing this season. The departure of Washington as D-line coach is the biggest single change, so maybe that is the cause. It's probably not going to change significantly this season, but it's going to need lots of attention in the off season.

I agree with the OP. When your offense scores 42 points with no turnovers, you expect to win. The Blocked punt and resulting touchdown didn't help, but the defense looked porous the whole game. Running the ball is becoming more fashionable and Buffalo's defense is not built to handle it. Matthew Stafford also played a strong game. He threw very accurately. Lastly, I thought the officiating was very inconsistent. They made a bunch of ticky tack calls and then later in the game they let some more obvious penalties go uncalled. DBs in particular didn't know if they were going to get called for having their hands on the receivers or not. On one occasion, they missed an obvious false start on a play where the Rams made a big chunk of yards.