Steelers @ Bills. Monday, January 15th at 4:30pm.

[njbuff]

There was a lot of bad karma going into last year’s playoffs, then it got worse after barely beating Miami with 72nd string QB.

 

There is none of that this year.

 

Just go out and care of business against a team you are far superior to, no matter what the weather conditions are.

[newcam2012]

20 minutes ago, Gman10 said:

To be fair, if we can't beat the Steelers, we can't beat KC, Ravens/Browns or 9ers

There's always a chance of a letdown. Maybe the the team will be gassed from making the run into the playoffs. They have played 5 straight games of basically playoff football. At some point, that might take it's toll. 

 

What happened last year vs the Bengals. The team was gassed, emotionally spent, and had nothing. Of course, that was the theme after the fact. 

 

Lets get ahead of the narrative here. 

[MikePJ76]

not good

[newcam2012]

22 minutes ago, Gregg said:

 

This is a game where I could see Allen's running being a bigger factor in getting the win then his throwing the ball.

Can you see Allen fumbling? I think the Steelers will have a solid plan to contain Allen. I doubt they let him beat them with his legs. Of course, Allen is great at making plays. 

[ALLinALLEN]

No excuses, have to win.

[Warriorspikes51]

12 minutes ago, PBF81 said:

 

Yeah, we're all on pins and needles seemingly.  Pitt's offense is surging, ours is seemingly in regression.  Allen's our primary ball carrier inside the red zone these days, again.  Apart from that outlier Dallas game Allen has 254 rushing yards and 8 TDs, Cook has 328 and 0 TDs.  

 

The big thing may very likely be whether the defense comes out as it has in McD's playoffs thus far, by playing not to lose and slacking up.  That could easily cost us the game if we do that given the way that our offense is trending against below-average defenses recently.  Drops included.  

 

 

 

what?  we had over 400 yards of offense in Miami 

you say Allen is our primary ball carrier inside the red zone like it's a bad thing ?   He has 15 rush TD's 

[ALLinALLEN]

1 minute ago, MikePJ76 said:

not good

Rest is good for them. Get in 1 practice and were set.

[newcam2012]

2 hours ago, PBF81 said:

 

Yeah, we're all on pins and needles seemingly.  Pitt's offense is surging, ours is seemingly in regression.  Allen's our primary ball carrier inside the red zone these days, again.  Apart from that outlier Dallas game Allen has 254 rushing yards and 8 TDs, Cook has 328 and 0 TDs.  

 

The big thing may very likely be whether the defense comes out as it has in McD's playoffs thus far, by playing not to lose and slacking up.  That could easily cost us the game if we do that given the way that our offense is trending against below-average defenses recently.  Drops included.  

 

 

Also, the Bills often come out of the gates slowly. They can't afford to do this on Sunday. 

 

The more I analyze this game the more this game scares me. 

Edited January 11 by newcam2012

[Mango]

5 hours ago, UKBillFan said:

 

This may get downvotes but if the Bills lose to the Steelers I will be an advocate of moving on from McDermott. And it's partially down to something you refer to above - the churn at OC not helping the key player on the team. Get in someone with OC experience as Head Coach and we can at least hope for some stability, even if the churn at OC continues. 

 

Getting past the Steelers then losing to the Chiefs or Ravens is uncertain ground, as I think under anyone they would be 50/50 match ups which could go either way. But I am with you that having a defensive minded head coach, as well as he has done for the Bills, is not the best thing for the franchise.

I don’t disagree. But on the other side of the coin I think we were set up about as well as anybody could be in terms of transition. Daboll > Dorsey > Brady. We’ve done a good job of having an up and comer in the wings.

 

This issue is that Dorsey was supposed to get 3-4 years to bring along Brady not 1.5.

 

That said, I think Dorsey is a good OC in that his game plans seemed to be sound. His playbook had checks and coverage beaters. But he wasn’t a good play caller and lacked flow/feel for the game. If he was a better play caller he’d still be here. 

 

All that said, unless we get an older OC committed to the role Brady needs to stick. Otherwise I think we start to spiral at OC. 

[zow2]

Illness?  Hope the virus that hit other teams isn't ripping through the Bills.  Just more adversity.

1 minute ago, newcam2012 said:

The more I analyze this game the more this game scares me. 

