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Why can't we beat Baltimore? To add to these thoughts, the Bills have scored over 30 points in 5 straight games and in 8 of 11 games this year. Cooper's only been here a few weeks. Coleman, Samuel, and Hollins are still developing chemistry with Josh. Ray Davis is a rookie. I couldn't agree more that this offense has a lot more headroom to improve... there's still almost 7 weeks before the season finale against New England.

Right here... the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/articles/crez1z8pxyzo#:~:text=It was also a rare,games without conceding that many. I'm gonna blame @GunnerBill for this one! 😃

Interestingly Offensive Tackle can be a position of longevity too. I can think of many OTs that had long and illustrious careers. Dawkins is 30 years old and has 3 years remaining on his contract after this year, with reasonable cap hits. Beane also drafted Cody Ford in the 2nd round so like all GMs, he's had his misses. Still among the top GMs in the league and seemingly getting better.

Changing the subject a bit, the Bills accomplished a few nice things yesterday: The last team to go undefeated in the regular season was the New England Patriots in 2007. KC will not touch that record for at least another year. The Chiefs had won 15 straight games dating back to last season (and including the playoffs). The NFL record is 21 (New England 2003-2004). New England's record is safe. The Chiefs' defense had held 30 straight opponents under 28 points. The streak is the longest for any team since the 2000-01 Philadelphia Eagles posted a 34-game streak under the guidance of – remarkably – Head Coach Andy Reid. That streak is now ended. The Bills are the first team to beat the Chiefs by more than one score since the Titans on October 24th... 2021. It was great to take all of these possible accomplishments away from Kansas City.

Yeah when Josh gets up to speed, defenders are forced to make the old "business decision" and a high percentage of them choose self-preservation. I agree with you Coach. To the bolded, Mahomes completed 6 passes on the TD drive that narrowed our lead to 23-21. Most of them were small window throws made on the run. It was amazing quarterbacking. In contrast, on the Bills final TD drive which settled the outcome, Josh ran the ball 4 times for 41 yards culminating in the 26 yard TD run. With all due respect to Lamar Jackson, no other QB in the NFL could have done that... tacklers want to hit Jackson, they are much less eager to tackle Josh. Imagine the hue and cry of people here had Hopkins or Worthy gone off and the Bills lost. It would have been dismal. I'm hoping we get one more year each out of Babich and Brady.

1) I didn't say he returned from injury. 2) As you've undoubtedly heard numerous times, there's being in shape and there's being in football/game shape. You need to attain the latter to be effective and no amount of time in the gym attains that level of fitness.

Yes, thankfully enough people here understand the difference between being gassed and "quitting" on a play. Yeah that's why Von's getting all these snaps... because McDermott sees him quitting. I guess not many people here are old enough to remember Bruce Smith... Here's an idea... Von returned to action in week 9... he had 21 snaps that game and 23 snaps last week Maybe the team is trying to build up his conditioning?

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Fixed it for you.

The Chiefs wouldn't assume an extra point miss more than they would assume being behind 2 scores. They didn't want Josh to score but once that locomotive gets up to speed, LBs and DBs seem to shy away from contact. No other QB in the game has this effect on defenders.

In addition to some good moves in free agency and a great trade. I agree that Beane continues to improve.

Great topic. 1. I love the commitment to the run game and the fact that they don't abandon it when it's not "effective." Running the ball doesn't have to produce chunks to benefit the offense. The Bills RBs and O-line are good enough that teams have to honor the run. This is a good thing. 2. Not really sure. It's the same every week... the Bills base D is nickel and they mostly play light boxes... inviting teams to run. FWIW, KC rushed 17 times for 78 yards for 4.6 ypc. They had a total of 259 yards of offense. Continuing a season-long trend of being balanced as their only "tendency."

You're right. Mahomes had zero rushing attempts. Josh led the Bills with 12 carries for 56 yards and a TD. Kareem Hunt led all rushers with 14 carries for 60 yards.

And Von was disciplined in his rushes. Only a couple of times did he try to go wide for the sack. Mostly be played a contain/push game. Also Von's very good at lurking and disengaging. This makes him a better run defender than most fans appreciate and this ability to lurk and disengage also makes him good at picking up cleanup sacks... which didn't happen in this game as Mahomes was getting it out pretty quickly.

