Week 3, Bills v. WTFs, 09/24/2023 - GAME BALLS

[Freddie's Dead]

Josh and Baby Stef get their automatic game balls.  Baby Stef was wide open all day long, and Josh just kept feeding him.  I'm going to start with the D today, for obvious reasons:

 

Terrel "Saint" Bernard - Best player on the field today, and it wasn't close for 2nd place.  Sacks, TFL's, INT, PD, recovered fumble.  You name it, he did it today.  He simply imposed his will on the WFTs, and they had no answer.  Look for him to be AFC and possibly NFL Defensive Player of the Week.  Outstanding for a guy that was deemed too small and many here wanted him replaced after one game with a guy who just retired.  Line up for some crow, Bernard haterz.

Front 7 - Howell was constantly under pressure today.  I lost track of how many sacks, pressures, etc. we had.  Huge pressure by Groot to snuff out a WFT chance to score on 4th and goal at the 2.  Pick 6 by Epenesa was just salt in the wound.  Robinson had some success on the ground, but ultimately not enough after the WFTs fell behind.

Back 4 - INT's by TreDay and "Dr. Jekyll and" Micah Hyde to snuff out any chance for the WFTs to mount a comeback.  Coverage was tight and the WFT WRs had almost no YAC to speak of.  A stellar effort by the secondary.

 

Gabe "Welcome Back" Davis - Huge catch on the TD, and the rout was on.  Gabe is having hisself a season so far.  (Edited this because as others pointed out, this was Gabe's only catch of the day.  I don't take notes or look at stats, I go by impressions.  I apologize for the error and will try to do better in the future).  

O Line - Run success wasn't there early, but got better as the game went on.  On the pass blocking side, Josh had all day to throw all game long.  The vaunted WFT pass rush was largely held in check.  The O-Line was a big reason we won this game.

"I'm Rick" James Cook",BIATCH!" - Started slow, but gained steam and finished with nearly 100 yards.  Bills haven't had a back this good since LeShady.

 

WHO YA GOT??

Edited September 25, 2023 by Freddie's Dead

[HappyDays]

Allen

McDermott

Diggs

The entire OL

Bernard

Oliver

Bass 

[BillsFan130]

Bernard

Josh

Diggs

Lenny

Oliver

Tre

Epenasa

O line

[scuba guy]

O baby where to go with this

 

43 the legend of the Middle lb

 

Mr Bernard

 

The whole def front line

[The Wiz]

O-line: 0 sacks, 2 pressures (I'm guessing on the pressures).  That is my game ball.

[Brandon]

The entire defense deserves one,  especially Bernard.  Offensively,  I think it goes to the OL.  They almost completely negated one of the best front 4s in the league. 

[Donuts and Doritos]

Kyle Allen. He had more fantasy points than Sam Howell.

[kkim0904]

Defense.

[Donuts and Doritos]

Sam Howell. Completed 4 passes to the Bills w/ 1 TD.

 

That's as many TD passes for the Bills as Josh.

 

Edited September 24, 2023 by Donuts and Doritos

[Gunsgoodtime]

My game ball.....to the announcers, no matter how bad things got, they continued the gameplan and rode the skins totem poll until the very end.  I would have thought the game was going to overtime if I was just listening. Fantastic performance 

Edited September 24, 2023 by Gunsgoodtime

[Buffalo Boy]

Bernard

Bernard

Bernard

D Line

O Line

[GunnerBill]

The entire Oline and Dline.

[SoonerBillsFan]

6 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

Allen

McDermott

Diggs

The entire OL

Bernard

Oliver

Bass 

That's what I got

[Coach Tuesday]

Everybody but Dorsey and the officials.

[RyanC883]

Bernard

 

both lines, esp the OL doing an amazing job v. one of the best lines in nfl.  

 

Cook for a smooth running game.

[ToGoGo]

3 minutes ago, Gunsgoodtime said:

My game ball.....to the announcers, no matter how bad things got, they continued the gameplan and rode the skins totem poll until the very end.  I would have thought the game was going to overtime if I was just listening. Fantastic performance 

I get the NFL corporate machine wants to stick to a tight script, but good God man, they’ve had 25 years to create some sort of protocol when the performance on the field is diametrically opposite to the talking points. 
 

Where is the flexibility? 

[GunnerBill]

1 minute ago, RyanC883 said:

Bernard

 

both lines, esp the OL doing an amazing job v. one of the best lines in nfl.  

 

Cook for a smooth running game.

 

And Bernard and Cook for sure.

 

But if the trenches improvement we have seen through 3 weeks is for real.... then watch out.

[Gunsgoodtime]

2 minutes ago, ToGoGo said:

I get the NFL corporate machine wants to stick to a tight script, but good God man, they’ve had 25 years to create some sort of protocol when the performance on the field is diametrically opposite to the talking points. 
 

Where is the flexibility? 

Even a dil do has flexibility.  Today's NFL announcers?  Evidently not so much

Edited September 24, 2023 by Gunsgoodtime

[JerseyBills]

Whole team , players and coaches . Just a dominant performance 

Destroyed them in every aspect 

Edited September 24, 2023 by JerseyBills

[GoBills808]

I can't give Davis a game ball

 

Another bad drop and can't make up any ground to fight for INT