We got the win, but...

[cookie G]

Re: We got the win, but...

If you understand football you know there are no easy games.

Ask Dallas about that.

Ask Minnesota about that.

Ask Tennessee about that.

Ask Seattle about that.

Ask Las Vegas about that. (had it in the bag)

Or KC. Nearly blew a 27-7 lead against the 3 win Broncos. MVP shoo in Mahomes throws 3 ints to let Denver back in the game.

Just 2 weeks ago, people were talking about Tua moving moving into the running for MVP and that the Fins offense was unstoppable.

Crushing the Rams and Titans in the 1st 2 weeks really gave people a false sense that the Bills would just walk through the schedule.

Ill take 10-3 with struggles. Let the struggles build character.

[Forward_Lateral]

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Or KC. Nearly blew a 27-7 lead against the 3 win Broncos. MVP shoo in Mahomes throws 3 ints to let Denver back in the game.

Just 2 weeks ago, people were talking about Tua moving moving into the running for MVP and that the Fins offense was unstoppable.

Crushing the Rams and Titans in the 1st 2 weeks really gave people a false sense that the Bills would just walk through the schedule.

Ill take 10-3 with struggles. Let the struggles build character.

Exactly. Anyone expecting a blow out every week is delusional. Yesterday was a sound beating of a divisional opponent.

[Chet]

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Exactly. Anyone expecting a blow out every week is delusional. Yesterday was a sound beating of a divisional opponent.

It’s not unreasonable to expect and want 4 quarters of good football. This team seems incapable of that, which is a direct reflection of coaching. We are often the dumber, less creative team, and McDermott couldn’t motivate me to make a sandwich

[Woodman]

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Or KC. Nearly blew a 27-7 lead against the 3 win Broncos. MVP shoo in Mahomes throws 3 ints to let Denver back in the game.

I didn't want to be a showoff.

[notacon]

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The only team that can claim they are playing great is Philly. Everyone else has flaws.

They have flaws too. Just very hard to take advantage of.


More importantly, their last SIX wins have come against relatively weak teams. The toughest game and team (besides the one they LOST, at HOME vs Washington) was NYG that over performed the first seven weeks of the season, and have now won only ONE of their last SIX games. That against the worst team in the NFL, Houston.


The other wins were against....

Tennessee - who have imploded losing three in a row and four of their last six.
Green Bay - having their worst season in years.
Indy - a dumpster fire of a franchise.
Houston - worst team in the league by a HUGE margin
Pittsburgh - with raw rookie Pickett, at home, in the worst season in Mike Tomlin’s 15 year career as HC

Philly has been insulated playing in the NFC and have not played ANY of the best teams in the AFC. This is the cakewalk schedule vs AFC teams....

Jax - 5-8
Pittsburgh - 5-8
Houston - 1-11-1
Indy - 4-8
Tenn - 7-6 and fading fast.

BIG WHOOP!!!

[notacon]

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They’re lesser compared to KC, Cincy, Ten, Miami or any other team we may see in the playoffs.

How are so many of you missing this? The goal isn’t to barely beat the teams we’ve been playing. It’s to beat the best teams in the league, and the way we’ve been playing since the bye isn’t good enough to do that.

We already beat KC and Tenn. We WILL beat Miami this Saturday....after BEATING the Pats (which you said we WOULD NOT DO)!!!!

And in another example of your terrible, terrible judgment and observations.....you have the GALL to to bring up Tennessee???? Sorry, but the Jets are better than Tennessee.

The Titans are stinking up the place. Three straight losses. And yesterday, they looked TERRIBLE at home. Against a team that IS much, much lesser, Jax.

The only reason Ten will (probably) make the playoffs is because they are in the ****test div. in the AFC. While the Bills are in the TOUGHEST.

I’ve been saying for weeks now, wait until the Bills actually die before you bury them. Of course, you being the King of Mega-Nega-fans who is easily the worst Negative Nancy I have ever experienced, your head is up your ass when it comes to the Bills.

KC went out to a 27-0 lead and barely won. If Russel Wilson did not get hurt, Denver could have easily beat them.

Miami has been figured out and looked like they were lost last night. Two BIG losses in a row....soon the be THREE in a row.

