[Buffalo Bills: Elite early season team, year after year]

2 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

But we have injuries now, and the team is playing through them. There was a 180-degree attitude shift after that London game. Remember all the "players-only meetings?"

 

Just addressing why there was such a shift last year. This year we probably just have better depth to deal with injuries at key positions.

 

[Buffalo Bills: Elite early season team, year after year]

2 hours ago, Low Positive said:

I remember when we were the "best team in the NFL" when we beat Miami last year in week 4. I just don't understand what happened when they came back from London last year. Losing that single game should not have derailed things so badly. 

 

Uh, injuries?

 

[10 Things I loved seeing on Monday]

16 minutes ago, ganesh said:

ZERO INJURIES

 

...to starters! Grable sounds like he'll be out for several weeks with a groin injury.

 

[Joe Brady has changed the season's expectations]

Let's see how Brady performs against the Chiefs this year—in the regular season and, hopefully, in the playoffs.

 

If he gets us past them, then I'll worry.

 

[10 Things I loved seeing on Monday]

1. All three of our running backs getting TDs
2. Damar (someone was cutting onions in my house)
3. Shakir getting up from that TD play (thought he was injured for sure)
4. Ingram...making yet another play? Uncanny.
5. Solomon and Toohill grabbing the stat sheet
6. Von still on track for 17 sacks this season
7. Countless passes defensed in spectacular fashion
8. Both starting QBs in ballcaps on the sidelines
9. McCorkle doing McCorkle things
10. Mitch and Andreessen on the field for cleanup duty

 

What a night.

 

[Alphas week 3 recap and review]

4 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:

Once in a lifetime QB...enjoy the ride
Victories are total team efforts this season and a testament to the coaching staff
Everyone Eats has resulted in Josh Allens best stretch of football maybe ever
Rasul and Benford are playing like the best corner duo in the league right now
Reviewing Beane's draft history looks a whole lot different right now
Are you not entertained?
Total domination since the first half of the Cardinals game on both sides of the ball
Easily the best moment of the young season was seeing Hamlin get his first career INT
Defense will still get Taron and Bernard back soon and Milano later 🤯

 

Mack Hollins > Gabe Davis in this offense...and its not close.

You win in the trenches 

 

Allen is going to be the MVP

$hakir is an absolute BEAST and caught 34 straight targets
$ee you in Las Vegas in February 😎

 

GO BILLS!

 

Outstanding work.

 

[Is this the best coaching we have seen in the JA era?]

2 hours ago, Bills!Win! said:

Brady and Babich for president/vice president 

 

We're all loving them right now, but I imagine we also were pretty high on Dorsey about this time last year when we were sitting at 3-1 after three straight demolitions of the Raiders, Commanders, and Dolphins. Who knows what will happen when adversity comes knocking?

 

[Is this the best coaching we have seen in the JA era?]

15 minutes ago, NewEra said:

You ain’t lying-  but I do believe that the league will uncover a thing or two that will slow us down some.  The adapting to that will decide our season……along with some luck.

 

Very true. It also remains to be seen how the coaches will adapt once their tendencies are better known, but also when they go up against a really good defense as well.

 

[Someone has to say it so I will, we will lose a game or 2 at some point.]

We'll definitely lose at some point, but as you say, that's okay. We may even put up a stinker, like last year's Jags game. But that's okay too.

 

Love the way this team has come together. I'd like to see how they do when they're really put to the test, like on the road against a team with a strong defense.

 

[Josh Allen, committed singles hitter (The Athletic)]

It's also why you gotta hit the big ones when they're available. I'd like to see Josh hit those more...the miss to MVS didn't ultimately hurt, but that's the kind we really need him to hit when it's there.

 

[April 13, 2001]

13 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:

 

I am, since 1999, but the Internet Archive doesn't go back that far... my first appearance in the archive under by first name "Rabid Bills Fan in VA" back in 2001! I was stationed in Virginia Beach back then at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, but drove to Oceana for the Bills Backers bar there... that was BEFORE A.J. Gators became dominant.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20010720073150/http://www.stadiumwall.com:80/ 

 

Nice. Cool to see some of those old names again. I've been around forever, but I have no idea when I started posting.

 

[Bills vs Jags Game Week Thread - MNF]

16 minutes ago, FLFan said:

You greatly overestimate the talent level of the Jags offense.  To this point, Lawrence has been the epitome of under performing talent in his career.  Very inconsistent.  Thomas is a rookie.  Davis is the definition of pedestrian, and Kirk barely got in the game last week.  Etienne has averaged 4.4 yards per carry in his career but less than 4 last year and so far this year.  He gets heavy usage but to little great effect.  I would not trade Cook for him at this point. I would take Kincaid and Knox over Engram and whoever as well.  About the only thing that concerns me about the jags on offense is Trevor scrambling.

 

 

 

Sure, but nevertheless the guy is 2-0 in his career against the Bills. No matter how underwhelming he is or how poor his teams are, he still somehow finds a way to win against us. That has to count for something.

 

[MNF - Eagles vs Falcons]

1 hour ago, Bray Wyatt said:

I dont care if it was a "good play call". Sirianni blew that game for them. You run it on 3rd down, then if you want to go for the first down, you do it on 4th and that play call is fine.

