2020 Our Year For Sure

If we make the playoffs, McCoy was worth it. Even if it puts us in a hole 2-3 years from now, wouldn't matter to me. gotta wash off the 15-year stink, and anything that helps us do that is a good deal.

Will they look exactly like the 12-4 team,they were last year and steamroll us? Who the hell knows?

Really? The OP was almost exactly what I thought it'd be.

I do not think we win Thursday without McCoy. he was amazing.

It really is, and it gives this offense so many different ways to move the ball. If we can run like that on the Jets you would think we can run on anyone.

I'd like to see him start really mauling people in the ground game. The way we saw John Miller do against Miami, different positions of course. But that is the kind of tackle I thought we drafted at the time, a guy who would dominate the LOS and noticably knock dudes around. It used to often be said that it's the run game where a lineman earns his salary, or doesn't. even if he 'is what he is' he has a lot of value protecting the blindside and being a solid hand in the run game (just feel he's capable of a bit more there). Anything up to 8.5 I'm trigger happy personally, as losing Cordy would put us in a quandry up front. For Roman's benefit I'd like to enter 2016 with a better line than we have now, which is hard to imagine if we lose Glenn.

Interesting. Do other folks agree with him? I thought Glenn was having another year lacking in luster, though he's been strong in pass protection.

Sure is. On a kickoff

Objection! Relevance?

Good point. I'm very interested to see how Mr. Roman and his offense perform against a more stout defense.

I think Woods is capable of more than we've seen so far. Whether he's a number two or a number three I don't know, but I see him as a steady chains-mover who can burn you if you sleep on him. As an aside, he stinks with the ball in his hands. I'd like to stop throwing bubble screens and running reverses with The Bob, he's terrible at it. It seems like since we drafted Watkins, Woods has for some reason been used on these plays far more often than Sammy, with no success. Thinking back, that is, he had nowhere to go on that play Sunday. RAC also is not a strength of his. He seems to enjoy running backwards but doesn't have the ability to make it work.

I'll be there in blue. Hopefully it goes something like the Bills game in NJ last year.

Gilmore is a good corner, y'all is crazy. He played well today. One penalty and a few short completions, not exactly a disaster...also had a few breakups. Yes Darby is better, so what? Darby is really freakin good. We have good corners. John Miller was killing people in the run game! Struggled in pass pro, had a couple penalties I believe but he had a tough assignment. I like this kid. In general some real well-blocked run plays today, and McCoy was just fantastic! Gotta give Greg Roman a lot of credit this week.

Lord that was one excruciating football game. When Woods fumbled I lost all cool.

19 > 7

I prefer standing when I watch the Bills and actually usually stand in my living room. Too much nervous energy to sit comfortably. I sat in 13th row for Bills Giants, sat whenever I could for those behind but most of the time the folks in front of us were up. I prefer it but can understand why it'd be bothersome for some.

The perfect threads for the bi-annual Fish squishing.

Thanks for the reviews, John and Bocephuz. You've shown great tenacity in rewatching those losses. I tend to agree with kdiggz that neither one is very good. Henderson is a real softie for such a large man.

Amen!

Could be. I'm concerned about the possibility that this OC who is passionate about finding different ways to run the ball doesn't know how to beat good defenses without a top run blocking line. But either way we should be able to smoke the Fish!

I'm not forgetting the offense is new as much as I am disregarding it. Our scoring 27+ points each of the first 3 weeks for a total of 100 would seem to indicate this is not the biggest part of the problem. Everyone is pleased that we're healthy but it won't last forever. The Giants game for example was an embarrassment, healthy McCoy or not. Gotta do better, period.

Yes. I haven't been bitching about the offense the last two weeks because the one thing I give them a break for is Tyrod being out. Not much you can do with poor QB play unless you have a beast run blocking line, which we don't. At that point, is what it is, imo. But with Tyrod healthy, it's once again on like a mofo.

I don't think you can realistically expect to have all 5 starters all the time though. The good teams are the ones who can coach guys up so there isn't so big a dropoff. The odds of any 5 given starters being available all season long are not strong. What's more important, building cohesion or gaining the ability to be functional without it? Every team is playing musical chairs with their starting lineup all season long. Further, you aren't even given the practice time before the season to establish that synergy- where you used to have two-a-days you now have unpadded practices. I also see a lot of folks saying 'now we FINALLY have our QB, two RBs, OL and top WR all healthy together.' As if now we'll see the "real" Bills offense. Well that's great (truly) but how long do you expect this perfection to last, one game? Two if you're lucky? The coaches must be able to gameplan with the pieces they have on a given day and find a way to get production.

Agreed. Tough little dude.

Another thing we can agree on: to be the man, ya gotta beat the man. Also, real men wear kilts. You may be right, who knows. I tend to think McKelvin, even if he makes some errors, could fare a lot better than Rambo. though I do not think Leo's as good a fit at safety as Graham or AW. I really like Robey in the slot except against certain teams who can exploit him.