Bengals @ Bills - Post Game Thread - January 22, 2023 - NFL Divisional Round Playoffs

[QLBillsFan]

13 minutes ago, FrenchConnection said:

Go into the draft. Find the guy that nobody will draft because he punched out a woman, and draft that guy. We just got beat because the Bengals are willing to do that.

Great suggestion. Brilliantly articulated super impressive! 

[Low Positive]

1 minute ago, zow2 said:

Another observation, i couldn’t believe how many Bengals fans were at the stadium today? by the end, they lined the lower level all around the visitors side.  Like end zone to end zone. A few thousand id estimate. 

I never want to hear about Bills Mafia again. We cant even fill out own stadium. 

[Boatdrinks]

7 minutes ago, Johnnycage46 said:

We need down and dirty, aggressive playmakers who play with a chip on their shoulder.  So sick of character guys and humble and hungry nonsense.  As obnoxious as the Bengals' cockiness is, it works for them.

I’d settle for  having a good game plan and executing it. I don’t think cockiness had much to do with it. One team showed up and the other didn’t. 

[QLBillsFan]

1 minute ago, FrenchConnection said:

I never want to hear about Bills Mafia again. We cant even fill out own stadium. 

Like no other team can purchase tickets but the Bills and go on the road. They have a good team and they had some avid fans at the game. Seems logical. I’m guessing if the Bills won 27-10 they wouldn’t have been noticed. 

[Boatdrinks]

4 minutes ago, zow2 said:

Another observation, i couldn’t believe how many Bengals fans were at the stadium today? by the end, they lined the lower level all around the visitors side.  Like end zone to end zone. A few thousand id estimate. 

Yeah, a lot of Bills fans skipped the game. They didn’t miss much. 

[Franco_92]

2 minutes ago, QLBillsFan said:

Like no other team can purchase tickets but the Bills and go on the road. They have a good team and they had some avid fans at the game. Seems logical. I’m guessing if the Bills won 27-10 they wouldn’t have been noticed. 

Nah man. It was noticeable from the start. I was wondering if allen was going to need to use the silent count on our first drive. 

It was pathetic 

[QLBillsFan]

37 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

And we see again, other than Mahomes, 3 of the 4 Championship game teams have teams on a rookie deal or non franchise money.

 

Jags are going to take a big step up next year if I had to guess.

 

IMO, teams are going to start trying to copy Shanahan's system of plug and play QBs to save big money and use it at other positions. Will be fascinating to see how many teams try and emulate that 

Sure if you have the best OL in the league that’s a great strategy. 

[Big Turk]

1 minute ago, QLBillsFan said:

Sure if you have the best OL in the league that’s a great strategy. 

 

They don't, Philly does.

[97bills]

15 minutes ago, Johnnycage46 said:

We need down and dirty, aggressive playmakers who play with a chip on their shoulder.  So sick of character guys and humble and hungry nonsense.  As obnoxious as the Bengals' cockiness is, it works for them.

And I hate to say it… but they knew they were going to kick our ass . The bills are soft and I’m sure they saw that on tape. 

[Low Positive]

Just now, 97bills said:

And I hate to say it… but they knew they were going to kick our ass . The bills are soft and I’m sure they saw that on tape. 

Yep. The Bills have a bunch of "faith and family" guys and they have an actual woman beater. Violence win. Mixon won then game today. Soul search on that one.

[QLBillsFan]

1 minute ago, Big Turk said:

 

They don't, Philly does.

Ok top 5 OL. It’s a bit unique not sure every team can bank on late round QB’s. 

1 minute ago, FrenchConnection said:

Yep. The Bills have a bunch of "faith and family" guys and they have an actual woman beater. Violence win. Mixon won then game today. Soul search on that one.

I’ll soul search that the Bengals would have won with their back up running back. They outcoached and outplayed the Bills today. 

8 minutes ago, arcane said:

Nah man. It was noticeable from the start. I was wondering if allen was going to need to use the silent count on our first drive. 

It was pathetic 

Hmm didn’t seem that significant during the TV coverage. 

