12/22/24 GAMEDAY Week 15 Bills vs Patriots* Post GameThread

[Aesop]

I get we as fans can nit pick all day long. But anyone complaining about a win needs a reality check. This was a division game, its the NFL. The parody is beautiful. Any given Sunday. The Bills did what the Chiefs have done all year long. Win, no matter what. Enjoy it and hope for a Chiefs loss on Wednesday...also why are Mods deleting gifs? Is there a new policy I am not aware of?

Edited 14 hours ago by Aesop

[BillsFan130]

1 minute ago, Beast said:

If you want to complain about anything within today’s win, this is where your complaints should be directed at…..

 

After James Cook’s 46 yard TD run at the beginning of the 2nd quarter, the Bills did not hand the ball off to a running back again until the 3rd quarter when they were having their way at the LOS against the Patriots.

 

Joe Brady needs to be better.

Ya I like Joe Brady overall, but he didn't have his best game today IMO

[Simon]

2 minutes ago, schoolhouserock said:

Right now, I disagree. My take was that he was very, very close to making several impact plays. I’m hopeful that he can convert on those with the added experience. But this is all based on the live coverage. Thanks for sharing your take on the same.

 

They went after him some early and had a little bit of success, not a lot.

He really settled in as the game progressed and was holding up very well down the stretch, imo.

[GASabresIUFan]

They should never ever wear the red jerseys again.  Burn them.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

21 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

Spector is absolutely awful. I don't see anything there that project-able or capable of developing. And frankly I doubt Milano gives us anything moving forward. So it's down to Bernard & Williams with a bunch of bodies to back them up. We are in deep trouble defensively. 

Spector seeing significant time puts a huge asterisk on any defensive performance analysis lol the dude was clearly only playing to be cautious with injuries and he is absolutely victimized every week 

 

full game of Williams over Spector probably takes 7 points off the board for the pats if not more 

Edited 15 hours ago by Generic_Bills_Fan

[EmotionallyUnstable]

Bills ran the ball 4 times to RBs the first half and threw the ball 17 times. Need better balance than that moving forward. 
 

Out of the half, they got back to the ground game and it started to change the game.

[DapperCam]

This felt a lot like the Texans game. Allen throwing deep all game with nothing connecting (remember Hollins trying to adjust under a ball?), and ends with a bad completion %.

 

If I'm facing the Bills in the playoffs I'm copying whatever that game plan is.

[Process]

We are ONE GAME away from being fully healthy for the playoffs. Zero reason to believe any of the guys who missed the game today are in risk of missing playoff games with their current injuries. 

 

Get through the Jets game injury free and with the W and we are fully healthy and rested for the WC round.

 

🙏🙏

[letsgoteam]

35 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:

The toss pitch uses more time then an off tackle play.  By my count the three pitches took an extra 5 seconds off the clock.  That doesn't sound like a lot but it equal to one NE play if we hadn't got that 1st down.  Allen threw 3 nice passes after his injury and he ran a sneak so I'm assuming it was a stinger which took a bit to subside.

 

 

Oh nice, I didn't think about it taking more time off the clock. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

7 minutes ago, Beast said:

If you want to complain about anything within today’s win, this is where your complaints should be directed at…..

 

After James Cook’s 46 yard TD run at the beginning of the 2nd quarter, the Bills did not hand the ball off to a running back again until the 3rd quarter when they were having their way at the LOS against the Patriots.

 

Joe Brady needs to be better.

Seemed like we were spreading it out to give Josh some run looks with the pats playing a lot of man but the pats made some really really nice block sheds/tackles.  A couple of those where Josh only gained a couple could’ve been huge plays. A lot of that is familiarity with a division opponent I think 

[SageAgainstTheMachine]

1 minute ago, Process said:

We are ONE GAME away from being fully healthy for the playoffs. Zero reason to believe any of the guys who missed the game today are in risk of missing playoff games with their current injuries. 

 

Get through the Jets game injury free and with the W and we are fully healthy and rested for the WC round.

 

🙏🙏

 

If we're locked into the 2 seed after next week I'm really curious about how long our important starters play against NE in Week 18.  First half?  First quarter?

[BillsFan130]

1 minute ago, Process said:

We are ONE GAME away from being fully healthy for the playoffs. Zero reason to believe any of the guys who missed the game today are in risk of missing playoff games with their current injuries. 

 

Get through the Jets game injury free and with the W and we are fully healthy and rested for the WC round.

 

🙏🙏

With our luck, chiefs are gonna screw us 

Lose against Pittsburgh so that the bills play the starters the last week, only for them to beat Denver the last week haha

[Royale with Cheese]

Just now, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

 

If we're locked into the 2 seed after next week I'm really curious about how long our important starters play against NE in Week 18.  First half?  First quarter?

I wouldn’t play them at all and treat it like a bye week.

[Patrick Duffy]

Just now, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

 

If we're locked into the 2 seed after next week I'm really curious about how long our important starters play against NE in Week 18.  First half?  First quarter?

In this case I would hope none

[major]

Just now, Royale with Cheese said:

I wouldn’t play them at all and treat it like a bye week.

I’m wondering if we should rest our starters the next two weeks in a row. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

3 minutes ago, DapperCam said:

This felt a lot like the Texans game. Allen throwing deep all game with nothing connecting (remember Hollins trying to adjust under a ball?), and ends with a bad completion %.

 

If I'm facing the Bills in the playoffs I'm copying whatever that game plan is.

Was just mentioning it in another post haha but most teams are leaving themselves wide open to Josh scrambles doing that and the pats made some incredible tackles to save huge plays. 

 

 

[billsfan89]

Division games are always hard to win even at home. The Bills gutted out a win after they came out flat and that's a positive thing. It wasn't pretty but the Bills took the punch down 14-0 and then settled down the game cutting the lead down to 7 with the ball to start the half. The Bills then took the fight to the Pats in the second half scoring 10 points on back to back drives before the defense scored that TD to give the Bills the two possession lead which the Bills were able to nurse. The Bills were simply the more talented team and won but the Bills also can't consistently win with flat efforts even against lesser teams. But the Bills got away with one so take it and move onto the Jets.

[Beast]

Just now, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Seemed like we were spreading it out to give Josh some run looks with the pats playing a lot of man but the pats made some really really nice block sheds/tackles.  A couple of those where Josh only gained a couple could’ve been huge plays. A lot of that is familiarity with a division opponent I think 

Whatever the case may be the Bills were dominating running the ball with their running backs….and they got away from it for almost a whole quarter…..when the Patriots were playing the pass well.

 

Brady needs to be better.

[MikePJ76]

1 minute ago, major said:

I’m wondering if we should rest our starters the next two weeks in a row. 

they need 1 more win to get the 2 seed.  

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 minute ago, major said:

I’m wondering if we should rest our starters the next two weeks in a row. 

Gotta watch Baltimore nabbing the 2 seed doin that