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Honestly, the only people that *want* to miss the playoffs for the sake of change are just trying to make themselves feel better in the event the Bills choke and don't get in.

The Giants are going to get that new defensive coordinator coaching bump 😄

To the original post, the Bills were favorites in all 17 games this season, entering game 1. So most any loss is against a team they're supposed to beat. The lines are getting adjusted downwards as the weeks go on, but Vegas still thinks the Bills are decent favorites in most games.

Will be an interesting game for sure. The offense is just struggling mightily in 3 of the last 4 road games. It's really a stark regression from the previous 4 seasons. The D is duct taped together at this point. They cannot put together a complete game but they've had good quarter and halves to give the O a chance.

As I posted in another thread. We knew he was a very good O coordinator but Ben Johnson is way better as a HC than i thought he'd be. The Bears leading the NFC North after 12 weeks over Det and GB, is a big accomplishment. Yeah, tell that to the Sabres. As we all know, there is so much more to turning a losing franchise around in any pro sport.

The Bills defensive system is so complex it's impossible to pull someone in from some other teams practice squad and plug him in. So they have to grab retreads like Jordan Phillips, Shaq Lawson, Poyer, Tre, etc.. The head coach here made his name coaching defense. His side of the ball should be great year after year...and it's just not. A couple injuries and they are sunk.

Whenever the NFL world thinks the light went on for Bryce, he reverts back to sucking and looking like a tiny little guy on the field. Maybe he plays better away from structure and when he does stuff on instinct more than scripted play calls.

I’ll buy the reasoning. i wouldn’t do it. But then again I’m conservative with this stuff and would take the points and FGs until i need to start taking chances.

Why couldn’t they just make it 17-10. Why the risk to make it 17-11? their offense just isn’t that good to punch in the two pointer. Now they are forced to go for 2 if they get in position just to tie it

Im more conservative i feel like a lot of the coaches have become too aggressive. Maybe it’s a flex thing, im tougher than you. But in a lot of games, if the teams kicked very makeable FGs the endings would be close in a lot of games. There’s a ton of 4th down failures all over the league when it’s still early in the game and you don’t have to go for it.

Terrible half for Purdy but equally bad for Panthers offense. They should have 17 if they had a functional offense. We’ll see about the 2nd half.

Brutal. in real time it seemed like Bryce had the pylon easily if he ran hard

Jaycee Horn has the skills!

Yep. Week to week league, but the Bills are down a couple notches from the previous 3 seasons. Losing at Houston and understanding the variables you mentioned isn’t some awful loss. Losing to inferior Atlanta and Miami are why people are acting out to this 3rd ugly road loss. Had the Texans game been in a vacuum we all could have accepted it much better as one L, not a big deal.

We have no control over wins/losses/injuries, etc.. It's just another thing to talk about. Pats are a year ahead of schedule... definitely doing a nice job with Maye and taking advantage of their schedule. They really have not faced much adversity yet, so maybe this is it. The OLine injuries.