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That is what good coaching does. Scheme with what we have. Whether its blitzing safety's, CB's LB's, we will just have to manufacture pressure. As long as we have #17 we should be the favorite to win it all.

If you are not close to winning championships, and you start getting blown out like the Titans did on Sunday, even if overall your team is decent, change is coming. The Titans did not look good last week either against a Cinci team playing at home w/o Mixon and Chase. If the Bills had lost to the Bengals at home and then went to Philly and got smoked, this board would be all up in arms wanting all sorts of change. That is the nature of sports and competition. If you are not great. You need to keep trying to attain greatness.

I would not get on the Desean Watson bandwagon too quickly. Sure he had not played in a long time. But he looked surprisingly bad against Houston. Cleveland won without scoring an offensive TD. They would have been in a dogfight and lost to most teams the way their offense looked on Sunday, if they had not been playing the Texans. As for the Texans, all I can say is they are a bad football team. Wilson is a mess. Pete Carroll is a great coach who gets the most out of his players. That helped Wilson tremendously. And kept his odd personality from infecting the team. Nathaniel Hackett is not Pete Carroll. And probably has no clue what to do with Russ.

Giants-Commanders flexed to Sunday nite in two weeks. Patriots-Raiders have been demoted and rightfully so.

We are 9-3 with the best QB in the NFL. Our defense is lights out when most our healthy. We should get to at least 13 wins heading to the playoffs. I like our chances with a reasonably healthy roster.

He was a wounded warrior out there to say the least. Just wish he had a little bit of movement to at least get in the rushers way and slow him down. Too bad Doyle is out for the year as well w a torn knee. Tough finding good OT's. Jason Peters was playing some for the Cowboys last nite. He still has pretty good technique. Hard to believe he started at TE on the Mike Malarkey Bills of 2004 and 2005.

I wasn't overly impressed by Rhodes play. He is a veteran who looks slow at this point in his career. Hopefully he can hold up when called upon. I like Benford's game better then Jacksons. He is bigger and just looks to have better technique. I would think any starting CB in the NFL has some ability to play man to man. Not dominate, but at least give WR's something to think about. Jackson has literally looked "Lost in Space". Speaking of corners. It was interesting watching Stephon Gilmore last nite for Indy. He looks like he still has some game left. Too bad Matt Ryan is their starting QB. Hopefully for Colts fans, that is the last anyone sees of Ryan. He was bad with the Falcons last year. And is worse with the Colts this year.

Allen loves the contact and physicality of football. He thrives on it. That run for the end zone on the last TD drive when he took off from the 8 yard line but had a bad angle to get in. He lowered his shoulder into the contact at the one yard line. That was a great play. This is the QB we have. He is a big physical guy. And loves to play that way. He may get hurt at times. But he isn't changing nor should he. That's what makes him special. Good analysis of the game. One take from that. Sweeney and Quessenberry really have no business being on an NFL football field. We could definitely upgrade our depth at OT and TE.

Jamison Crowder being injured has been a big loss. The guy is a solid NFL WR. Not spectacular. But very solid. Also keeping Kumerow over Hudgins on the 53 man roster was just plain stupid. Lets get Hines involved to pick up some of the slack. Guy has blazing speed. I think the bigger problem is the O line. Its just not very good compared to a lot of the top lines. With a good O line, Josh Allen would be unstoppable. Doesn't really matter who our skill position guys are.

I would not release Spector. The guy looked like he could play in the preseason. Reminded me some of a modern day Zach Thomas. If Benford gets healthy. And Tre is a full go. I would bring back Benford and cut Jackson. His game is trash. Definite liability come crunch time. Mahomes Tua Burrow, etc will light him up. Rotate Elam White Rhodes and Benford. That is 4 solid boundary corners. And if Rhodes shows he has something left in the tank, extend him for next season also. Nothing wrong having a lot of vets on your team that contribute. Look at the Eagles. I like bringing back Crowder. He still is a good player in the slot. Sweeney is not necessary w Knox Morris and Gilliam. And I agree about bringing back John Brown over Kumerow. Didn't we keep Kumerow over Hudgins on the active roster? And Hudgins was poached by the Giants. Bad move there!! And if Ike is healthy get him on the roster. He may be the best Guard we have.

