Low Positive

Poyer has taken Hamlin's role as the backup SS, behind Rapp. Hancock, the rookie, is the backup FS. Poyer is not taking a young player's role, and the only way he's getting snaps on defense tonight is if Rapp gets hurt. Did you want them to play a game without a backup at that spot just so you wouldn't have to see Poyer standing on the sidelines? Or would you rather they sign Vonn Bell off the street, who couldn't crack the lineup as even a PS player in Cincinnati? But hey, at least he hasn;t been tainted by ever wearing a Bills helmet. Also, who is the magical athletic rookie that they are currently playing a vet over? Landon Jackson? Walker is playing most of the snaps. Sanders was playing until his injury. We have two rookie DBs on IR, one of whom was getting snaps despite being a low-round pick. Some people want to blame Beane for injuries. If injuries are the fault of the GM and are a fireable offense, then Brad Holmes (Lions GM), Eric DeCosta (Ravens GM), and John Lynch (49ers GM) should be taken out back and shot. Some teams have been incredibly lucky with injuries so far, and others have been decimated. The Bills are sort of in the middle of that continuum.

Even this isn't true. There is collective amnesia amongst Bills fans about the 2021 and 2023 regular seasons. In 2023 (two seasons ago, you know, the season where we lost to the Broncos and fired Ken Dorsey), the Blls were 6-6 after the overtime loss in Philadelphia and that NYT playoff simulator gave them just 19% odds of even making the post season. The division was out of reach, unless Miami did stupid things like losing to the Titans at home (which they did). Even at that, it took a Kadarius Toney toe and a punt return for a TD in week 18 in Miami to win the division. In 2021, the Bills were in a tailspin with blowout losses to Indianapolis at home, the wind game, and that damn Jags game. They were 7-6 after losing in Tampa, and had to win out to win the division. The Pats led the division until we beat them in week 16 (the day after Christman on Thursday Night Football, the Diggs taunting the crowd game).

Because there isn’t anything better out there. It’s either a washed gay you know or a washed up guy you don’t know. But youse guys would get all excited about the washed up guys you don’t know because you haven’t been tracking their performance since they’ve been washed up. Case in point; this board would get all excited if the Bills signed Justin Simmons, but he looked completely done last year in Atlanta. Same goes for Vonn Bell, who lost his starting job and was cut from Cincinnati.

The record is 4-1. In your extreme negativity, you gave them an extra loss.

First of all, almost every NFL team runs zone at least 70% of the time. They can’t switch to man just to cover Kelce because they don’t have the DBs to do it. Secondly, he’s too big to be covered by DBs and too fast to be covered by LBs. If he’s on, he’s Gronk levels of undefendable.

As a former QB, he is really good at reading the defense and finding the gaps in the zone. He often doesn’t have a called route. Rather he has free rein to read and react.

Remember when the Jags were gonna get wrecked. Until they didn’t l.

You might as well tell Dan Campbell to stop going for it on 4th. He’s the most fun HC in football. Never change, Kneecaps.

That seems like correlation, not causation.

Preemptively bumping this. Youse guys will need this tonight.

It probably would have, but at the time it would have felt like the end of the season. The Bills would have been 6-7 and would have needed the Jags to completely collapse down the stretch to get in. As it turned out, the Jags did just that. What I remember is that the NYT simulator had the Bills at a 19% chance of making the playoffs after their OT loss in Philly going into the bye.

In 2023, the Bills were a Kadarius Toney toe away from missing the playoffs.

People are panicking in here today and the Bills didn’t even play.

Why is Cody a “former Buffalo Bill.” He’s played longer not in Buffalo than in Buffalo.

GM had nothing to do with it. That move was ALL Haslem

But they paid Purdy a lot of money. When he’s healthy, he’ll play.

49ers can't catch a break with the injuries.

Their fans are angry at DeCosta for taking a luxury pick at safety instead of investing in depth for the DL where they were really thin. I would say they are engaging in hindsight, but lord knows we do a lot of that around here.

It only feels that way because you read this board, where the BBFS flows like a mudslide and McDermott is the worst coach since Rich Kotite.

Usually a week 7 bye kinda sucks, but it worked out for them.

Do you remember 2021? When the Bills were in 2nd place when Mac Jones ripped off 7 straight wins while the Bills went 3-5? Or how about 2023, when the Dopphins led the division from week 5 until we beat them in week 18? Here is the mythical 13-second season, which all of TBD remembers as a runaway success until McDumbass pissed it away, just for reference. We've been in dogfights for the division before during this run, and we're likely in one this year too.

They'll lose at least one to Pittsburgh. They do pretty much every year, even when they are rolling and the Steelers have Kenny Pickett.

That's great defense, doncha know?

NFL Announcer: That was great defense! My eyes, almost every time: DPI

I always like to pretend that Ladd McConkey is from Eastern Europe and his name is actually Ladislav.