 

The only realistic way the Eagles in that situation lose the game is to stop the clock AND not get the first down. Only way that scenario comes into play is by that play call. 

 

 

 

Agreed. I don't know why or how these coaches just out think themselves and make boneheaded calls.

 

The Browns game was the same thing. Browns had the ball with 1:37 left to go on the Jags 38 with a 3rd and 6. Jags just used their last timeout, can't stop the clock anymore. Down 5, their only hope is to somehow get the ball back and score a TD. If the Browns run the ball, they make the first down and ice the game, or they don't and punt the ball back to the Jags, who will likely get the ball deep in their own territory with what should be well under a minute left and the entire length of the field to go.

 

So what do the Browns do? Swing pass, incomplete, clock stops. Punt, Jags get the ball at their own 10 with 1:27 left. They got all the way to the Browns 33 before a couple of incomplete passes iced it for the Browns, but not after having to sweat it out unnecessarily.

 

[MNF - Eagles vs Falcons]

To think I turned the game off after the tush push gave the Eagles a first down after the 2 minute warning. Damn.

 

[Mahomes passing chart this week is sad]

Weird, there are only 23 passes documented on that chart. Where are the other 2? They should be incompletions.

 

[Things I loved seeing on Thursday]

1 hour ago, Doc said:

Is landing on top of the QB even a penalty anymore?  I’ve seen it happen the last couple seasons with no call. 

 

Only if it's on top of Mahomes.

 

[Things I loved seeing on Thursday]

58 minutes ago, NewEra said:

He was my guy, but I LOVED watching cook smoke JP21.  Bad angle and not enough speed-  typical of one we’ve seen the last couple years. Another instance of addition by subtraction. 

The one thing I thought after seeing that play was how right Beane was making that move. It was like a Belichick move, moving on from an aging player when it’s time and then totally taking advantage of him on the other side.

 

[Things I loved seeing on Thursday]

• Spector looking like he belonged.
• Edwards and Bishop together in game action. Each with outstanding pass breakups.
• The Fins RT lined up across Von in the 2nd half called for a false start. Von is back.
• The number 46 on the jersey of the guy heading to the house with the pick-6. ("No way!")
• Hill and Waddle on the bench in the second half. With their offense on the field. Just like last year.
• Mitch Trubisky on the field in the second half.
• Domination in the white-on-blues. Love that combo.

 

GO BILLS

 

[Bernard pectoral injury]

If the Bills can get through the early-middle of the season in decent shape I can’t help but think of what it might be like if/when all three of TJ, Bernard, and Milano come back for the stretch.

 

[Von Miller proves the doubters wrong]

The best sign that Von is back was later in the game when he made the RT false start because he knew his ass was about to get beat.

 

[What to do at safety?]

Really like how this defensive backfield has been put together.

 

Will be fun to watch this season, but I have to think the roster is really setting up nicely for the next few seasons.

 

[Week 2 - Bills at Fins - Post game thread]

13 minutes ago, Desert Bills Fan said:

There were 2 plays that are still in my head. Josh took a couple of shots:

one to MVS, where he was past the single defender but the throw was off and underthrown. If on target it was a sure TD.

the other was to Coleman who was one on one but “covered” it was a jump ball / contested catch that Keon did not make. This was what we were hoping that we would see continue from training camp - that he would out wrestle/ block out defenders and make catches.

 

was sorry to see that both of those didn’t work out.

maybe in the all 22, some more analysis of the passing game could reveal some more “almost” plays that could have turned the deep passing into more

 

The one to Coleman wasn't his fault, at least by my eye. Josh didn't put the ball up high enough for it to really be a jump ball. It was too low and in front of him, and the defender could easily come over the top to make the play. I don't fault Coleman for that one.

 

[Week 2 - Bills at Fins - Post game thread]

1 hour ago, Big Turk said:

I almost feel bad for the Dolphin fans...all 50 of them.

 

I mean it's not even a rivalry anymore. To be a rivalry you actually have to win games against the other team. They are 1-12 against us in their last 13. The one game they won we out gained them by almost 300 yards and lost because half the team was injured/out with heat stroke by the 4th quarter and still almost won. Average margin of victory during that streak is 15 points for the Bills so the games typically aren't close either.

 

It's like I always say...they are Little Brother...we whip their asses, they go beat up on their friends for a while then come back talking tough about how they are going to kick out ass and then we beat them down again to put them back in their place and let them know who is still the Beasts of the AFC East

 

Sleeping on the Bills then you way off...

Talk is cheap, meet us in the playoffs.

 

 

 

Endless, humiliating payback for the entire 1970s is perfectly fine with me.

 

[Von Miller proves the doubters wrong]

25 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

I'd go with 90+.

There were a couple times he won his rep and had a chance to plant hard and close then sort of stutter-stepped it instead; probably just being extra cautious with the game in hand but it felt like he's still thinking about it just a little.

I was about to say this as well. He’s doing well, but not fully trusting it yet.

[Just in case you wanna keep watching JA’s Cardinals leap - you’re welcome]

Also kind of love how Cards #92 totally slams into #93 right as he was about to nail Allen.