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Wondering: 1)Has Buffalo officially submitted the request to the governor's office? 2)when we can expect a decision? I'm thinking that even though the game is 17 days away we would need to get approval fairly quickly considering all of the planning and work that would need to be done to make this happen. LET'S DO THIS!!!

YES!!!! Now we're stuck.... But shoot, 7,000 fans is better than zero I guess...😐

Man I REALLY, REALLY hope he allows this!! That would be awesome to have fans in the stands for that Thursday night game!! And if both teams are still undefeated, ooh wee!! Sad thing is, it hasn't been approved yet, and I have no clue as to which direction the governor is gonna go, but I already want us to request a higher number. 7,000 seems like such a low number. Didn't the Dolphins allow like 13,000 or so? Man I'm greedy....

One thing I believe so much more concretely than anything else is that when Allen's career is over, he will have broken all of Kelly's records, by a long shot. The passing game has evolved so much from the 90's. I was shocked when I read that no other QB in Buffalo history had ever thrown for 400 yards with 4 touchdowns and no int's. Like really?? I lived through all four super bowl years, and back then I thought our offense was "prolific", and "unparalleled". I coulda sworn Kelly did that at least once right? Nope. So yeah, it's gonna happen.....and then you figure, he's only 24 freakin years old....holy smokes...

Good for him, glad he was able to latch on somewhere. Appreciate what he did for us. It's now the Tyler Bass show. Even though he didn't attempt a FG yesterday, all of his PATs were dead center...

WOW. Yeah that's a real shock to know that, and considering Wilson is a media darling, Josh may have to throw for 6,000 yards, 50 touchdowns, the one "int" he threw yesterday, 85% completion, and also develop a cure for Covid AND cancer.

I don't think it's too early. Yes we're only three games in but Allen has only gotten better with each game, AND....he's getting better each week as the level of our opponent has gotten better too...that's impressive...

I don't disagree with you at all. To make the kind of progress that Josh has made this season, I don't care if you have Bellicheck as your HC, McVay as your OC, Peyton Manning as your QB coach. You have to put the work in yourself. And its obvious Allen has done this. I think it's definitely a combination of the two, and that one benefits from the other. Kind of reminds me of the great debate, who is better, Bellicheck as a coach, or Brady as a QB? Would one be what he was if he didn't have the other? No doubt Allen/Daboll make a great pair, and I'd love for them to remain together for the next 10+ years. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen.

The funny thing for me is that it seems like so many people, particularly the ones who still like to bring up the headscratching plays, the negative ones, conveniently forget that ALL of the elite quarterbacks make the same kind of plays, on a weekly basis!! The first ballot HOFers, the Mahomes, Jacksons, Wilsons...all of em. And to me what makes what Allen is doing even that much more impressive is that this is a QB, no, this is THE QB that everybody dumped on coming out of college(me included). I'll be honest and say I seriously doubted he would be able to overcome his accuracy issues. The improvements that he has made from one year to the next are absolutely mind-boggling if you ask me. For what he has done so far this year, I will happily take the one or two hiccup plays he commits, because that's just the nature of the position. You have to be willing to take risks, and I love knowing when the game is on the line, and it's 3rd and 22, our QB goes for the jugular, or at the minimum the first down. I have too many bitter memories of past Bills qb's with the game on the line, it's 4th and 9, and he throws a 5 yard out pattern. I thank God for who we have behind center now. The bottom line is his good BY FAR outweighs his bad. And he's only getting better....

I don't think anyone has crowned us division champs yet either. We're(most of us) smart enough and have been through enough with this team to make such a bold prediction three weeks into the season. But John from Riverside said exactly what i was thinking. The pats O isn't anywhere near the level of the Rams offense, by a country mile. And as bad as our defense has performed these past two weeks, I have all the confidence in the world that by the time we play the pats we'll be ready. Hopefully Milano and Edmunds will both be back to or close to 100%. For the first time in forever the pats game doesn't worry me. I think we'll be fine.