To your point, Terrell Bernard and Taron Johnson didn't play in the week 4 debacle at Baltimore. Also Cole Bishop played most of that game after Taylor Rapp was injured. There's a lot of people here who don't understand how the loss of "smaller" players could hurt a run defense but all 3 of these players are assignment sound which is the first job of fitting runs... and secondly all are good at using instincts and angles (instead of anchoring) to defeat blocks. Many here just assume that Detroit and Baltimore will run all over this defense. If the Bills are healthy I don't think that happens.

Piece of shiiiiit. Please don't post this ass hat's stuff here. Thank you.

That was a very brave position for you to take. Kromer didn't want Torrence? Please do tell. Agreed. Mark Super Duper is too small and old to play OT in today's NFL.

I reaaly like this... like hockey/soccer/lacrosse... essentially make it into a goal. It'll never happen though. But good "thinking outside the box" LOL.

Yes but also his 10 yard catch on 3rd and 9 where he was popped while catching the ball was incredible. I think most of us are amazed that he held onto that one.

As @folz pointed out, it was a total team win with almost too many players/coaches to mention. Yes, great defensive game plan, well executed. Lewis has improved a great deal this year. So has Dorian Williams. The injuries to starters have had a substantial silver lining. The same could be said for several players but the Bills don't win this game without Cooper. That one-handed contested catch while he was being interfered with was clutch as was his "Andruw Jones on the warning track" catch. I love how the fact of him being 20 lbs heavier than Diggs really comes into play quite a bit. On the latter catch the ball just instantly glued itself to his hands, ensuring that both feet were down. Disagree strongly. Von and Epenesa were outstanding in their rush discipline. They rarely looped too deep. Mahomes was getting the ball out pretty quickly or there would have been a few more cleanup sacks. Mahomes (like Josh) is now subjected to something like "The Jordan Rules." Teams have figured out that it's important to keep him in the pocket. The Bills, like Denver last week were great at this and Von was part of that. Almost every rush was a bull rush, trying to take away run lanes and space for him to step into his throws. 100%... very well-stated. I'm so glad we can put that shiiiiiiiit to bed. The Bills have won every game this year, except for two games where they were injured and not yet playing well... on the road against two pretty good teams.

Luckily the other guys picked up the slack and we didn't need you this week. 🙂 Samuel, Coleman, and Cooper have VERY LITTLE time on task with Josh. That critical chemistry is still a work in progress. We have not seen the best of this offense by a long shot.

Talk about dialing up the perfect play... it was great to have seen the Bills leave so much on the bone and still win. And I mentioned this week how great it would be to win despite all the injuries. And then on the play Dawkins missed due to his injury he swung over to the left side when Gouraige came into the game. The kid can play. Absolutely. In last December's game against the Chiefs at Arrowhead, that Kelce-Kadarius Toney lateral for a TD that was negated by Toney being egregiously offside (the play which looked eerily like Homerun Throwback) happened one day after Frank Wycheck passed away. As you point out the Worthy game planning was psychological warfare as was the Kelce-Toney lateral play. Zero coincidence. The failed 2 point conversion by Lamar vs Pittsburgh is in stark contrast to Josh's 26 yard TD run. I pointed out earlier this week how that power component is something that no other QB has. In this game Josh converted: 3rd and 2 3rd and 1 3rd and 1 4th and 2 In his career now (according to the Buffalo News) he's 52 of 63 (83%) for his career converting 3rd and 1 via the run and 29 of 32 on fourth-and-1 runs (90.6%). There is zero way Lamar Jackson is even close to these numbers... he weighs 200 lbs dripping wet. To put it differently, Mahomes now has 25 ints in his last 27 regular season games... I disagree with you though... Mahomes is still incredible. Those 6 passes he completed on the TD drive that narrowed our lead to 23-21 were incredible small window throws made on the run. That said the Bills did a great job of containing Mahomes in the pocket. We were seeing a lot of bull rush and containment rush. Another thing that jumped out at me was that Epenesa continues to improve. Twice he peeled off his pass rush to cover the swing pass. On one he batted the ball down. On the other he caught up to the running back and limited what could have been a long gain into a 7 yard gain. As I've been saying all season this team has as good a chance to win the Super Bowl as any. The season is long and there's many ups and downs. Too many here hit the panic button after weeks 4 and 5. It was laughably and predictably sad... as were those throwing Von Miller, Curtis Samuel, etc. on the bust pile not even halfway through the season .

Compare Josh's 26 TD run on 4th and 2 with Lamar's "going out with a whimper" fail in today's loss to Pittsburgh.

I've heard of him!

You must love the jersey exchanges!