Yes they were. And we let both of them go. The NFL was not as pass happy a league back 20 years ago. But it hurts to let real good players go.. Same with Pat Williams.

The Eagles have a great O line. Everything on their offense revolves around that. Jalen Hurts looks like a player. And the AJ Brown trade was big for them. The Cowboys look real solid. You gotta love Micah Parsons and Tony Pollard. And the Commanders have turned it around. I am not sure Daniel Jones is leading any team to the playoffs. But the Giants have been much improved under Dabol. The NFL is very competitive this year. We are going to have to bring it each and every week from here on out if we want to be talking Super Bowl come mid to late January. In the AFC all 4 teams in our division could make the playoffs. Baltimore and Cinci in the North. Tennessee in the South. And KC and LAC in the west. 2 of the 9 are not getting in. In the NFC, I think all 4 in the NFC East can make the playoffs. Minnesota in the North. SF and Seattle in the West. And someone in the South. I think SF Philly and Dallas look the best right now in the NFC. And a lot of other teams not mentioned can play well on any given week. Look at the Lions against us. And Jax beating the Ravens on Sunday. Gonna be an exciting next two months in the NFL. Go Bills!!

We just need to hope that Quessenberry and Brown can hold up to the Patriots pass rush. Give Josh a little time and we will roll. Patriots are not stopping us.

He's not quite Charles Woodson in his prime yet. So no need for so much hyperbole. But he looks like he has potential to be a solid starting NFL CB. He looks to have more potential then Dane Jackson. (I know Jackson was a 7th round pick. But the guy still sucks.) I look for Elam to make a big jump next season if he can stay healthy. Being an NFL rookie is not easy. So lets hope Elam turns into a worthwhile first round pick going forward. A better version of Leodis McKelvin would be pretty darn good. In fact I would be very happy if he ends up playing at or near the level of Nate Clements or Antoine Winfield.

What the hell is wrong with the guy? He had what looked to be your typical ACL injury a year ago. It sounded like he was making a great recovery all offseason, and into training camp. And here we are over halfway thru the 2022 season approaching week 12 and he isn't playing, and it doesn't sound like he will be anytime soon. Heck do you all remember Willis McGhahee and his devastating knee injury? He missed the next season of 2003 after we drafted him. (his injury was around New Years 2003 so there was no way he was going to play in the 2003 season.) But was ready to roll by 2004. And that was almost two decades ago. And Willis' injury was much worse then Tre's. Usually we hear players wanting to get back to playing as quickly as possible. This seems completely opposite. If the Bills medical staff has cleared Tre to play, he needs to get his ass out on the field. Its that simple. You are played to play football. Now go do it.

That's just stupid. Nothing should be guaranteed. You play well, you get paid. You don't play well, hit the bricks and go work on a loading dock or drive for UPS.

I was a big Beasley fan. But physically he was pretty much done. Guy got the most out of his career, and his time with the Bills. But at his size you can only take so many hits. (See Welker and Edelman) Davis is a baller. Not sure why everyone seems down on him. He is not sudden in his movements and super athletic. But he has good size, good hands and decent speed. The guy is a solid NFL starting WR. We could definitely use a 3rd solid WR. I think Shakir needs to be given that chance. What bothers me is why we let Hudgins go and kept Kumerow. That seemed foolish. McKenzie just seems to play in the clouds. Not very football savvy. Seems to have regressed the past two seasons. But not going to write him off just yet. Because we still need him to make some plays. The high draft picks used on Epenesa Basham Moss and Cody Ford have not panned out. None of those 4 are good and certainly not top end NFL players. And I am not a fan of Spencer Brown. He gets injured a lot, takes a lot of penalties, and hasn't dominated. But he is only in his 2nd year, and doesn't suck. It remains to be seen about Elam. We do have our QB though. And when he is on top of his game, noone is beating us. No team has a perfect roster. The Chiefs defense was nothing special last nite. And if not for a ticky tack defensive holding penalty on Derwin James against Kelce, the Chiefs likely lose that game. Its a week to week league in the NFL. Domination every week just does not happen in this era. You just need to be better then your opponent each week. Better game plan, better in game adjustments, less mistakes and less turnovers. We are usually pretty good at all that. And will be better if we can get healthy on defense. Get Josh's head on straight, and we will still be tough to beat home or on the road the rest of the season. Not saying we will win the bowl. But when Josh is on, I like our chances in KC every time we play there. And everywhere else for that matter.