Balimore has been blowing big leads all year. And now they are on their third string QB. They only beat Pittsburgh because woefully bad Trubisky came into the game and threw THREE INT’s. Still, the Ravens only barely beat them by two points.

In any event.....the Buffalo Bills are in the BEST position of any team in the AFC. They are about to slam the door shut on the AFC East when they beat Miami in the snow and cold.

The critical game vs Cincy could decide the #1 seed.....unless Cincy slips up, which is a very real possibility. That last game vs Baltimore is huge.

Yesterday’s game was not pretty but that is an example of playoff football and what Super Bowl contenders do at the home stretch.

They WIN GAMES. Four game win streak....soon to be FIVE.

[Forward_Lateral]

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It’s not unreasonable to expect and want 4 quarters of good football. This team seems incapable of that, which is a direct reflection of coaching. We are often the dumber, less creative team, and McDermott couldn’t motivate me to make a sandwich

I guess it depends on what your definition of "good football" is. Yesterday was an ugly, rainy, windy mess, filled with mistakes, mostly by the O-line and the WRs. The game was really never in question after they scored to go up 14-7.

Could it have easily been 28-10? Sure. But they scored on 4 straight drives, when they needed to, in sub par conditions, and put the game out of reach. Anyone who's watched the NFL this year knows that the Jets have one of the best defenses in the league, and that it wasn't going to be a boat race.

[Woodman]

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We created turnovers they did not .... considering conditions we did alright.

[Bill Cody]

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It’s not unreasonable to expect and want 4 quarters of good football. This team seems incapable of that, which is a direct reflection of coaching. We are often the dumber, less creative team, and McDermott couldn’t motivate me to make a sandwich

10-3

[Night Train]

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No issues seeing faults with our squad, coaches etc.. We all have some, in addition to injuries. I listed some goats in the post game thread. Looking for improvement but not standing on the bridge jump spot after our 4th straight win.

Glorifying and apologizing for some of our opponents is just utter nonsense. It's a created narrative based on whatever...hurt feelings, frustration, not covering the spread for ones gambling habits..unable to forget some non-applicable past, citing different rosters and past coaching staffs.

Otherwise, these other teams would be ahead of us in the standings. They too, navigate choppy waters .

[TacklingDummy]

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We think Opi is bad. For some reason Miami threads show up on my Facebook page. Damn, it's like 1000 Opi's posting.

[notacon]

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I guess it depends on what your definition of "good football" is. Yesterday was an ugly, rainy, windy mess, filled with mistakes, mostly by the O-line and the WRs. The game was really never in question after they scored to go up 14-7.

Could it have easily been 28-10? Sure. But they scored on 4 straight drives, when they needed to, in sub par conditions, and put the game out of reach. Anyone who's watched the NFL this year knows that the Jets have one of the best defenses in the league, and that it wasn't going to be a boat race.

I’ve been telling Opi for some time....the NFL is NOT like college football where who you beat (or lose to) and HOW you do it matter greatly in the rankings.

Rankings that are, essentially, sports writers opinions.

There are NO “style” points added to or taken away or added to any win....or style points added in a tough loss. Thee are no “moral victories” when the standings are compiled.

I never doubted the Bills would win yesterday. NEVER.

[Joe Fo Sho]

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ceiling is a WC and a first round exit.

We are 2 games up in our division with 4 games to go. Oh, and we're the number seed in the AFC.

Predictions like this, where you claim our CEILING is a wildcard team, are what gives you zero credit here. Maybe it's that you don't know what a ceiling is?

[OpIv37]

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We are 2 games up in our division with 4 games to go. Oh, and we're the number seed in the AFC.

Predictions like this, where you claim our CEILING is a wildcard team, are what gives you zero credit here. Maybe it's that you don't know what a ceiling is?

Maybe it’s that the team was playing really poorly and people here refuse to see the long term implications. We are letting bad teams hang around one of them is going to catch us. And we still have to play Miami and Cincy

[Bill Cody]

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Kind of funny how that game played out. Flacco has completely lost it. I know everyone gave White props for toughness, which he deserved, but I wonder if they totally panicked when Flacco fumbled on the 1st play in. White was probably in the locker room in a chair getting a breath when they called in with the SOS