 

After reading through the posts in this topic, I have canceled my Las Vegas Super Bowl reservations and I'm preparing various Mock drafts  lol.

[boyst]

16 minutes ago, newcam2012 said:

Coaching is the most glaring reason why the Bills haven't reaching the SB under McD. No need to go back game by game to illustrate and support this claim. It's there for all of us to see. The only question is do you want see it, ignore it, or excuse it? 

 

I suspect Tomlin and the Steelers will out plan, out coach, out adjust the Bills. 

 

Hopefully, the Bills talent prevails over the inferior Steelers. 

we have played better the last 8 weeks. the negative nancy me expects a let down and mcdermott to poo the bed.

 

the other part of me is finally starting to see him make better decisions and almost seems like he has changed.

[billsfan89]

6 minutes ago, MikePJ76 said:

not good

Luckily Knox and Dawkins on Thursday should have enough time to get better from illness and Harry hopefully gets back from his personal matter. Mitch had an illness designation last week on Friday and was already deemed good to play on Sunday the next days.

 

Hopefully between Davis, Dodson, Douglas and Rapp they at least get 2 of the 4 going. I think Davis is likely out and Douglas will likely play the other two are 50/50.

 

Everyone is banged up this time of year, not the worst injury report.

[newcam2012]

Just now, boyst said:

we have played better the last 8 weeks. the negative nancy me expects a let down and mcdermott to poo the bed.

 

the other part of me is finally starting to see him make better decisions and almost seems like he has changed.

Well said. I feel the same way. It's like ying and yang in my mind. 

5 minutes ago, zow2 said:

Illness?  Hope the virus that hit other teams isn't ripping through the Bills.  Just more adversity.

 

After reading through the posts in this topic, I have canceled my Las Vegas Super Bowl reservations and I'm preparing various Mock drafts  lol.

Lol. Good one. 

[boyst]

Just now, newcam2012 said:

Well said. I feel the same way. It's like ying and yang in my mind. 

jekyl and hyde.

 

do we get McChump, as i have called him?

or...

Will we get McChampion©?

 

I have now copyrighted McChampion. If this catches on and we win than I receive royalties of $1.5mm internet bucks and 2% of all revenue of the internet.

[ROCBillsBeliever]

Hey, guys, we'll be just fine. We can game plan for the nasty football they're all predicting. Just have the Nimbus cloud throw to the cumulus, in a general, westerly motion, and make sure to watch out for the lake effect linebacker lying in coverage in tornado alley. 

 

We'll be fine!

Edited January 11 by ROCBillsBeliever

[billsfan89]

1 hour ago, boyst said:

we have played better the last 8 weeks. the negative nancy me expects a let down and mcdermott to poo the bed.

 

the other part of me is finally starting to see him make better decisions and almost seems like he has changed.

I think in that article it stated that McD was always giving off the vibe of thinking what can go wrong towards the end of close games. Which I kind of agreed with. But since the bye week he is giving off the vibe of what can go right at the end of games.

 

The team just feels like it’s not as tight towards the end of games.

Edited January 11 by billsfan89

[K-9]

7 minutes ago, newcam2012 said:

Also, I might not that the Bills often come out of the gates slowly. They can't afford to do this on Sunday. 

 

The more I analyze this game the more this game scares me. 

[ALLinALLEN]

Just looking at the PIT vs BAL game from last week got me an extra dose of confidence. 

 

In a must win game vs backups, the Steelers managed just 17 points. 

 

Weather was bad, could be similar to Sunday.

 

Baltimore's drives offensively: Punt, Punt, Fumble, Punt, TD, Halftime, Punt, Punt, Punt, Punt, Fumble, FG, End of game.

 

I think we're fine as long as we don't do that lol.

[zow2]

I think ya'll who are nervous should take solace that under Brady the Bills are really a grind it out team that puts emphasis on moving the chains along with some physical McDermott D.  They don't need the flash & huge chunk plays to survive.  Run, protect the ball, hit some short/medium passes here and there...a couple Allen off script scrambles, a tush push...and we're good.  Make good on your red zone opportunities.  I might even suit up Latavius this week, I think he'd contribute in the pounding of the Steelers.

[Negan]

This game will be like the Pats vs Titans in the snow a few years ago, Buffalo 40 Pitt 0.