[Bferra13]

24 minutes ago, Billznut said:

This was just the second home playoff loss ever in the Super Bowl era for the Bills. Kelly’s final game and today. Just a pitiful performance today for whatever reason. The hope was Hamlin’s presence would fire up the team. Instead it seemed to have the opposite effect today. Hard to figure.  

Easy to figure when you watched the second half of this season against the jokers we played and needed every second to beat them all. Smoke and mirrors winning streak. They... were... never... very... good. They finally played a good team and Josh can't do it all by himself.

Edited January 23, 2023 by Bferra13

[BillsFan692]

15 minutes ago, QLBillsFan said:

Like no other team can purchase tickets but the Bills and go on the road. They have a good team and they had some avid fans at the game. Seems logical. I’m guessing if the Bills won 27-10 they wouldn’t have been noticed. 

Cinncinati is very close to buffalo so it's easy to make the drive.

[Low Positive]

1 minute ago, BillsFan692 said:

Cinncinati is very close to buffalo so it's easy to make the drive.

Its a  seven hour drive.

[Bferra13]

6 minutes ago, BillsFan692 said:

Cinncinati is very close to buffalo so it's easy to make the drive.

How is it close? It's like an 8 hour drive.

[Kenosha2Buffalo]

Tough break fellow bills fans. I do appreciate all of you though. A disappointing season all things considered but we probably over achieved in a lot of ways. Y'all have been great 

[Nephilim17]

Hearing a lot of comments about rebuilding both lines.

 

I agree with half of that statement: let's spend a couple high draft picks on the O-line and possibly make some affordable upgrades in free agency if we can.

 

But the D-line... We already have 3 young players who were 1st, second, and second round picks. Yes, it looks like only Rousseau is worthwhile with Epinessa and Boogie likely being nothing more than depth, but we also spend $120 million on Miller.

 

Where are the assets we need to rebuild the D-line? We have very limited cap space and the top 3 draft picks need to go to offense (WR and O-line).

Maybe a 4th or later is spent on a d-lineman but that's not a surefire way to "rebuild the D-line." 

If Jones and Miller played today, I think the D-line would have at least looked competent. In a perfect world, we sign an established D-lineman but is he taking Greg's spot? Our interior with Jones playing is pretty good. So I'd like to hear how we rebuild the D-line and with limited cap space and needing to draft multiple-O-lineman, an offensive weapon (likely a traits WR) and probably a safety as Poyer may not be resigned.

 

crap day. We all expected a lot more from everyone on this team. But let's have reasonable expectations about the off-season.

[Norcalbillsfan]

1 hour ago, Sammy Watkins' Rib said:

The only positive I can take into next season is that I will enjoy flying under the radar to start the season. This team and Allen will get very little respect even if they start hot out the gate. This was a weird season where despite holding a great record and first place in the standings for the majority of it, we just constantly felt like we were underachieving expectations. 

Offense never really clicked all year other than the titans. Everything on offense felt hard fought this year. It's probably a culmination of alot of things, but a lack of wr2 a solid slot reciver and a steady run game plagued us all year, today was no different.

[BillsFan692]

16 minutes ago, Bferra13 said:

How is it close? It's like an 8 hour drive.

It's about 7 hours -- definitely driveable.  There are 32 teams in the NFL 25 of them are probably not driveabe (over more than 8 hours away). Boston, NJ, Phil, Detroit, all around 6 hours from buffalo. Cleveland/Pitt is the closest at 3 hours -- cinncinati is 7 hours. So it's pretty close overall.

Not like MIA fans can drive to BLO or BLO fans can drive to LA.  Cinn to buff? Easy drive.

26 minutes ago, FrenchConnection said:

Its a  seven hour drive.

So out of 32 teams in the nfl it's closer than 25 of them?  Nice talk=p

[Big Turk]

27 minutes ago, BillsFan692 said:

Cinncinati is very close to buffalo so it's easy to make the drive.

 

Huh? It's not very close at all. I lived there. Erie is very close. Rochester is very close. Cleveland is close. Pittsburgh is close.

 

Cincinnati is between 6.5-7 hours