Love it!! Lmao especially @ #4! Good stuff! 😆

I hope the same as you, although if we continue to dominate offensively as we have been, and Allen continues to shine, Daboll is history. To take a quarterback coming out of college with as many deficiencies as people perceived him to have, and develop him into not just a franchise QB, but into a possible league MVP? He's a goner, some team is going to pay him handsomely as a head coach. And you know what? He will have earned it. I'm in love with the way he's called these first three games. I know for a fact this isn't a flash in the pan dumb luck streak, Daboll knows what he's doing, and now he has the general he needs to run this offense through every defense we face. I'd hate to lose him, and I would love to see Terry and Kim throw the vault at him. But if the offer comes his way, he would be wise to make the career move that 99 out of every 100 other coaches would make, and that would be to advance his career to become a head coach.

Surprises - 1. Allen's degree of improvement. I fully expected progress, and was cautiously optimistic. He was saying all the right things in the off-season. Even in camp you could see improvements, but in no way did I expect him to perform at this level, so early, with a severely scaled back training camp and no preseason whatsoever. This is a completely different Josh Allen. 2. Gabriel Davis. Even after a stellar training camp, as impressed as I was, a big part of me kept thinking about so many WRs in the past who were training camp darlings who lit it up all the way through the preseason to earn a roster spot and then vanish. Davis started to pay dividends from kickoff. He does NOT play like a rookie by any stretch of the imagination. This kid is a dream, and is only going to get better, faster, and stronger. 3. Brian Daboll. He has called an INSANE offensive game plan for the past three weeks straight. Man I hate to see him go, but if he continues to call games like this there's no way we don't lose him to a head coaching gig somewhere else, and he will have deserved it. Disappointments - 1. Edmunds - I know he's banged up, and I'm hoping that's part of the reason for his performance, but even before he got hurt, he looked lost and out of sync more than one or two times. The missed tackle against the Jets was a backbreaker and cost us a touchdown. Yesterday he looked like a rookie. 2. The refs getting a call blatantly wrong like that. Everyone and their momma knows if two players come down with the ball simultaneously then the possession goes to the offensive player. I'm sorry but this is too hard of a game and players put too much of their lives into this sport for a game to be decided by a referee. ANY other team besides this one, a blown call like that happens and we lose the game. Thank God we have a clutch QB who was able to overcome such a horrific call. 3. The defense as a whole. Even with the Jets game, we've yet to defensively dominate a team. It's sad but it's also more of a testament to just how much better our offense is now, because last year, three defensive performances like these and we are sitting at 0-3 no question.

In your golden fleece diaper 😆

And that throw was not easy by a long shot. Allen had to thread that needle...Diggs with the sweet move inside and Ramsey was still close to him...that ball had to be in a TIGHT window...awesome throw and awesome catch!

From the eternal optimist here at TBD, welcome to the board! Even gave you a thumbs up... So where are you fro.....hello? Hello? Damn that was fast

I like it. Anything to get just some of that home-field advantage back. Even during some of the worst seasons during our drought, Buffalo has always been voted as one of the toughest places to play for the visiting team. (Kansas City, Green Bay, Oakland, Philly) That's actually a real sore spot for me this year, probably the toughest thing for me to deal with. Not just the fact that we can't have fans in the stands, but the fact that this is BY FAR the most complete, competitive, and talented roster we've had SINCE our glory years!! So yeah, this is a good thing to me....

This. Agree 100%. That game in Dallas last year, on Thanksgiving, in Dallas??? A game nobody expected us to win, and we don't just win, we show our a$$es? That was as complete and impressive victory as they come...

Kap is in the game? Wow. I don't play video games at all anymore(the last console I had was a Playstation 2 my wife bought me for Christmas back in 2007 😄), and I didn't know Madden has players that aren't even in the league. Is the old Bills squad on there, from the early 90's? If so i might need to go and buy myself a console as an early Christmas present to myself... As far as Allen goes, my personal obvious biased opinion would be to put him at least in the 80's. If Mahomes is a 99, then I would try to objectively put Allen between 83-86. He still has a ton to prove, and if you look at his statistics as a whole, I don't think 77 is a slap-in-the-face blatant wrongdoing. I mean it should definitely be higher. Just my two cents though 🙂

