Bills are 8-2 for the first time in over 30 years

[Sabres 2025]

1 minute ago, Mikie2times said:

Yup, we should walk right into the Super Bowl. Not like Henry has ever been an issue for us or Mahomes in the playoffs. 

 

I am not saying they aren't an issue, but they are not better teams than the Bills. The Chiefs are not playing well and the Ravens have dropped games against the Raiders and Cleveland. They can't stop the pass. We had no receivers the first time we played them. Shakir was hurt and Cooper wasn't on the roster. The Lions appear to just be better than us and everyone else in the league. If they beat up on the Texans in Texas tonight they are a legit heavy favorite to win it all.

[RiotAct]

24 minutes ago, Bills!Win! said:

We would’ve been 8-2 if it weren’t for a lucky Throw by Kyler Murray in 2020

haha… I was trying to recall earlier what our other loss was thru the first 10 games in 2020 besides TEN and KC…. I’ve been trying mostly successfully to block the Hail Murray game from my memory, you big jerk!!!

[BearNorth]

And the Lions have done it with one of the least wealthy owners in the league, a get er done head coach in Dan Campbell, a rising star OC in Ben Johnson, a rising star DC in Aaron Glenn, and a GM in Brad Holmes who went to an HBCU and started out as a PR intern. Some great stories there.

The have turned around from 3-13-1 to the most feared team in the league in just 4 years.

[Mikie2times]

10 minutes ago, Sabres 2025 said:

 

I am not saying they aren't an issue, but they are not better teams than the Bills. The Chiefs are not playing well and the Ravens have dropped games against the Raiders and Cleveland. They can't stop the pass. We had no receivers the first time we played them. Shakir was hurt and Cooper wasn't on the roster. The Lions appear to just be better than us and everyone else in the league. If they beat up on the Texans in Texas tonight they are a legit heavy favorite to win it all.

Baltimore could have dropped 40 pretty easily in that game and we beat a similar bad looking KC team last year only to watch them win a Super Bowl. 

[Peace Frog]

I want a victory next week versus the Chiefs and to see Mahomes get sacked so hard by Epenesa, that he has bones in his stool the next time he releases the Kraken.

[NickelCity]

It's going to be a big step up from the jets hawks fins colts to the chiefs. They have a knack.

[Success]

Next week, we're officially America's team.

 

We were always the ones in red, white & blue anyway.

 

[Drew21PA]

1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:

Yep. It's a nice position to be in. I'm still not seeing a true Superbowl contending team here tbh. I think if we win a playoff game this year that is our reasonable ceiling. Of course Josh could play out of his mind in the playoffs and we get a bounce or two and who knows? But I don't think that is realistic tbh.

Get to the playoffs and anything could happen really 

 

I don’t think we are either but I didn’t see 8-2 happening and I have zero expectations still 

 

I do have this bad habit of going into games wondering “when is that underprepared McDermott team going to show up?”

 

only happened against Baltimore 

[HappyDays]

49 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:

Everyone notice the nice day MVS had?

 

 

 

 

He has more receiving yards than Curtis Samuel this season. Insane but true.

[BearNorth]

i just saw that the oddsmakers have made our lads a 1 point favorite over the Chiefs next Sunday.  Interesting to be sure.

[ToGoGo]

15 minutes ago, NickelCity said:

It's going to be a big step up from the jets hawks fins colts to the chiefs. They have a knack.

We won the last 3 regular season games against them and last 2 playoffs were ultra close. 
 

I’d say Allen has a knack versus the Chiefs. 

[ScotSHO]

1 hour ago, Roundybout said:

Fire McDermott 

Good to see you’re alive and in good spirits! 😃

[Sweats]

Whatever seed we end up being, i say bring it on.........to be the man, you gotta beat the man and KC is standing in our way.

 

Woooooooo

[HappyDays]

54 minutes ago, Shortchaz said:

The off-season needs to be focused on getting elite d-line talent to go with our existing role players. 

 

Nah forget about the DL. This regime could spend the entire salary cap and all draft picks on DL and we still wouldn't get consistent pressure with four. Over invest in the offense and go scorched earth like Detroit has done this year. Put up 30+ every week and the defense becomes a non factor.

[Mikie2times]

2 minutes ago, ToGoGo said:

We won the last 3 regular season games against them and last 2 playoffs were ultra close. 
 

I’d say Allen has a knack versus the Chiefs. 

They play a lot of man and Allen does better vs man. Look at the Jaguars game, they play man at nearly the highest clip in the league and he was nearly perfect. They will also play a ton of two high looks as they did last year. Brady has done well calling short drive extending game plans and sticking to the run vs teams that defend us this way. KC does have a revitalized run game. 5th in EPA rush, but it's not a power run game. They're more like us (EPA 3rd in rush). More of finesse team that has evolved into having a high healthy dose of the run game as a result how how teams defend. Those are not the type of teams we really struggle with. If you look at the Titans with Henry, Bengals, and those Colts teams years ago it was a power run game with some ability to compliment in the air. Specifically, Baltimore and Detroit this season. Those two scare me much more than KC, certainly in the regular season.    

[SoTier]

 

1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Yep. And Eli had an elite playoff run. Flacco in 2012 too. But it will take that and some bounces IMO 

 

Hopefully, KC will use up its quota of good bounces soon. 

 

59 minutes ago, Sabres 2025 said:

 

Win or lose next week really shouldn't matter in terms of McDermott's future. If they lose to the Chiefs in the playoffs the owners have to make a very difficult decision to make, especially if the season tickets holders demand a change. 

 

There is no difficult decision for Pegula to make.   He's not firing McDermott, and few if any season ticket holders are going to demand that he do that.  Many season ticket holders have decades of attending Bills games when winning seasons were few and far between and the Bills even getting to the playoffs seemed pipe dreams.   For long time fans who remember Hank Bullough, Dick Jauron and Rex Ryan, McDermott is untouchable, especially this season when the consensus was that the Bills were going to "take a step back" because of so many roster losses.  

 

 

17 minutes ago, BearNorth said:

And the Lions have done it with one of the least wealthy owners in the league, a get er done head coach in Dan Campbell, a rising star OC in Ben Johnson, a rising star DC in Aaron Glenn, and a GM in Brad Holmes who went to an HBCU and started out as a PR intern. Some great stories there.

The have turned around from 3-13-1 to the most feared team in the league in just 4 years.

 

The Lions are owned by the Ford family (of the Ford automobile fortune).  The Lions' problems were never related to how the Fords' wealth stacked up to many of the new billionaire owners.   In 2020, Sheila Ford Hamp took control of the team from her mother, Martha Firestone Ford, and brought in the new administration and philosophy.  She apparently got it right the first time out.

 

[nedboy7]

We got a tough 4 game stretch coming up.  Will be interesting to see how they do.  Need WR help to get thru it. 

[White Linen]

2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

Yep. It's a nice position to be in. I'm still not seeing a true Superbowl contending team here tbh. I think if we win a playoff game this year that is our reasonable ceiling. Of course Josh could play out of his mind in the playoffs and we get a bounce or two and who knows? But I don't think that is realistic tbh.

 

Yeah those dominant AFC teams will give us no chance to have a ceiling higher than that.  

 

[Meatloaf63]

1 hour ago, WotAGuy said:

Everyone notice the nice day MVS had?

 

 

 

That’s a stain on Brady to be honest.

[WotAGuy]

Just now, Meatloaf63 said:

That’s a stain on Brady to be honest.

I don’t know…I think the Bills are a cult.  You either fit in or you are ignored. And I keep hearing kool-aid references around this team.  See my point?