Don't look now, but Bills rounding into playoff shape.

[John from Riverside]

4 minutes ago, Kaenon said:

We are on a 7-game win streak.

Impressive in today's NFL.

It’s all nothing to nothing once the playoffs hit
 

The bills really need to reestablish themselves

[Ga boy]

Flip it over to Cook so he can ball in space.  That will be the new wrinkle. Boom 💥

[SCBills]

We started to see some of the “Playoff Bills” out there today.  
 

Those explosives should be more available for us moving forward when teams have to deal with us running Allen anytime. 
 

Defense, mixed bag .. but when you see Allen tear up during the postgame, it’s clear they were emotionally spent heading into this game.  
 

Just goes to show how much better they are than NE to beat a team fighting for their life, while being mentally drained. 

[oldmanfan]

Hard to interpret today given what’s happened this week.  But Josh has not been as consistent as one would like for weeks now.  We need the good Josh in the playoff games.

[JerseyBills]

1 hour ago, ChicagoRic said:

The Allen/Diggs connection is back.  Elbow looks good

 

Dawson Knox has come on strong over the last several games.

 

Singletary and Cook have established a non-Josh running game.

 

The pass rush is generating pressure without Miller.

 

Milano and Emunds are playing lights out.

 

Hamlin is gonna be ok!!!  And the secondary is too.  Benford off IR and White with and INT.

 

Special teams? Hines just struck fear into the hearts of the opposition moving forward. 

 

Bring on Miami! 

When you can beat a solid Divisional opponent by 10+ and still have an "off" game, you know this is a Championship caliber team. They just find a way. And their 3 losses are by 8 points combined..

Pretty incredible 

[Shaw66]

1 hour ago, ChicagoRic said:

 

The pass rush is generating pressure without Miller.

 

 

What pass rush?

[ToGoGo]

I think the way that Bills fans are used to judging the team is no longer effective. 

 

"So and so needs to be better."

"This position group needs to improve!"

 

The truth is this team is extremely dynamic and teams game plan differently every game. 

 

Does the team rise to the occasion? Do they always find a way to win? Can the team handle adversity? 

 

Check, check, and check. THAT is how you can predict who will show up in the playoffs. 

 

And we will. 

[billieve420]

Offense hasn’t looked in sync since the bye. Wish we were a little more creative in scheming guys open. Seems like a lot of the big plays are due to Allen scrambling around and buying time for guys to get open.

[streetkings01]

Pass rush was straight garbage today!

[Tolstoy]

2 minutes ago, billieve420 said:

Offense hasn’t looked in sync since the bye. Wish we were a little more creative in scheming guys open. Seems like a lot of the big plays are due to Allen scrambling around and buying time for guys to get open.

This is the bigger worry to me, more than the secondary, the pass rush, the receivers (other than Diggs), etc. The offense just seems to lack creativity. Is this because our coordinator is new to this, or maybe just doesn't have a creative offensive mind? If the offense doesn't improve, and it hurts us in the playoffs, I wonder if there wouldn't be pressure to replace our OC.

[2020 Our Year For Sure]

7 minutes ago, billieve420 said:

Offense hasn’t looked in sync since the bye. Wish we were a little more creative in scheming guys open. Seems like a lot of the big plays are due to Allen scrambling around and buying time for guys to get open.

Yes it seems like it's always Allen going off script because he doesn't find anyone in the initial concept.

[Scott7975]

Its not quite there yet.  Allen still has off passes.  Receivers dropping balls. Allen goes from no turnovers in the redzone to a bunch of them.  Other things that shoot ourselves in the foot.  Fumbles.  Etc.

 

Our defense has been pretty bad too.  They cant cover anyone and they arent getting a pass rush.  Gotta have at least one of those help the other.  If not for turnovers they wouldnt stop anyone.  Cant rely on just turnovers.  I thought it was going to be good today with the great first drive stop but then it was pretty crap from there.

 

I will say that I think this has been our best run game since Josh.  They are doing a pretty good job when they actually try to run the football.

Edited January 9, 2023 by Scott7975

[ngbills]

Our O is inconsistent 

Our D is bend but don’t break

 

We can beat anyone. We can lose to anyone. 
 

[AlfaBill]

27 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:

What pass rush?

Groot was on Mac a few times but ya it was pretty easy for him playing QB today 

[Ed_Formerly_of_Roch]

2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Last year's offense was a bit more boom and bust. When it was great it was great when it wasn't it was ugly. This has been a bit more a steady as she goes offense. More consistent for sure. Not quite so sure I'd go better. Think last year's O when it was humming I'd give a slight edge. 

 

Honestly the biggest issue is the turnovers and drops. All year too many of both. 

 

And covering receivers.  Between Hyde being out, Poyer hurt to some degree and White not back to old form, they are hurting there.  Now  add loss of Hamlin on top of that, made the Pats look like Air Coryell.

[Wraith]

2 hours ago, oldmanfan said:

Hard to interpret today given what’s happened this week.  But Josh has not been as consistent as one would like for weeks now.  We need the good Josh in the playoff games.

Allen was fantastic today. 

[Dr.Sack]

our running game looked good when we decided to run it, despite this being the first game all season we didn’t eclipse 100 yards on the ground. 

[Franco_92]

3 hours ago, AlfaBill said:

I’d love to believe that but I don’t think so. Last year the bills crushed the pats in The final game. 
the bills this year are an enigma to me. They struggle on D with every team. The O looks pedestrian at times and then explodes. The games seem so close and yet the final score is 2 score wins. Hard to put my finger on it. The Bills last season had an overrated D but a super explosive O

What?

The Bills crushed the pats in the third to last game. Then allen threw 3 picks the next week, and they squeaked past Atlanta. Then they had only a 13-10 4th quarter lead against the Jets who went on to pick third overall. 

Then they scored 12 TDs in 16 playoff drives

[oldmanfan]

6 hours ago, Wraith said:

Allen was fantastic today. 

Not in the first half.

[BRH]

1 hour ago, oldmanfan said:

Not in the first half.

I know!  And since the league decides standings and playoff seeding based on first half performances, we’re ***** ed!