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Hurts' numbers came mostly in the second half after the game had been decided by the Philly Dline. I would have voted for Sweat who made the biggest numeric contribution to the Dline first half dominance.

Well deserved. The vote should not have been that close.

Bills need someone who can stretch the field

I feel better about the Bills playing the Chiefs in KC than I did about them playing the Ravens in Buffalo.

Since JA got whacked in the head on his 2nd to last run of the first half, he hasn't thrown one good pass. Since the ensuing touchdown, he hasn't run once. Just saying.

This came up in passing in another thread. My first and thought is that the best season by a Bill was OJ's 1973 2000 yards season when he gained 75% more yards than the league's second leading rusher. To put that level of domination in perspective, Henry, this season's 2nd leading rusher, is currently on track to gain around 1700 yards; were Barkley, the leading rusher, to dominate in the way the OJ did, he would end the season with just short of 3000 yards, or more than 90% of the single season team record! However, were Josh Allen to extend his remarkable season to the point of willing the Bills to the Super Bowl or even winning it, a case might be made that his season surpassed OJ's. What do other Bills' fans think about this? Any other contenders for best individual season in Bills' history come to mind?

Arguable at best. OJ averaged 143 yards rushing per game in 1973. Present day MVP voters looked ready to vote for Barkley (who has a lot of high end talent around him) over Allen (who doesn't) when Barkley was averaging 122 yards a game. At that point Barkley had a slight lead over Henry for the rushing lead. The #2 rusher in 1973 averaged under 82 yards a game, not much more than HALF of what OJ did. I listen to a lot of national sports talk and during the discussions for MVP (which I think JA should win in a runaway), the argument against Allen is that his stats aren't overwhelmingly impressive. Josh Allen is having a fantastic year but OJ's 73 is numerically unrivaled.

Lot of recency bias here. That said, JA is on a trajectory to be #1.

Pathetic

I wouldn't get rid of Bass at halftime, but I would explore all opportunities to replace him before the next game. But before cutting him, why not let him try the 66 yard field goal? IMO, that has a much better chance of scoring than an all-or-nothing screen pass.

Definitely

Things that pissed me off besides the coaching SNAFUs: Bills blitz packages which rarely if ever generate pressure. Nick Wright called both Rams upset and Stafford going toe to toe with Allen.

I'll be too nervous/agitated to eat.

Davis. Anyone else think he should be starting?

I came into the world five months after the Bills did. While I went to a few games at War Memorial, my first solid/specific memory is listening (on a vaccum tube radio that took quite a while to warm up) to the Bills playing the Chiefs (January 1, 1967) in the AFL championship game for the right to go to the first Super Bowl. While the Bills got blown out (in Buffalo), settting the tone, the hook was set deep.

If Goff and the Lions keep playing they way they have recently, he'll get a lot of votes.

NFW!

Punting seems better than last year. (On the other hand, Bass sucks.) Bills seems to be committing fewer penalties. I'm old enough that I'm starting to sense the dark at the end of the tunnel at which point I won't have to put up with this ***** anymore.

The Texans/Stroud seemed to be trying to give the Bills the game. Not to be outdone, McDermott gives it right back. Do the Bills have an analytics guy on the staff? The odds of something bad happening when you go for it from your own three with 32 seconds left and the other team has three timeouts left must be much higher than those of something good happening. McD does not appear to understand timeouts. What made 13 seconds possible was that the Chiefs had three time outs.

Coaching malpractice by the Bills

Trubisky enters the game, my heart sinks

Loved seeing Josh Allen go through a game without taking any serious hits.

I live in the Denver area. The local media is and always has been very high on Tim Patrick as a "great locker room guy" who holds his teammates accountable. The feeling was while he has lost a step, he otherwise seemed to have fully recovered from the two injuries which caused him to miss all of the previous two seasons. There was a strong feeling that the Broncos would keep him BUT for the fact that Broncos have a pretty crowded receiver room and Sean Payton (egomaniac) had traded up for Troy Franklin in the most recent draft. Franklin has looked terrible in training camp and done little to nothing in the preseason games -- if the coach weren't personally invested in Franklin he would have been cut. With Franklin thus wasting a roster spot, Patrick an older player and with no positive history with the current coach was the obvious sacrifice. TLDR: Broncos did not cut Patrick for football reasons and it would behoove the Bills to look into acquiring him if they want a highly motivated, low-cost veteran possession receiver.

The comeback starts at around 1:44:15 in the video.

The Bills were simply not prepared for this situation. IMO, a coaching problem.