I don't see anything wrong with your perspective. I already believe the Bills to be a legitimate super bowl caliber team, and honestly I haven't had expectations this high since our glory years. I don't NEED the national media to validate my opinion of our Bills. BUT, it would be nice to see us get the kudos and the respect that we deserve from the so-called "experts". If you really stop and read alot of the articles online, and watch alot of the national football shows, the Bills really are starting to garner alot of respect and national attention. I fully agree with you in that if we do beat the Rams Sunday, we will be even more recognized as a legit SB contender. Two things about this team, this year to be precise, that encourages me more and more about them are: In SO many years past, when the Bills would get off to a fast start, or string together a nice little winning streak, the media would start to notice us, and start giving us respect. And then we would immediately proceed to sh!t the bed and get blown out in our next game, and then go on some crappy losing streak to finish out the season. "Same old Bills" they would call us. Not this year. Buffalo started the season being recognized as not only a legit team, but many picked us to finally win the division. And you know what? We have delivered, emphatically. Game 1 should've been a 40 point blow-out, and game 2 should've never been as close as it was, you show me ANY team that loses BOTH of their starting linebackers AND has to play a division rival that doesn't struggle and I'll come and personally re-shingle your roof for you, free of charge.(labor fees notwithstanding). I don't care what the Jets or Dolphins records are, division games are.NEVER.easy. period. And the second thing that has me truly encouraged, and fully believing that we are a legit SB contender is one Josh Allen, and the fact that he is CLUTCH. He is at his best when the game is on the line, and i effing love him for that...the kid rises to the occasion each and every time, and that is something you just cannot teach. Either you have it or you don't. And he has it. In spades. It's those two reasons for me that make everyone else's opinion outside of OBD(and TBD) obsolete. I know for a FACT that we have what it takes to make a run for the Lombardi Trophy this year, right now. But I too wouldn't mind seeing us getting even more respect/recognition. And I think your feelings are valid as well.

Love your enthusiasm sir, and would love it if it came true....I'm sooo happy we have a mobile qb who can make the defense pay for being over-aggressive. And I was really pleasantly surprised to see that a huge portion of his 729 passing yards and 6 of his 7 touchdowns came while under pressure....wow! My bet is McVay dials back the pressure on this one. Donald is a freak so all we can do is try and minimize the damage. Keep him double-teamed...and i love that Josh is taking what the defense gives him, so I have zero problems with dinkin and dunkin until the big play opens up, then BAM!!

Ditto 100% on several things you said. I was also squarely on the Rosen/Mayfield train, (wanted Rosen 1st, Mayfield 2), and I'll even clarify further in that I actually thought Darnold would be the best of them all, but I just naturally assumed he was going to be the 1st pick and that we couldn't afford the cost to trade up to 1. So my heart was settled on Rosen or Baker. As soon as I saw that the Bills had pulled off the trade to move up, my heart began fluttering, and I was ready!! Welcome to Buffalo Josh Rosen!! When they announced that we had selected the wrong Josh, I literally fell out of my chair, curled up into the fetal position and began rocking back and forth sobbing and screaming...metaphorically. But I did scream at the TV, and began exchanging horrified/disbelief/disgust text messages with all my family up in Buffalo. I don't think a single one of us BESIDES my Uncle Reggie was happy with the pic. I wrote my own obituary telling everyone I had gotten into a barrel and plunged myself over the Niagara Falls. BOY was I wrong! My crow actually tasted pretty good though. 🙂 Josh Allen IS the franchise QB we've been waiting for. And you hit the nail squarely on the head when you compared his leap from year 2 to year 3 to Burrows jump from junior to senior season. I couldn't agree more. Let's go Buffalo!

Agree 100%. The things that Diggs does, his work ethic, his preparation, they are elite in every sense of the word. His competitive spirit, fiery attitude, leadership, are all INFECTIOUS, and I love hearing so many teammates that he makes them want to be better. I was one of the few who felt we gave up wayyy too much to get him, and now just two weeks into the season, I'd give up two first rounders lickety split for him. And with regard to that play, it's just a thing of beauty how he was able to reset and shift so quickly, yet making it look effortless. He makes corners look downright foolish, play after play. IMO, he's the finest route runner in the NFL. He runs his routes with an absolute surgical precision. So glad he's on our side. Please forgive me for such a unicorn/sunshine/lollipops prediction, but I see no reason Josh doesn't throw for 4,500 yards and Diggs doesn't top 1,400 yards receiving.

Very, very well said sir. 👍

Oh, I don't know why i thought with the new concussion protocol that players that were diagnosed to have actually sustained a concussion had to sit out for at least a week. My mistake. Yeah if Knox is healthy by all means he's our guy. 😅