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I have never played football, but it's my understanding that it's tough to plug in a new OL midseason because they have to function as a unit. It takes an offseason to get them working together.

Well, there’s this MLB in CHI that I keep hearing good things about, but he just seems too young.

He probably has heated seats in his car, so I’m sure that he was in the hot seat on his ride home this morning.

That is very true. I also think that Chad Hall knowing the Bills playbook inside and out probably played a role in yesterday's game.

I'm not usually a person to blame things like this, but when the league itself admits that it was an "experiment" to see just how much of an advantage a team would have after being acclimated to time and place over a team that just flew in I get angry. They knew that they were giving the Jags an advantage in a game that was supposed to be a Bills home game. It turns out that it was a pretty big advantage. If they allow the Jags to play 8 games in a row in London next year, the Jags will win all 8 of them. As to your point, all teams show inconsistency on offense at times during the season. The Chiefs offense looks really shakey right now, but the difference is that they are winning ugly. In the two games where the Bills struggled, they didn't come through at the end to win the game. Really, only the two Shannahan system offenses are clicking every week right now through 5 weeks. That will change as the season progresses. The Bengals woke up yesterday. The Chiefs will start clicking and the BIlls will too.

I actually ate something during the game.

We might have lost to the Bengals, who match up really well against the Bills.

I agree with this somewhat. Neither season-ender was a turf injury. Milano got rolled up on and a torn pec had nothing to do with the field conditions.

The reason that we dislike them is simple. I don't know what European football you support, but imagine if the league forced them to fly to New York to play an October fixture that counts on a temporary field. All in the name of growing the brand in another country. We get exhibition tours every summer by English, Spanish, and German clubs, but no regular season fixtures or cup ties because that would be unthinkable.

The Jets have more fans in the national NFL media than any other team. Eisen, Rex, Greenberg, Boomer, Ian eagle, Charles Davis. There are probably others too.

They were. They were a drive away from back-to-back Super Bowls. In fact, you could argue that they played too angry on that last drive. Ask anyone in Cincinnati. The Bengals didn't lose. The refs gave the game to the Chiefs.

Of course that's true, but living in Cincinnati I saw how the collective anger of the entire city of Cincinnati drove the Bengals during the week leading up to the playoff game in Buffalo. I couldn't talk to people about the game because all I heard about was neutral site ticket refunds. And then you heard Burrow reference exactly that after the game. I think that they used it to fire them up and they took the entire city along for that ride.

Exactly!

We still have 8 homes games. This one was the 9th in the 17 week schedule.

They should have been really angry about it before the game. They should have been angry about it since the schedule release day. If the NFL did that to the Bengals or Dolphins, their players would have been all over the artist formerly known as Twitter complaining about it and they would have used that as motivation. The Bills, instead, always preach "accountability" and always blame themselves for every and all misfortune. I think that attitude has been passed over to the fans. The Bills moped on the sidelines after the Milano injury and TBD is holding a wake for the Bills 2023 season.

Every team has been doing that for the past few years. Both the Jags and Falcons flew over on the Thursday night redeye too. And that game was a slop fest until the 3rd quarter. But maybe the Bills should have flown over on Tuesday to mitigate some of the Jags advantage. I really don't know. I didn't think that it would matter, but now that we know that it was an "experiment" to see how much advantage a team would gain by staying there I have come around to the fact that it was a deciding factor.

It was time for the Bills to go to London because it had been 8 years, so that's not on him. But if Pegula actually agreed to participate in this "experiment" to help the Jags? Then yes. Flame away.

It's like a funeral in here today. THIS IS NOT A POSITIVE POST, ITS AN ANGRY POST. GET MAD!!! The damn commissioner used the team that I have followed since birth as a GD experiment to see if his precious Jags would have too much of an advantage if given a 7-week London residency. And yes, after the Chiefs the Jags are the most important team to the league because they give up a home game every year to the "shield." Now that we know that Goodell used the Bills like guinea pigs I can see why they were sleepwalking through the first half. And before some holier-than-thou "realist adult" comes in here telling me "no excuses," let me just say that the Bills fans are the weakest in the league. Our reflex, which was finely honed by 20 years of futility, is to get mad at our own team. But right now we should be hopping mad at the league for making our team play in that situation. They knew it was an advantage, they just wanted to know just how much of an advantage. When the NFL came up with a "solution" to the Hamlin situation that slightly inconvenienced the Bengals, did Bengals players and fans say "No excuses?" No. They were practically hanging Gooddell in effigy from the powerlines in Price Hill. Get mad at the league for giving the Jags a known advantage in a game that was supposed to be a Bills home game. That is BS, and I hope that the team saw that interview and gets mad about being used as an experiment. And BTW, I am a supporter of McDermott but he didn't handle the Hamiln situation well at all and it probably cost us a shot at a SB. He let the team mope around and make heart hands while the Bengals were out there tweeting "get your refunds." You cannot play NFL football sad. I think that's what set Stef off and we saw that again yesterday. The Bills sideline was moping after the Milano injury. Right now, McDermott needs to play that Goodell interview to the team so that they can channel their energy toward a common enemy; the rest of the league. If he does that, the Giants won't know what hit them on Sunday night.

Snap counts are out. Williams only played 36% of the snaps. I would expect that to increase now that he can prepare a whole week. FWIW, he didn’t play a single snap against Miami.

Hey, a simple Google search would inform you that every NFL team has to give up a home game to the International series at minimum every 8 years Pegula waited as long as he could. https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/nfl-schedule/creating-the-nfl-schedule/#:~:text=In 2007%2C the NFL added,least once every eight years.

It’s not who they’re bearing, it’s how they’re doing it. Burrow is scrambling moving just fine. That calf seems to be fine now.

Why are the only major injuries today on the Bills D?

The Jets are going to stay in it and then Aaron Rodgers will come back in week 10 and lead the all-time redemption story. Book it.

Bengals are back

I just don't get this league at all. So, two weeks ago the Texans went into Jacksonville and beat the crap out of the Jags. Last week, Desmond Ridder looked like he couldn't play QB in the NFL. Today, Ridder threw for over 300 yards on the Texans and the Falcons just won. I just don't understand it.