You answered your own question. Get Shakir out there as a starter, and plant McKenzie on the bench except for gadget plays. And even those plays can be given to Hines. He has way more talent then McKenzie. Shakir has plenty of ability. Guy could catch at least 60 balls this year if used on a regular basis. The roster is not as problematic as how we use the players we have. Cook, Shakir and Hines are a nice complement to Davis, Diggs and Knox. And we still have Singletary Morris and Gilliam as well. And don't forget Josh Allen running the rock. That could be the best weapon we have. No reason this offense can't be explosive either running or passing. That's on the coaching staff to use all our weapons. KC can do it. No reason we can't.

Exactly. If we can get those 4 back, our defense looks so much stronger. And we can be a real force through the rest of the season. The offense should move the ball well and score a lot of points against the Lions secondary. They have played better of late. But we are better across the board then Detroit. And I think our D line will get after Jared Goff.

Good points DrPJax. The narrative of the season is definitely changed. Who would have thought we would be fighting for a division championship after starting 6-1. The division is much better then expected. And every game (including this Thursday against Detroit) will be very competitive. But that's fine. That's how it should be. You want to be a champion, you need to beat everyone in your way, home and away. The injuries on the defense have really been devastating and taken some of the juice out of the team. But if we can get a few guys back. (Rousseau, Edmunds and Elam. Maybe White, who the hell knows what happens there. And keep Poyer on the field.) We can still beat anybody on any given Sunday. When Josh is on there is noone better. And Milano is playing as well as any defender in the league. We need other guys to step up each week. And I think they will. McDermott did a real good job keeping things together in a tough situation w the snowstorm and a tough start to the game yesterday. Kudos to him. But he and the coaches need to continue to live in the moment and be creative w our playmakers each week. Hines and Cook can both be bigtime playmakers, and need to be used as such. The Chiefs are good. And have good coaching. But we always match up well against them because we always seem to bring a little extra physicality against them. And Josh is always dialed in against them, to bring his best. We need to keep grinding every week, and gradually play better, play smarter, and coach better. We have the horses. Just have to be peaking as we get to January. Hopefully Mcdermott gets that and sees the big picture on where we need to end up.

We were up 31-10 in the 4th qtr. Problem is we can't play prevent because Jackson Benford T Johnson and Hamlin were all terrible in coverage. And Dodson has no range whatsoever. We needed to be more aggressive with our pass rush and plant Brissett in the turf.

Do we see Tre back this year is the question. His injury and long recovery is killing us on the back end.

Great point. Jackson gets bodied off the ball on almost every one on one situation. And Taron Johnson looked overmatched as well. I like T Johnson in run defense better then pass coverage.

Exactly Hucklebuck. We could not cover Jefferson last week. Safety has been a big problem this year. And corner has been decent but inconsistent. Through the summer and training camp the question seemed to be whether Tre White would be ready for the season. Now here we are in week 11 and he is still not playing, although he is supposedly practicing, and we the fan base are pretty perplexed by the situation and the vagueness which McDermott talks about it. If White isn't playing against the Pats after the Thanksgiving game which would be our 12th game, I would not expect him to play the rest of the year.

How do you know I didn't play for Coughlin?